Right now,
we are like this
right- virtually remotely sitting
When I am sitting alone, then I have to imagine
that my Guru, my Guide or the Lord my God
is transmitting to me this Pranahuti and I am receiving it.
So, see, if you have to always be in a state of being responsive than reactive,
how do you train your mind not to be impulsive?
How do you do that, saheb?
In this state of mind that you have after meditation,
even if I provoke you, you will not be reactive.
But how do you maintain it through the day?
So I tell everyone also that after each meditation,please
savour that state and try to hold on and later on
promise yourself that, “I will grow this condition until I meditate next time in the morning.”
It will happen through practice.
First of all, I have to have it in me
to retain it
and allow it to intensify it and make it even larger than what I had because what Nature does,
Nature doesn’t give you the final product.
Nature gives you seeds.
We plant these seeds and again the tree appears in front of us.
Likewise, when we meditate,
Nature gives us the seeds of different conditions - joyous condition,
happy, joyful or blissful condition
or full of contentment or full of fearlessness.
They are all various conditions we
go through on a day-to-day meditation, you see.
So based on that,
we allow it to expand.
What i generally used to or My trainer,
she was a house lady,
I bumped into her because of my friend,
I used to meditate on my own in 1976
while I was studying at Pharmacy College in Ahmedabad.
But I didn’t know how to meditate. I would just close my eyes and sit on my bed.
But when my friend saw that I am trying to meditate but not going deeper inside,
then he said, “Let me take you to one lady. She will help you meditate”. So we went
and she was
a housewife from a Marwadi family, a very reserved family
but she was trained by my Adi Guru to
transmit this Pranahuti and make you feel at home, make you feel peaceful.
So she asked me two, three questions and
after that, she said, “Bhaiya, aap baith jaayiye. Mein aapko dhyaan karaaoongee
She sat in front and I sat in front of her,
and she transmitted to me.
now
her first piece of advice to me
‘Please meditate regularly’. I said, ‘Okay’.
Second thing is that after each meditation just don’t get up like,
you know, often people feel that, “Abhi kaam ho gaya. Let me jump,
get going to the next chores or activities.” She said, “No, don’t do that,
savour the condition
after meditation, savour the condition and be one with that at least for five minutes.”
What do you feel is a good duration for meditation at a time on a daily basis?
Well, to start with,
if you start with half an hour - twenty minutes to half an hour- you
can slowly increase it to your inner feeling, inner desire.
But each meditation will tell you, “It is enough”.
To some, it will be over in twenty-five minutes, to some it will be over in fifty minutes,
and each day it will change,
it will not be uniformly the same.
One day you might feel, “Oh, I did fifty minutes of meditation. I feel so great”.
Then you sit for five minutes trying to savour the condition
and again you feel like going deeper within yourself.
If you have time, you can do it.
To start with, close your eyes.
Try to sit for at least twenty minutes to half an hour. That should be enough, I think.
And does Heartfulness meditation also teach you
how to meditate? In this sense, what is the technique that one needs to use when you are doing it alone?
Right now,
we are like this
right- virtually remotely sitting
When I am sitting alone, then I have to imagine
that my Guru, my Guide or the Lord my God
is transmitting to me this Pranahuti and I am receiving it.