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Meditation Is for You

ANGER IS ENERGY!

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ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE

All your emotions are pure energy! When you are caught in a powerful emotion, you cannot see that it is nothing but the play of energy inside you. All your desires, your anger, your fear – all these are nothing but the same energy to which you are giving different names! We feel trapped in our emotions only because we don't realize this. Once you experience an emotion as pure energy, it cannot have any control over your inner space again. Now you are in control! You can play with this energy in any way you want. If you wish, you can convert a negative emotion into a positive emotion, just with a simple decision. This technique can instantly liberate you from the clutches of your mind.

INSTRUCTIONS

Sit straight without relaxing! For this technique to work, you have to keep your body in a state of tension. Now you are going to try and get angry, and if you sit in a relaxed way you cannot get angry! Better sit in a tense way. Close your eyes. Sit with all your tension and pain. That's good because, only if you are feeling uncomfortable inside can you create anger.

Step 1

Remember the face of your intimate enemy! Just remember the person who really creates anger in you. It need not be a person, it could be a situation or a memory that makes you really. If you can't remember anything, just remember yourself! Sometimes, just self-remembrance is enough. You are enough to create anger in you!

Create intense anger. Actually, when you try to create it, you will understand that you are unable to create it, because none of our emotions is honest. Even our anger is never honest. Depending on the person in front of us, we decide whether or not we can afford to get angry!

Remember the person with all the force of your anger. Relive the situations which create anger in you. Let your whole body tremble with anger! Create that pressure of anger inside yourself. Throw yourself into the anger. Focus all your anger on that person, that situation, that memory.

Nithyananda

INSTRUCTIONS (continuation)

Step 2:

Now, drop the person, just forget him. Forget the situation which creates anger in you. Only be aware of the anger vibrating inside you. When you remove the external cause, the whole energy of the emotion turns inward and starts vibrating inside you. A moment ago, what you experienced was anger. Now, what you are experiencing is just a trembling in the body, a tingling heat in the body. The emotion is now circulating inside you as a powerful energy. When you go to the source of the emotion, you will see that it is nothing but pure energy.

Nithyananda

GO BEYOND DESIRE

From desire to worship

ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE

You are always ashamed of your desires! You don't realize, every desire you have is only a reflection of your deep desire for inner fulfillment. In the ancient spiritual text called Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, the sage Yagnavalkya instructs his wife and disciple Maitreyi, Atmanastu kaamaaya sarvam priyam bhavati It is for the sake of the Self alone that all things are dear to us. You desire something only because it reflects your own inner bliss back to you!

You desire power and expansion because you know, deep inside, that you are infinite. You desire wealth because you know that you are abundance itself. You desire relationships because you know that you are Love. Not realizing this, you return again and again to the object of your desire. Again and again, through that person or object or act, you are trying to touch the space of fulfillment that is already there within you. The problem is not with having desires - it is with your attitude towards them. Changing the object is never a solution. Changing the attitude is the solution. When you understand this, the very object of your desire becomes for you a doorway to the Divine.

Instructions

Make a list of all the things that you feel attached to, or which awaken desire in you. It might be a habit, a particular pleasure, an object, a person or an action. Include anything or anyone on the list that makes you feel possessive, greedy or lustful. Now, sit down and meditate on the object of your desire. Meditate with a deep and devoted feeling. Never mind what the desire is! Don't think, how can I even think of such a desire when I am meditating? No! Anything can become sacred when you are respectful and feeling connected to it. Bring in an attitude of respect towards the object or the person. With a lustful attitude, you will reduce even a living person to an object, because you will try to possess that person. With an attitude of love and respect, you can raise even an object into a living consciousness. The moment you bring sanctity to it, lust will become love. Elevate the object or person to the level of a sacred being. Suddenly, you will see that the lust has been transformed into love. The passion has become compassion. Then every relationship is an ecstasy, and you experience real love.

Nithyananda seated in meditation

UNCLUTCH FROM DESIRES

ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE

Desires are always rising in you. You are always struggling unconsciously with your desires – either trying to fulfil them, or trying to suppress them. Whether you try to fulfil or suppress, you are giving reality to the desire, you are giving strength to it. The key is not to suppress them or indulge them, but simply to disconnect from them.

Once you disconnect, it no longer matters whether the desire was weak or strong, right or wrong. When you unclutch from your desires, you transcend them without effort. Then there will be no struggle, and no need to renounce anything - because there will be nothing to renounce!