SHAKTI🔗

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The three qualities that are absolutely essential for anyone on the spiritual path are: one - intensity , three - intensity! You have never experienced the joy of giving your life to anything! Understand, it is not necessary that you should have intensity only towards enlightenment. It is a quality that should pervade everything you do. If you are working, work intensely. If you are enjoying enjoy intensely. If you are depressed, be intensely depressed! The same intensity, the same yearning will become integrated and will get directed to the unknown, to enlightenment. Not only that, your unfulfilled desires can be simply burnt with the intensity. Whatever you experience as fulfillment, yearn for that. The intense yearning is enough, it will evaporate you. And the fulfillment you experience will be many times more than the fulfillment you may have ever experienced before.

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Meditating on light can bring you some of the most beautiful meditation experiences. When you meditate on light, you fall in tune with an all-pervading, powerful energy. You become part of the conscious current that sustains life.

DURATION: 21 minutes

Practise this meditation in the morning. With sunrise, all living things turn to the sun for energy. Become a part of this great tide.

As soon as you wake up in the morning, you can practise this. Just lying in bed, close your eyes and inhale. As you inhale, visaulize golden light pouring into you through your head. Your whole head becomes warm. Your head becomes a ball of light. Visualize the energy circulating in your ajna chakra, the space between your brows. Feel the whole region engulfed in light.

Feel the light washing your limbs in light. You will feel a tingling warmth in your limbs rising inside. This is real warmth!

Feel the light and warmth in your heart. Feel your breathing become deeper, feel your heartbeat become more relaxed. Feel your whole body become bright and alive, infused with fresh energy. Your whole body is made of light!

Understand, this is not just visualization. You are light, all is light. You are just not used to thinking of yourself as energy, that's all. You have got so used to seeing yourself as just matter. The light is pouring through your lower limbs, right down to your toes. It is flowing out through your toes!

Don't think that this is just something you are just imagining. As you imagine, so it happens. The energy actually flows into you. When you exhale, imagine the opposite. Visualize a great darkness climbing into you from your toes, and traveling up to your head. The darkness escapes through your head.

The golden light is male energy – strengthening and sustaining. The darkness is female energy – calming.

You can also practise this at night, just before going to bed. If you fall asleep doing it, it can be a beautiful experience.

Continue this for two or three months, and you will see great changes in yourself. Not only will you be suffused with energy, your whole consciousness will feel light and expanded.

Cleaning the inner screen

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People come and ask me, 'Swamiji, when you make a powerful sankalpa (wish), it always comes true. Why doesn't this happen when I make a wish even with a powerful intention?'

Understand, for an intention or desire to be transformed into reality, your inner space or inner screen needs to be totally clean. As of now, your inner space is corrupted by many unconscious thoughts. The moment you insert a conscious intention into your inner space, ten unconscious thoughts will rise to fight with it! So the power of your intention is diluted and naturally it cannot become reality.

When your inner space is cleansed of unconscious thoughts, whatever intention goes in will be a single, conscious, integrated force. This intention will be powerful enough to express itself as reality.

This technique is a simple but powerful way to clean your inner screen of unconscious thoughts by infusing awareness into it.

Even if it looks too simple, try it. Only when you do it can you experience the effects. The whole restaurant can be reduced to a menu card. Only when you eat will you realize that the food can fill you!

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Close your eyes. Sit straight. Inhale and exhale as slowly and as deeply as possible. Visualize your inner screen as a dark blackboard, as dark as possible. Whatever appears on that inner blackboard, start visually wiping it away. Just as an eraser is used to clean a blackboard, in the same way just wipe clean the inner blackboard or inner screen. Now, visualize the number '3' on your inner screen. Visualize it very clearly and then wipe it away slowly. Next, visualize the number '2' on your inner screen, and then wipe it away slowly. Then, visualize the number '1' and wipe it away slowly in the same way. Repeat this whole process three times.

Now visualize the number '0' and wipe it away very slowly. By the time you reach the number zero, you will have no thoughts that are unconscious. Your visualization becomes so powerful that the inner screen really becomes empty. The moment the inner screen becomes empty, you can start looking in. You will begin seeing your being as it is.

Now, just witness the empty screen. Do not create, maintain or destroy any thought. Just witness the empty screen. Continue to be with yourself for a few moments. When you look at your inner being without the movie of the outer world, not only what you are seeing will become different, even the seer will become different. In the outer world, the seer and the seen are two different things. In the inner world, the seer and the seen are both one and the same.

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In the Vedas, they say that a spark of the universal consciousness burns brightly in each of us as a small flame in our heart. This individual consciousness is called the angushtha maatra purushah (the thumb-sized consciousness!) which is alive and burning, deep in the cave of the heart. It is not easy to always remember that you are consciousness. This beautiful visualization helps keep this awareness alive in us at all times.

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At all times, feel the presence of this thumb-sized flame in your heart. Visualize your whole body as illumined from within by this small flame. This is true! Even if you cannot see it physically, your body, mind, intellect – all these are functioning only because of the energy, the light of consciousness that pervades them. Carry this flame as your inner inspiration always, as your deepest contact with own being. When you are sitting still, feel that your body itself is just a halo around this flame. All your acts are made divine because they happen in the light of this consciousness. Let this inner consciousness become your reality. Let everything else fall away. When you live constantly with this truth, you will understand what is meant when I say,

You are not a human being having a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being having a human experience!

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You are always flowing outward. Your energies are always focused on the outside world. When you look at something, your consciousness flows towards it. Your focus is never on yourself, it is always on the object of your attention. At all moments we are aware of something outside of ourselves. Whenever we become intensely aware of something – a beautiful sunset, beautiful music – we lose ourselves completely in it. This is a tremendous experience – but this is unawareness. In awareness, one is aware not only of the object, but also of the subject. You become aware not only of what you are looking at, but of the one who is looking – You. Ordinarily, your energy is always flowing outwards, into the external event. According to the Taoist experience, you could turn this energy back upon yourself, instead of squandering it in the outside world.