Swallow the universe!🔗

ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE

This is an extraordinary technique which uses the power of visualization to go beyond visualization! In the earlier technique, you felt as if your own body was growing to occupy all of space. Here, your attention is on the objects outside you. By including everything that you see in your own space, you expand your body boundary till you experience infinity.

Anything which you can logically assimilate is the boundary of your manomaya kosha (mental layer). Anything which you can visualize is the boundary of your vignanamaya kosha (intelligence layer). For example, if you can visualize this room, it means that this has become your boundary. If you can visualize the entire city, the whole city has come inside your boundary. If you can visualize this whole country, the whole country has come inside your vignanamaya kosha boundary. If you can visualize the solar system, the whole solar system comes into your visualization, or vignanamaya kosha. If you start expanding, and visualizing the whole cosmos, what will happen? At some point, your visualization has to break. It has to give way. Sometimes, it will give way even when you try to visualize this whole country. Sometimes, it will give way the moment you try to comprehend the entire planet. At one point, it has to give way. At least for a few moments, you will relax without visualization happening in your inner space. Suddenly you will see that your visualization gives way to Existence itself!

DURATION: 21 minutes

Step 1:

Sit comfortably with your eyes closed. There should not be anything tight gripping your body. Be aware of your body, the annamaya kosha (physical layer). Feel clearly the boundary of your body. Feel that you exist within the boundary of your body. Feel yourself completely alive inside your skin: your head, your toes, your hands, your fingers; feel yourself alive everywhere.

Step 2:

Now, feel that you are expanding up to your pranic layer, up to the space where you can experience smell. The pranic layer boundary extends about ten feet on all sides. Feel that the people who are sitting around you are all sitting inside of you.

Step 3:

Now, just expand and fill this whole room. Your boundary has expanded to include the entire room. Feel that you are filling all the corners of this room. This whole room is inside you; including me, all of us are inside of you. Everybody is sitting inside you. These chairs, sofas, all the meditators, everyone sitting here, is inside you. Just expand. Fill this whole room. Expand.

DURATION: 21 minutes

Step 4: Now, expand and fill this whole building. See very clearly: this whole building is inside your body. Whatever you think of as your boundary is now around the entire building.

Step 5: Next, fill this whole street. See that the whole street is inside you. The traffic, the movements, everything is happening inside your body, inside your boundary. Feel it. Feel every inch of the street, feel every corner of the street to be inside of you.

Step 6: Now, expand and fill this entire city. Whatever you know in the city, all the places that you know in the city, just bring all of them back to your memory, and see that everything is inside you. You are filling it. Every bit is filled by you. Every street, every road, every home, river, hill, everything... you are filling everything. Everything is inside you.

Step 7: Now, expand further and fill all the corners of this country. Whatever you know about this country, bring it into your visualization and see that you are filling all those spaces. INSTRUCTIONS (continuation)

DURATION: 21 minutes

Step 7: Everything is inside you. All four corners of this country are inside your boundary. Feel that everything is inside you. You are filling everything.

Step 8: Next, expand and just feel that this whole globe, the entire planet Earth is inside you. Whatever you know about this planet Earth, all the places that you have heard about or seen, wherever your memory can penetrate, expand to cover it.

Let the whole thing be inside your inner space. Experience all the places inside your boundary, inside your skin, inside you. Expand. Let everything be inside you. Feel the oceans, mountains, rivers, cities, everything to be inside you. The whole globe is moving inside your inner space.

Step 9: Expand further so that the whole solar family is inside you. The sun, moon, planet Earth, all the planets are moving inside you. Feel everything moving inside your head. Let everything be inside your head. See that you have expanded and the whole solar family is moving inside your head.

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DURATION: 21 minutes

Step 10:

Now... expand further. Let the whole cosmos be inside you!

The whole empty space, light covered by light, darkness covered by darkness, big bangs and black holes that are happening...whatever you know as the cosmos, expand and allow it to be inside you.

You will start moving towards experiencing the anandamaya kosha (bliss layer).

It is at the level of the anandamaya kosha that true yoga happens, where the union of mind, body and spirit takes place, where you are one with the cosmic energy; where the Self is alive to you.