Step
One - The Breath
Feel the lightness at the being level
The breath has the capacity to eliminate deep
rooted engraved
memories (samskaara) that are the reason
for the lack of clarity in decisions and thought
processes, irrational emotional reactions, and many such processes which
are activated from a subconscious level where engraved
memories ( samskaara ) are located.
 You might have observed that the quality of your breathing changes depending on the state of your mind.
Your emotions have an impact on the breathing process.
When you are anxious your breathing changes. When you are angry you’re
breathing changes. So your breathing is directly related
to your emotions. It keeps changing as the state of the
mind changes. When you are tense the normal advice given
is to take a deep breath.
And the moment you take a deep breath, you feel
light, more relaxed and the less tense. Mind and breath
are closely inter-related. You can see that when you
stop breathing, it becomes very difficult to think.
Breath becomes the fuel for the mind.
Likewise,
if we were to control our breathing or bring about some
change in our breathing pattern it will directly have an
impact on our emotions; our state of mind.
Similarly suppressed emotions in the being are
also a cause for an abnormal breathing pattern where the
breath becomes shallow. When the breath is shallow, the
suppressed emotions are not released and their memories
get stored in the being. The breath doesn’t touch
every part of the body. This
kind of breathing becomes a fixed pattern. This way our
past samskaras,
our past memories which are suppressed in our being
create a particular type of breathing pattern in our
system. And as a result we attract similar emotions. The
suppressed anger in the system has a tendency to surface
and create a breathing pattern for its survival. This
becomes a vicious cycle. The breathing pattern is
nothing but a cumulative effect of the past Samskaara or the
engraved memories of emotions.
The breathing technique in the first step of the
Life Bliss Meditation (LBM) expels the engraved
memories from its roots deep within. It is like shaking
a tree with dead leaves. All the dead leaves fall down
when shaken vigorously. This stage of the meditation
leaves the body feeling vibrant and fresh due to the
increased bio-energy.
Our body is never really alive if it is always under
stress and tension. With the expulsion of deep rooted
negativities and increase in bio- energy one can feel
the lightness at a being level, immense mental clarity
and awareness.
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Step
Two - The Inner Chatter
Experience deep mental rest
The constant inner-chatter in the mind leaves one
feeling drained and tired due to lack of mental rest.
There is a constant talk going on within our
minds. We may not be talking to anybody external but
internally there is always something that is going on.
The second stage of the Life Bliss Meditation aims at
reducing this inner chatter.
Normally people find it very difficult to sit
without thoughts. When you venture into meditation the
first thing you encounter is resistance from the mind.
The mind tends to revolt as it does not want to be
quietened. It has been habituated to maintain a constant
stream of thoughts for so many years. In fact people
often complain that in an attempt to be thoughtless,
they encounter more thoughts. Any initial attempt to
make it silent is like swimming opposite to the river
current. This is the time when many people tend to stop
the practice of meditation since they get discouraged.
They think that meditation is not possible at all for
them. But let me tell you that this is the experience of
all meditators initially.
 In the mythological story of Churning of the Ocean
( Sagara Manthana)
the Gods and the demons are together trying to churn the ocean to
extract the divine nectar of immortality. But to their
surprise the first thing that emerges from the ocean is
the deadly poison. Eventually many other things emerge
due to the churning. And finally they are gifted with
emergence of the divine nectar.
This is a very metaphorical story which has a deep
significance in the process of meditation. When the mind
is churned in the process of meditation to extract the
experience of enlightenment, the first thing to come out
is always the deep rooted negativity suppressed from the
past. Do not feel discouraged; this is an indication of
progress that the negativity is been thrown out.
Continue practicing meditation till you experience the
supreme state.
This second stage of the Life Bliss Meditation can
be an extremely useful tool to help silence the mind.
Mind is nothing but the inner chatter. And when the
inner chatter reduces, you start progressing towards a
deep restful thoughtless awareness. You start
experiencing a different dimension of your being.
Our body and the mind are mostly out of sync.
While our body has its own innate intelligence guiding
it all the time, it’s the mind that refuses to
corroborate with that intelligence. The mind forces the
body into certain actions which later on manifests as a
disease. Disease here means absence of ease ( in the
body ) . If the body is made to run forcibly, then it is
going to revolt some time or the other. Many a times we
tend to overeat. The body sends out signals that it is
full but the mind is not satisfied. It wants more. And
we end up eating more creating more and more damage to
the body. The repercussions of this action are then felt
later. So creating a harmony between the body and the
mind is very essential to go beyond both. Else we would
be caught in this psycho-physical entity and
transcendence would be difficult.
This second stage of the Life Bliss Meditation is one
of the best techniques to maintain the synchronicity
between the body and the mind.
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Step
Three - Energy Centers
Radiate positive emotions & well-beingness
We have seven key energy centers in our body that
are associated with specific emotions in our being. These emotions in turn are a
result of the deep rooted engraved memories or samskaara which have been accumulated from the past. These samskaara
block the particular energy center causing physical and mental disturbances.
When the energy centers get unblocked from
negative emotions and then we start emitting positive emotions like love and
compassion. Many of our diseases are psychosomatic. They have their roots in the
mind. What we see is its effect and so we never really understand this mind-body
connection. When a particular energy center gets blocked, the part of the body
near that energy center gets affected. You might have seen that when you worry
too much there is sense of tightness around the stomach region or the stomach
gets upset. So it is important to keep the energy centers cleansed for good
physical and mental health.
 Emotions like fantasies, imaginations, fear,
worry, attention need, jealousy, ego and discontentment have negative existence.
If you are asked to take an object out of the room, all you have to do is to
pick up the object and take it out. So in this case the object has positive
existence. But let us say that there is a dark room and you are asked to take
the darkness out of room. You cannot really carry the darkness out of the room.
Because here, darkness has a negative existence and cannot be removed
physically. You just have to turn-on the light to dispel or remove the darkness.
All these negative emotions also have a negative existence just like the
darkness in the room. Bringing awareness and understanding about the system of
energy centers can help eliminate negative emotions. This naturally allows the
positive emotions to flow and radiate.
Once Buddha tied a knot and asked one of his
disciples to untie the knot. The disciple tried to pull the knot in different
directions which only tightened the knot further. Then Buddha asked another
disciple to untie the knot. This disciple first examined the knot carefully and
slowly untied the knot. Buddha then explained that if you have to untie the knot
of ignorance in your being, you first have to learn to observe and examine it
carefully. You have to flood your being with awareness and the negativity will
be instantaneously obliterated.
This third stage of the Life Bliss Meditation is
one of the best techniques to allow the positive emotions to surface and be
expressed.
To know more about the science of Energy Centers, you
can attend the Life Bliss Program or the Ananda Spurana Program that elaborately
discusses each Energy Center and the emotions related
each of them and prescribes a meditation technique for each Energy Center.
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Step
Four - The Mind
Liberate from the clutches of the mind
The mind is nothing but a collection of thoughts.
These thoughts rise up in succession like the bubbles in a fish tank. All these
thoughts that rise in the mind also appear to be connected. But just like the
bubbles in the fish tank the thoughts in the mind are also independent and
unconnected.
You can do a small exercise. For ten minutes sit
silently and observe the thoughts that arise in your mind. Don’t try to
control or stop thinking. Just be silent and witness the thoughts coming. The
moment a thought comes quickly write it down on paper. At the end of ten minutes
read out whatever is written. You will see that it’s a mad man’s diary.
There is utter chaos. There is no connection between the previous thought and
the next one. All the thoughts are un-clutched and unconnected. Only when you
write down your thoughts you come to know that the thoughts have no real
connection. You may be thinking about having a cup of coffee and the next moment
you may think about some office work which is pending. There is no real
connection between having a cup of tea and the office work. Both are independent
events. Even if there are two consecutive thoughts about the same event the
thoughts are unconnected as there is no continuity. There exists a silent gap
between these thoughts of which one is not aware.
The thoughts by their very nature are un-clutched.
The problem starts when we start connecting these thoughts. When these
independent and unconnected thoughts are linked up, we create illusions of
pleasure or pain based on the nature of thoughts that we choose to link -up.
This is a play of the mind that is constantly happening within us.
For example; you might have eaten ice cream ten
years ago, you might have eaten ice cream seven years ago and you might have
eaten ice cream two years ago and you might have eaten ice cream yesterday. All
these experiences might have been very pleasurable for you. You might have
enjoyed the ice cream on each of that occasion. The trouble starts when these
experiences are connected and an imaginary shaft or an understanding is created
that eating ice cream makes you happy. But sometime in the future eating ice
cream may not be as enjoyable as on the earlier occasions. Even if you don’t
enjoy the ice cream you will make yourself believe that you like the ice cream.
Because you have got into the habit of connecting the thoughts; you
unconsciously start accepting that you enjoy ice cream. Here the imaginary joy
is one aspect of the illusion while the other is the recording of the false
emotion deep within you. Similarly so many such incidents and thoughts are
connected and recorded as illusions rather than as independent moments of pain
or pleasure.
Similar is the case with painful experiences. The
pain which you experienced ten years ago, the pain which you experiences seven
years ago, the pain which you experienced three years ago and the pain which you
experienced yesterday are independent events. There is no connection between
these events. But through connecting events of similar nature you are creating a
shaft that gives you the feeling of prolonged agony. This will leave you feeling
that your life has been miserable and painful all along. Similarly connecting
all the pleasurable experiences in your life gives you the feeling that that
your life is pleasure.
But actually neither of it is true. Your life is
neither pleasure nor pain because the very process of connecting these events is
a mistake. The idea that the thoughts are connected is a misconception.
Ironically we don’t connect all the thoughts. We only connect those that we
remember and create the shaft. It is similar to how a bouquet is created by
picking just a few flowers from a garden.
When we create the shaft we suffer. If you have
created a shaft of pleasure we try to extend it because you want to experience
the same pleasure again. But if you
have created a shaft of pain then you try to break it because you want to avoid
the pain. You can neither extend the shaft nor break it because it never existed
in the first place. The shaft itself is a myth.
All your experiences are independent experiences.
The moment you have connected these experiences you have created suffering too.
Now you will understand why suffering is also imaginary. It is based on
something imaginary. It is based on something unreal. It’s just an appearance.
The shaft is unreal; it does not exist. So the suffering that is created due to
the shaft is also unreal. Once you realize this you are liberated. So by our
very nature we are un-clutched. We are enlightened and just we have to realize
it.
When we perceive every incident is a new incident
we see life in a more beautiful way. Everything seems joyful and blissful. You
stop taking things for granted. Once you start accepting life from moment to
moment, bliss happens to you naturally.
In this step, carry this understanding with you
that your thoughts are unconnected, irrational and un-clutched. There is no
horizontal connection between your thoughts. Even if you have thoughts neither
try to suppress the thoughts nor try to react to them. Just watch them with the
understanding that they are un-clutched. Automatically witnessing consciousness
will start happening in you. You will go beyond the two identities. You will
realize that you are neither the shaft of pleasure nor the shaft of pain but you
are the background on which these shafts are drawn.
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Step
Five - Chanting
Melt into the arms of existence
with gratitude
The vibrations from chanting can have a profound
impact at the being level. Mantras create energy that
can calm and soothe the mind.
The Chanting in Step 5 of the Life Bliss
Meditation can help you journey to the deeper levels of
peace from where gratitude overflows towards existence
for all that we have been bestowed upon for. The
attitude of gratitude can provide a jumping board
towards experiencing a deep connection with existence
and the peace energy that exits around us The chanting
of mantras carry vibrations, which can transform your
being to make it more pure and blissful.
Practice of Life Bliss Meditation at least once a
day can help you experience a new dimension of your
being. This technique will help you to prepare your body
and the mind to experience the state of pure
consciousness and bliss.
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