So on two ends, the body cannot evolve, the soul need not evolve.
Then what are we trying to evolve?
Something that is in between.
Asanas, they improve our physical health and prepare us for pranayama.
Pranayama builds our immunity.
It increases our life-force.
Pratyahara, dharana, dhyan and samadhi- they are inner segments of
our yoga practice leading us to the culmination of our consciousness.
The entire purpose of yoga sadhana [practice] is to revolutionize
this inner consciousness.
And only when this consciousness of each individual
in this entire globe reaches a critical mass,as they call
'egregore’, humanity will change.
There will be more peace; there will be more harmony.
Meditation takes us to the deepest available consciousness each time.
So I highly recommend people to meditate and take advantage of
it so that we can have, we can be in touch with innermost silence.
And this becomes the source of all knowledge.
Our perception also gets heightened under this silence.
Silence, meaning, gathering all your energies, all your attention
inward and this inwardness heightens our perception.
And after all, what is consciousness?
Consciousness is nothing but the degree of our awareness,
degree of refined awareness.
And this is possible only when we are silent.
Through silence, we learn how to manipulate, how to enhance
our consciousness, which we can practice in day-to-day life.
Silence begins or helps us initiate this process of
evolution of consciousness.
Your internal environment, moods, your emotion, your thoughts,
your habits, they certainly do influence your genetic expression.
Anyway, it only shows that we all are connected at multiple
levels, intellectually, morally, and spiritually.
If we raise, each day, our consciousness,
it is bound to have a snowball effect, what you
call the butterfly effect.
As we evolve more and more, you know, there are individuals who
understand that "if I do such and such a thing, it is not going
to bring about good results".
They know, ahead of time.
There are certain individuals who would, while going through
that particular process, they will understand,"Oh whether
I doing right or wrong?"
And if they become aware that "I’m doing it wrong", they
have the ability to stop it.
Some people say, "I already started it, what is the
point of stopping it?"
And some individuals, to me, even after they have gone
through doing the wrong thing, they still don’t get it.
So this is again a difference in how evolved your consciousness is.
So to improve our consciousness, once again I cannot emphasize
more and more, more and more the importance of meditation.
Each day, as we meditate, our spiritual state, our spiritual
condition will go on changing.
And everytime we enter into a deeper level of
consciousness, it is easily felt.
With the help of this pranahuti, it becomes child's play.
For me, not only myself, but also millions of people who
have experienced the flow of this transmission, pranahuti
are able to experience a deeper state of consciousness.
When we talk of evolution of consciousness, that's the only
thing, I think, that evolves in us.
It is a fact that the body cannot evolve within my lifetime.
I can only age.
My soul cannot evolve because it is immutable.
It is purity.
It is divine in nature, unchanging and eternal.
So on two ends, body cannot evolve, soul need not evolve,
then what are we trying to evolve?
Something in between- consciousness.
First of all, I had to understand what is consciousness.
Consciousness, to me, is all about the degree of awareness.
This degree of awareness keeps on changing, like my potential.
As I dive deeper into my subconscious
and as I soar higher in my super-consciousness through
meditation, I create, somehow, a broadband of my present
awareness through which all this information is exchanged.
Isn't it wonderful?
increased awareness, increased consciousness,
ever-changing consciousness will lead us continuously to
an ever improving way of life.
Life becomes joyful or you might even say it becomes so blissful,
you arrive at those lofty states that are so, so much praised in
our tradition as sat chit anand.
Sat chit anand, it's not a mantra; To me, it's a coded
word which is passed on from generation to generation.
We have to decode it.
What does it really mean?
Sat, the ultimate truth can be had if your chit, your consciousness
becomes blissful [anand].
And this blissfulness can be arrived at, when we
realize our full potential.
I can see my potential only when I look within myself.
The deeper I go, the more beautiful this potential appears.
And who's going to take me to my deeper level of consciousness?
My experience and the experiences of millions of people shows that
it is through this pranahuti.
And I, I say, please meditate.
Especially with this pranahuti, within half an hour, you will see
the change in your consciousness; shift in your consciousness
will be so palpable, something that you'll be able to feel here
and now in this very moment.