Our ideas, our thoughts, our impressions they have such a hold on our being
we need to clean that and seethings as they are
What is the relation between
Cleaning and Rejuvenation?
It is like
concentration and meditation
Meditation produces the 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 that we are trying to clean?
Let us try to first understand the difference between karmas, samskaras perceptions.
Suppose you look at someone
and it creates such an impact in your heart,
“oh, she is so irresistible” for example, and for days you keep thinking about her.
The impression has caught 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 don’t 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.epends 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”.
The other person sees the same idea and says, “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 reaction to the same thing.
Our impressions, our background, our perceptions
they work like these coloured glasses.
We all wear coloured glasses in our consciousness
How to perceive the thing as it is?
You have heard a story of a great lover
who was trying to meet his beloved who was living across the riverside.
At night, even when it is raining heavily and he has to cross the flooding river,
he catches hold of something that he felt was a log, and crosses the river.
The door is locked, so he is trying to climb to the first floor of his beloved,
holds what he thinks is a rope, holds it, climbs up and enters the beloved’s chamber.
Later on, the beloved asked, “How did you climb, how did you come?”
He said, “You left a rope for me to come up”.
She was laughing, “A rope? I never left any rope for you,I didn’t even know that you were coming”
Anyway
when they saw through the window how he climbed up, it was a huge snake.
He felt it was a rope perception
He was madly in love,
even little things seemed as if they were helping him to achieve his goal.
When he is returning
and sees the log that he thought it was, it was a dead corpse
so perception again.
Our ideas, our thoughts, our impressions they have such a hold on our being
we need to clean that and seethings 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
after 10-15 minutes of relaxation, spending time with the family
sit down quietly in some nice, cosy corner in your house
and try and 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 simpler,
the complexities and impurities that we gather
or let us put it differently, the complexities and impurities that we have accumulated
because of these daily activities which are unavoidable
we have a chance now,
before these impressions or before these cognates
get settled in the deeper level of my consciousness,
I’d like to remove them
and slowly we realize that as I do more and more cleaning, my inner being is so focused
it remains purer and simpler enough to see things directly
We perceive things directly, I think, as a result
This is, again, a matter of experience, and I would like you to
feel what a difference it can make to our consciousness.