Find Your Center Deep Within
kumbhitaa rechitaa vaapi puritaa yaa yada bhavet | tadante shaantanaamaasau shaktyaa shaantah prakaashate||
When inhaled breath is held or exhaled breath is held or again filled, experience Shiva Consciousness in that state of purity.
Today's subject is 'Find your center, deep within'. We will see the sutra. Then, we will enter into the subject.
Kumbhitha Rechitaavaapi Puritaavaa Yathaabhavaet TadhaDante Shaantana Maasou Shaktyaa Shaanta Prakaashate
When inhaled breath is held or exhaled breath is held or again filled, experience Shiva Consciousness in that state of purity.
Still we are working on breath. First nine techniques, Shiva speaks only on breath. You will be shocked. He speaks only on breath and gives nine meditation techniques. He is taking us to deeper and deeper levels. He is trying to give us deep experience of our own being.
Breathing is something that is continuously happening in you in spite of you! Whether you want or not, it happens. Be very clear, you are not breathing because of you. In spite of you, you are breathing. In spite of you it is happening. That can be used as a beautiful method to take jump into the cosmic energy or into your own self.
Here, Krishna is taking us. Shiva. Sorry! Anyhow, I can justify (Swamiji laughs). On breath, both Shiva and Krishna have given many techniques. Even in the Dhyana Yoga in the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna speaks elaborately and extensively on breath. Here Shiva is taking us step by step deeply.
Yesterday in the last sutra, Shiva explained how to be unclutched. He speaks about how our incoming breath, outgoing breath, and the neutral space gaps are all equal. He was saying that we are liberated based on the concept of time. Now he is taking us a little deeper. He is showing us that we are liberated based on space. He is taking us to a deeper level of space. In the last sutra, he explained that we are liberated. We are already what we are supposed to be! He explains step-by-step taking us into deeper levels of our breath. In the last sutra he explained through time. Today he is explaining through space. Let us understand how he is explaining.
When inhaled breath is held or exhaled breath is held or again filled, experience Shiva Consciousness in that state of purity.
He is adding one more word. Beautiful phrase! Experience Shiva Consciousness in that state of purity.
Yesterday somebody asked me after listening to that last sutra. One person came to me and asked in the energy darshan, 'Swamiji, how to practice being unclutched?'
I said, 'God! You lost! You have not understood'.
There is no need to practice. All you need is to understand that you are already unclutched. Just remember again and again. The moment you want to practise, be very clear that you have missed the truth. You don't have to practise the truth. Truth is. Truth can never be practised. You don't have to become unclutched. You are unclutched. Your being is unclutched. The moment you asked how you can practise, be very clear, you have not understood whatever I've spoken. You can just play with words. By playing with words you can hide yourself from others. But by playing with words you can't hide from yourself. The moment you asked how to be unclutched, let you be very clear, you slept in the discourse! You have not heard. You have not understood what has to be understood. At least now, don't miss.
Here Shiva is playing with beautiful poetic Sanskrit. He is using different words to take us to a deeper space. In the last sutra we understood incoming breath, outgoing breath and the neutral spaces. In last sutra Shiva was explaining that this space of incoming breath and outgoing breath and the neutral spaces are all equal. The time for this incoming breath and outgoing breath and the time for the neutral spaces are all the same. The time taken for the breaths and the gaps between breaths are the same.
Now he says, 'Not only in time but also in space these are one and the same'. He goes to the extreme of saying, 'Nothing is happening in you. You are already in pure conscious state. Whether kumbhaka (retention) is happening in you, rechaka (exhalation) is happening in you or puraka (inhalation) is happening in you, you are in a space where you are already unclutched. You are already in that state whether you remember it or not.'
Let me explain how Shiva is coming to this understanding or how Shiva is going to give us this understanding. How he comes to this conclusion, step by step, beautifully and how he is going to transmit that understanding to us. People who have not attended the last sutra should forgive me. I think you will find a lot of things new but nothing can be done because it is an extension of the last sutra. The next two sutras are also extensions. He is just taking us to deeper and deeper levels. Alright!
When inhaled breath is held or exhaled breath is held or again filled, experience Shiva Consciousness in that state of purity.