Catch the Moment!🔗

Spontaneous meditations are not formal techniques, but very effective pop-up signs that draw your awareness again and again to each fleeting glimpse of no-mind that you constantly experience. These meditations cannot be planned.

The situation or emotion or revelation just has to happen.

You can't practice these techniques. You can only be available, open to them whenever they happen.

The way to catch the moment is simple: be aware at all times! You never know where a satori is waiting for you.

Understand, we are continuously experiencing the space of pure consciousness, but our mind always cleverly jumps the gap.

With awareness, you can catch the moment, you can 'fall into the gap'.

The more you consciously experience these glimpses, the more your awareness dwells in the gaps between events, between thoughts.

Each glimpse is like drilling a hole on the surface of a frozen pond. When you walk on the surface, it looks as if the whole pond is solid ice, but if you once fall into a hole, you realize that the pond is all water, and the ice is only on the surface.

In the same way, you begin to see that what you experience as 'gaps' or holes are actually the single underlying reality, unbroken by the outer-world and inner-world events that are shifting and moving on the surface.

In the middle of a fall, just as the body is falling to the ground, become aware! Thought-lessness.

When your gaze is withdrawn form one object, but not yet fixed on another; in the interval, glimpse Emptiness.

When traveling fast in a vehicle which suddenly stops, the body is thrown forward and the breath stops in fear. At this moment, you fall into your Center!

(even a bad cold will do!)

When touched or touching

a beloved one,

mind dissolves in delight!

Experience sheer Bliss.

On the dark, lonely path

a soft noise behind you!

Fear consumes the mind -

Suddenly you are thought-less!

In the middle of a sneeze, be aware: no mind!

Now we will work on the visualization. I will try to guide you to live inside the whole body. Don't think you are living using your whole body. You do not use your whole body. First thing, as of now, we don't live using our whole body. As you went out, how many felt the coolness of the earth? You have become insensitive to some parts of the body unlike kids. The grace is lost when you choose one part of the body and reject the other part. First thing, when you suppress one side say left), it starts as a child. Then by and by, you start living only with one part of the body. This technique is all about centering yourself in all parts of your body instead of living like a ghost how do you remember yourself when you try – only upto bust size! We continuously live centered on the upper body and suppress the other part. If You can infuse awareness into your whole system – a very simple meditation technique to center yourself in your body – to become Swa-astha. Disease related to Annamaya kosha require surgery. Disease related to psychosomatic level will be healed by meditation. All pain happens when you don't give attention including the loud noise in the kitchen when you watch TV.

According to Ayurveda, every part of your body individually breathes – inhales and exhales. Yogis in India can stay underground where there are no air circulation for days together. When every part of your body breathes, when you infuse etheric energy into your body, you start radiating TEJAS. Prana is not air – it is the energy that goes through air. This visualization will infuse the prana shakti into you to give you a deep relaxation. You will radiate the awareness and peace in you. Anybody can do this meditation.

This technique is a visualization technique to center you fully inside your body. It has two parts.

Total time duration: 21 mins.

Close your eyes. Tie your ribbon.

First part: Tense every part of your body, part by part, starting with the feet, then moving onto calf muscles, knees, thighs, hip, abdomen, chest and back, shoulders, arms, hands, neck, face and head. When you tense your feet, visualize your feet are like a bean bag, and squeeze them completely to infuse awareness into that part.

Second part: Visualize every part of your body inhaling and exhaling every part including eyes, nose, head, leg, feet). Infuse etheric energy prana shakti or the vital energy that you take in while breathing) into every single part of the body. This will give you deep relaxation; you will radiate peace.

Sit and relax.

Now let us go more deeper and we will center ourself on the seven chakras. Now we will breathe life into all the 7 energy centers. Then we will work on the PAIN.

Human beings usually stay in a very gross matter level. Slowly, we are moving to the Pranic and more subtle levels. One more thing, throughout this program, I am trying to maintain that you will be able to do the whole thing without having to believe in anything. Meditation Method: (continuation)

Simple technology/science. Even though it takes little time and you have to continuously meditate, you will enjoy the result. Now, this meditation is called CHAKRA breathing. We will inhale and exhale centered on every chakra.

Similar to previous, now, we will visualize every center. For eg, manipuraka means navel center you will be guided to where the center is). For it, visualize inhaling and exhaling and the TURN happening inside the navel. Air goes in, touches the center, and then comes out. For Ajna, Prana is going up and coming out. We will breathe life into the chakras. Unless you are exposed to visualization, You will not be able to do pain meditation. So we are going step by step to increase the visualization capability.

Last meditation and next are for preparation for an even deeper level of meditation. Last meditation we worked on the fire – the agni tatva – which is responsible for all your ulcer, anything related to navel/stomach. Now we are working on the amrita tatva, the coolness energy. Energy that is called “Sheetala”.

Again, you need to sit in Vajrasana. You will inhale through your mouth – keeping your tongue like tube just fold the tongue. Inhale through mouth. Then try to digest the air. Automatically your body will exhale through nose. Inhale through mouth, exhale through nose. This will heal anything related to gas trouble. Try your best to avoid masala stuff eating. It will always lead to gas trouble. If you go to some feast and eat, at least for one or two days, do this meditation to cleanse your stomach.

This technique energizes the pranic layer of your body. There are seven energy bodies in us out of which the pranic layer is one of them. It is also called the breath body. Total time duration: 21 mins.

Meditation Method:

Close your eyes. Sit in vajraasan position sit upright on feet with legs under you. Inhale through the mouth slowly and deeply. Swallow and digest the air and prana the vital energy that you take in while breathing). You will feel a tremendous coolness in your being. Inhale through the mouth and exhale through the nose. When you breathe deeply through the mouth and swallow the air, automatically your body will exhale through nose.

Don't bother if you have any knee pain due to sitting in vajrasana. These pains will disappear in a day. But the energy cleansing that you are doing will work on cleansing the pains that you have been carrying continuously for many years. Tatva means part of your being. Agni tatva, amrita tatva, etc are all part of you and need to be cleansed once in a while. Now, it is a two step meditation. One more extra visualization. First sit in vajrasana with the chin mudra to connect the upper and lower body. One important thing, for the most of us, we just live in the upper body with the lower body just hanging in there. That is the true thing. Now,you connect the lower and upper body through the chin mudra. Where exactly the thigh and upper body is connected, keep the chin mudra and same way, first step, visualize the agni and kindle it with hoomkara.

Second step you will bend to the front, and inhale through the mouth, and exhale through the nose automatically. Third step, you will sit with the head bending forward, and visualize a white light throughout your body.

Balance the three vital energies in your body. According to the ancient science of Ayurveda, vatha (energy of movement), pitta (energy of digestion or metabolism) and kapha (energy of lubrication and structure) are the three forces in our body, which need to be in balance to cause physical wellbeing. However, in each of us, the proportion of these three forces is usually imbalanced and one element is in higher proportion most of the time. The following techniques are to restore the balance of vatha, pitta and kapha. These techniques, when done intensely, can prevent even cancer. These meditations are to be done on an empty stomach and hence preferably early in the morning.

Total Duration: 31 minutes Step 1: Duration: 10 minutes Sit in vajrasana (kneel down and sit with your bottom resting on your heels). Place your hands on your hips. By doing this, you are establishing a connection between the upper and lower parts of your body. Chant ‘hoo’ for as long as possible with each exhale. Begin again with each inhale, holding the chant as long as possible as you exhale.

Step 2: Duration: 21 minutes Continue sitting in vajrasana. With the hands on the hips, bend down at the hip to touch the forehead to the ground. Continue to chant the ‘hoo’ sound in this position.

Total Duration: 31 minutes

Step 1: Duration: 10 minutes

Sit in vajrasana. Place your hands on your hips. Chant the ‘hoo’ sound. As you chant, visualize clearly a white light rising within you, going out from the top of the head and circling back into you. Continue to visualize the circling white light as you chant ‘hoo’.

Step 2: Duration: 21 minutes

Continue sitting in vajrasana. With the hands on the hips, bend down at the hip to touch the forehead to the ground. Continue to chant the ‘hoo’ sound in this position. Continue to visualize clearly a white light rising within you, going out from the top of the head and circling back into you, just as before.

Total Duration: 41 minutes Keep a picture of Swamiji's eyes in front of you.

Step 1: Duration: 10 minutes Sit in vajrasana. Place your hands on your hips and chant the ‘hoo’ sound. Visualize clearly a white light rising within you, going out from the top of the head and circling back into you.

Step 2: Duration: 21 minutes Continue sitting in vajrasana. With the hands on the hips, bend down at the hip to touch the forehead to the ground. Continue to chant the ‘hoo’ sound in this position. Continue to visualize clearly a white light rising within you, going out from the top of the head and circling back into you.

Step 3: Duration: 10 minutes Open your eyes. Through your third eye, look at Swamiji's third eye in the picture. Clearly visualize a beam of light from Swamiji's third eye entering your third eye. This meditation is tantra-mantra-yantra, all three put together: Mantra means using the body physically to get the desired effect of sitting in a particular posture and chanting. Tantra means using the body and mind together to get the desired effect of adding the visualization of white light. Yantra means using an external object to get the desired effect of using the picture of Swamiji's eyes.

Balance the fire and water elements in the body. Awaken the unused energy centers of the body. Total Duration: 30 minutes

Do this meditation at least three hours after eating food.

Step 1: Duration: 10 minutes

Be in a standing posture. Shake the whole body from head to foot as if shaking a tree from the root. This awakens all your unused energy centers and makes the whole body fluid. Shake vigorously.

Step 2: Duration: 10 minutes

Sit down wherever you are. Whatever sound appears in your mind, just vocalize that sound. It should be like gibberish, not words. It may be hidden irritation, worry, or anger. If you carry these irritations in your system, it may imbalance your pitta, so let them out completely.

Step 3: Duration: 10 minutes

Sit silently and just be a witness. Don't create, sustain, destroy or judge anything that rises in your mind.

MYSTICAL MEDITATIONS

Alchemy with the Master

In the section on sudden enlightenment, we saw how just being in the Energy-field of an enlightened Master can directly lift you to a higher plane of consciousness. How does this happen? Whether you are aware of it or not, the Master is silently working on the habits, conditionings and engraved memories accumulated over lifetimes and now living in you as a powerful bio-memory. The bio-memory cannot be completely erased through learning, reading the scriptures or even meditation. It requires an intense spiritual surgery on our deepest engrams, which is the work of a Master. The bio-memory is one of the most powerful obstacles in the way of experience and holding the experience of enlightenment. Once our system is released from the samskaras that drive us day and night, the transmission of the light becomes possible.

Technique is a way of working on yourself. Process is an alchemy between you and the Master.

In a technique, all the effort is from your side. You have to do, you have to achieve, you have to experience. In a process, the responsibility is on the Master. All you have to do is be available. At the most, you will need to move your body as I say! Nothing else needs to be done.

Technique is like trying to dig a well with a spoon. Process is like using a powerful drill to dig the well Actually, it is more like relaxing and enjoying the scene while an engineer with a drill does the job for you! But just because you are relaxing, don’t think nothing is happening!

The process with the Master is like boiling you. The whole process becomes alive and intense. Sometimes, during or after these processes, you may feel a sense of tremendous bliss and liberation. Sometimes, you may experience deep depression or uncontrollable anger. When you come near me, you are coming near an intense Energy space that directly dissolves your negativities. That is why you feel such mixed and intense emotions. The Master’s body is practically like an atomic Energy station. When you come near, whatever emotions are in you start boiling. If you put a potato in boiling water, the potato will start jumping around! The potato is not dancing by itself. It is dancing because of the fire Energy below. So having samskaras is not a problem. The potato is not a problem. The jumping potato should not jump out of the pot and run away. That is the only thing to take care!

If it is inside the pot, it will become a siddha potato! Siddha in Sanskrit has two meanings. One is ‘boiling’, another is ‘enlightened’. So if the potato stays inside the pot, it will become not only a boiled potato, but an enlightened potato!

As your connection with the Master deepens, the processes also get deeper and subtler. Initially, you will experience both the process and the effects. In the subtler techniques, you may not be aware of the process, but you can experience the effects. That’s why the processes may look too simple to you – till you do them! And in the most subtle processes of all, I work at a level so much deeper than your normal consciousness, that you will not be aware of either the process or its effects – perhaps only others will be able to experience the transformation in you!

In this process, we will be working on the major portion of the prarabdha karma, the engraved memories which you brought with you when you created this body. We will be working on the annamaya kosha (physical layer), the base material with which you created the first layer.

There is a very subtle truth to be grasped here. Although you are in a human body right now, you are not the complete owner of your body. That is why you are not able to completely control it. There are so many entities sitting inside your body without paying rent! Each one is saying, ‘This is my portion, get out!’ These entities start fighting with each other, and you are unable to do anything about it. You are like a man who is married to four or five women!

Who are these entities? They are nothing but the engraved memories (samskaras or engrams) you have collected from your past lives! They are still sitting inside your body and controlling you without your awareness. Of these, the engrams you have brought from your animal lives are the most deeply hidden and the most influential.

All the emotions which give you a peak experience, like anger, lust and violence, are driven by your animal samskaras. Naturally, you never give a chance for your animal engrams to surface completely in your consciousness. You might have taken a human body, but you never liberated the animal inside! You never allowed those engrams to completely leave your system.

Today, you are going to bring up and burn the animal engrams of many lifetimes! You are going to assume any one animal form. You don't have to wonder which is the right animal for you. All you need to do is break from the idea that you are a human being, that's all. Once you break from it, the whole thing will come out.

These are all very esoteric and mystical processes, done only when a disciple is really interested and intensely wants to experience the higher consciousness. That is why these methods are not available for the masses. You may wonder why you have never read about such processes in your scriptures. Understand: in religion, you will never learn this. Only in spirituality will you learn this. These are methods from the esoteric traditions where the science of enlightenment is kept alive, where the living stream is maintained.

Fortunately, it is still available, and you are fortunate enough to drink from the very source!

You might experience a lot of pain and discomfort discarding your identity as a human while doing the meditation. All your pain is nothing but the fight between your animal samskaras and the higher civilization samskaras. The fight between the engrams of civilization and engrams of animals is the pain and suffocation inside your body. If you are just animal, you will not have pain. If you are just human, you will not have pain. When these two start fighting inside you, you start feeling the suffocation.

Understand one thing: it is the samskaras which you brought from animal lives that are haunting you; not the animal itself. The same animals might be your pets, but the animalistic engrams are harmful for you. They are obstacles on the path to enlightenment. When this happens, it is the respiratory system which takes the load. Violence is always reflected most in breathing patterns and disorders.

Choose any one animal. First, visualize the animal. With the visualization itself, so many things will start happening in you. Just become arrogant and violent and express it. When you become that particular animal, you will see all the samskaras coming out. All your peak experiences should be lived completely inside this animal body. Every animal has the survival instinct. There is no animal that does not have fear or greed. So live out all these emotions. We want to touch the root from where you took the jump to the human form - and that is the animal form.

Sometimes, you will find two to three animals coming out of you. Let all of them come out. Bring out the whole animal emotion in a live way. Just become each animal and live it out completely, that’s all. To start with, just feel your head. From your head to your toe, think that you have become the animal.

You will see that it is an intense catharsis of samskaras. Don’t think that this is just a psychological catharsis! In techniques for psychological catharsis, you shout and scream and punch bags. That catharsis is just for emotions.

This is catharsis for the samskaras, for the annamaya kosha itself. We are working with the very base. This will be a thousand times more effective than any psychological catharsis. Psychological catharsis is like cosmetic surgery. But with this, your complete personality will be transformed!

Just express the whole thing. Let the whole body act out and release those engrams from the system. Once it comes out, it will leave your system forever. When it is brought to your awareness, it will leave you. So make enough space for a zoo!

Once you pick an animal, you will see that the instinct of that animal will simply start opening up. That’s enough. All we need is the instinct that is lust, greed or fear to open up in you. Understand: express the emotions intensely through action; don’t just visualize and leave them.

Sometimes, you may feel like an animal which you have never heard of, or seen before. Let everything come out. Just live as that animal, that’s all. Move your body, or do any activity just like that animal. Don’t just keep quiet. No animal will keep quiet! Only one thing: don’t disturb the person next to you. Otherwise, you are free to do anything.

Sometimes, people remain frozen during this meditation. They don’t want to get out of their frozen identity. They must have been buffalos in their previous births! Understand: this is not a technique, it is a process. It needs your 100% commitment.

In your life, whenever you are battling with anger, lust, greed or any emotion which makes you fight with yourself, anything which you think you are not able to handle, understand that they are your animal engrams at work! For example, if you have no control over your anger, use this chance to enter into any animal body, maybe a lion! Just become a lion, roar with anger like a lion! Nobody is going to see you; no photography and no videography will be done here. Just become that animal.

Just enter into the process; you will see the relief, or the new space, or the new Energy which happens in you. This one process is powerful enough to liberate you from the engrams of many lives! It will simply heal you.

Relax. You may open your eyes. Please remain silent for the next half an hour, so that the silence can work on you. If you use any words, the process will be disturbed. Be in total silence, inside and outside.