Monday, 2 December 2019
शक्तिचा गुणाकार: योगरहस्य
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
शक्तिचा गुणाकार : योगरहस्य
Friday, 11 October 2019
8. Optimise energy by tapping into resonance
In many old stories about monks and Yogi, you may have found that they lived easily beyond 100 or 150 years age, with absolute young and working body and mind. How could that happen? Since it’s a body, it must deteriorate and perish. It is a law of nature. Yogi being the persuader of aligning life to the nature, would surely not go against the law of nature. But he can reduce the decay to the minimal. And he can also rejuvenate the body and replenish the energy. Yogi have phenomenal amount of energetic persona. They rest very rarely. That is because they can redraw energy from their actions, work, engagements. Lets understand this concept little deeper. When we exercise or work in garden or say do shopping of grocery or travel, we obviously get tired. And it is natural. However, when Yogi performs these actions, he will be still as fresh as he was before or at least very little tired as compared to an ordinary person. Yogi’s body may require some rest or may be tired but his energy levels are absolutely intact. The difference lies in his ability to engage his mind, matter(brain & body) & soul in all actions he performs. What happens when you are engaging all levels of your identity? You are unifying yourself with the action and becoming one with it in thought, action as well as identity. It is here Yog defines the state of meditation. Yes Yogi meditates when he is performing any action. He doesn’t need to stay as recluse banished in forest or mountain with eyes closed and legs in lotus position. Off-course doing it that way when situation allows enhances your progress. But that is not a constraint for meditation for an advanced yogi. He is meditating every moment. His focus is the highest and so is the absorption capacity when he is involved into conversation or learning activities. The flow of energy is smooth when you are meditating. That smoothness of the flow carries information, knowledge and calmness without friction or any loss. The smoothness of the flow of energy allows the entry to the realms of resonance. In purely scientific term, Resonance is an act of matching the frequency. But in yogic term resonance is union of energy. Union of magnetic field, union of thoughts, union of emotion and off-course action. So if you be one with action and are completely subdued in your task at hand, you will have experienced resonance. There are some signs of that. E.g. you lose the track of time. You lose sometimes connection with surrounding and many times you become oblivious to the discomfort of body, cloths, hunger, thirst, noise around you, surrounding weather. Another sign is you come out rejuvenated out of the process. Which means you enjoyed your time. You are high on energy or at least intact. Body may be tired but energy is high. That situation allows you to jump on another work without any rest and still perform. That focus comes with concentration but that’s not all. It comes with another important factor of Yogi prerequisite. That is dissolving your identity in pursuit of being one with the work. E.g. when working in a job at reception, you welcome everyone with same vigour and hospitality and make everyone at ease, loved and cared. That should become your earnest desire, forgetting your own headache or cold or some mental tensions. Another place would be Teaching a class any subject where you pour your heart in it and explain kids and interact with them as you are one of the characters in the subject . Making it lively and interactive. The subject should leave involved teacher and student to desire that period should not end. That kind of engagement is striking resonance with the job at hand. Once that level of union is achieved, you can benefit from meditation from that moment. You no more need special arrangements. This is next level to team work or synergy. When you see a company of soldiers marching past in synergy or birds flying in a sequence that drives synergy or group of people doing together a social or community work. All these examples are of synergy and to some extent forgetting self by identifying with group. Such act of synergy also creates and multiplies surge in energy and output. Yogi can achieve such positive energy surge even when engaged alone. He can go beyond synergy and strike resonance with the task itself. This gives him the same state of meditation as he would get sitting in cave alone in lotus position with eyes closed. Now when you are into such a deep-trans, you are bound to have very efficient mind, brain and body co-ordination. And such highly co-ordinated involvement will obviously optimise your effort and energy. A body in deep-trans or meditating or in union with acts it is performing I.E. resonating, will rejuvenate or generate energy. So traditionally a task or job can be draining your energy and be tiring. When done in a way Yogi does, it can be rejuvenating. So now all dots tie in together to explain how Yogi have always been bustling with high energy and having highest quality yield in their tasks. To end the chapter, I will summarise an example of such highest yield. Swami Vivekananda in USA during his famous tour visited a farm. People there were playing a game with guns to hit the target. They invited Swamiji to try hands on gun. Swamiji reluctantly tried and aimed at the target and hit it absolutely bang on precision. Everyone cheered and asked if Swamiji was professional shooter. Vivekananda politely explained that this is the first time he is holding gun in his hands. People in complete disbelief asked him to try again. Swamiji hit the target with repeat precision second time. Then Swamiji explained, it’s his meditation that is aiding here to produce such enhanced result. Vivekananda was able to dissolve himself, ignore all noise around and focus his mind and align his senses and body to perform the action of shooting to generate same union or resonance that we discussed in above chapter.
Thursday, 27 June 2019
9. Idan na mama
इदं न मम्। This is a Sanskrit mantra that is often pronounced in many Yadnya (a ritual where offerings are made to typically fire with various prayers). The literal meaning of that mantra is this does not belong to me. Why is such statement essential for offering? Importance is given to offer to the fire what belongs to you. However this mantra tries to remove the fallacy that there is something that belongs to me. It allows you to humbly accept that this offering although offered by me does not belong to me. I am merely the current possessor of the item and nothing more. It develops an attitude of trustee for everything that you come across in life. Offloading possessions and belongings from mind and life is an important aspect of yogi’s life. Yogi works towards believing that everything in the world that he makes use of is simply a resource that he has no ownership of. He is simply using the resource as a trustee only to pass on to next possessor in the best possible way. A reduced belongings brings you to a mentality of a monk who has little to no ego. Let’s start applying this to food and you will find a change in attitude where you treat food as resource that everyone has right on . Suddenly you become more aware of the fact that resources are not mine. Then you ensure your use of food is to the minimal and least wasteful. Apply this to your car, cloths, property and suddenly your ego goes southwards. The amount of pain we go through after realising the loss of some materialistic possessions can suddenly become minimal as we impregnated our mind with Idan Na Mama! However we use everything with almost care as we become trustee only to handover to someone else.
When such Idan na mama is applied to the job at hand, we dedicate the work to the supreme soul, god, whatever you would like to call apart from yourself. This is typically part of bhakti yoga where devotee performs every action for god and dedicated it to god including its consequences. When such view is acquired for our job or purpose, the work becomes Devine and so does your dedication to it. The job suddenly achieves supreme purpose in your life because you are doing it for that supreme soul. However, the purpose behind such job and results of that can not be detrimental to the larger society. Otherwise there is conflict in dedicating to the god.
The attitude of “Idan-na-mama” goes further where we realise the body which we identify ourselves with is also not ours. It belongs to our parents and our karma. What belongs to us is our karma. Such view of life allows faster progress to next most important milestone of Yogi’s journey. For that matter any spiritual journey. That is to inquest to find “who am I ?” As said in Sanskrit “कोऽहम्?”. Once the baggage of emotions, sensual pleasures & ego is dropped from ourselves by applying “Idan-na-mama” philosophy, seeking answer to “who am I?” Becomes relatively less confusing. Lets practice applying it to as many as possessions and interactions in our life.


