4 Deeper Truth of Feeling Connection🔗

Feeling connection destroys suffering

I will share some of the sacred sentiments from great devotees like Kabir and define the experience of feeling connection and bhakti (devotion).

Kabir very beautifully describes bhakti:

Bhakti winds in a delicate way.

On this path there is no asking and no not asking.

The ego simply disappears the moment you touch Him.

The joy of looking for Him is so immense

that you just dive in and coast around like a fish in water.

If anyone needs a head, the lover leaps up to offer his.

Yesterday one of our Ma Rishis was asking, 'What is the difference between vayakulata (longing or yearning for the Divine) and suffering on the path.

With suffering you ask, and even if He fulfills, you are not fulfilled. I have seen arrogant people; they don't even want to receive when I give. They feel, 'No, it is not necessary; you are giving because I begged; I don't want to take that.' Fools!

Suffering is always based on arrogance, and vyakulata is based on humbleness.

With vyakulata you don't feel that He is human; you don't feel that He is equal to you. But with suffering, you start feeling that He is equal to you. That is why I always tell people, 'If you are suffering, it means that you don't have love for me. You try to bring me to your level.'

In suffering, because of your arrogance, you try to think that you are equal to Him, and you bring Him down to your level. In vyakulata, you always know that He is the ultimate, and you only try to disappear into Him, you only try to dissolve into the Master or God.

The ego simply disappears the moment you touch Him.

The joy of looking for Him is so immense

that you just dive in and coast around like a fish in water.

When you are in the ecstasy, you always feel like touching the Guru's feet, offering yourself at His feet. There is no logical reason for why Guru puja is done, or why people touch the Guru's feet. It is an emotional feeling connection. For some people it looks like, 'Why should I do it?' For some people it is life; they can't live without it!

I know that for millions of my disciples, sitting with me every morning during the pada puja or satsang is much more important than eating

When you experience the energy of this meditation, you will understand that you are based in this anahata dhwani.

When you practice this meditation, your entire energy becomes centered on yourself and awakens your heart center to experience bhakthi and feeling connection.

DURATION: 30 minutes.

INSTRUCTIONS

This meditation should be done on an empty stomach or two hours after a meal. It is best to practice it early in the morning, as it generates a tremendous amount of energy in your body. If you practice it at night, it may interfere with your sleep.

It can be done either alone or with a group. When done with a group, it effectively energizes the place where it is done.

While doing this meditation, you may wear your mala (rosary) around your neck. It will serve to store the energy that you create during the meditation.

Step 1 (20 minutes)

Sit in a relaxed way, cross-legged, with your hands on your knees, palms facing upwards.

Keep your spine erect. Your head, neck and spine should be in a straight line.

Close your eyes. Really close your eyes. Usually, when you close your eyes, it is just like putting off the TV outside and switching on the inner TV. So don't just close your eyelids – close your eyes!

There is a good way to do this: just imagine that your eyeballs have turned to stone! The movement of our eyes is very closely related to the movement of thoughts in our mind. That is why you are asked to arrest the movement of your eyeballs.

Just harden your eyeballs with mental pressure; the images in your mind will die. Your thoughts will also stop, or become slow. Don't be too worried about keeping them arrested. Just proceed with the meditation.

Now, with your mouth closed, start humming.

Just create the vibration Mmmm.

Don't chant any other mantra, don't chant Om or Hoom.

Imagine your body as an empty vessel. If you put your mouth to it and hum, what sound do you hear? Create that same vibration inside yourself.

Hum as loudly as possible, as deeply as possible, as lengthily as possible. Put your whole effort into your humming. The sound has to come from your naabhi kamala – from your loins.

Don't attempt any kind of breath control. Your breathing will automatically take care of itself.

Just continue humming in an intense yet relaxed manner.

Let your whole body be filled with the vibration of the humming.

Become the humming!

Whatever thoughts arise, throw them also into the humming. Gradually, Do this for ten minutes.

Repeat for 21 days.

A small story:

An enlightened Master was training a small boy to be his successor.

This little boy had a very deep, loving connection with the Master, but he was a very naughty boy. He would try to behave in the same way as the Master. He would try to imitate and make fun of the Master, standing behind him.

The Master had a habit of always holding his thumb up whenever he wanted to emphasize a particular point. This boy would stand behind the Master and do the same thing!

One day the Master noticed this.

He just took the knife he was carrying and cut off the boy's thumb!

Understand: the story says very beautifully that the trust and feeling-connection was so deep that the boy did not even think for a moment that something wrong was done to him.

The disciple felt very clearly that if the Master does something, it must be good for him.

Just because of this deep trust and openness, that moment of intense pain burnt away his karmas and he became enlightened in that very moment.

This is a very deep subject; a subtle subject.

First of all, you need to know that you have taken millions of bodies and lived millions of lives before you even took a human birth!

So you need to understand how you created the body which you have now, and how you can consciously create an enlightened bio-memory in your next birth.

Understand: in every body that you take, whatever you see during that life gets recorded in your system as a samskara, an engraved memory. Whatever you see, hear, or experience through your five senses will become a samskara in you. At the moment of death, you will naturally remember the best thing that you saw in this life, and decide to make it your reality in your next life.

He may think, 'Oh, the pig has a bigger body, a better ability to eat, and he doesn't have the big shell which I am carrying! I think that will be a much more comfortable body than this body. 'So he takes a jump and becomes a pig in his next birth.

When he is a pig, he again he collects different samskaras. But now, if he has seen a human being, he can take the jump during death. He can take the jump from the pig body and become a human being.

Understand, this is the way Vishnu's incarnations have been described

Understand one more thing, sometimes if you take too big of a jump, you will take birth as handicapped or you will not have the mind, only the body. If you have only a human body and do not have a clear thinking system, be very clear you have taken a big jump. When you take a big jump, too big of a jump, you will tell 'its okay, human body is enough. I don't need human mind'. So when you take a quantum jump, a full jump, sometimes you know you will not be able to take a strong mind or a very sharp mind but even then you take a choice 'it's okay, I will have a human body'.

Many autistic children have taken a big jump, a long jump. They say 'it's okay, human body is enough, no need for a full-fledged human mind, just an animal mind is enough' because you see they know human life is the best life. They think, but they can't afford to create the human brain, human mind. They have only some animal mind. 'It's okay. This much of

When you are given a choice to create a life of your own, you will simply reproduce my life. You may or may not wear this sannyas cloth, that is different. But the best inner space you have seen is mine, and you know it. So naturally you are going to choose this inner space for your next birth. So you will land as a jeevanmukta in the next body, that’s all!