If we are mild, we see mild results and if we our commitment is intense we see sustainable progress.
To stay free of physical, emotional and mental distress which can become a huge obstacle in any path, it is very important to surrender all good and bad and stay free of suffering.
Suffering arises when
1. We can get trapped in ignorance and give importance to something which is not important or which is not worthy of importance.
2. When we think too much about me n I~ Always thinking what people think about you, living with the superiority or inferiority complex.
3. Having strong cravings, aversions or hatred and fear for anyone or anything.
Our consciousness is pure love and devoid of all these miseries, karmas, fruit of karma and latent desires or impressions or opinions.
There are 4 types of Karmas ~
- Karmas that brings us merits,
- Karma that brings us demerits,
- Karma that brings both merits and demerits and
- Karma that's devoid of both merits and demerits
Though our supreme self is all knowing and knowledge itself, a Guru is necessary to help us go within and understand ourselves.
The supreme Purusha or Ishvara or the first Guru that existed is addressed by the sound OM.
When we are still in our senses, emotions and breath we can feel the humming in our body, the Pranava.
The Anahata is the unsaid sound of OM that can lead us into deep meditation.
The Anahata is Ajapa, the one that need not be repeated, it is always going on and just needs to be noticed.
If we are thinking continuously and churning on the thoughts we can not get attuned to this never ending vibration.
What we think we become, knowingly unknowingly we are imbibing the qualities of our thoughts.
Japa or Mantra meditation is the simple technique that can help us make our mind steady and transforms it in the qualities of the mantra. Repeating mantra there comes a clarity in our thoughts and feelings.
By holding on to this infinite sound from mantra one can overcome 9 obstacles.
- Physical disease,
- Mental sickness,
- Doubt in oneself,
- Doubt in teacher or the path,
- Doing something wrong willfully (careless) or not doing what you are supposed to do,
- Laziness,
- Obsession with the sensual objects and not being able to let them go,
- Hallucination,
- Feeling that you are going no where with practices or one has not attained any state,
- Instability in spiritual experiences where the feeling of good experiences vanishes and leaves one craving, and when our body is not obeying us anymore, we want to do something but unable to anymore.
The 5 signs that we are overtaken with these 9 obstacles are
- Sadness in heart and soul,
- Bitterness,
- Disturbed inhalation and exhalation,
- Unstable thoughts, confusion and
- Confusion and distraction
Our patience, perseverance on one pointed path whatever we have chosen can help us get over the obstacles and the symptoms.
Our goal in life is to keep the serenity of our mind.
In this world we come across 4 types of people and the guide to deal with them is through~
- Happy people ~ Friendliness
- unhappy people ~ Compassion
- the virtuous people ~ Delight and disregard
- the wicked people ~ Be indifferent
You can also bring the stillness in the mind by focusing on the breath and by breaking the natural rhythm of the breath, through concentrating on any object of senses, focus on your past experiences in meditation or deep sleep and finding the right spiritual Guru who can guide you.
Our regrets, fears, anger, anticipation memory, wrong knowledge, fantasy, judgments, thoughts, feverishness, calculations does not let us see the things the way they are and does not let us be in harmony or Samadhi.
Our eyes, senses, behavior, ambitions, words reflects what we are deep inside and when we polish ourselves through steadiness they also become devoid of all the colors and become clear like crystals.
We are able to see things as they are without adding anything to them. In Savitarka samadhi there are some thoughts that come and go but they do not disturb the peace of mind and harmony.
When the mind, soul, the object of senses and memory through which the object of senses are held are in harmony the samadhi happens.
The goal of Samadhi is physical and mental silence, knowledge dawns on us that is beyond the learning's of our limited mind.
You do not need to study the scriptures the knowledge and the wisdom filled with truth and awareness comes to you~ Rtambhara Prajna makes a yogi Jivan Mukta ~ the one who lives with liberation and without personal attachment.
