Part 3: Shiva Sutras - Sutras 06 - 09🔗

He knows what will happen when you lie down as dead. When you really lie down as dead, this whole thing will start rising in you. What will happen to my daughter, what will happen to my son, what will happen to my business?

An important truth, it's an ultimate secret you must understand, never think it's because of you things are going smoothly. It is in spite of you things are going smoothly.

This is one of the important secrets. Everyone should understand about life. As long as you think it's because of you things are going smoothly, you've done a big mistake. You don't have an understanding about life. You will be constantly suffering with ego. You'll have a constant nagging effect. You know what I mean when I use the word nagging effect. Most of you know when I use the word nagging effect, what I mean. Constantly you will be bugged for something. As long as you think because of you things are going well you'll be staying in the twenty-four hour nagging effect. Now fifteen seconds extra. Recently they discovered a day is not twenty-four hours, but some fifteen seconds extra. And not merely in the leap year, in the leap year you'll have only one day extra, now they say it's not even one day, another hour or hour and a half extra. One day plus an hour based on recent research. So constantly you'll be having that nagging effect for twenty-four hour and fifteen seconds.

When you understand in spite of you things are going well, then you'll be able to relax easily. Understand, fifty or sixty years ago you were not there on the planet earth. The day before your birthday it was not that planet earth was not moving. Just one day before your birthday, you can't say no, no, planet earth was not moving properly, it is only after I took birth I corrected everything, now things are going well, no. And the next day of your death never ever think planet earth will change the direction and it will drop from the cosmos, no.

Before your birth also it was going on beautifully, after your death also it'll go on beautifully, maybe much more beautifully, that's all with less trouble. Only when you have the clarity, you'll be able relax into this meditation. As long as you think because of you something is happening, you can't relax. One corner of your mind will be saying what nonsense you are doing? These are all not for me. Be very clear even a single thought like that cannot be there. Today we are going to do the meditation. If you have the thought that after the meditation I'll go back to the car and go home, gone; over. You are not going to open up. Only if you cover all possible holes, the energy will open up. You will stay, you will move into the experience, which means that your whole being will start bubbling.

It's a beautiful technique to boil your being. Ramakrishna says beautifully, siddha alu. Siddha in Sanskrit has two meanings. One is to become enlightened and other one is to be boiled. He says siddha means enlightened and boiled, beautiful word. If you have to become siddha, you have to be completely boiled. Alu means potato. If you boil the potato, after boiling, the potato will become very soft inside. Like that, siddha also will become very soft inside. If your inside is boiled, that will become just like a boiled potato. Your whole being will be boiled.

Now, Shiva is giving a beautiful technique to boil your whole being. Unless you lock all the gates, all possibilities through which that steam is leaking, through which the steam is going out, you will not have enough energy to boil your being. The steam will go out if you give it a chance, if you allow, if you create any chance for your mind to think about future. Your mind is constantly running, thinking, wasting its energy by thinking about the future. Be very clear, thinking sucks your energy.

For example, just sit in your office, you don't have to do any work, just sit in your office, and think about the future for half hour. You will have shoulder pain. Your entire upper body from neck and shoulders will tighten. Just think about your future for half hour. Nothing else needs to be done. The very thinking sucks your energy. Your energy just flows, goes out.

Now the first thing when Shiva says is die, he says close all the doors. Lock all the doors. No corner should be allowed and no corner should be opened, so that the whole steam will be inside to boil your being. The boiling will start happening. You will be enraged in wrath. All the emotions that you can't name will start rising in you. It will start boiling you.

Stay in that same boiling and let the whole thing be boiled. Just stay so, do not think, after the meditation I'll take care of that. After this meditation I'll do that. You should not even have an idea, that you are doing meditation. You should be very clear that it is happening, nothing can be done now. And one more thing, never think death is not going to happen to you. Who knows? Is there anybody who is very clear that they will reach their home safely? At least I am not clear. If you are clear, I don't know about it. But I am not sure. You don't know. That is the only certainty.

Uncertainty is the only certain thing on the planet earth. Death is the only thing that never dies on the planet earth. Death is the only thing that never dies. You don't know, and not only you, but nobody can know. Our logical mid always keeps you in hope, so that you'll not enter into this experience. You are constantly cheated, exploited by your mind, with all these ideas about life, without you experiencing your being or the truth of your beings. That is why we always keep the cemeteries out of the city, outside the city. They are located in one corner, as if they do not exist. You do not want to see the signs of death anywhere. You do not want that memory to come into your life any time.

You are afraid and you are trying to hide a big pumpkin inside your small plate. You are trying to hide a big elephant in your garage, car garage, impossible. Be very clear, you may try, but at one time it comes out or shakes the house itself. It shakes the whole house itself. You are trying your best not to see the truth, avoiding, trying the best to avoid seeing the reality.

Here Shiva says, Die into the infinite void where you are no more

Ramana Maharishi says, 'Just because I allowed the death fear to happen, just because I accepted the death fear and went through that fear, the fear never came back again. I never had any fear in my life again'.

Just visualize living a life without fear, what a way to heaven it'll be. You can't imagine, because you never experienced that space even a single moment. You can't imagine life can be without fear.

Ramana says, 'Not only death fear, after that, never I experienced any fear. I do not know the meaning of the word fear, after that experience. I am not able to relate with the idea of fear itself, because I understood, even after the body dying, there was something which is not dying. The moment that truth was revealed to me, I could see very clearly, I could feel very clearly, I could experience very clearly that I am something far greater than body. I am not just body.'

This meditation will not be just a lesson, a teaching; it'll be a solid experience. It will be a truth for you, when you enter into this technique.

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Moving beyond the senses into Shiva Consciousness

All these three are interconnected. Dying and entering into the void, moving beyond the senses and finally just becoming that experience, all these three are gates or doors to the same space. Through all these three you can enter into your being. This is what I call intensity.

Be intense, at least in any one of these three. There are some people they can't think of death or they can't lie down. They think oh God, we don't want all these things, even if it is meditation, we don't want. OK Swamiji, they will say and lie down and after the interval they will escape. For that type of persons, personality, Shiva says, I can't leave you. Even if you try to escape I shall not leave you so easily.

He is giving you another one technique. He is giving the next level technique. At least, even if you don't want to lie down, move beyond your senses. Even if things are happening in front of you, just stop the eyeball movement. When you stop the eyeball movement also, you will experience a total different space in side your being. Again you will see so much of emotions will be rising, but you will be centered. You will be completely centered.

Drink something, coffee or tea or water whatever you may drink, but just become that experience. When the water touches your mouth, when it touches your tongue feel the coolness, feel it is traveling inside. Feel the experience of that cool feeling, what is happening, with that drinking and your body. Just be aware of what is going on in your being and just become that experience. Just immerse and relax yourself in that experience. Again you will see the whole gamut of emotions rising, but you are completely centered, you are centered.

Three levels of meditation to try, try at least one meditation technique. If you are courageous enough, just lie down as dead. That is wonderful technique. Lie down as dead and enter the void. Even though it looks very difficult, it is straight cut or I should say short cut. People who don't want to waste their time, those who want instant enlightenment, for them this is the technique.

If you are not that courageous, 'No, no, little meditation I can do Swamiji, not too much. Anyway I just came here because I saw your flyer. I am not so keen. it's OK. Anyway you speak so nicely, so I thought let me sit here. After all what am I going to do sitting in the house? I'll be fighting with her and she'll be fighting with me. Instead better let me sit here. At least, I'll forget some of my worries. I can relax and remember something else. What are we going to do? I'm just here because it is a good option. This is a little better option among all the possibilities'.

It is a better than sitting in front of the TV and watching that nonsense like Jerry Springer show. Actually all this is a specimen of the ugliness that is inside a being. See, I am just shocked that these kinds of shows are becoming popular. I heard that is the most popular show. I was shocked it is completely nothing but violence and sex. It is a subtle way to experience what you can't do. When somebody else does you are very happy and you are enjoying. You can't beat your husband, out of politeness, at least not everyday. There he is getting beaten, the husband is beating the wife and the wife is beating the husband.

I could not watch that show for more than fifteen minutes. They were telling me, some of our ashramites were telling me to watch it. I was asking them that I wanted to learn more about American culture so that I'll be able to relate with them in whatever I wanted to speak on. I picked up two, three books also to read about American slang expression, so that I can speak on what I wanted to tell them in their language. So I asked them, tell me about some show. They did not tell me about the nature of this show, they just told me, you watch this show Swamiji. There are other two, three shows that were little decent. Same type, but people do not beat each other. They don't allow the violence and it's a little more decent. The first show, I couldn't watch for more than five minutes.

I said, what nonsense? Actually these are all the specimens of what is going on in the mind. Anyhow, if you are here just as a little better option, then you can go for second or third techniques. No problem, you'll take your own time, I'll also take my own time. By the time you come to enlightenment, you'll be old and I'll be old. But if you are sincerely interested these techniques can transform you.

Always before you do this meditation, keep somebody who will call you after one hour. You will come back, that is different, why I say that is because then you can forget about getting up. So that you can be completely be clear in your mind that you are gone, over, done.

Otherwise you will be just waiting, after one hour I have to get up, I think half hour is over or should I get up after ten minutes? You'll have to give place for your mind. Let your mind be completely free, liberated. Only then you can completely go into that meditation. Do not allow even a single thought that makes you believe you are going to get up, or there is a life after this one hour. Do not allow even a single thought, which speaks about extension or next step. Completely be very clear, nothing is going to happen anymore, over; be very clear. Let that person come and call you after one hour.

Do not enter into the meditation unless you have somebody to come and call you after one hour. That person should be able to call you in a very polite, mild and loving way. He cannot come and bang the door. He cannot come and shout, he should not disturb you, because you'll feel you entered into the body with pain and fear. That shouldn't be the case.

You should settle into the body in a very relaxed, loving way, in a graceful way. Someone should call you in a loving way, one who really loves you. It's very difficult to find such a person, but nothing can be done, you have to find someone who will call you in a very relaxed way, in a very loving way, so that you can enter into the body and settle down and go and do the routine work. After the meditation, at least for half hour don't do anything, which needs your attention, like driving, etc.

Don't do anything, which needs your attention. Now I'm here, so I'll call you, don't worry. Let me give the instructions.

Somebody has given me a question asking who am I? What is my purpose in the life? Actually, you are supposed to ask the question who am I to yourself, not to me. I asked the question to myself and found the answer. Now you have to find the answer. I cannot give you the answer. If I give you the answer, it'll be my answer. It is supposed to be your answer. Only then it'll be your experience. So ask the question deeply and find the answer.

Now, you can sit on the floor or you can sit on the chair also, no problem. But leave your shoes and relax your belts, nothing should hold your body tightly. If you can, better remove the belt, socks, nothing should hold you, nothing should make you feel bound. You should feel very relaxed.

For some reason if you don't want to do this meditation, you can just sit in the last row, because for some people this meditation may create fear. But even if you don't do this meditation, it's not that you are not going to have fears in your life. At least it's a beautiful method. When you go into the fear in the presence of the master, you will come out as a new being. At least I am here to help you, to support you. Otherwise also you will go into the fear whole day. But now the rare thing, the presence of the master, help of the master, support of the master is there.

Small story.

The prince of one country enjoys going into the market, mingling with the subjects, and shopping by himself and all those things. One day he goes shopping and asks the shopkeeper, what is the cost of the fish? She said, 50 dollars a pound. The Prince asked, what fifty dollars, is it some rare kind of fish? She said, no it's rare to get a Prince like this to shop here! I may get this fish, but I won't get a Prince like this once more in my shop to pay that much money!

You may have meditation, but you'll not get the Master again. So better do it now itself. After this also if you are not interested, you may sit in the last row, but close your eyes and sit, so you won't disturb others meditating.

Let me give the instructions now. Clear understanding of the instructions is necessary. Please understand, you will be very clear that your body is not moving, you will not do anything, anymore in your life, done with everything.

Mentally be very clear that life is over, life is over. Nothing needs to be done and nothing can be done. Then naturally you'll see, the fear, the whole thing rising; the fear, the greed, the guilt, all those things will not rise if you are convinced that you are going to get up after one hour.

If you are very clear that you are going to get up and go back to the car and go back home, then nothing will rise. And if you sincerely finish, say no, over, then you'll see all these emotions rising in you.

When all these emotions rise in you, just be a witness or do not move your body with that. Let those emotions rise and fall like a flood; let them happen in your life, in your body, in your being, but you just be a witness.

I'll guide you step by step. You may do it for twenty-minutes. But when you do it in the house, at least do it for forty-two minutes, because twenty-one minutes is one energy cycle. Do at least two cycles, because it is not so easy to convince your mind that you are not going to get up in twenty one- minutes. Now because of the time constraint we will do twenty-one minutes, when you do in the house do for at least forty-two minutes.

Anybody who is intensely, really interested in transformation, this can give you the miraculous transformation. These are all few techniques for that. Just miraculous transformations will happen. Just like that it'll change your being, attitude, understanding, experience about your life and your being.

Meditation

Please close your eyes. Lie down as dead. Even if you are sitting be clear, body is no more active. You can be seated, no problem, but decide you are dead. Let every part of you body relax. Visualize deeply that your toes are turning cold. …Now your legs are turning cold….Your thighs are getting cold… your midsection is turning cold… your chest and back are turning cold….your arms are turning cold… your neck and shoulders are turning cold….your face has turned cold…. Your entire body is cold and unmoving… there is no activity in your body…

You have no feeling anywhere in your body. You cannot feel. You cannot smell. You cannot taste. You cannot hear. You cannot see. All your senses are dead.

You have no thoughts. Your mind is no more. If you feel thoughts or emotions allow them to rise and die.

You are dead. (42 min)

Q: I can only pretend that I am dead. What should I be feeling? How do I go beyond the senses?

Start with pretending but don't stop there! Even in life that is what we do. We pretend we are living, that is all. Unfortunately we don't stop.

Dying is not easy! You need to let go, even to die. When Yama is not taking you by force you have to relax. Here, you are volunteering, so you have to make an effort. Relax first. Let every part of your body relax from the tips of your toes, limb by limb, to the top of your head. Once you fully relax, visualize intensely that you are in a deep dark space. You are not able to see yourself, you cannot hear, feel, smell or taste. All your sensory organs have shut down. Your mind cannot function as well without your senses supporting it. It will try to play back residual memories. Relax. Slowly your mind will die down. Your body will get cold. Do not struggle. Just relax and let go.

As you relax into death your mind will struggle. Various emotions will pour out of your mind. Past memories may flood you. Emotions such as greed, guilt, fear, worry, jealousy and anger will arise unbidden. More you try to settle into that state of ultimate relaxation the more your mind will try to live out its unfulfilled desires, emotions and memories. Stay with that emotion whatever the emotions may be.

If you are angry stay angry but don't move. Stay still as if dead. Do not let the emotion cause any motion in your body. Stay unmoved. Just witness the emotion. Once you are able to stay still without moving you can master that emotion. Our scriptures say that if we are able to stay unmoved eleven times while an emotion plagues us that emotion will forever lose its grip on us. Whether it is anger, lust or fear, nothing can have a hold on you if you stay unmoved just eleven times. I feel eleven is too many times. You can do it in less.

It is only a small step from pretending to visualization. The intent makes the difference. Do not worry about what you should be feeling. When you are dead you will not feel anything. You should not be feeling anything at all. This is the state you are in each night when you are in dreamless deep sleep. So it is not something that is unfamiliar to your body and mind. They both are used to switching off every night. Possibly even during the day in the case of many of you. It is your conscious mind that holds you back. With determination you can shake that off.

When you are in that state of deep relaxation visualizing as dead you are beyond mind and therefore beyond senses. You can also move beyond the senses in the conscious state when you are awake. When you turn your attention inwards instead of outwards you can move beyond senses.

Whenever you experience anything through your senses there are three elements in that experience. First the experiencer, the subject, that is you. The second is the object that is seemingly creating the sensory input. The third is the process of experiencing. To most of us out of three elements, experiencer, experienced and experiencing, the most relevant is the experienced. The object holds our attention. The sight we behold, the sweet we suck, the body we feel, we perfume we smell and the music we hear captivate our senses and through our senses us.

If we can get beyond the object being experienced we can go beyond the senses. Your attention then shifts inwards. The process of experiencing becomes the only element of the experience. That is the first part of going beyond the senses. There are tantric techniques that train in going beyond the senses. You can look at something without moving your eyeballs and moving your body. Time will cease to matter. Mind will cease. Similar techniques can help with other senses as well to move beyond them.

For now if all you can do is to pretend, then please pretend. But pretend intensely so that the pretension becomes visualization. Visualization is just acting out reality. Just change your intent. You can then experience death and move beyond the senses into Shiva Consciousness.