6. The Master's Effect on Your TPS
See… eternity can be touched only through the present moment. You can't touch eternity through the future or past, because both of them do not exist directly under your control, as you think you know it. The past you cannot touch, because it is not there. You can't catch the future also, because it is not there! You can only touch the present moment. You are in the present moment. If you want to enter into eternal bliss, or the present moment, or enlightenment, or whatever you want to call it, the only way is to bring down your TPS.
One thing: an enlightened person is a person who is established in the present moment. The next few statements which you need to understand are: if you are in 100 TPS, and you are in the presence of a being who is in 0 TPS, something happens in you. Your time shaft also starts slowing down. This is what I meant when I said that I will be making a few mystical statements. Understand: the person who is in 100 TPS, if he sits with a being who is in 0 TPS, suddenly the TPS drops drastically. Fortunately, enlightened persons cannot be raised by you! Only you can be dropped by them.
6.1 TPS and Koshas – the Relationship
Now you need to understand a little deeply. How does the TPS drop?
Let us now understand these koshas. Koshas are energy sheaths in our system.
The outermost sheath is called the annamaya kosha and refers to the physical body that you have. The
annamaya kosha is very closely related to the next layer that is the pranic layer or pranamaya kosha. Pranic layer refers to the movement of air, the air circulation that is happening in you all the time. Air circulation is not just inhaling and exhaling. When we come to that layer, I will explain more about it. The third layer is the mental layer or manomaya kosha. Your visualization is your fourth layer - vignanamaya kosha. Finally, the fifth layer is your silence or peace or bliss that is within you, which you rarely experience. It is called the anandamaya kosha.
The outermost layer, the annamaya kosha, you can think of as the physical layer. You can visualize it as the physical layer. The second layer, the pranamaya kosha, visualize it as air. Prana is not actually air. It is the air energy that is carried by air. Air is simply the medium to carry the energy, that"s all. It is the air energy that is required for us to sustain life. The third layer is the manomaya kosha – the mental layer. Visualize it as the constant inner chatter that goes on inside you. Inner chatter is your inner or mental layer. The fourth is the vignanamaya kosha or the visualization layer. The fifth layer is the anandamaya kosha or the bliss layer – the bliss or joy which you rarely experience. Most of the time, you experience only blisters not bliss! Causeless bliss has become a rare thing in our life.
Understand: we are not disconnected and separate islands as we think. Even though civilization constantly teaches us that we are separate entities, we are not disconnected and individual islands. Maybe in the physical layer, we are all individual islands. For example, if the food is poisoned, only the person who eats it will suffer, not everyone. In this sense, you can think of yourself as an individual. But if the air is poisoned, whoever is breathing will suffer. This means that in the pranic layer, in the second layer of our energy bodies, which is to do with our breath, the distance between us is reduced. Going further, if the mind is polluted, a much bigger group will suffer. For example, if one person who is disturbed in the manomaya kosha, that is, if one person who is disturbed in the brain, sits as a leader, you know what will result in that entire city. Now, going still further, if one corrupted visualization leads to any action, for example take the visualization of the atomic theory corrupted visualization – what happens? It can destroy the entire planet Earth!
Albert Einstein, the famous scientist says, "I am successful because I did whatever I did by my visualization. I am successful because I can imagine well." He did not discover atomic theory, E=mc 2 through his logic. He says the formula came first, and after, the truth of the formula came out, he developed the logical steps behind it! This means that it was done through visualization. But corrupted visualization can disturb the whole planet Earth. We are all now threatened by this one theory, by this one invention. Today, planet Earth has got atomic weapons enough to burn itself 700 times over and over again. Just imagine: burning once is enough, but there are enough weapons to burn planet Earth 700 times! Fortunately, the bliss layer cannot be corrupted since it is in the control of enlightened beings! Otherwise, planet Earth would have perished long ago. Fortunately, the bliss layer key is kept with us. It is not available to the public. That is why planet Earth exists today.
One more thing… this is a mystical prophecy: don"t bother much about these things, you will never perish. Global warming, and such things will come and go, but it will affect only those people who have created collective negativity. Nothing will happen to planet Earth because this layer is still under the control of enlightened beings. They manage the whole situation!
All you need to understand is that you are not islands as you think. When you come under a corrupted mental layer, whether you want it or not, you suffer with it, am I right? In the same way, when you come under a person with a pure mental layer, you will see that he is a great leader. Whether you want it or not, you will be touched by all the pleasures and joys created by that person. In the same way, whether you want it or not, when you come in the presence of a bliss layer person, your TPS will come down. That is what is meant by Upanishad. Sitting with an enlightened person, brings your TPS down.
Because the person has gone beyond the mind, he has entered the bliss layer. As long as you have the mind, you will be disturbed. When you enter the bliss layer, the person has no mind to get disturbed. Rivers can dry up, but the ocean cannot dry up. An enlightened being has become the ocean. In his case, the river has entered the ocean. That is why, instead of others affecting him, he affects everybody! He influences everybody. The person who affects everybody (positively of course) is an enlightened being. Anyone who comes into his presence gets affected in a positive way, but he remains the same. He is not affected by anyone. As the Bhagavad Gita says, this person is established in the Self.
The TPS coming down happens when you sit with the Master. You might ask, "Then let us sit for half an hour and go back. Why 2 days, unnecessarily?"
The problem is, you have forgotten to just sit. I have to teach you for 2 days how to just sit! If I tell you to just sit, you will do some sacred syllable repetition or you will sleep or you start praying or you will just become restless. You don"t know how to sit with no mantra repetition, no technique, nothing… just sitting… You have forgotten the art of just sitting. In Zen they call it Zazen - just sitting. You forgot that. Just sitting is no longer part of your being. To teach the "just sitting", it takes 2 days for me, because you know everything except just sitting, except just being. That is why I have to work 2 days to bring your TPS as far down as possible. For example, when you have 100 TPS, you are in the physical layer. When you have 80 TPS, you are in the pranic layer. When you have 60 TPS, you are in the mental layer. As your TPS comes down, you go deeper and deeper into the inner layers. When the TPS is completely down, you enter the anandamaya kosha – the bliss layer.
Now you are going to sit with the Master in every layer. We are trying to reduce the TPS to bring the frequency of thoughts down. The whole process which we are going to do for the next 2 days is sitting with a "0 TPS being" so that our TPS can drop drastically. One more step you can do is, balance yourself to come down to a low TPS in order to sit with him, since you have forgotten to just sit. You will be consciously balancing yourself so that your TPS falls. We are going to do something just to stop you from doing something else. This doing is what I call "process".
You can write questions about this subject alone.
The moment I tell you to ask questions, you will ask about vaastu shastra, astrology and what not. Please do not ask questions such as whether vaastu shastra is true, astrology is true, will this stone work for me etc. If a stone can change your life, then you are nothing more than a stone. So ask questions only on the science that I have spoken now. All other FAQs, I will answer in the evening or tomorrow.
Understand, when I say figures such as 100 TPS and 80 TPS, I am saying them only for you to understand the concept. Don't start thinking: I think I am between 61-80 TPS and so I am probably stuck in such and such a layer…no! These kinds of analysis are for professional seekers who seek all their lives without getting even one glimpse of the truth. Some people make seeking as their part time, if not, full time profession. The whole day they will go around and find some stone, some pendulum or some crystal and experiment with it. They will say, "Oh! This is radiating energy, I could feel the energy," etc. Sometimes, even I will not be able to feel the energy, but just to keep them happy, I say, "Alright, take it and go."
Energy is the experience that happens inside you, not anything that happens through a stone or a pendulum. So many books and theories are being sold today on energy play. One thing I have understood: anything highly impractical that you write, sells! I can give you three tips to become a big philosopher and author of bestsellers. First: write what you yourself cannot practice! Second: just keep on talking only about the problem in different ways. Third and most important thing: never give a solution! If you follow these three things, you can become a great philosopher and author in just 30 days. The problem is, you don't need enlightenment to teach professional seekers; if you are a philosopher, it is enough. For the fortunate ones who have been brought up in a spiritual environment, truths are engraved in their inner space.
Understand: unless you have walked the path, do not talk. Unless you know it completely, its side effect, after effect, everything… do not talk. Unless the person is enlightened, it is considered as the worst conspiracy against humanity to teach. In Bharat, if you are still a seeker, a wanderer, there is a beautiful tradition where you are taken care of by the public. You are not forced to take care of your own survival. You are given food, shelter and respect anywhere you travel within Bharat. But remember, the seeking should not be just an outward profession. It should stem from a deep thirst, an urgency to know the truth.