Heartfulness, in essence,
is doing things with your heart,
intending things with your heart,
discriminating things with your heart.
Anything and everything that you do,
refer to your heart before you execute.
We all have great potential.
Unless and until this potential is made use of,
it's of no use; it is of no value actually.
Knowledge...
has to be actualized through experience.
As a student, when I was learning
a few things like Archimedes' principle
or Pythagoras' theorem,
how do we actually use it in day-to-day practical life?
Until and unless that moment comes,
and we understand the
practical application in day-to-day life,
only then we appreciate such experiments and theorems
with greater interest.
In mathematics, also, some students have a phobia for mathematics;
some have a phobia for physics, some have for chemistry, some have for English.
Nevertheless,
all these phobias can be removed – tensions, anxieties.
Heartfulness meditation is actually
a way of life.
It produces a guide
in how you conduct your daily duties,
how we interact with the others.
Heartfulness is global, universal.
The message is love.
Not only a message,
it is a feeling.
Cultivate that within a human being.
It is a platform to...
build us from inside out,
become more loving, more kind.
And that's what we need in the Middle East so we can
love each other
and peace will come eventually.
Students worrying about their subject matter
can be streamlined through an actual,
experiential process.
Think for a moment, when you have to make a decision,
and you have to answer immediately
when your boss asks for answers – immediately.
What happens to you?
Versus, if an opportunity is given to you
“please maintain silence for some time,
or have a moment of poise,
and then answer after reflecting.”
My answer will be obvious
that the answer given after some poise or pause
will have a better value,
it will have better substance,
and it will be weighed out in the heart's silence.
We teach this to students
right from a very early age – to reflect,
to look within,
and become more aware of
the situation or a problem.
It is this awareness
that brings about evolution in life.
It makes life easier because we are able to tackle a problem even
before it becomes
a real issue for us.
Exam anxiety, exam stress,
how to curb it?
Once the anxiety and stress begin,
it's difficult to remove it.
Our emphasis is
how not to create stress and anxiety in the first place.
All these fundas or fundamental principles
– a value-based life –
are somehow experientially
made available
to these younger minds.
Heartfulness has really
contributed a lot to
my success,
contributed to me becoming or being what I am right now,
because there are so many things that you can learn from Heartfulness.
When you have love and peace of mind,
that is a result of Heartfulness.
When you have that,
you are able to concentrate on your work,
you are able to make decisions,
the right decisions,
you are able to save time, and all
that has made me
succeed in everything that I do.
This Heartfulness way of meditation guarantees
that within less than thirty minutes
you will...
enjoy this shift in consciousness.
It is only through the shift in consciousness
that we will be able to create an egregore of
human beings resonating at wavelengths,
such resonance,
full of peace.
Empathy for each other, love for each other, affection towards each other
– the world will be wonderful.
The egregore of such individuals
will somehow create a different
external as well as internal environment.
World peace becomes child's play then.
Only key to this is interest in meditation.
If people have that,
we can achieve it.
Younger minds can be trained
not just to focus mind,
but to focus mind in such a way that they also become God-loving.
When I have to...
ask you a question, “What is your name?”
You immediately give the answer, “My name is so and so.”
But if you have to give me a wrong name,
you'll have to think
and then come up with the name,
and what happens at that time to your heart?
It starts pumping faster and becomes heavier.
If you have to lie to your mother,
what happens to your heart at that time?
Though you may have told a lie for whatever reason,
your heart will always reflect that heaviness, undergo
some sort of tension.
When you have to simply say the right thing,
“Mommy, I went to this place,”
there's nothing wrong with
it. When you have to say your name correctly to someone while introducing,
there's nothing wrong with it. The answer just comes like that,
and there are no repercussions.
When we have to solve some problems in life,
then we refer to the heart most of the time,
but before that the mind has already chosen something,
something pleasant, something very easy,
something that would not take much efforts.
The mind always looks towards
comfy or comfortable situations.
The heart is not worried about all these things;
the heart is always looking for what is right at the moment.
So when the conflict arises, it is because the
mind wants to do something and the heart wants to do something else.
Always follow the heart.
When we have an unnatural thing,
for example, when I am not able to see things properly,
my heart gets a signal that,
"Something is wrong with you."
"It's time to visit a doctor."
When my ears are not listening,
not receiving messages properly
and I have to worry about it,
but when I am able to see properly and when I am able to hear properly,
my heart doesn't give me any signal.
Precisely when something goes wrong,
when things become unnatural,
when there is asathya – untruthfulness,
the heart speaks louder.
Whenever there is a conflict,
it is because of
this mismatch between heart and mind,
so always follow the heart. There is nothing
very special about how to make a decision;
everyone knows this.
You need courage to follow the heart.
Heartfulness completely transformed my life.
Like, I am living a life in the Heartfulness way.
Every single aspect in my life
I take in a Heartfulness way.
Everything I do, I do it from the heart.
Whenever I am doing anything, I am doing it
in Heartfulness meditation.
This is everything. This is fixing your goal inside.
Master,
guru, whatever,
Ultimate, everything is within.
So,
this for me is the goal.
Imagine for a moment,
the mind as one end of the spectrum of consciousness
and the heart is another
extreme
of the same spectrum, actually.
When you talk of
deeper thoughts
that arise in your mind,
they are so deep
it feels as if it is touching your heart
– it almost becomes a feeling.
Sometimes, you can be
too superficial with your heart's feelings
– it is almost like a thought.
So it has its own spectrum.
So, Mindfulness is one extreme of it
and Heartfulness is another extreme of it.
Rather, I would like to think Heartfulness to be inclusive of Mindfulness.
Mindfulness is where you are mentally aware
– you try to remain mentally aware of things around you, within you,
with all kinds of things.
Heartfulness, too,
is part of this mental awareness,
mental regulation,
empathy
– anything and everything that we do in the emotional world
refers to the heart.
Here, when this system was
established officially and run as an organization in 1945,
then it was known as Shri Ram Chandra Mission.
Even now it is Shri Ram Chandra Mission.
But I
feel that it should have a nickname.
I like it to be recognized by this name because
it is all about the heart. The whole practice
that they have on meditation
is all about the heart.
You feel with your heart.
Though, in meditation, generally we begin with
an idea of
the divine principle,
the thought has to be
graduated or transcended
to a feeling
– the feeling of the object you are meditating upon.
It should no longer remain a form
or imagination.
I must be able to perceive that in my heart,
as a feeling other than just a thought.
India is the master of many good things.
One great thing that I have learned in our land
is that whatsoever we do has a consequence. Karma theory
– the fruit of our actions. Let us see, if they are
favorable, I become happy;
if they are not favorable, I am unhappy.
Now, the fruits of our actions, whatever they be,
are depending on the action itself.
If I had done a wrong sort of approach,
or action, then it would be a different result,
not satisfying to my heart.
And this action depends upon how well I have planned.
It is a mind that has not planned properly
that remains anxious for the results.
But a person who has planned properly is not anxious,
he's confident.
The preparedness is required.
And before that,
how would you come to rightful planning
without rightful thinking?
And rightful thinking will come only when you have rightful
ideation or ideas or intentions.
So you go back to intentions again.
It's a simple thing – I like to remain pure and simple.
When this is my goal, I will not do any wrong thing.
I will not try to have short cuts.
I will do whatever I have to do
to make the project successful, without creating complexity for the organization,
because I can't tolerate personally complexity.
It's a burden to the meditative mind.
I rely on my inner guide,
and that is what he referred to.
We cultivate that inner guide,
inner Master.
Daaji is our living Master who is awakening our inner Master,
telling us
how to react or respond in a better word
to anything that comes across us or comes from us.
And that is beautiful.
Generally, I meditate with an idea of a
greater presence in my heart.
I generally think of the Godly presence in my heart.
That's it.
Or, there's so much of peace,
poise,
and love in my heart, and I just sit and meditate like that.
That's all.
Later on, when I'm in deeper meditation, the depth of meditation,
and when I come out of it,
either at that time or during meditation, some
great ideas would emerge, also.
It's not that you remain thoughtless during meditation.
Some thoughts will definitely come,
though you are trying to regulate your mind and saying,
“Oh, I am going to meditate on the presence of Divinity.”
Despite all that,
other thoughts will come,
and that is okay.
Suppose you are launching a new project;
the idea will come.
Now, when the idea of launching a new project comes to your mind,
there will be many other pros and cons developing in your mind.
Now you are
walking through a virtual path of the project,
which you had not seen earlier.
When you are seeing virtually the project unfolding in front of you,
you are able to see, first of all, what can go wrong,
or, whom I should not be including as my team,
not out of enmity, but he is not the right person for that.
So, you will choose the right people,
right process, right timing, right place,
right protocol.
You are able to eliminate
what is not suitable
for the project.
Meditation
somehow erases these things,
but that is not the main purpose, as I said.
The main purpose is something else. These are side
effects which can be beneficial.