Video Description: Welcome friends to this 2nd day of the 3day workshop. Are you all able to hear me clearly right till the end? Now comes the real part of this meditation workshop. The first exercise is a fun exercise- its called the orange juice experiment. In this exercise we imagine this body is made of glass, hollow inside and we can fill it up with orange juice. Baba ji explained it in detail for the next few minutes. The purpose was as I called out different levels you were able to hold the orange juice there, i.e. your attention could move within the body wherever you like. These 6 centres are centres of energy including the maintenance of this body operating through the body all control from them. Putting our attention generates out-of-body experiences.- none of these lead to any higher awareness above the eyes. The body is divided in two parts- energetic and awareness side so in good meditation for spiritual knowledge, we use the area behind the eyes and ABOVE the eyes but not below. Power of hearing is not confined to ears, as we can hear a lot of sounds inside us, nothing to do with our ear drum. All these are independent of this physical body. This exercise is to bring to our awareness- in this exercise close your eyes and imagine this body of yours in a house…just like 6 levels it has 6 floors and you are sitting on the 6th floor. Imagine sitting on a chair there behind the eyes, with a table there is a vase with flowers. Look at the flowers carefully…look at the colour of the flowers…are the colours changing…have you seen these flowers before…turn the flowers around…do they look the same…bring these flowers close to your nose if there was any fragrance, any smell…put the flowers back on the table…now pick up the drink…see what it looks like…bring it to your lips and have a sip…what does it taste like…do you recall this taste…have another sip…does it still taste the same…put it back on the table…pick up your favourite snack plate…look at the snack…take a bite…how does it taste…is it same taste you had before…take another bite…do you remember this taste…put the snacks back on the table…keep your eyes closed till I count 5…1,2,3,4, 5…open your eyes…welcome back โค
17min- Normally our memory recall things from early physical experience but how come you are having experience which do not exist from early experience. Some experiences are from other place and not from here. Experiences sitting inside us has no equivalence at all. Exercise show these perceptions do not arise from this body. All you did was to put your attention on what I was saying…putting your attention on sitting inside your head was causing all these experiences. If you can do that…you can achieve every success in spiritual path at all levels. All we need is put our attention there by excluding scattered attention from the outside by withdraw attention to the inside. When we say put attention behind the eyes…we make a little image of ourselves…how could that be you if you can look at it! Therefore, you are always behind that. What you have to remember is you are sitting there..you are inside the head…you are the small figure or big figure…size has no relevance as the moment you put yourself in the head…the room expands…this head is only a physical covering upon us not our awareness.
23min- The body is not our self. We are sitting in this body behind the eyes and we can look from the inner eyes. Close your eyes and try to be at that spot. Check out what’s going on in the head. Try to be as closed to the centre as possible. How many of you could do this? How many of you could while you are sitting there change colour lights sparkles. How many of you could hear sound internally? The 10th door is the first door to open. We call it because 9 apertures outside connect us to something and used by us for long time to scatter our attention outside. The 10th door which is opening inside is right behind the eyes…we open up many other experiences for you. That’s one of the problem- solve this problem…how many of you were seeing people who you know outside and seeing them inside when you were trying to concentrate inside…these are distractions. Mind keeps on thinking of things outside…you have to train it to not to think of things outside…that is why word MANTRA was invented to force the mind to repeat those words to prevent it to distract. It is a devices- we decided to hear sounds from within so we can put attention on the inner sounds. These are 3 things we have to take care of. You can go right on this road of true home beyond the mind. So we have to practise this in the next few days so we are able to achieve these things. We don’t have time to sit for long enough.
30min- How many of you already have a mantra to repeat given by a master. So let’s use those words…how many of you have no words? You coin your own phrase today…mantra should be not connected with outside but with love for your beloved…love emanates from the soul. I think you are all ready for trying out mantra and sitting inside. Mantra should be repeated slowly, deliberately and LISTENED to. You are replacing the thoughts by these words and the only way you can know is by LISTENING to it that mind is actually repeating. When you repeat words with your mind and listen to them with your soul…you are doing mantra. The only speaker in us is the mind…who listens? the soul.
The more intently you listen to simran, the greater the effectiveness of simran or repetition of words.
34min- Let’s try…close your eyes go back to your meditation chamber. Sit comfortably on your chair, no need to be very uptight about it…relax behind the eyes and repeat the words with your mind…listen to every syllable. Don’t listen to anything else except for words you are repeating. How many of you could do this? Very good result. How many you felt you can think while you repeat words. It does happen. If that happens…then what do you don’t stop repeating..make that voice join the repetition. Then you will have two voices…if 100 then 100 will repeat…big orchestra going on inside. The whole point is to draw the attention of mind to this. When we do this then attention is gathered very fast and be become unaware of this body and 10th door opens. I am not saying anything from the book but from experience. I am not much into reading books…I read books when I came to this country. Baba Ji talked abut Spiritual Gems where GM’s knowledge is transmitted to the West. These are practical tips…it took me few years before I got them from my master. If you have been meditating a long time…you may have come across these difficulties and these are all solvable issues. So I am very happy there are so many of you making good advancement in true meditation. All the knowledge…God and creation is inside you and you can access it via 10th door. We will continue to this meditation session tomorrow. Thank you very much for joining me today and see you tomorrow at 11’O Clock again โค
