9. Meditation
9.1 Expel the Animal Engrams
Let us start the work now. You don't even have to know which animal you came from. The animal from which you took birth will automatically come out. Greed and fear are almost the same for all animals. It will be more intense than your human greed and fear, that's all. You can see whenever you are caught in fear and greed that all your civilization suddenly disappears! You feel like an animal! When you are filled with fear or lust, immediately the animal in you comes out. You become just like an animal. All your civilization, your title, your name etc, disappear. If you tell someone to video record you when you are expressing your fear or greed, and watch it later, you may even have a fear stroke watching it! Or you may get into an inferiority complex just watching it.
So, instead of unconsciously falling everyday into the animal body, let us fall consciously into it now, and release everything. Let us get rid of it. It is a very powerful process. Taking any one animal's body, just become that. No one is going to watch you. No video recording is happening here. No photography is happening here. No one will look at you. Everyone"s eyes will be closed. Just become that animal and bring yourself to the peak of fear and greed. Just feel the lust and survival fear. React in the way you feel that the animal will react. Let your whole body shiver. Be filled with violence. Be filled with greed. Let your whole body boil with those engrams. Let them all come out. Only then, programming you is possible for me. Understand that. Unless the strong animal engrams in you leave your system, unless the pashu (animal nature) leaves you, you cannot become Pashupati! (Pashupati is a form of Lord Shiva associated with animals and nature).
Understand: you have got so many samskaras from the animal layer, because you never allowed them to become reality. These samskaras express in your everyday life. You can see it surfacing even when you are eating sometimes. You can see it, when you are angry. When you are really angry, the animal engrams express through you. Sometimes, it may even frighten you. You might wonder, "What am I doing? What is going on? Why am I so aggressive?" Understand: till you allow the animal inside you to be completely fulfilled and relaxed, you can"t escape from it. It should be allowed to come out completely. It should be allowed to actualize itself.
These animal engrams are so powerful. They are called prarabdha karma. This prarabdha karma is so powerful. If you allow them to work through you, they will empower you. If you suppress them, they will constantly depress you. You will be fighting with them all the time. Whatever quality you are fighting with, in whatever way you are fighting with yourself, these animal engrams are responsible for it. If you are fighting to control your anger, if you are fighting to stop smoking, if you are fighting to stop drinking, everything is directly connected to this annamaya kosha, the animal memories; the samskaras which you brought from the animal layer. Even for any addiction, if you are fighting with yourself, the responsibility is this annamaya kosha's. Whatever may be the reason for the fight with yourself, the responsibility is the samskaras which you bring from the animal body.
Now, we are going to give the opportunity for all those samskaras to leave you; all those personalities, the animal layers which you brought with you, to leave you.
The animal in you has to leave you; only then you can become God; only then, the consciousness can shine in you. As long as you are having the physical layer of animal engrams, any small disturbance is enough to awaken that in you; you are there, ready like an animal. See for yourself, how many times in your house, animal like fight goes on when the tempers rise! Look back in your life to see how many times the violent animal nature in you expresses itself. Even though you do not want it, it simply expresses, and later, you regret. Sometimes, during this meditation, people tell me, "I don"t feel like becoming any animal. I don"t feel I was any animal. I don"t feel anything is coming out." I tell them, "Then you must have been a buffalo!" At least become a buffalo and act like one. Use your hand as its tail and drive the flies away! At least become that buffalo.
9.2 Vedic Tradition – Here and Now
In the ancient traditional Vedic system, before the Gayatri initiation – the initiation into the prayer for awakening the innate intelligence in the child – he will be made to live in this mriga shareera or animal body. That is why they study as a part in studying the horoscope. They will be made to live like that animal for six months. In today"s modern world, the whole system has disappeared. It has been simply washed away. We can forgive all the injustice done to Bharat in the name of war and plundering; we can forgive even the damage done to our wonderful ancient temples, because they can be rebuilt. But we cannot forgive the destruction of our Vedic education system, the Vedic tradition that got destroyed during foreign rule. Nearly two hundred thousand Vedic Gurukul centers or universities were there in South Bharat alone. Two lakh Gurukuls were there in South Bharat alone. Now there are hardly six thousand.
In the Vedic tradition, when a child takes birth, they will clearly predict, from which animal the child took birth, and what samskaras he is carrying. They will help the child release those samskaras in his young age itself. Yoga is also one of the ways to release these engrams. That is why each asana or posture is related to one particular animal in a certain way. The posture is a technique to release the associated engrams. Then, when the body becomes graceful and pure, they will program it with the Gayatri initiation, with the mantra, with the energy.
The whole system was lost because the Gurukul system was lost. Now, even the so-called Brahmins, who wear the yagnobhavita (sacred white thread), do not know anything of these long lost traditions. They don"t even know why they wear that thread. The science is largely lost. Earlier, by age ten, you are expected to finish all these things. Now, I am giving you a half hour opportunity to live like the Vedic times. If you do this meditation intensely, understand, not a single engram will remain in you.
In those times, an enlightened Master would guide the whole thing and tell the children individually, which animal engram he took birth from. They will ask him to eat in the same way as that animal; live in the same way; create sounds in the same way. The child will become almost that! There is a beautiful story of a boy Satyakama japa in the Shwetaswara Upanishad. His spiritual name is Shwetaketu. I have spoken on this story in the discourse entitled "The Happening". He took birth from a cow"s engrams. Following the Master"s single line instruction, he went away and lived with cows for a few years, until they multiplied into 1000 cows, and then came back. As soon as he came back, with just a single word from the Master, he became enlightened!
So understand: this is a very powerful process. Of course, unfortunately in today"s rat race, we don"t have six months to live like animals, but at least this next thirty minutes, we can live intensely to release our animal engrams. Even if you bring out most part of the lust and greed in you, it is enough. The other smaller samskaras, I can take care of. From your side, just work towards removing strong and heavy samskaras like lust, anger and fear. When you get fear out, your whole body will be shivering. Just visualize how an animal shivers and shiver in the same way. In the tips of your nails and teeth, you will feel violence. Even now, sometimes you can feel this when you look at your in-laws, mother-in-law especially! And this is the case mostly in Bharat. In USA, the relationship between the daughter-in-law and mother-in-law is much better because when they meet, they have time only for utility - like baby sitting etc. When the mother in-law baby sits, some responsibility is temporarily taken away from the daughter-in-law for those few hours, so she is very happy. Also, they meet only occasionally, so it is not a problem.