Seeing the Divine everywhere🔗

The eternal complaint of any aspiring meditator is that the mind refuses to dwell on the object of meditation. Your body is sitting in meditation, but your mind has wandered off to your office, to your friend, to the past, to the future. How to tie down the mind to the contemplation of Truth? This technique turns the whole problem on its head. If you cannot make the mind turn to the Truth, why not perceive the Truth wherever the mind turns? Indeed, since everything in the world is of the nature of Truth, is it ever possible for the mind to meditate on anything else?

Duration: 21 Minutes

Step 1: Sit upright with your eyes closed. Choose any object that attracts you as a subject for contemplation. It could be an external object, or an internal one – a thought or an emotion. Do not judge the object as worthy of meditation or not. Just choose whatever pleases you. Now, meditate on that object with the full conviction that it is nothing but the Divine consciousness. Don’t even consider it as a physical object! Whatever other qualities it may have, let them fall away. All you can see is that it is pure consciousness.

You will be shocked! When you meditate on something as pure consciousness, it can no longer stand apart as something isolated, something different from the universal stream of consciousness. When it loses its individuality, it stands revealed as it really is – the universal consciousness itself in that particular aspect!

Step 2: Carry this understanding wherever you go. Whatever you encounter, in the outer world or in the inner world, see it as one more form of consciousness. Continuously see only this one Truth everywhere. When everything is uniformly perceived as Truth or consciousness, there is no more scope for individual preferences. All desires, all fears, all differences arising out of individual perception are leveled out by this one mighty understanding. No other sadhana is needed! This single realization can simply still your mind, and bring a deep and lasting peace to you.

If you are feeling connected to the Master, there is already a direct bridge in the form of the Master between you and the Divine. All that is needed is to just keep the connection alive and blissfully enjoy the path to the Ultimate bliss. It is the easiest and most juicy way of relating with the Divine because you are just focused on what you are feeling most in tune with. It is the fastest and most effective means because you are just being consciously integrated in your devotion. When there is an intense longing for the Master in your heart, the very power of that longing has the immense capacity to enable a quantum leap in your understanding and trust.

Live the Master

ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE

The mind takes the form of that on which it contemplates continuously. The most effortless way to experience the space of enlightenment is to meditate on a being who lives and moves in that space. Bhakti is nothing but holding on to that which never changes – the formless consciousness. But it is not easy for us to directly feel connected with the formless Existential energy. The master is the form that reminds us again and again of the formless. This is an extremely effective technique for changing your very bio-memory. As you keep practicing it, your body and mind will simply pick up the language of enlightenment.

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Whatever situation you are faced with, ask yourself, How will my master behave in such circumstances? Then do the same. If your mind brings up the question, Who knows how he will behave?, or It is alright for the master. Can I do it? – just ask, how does the master respond to this doubt? He will simply silence the mind, that’s all. So you also do just that. Don’t bother about any difficulty you might face. What is the worst that can happen to you? Death? Then ask yourself, How will the master handle this? Even if death happens, the master will simply leave the body gracefully. He will be untouched. When there is a beautiful way in front of your eyes to handle even death, what other problem can stand before you? Just this one connection can solve all your problems and run your life.

Understand, this is not just faking. Maybe in the beginning it will seem like that, but when you continuously follow the expressions of enlightened behavior, you will fall into the experience from which it arises. Just live the master, you will live like a master!

Prayer is a powerful form of meditation! A sincere prayer has great benefits. When you are connected to the Master, the prayer establishes a direct bridge between you and the all-powerful, compassionate Existence in the form of the Master. Prayer can directly remove all the physical and mental impurities you carry inside you. It can simply dissolve all the sins you have been carrying. It is an integrated, focused direction of your energy towards the Ultimate energy.

Can the power of prayer be proven scientifically? If you pray for someone, can that person be benefited? Research has been done especially over the last decade to answer some of these questions. Some of the findings are listed below: In a 1998 study, some selected practicing healers from a number of traditions including Buddhism, Christianity, Indian shamans etc were supplied with the first names, blood counts and photographs of 20 patients with advanced AIDS. Every day for an hour per day, the healers concentrated their thoughts on the pictures of these patients, for ten weeks. There was another group of 20 other AIDS patients who were left without being thought about in this way. An important thing to be noted in this is that the patients had no idea that they were being prayed for.

It was found that the patients who received this distance healing had fewer and less severe new illnesses, fewer doctor visits, fewer hospitalizations and in general were more positive than those who were not prayed for. This was to the extent of 50% to almost 100% better results than the group not prayed for.

Similar experiments on mice also showed that the distance healing shrank tumors. Experiments show that heart attack patients who don't even know that they have been prayed for recover much faster and better. A similar study in Paris had a group of 60 terminally ill patients in a hospital prayed for while the patients were themselves unaware of this. Another group of 60 terminally ill patients were also monitored who did not receive anything other than the medication that the other group of 60 patients were also receiving. It was found that the group that received the prayers lived an average of four months longer than those who did not.

Not only that, five of the patients who were prayed for even recovered completely. On the other hand, in the other group of 60 patients who did not receive prayers, none of them got well. The power that prayer has on one's own self has also been found to be remarkable as found by various top universities in the US where this has been studied. Some of the benefits found include:

● 40% lower death rate from heart disease and cancer

● Upto 14 times higher chances of survival after surgery for heart patients

● Double the stroke rate in elderly

● Lesser hospitalization time to the tune of 3 weeks

Some studies done include:

● A study in San Francisco in the 80's was done on about 400 patients showed that the group receiving healing prayer not only had fewer deaths, they also had lesser need for CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) and mechanical ventilators as well as antibiotics.

● An interesting study was done in France to study the effect of thought on the growth of microorganisms. In the experiment, a group of people was asked to influence the growth of some destructive fungi just by their intention. The ambient conditions were tightly regulated and there were two groups of fungi, one that received attention and the other that did not. It was found that the growth in over 75% of the fungi which received the intention to not grow actually showed retardation in growth.