Beyond Karma Meditation
This technique energizes the brow chakra (energy center), located on your forehead between the two eyebrows. This chakra is known as the ajna, which literally translates as command. This is the master chakra. This chakra is the seat of will. When it is activated, you will experience intense clarity of understanding. Your reasoning and decision-making capabilities are enhanced.
Above all, the third eye is the eye with which you look inward. You begin to see within for the first time. You begin to see beyond your karmic bondage.
Instructions
Sit in a comfortable position with your eyes closed. Bring both your palms up to your eyes and place them very gently on the eyeballs. Your touch should be like a feather; apply no pressure on the eyeballs.
In the beginning, you may be pressing without realizing. Slowly, put less and less pressure on the eyeballs.
There is energy flowing outward through the eyes all the time. It is a very subtle energy. You are touching your eyeballs to turn the flow of the energy back in, into yourself. If you press into the eyeballs, the eye will begin to resist. Touch as if you are not touching!
When you touch gently, your thoughts also fall still. When your eye movements increase, your thoughts are also racing. When the eyes are still, your thoughts also freeze. Have you noticed?
With the gentlest of touches, you will soon start to feel the energy moving back inward. When the energy falls back, you will immediately feel freshness, lightness, moving all over your face, your head. The energy hits your ajna chakra. In a few minutes, you feel clear and refreshed.
When you continue the meditation for up to half an hour, the energy moves downward into your heart. Your heartbeat slows down. Your whole body will feel relaxed. This is an excellent technique for instant relaxation. You don't even have to enter into meditation. Simply by placing your palms gently upon your eyeballs, you can rest your eyes.
Whenever your eyes are feeling tired, if you have spent too many hours before the television or the computer, try this technique.
When you continue to practice this meditation for months, you will start feeling a permanent energy in your ajna and heart areas. In the beginning, it will be just a trickle of energy, but in a year's time you will feel a flood of energy inside you at all times.
With the awakening of the ajna, you will experience clarity of your meaning in life. You will begin to see into your own reality. And with the activation of the heart chakra, you will feel immense love flowing out of you. You will feel connected to Existence.
To summarize
- 1. Practice the meditation for moving beyond karma.
- 2. Intend that you will be fulfilled in all that you do.
- 3. Visualize this state of intent as real. Visualize total fulfillment in every single action. Visualize that you are wealthy, healthy and happy with joyful relationships.
- 4. Let go.
- Offer your gratitude to the universe for what you are NOW and for what you are continuing to receive.
May you be fulfilled and be in nithyananda, eternal bliss!
Meditation is the highest form of worship
Q: Master, you have often said that meditation is the highest form of worship. You also promote ritual worship in temples and through homa (fire rituals). I am confused by the contradiction. Please explain.
The pastor was standing by the doors of his church greeting everyone in.
When John strolled in, the Pastor looked him sternly in the eye and said, 'John, it is about time you joined the Army of Our Lord!'
John smiled and said, 'But I am already in the Army, Pastor.'
The Pastor said, 'John, how come then I see you only twice a year, at Christmas and Easter. This is no way to be serving the Army.'
John replied, 'No, Pastor, please understand, I am in the Secret Service.'
There are many forms of worship. Each form of worship suits a particular need and a particular person. It also depends on one's conditioning, spiritually, emotionally, physically or intellectually.
You do not need an enlightened master to become enlightened yourself. I have said this many times. You can remain next to an enlightened master all your life and yet remain a stone, and many do. On the other hand, a stone can transform you to enlightenment, and again many have been enlightened in this manner!
The difference is not whether the master is an enlightened being or a stone, but the extent of trust that you have in that master and the mode of surrender. Many hundreds, no, many thousands of devotees, have melted into enlightenment by surrendering to images of clay, stone, metal and timber. So, can one say that temples and idols are a low form of worship?
No, that will not be true at all.
We need to understand the function of worship. What is worship, how do we worship and why do we worship what we worship?
Worship, by dictionary meaning, is the extraordinary respect that we show and shower upon those whom we consider distinctly superior to ourselves and who we think can in turn shower gifts upon us. The second condition is not always true but mostly true.
As human beings, we rarely do things without a reason and unconditionally.
Men and women worshipped Nature and natural phenomena since the beginning of mankind. They worshipped lightning, wind, oceans, fire, water and even earth. They worshipped these elemental forces of Nature because of two reasons: fear and greed.