4. LIVE IN COMPLETION🔗

Intensity means the ability to stand for what you believe and break free from the past method of functioning, the past attitude of functioning, and the past way of functioning.

Please understand the ability to break free from the past way of functioning, and live in a new way, to start in a new way, that is what I call intensity.

Otherwise, you go on and on and on in the same way. You can see in your life even inside your house, you will walk in the same route, sit in the same sofa, go to your bed the same way, lie down in the same way, come back and sit in the same chair on the dining table, you come out of your garage, and you will drive in the same way. You will not even be alive and creative.

You need intensity to do new things. Otherwise, you will do the same old thing. The only difference may be in the quantity, big or small, but not the quality. I always tell my ashramites to at least do some new mistakes, so that I will get some entertainment..! But we don’t have creativity even for that.

A small story:

A cowboy rode into a town and went into a saloon for a few drinks, when he came out again his horse was gone. He stormed back into the saloon and shouted, ‘Who stole my horse?’ There was no reply. He was getting angry, and said, ‘Rise, otherwise you don’t know what I did in Arizona?’ Still there was silence. The cowboy was fuming, ‘This is your last chance. If no one owns up about stealing my horse, I am going to do what I did in Arizona!’ Just then a lone voice said, ‘What did you do in Arizona?’ The cowboy said quietly, ‘I walked home.’

When there is no intensity, you will be doing the same thing.

You hold so tightly onto your possessions, your relationships, your experiences, your identity, only because you have never really confronted the truth that none of these can be with you forever.

A single, intense experience, that all this can be utterly, irreversibly destroyed in a moment, is enough to disillusion you about all that you are clinging to. Then your awareness will be centered on that which can never be destroyed.

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Before going to sleep at night, lie on the left side of your body with your head facing East.

Visualize and say to yourself, ‘let my breathing pattern become one with the cosmic breathing pattern.’ Then visualize that your own physical body, thoughts, and emotions are burning with fire to ashes. Next visualize that the bed that you are lying on is also burning. Then everything in your room is burning.

Keep on visualizing as much as you can that everything is burning, the street that you are on, the neighborhood, city, country, etc.

Visualize everything around you and within you being burnt by kaalaagni : the flames of annihilation. Whatever you experience on the outside, and whatever you experience on the inside, it is burning and getting extinguished by this mighty fire.

Flaming tongues of fire are consuming the whole material world. The entire inner world - all your thoughts and feelings about people, situations, experiences, all are burning to ashes.

Visualize continuously that whatever you think about the world, about anything, is burning, it no longer exists. Your attitudes, your interests, your passions, your greed, your desires, and your fears are all being consumed in the fire.

When everything is burnt, what remains?

Only your awareness: I am! Before falling asleep, say to yourself, 'Oh God, my Guru, remember whatever I have done to achieve oneness with you and whatever you did to achieve oneness with me.'

With this remembrance fall asleep into restful awareness.

This experience can drastically break your conditioning and push you into enlightenment.

INTENSITY

On the spiritual path, intensity is a war with yourself. Intensity means fighting with your patterns uncompromisingly. If you are fighting with your own patterns, you are being intense. If you are fighting with others' patterns, it means you are in-tension, not intense!

Fighting with your patterns is intensity; fighting with others' patterns is tension.

It is time we fight with our own patterns, our own inner enemies. Everybody comes and tells me, I have transformed so much. Why don't you tell the other person also to transform? Everybody knows what their own patterns are, but nobody wants to fight with their own patterns. Everybody wants to fight with others' patterns!

You have enough enemies inside, so why don't you fight with your patterns? Look at your own patterns instead of others' patterns. Identify and break your own patterns.

But you will say – No, no, no, no! This person is not fighting with his patterns, so I have to fight with his patterns! So you fight with the other person's patterns and he fights with your patterns!

You fighting with your own patterns is peace. You fighting with others' patterns is war! That's all!

So whenever conflicts arise, you decide if you want to be in war or peace!

TECHNIQUE: IDENTIFY YOUR PATTERNS

ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE Below is the process in which you can identify your major patterns.

Duration As much time as needed.

Think of a recent conflict or a time when you felt powerless or when you felt your energy was down or when you felt depressed or felt fear or anger.

Now visualize that event vividly as if it is happening right now and relive the situation. Recall what was said, how you felt, everything you can visualize of that event.

Identify three things in the conflict: · Mamakara – what you think you are inside at that moment. It is the image you carry for yourself; what you felt as you at that moment. For example: I am a loser, I always let my parents down, etc. · Ahankara – what you project to others as you: the way you react, your body language, your actions, and the statements you gave about yourself to others at that time. For example: I project friendliness even when I feel I am a loser. · Swa-anyakara – what you cognize as Life at those moments. What is it that you felt life was for you at that moment? For example: life is humiliating me, because people are laughing at me at that time.

When you identify these three statements, you will see that they have been there inside you during many situations in your life before.

These statements are only the branches. They are the sign of the pattern that exists deep inside you. The root is hidden from your own view due to your current cognition. But we can start with cutting off the branches.

The next step is the process of self-completion – swapoornatva kriya. The purpose of self-completion is to make you whole or complete. When you are complete, you will feel light as if the heaviness inside you is lifted. You will also feel energized and feel your inner space expanding.

When you are incomplete or not whole, you will feel powerless, upset, lifeless, and have low energy.

As much time as needed.

Have a medium-sized mirror in which you can see your face comfortably. You are going to have a conversation with yourself!

With the mirror in front of you, sit in a relaxed way and cognize that you committed for completion to happen. The complete part of you is holding the mirror. The incomplete person is the image in the mirror. Look at the image in the mirror and bring up the situation again that caused you conflict. Listen intently to what the incomplete person in the mirror has to say to you about the conflict.

Keep listening till there is nothing else the incomplete person has to say.

Now, as the complete person, say to the incomplete person in the mirror that you heard what has been said, and that the incomplete person was functioning from a cognition that was created in the past, and that it is not the cognition you now have as a complete person.

Say to your mirror-image that you are functioning from this new cognition, and that you will not be functioning from the old cognition you had at that time.

Heal the incomplete person in the mirror completely. Tears may come and/or laughter may come. Allow both to happen.

On completion, you will feel a lightness, an expansion or a deep feeling of relief or a sigh. You may have sudden clarity about other past events, which are based on the same pattern you were dealing with during the completion process. Repeat the same process for any other major pattern you want to complete with.

Go on completing every day if needed. This technique is especially useful when done at night before sleep where you can review your conflicts or patterns or actions for that day!

Every action either releases or creates certain patterns in you. If your actions are done without the influence of the patterns, but through meditation on the infinite, it will lead you to the ultimate consciousness.

Through the process of working for twelve hours a day, while being unclutched, all the patterns that are not letting your body align to the awakening, will leave your system. Every action releases some pattern from your system.

A small example, during the levitation process that I do, where the kundalini energy is awakened, all the stored and suppressed patterns leave your body. You will see that a lot of violence will leave your system, and a lot of fantasy and greed will leave your system.

Just by intense physical vibration, your deep craving for physical pleasures and fantasy will leave your system.

You may think, how does levitation help me transform in this way? When you are caged by the patterns, gravity pulls you down. All I am doing when I awaken your kundalini is to make your short-sighted intellect into vast-sighted intelligence, to bring your life energy alive.

Naturally, your ego dissolves into the life energy for those few moments, and your intense bio-energy (consciousness) gets awakened. When the bio-energy gets awakened, the patterns that were holding you down get removed from your system, and you levitate.

Levitation is an intense conscious experience. See the people who levitate, the amount of joy they radiate the whole day, and conscious coherence in which they live!

When you have heavy patterns, your body becomes heavy, not physically but internally. You will become deeply depressed. With levitation it brings so much of joy, because the patterns just leave your system.

The exact same thing happens in you when you work intensely for twelve hours a day, continuously contemplating on the infinite. You will experience the same feeling that you get when you are levitating. The same intense kundalini awakening happens in you. You will experience levitation everyday.

For the next two months, try working for at least twelve hours a day. Work as a lifestyle, not for a purpose. You don’t breath for a purpose. You know it is your life. In the same way, work for twelve hours a day.

Take up for-profit or non-profit work. But work for twelve hours a day in an unclutched way. Whenever you remember, let the inner space be unclutched, while the outer body will be intensely working. You will see - the aligning to awakening will happen. Do your regular job for survival - for food, clothes and money. But apart from that, continue to do more activity, work by meditating on the infinite.