Our ideas, our thoughts, our impressions, they have such a hold on our being.
We need to clean that and see the things as they are.
Meditation produces a state of concentration.
Cleaning rejuvenates us.
It is a by-product.
It is the result.
I think, it is one of the most important elements of this Heartfulness Practice.
What is Cleaning?
What is it that we are trying to clean?
Let us first try to understand the difference between karmas, samskaras,
impressions, and perceptions.
But I am not going to go in-depth.
Suppose you look at someone, and it creates such an impact in your heart, that you say
”Oh, she is so irresistible”, for example.
And for days, you keep thinking about her.
The impression has got you.
In the scientific world, the second law of Newton or the first law of Newton,
I am not an expert in Physics, but, “Actions and reactions are equal and
opposite in direction.” But in the field of spirituality, the reaction
to a particular action has no measure.
It can be drastically so profound that a mere glance can produce such an impact
that you do not forget all your life.
Or, so many great things can be done to us and we remain ungrateful.
So, the result in the spiritual world need not be equal and opposite.
It can be as large as encompassing the whole universe, or nothing at all.
It depends on us.
This particular practice tries to remove certain perceptions, which we
gather because of whatever reasons.
Someone sees a particular idea and says, ”Oh, this idea is good, or bad.” The
other person sees the same idea and says, “Oh, this is useless.” Another person
sees the same idea and says, “Oh, it is so great.” What makes such a difference?
All of us are not attracted to the same thing to the same extent.
We all have different degrees of reactions to the same thing.
Our impressions, our background, our perceptions, they work
like these colored glasses.
We all wear colored glasses in our consciousness.
How to perceive a thing as it is?
There is a beautiful example of an elephant, or a horse, tied by
a rope, to a small plastic chair.
Imagine the impact of such a perception.
Horse or the elephant, which can bring down the entire tent in a circus, but it is tied
merely to a small, lousy, plastic chair.
Again, it is a matter of perception.
Our ideas, our thoughts, our impressions, they have such a hold on our being.
We need to clean that and see the things as they are.
So I would like to share with you all, how to get rid of these impressions, perceptions,
reactions, or broadly speaking, “karmas or samskaras” - how we can remove them.
All our daily activities are like harbingers of collecting all these
things, knowingly or unknowingly.
At the end of the day, when most of our daily activities are over, we come home,
do ten or fifteen minutes of relaxation, before spending time with the family.
Sit down quietly in some nice cozy corner in your house and try to
apply this particular technique.
This whole technique is to bring about, or bring out, the inner abilities, from
us, so that we see things as they are.
We like to remain pure, we like to remain simple.
What is the process?
How do we do this cleaning?
Our activities, our daily activities rather, create a lot of complexities and impurities.
And they somehow color our consciousness.
It impacts our heart and impacts our mind.
Eventually, it affects our meditative consciousness.
For example, these impressions can lead us to endlessly mull over repetitive thoughts.
Imagine something that you have forgotten during your daytime, or you
did not complete it during day time.
It creates a certain level of impression.
And it haunts your mind, just before you go to sleep.
So, incomplete work, something that we did wrongly also haunts us.
So when we do this Cleaning, these impressions are removed in such a way that
the memory is not removed, but the impact of such a failure or success is removed.
The impact of our actions, the impact of our inactions, the impact of our thoughts, the
impact of our ideation, or the impact of the surrounding, meaning our boss, or some other
innocent things can also impress our mind.
And slowly we realise that as we do more and more cleaning, our Inner Being is so focused.
It remains pure and simpler enough to see things directly.
We perceive things directly, as a result.
This is again a matter of experience.