7. Know Me And Be In Bliss🔗

5.27, 5.28 Shutting out all external sense objects, keeping the eyes and vision concentrated between the two eyebrows, Suspending the inward and outward breaths within the nostrils and thus controlling the mind, senses and intelligence, The transcendental who is aiming at liberation, becomes free from desire, fear and the byproduct of desire, fear and anger, all three. One who is always in this state is certainly liberated.

5.29 One who knowing Me as the purpose of sacrifice and penance, As the lord of all the worlds and the benefactor of all the living beings, achieves peace.

Here, the 'Me' refers to the supreme witnessing consciousness, the Krishna consciousness; it is not the six foot Krishna frame. I always tell people, the outer guru, the master is needed only to kindle the inner spirit, to awaken the inner guru. Once the inner guru, the consciousness is awakened, the outer guru needs to be dropped. Just like after burning the dead body, the very stick that is used to stoke the wood to burn the body is dropped into the same pyre, so also the outer guru needs to be dropped.

Let us now enter into the technique. For the first time, Krishna gives a beautiful technique to move your energy from fear and greed to divine consciousness, eternal consciousness.

Your fear is rooted in the sv¢di¾°h¢na cakra. This is the energy center that is situated two inches below the navel. Your greed is rooted in the m¦l¢dh¢ra cakra, the cakra that is in the root of your spinal cord. Krishna gives us the technique of how to elevate ourselves from these two chakra to the eternal consciousness, the ¢j®¢ cakra at the brow center, where the eternal consciousness resides, where our very being resides. When we have elevated our self to ¢j®¢, we go beyond our ego or mind. We are in tune with the eternal consciousness.

We are all caught in the m¦l¢dh¢ra and sv¢di¾°h¢na, fear and greed. That is why, continuously, we can watch and see that we have a sort of a tensed feeling. We will be continuously holding our m¦l¢dh¢ra and sv¢di¾°h¢na tightly. Here, now, just look into your being. You will be able to feel yourself near the m¦l¢dh¢ra area, tightly holding yourself. You always hold yourself in tension.

Krishna explains how to relax that area, how to stop the fuel coming from greed and fear, and get the am¨ta-dh¢ra (flow of nectar) from the eternal consciousness. Shutting out all external sense objects, keeping the eyes and vision concentrated between the two eyebrows, suspending the inward and outward breaths within the nostrils and thus controlling the mind, senses and intelligence, the transcendental who is aiming at liberation, becomes free from desire, fear and the byproduct of desire, fear and anger - all three. One who is always in this state is certainly liberated.

First, He gives the technique to enter into that state. Then He says, if you can stay in that same state, you are liberated. Now, at least let us try to have a glimpse of this state that Krishna explains inthis verse. I will guide you step by step through this meditation.

Please try to enter into that state.

Please sit straight and close your eyes. Let your head, neck and backbone be in a straight line. Intensely pray to that ultimate energy, Parabrahma (Supreme) Krishna, to give the experience of this meditation to us.

First thing, visualize that all your senses are completely shut. Visualize that your eyes are completely closed. Don't allow any visualization to happen inside your being. Not only should you close the eyelids, you should close the eyes also, because sometimes even though we have closed our eyelids, we continue to see things from behind the eyelids. Visualize that your eyeballs have become completely dark. You are seeing only darkness in front of you.

Visualize your ears are shut. Visualize your sense of touch is shut. Visualize your smelling capacity is shut. Visualize your face to be shut. Feel deeply that all the five senses have been shut down. Inhale and exhale as slowly as possible. Inhale and exhale as slowly as possible.

Slowly, let your nostrils blow the air. Let your consciousness reside between the two eyebrows. In a very relaxed way, let you be aware of the space between your two eyebrows. Don't concentrate; don't tense yourself. Just be very relaxed, have a deeply relaxed awareness.

Let your m[l¢dh¢ra cakra located at the base of your spine be relaxed. Let your sv¢di¾°h¢na cakra located just below the navel center, be relaxed. Let your whole consciousness come up to the ¢j®¢ cakra which is between the eyebrows. Let you concentrate on the space between the eyebrows. Let you relax in the ¢j®¢ cakra, between the eyebrows.

Visualize cool, soothing light in the ¢j®¢ cakra, in the space between the eyebrows. Relax in the ¢j®¢ cakra between your two eyebrows. Forget all other parts of your body. Forget about the body, mind and the world; remember only the ¢j®¢ cakra, the space between the two eyebrows. Relax in the same state in your ¢j®¢ cakra.

Go deeply into the ¢j®¢ cakra, in the space between the two eyebrows. Visualize a beautiful, cooling, soothing light in the ¢j®¢ cakra. Let you experience beautiful, blissful light in the ¢j®¢ cakra. Don't tense yourself; let your awareness be in the ¢j®¢ cakra in a very relaxed way; let your consciousness rest in the space between the two eyebrows. Let you relax in the same space of eternal consciousness. Let you be beyond the body and mind. Let your intelligence be awakened. Let you work from your eternal consciousness. Let you have the pleasant awareness of the ¢j®¢ cakra.

Let you all have the grace of the divine consciousness. Let you be established in the eternal consciousness. Let you all be in, with and radiate eternal bliss, nity¢nanda.

Om ºanti, ºanti, ºantihi...

Om tat sat

Relax. Slowly, very slowly, you can open your eyes.

Try to remain in this same mood at least for the next ten days. Understand: Don’t concentrate by force. Have a pleasant awareness. When you keep the pleasant awareness around your ¢j®¢ cakra, your whole energy will be directed towards the eternal consciousness. You will receive energy from eternal consciousness, from immortality, am¨tatva. You will not be driven by fear or greed.

You will be driven from above by the eternal consciousness. If you are driven from below by fear or greed, you are man. If you are driven from above, you are God. Let you learn the science of how to connect yourself with the divine energy, how to be driven by the divine consciousness. Let you function through the Eternal consciousness.

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