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The World Volcano Bhatti
8th May 2006 to 7th January 2007
Senior’s Classes and Meditation Commentaries for 8th May to Sunday 4th June
Topic One: Taking responsibility for lighting the fire of intense yoga within the self and the world
Volcanic Stage: Meditation Commentary for use during the Sunday 8-hour bhatti
(Taken from class titled ‘Difference of Churning and Remembrance’ Brother Atam Prakash: 14.10.04.)
Om Shanti,
I visualize myself as a sparkling star in the centre of my forehead.
With the eye of my intellect,
I the soul am a very, very tiny and very shiny, a divine point of light.
My existence in this world is as if I am a point of energy.
I am a radiant point of light, radiating spiritual light all around me,
Experiencing a wonderful aura of divine light.
Oh, how lucky am I that I am visualizing my true form,
My real form very clearly as a point of light.
I am a pure soul spreading the fragrance of purity into the atmosphere.
I the soul am sitting in the aeroplane of my intellect
And flying towards the soul world, flying beyond the moon and stars and sun.
Oh, how beautiful this world of angels is.
Everywhere there is snow white, bright, divine light.
Oh, I am visualizing the emperor of angels, perfect Brahma Baba
And Shiv Baba in his angelic form.
I am just walking towards Baba and standing in front of Baba.
Baba is giving me wonderful drishti filled with love, truly filled with love.
Oh, my sweet child I am extremely happy.
I have found my long-lost child.
There are tears of love in Baba’s eyes.
I am getting lost in Baba’s eyes, experiencing unlimited love.
Oh, my sweet child, welcome here to this world of angels
And you can have any relationship with me, filling your heart with Godly love.
I am losing the wings of the angel.
I am going towards Paramdham.
Oh, how beautiful is the soul world.
Everywhere there is golden red light, sweet, deep silence.
Oh, Baba’s incredibly beautiful image is in front of me.
Oh, my sweet Baba, I really like you Baba, I really love you Baba.
You adopted me, Baba,
You accepted me Baba.
I never ever thought that you would accept me.
Baba, you are my whole world.
I like to enjoy Your beauty.
You are the most beautiful.
I feel so intensely in love with You, Baba, that no-one can ever separate me from You.
Baba, You have given me everything Baba.
I really like Your company.
You are my best Companion, Baba.
Baba, Baba, Baba, I am yours, Baba and You are mine, Baba.
Only you have the right to sit on the throne of my heart, Baba.
Oh, I have fulfilled all my desires.
I have just one last desire and that is, to have the lamp of love for God
Burning in the temple of my heart
So I can sing the song of His wonders at each and every moment of the Confluence Age.
Baba is the Ocean of Peace.
I am receiving unlimited showers of peace, experiencing supreme peace.
Baba is the Sun of Knowledge and the Ocean of Power.
I am receiving unlimited power from Baba.
I am experiencing myself as a lighthouse,
Giving out the vibrations of purity throughout the world, right around the globe,
Giving comfort to the living beings, all the people.
Baba is the Ocean of Power and I am MasterOcean of power.
I am receiving tremendous power from Baba, experiencing volcanic stage of yoga.
My sins are burning, I have become lighter and lighter and lighter.
I really would like to sustain this unique experience all the time.
Baba, Baba, I will definitely reveal You in this world through my elevated stage of yoga.
Believe me, Baba.
Om Shanti.
“CREATING FIERY FORM OF YOGA”
Class by Dr. Nirmala
12.10.03
This evening we are taking the topic of fiery form of yoga. We have been practising meditation and now Baba is inspiring us to have that powerful yoga which is really very, very powerful. Just as in fire, we are able to burn away everything, in the same way, this fiery form of yoga will burn our impure karma and sanskaras and that fire is so powerful that maya will not dare to come in front of us. Just as any fire will scare wild animals, maya can be compared with different titles ……maya: cat, rat, lion, almighty, all sorts of comparisons are made. Maya is powerful, but when there is that fiery form of yoga, maya will also stay away from us. What we need to do is, in order to have that powerful, fiery form of yoga, we have to practise the bodiless stage.
From the first day we are told to have soul consciousness and remind ourselves ‘I am a soul, I am a soul, I am not this body’, but we used to say ‘I am a peaceful soul, I am not this body’. On the one hand we would say, ‘I am a soul’, but then also again reminding ourselves, ‘I am not the body’. What we found was, we used to think about the body, because it is when you say, ‘Don’t think about it’, you think about it first to say, ‘Don’t think about it! Whereas the next step to soul consciousness is bodilessness where we are beyond this mundane, material world and the material body, which means we are aware only of the body of light. We feel so light, as if the body is not made of flesh and bones. Just as angels are light or the vision of angels is a form of light, so there is the form of the body, oflight.
Throughout the day we are practising the bodiless or incorporeal stage because that is the next step of our soul conscious stage. In the bodiless stage, we are aware of our body of light, but in the incorporeal stage, we are beyond even that. We are totally beyond everything; beyond sound, beyond sight, beyond the pull of the mundane, material world around us. Then we are not concerned about who is coming, who is going, where they are sitting, what they are doing, what they are speaking or what sort of music there is, but in the early stage we get influenced by everything.
Quite a few people say, ‘We are disturbed because people are coming all the time’ The guests were complaining, ‘People keep on coming all the time and we get disturbed’ and that is what even our stage was in the early stage. We say, ‘Why are people coming at odd times? They should only come at every half-hour interval and not come in between’. Then we are influenced by the lighting. Sometimes people say, ‘Oh, I find Baba’s room is too bright and somebody will say it is too dim. Some will say the music is so loud and somebody will say the music is so subtle! Somebody will say, ‘But I want classical music’ and somebody will say ‘Oh but I like English music and then somebody will say, ‘But I only like Hindi music!’
When we are in a stage of the body, it is body consciousness when we are influenced by lighting, sound, language and people coming and going. This is our lower stage of meditation when we get influenced by everything. As we become incorporeal, we are beyond all of the activities around us such as lighting and sound. We are so merged in Baba’s loving remembrance and of having the awareness of myself of being just a point of light and Baba also as a point of light. My consciousness is in the soul world and I am so surrounded by Baba’s vibrations and power that I am not pulled to any mundane, material things.
This is stage we need to maintain, not only during meditation, but also our aim should be to be bodiless and incorporeal throughout the day. Though it may take time to maintain that incorporeal stage whilst doing activity, at least, I should maintain a karma yogi stage throughout the day. It is very essential that we pay attention to our thoughts throughout the day, because when there is attention, there won’t be tension. If there is tension, it means there is something wrong in my consciousness, so if someone says they are too uptight, tired and tense, it means there is no attention.
With my thoughts, I have to be careful that they are in Baba’s remembrance. Whatever I am doing, I am doing it in Baba’s remembrance. I am doing my activities and I am in Baba’s remembrance, or I am churning gyan, and not allowing waste and negative thoughts, because my day’s activity will have an influence on my meditation. I have to see that throughout the day I am churning gyan, remembering Baba and not allowing any negative and waste thoughts. The negative and waste thoughts are because I am not a detached observer. Baba has been emphasising a lot, even in the last few day’s sakar murlis, ‘Forget the body, bodily relations and the whole world’. So first of all, I have to see that I don’t have attachment to my body and that my body does not hold my intellect, whatever the reason may be. Even if the body is going through deep pain, or some disease, I become bodiless, going beyond pain and everything.
I am detached from the body and bodily relations, but I am loving and caring, but detached, and also detached from the whole world. I take support and cooperation from people, material objects, everything, but I am not dependent upon anything and nothing pulls my intellect. If I have them, I am happy and if I don’t have them, still my intellect is not pulled to when, how or where to get them from, etc. There is that total detachment and I remain the observer, whatever is happening. I am looking at it, I am knowledgeful, but I have to attain a brahm stage, that is, I have to go beyond everything, looking at them, knowing, and yet, beyond everything. My thoughts must not be thinking again and again about the past or what is happening around me, judging them or feeling hurt and taking sorrow because if I am attached, naturally I am taking sorrow. Whether people are nice to me or nasty to me, do I remain detached? I should neither be pulled one way or another – neither should I have hatred for anyone, nor should I have any attachment to them, because both will pull my intellect.
If I am thinking negatively about something that somebody has done, then also my intellect is pulled and so I have to see that I am totally beyond everything. Thought will be stopped because I give a full stop to the past. Whatever has happened is in the past – full stop. That is possible, as I said, when I am the observer and detached, and at the same time I am able to forgive, forget and finish. If I am not able to forgive the past, then I am not able to forget. Past should be the past, especially if I value my time and energy, because by thinking about the past, I am not getting benefit in the present – I am losing my present as well. And so a gyani soul, a knowledgeful soul is the one who is able to put a full stop to the past. Waste thought can be because I am not prepared to do that. We know we are on this battlefield and will be criticised and defamed by lokik friends, family etc., so we have this awareness, ‘I am on a battlefield and I have come here to die’. We belong to Baba to die, to die a living death. So have I died alive? If I have died alive then I have died from the past, everything, also from my past sanskars. I am able to let go of the past. As I become sensible and knowledgeful, using knowledge at each point, I am able to remain detached and unaffected; unaffected by whatever is happening around me and whatever people are, because we used to worry about opinions of others and we used to try to please everyone.
Now I have the knowledge that I am here to please Baba. I am here to listen to my conscience, not just to listen to people. If my conscience is: whatever I am doing is right - then I should go ahead without wondering what people will think about me or what they are speaking about me. As much as I know that I am on the true path getting guidance from the Supreme and I have to follow that, then naturally I would not be listening to what others are feeling, or their opinion. As I conquer waste thoughts, negative thoughts, impure thoughts, once I have died alive, I should have died from my past impurities. I can’t say ‘What can I do? These are my old sanskars; anger or worry, or not forgetting something, not giving a full stop. I have to die from that completely. As I become a knowledgeful soul, my karma will also be elevated and that will help me to become light, for unless I am light, I can’t have powerful yoga.
Baba always talks about being triple light; the soul as point of light, the light of knowledge and light of karmic accounts. Because I have a burden of karmic accounts, (if I have done any vikarma after being in gyan), naturally, I will feel heavy and then I can’t fly, so Baba not only says be light, but be a light-house. As much as I have that awareness of being a light-house and being a might-house, naturally, my yoga will be powerful.
I have to have that awareness of going beyond the mundane world and beyond the role I am playing in the world, because usually the role that we are playing here pulls our intellect. Some people are pulled down a lot by their lokik jobs and some people are pulled down by alokik service. Because we give so much importance to the role that we are playing, that role-consciousness will not allow us to be soul conscious. And that’s why, when I have the awareness that Baba is Karavanhar and I am just karanhar, then naturally I won’t feel heavy, because if I think I am doing it, I must do it, I must do it this way, then naturally I will become heavy. When there is the awareness that this is Baba’s job, Baba is getting it done and I am just instrument, then I will maintain that lightness.
I have to see that I am alert and my eyes are open during meditation, because sometimes, some people think, ‘OK, let me shut my eyes and relax some more,’ and as you know, our eyes are so powerful, so sneaky - relax, relax, then too relaxed, and sleep! So from sleepy yoga, we want to have fiery yoga, especially at Amrit Vela. I have to be careful at Amrit Vela, because sometimes we are relaxed and a little bit slack, I would say. Not only just relaxed, but we are slack. We say, ‘OK, let me sit comfortably - a nice comfortable chair, or a nice warm heater, but the more we make ourselves comfortable, the more Maya will have a chance. We should really appreciate the hatha yogis who do a lot of penance to keep awake. Sometimes, because Baba says it is easy yoga, we become too easy and that is what I have to be careful of - not to allow myself to relax too much. I should not tell myself, ‘I am tired’ for if I say I am tired, Maya will catch hold of me. Just say, ‘OK this is the time for me to earn my income’. Have that real determination that I must be in a powerful stage, and not make easy yoga too easy. I have to be alert, open-eyed, in a powerful stage and sit in an alert position.
In bhakti, people used to sit with crossed legs – lotus or half-lotus with hands stretched and back straight. Really, we need to pay attention on alertness of the mind, the body’s position, as well as the climate and temperature around us - neither too hot, nor too cold, otherwise it will pull the intellect. Baba was saying that when you conquer nature, you will conquer maya – we have to conquer both. The body is also known as the elements, fire is elements and climate is also of the five elements, and that is where I have to see that they do not pull my intellect. Nature will be subservient to us in the Golden Age, but here, we have to go beyond - beyond everything. Make ourselves comfortable, but not too comfortable, be an easy yogi, but not too easy, Be relaxed, yet alert. We need to maintain that balance.
If life is balanced, then naturally, we can maintain alertness. When somebody has only three or four hours sleep at night and they expect to be a very powerful yogi, it is not possible. One night is OK, but if every night there is only four hours sleep, then how are we going to have that powerful yoga? Baba says, ‘Be sensible, be knowledgeful about that also – about how much rest the body needs. Look after the body’. Do not say, ‘OK, I am soul, I don’t need anything now!’ Baba always says to have that balance. Baba always used to say during big projects like “Million Minutes” and “Global Cooperation for a Better World”, ‘OK, you must have five hours sleep at least’ (Because sometimes those who where working in the office used to work until midnight and miss Amrit Vela). We have to see that we have a minimum five hours rest - early to bed and early to rise. Go to sleep early and then you can get up early and have that powerful yoga. In order to have that powerful yoga, we also need to have love for solitude and love for silence, because some people can’t do anything alone - they like a crowd around. If they are alone they say, ‘I am lonely.’ Brahma Baba used to say, ‘OK, go on the terrace in Pandav Bhavan, be by yourself and enjoy that solitude and meditation’.
If we have love for solitude and love for silence, whatever time we have, we will grab a few minutes here and there, (and even if we don’t have time, we have to find time). We have to see that we don’t miss traffic control, and if we can’t have traffic control at the right time, we should try to create time during our work schedule, because sometimes we say we are so busy that we don’t have time, but we haveto find time. Every opportunity we have for meditation, we should take that and really work on ourselves because if we have that real urge to do meditation, then naturally, we will organise something. I remember a couple of years ago, Dadi was saying that if you want to remove your deep-rooted sanskars, have 40 minutes of yoga three times a day for 40 days.