why most of us – almost all of us in India have seen
Gods and Goddesses displayed in various photographs
Lord Shiva meditating, Lord Rama meditating,
Yugparush Lord Krishna in his yoga form meditating.
What are they meditating upon?
Now logically if you look at it, if someone has the capacity,
let us say you have the capacity, to pour the Prana into a statue of the Lord.
Can I not ask you if you can do that in a mere stone,
why can’t you make me feel that Prana in me?
The statue is not going to speak, whether you poured it or not
but another human being can certainly feel
whether you transmitted your Prana in another person or not.
It is very logical. So here in Sahaj Marg, we offer this.
And this is possible only when Masters of calibre
who are connected with the Absolute with the Source
they can draw it and transmit it, and we all feel it.
And slowly over a period of time, you will see the beauty of the soul glowing
unfolding in front of your eyes. Within a year
two years or three years of dedicated practice, you’ll see a drastic change in your lifestyle altogether.
Sahaj Marg,
take it as a scientific experiment.
And on whom are we doing this experiment?
On myself! I am the experiment, I am the experimenter and I am the experience itself
and I am the result of that experience
When I experience it myself, do I need the proof outside? No
And when I feel the presence of the Lord in my heart,
do I have to look for Him outside? Let's say your husband – if you are married and
your husband says, “Oh, you are never in the house”, though you are in the house.
And he goes on looking around for other wives
that’s what the situation is. Moment we are born, until we die, that Almighty soul is within us.
From very early childhood I think that most of us
why most of us – almost all of us in India have seen
Gods and Goddesses displayed in various photographs
Lord Shiva meditating, Lord Rama meditating,
Yugparush Lord Krishna in his yoga form meditating.
What are they meditating upon? Do we ask such questions? Or they're maintaining silence?
Even a child of five years, if you ask a question,
“Do you believe in God?”
The child would say, “Yes, I believe in God.”
If you ask an eighty-year-old man, “Do you believe in God?” he would say, “Yes,
I believe in God. I fear God.”
These are the typical answers that we get with whomsoever we interact in our society.
But when we ask a profound question:
“I agree that God is there but have you experienced His presence?”
Then they start scratching their head. Then there will be a long pause before the answer.
So belief in the presence of God is good. Knowledge is good.
But once we experience that belief has a value,
that knowledge has a value. Without experience, belief and knowledge remain hollow.
We had done some experiments
and compared the results with one of the most advanced scientific research done at Harvard
where they had collected monks, Buddhist monks
who had earlier meditated for many, many years
on their aggregate they must have accumulated 20000,
15000, 25000 hours of meditation,
now when they put electroencephalograph on their head, lot of probes,
to measure what is going on in their mind during meditation
they would arrive at the state of samadhi state
after about 10 minutes, 15 minutes,
but with this Sahaj Marg, Heartfulness way,
we are able to get into that state in the very first session of meditation.
Most people, they arrive at such a comfortable state in their heart
within very, very, very short time and I say most of people I would say 99% of people attain
or experience very high level of lightness in their heart in the very first session,
whether you are a believer of God or not, whether you believe in meditation or not
but as long as you are slightly open hearted and say let me experience this and see what’s happening with this pranahuti
then magical things can happen.
The magical word is openness of the heart,
willingness to try something new without any bias, bias
bias means not even positive,
you should not get carried away, oh this is meditation so its gonna make me so happy,
no, come to a neutral level
or don’t even have aversion towards meditation,
neither attraction or aversion, just be neutral and see
what this experiment will lead us to, what sort of experience it can create.