The lotus flower, despite dwelling in the muddy water, the muddy water does not touch its petals,
does not spoil it. And so is our mind and heart combination. We can train it in such a way,
to arrive at such a sthitapragnya (steady) state with a well done meditation.
The whole human system is all electromagnetic. Even our brain activities create electromagnetic fields.
That is why and that is how they are able to measure EEG, Electroencephalograph.
To give an example, they put probes on the head which measure the electromagnetic field.
How is the brain treating the electromagnetic field? Brain with its nerves, its network all over the brain,
millions of them, rather billions of them - each time we think, each time we have emotions,
it generates certain chemicals. These chemicals as they pass, it creates an electrical field.
And this electrical field in combination with the other nerves creates the magnetic field.
This electromagnetic field can be measured today through technology. Imagine a child who is
You have seen children – before you finish answering them, they have the next question.
They are very rapid. And the graph produced by such brains will be very fast, it will be very rapid.
Versus, let us say you are sitting under the tree in your backyard and reading a book or
listening to music and someone measures your EEG. It will be very slow, right? It slows down tremendously.
Similar thing happens when we are about to go to sleep. Brain waves slow down, because our
electrical magnetic activities are less, because our thinking is less. When we are deep, very deep
in our sleep, we will hardly see three to four waves per second. So this is the beauty of studying
EEG and when we apply this study of Electroencephalograph and measure it in a person
who is meditating, you will find that in a deep state of samadhi (original state of balance),
the waves that you see in such a person will be like a person who is in deep sleep. But this you are
able to attain within three to four minutes after starting this meditation under Heartfulness Way.
We have measured this time and again. But the beautiful thing about the Heartfulness Way
of meditation is that though it mimics the deeper sleep state, but you are still awake, you are still aware.
Your mind is as if you are sleeping, but you are fully aware. You are absorbed within yourself.
In Shastras (scriptures), they call it the Turiya state, T U R I Y A - Turiya. For some reason they say,
this is the fourth state of consciousness. We have awaken state, waking state, second
third is deep sleep state, and fourth according to yoga is the Turiya state, which we achieve during
meditations. Now, there are many systems. If you want to compare many systems which are
prevalent all across the globe, some need thousand hours of practice, some need two thousand hours
of practice. That means you have to really become really a ‘pro’ – professional meditator.
So much of practice is required to arrive at this wave, they call it Delta wave, or a Turiya state.
But through Heartfulness meditation, even the first-time meditator would arrive at this delta state
because of the help of Pranahuti (transmission) used in this meditation. And when this Turiya
state we experience during meditation goes beyond, in our day-to-day work. When you go to
the office, you are interacting with other colleagues, subordinates, bosses, and even during
these interactions, if we are able to maintain this Turiya state which we achieved during
morning meditation, then this level of consciousness with open eyes will be called Turiyateet,
going beyond Turiya state. And that is possible through these Heartfulness practices. It takes some
level of practice, some interest, but it is achievable. And once when we achieve this state, we are
automatically able to arrive at a state of sthithapragnya, which Lord Krishna talks about time
and again in Gita, that sthithapragnya is the way to go. Sthitapragnya, He describes it as a state,
akin to a lotus flower. Lotus flower, despite of its dwelling in the muddy water, muddy water
does not touch its petals, does not spoil it. And so is our mind and heart combination.
We can train it in such a way, arrive at such a Sthitapragnya state with a well done meditation,
that we do not get affected by these day-to-day interactions. We remain as fresh as we were
in the morning. We go back home, meet our family members unaffected by whatsoever may have
happened in the office. It is not that you do not care.
But you become more efficient because of this meditation.