129. Nithya Dhyaan – Life Bliss Meditation

The Master Technique

There are some meditation techniques that are specific for specific times and people, and there are a few that are universal. Nithya Dhyaan is the meditation for the seeker of today. It is the cyber age meditation.

The birth of Nithya Dhyaan

First I would like to tell about how this meditation technique Nithya Dhyaan happened. Up to the age of 11, I experimented with numerous meditation techniques. At the age of 12, I had my deep spiritual experience. From 12 to 21 years, I consciously scanned and analyzed the benefits of several techniques. For three years after my enlightenment, I worked on creating a sound technology to reproduce this experience of enlightenment in others. The essence of this entire inner world research I have done to date is formulated in the Nithya Dhyaan meditation technique.

Nithya Dhyaan is a formula and a technique that works on the entire being to transform it and make it ready for the ultimate experience of enlightenment. Each segment of this unique technique complements the other steps to help raise the individual consciousness. It is an everyday meditation for eternal bliss - Nithya Ananda.

Chakra awareness

To understand the technique, we need to understand a little about the chakras or subtle energy centers. Working on the seven chakras is like awakening new channels of energy. It is like tuning to a new channel on television.

Man can think only based on these seven energy centers. For some people, the utility of anything will be only desire, lust, touch. For some, only fear will move them. There is nothing wrong in being driven by emotions like desire. But you should experience other dimensions like love. You should understand it is possible to function out of sheer energy.

By awakening the chakras, you will go beyond these emotions and be released from the mental setup. You will start working as a free being. If you are liberated from these mental setups, only then you will understand the value of the freedom.

When you are liberated from a particular chakra, you will experience a new world. On whatever identity your personality is standing, on whatever idea your life is standing, it will just melt down. You will experience a new energy.

If you shift the energy center, you can change the world you see.

For example, suddenly if you get into the share

market business, you start getting interested in collecting updates from television, magazines, people etc about the share market. After a month or so, suddenly you start feeling the whole world is becoming more aware of the share market. You now feel more surrounded by people related to the share market. It is not that the world has changed, it is your perspective that has changed. When you shift the energy center, you will start gathering that kind of people around you.

If you shift the energy center, you can change the world you see. In Hindu mythology, they say there are seven worlds. This is what they refer to - the seven emotions that decide how you see the world.

Nithya Dhyaan meditation technique

This is a five-step technique, each step being 7 minutes.

1. Chaotic breathing

Duration: 7 minutes

Sit in vajrasana* (sitting with the knees folded and your feet tucked under, with the bottom resting on the heels). Normally in our body, the energy flows from the sahasrara chakra* (crown center) to the muladhara chakra (root center). Vajrasana* posture helps reverse this flow and supports the upward movement of energy.

Vajrasana - Yoga posture of sitting with the knees folded and your feet tucked under, with the bottom resting on the heels.

Sahasrara chakra - The seventh and final energy center at the crown of the head.

Sit with eyes closed, hands on your hips and breathe chaotically. Inhale and exhale deeply and chaotically, without a particular rhythm. Just focus on the breathing. Your entire being should become the breathing.

This first part is very physical - sitting in vajrasana* and inhaling and exhaling intensely, chaotically. You will see if you have any digestion problem, it will be completely healed. Your body will be ready.

When the body intensity is heightened, you will have a beautiful digestion system. This first part of Nithya Dhyaan is for creating a healthy body.

The quality of breathing changes depending on your state of mind.

An important

thing you need to understand is that the quality of breathing changes depending on your state of mind. Your emotions have an impact on the breathing process. When you are in anxiety, your breathing changes. When you are angry, your breathing changes. When you are in tension, if you take a deep breath, suddenly you feel light, more relaxed and the tension is released.

The breath and mind are inter-related. Changing one automatically changes the other. Emotions may not be in our hands, but our breathing is. If we control our breathing or bring about some change in our breathing pattern, we will directly impact our emotions and state of mind.

We tend to breathe in a fixed pattern. Our past samskaras, past memories locked in our unconscious zone, create a particular type of breathing pattern in our system. As a result, we attract similar emotions and samskaras. We get into a vicious cycle where our past samskaras create our breathing pattern and the breathing pattern in turn attracts similar samskaras and incidents in the future. This vicious cycle has to be broken.

Vajrasana - Yoga posture of sitting with the knees folded and your feet tucked under, with the bottom resting on the heels.

You have to create utter chaos in your system to dig out all the past impressions.

Nithya Dhyaan begins with chaotic breathing. Since the

breathing is chaotic, it has no fixed pattern or rhythm. The pattern of the mind that forms its existence and expression is broken. Thoughts cannot follow the pattern they have been following so long for so many years.

Our muscles store all our past memories in the form of energy bio-memories. The deep chaotic breathing will start releasing the tension in the muscles, and these engraved memory patterns in the muscles and body parts will be expelled. Our muscles are normally under stress. Chaotic breathing will loosen the muscles and start clearing the engraved memories.

Each emotion within us gives rise to a particular breathing pattern. You might have seen that children breathe deeply and blissfully. But as they grow, they are conditioned by society, picking up from society the perceptions of pain, pleasure, guilt, beliefs, etc. Then the quality of the breathing changes totally. In order to shake this pattern which has been created due to the habitually suppressed emotions, we have to insert chaos. Inserting another pattern is not the solution.

You have to create utter chaos in your system to dig out all the past impressions. So I don't recommend any rhythmic breathing pattern like pranayama* in this meditation. Just breathe chaotically. This chaotic breathing will destroy the emotional attachment to all your past memories.

It is like shaking a tree that is full of dead leaves. All the dead leaves will fall down. Similarly chaotic breathing is like shaking your suppressed system. All the past engraved memories will be released.

Deep chaotic breathing also infuses tremendous oxygen and releases carbon dioxide from the body. It creates hyperventilation and as a result you feel more vibrant and fresh. Through increased intake of oxygen in the blood, automatically more bio-energy is generated in the cells and all aspects of the body come alive. The bio-energy that is generated will start clearing the samskaras, leaving you feeling light, energetic and blissful.

Pranayama - Breath control, one of the eight limbs of the Ashtanga yoga of Patanjali.

2. Intense humming

Duration: 7 minutes

Continue to sit in vajrasana, form chin mudra* with your fingers, and place your hands on your knees, palms facing upwards.

In this posture, with your mouth closed and lips together, produce a humming sound as intensely as possible, as loudly as possible and as lengthily as possible.

Produce the sound 'Mmmm…' from within your body. If you were to put your

face inside an empty aluminum vessel and make a humming Humming is an excellent technique to reduce the inner chatter.

sound, the sound generated will be similar to this. Note that this is not 'Humm…' or 'Omm…', it is simply keeping your lips together and producing 'mmm…' sound. The humming should be as lengthy as possible between breaths. It should be as deep as possible (from the navel center) and as loud as possible. There is no need to make an effort to take in deep breaths. The body itself will take the correct amount of breath when needed.

Put your complete awareness on the humming. Become the humming. Continuously there is talking going on within the mind. Humming is an excellent technique to reduce this inner chatter. Inner chatter is nothing but the flow of independent thoughts continually happening in us. Humming lets you feel your body as energy. The moment you start humming, you start feeling light, as if you are floating. You don't feel the heaviness in the body because humming matches the vibrations of the mind with the vibrations of the body. You start experiencing yourself as energy.

Chin mudra - Palms upraised with thumb and forefinger forming a circle and other three fingers outstretched.

Don't become tense. Just do it in a relaxed manner. Immerse your whole being and energy into creating this vibration. Try to minimize the gap between the humming sounds. After some time, you will feel that the humming continues without your effort and that you have simply become a listener. The body and the mind start resonating with the humming vibrations.

The humming will create a healthy inner chattering and a healthy heightened emotional awareness.

3. Chakra Awareness

Duration: 7 minutes

Continue to sit in vajrasana or sit crosslegged if you wish. Keep your fingers in chin mudra* . Now take your awareness to each chakra (energy center) starting from the muladhara chakra (root center) to the sahasrara chakra* (crown center). You should become that energy center when you are asked to put your awareness on each energy center. Feel the energy center completely as if your whole being has become that energy center.

Each of these seven energy centers is associated with a specific emotion in our being. Kirlian photography* has captured these chakras and proven their existence at the energy level. These emotions themselves are a result of the engraved memories accumulated in the past. The

Chin mudra - Palms upraised with thumb and forefinger forming a circle and other three fingers outstretched. Sahasrara chakra - The seventh and final energy center at the crown of the head. Considered to be a gateway rather than an energy center.

Kirlian photography - Form of photogram made with a high voltage. It is named after Semyon Kirlian, who in 1939 accidentally discovered that if an object on a photographic plate is connected to a source of high voltage, small corona discharges (created by the strong electric field at the edges of the object) create an image on the photographic plate.

memories pull us to react in the same old ways to situations and people, and that reaction is what is called emotion. The rising emotions block the particular energy center, causing physical and mental disturbances. So in this step we focus our complete awareness on each energy center, starting from the base of the spine and moving to the crown. When we flood anything with awareness, the negativity in it dissolves. This is true for physical pain as well. If there is pain in one part of our body, if we flood that part with awareness, we will see that the pain shrinks to a point and disappears!

Flood each of the seven energy centers with full awareness for a minute each. Feel that only that particular center exists in the whole world. There is nothing else. Just become that energy center. Feel the energy center completely as if your whole being has become that energy center. Then move to the next center. At the end of this step you will feel completely energized with positivity and lightness.

By the time you come up to the higher and higher centers, your livingness, intensity also will come up. You will become very intense. This visualization helps to create a healthy mind and emotion, healthy inner chattering and heightened emotional awareness. At the end of this step you will feel energized and light.

If you concentrate on the energy centers, your mind will not wander as easily, it will just settle down because these are living energy centers. If you try to concentrate on some other part of the body, your mind can wander easily.

4. Be unclutched

Duration: 7 minutes

In this step, carry the understanding with you that your thoughts are unconnected, irrational and unclutched. Even if you have thoughts, neither try to suppress them nor try to react to them. Just watch them with the understanding that they are unclutched. Automatically, the witnessing consciousness will start happening in you.

Understand that whether you realize it or not, accept it or not, you are already enlightened. By your very nature you are unclutched. Sit silently and experience the unclutched state, the state of pure being and bliss. This is the ultimate technique to experience the state of enlightenment.

5. Guru Puja

Duration: 7 minutes

We end Nithya Dhyaan with the connecting, relaxing and resting into the whole Cosmic energy.

Nithya Dhyaan will prepare your body and mind to experience the state of pure consciousness and bliss.

Just sit in a relaxed way, connected to the whole Cosmos. If you have love for the master or

love for some god, just sit in a very deep and passive way, feeling connected to the Cosmos, or god, or your master, that's all. Just relax and settle down.

Just sit silently in a blissful mood and listen to the Guru Puja* mantras being chanted. Feel connected to Existence and feel the vibrations of the powerful mantras within your being. The mantras are a way to express gratitude to Existence and to the master for bestowing upon us this great wisdom which liberates us from ignorance and helps us attain the state of eternal bliss, nithyananda.

The chanting is in Sanskrit which has both linguistic and phonetic importance. By centering ourselves on the vibrations created when chanting these Sanskrit sounds, we can go beyond the words of the mind to the peace of our very being. Even if we don't understand the meaning of the sounds, the phonetic value of Sanskrit will transform our mood and purify our whole body and mind, creating positive vibrations inside our being.

You can also choose to perform the Guru puja* (offering gratitude to the master) in this step by reciting the mantras and performing the rituals (For details please refer to the 'Do Guru Puja Yourself ' book).

Practice this meditation technique once a day and you will start experiencing a new dimension of your being. Nithya Dhyaan will prepare your body and mind to experience the state of pure consciousness and bliss.

Guru Puja - Ritual worship of the master.

Benefits of Nithya Dhyaan

The half hour of Nithya Dhyaan meditation can give you:

• Relief from stress
• Improved relationships
• Inner peace and fulfillment
• Awakened intuition
• Regulated blood pressure
• Enhanced sleep patterns
• Increased clarity
• Increased energy levels for the whole day
• Connection to the Divine energy

You can get your family and friends initiated into Nithya Dhyaan. This will directly contribute to the collective positivity of planet earth, as more and more people will live in an 'unclutched', liberated way as jeevanmuktas (liberated beings). This shift in the individual consciousness will result in a positive shift in the collective consciousness which will in turn impact all of life on earth.

LIVING ENLIGHTENMENT

Yoga is not about physical fitness alone. It is also to help prepare the body for realizing the aim of uniting body, mind and spirit. Nithya Yoga is the technique designed in the body language of Patanjali for this uniting. In the same manner as we spoke about Nithya Dhyaan amongst meditations, Nithya Yoga is the yoga for the jet age.