….Most of us have something – our own traditional way of approaching
God through our ritualistic practice.
There are traditions, and some already have a Kul Guru.
That is not a problem.
Having Heartfulness as an additional practice will not be a disrespect to your Guru.
Namaste.
Today, we will take up those pending questions.
They are quite interesting questions and I would like to explore them in detail.
One must meet the Guru as often as possible.
Because of our ever-changing condition and how a Guru can modulate this yogic
transmission and correct certain tendencies of some Chakras [plexus] that we are
traversing through – what we call our Spiritual Yatra [journey] - from one Chakra
[plexus] to another and arriving at the final destination, I think presence is required.
And as we move on to higher and higher planes, this presence
will be of more importance.
That does not mean that you stay with him 365 days.
No.
One jhalak [glimpse] is important.
A glance from a distance is also important.
Most of us have something – our own traditional way of approaching God
through our ritualistic practice.
There are traditions, and some already have a Kul Guru [Family Teacher].
That is not a problem.
Having Heartfulness as an additional practice will not be a
disrespect to your Guru [Teacher].
In fact, the very idea that I need help, which is not available with what
I am practicing, shows some level of vacuum in your system - that, ‘I need
something which I am not able to get’, and you should try to explore that.
Heart speaks all the time.
It never stops talking to us.
You watch the thoughts of your mind and feelings of your heart as you
are in a restaurant, for example, or you are in your class in a college,
or you are in a movie theatre, or you are traveling by plane or train.
Observe your thoughts and feelings at every little thing that is happening
inside you - when your friends are talking, when there is some sort of a discussion
happening at home, or you are in a plane and you happen to see someone and you
are attracted or disgusted because of whatever may have happened around them.
So, there is always a feeling of likes or dislikes.
And who concludes these likes and dislikes?
Always your heart.
Always.
I would like to share this one particular experience.
If you see my studio here, two-three walls are colored with crayons, crayons
used by my granddaughter, she is hardly two and a half years old now.
She brought in the same crayon in my bedroom, and started, she was about to
start her favorite violet crayon colour and start painting my bed.
The moment I entered the bedroom, she saw me, made eye contact, lowered
her eyes, and walked out quietly.
So the heart always gives signals.
Even a two-and-a-half-year-old little girl can understand.
Even though none of us prevented her, that is why we see all these crayons all over.
But when she was doing it on my bed, she somehow intuitively felt,
‘I should not be doing this.’
Well, you would immediately know whether you are receiving Transmission or not.
When you close your eyes and try to meditate by invoking this Pranahuti or
transmission, or when you are using this app, HeartsApp, or when you are seated with
the trainer, and after the proper initiation also, when you are sitting on your own.
Because, when you are taking the initiation under the Heartfulness
system, you will automatically be made to feel this transmission.
You will become like a magnet attracting this transmission.
So, that much capacity is given.
And it is experienceable, just as we do not see the light coming from
the Sun, but we see the objects when they are exposed to this light.
Likewise, transmission, it cannot be felt directly, but its effect can
be experienced, as a result of this transmission flowing in our system.
It is like this.
How do you know that you have moved from one garden to a desert, or you have touched
the water and now you are touching the fire?
Experiences are quite palpable.
When you do feel that you are meditating on the heart, you will, as a result of
this maturing of this condition in the heart and with God’s grace when you
move to the Atma Chakra [Soul Point], you will see the drastic difference.
You will feel that ‘Yes, now I am different.
And my experiences are also different.’
And when you move to the next level,
that will also be the similar thing, that you will feel the different condition.
It is like a totally different condition.
You will not be able to feel the same experience time and again.
That is guaranteed.
That is for sure.
Another way, but which is a painful way of understanding that you are moving
from one state to another state, or one stage to another stage is when
you do not feel like meditating.
But, it is a different matter of altogether at this stage to discuss.
And why this disenchantment towards spiritual growth, spiritual progress
happens, it has its own reasons.
And they are healthy reasons.
And when that happens, I often tell abhyasis [meditation practitioners],
‘Congratulations!’ Because when you are moving from one stage to another stage,
somehow there is an inherent resistance.