83. Intensity is the only technique🔗

People sometimes come to me and ask, 'Swamiji, please give me a technique to practice.' I tell them, 'There is no technique; only intensity.' All technique are for nothing but creating the positive abhyasa in you, directly or indirectly. But then they ask me, 'How to keep the intensity alive Swamiji? Give us some technique for that.' And I give them some technique for that, then they say, 'Swamiji, how to continuously practice this technique? Please give us some intensity for that!'

Understand: intensity and abhyasa are the same and only technique. All techniques are different kinds of abhyasa, that's all. Whatever establishes you in the higher state of consciousness and conflict-free space, joy and ecstasy, do that again and again. Come back to the state of consciousness through all possible ways and methods, again and again and again. That is the sense of abhyasa.

After my enlightenment experience, once my mentor Mataji Vibhootananda Puri gave me the courage, the fear of the ghost went away after a few days. But now the greed started, 'Oh God, it went away! How can I have it back?' I rushed to a great swami called Annamalai Swami, an enlightened disciple of Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi who used to teach in Tiruvanamalai. Annamalai Swami told me only one word, which is the essence of this sutra – abhyasa. He said, 'Bring yourself back to the same space again and again and again; let your body be soaked by the consciousness, let your body be processed by the consciousness, let you be cooked by the consciousness.'

How to come back to the same space again and again?

Come back by listening or by remembering or by meditating on that experience or the situation in which it happened. Sometimes, just the photograph of the master is enough; you are in tears, you don't know why, but you are just completely relaxed, you are in ecstasy. Sometimes, by talking to a brother disciple, or talking to somebody else who had the same experience; sometimes by reading the right books. Use any or all of these, and raise yourself again and again and again to that same state.

that the negative abhyasa have won over you. If you have the courage to keep standing up again, it means that your positive practice is winning. So either you win over your negative abhyasa or they win over you, that's all. There is no compromising. Here Patanjali says, 'Tatra sthitau yatno abhyasa. The effort to remain constantly in that elevated state of awareness is abhyasa.'

As long as you see the world, which creates fear and greed inside you, you need abhyasa. Come back, come back, come back. Unclutch, unclutch, unclutch There will be one point where the unclutcher will disappear into the unclutching. Till then, unclutch. That is the only way.

You may fall, you may slip; it's okay, come back again. Let you not be tired of falling. Let you not give up on yourself. If you are tired of falling, it means \

As long as I see the world, which creates fear and greed inside me, I need abhyasa. Come back, come back, come back. Unclutch, unclutch, unclutch.