Tapas and Completion
Continuously live in the space of Completion. Completion itself is Tapas!
Incompletion is anything that leaves you with an experience of low energy, low emotions and a general feeling of un-fulfillment. Any action that is unfulfilled as per your expectation, either because of an outer hindrance or an inner hindrance, is incompletion.
Anything from the past that hinders you from participating in life as it happens, is incompletion.
Completion is the state which leaves nothing left to be desired, either in the inner world or in the outer world. When in completion, there is no space for fear, greed, anger, doubt, envy or any of the low-energy emotions and conflicts you create for yourself.
Completion is an unclouded inner space. In such a space, irrespective of what is happening in the outer world, completion alone remains.
Incompletion come out of the assumption that something larger than you exists out there for you, which can complete you. Your life is nothing but a journey from incompletion to incompletion.
The idea that something outside you can complete you, can add to you, can fulfil you, immediately reduces you to the level of matter. You forget that you
Technique: Identify your Patterns
are not matter – you are life!
Only life can infuse life into matter; matter cannot infuse life into life! Only you can infuse value into anything that is outside you. Even the so-called positive happenings in your life are usually a result of incompletion. Your success, your relationships, your wealth – everything is triggered by a sense of incompletion.
Whether you realize it or not, you are complete unto yourself. Then why do you look to something external to complete you?
Since completion is your innate nature, you are never comfortable with your own incompletions. For that very reason they remind you of your incompleteness.
Everything in the cosmos resonates innately with completion. It is completion here, it is completion there. Completion is born out of completion. If you remove completion from completion, completion alone remains!
Completion means creating a space which is full and where you can live. Completion keeps you full and gives you the space to live! Incompletion keeps you full, but never fulfilled; you will never be able to live there.
Building that space of completion is Tapas!
ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE
Below is the process in which you can identify your major patterns.
DURATION
As much time as needed.
INSTRUCTIONS
Think of a recent conflict or a time when you felt powerless or when you felt your energy was down or when you felt depressed or felt fear or anger.
Now visualize that event vividly as if it is happening right now and relive the situation. Recall what was said, how you felt, everything you can visualize of that event.
Identify three things in the conflict:
• MAMAKARA – what you think you are inside at that moment. It is the image you carry for yourself; what you felt as you at that moment. For example: I am a loser, I always let my parents down, etc.
• AHANKARA – what you project to others as you: the way you react, your body language, your actions, and the statements you gave about yourself to others at that time. For example: I project friendliness even when I feel I am a loser.
• SWA-ANYAKARA – what you cognize as Life at those moments. What is it that you felt life was for you at that moment? For example: life is humiliating me, because people are laughing at me at that time.
When you identify these three statements, you will see that they have been there inside you during many situations in your life before.
These statements are only the branches. They are the sign of the pattern that exists deep inside you. The root is hidden from your own view due to your current cognition. But we can start with cutting off the branches.