Experience Samadhi through the Breath🔗

January 23, 2011

Whatever may be the situation, again and again and again, whenever you see that thoughts are being awakened, created by the breathing flow, stop it! Stop the breathing, not using the hands, but by just using the will. Whether it is external, internal or suspended, it should be just standing without any movement. Whatever may be the spot, the time, or the number of times you may need to stop it, just stop the breath as much as you can, to regulate the life breath. This is what I call pranayama.

Now there are so many questions: How to? What will happen if I stop my breathing? Will I not die? Don't worry, you will not! You will not die that easily and liberate the world. So don't have that fear. Relax! The world has a lot to suffer by you and you have lot to suffer by the world. So don't have the fear that you will die that easily. No.

Actually, when you use the will and stop the breath, at the most, what will happen? After a limit, automatically your will loses its power and the body will start breathing. That's it. Again, whenever you remember, stop the breath. Whenever your logic is able to control the body, stop it! It is a very powerful technique. It can lead you to mano naasha, cessation of the mind.

Naasha is not the perfect word, but no other way, let us use it. In Sanskrit, naasha means complete destruction. But you don't need to have destruction of the mind. You need to have cessation of mind. Cessation and destruction are totally different. End of the mind.

Please understand, the mind vibrates in a certain frequency, so it should stop vibrating in that frequency and just shift to a different frequency; that's all we want. That's what I call cessation of the mind - ceasing to exist in that frequency, not destruction. Your mind needs to cease to exist in the frequency in which it is existing now. For that, breath-control is the technique.

Please understand, this is the technique: throughout the day, whenever you remember, stop the breathing. Then, when you continue the breathing movement again, it will create a certain thought, I am breathing. The breath is going in. The breath is coming out. Those thoughts are allowed. Other than that, if any thought arises, stop the breathing. This is what I call surrendering to the pranic energy. Except for the thought of prana, everything else is surrendered to prana. Surrendering to prana straightaway leads to savikalpa samadhi. Naturally, from savikalpa samadhi, you will melt down into nirvikalpa samadhi.