Thoughts are like seeds.
If we don't regulate our thoughts, they one day,
can turn into a chaotic life the result would
be a chaotic life, which is beyond our control.
Hello, everyone. Today, I would like to introduce what,
I think, is one of the most vital components of Heartfulness
practice, called Cleaning. What are we cleaning?
We are cleaning the impressions that we gather during our day time,
during our daily activities.
So what are these impressions?
How do we anway gather them ?
According to Newton, every action in this case,
psychologically, every thought or action,
has an equal and opposite reaction.
It may be true in the physical world, but when
but when it comes to inner realms,
the action that we perform need not have an
equal reaction to it.
Either it may have zero reaction or
it can respond with infinite potential,
infinite amount of reaction to it. How? Suppose someone is passing, towards
whom you're attracted. It is a simple phenomena.
Some person is passing. But you're so attracted that
you remain bewielded by that person's personality.
And you keep thinking about that person.
This is impression. This is how we gather impressions.
And this is how we form our destiny as well.
So thus, we see that, sometimes we look at the
person and fall in love instantly. Or a lover once,
gives you such a look
and then you say,"oh!
why is he looking at me like that?"
And you might say, "oh,I don't like this."
What is this all based upon? They are subliminal influences that we
carry in our consciousness. We call these influences
impressions or samskaras.
So here, where the cleaning process comes into picture,
we like to perceive things as it is, as real as
they could be.With the help of Cleaning process
we are able to come to an inner state which will remain
non-judgemental, with which, somehow, we face
the influence of certain impressions.
When we remove such an impact of memories,
when we unload ourselves from such an emotional burden,
which is what keeps us bound to certain patterns of thoughts, perception,
emotions, and behavior,
this brings objectivity and clarity to our
perceptions - Cleaning.
We need to remove these filters of impressions.
This is not just a psychological phenomenon.
They also prevent our spiritual expansion because
impressions represent vibrational patterns in consciousness,
which have become fixated.
These impressions or samskaras settle down in the deepest layers
of our subconscious,
where they eventually cover the soul.
They separate us from the most essential element of our being.
As we accumulate more and more of these impressions,
this network becomes denser and it starts to
resemble the layers of that,
what we find in geological sedimentation, like geology,
It becomes a record of our past. The cleaning process frees us
from both the past and the future, so we can design our own destiny.
I'd like to share with you an example
of a master gardener.
I read this from a book, 'As a Man Thinketh' by James Allen.
He gives an example of a master
gardner who sows the seeds,
well planned. He executes his plan of proper gardening
as per his wish. He knows what to plant where, which shrub,
is vine, which tree, will go where.
But if you don't care about proper planning, and if you let it happen,
you know, the weeds will go everywhere and in no time,
you will have a jungle, a big forest.
Thoughts are all like that. Thoughts are like seeds.
If we don't regulate our thoughts, they one day,
can turn into a chaotic life,
the result would be a chaotic life, which is beyond our control.
Our consciousness would be like a jungle then.
Conflicting ideas and conflicting emotions, desires, dislikes -
our inner environment becomes so complex.
So, cleaning helps us here
to get rid of these scattered ideas based on our reactions
and emotional outbursts.
When to do cleaning?
The best time to do it is when you come back home
from the day's main work.
I'll walk you through this process of cleaning now.
Just like meditation, we close our eyes very gently.
Now the focus here is the back part
from top of the head, till the tailbone, shoulder to shoulder, back part.
We have to think
that all the complexities and impurities are going away.
This is a kind of
sankalpa (intention or suggestion) that this is happening,
complexities and impurities are going away. From where?
From the back side, from the top of the head to the tailbone.
Imagine that and think that they're going away from the backside.
And how? Think that they are going in the form of smoke.
So let us rethink this process, what are we doing,
we are simply making a sankalpa (intention), or a suggestion
that all complexities and impurities are going away,
from my backside
in the form of smoke.
If you have settled with this much,
I would like you to do one more thing,
accelarate this process.
Now,gently add the next element to this
Cleaning process.
Imagine that the light is descending from above
and it is entering from the front side of your system
and passing through the entire system and the entire body,
going out from the backside now, helping us remove these
complexities and impurities.
This light, in turn, is helping me fill up the vacuum
left behind by the removal of complexities and impurities.
At the end of this cleaning, generally we make a firm
suggestion that yes, all the complexities and impurities
are now removed and that I feel much simpler and purer.
So,
now you know how to do Cleaning.