Pleasure body🔗

The cosmic body is the sixth layer. The energy itself from this layer expresses itself as pleasure. Whenever the energy leaves from this body, it expresses itself and you feel pleasure, you feel joy. It is a very deep layer, that is why you feel it very subtly.

Because when it comes through the pain layer, always the pleasure layer will have a coating of pain. You will have the feeling of 'When will this disappear?'

That is why our joys and pleasures are so contaminated. Our pleasure has to travel through the pain and the guilt layers, that is why it is so contaminated.

The route to happiness - Dropping from the mind

Actually if you see, the moments of happiness or joy happen when the mind stops. This may happen for just a few moments but the impressions and the relaxation from dropping from the mind will be tremendous.

The mind gives gaps sometimes. For example, when you see the nature, you will see it a thousand times, and then one time the mind will give a gap. This is what becomes an unforgettable memory.

An incident from my life:

This was in my wandering days before enlightenment. I was walking from one city to another in Bharat. On the way to Omkareshwar, there is a thick jungle and there is a river flowing between the two marble hillocks. Both hillocks are completely made of marble stone. Between the two hillocks, the Narmada river flows.

On a full moon night, I was just walking with a stick in the hand, rolling the stick and singing and walking. Just near the river I was walking. I was getting down from one small valley and suddenly I saw a big cliff. I raised my head and saw on both sides big hillocks shining in the full moon. Because it is white marble, it was shining in the moonlight.

The river was very beautifully flowing, with a mild sound and I saw both the hillocks were bridged. There was a connection between them. I went a little bit nearer. And I saw that the whole thing is a honeycomb! The honeycomb was at least 400 feet.

When I saw that, in just one moment, my mind gave a gap. Even l now I can see that moment; it was so ecstatic. I can remember that moment as so joyful. Both hillocks are just joined. And just for a moment the mind gave a gap. Whenever you disappear into the nature, this happens.

Cosmic body - the bridge between Master and you

Next layer is the nirvanic body. Master lives in the nirvanic body only. From Atman to nirvanic body he lives. Nirvanic body and cosmic body only can meet, no other layer can meet. You meet Master in laughter. Laughter is like a bridge between you and the master. It can transmit energy directly from Master to you. When you sit in front of the master and laugh you can immediately feel the energy transfer.

Touch the deep core of pain and you will go beyond to something new

Another incident from my life:

I was on the banks of Narmada in a place called Omkareshwar, in Madhya Pradesh, where Shankara became enlightened.

I had done a long, long tapas and different types of meditation techniques. Actually I killed myself with these techniques, by these meditations, by these tapas and all these things. Finally, suddenly, a very deep depression landed on me. I felt I have left the family, whatever has to be done, according to the scriptures, everything is done, to have the spiritual enlightenment, but still it is not happening, just the days are passing.

One day suddenly, maybe evening at around 4, I felt excruciating pain, and the depression. I felt now nothing more can be done, there is no need to live anymore, because whatever has to be done, is done. Either I have to become enlightened or I have no other way either to live. I never spent any of my life in earning some money or learning how to live. I do not even know how to live, even now I can't count. I can't even count the numbers. I never learned anything towards life, so either I have to become enlightened or I have to die.

So once I was convinced the whole enlightenment is just a concept, I thought it is not going to happen in my life; at least there is no possibility in my life for it to happen. So I decided, 'Let me commit suicide.' It was such an excruciating pain I decided to commit suicide.

I started entering into the Narmada river, a very powerful and very aggressive river. Between the two hillocks it runs, very deep and very powerful. It has very big falls. I thought, 'Anyhow, let me commit suicide, it is not going to be any more than two or three minutes. I will be flooded away.'

I started walking, when I went in till the water was at my hip level, in the terrible fear, I just closed my eyes tightly and started walking. I just continued walking ,walking walking. I could just see the water was continuously going up. At one level, suddenly I felt my breath was just totally painful, I was breathing the pain inside, the suffering inside.

At one moment, suddenly something broke. When I was just breathing the pain inside, so much of pain had gone inside and at one moment something hit me. When the breath came out, it came out just like the bliss. Just as bliss.

But I found I was continuing to go inside the river. I was just moving, I do not know how much distance I walked as I had tightly closed my eyes. When the breath came out with the bliss, I felt so much rejuvenated. As if the whole life had entered in me. I fell and I saw the other shore. I do not know what had happened. I can assure you it is the truth. I can say it's the simple truth.

I do not know what had happened in between, whether I walked through the water, or I walked on the stones. Then I thought maybe the river is shallow in the part that I walked, but I heard from not less than 50 persons that it is not less than 200 feet. I do not know what had happened, whether I walked on the stones, or whether I walked on the rocks or I walked on the water. I do not know swimming even now. When I fell on the ground I saw I was on the other shore.

I could very clearly feel that Narmada was laughing at me. The river Narmada is considered a virgin. She was always considered as a virgin girl. I very clearly felt that she was laughing at me.

So why share this experience? When you touch the deep core of pain and the whole thing becomes painful, then you will see that something new opens in you.

The power of faith as an anti-depressant

Deepak Chopra says 90% of the people who live with the faith of God live in a more joyful and happy way, the depression is much less. Even thought the concept, the phenomenon cannot be proved by the spiritual people, even if the faith in God is a hypothesis, it helps you to live tremendously, joyfully and happy. So Deepak Chopra says, even if it is a hypothesis, perfectly alright. Because it supports the life, joyful living, it makes your life more happy, more joyful, more worth living on the planet earth.

You drink because you wish to escape from yourself. Man pours to fill; women get filled. Men drink, women eat. Addiction to food is because you feel empty inside. Once you understand the purposelessness of what you do you will lose these addictions.

When you wake up in the morning, just laugh. If you cannot,feel free to laugh in your own home, where else can you laugh! Laugh at how purposeless everything is. Release yourself from the nagging of restlessness. There is no need to sell your inner space to have outer space. You can retain joy inside and still have outer space top enjoy.

Meditation

What can be the best meditation to work on the layer of happiness? Laughing.

If you laugh continuously for 42 minutes, you will get enlightened. -Zen Buddhism

The laughter here is not just the plastic smile we wear most of the time or social laughter. It is uninhibited, complete laughter with your whole being. Every cell, every nerve fiber, the whole body should be laughing and vibrating with energy.

You must have heard of the Laughing Buddha. He used to go from village to village and all he did was stand up on the village square and start laughing. His laughter was so total, not only his belly but his whole body used to shake with laughter. Just seeing him laugh, all the villagers gathered would start laughing. Within minutes, the whole village would be roaring with laughter and in those moments of stillness of the mind, the consciousness of the village would be simply uplifted.

With not a single word uttered, the entire village would be simply in meditation - the simple but extremely powerful meditation of laughter.

Laughing only works on the bliss, it is the laughing that digs out the energy. It breaks the solidified layers, it only melts and spreads the energy throughout the body.

So, in this meditation, you have to laugh till I say 'Stop!'

Relax.

This is the energetic meditation. The real heartfelt laughter, full belly laughter. Laughing is the language forgotten. Master's laughter is totally different. It is the laughter of a child. Innocent laughter. Actually , in laughter, you and the master, both of you meet. Laughter puts you in touch with the very core of your being - eternal bliss, Nithya Ananda.