77. You can reprogram your bio-memory🔗

Somebody told me recently, ‘Swamiji, in your temple I saw that some festival goes on every day!’ In India, in our ashram temple, we have Nithyotsav, which means Eternal festival. Every day you will see, the temple flag will be flying. Some utsav will be going on, something will be happening. The purpose is to constantly remain you of some positive ideas and engraving positive abhyasa.

I asked him, ‘When pubs and bars can be opened every day, why not temples? All the places where negative abhyasa is happening are open twenty-four hours, negative abhyasa is continuously available and being encouraged, so why not the place where positive abhyasa is happening?

If you drink and dance, it is negative abhyasa; if you sing and dance, it is positive abhyasa! I have to equate.’ In the pubs and bars, when you drink and dance, you are creating a strong negative abhyasa. When you sing kirtan, the name of the Lord, and dance in that ecstasy of devotion, you are creating strong positive abhyasa. The big problem is, if you drink and dance, it is seen as fashionable, but if you sing and dance, you are seen as old-fashioned, outdated. See the human mind! If you drink and dance you are modern, but if you just sing the divine name or the guru’s name and dance in that ecstasy and joy, they say, ‘Ah, immature fellows, immature fellows’!

Actually, when celebration is removed from the spiritual tradition, be very clear, the positive abhyasa will never happen. Many people start drinking for company, for friendship, to feel free of their stress, to expand their identity. Many incentives, many other things, are associated with drinking. I tell them, ‘Bring all those benefits, all that celebration and joy, into spirituality, into mediation. Create positive abhyasa for yourself and others!

Yesterday I told you an important secret: any idea you strongly remember and move your body, that idea will get engraved into your bio-memory. If you have that strong conviction that by bending up and down ten times your stomach will become healthy, you don’t have to do anything else;

In the initial level, you need to go to a spiritual place. I can say this is a positive pub where you see the body language of the people who drink the Divine, who are enjoying the Divine, who are radiating it, who are dancing with it, who are living it. You need to see their body language for you to be in that space, you need to be encouraged, you need that positive abhyasa.

nothing else is needed. Just the idea that you should become healthy, up and down, up and down, up and down – you will become healthy! That is the whole science. I’m giving the whole secret to you. With any strong idea inside, any way you move the body, makes that idea becomes part of your bio-memory and brings the result, that’s all!

I tell you, when you sing and dance consciously, with awareness, if you just sing and dance without drinking, remembering and celebrating the great truths or God or guru, those great truths and bio-memory will simply get engraved inside your system.

It is the same science that is being applied when you remember the divine and move the body. That is why the whole day Mira was singing and dancing; that is why Ramakrishna was singing and dancing. Mira says, ‘When I am singing his name and dancing, I can see that Krishna himself is moving inside my body. His very presence inside is moving my body.’ That high concept with which you move the body gets engraved inside you and the positive abhyasa starts happening.

CONTEMPLATION

Any idea I strongly remember and move my body, that idea will get engraved into my bio-memory.