Restlessness is the source of anger and desire patterns Jan 21, 2012
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January 22, 2011
Have Life Fulfillment Through Breathing
Pranayama is when you stop your mind to fulfill the breath. Please understand,
when you stop the mind, your breathing gets fulfilled. If your mind is interfering
with your breathing, it is always unfulfilled. Just yesterday somebody was asking
me, Swamiji I have everything any one will ask for in the life. But somehow, there
is an emptiness and an unfulfilled feeling. I don't know what to do.
If you feel you have everything in the outer world but still there is an unfulfillment,
your breathing is not fulfilled. If you fulfill your breathing, everything will be fulfilled
in your life even though you have so many complications in the outer world. If you
have not fulfilled your breathing, you will have a deep emptiness, even if everything
is fulfilled in the outer world. The important thing that you need to understand is
even if you don’t feel things are right in the outer world, you can experience
fulfillment.
The technology is fulfilling the breathing. I tell you just by fulfilling the breathing,
your whole inner space can be transformed to fulfillment maybe within ten to
twenty seconds. I can say instant cure for depression. Instant cure for any mental
disorders at any level. I really feel bad for the western society which is caught with
these psychiatric medicines, depression medications. To come out of depression or
the psychological sufferings, medicines are the last help.
Contemplation:
One important secret is that always the outer world follows the inner world. If you
think the inner world follows the outer world, you are wrong. Ramakrishna says
very beautifully, whatever you make in the inner world only happens in the outer
world, not whatever you make in the outer world happens in the inner world. No!
The fulfillment is always experienced first in the inner world. Then that actually
expresses itself in the outer world and outer world situations also fall in place and
the fulfillment happens. But unfortunately the ignorant mind starts thinking, if you
create fulfillment in the outer world then it will happen in the inner world. No, it is
not. It is not the truth and it does not happen in that way. Fulfill breathing first.
Power of a yogi’s hug Oct 23, 2010
I learnt this habit of hugging from Raghupathi Yogi. He is a very weird yoga guru. I have really seen when 100kg, 120 kg weight people come to him, he will not even look them up and down but he will tell them to do sirsasana, standing upside down. He has two three assistants who look like very wild yamadootas, literally are yamadootas only. He will tell them, ehh help them to do it. For the poor guy, just standing directly itself is a job for him. Sirsasana is impossible for him to do. Those yamadootas will just tie that fellow’s leg and just hold them up. In 2 minutes that fellow will not know where he has come from, where he has landed and what is going on. He will be standing upside down and seeing the Arunachaleshwara temple tower upside down. Sometimes, they will get into that panic mood because they will be just completely shaken and frightened. Their survival instinct will be completely awakened.
They will be like a frightened baby. Some will shake their whole body. No.... no.... no.... we can’t do sirsasana. You will now be shocked. He will just call them and give one hug. He is a lean guy, lean short guy, maybe five feet. It is almost like an initiation. He will give one hug then he will tell his yamadootas, hey back out leave him. Literally in that two three seconds the shivering will settle down, they will become balanced, they will be very calm; they will just stand upside down. The whole process will be finished in maybe 30 seconds; that’s all.
I am telling you the physical proof of the power of a yogi’s hug. He will make them stand upside down even sometime for three full minutes. Three full minute is not a joke. They will just stand upside down, pressure will be normal and then he will tell, alright enough, enough now. Come down. Please understand, he will make them stand for 360 seconds and that’s all. Initiation is over.
From the next day, he will make them do all kinds of asanas including some of the most difficult asanas like mayurasana. They can neither put their hand on the stomach nor can they even imagine balancing their entire weight on the palms. I can tell you, it is a medical miracle only. But he will simply tell them ehh mayurasana and that poor fellow will simply do it and not even know it is something difficult. How the whole body can be shaped just by one hug! I always used to wonder what this guy is up to. What is he up to?
Inthe same way he had one dog. Never before have I seen a dog climbing a tree. Raghupathi Yogi will do a very funny puja in the early morning. He will tell the dog ehh go and bring flower from the nagalinga flower tree. In the root itself, something like branches will hang and the flowers be there. It is very difficult for you guys to believe unless you see it. That dog will never touch that flower with his mouth. He will get the flower with the front leg and he will walk back on three legs without putting that flower on the ground. I have seen it.
That dog will straight away climb trees. Sometimes if the lower level flowers are not there, If the dog does not, is not able to climb the tree, he will come back and again, Raghupathi Yogi will give one hug to that dog. That fellow will climb to the top! How he is able to transmit the powers through the hug is a very great experience. So this is the power of the Master’s touch or the hug.
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Just sit for a few minutes to fully grasp these examples described above. Such is the power of a yogi's hug.