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How to stop thoughts during meditation…

 

The coming of thoughts during meditation is as natural as our breathing.In the same way that we cannot stop breathing,we cannot stop thoughts from popping up during meditation. If you want to stop breathing, gurus may suggest PRANAYAM but that cannot stop your breathing permanently. What is the natural pattern- inhalation and exhalation of life giving oxygen for us to survive. In the same way if we are actively alive,thoughts would keep getting generated and if there would be no thoughts,then the person would be living a vegetable existence because only humans have been designed to think.
Humans at all times create thoughts of good-bad,truth-lies etc..so the thought process would continue no end. Now i would suggest you to change your direction- from instead of blocking our thoughts,we should train our attention towards thoughts like- we are feeling fresh / healthy today,enjoy the beautiful morning,wonderful day,feel excited.Your focus should be on creation/sustenance of positive thoughts instead of working hard like innumerable other yogis on blocking of thoughts during meditation.Such an attempt of blocking thoughts is futile and an impossible feat since the thought of blocking itself gives initiation to further thoughts thereby a chain reaction happens.
I have never mentioned in my discourses / shared any technique that helps achieve blocking of thoughts. By practicing this activity of letting positive thoughts take over would allow you to distance yourself from the entire gamut of -mind,body,emotions,identity,ego etc. Simultaneously, you would become the observer of whatever feelings come and go,your body getting tired / feeling pain, you now no longer are the conscious mind / thought that keeps coming like a wave on the sea shore. You have to distance your consciousness from your thoughts in the same way for example- if i go a bit away from the room, the sound of people conversing would become feebler proportionally to my distance from the room and finally i would not be able to listen to any of the conversations. But that would not mean that people would have stopped chit chatting.
Also,in such a scenario that even if i ask a crowd to stay quiet / stop talking,they would all the more naturally be compelled to talk / make noise.
Thus,this meditation activity takes you away from your conscious mind,identity,emotions; creates a rift which is a bit difficult to understand but can be achieved by practice. This is exactly why I always first demonstrate the technique and only then later share the theory behind the same. I know that If I would have started with the theory,then people would have been prejudiced into thinking that it may be impossible to do.Now when we have practice,we come to understand that the feat is very interesting and achievable.
 
Yes,it does feel good if we are able to stem the flow but thoughts would naturally come and won’t stay down for a long interval. The concept is to stop oneself and not stop the thought flow because if we try to stop the thoughts,there would be a lot of friction internally.The end result should be that the entire process should be enjoyed.
 
I would request you to practice this technique with utmost concentration and zest.
If this is practiced regularly,it has remarkable results like I explained that it helps to distance yourself and become the Observer. In the same way like Lord Krishna in Bhagwad Gita-explained to Arjuna that you are different and are the observer. This stage of being the Observer happens to you like an incident. It does not happen if you keep thinking that i am seeing,i am seeing– because yet again it’s just another thought. This thing should happen to you like an incident during the practice of this technique in it’s entire totality…

Unleash the Power of Imagination !!!

 

The conversation between Lord Shiva and Goddess Devi is “Vigyan Bhairav Tantra”. We can be rest assured that there is nothing outside the 112 meditation techniques and Lord Shiva did not leave anything to chance while devising these techniques.
So whenever you would like to take up these techniques, the same has been broken down in small , light sub-techniques for easy understanding. But, firstly the understanding as to what exactly is Visualization and concept behind the techniques is mandatory.

What do we understand by Visualization- it means to see any thing in 3-Dimension. Currently we see in only one dimension, some see future, some see only in present, some live and see only the past events and take reference from them. The ideal way to live life in 3-Dimension and setting a balance within the dimensions is called Visualization.
I would further explain in simpler words for you- You may be a teacher, a lawyer, an engineer, a sage, a cricketer or a sportsperson, you cannot achieve any success without Visualization. I would like to share the procedure by an example from simple daily life parlance for your understanding as to what and how to Visualize. We usually do Visualization in our daily lives without even realizing. What we lack is the know-how and ideal direction of Visualization.

We all must have heard about the famous Australian cricketer- Mr.Ricky Ponting and during an interview he was asked as to what was his secret to success; to which he replied “Visualization”. The journalists were curious and asked him to elaborate as to how was his Visualization different from the rest of his peers / competitors. The clarification that Ricky Ponting gave as to why his Visualization was better is a learning for all of us. He said that generally when we Visualize , mostly negative things come to our mind like things catching fire / destruction / accidents / loss of life etc.. We usually Visualize or dream of such things only because we have a negative mindset / approach of fear.
Ricky Ponting mentions a noteworthy statement that -while batting whenever I look around the ground ; the normal strategy that other batsmen employ is to hit the ball away from / between the fielders for scoring. Usually the batsmen watch the placement of fielders and plan to hit the ball into spaces where fielders are not placed.
But whenever I Visualize, I approach through a different method of not watching the fielder placements but only Visualizing the open spaces/gaps between the fielders. Those gaps / spaces are my targets of hitting. Now to think of it that only with a small tweaking in his Visualization[Imagination], Ricky Ponting has achieved this much success. He says I don’t Visualize where not to hit but only and only where to hit [positive approach].So, hereby, first and foremost we need to understand that whenever we Visualize, we should only imagine positive / good thoughts.
And the second step in Visualization is to understand that we should not directly straightaway Visualize our Success. There are a lot of self-help courses and material available at Institutes / via internet which aim to teach that nothing is impossible ; seek and you shall find ; think and you shall achieve.
They preach things like -If you can think that somebody somewhere is signing a 25 lakh cheque just for you-think, think and he/she would be signing that cheque. Gullible people / students get befooled by such gimmicks / shortcuts and start promoting such techniques as well.No one must have benefited from such techniques but they nonetheless start marketing by word of mouth as if it were a sure shot potion for immediate success. I personally have come across many such books and some students of mine have come up to me and praised such books as being remarkably effective and that I should read them. The books / courses aim to teach the simple technique – that only and only if one can repeatedly imagine / think / ask with closed eyes , one shall achieve / receive and that there is immense power in your Desire.

Now, since I am trying to suggest the ideal procedure of Visualization- I would like to mention 2 things here ; one that Visualization is a bit tough to learn and practice. It’s easy to learn words / logic but difficult to learn Visualization because in our entire education system the biggest flaw is that we are never trained to Visualize. I would tell you a very interesting fact that during our schooling- the textbooks of Nursery class had big colorful pictures representing everything and the kids seem to be very happy. As the kid progresses to higher standard, the pictures in textbooks become smaller and words become bigger. Thereafter the entire focus shifts from pictures to words/sentences and 2nd standard onward we find that pictures are available only as Black & White diagrams , entirely devoid of colors.
Hence, I find this methodology opposite to Visualization as Visualization incorporates imagining with colors. Visualization means-whatever you see with your eyes, it goes inside as a colorful image and whatever you imagined inside, you project it outside as a colorful image. If we try to understand this deeply, it is remarkable and magical in reality.
But I would like to reiterate that it should never be misconstrued as if we Visualize with closed eyes the construction of a building and by the mere imagination / planning of the same, the building gets constructed one fine day- it does not work this way. The ideal way of Visualization is – the construction of the building being your dream / goal, you should Visualize the process of the construction. Try and understand the meaning when I say that -Whatever you would want to achieve / want to be successful in LIFE, you should Visualize the process of achieving that SUCCESS.

Live your life with the grace of God

Do you really want to live your life with the grace of God (existence) or you really want to give certain manner to your life. 
If you are giving manner to your life, that’s actually you are going to decide various things in your life but really I must tell you if you feel the role of existence in your life. The existence of playing a great role.
Existence gives you many things and it snatches something. It takes away some things from you and you see that whenever existence gives you something, it vacates your hands, because you are always having something in your hands. So, before giving something great to your hands, it has to snatch something which is already there in your hands. But you are always worried and you are always miserable for the things what you have lost but actually, the things what you are getting, you can’t see. And you are somewhere cling to the lost things. 
You are identified with those things which are in your hands but you know, if you are not going to leave those things which are in your hands, how can you get the new things in your hands? Existence is simply playing a superb, marvelous role of Father or Mother. 

That’s why I am using this parable:-

A boy and his father were sitting on the chair in a garden and father said to his boy: “can you move that Rock in front of me?”. There is a big rock.
Son said to his father: “are you joking, that is a very heavy Rock. I can’t move that rock.” 
Father said: ” No go and try to move that rock.” Son tried but it was really very difficult to move that rock because the rock was very heavy. 

Then the father said: “try your level best to move that rock.”
And the boy really tried his level best to move that rock but he was not capable of moving that because the rock was very heavy. Very hard he tried, tried and tried, at last, he got to fail.

Son said: ” I kept my all energy, I put my all energy, I can’t ….., no I can’t move this Rock”.

Father said: “no you have not used your all strength.”

Son said, ” no father, I have used all my strength .”

Father said: “no, no…., you haven’t used your all strength.” 

He replied: ” how can you say, I tried, I tried a hundred percent”.

 Father said: “no, no…., yet you have not asked me to help you, I am also your strength”.

         So you know the Existence is the strength.  Existence is not there to snatch things from you or to give you suffering or to give you miseries.  Existence is there to give you the other classes like you are in the 2nd class then the existence is there to promote you for the 3rd class, for the 4th class and whole life is simple, you can say the way of promotion and the master or the teacher is existence.

        So believe in the existence, just see that you have lived a long life and in this life, you have seen that various things happened and these things are just there to promote you from life to lives.

Real Engineering with Meditation

Engineering of the creator of this world is not only technically perfect but very colorful and full of fragrance. What do you think, is there somebody sitting and creating this magnificent world. No, this is nothing but a creative energy working through you and me. Its all depend on you and me whether we allow this energy to work or not. If you are an engineer and you know all technical knowledge but if you are not creative you are not able to think unique and new. You are only a robot, not a human being. Every year innumerable engineers are passing out from different universities but very few are capable of making miracles. Otherwise all other are having a stable good job, good package and job security. No, you are not really completed with these all. You are a human being more than an engineer. When you start to allow a space within you, you can feel a great creative force is working through you. And you have nothing to do for it. Already you are an engineer. You have proved that you are there to create, you are there to make this world not only more comfortable but beautiful also. Now, what is required to add that omnipotent creative energy with your caliber? We call it space within you, which can be easily created by Meditation. Actually what happens when you try to meditate?

You will find a lot many thoughts and uneasiness during the first few days but if you are patient and trying a few more days you will find gaps in your thoughts. But for that you just have to sit, you don’t have to do any effort to stop your thoughts or to create this gap. Just sit every day for 15-20 minutes and watch what happens. And you will find in this small gaps, the mind will get some rest. And always remember only rest or relaxation begets creativity. As mind will get rest. It will be revived it will be rejuvenated. It will be vivified. And now you can see how this creative force starts to bloom. You will get a hundred and one new ideas. New ways of doing the old routine things and new concepts of doing unique things. Be aware of your creative possibility otherwise, you will be only a servant of a few creative people. Take care this is the right time to be an owner. To be a leader and it won’t be exasperation to say to be a god. Because whole creation has got the energy called god and when you create you became that energy called god. Start to sit just sitting and doing nothing and I assume from my experience the creativity and courage to make it true it will shower on you.

Be Aware of Personality Development

Everyone is in need of development. Everybody wants to go ahead, wants to earn best, wants to be famous among people. And this hankering makes him find the personality development. Without knowing what exactly the personality is? A person wants to develop it. Let’s understand what personality is?

We have come into this world without any name, cast, and cult. Schools and colleges gave us a sense of competition and comparison. Society gave us the sense of honor and character. These all made our personality. What do they mean? Be smart that no one could befool you, no one could misuse you. But deep down they are saying, be smart to befool others, be smart to misuse others. Be smart like the western concept to misuse and throw. They never teach you to be loving and compassionate. Because one who is heartful is weak and feeble. You should not be vulnerable; you must be hard and professional. Then only you can misuse and throw people. You must be having willpower, resolution and you should never surrender. And I must tell you, if you have willpower but not the art of surrender and love, you will be dry and dictator. No one takes care of your original being. What I feel is that you must try to find out your original face and authentic nature. What God has provided you. My master would say to me, “ Every day God comes to people but he doesn’t find them on their right address.” Because he made an artist has become a doctor. He made a leader and that pleader has become a saint. It’s only because the society was demanding an MBA or Doctor or anything else. So everybody without caring his original nature becomes that. So God goes to the artist and he doesn’t find him because the person is trying to be something else. Until and unless you peep inside, you will not find the right solution. You should have the proper understanding of physical, mental, emotional and especially the spiritual needs and caliber. Without this, you can win the same, money and status but you will souse the very ecstasy, love, creativity, and art of relationship in your life. You may be ahead of a few people but you have lost the original life. And then, you use the words like satisfaction. But you can’t be fulfilled and contented. Be alert of this sort of personality development. Be original as God has made you. You are very unique, matchless and incomparable. Honor God and find out why are you here? What hidden potential is waiting to be explored.

And that art of finding the real and original person is meditation. We need right guidance, living atmosphere to grow. As a seed needs right water, sunlight and dares to open. Then a seed can come out with its all possible colors, fragrance, and fruits.

Sit silently and let it come out. Your program is hidden within you. Just sit and close your eyes. Let your thoughts settle. Don’t try to stop them. Wait and watch. As soon as borrowed thoughts settle, your original face will start to reveal itself.

And as you start to live in according to your innermost. Life becomes all-time celebration. Not only you but your surroundings also start to feel that coolness and blossoming with you.

The Value of Self Discipline in Life

The Temptation To Live An Undisciplined Life

In today’s society, we live in a world where temptations are everywhere. We have TV, video games and sports to ensure we never get bored. So is it any wonder that people struggle to focus on their school work, their jobs or their relationships? After all, why should you do something which is boring of hard, when you can do something that’s easy and fun instead?

Well, the reality is that you don’t have to do boring stuff and work hard, no one is forcing you to do that. Although if you choose not to do these things it is very likely that your school grades, job or relationships will suffer as a result.

Why? Because the things that are worth having in life, are often the things that require time, effort and hard work.

But if we live in a society that makes us have fun then how can we focus on obtaining the things that really do matter in life,

 Self Discipline In Life

The answer to this question is self-discipline. Discipline is the ability to retain yourself to do something that you know you must do, even if you don’t feel like it. In other words, discipline allows a person to resist the temptation of TV, video games, and sports. Thereby, allowing them to concentrate on their school work’s, jobs and relationships. The things that really matter and add value to your life.

 At the risk of sounding like a bore, I don’t intend to say that discipline means you can’t have fun in life. No, that would be silly. We all need time for fun and entertainment, but there must be a balance, otherwise, you will most likely fail to succeed in life. This is the reason why self-discipline is so important in life, especially in today’s society which is constantly tempting us to choose the easy way out.

 Developing Self Discipline

Self-discipline may require lots of hard work and a strong will to master. Eventually, the more you discipline yourself to resist succumbing to the temptations of life, the more your self-discipline will be strengthened.

So developing self-discipline is like any other skill in life. At first, it will be hard, but the more you practice the easier it will become. In a world that is made up of largely undisciplined and lazy people, (especially those living in developed countries) having strong self-discipline will give you an enormous advantage in life.