As we all know, we are in a time of change. The old system of ego and
conflicts is running on its last legs, to make way for a world in which freedom, development and connecting are key. As the
channelings on this site also tell us, this doesn't happen without a struggle of course, as many souls are not yet awakened
and desperately hanging on to the old system that they're familiar with. The fear of the unknown is anchored deeply into their
DNA.
Anticipating the time of harmony that's coming, lately I've been walking around with an idea that won't let go
of me. How would it be to start a community with a group of spiritual, awakened people? A Galactic Community.
Over the past few months I've immersed myself in eco-villages and communities, and it turns
out that they are really booming all over the world. For instance, take a look at this map of eco-villages in Russia.
The local establishment is often scratching the back of its head when it sees these developments happen in front of their
eyes. But once they realize that these pioneers of the New Era go their own way and mean no harm, usually they just let them
be and even cooperate quite well with their plans and activities. After all, they often bring new life to the scene in places
that have suffered from abandonment for years and years, seeing sometimes entire populations move from the countryside to
the cities. And that is usually very much appreciated.
So I sat down thinking, would this be something for us? Would
it be an idea to start something where the visitors of this website and other awakened people can come together and can feel
at home? As far as I know, such a thing does not exist yet. Of course, there is some variety of spiritual communities around
the world, each with their own views and practices. But a group of people who are interested in channelings, the Galactic
Federation, Ascension and such, but are also aware of dark things like the illuminati, chemtrails and the truth behind 9/11?
I've not yet encountered a group like that.
How would it be to start a community with such a group of people? To
learn from each other, help each other, to build something together, watching the stars at night and trying to make contact
with our higher friends?
Communities come in all shapes and sizes. You can do it quite primitively and back-to-basics, but there are other ways
which are a bit more comfortable. You don't necessarily have to camp out in tents or old factory buildings; you can make use
of existing houses or even villages. I regularly come across articles on complete abandoned villages that are offered for sale in Spain or France. Like this one for example:
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Brive-la-Gaillarde (Corrèze), Southern France
Brive-la-Gaillarde
(Corrèze), Southern France - Village for sale
This small village in France was reserved by interested parties soon after it was put
up for sale. But don't worry, there are many more! Take a look, for example, at this page about Spanish villages that were faced with a large exodus since the '60s and '70s, and are now often more than half vacant.
All these places are open to new initiatives, in some places they have already started. How would it be to make trip with
a group of pioneers and visit these (and other) villages, to see what would be an ideal place for starting something beautiful?
Of course money is needed for that, but there are solutions to every problem. We could turn one or more houses into Bed &
Breakfasts (and put them on Airbnb!), or a rest home, or start a spiritual camping there. Then the project will pay for itself slowly but surely. Or
maybe there's somebody among our visitors who has some money and who has been waiting for a chance like this to come by. We
can always discuss the (financial) details later.
Or what about a castle with 6 bedrooms and 5 acres of land in Béceleuf (Niort), Western France? Maybe not very likely, considering the price, but beautiful nonetheless! :)
The experience
of other communities and eco-villages shows that such a large project is probably not a matter of weeks or even months, it
really takes quite a bit of time and effort to get something like this off the ground. But that's also the beauty of it: you
keep making new steps, you learn new things. Next to your daily life it offers a dream where you may realize everything your
heart yearns for. And what could be better than that?
A good example of how such a thing could run with us, can de
seen in this video. A few years ago a Dutch family dreamed of building their own eco-village. They set up a website, learned
new things, met the right new people at the right time and now their beautiful dream finally begins to become reality.
I would like to see if such a Galactic community is possible
for us. As we are still completely at the beginning, it's best to take a schematic and practical approach, I think:
1)
Does this sound like it would be something for you? Send us an e-mail! Tell us a bit about yourself, your situation and what you would like to do. For example, you're a carpenter and could help
the (re)building of a suitable place for the group. Or, you're good at networking and organizing and would like to take care
of the contacts with the officials of the place where we end up. Or you are older and you have walking problems, but you can
cook really well :) Or, you already have some experience in (financially) setting up a project like this, and would like to
share it with us.
2) We look for a location. This could be a big farm, a group of houses, a small village, a place
where we can build something ourselves from scratch, or anything. Suggestions are welcome via e-mail (even if you can't participate in this project yourself).
These are just the first two steps. There will
of course be many more if it really gets off the ground. So, more about that later. If you think you can contribute to this
project, in whatever form, let us hear from you!
In Love and Light,
Kees, GalacticChannelings.com.
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Vorontsovka (Caucasus), Russia
Earlier,
I already got in contact with a group of Russian friends who had bought a piece of land in the Caucasus, to start an eco-village
there. They call it "City of Harmony". They welcomed us to join their project, but it was difficult to get a visa for Russia and it is also very far away, of
course. But what a beautiful area... (the South Caucasus has a sub-tropical climate!)
The
Illuminating and Awakening of the Crown Chakra
by Archangel Michael and Archangel Faith
Channelled through Natalie
Glasson- 19th March 2015- Sacred School of OmNa
Through our loving angelic
frequency we bring forth our divine consciousness of inspiration and healing to touch your being and awaken remembrance from
your soul, a remembrance which is beyond your current reality, beyond the dimensions and realities of consciousness of the
inner planes. Such a remembrance cannot be contemplated by the mind only digested as a familiar vibration through the soul.
Your soul is capable of immense magnitude of abilities and creations. As an Earthly aspect of your soul, the greatest and
most empowering way to recognise your soul is as truthful loving magic. Imagine if consciously you held the belief of your
soul being the most awe-inspiring magical vibration, light and substance capable of anything and everything. You would take
notice of your soul, consciously weaving it into every aspect of your reality, your creations, thoughts and experiences. You
would become the acknowledged divine creator of your reality; a sacred force attuned to and flowing from the Creator. Imagine
how exciting and fulfilling each day upon the Earth would be, it would be a fulfilling journey of evolution, understanding
and acceptance of the Creator. Your soul is greater than any magic you could possibly imagine, it is already the truth of
your being there is simply a need for your recognition.
Let the only limitations you
choose to hold onto within your being and reality, especially when existing in harmony with your soul, be the limitations
of love.
Allow yourself to exist, create, think, feel, experience within the limitations of
the Creator’s love. Of course the love of the Creator has no limitations and this is one of the understandings we wish
to bring forth and yet when you exist in the limits of love this signifies you are always creating and experiencing in a space
of love. You know love to be expansive and so this space is extensive. When we move beyond the love we enter into fear, anger,
pain and suffering which allows each soul upon the Earth to evolve, understand and learn, and yet this process of learning
is no longer fully satisfying to many. When you allow yourself to exist in a space of love within your being, mind, emotions,
reality, creations and experiences you are offering to yourself an ever evolving and inspiring freedom. Allow yourself to
let go of barriers which hinder the glorious magic of your soul and yet if you must hold one limitation let it be to stay
within the confines of love. This can be a challenging concept as limitations and barriers encourage a feeling of disempowerment
and yet living within the confines of love is completely freeing because love is more expansive than you could possibly imagine.
By existing in the limitations of love you are asking yourself to change your perspective of limitations while realising that
love is the most expansive and freeing space you can exist within.
To remain in the space of
love within your being, mind, emotions, creations and experiences is a conscious choice due to your understanding and experience
of the sacred love of the Creator. All of your actions and reactions, even the way you perceive yourself and your reality
is a conscious or was once a conscious choice.
‘I choose to exist in a conscious space of love.’
The greatest tools for remaining
consciously in a space of love are awareness, release and then returning to love. This is awareness of energies, thoughts,
emotions or blockages arising from within you which are not born from the space of love. A conscious release, detachment and
breathing away of that which no longer serves you and then the ability to recognise the space of love once more. Your space
of love evolved from the Creator and yet it is personal to you and can span across the entire universe of the Creator, it
is so magnificently free. With these tools and allowing yourself to consciously exist in a space of love (an energy, vibration,
feeling, resonance) within you, the magic of your soul is far easier to see, sense and utilise within your physical spiritual
reality on the Earth.
We can acknowledge any experience, thought or emotion beyond the
space of love as a conflict to love. When we accept a reality beyond the limitations of love we are accepting contradictions,
which is akin to believing in two realities, one within the limits of love and maybe one within the limitations of fear or
illusions. The second phase of the energy wave of ascension labelled the Crucifixion energy brings forth the illumination
of contradictions, asking you to consciously choose the space you wish to create from within your being. The illumination
of contradictions proposes a deep purging especially at a mental body level. Many people upon the Earth wish to see beyond
the illusions of the Earth, to see and sense the inner planes and yet a mental shift and modification is required. With illumination
of contradictions you are able to consciously choose which you believe to be untrue and which you wish to accept as your truth.
You may believe that your contradictions like habits are a part of your personality; they are what make you who you are, unique
and create your personality. To some extend this is true and yet your contradictions do not belong to you, they are energies,
beliefs and perspectives you have chosen to carry with you, they do not define you. It is your conscious choices especially
when born from your soul which create and maybe even define who you are and wish to be as a soul upon the Earth.
When you observe your contradictions,
consciously choosing that which you believe in, wish to energise and experience, then you are creating a focus perspective
within your mind and a focused pathway before you, a clear pathway more fully resonating and aligned with the Creator.
Notice your spiritual beliefs;
notice how these alter throughout your day, even becoming the complete opposite.
Through the dissolving of
contradictions you are dissolving rifts within your being, within the consciousness of the Earth and humanity and even within
the universe of the Creator. This purging within the mental body symbolises a coming together, a unification and fusion of
the Creator’s light within all while dissolving the illusion of separation which is still so prominent within the language
and actions of many upon the Earth.
At this time when the energy wave of Crucifixion
brings forth the illumination of contradictions a powerful penetration of light is streaming through the universe of the Creator,
anchoring into all dimensions while piercing the Crown Chakra of the Earth and the Crown Chakras of Humanity. This penetrating
light moving forth from the Core of Enlightenment within the Source of the Creator has a purpose of enlightenment and illumination.
In awakening the Crown Chakra the light stream holds the purpose of penetrating the mental body while awakening wisdom of
the soul and wisdom already held within the Crown Chakra. A shower of illumination of wisdom, understanding and enlightenment
is upon us all now. It is a time of the activation of the Crown Chakra, a time of receiving the divine luminosity within the
mind and mental body to bring forth tremendous healing for all and the Earth.
This divine intervention is being supported
and encouraged by many upon the inner planes with Lady Quan Yin and Lady Pallas Athena overseeing the shift and awakening.
Lady Quan Yin is the Chohan of the Eleventh Ray of Light focused upon embodiment of the soul while Lady Pallas Athena is the
Chohan of the Twelfth Ray of Light an expression of the Christ Consciousness, an active love. Lady Pallas Athena also assists
many to complete their ascension processes at an Earthly level while supporting each soul’s Christ Initiations, she
is a source of empowerment. With these two divine goddesses supporting a needed activation within your crown chakra to develop
your soul light flow and understanding within your being, they also act in assisting light, soul, enlightenment, embodiment
and empowerment within your being and ascension process. This activation is beginning now and will continue for several months
thus supporting acceleration of your energetic and light vibration.
You may wish to use this invocation
to support your unification with this activation of the Crown Chakra of the Earth and humanity:
‘I embrace myself in
the energy, light and consciousness of Lady Quan Yin and Lady Pallas Athena, with your support and as you oversee all aspects
of my being and ascension, I invite the penetrating light from the Core of Enlightenment within the Source of the Creator
to connect with my Crown Chakra, awakening, purifying, activating and empowering my Crown Chakra. Light streams through
my Crown Chakra into my Mental Body creating states and insights of enlightenment and illumination born from my soul and sacred
wisdom. Let the light of the Core of Enlightenment within the Source of the Creator simultaneously dissolve all forms of contradictions
within my thoughts, beliefs and perspectives. I now consciously choose the space of love within my being allowing my sacred
vibrations to unfold with ease and perfection. All aspects of my being are now showered with illumination of wisdom, understanding
and enlightenment.
I know I am connected with Mother Earth, the activations now occurring
within my Crown Chakra and being also occur simultaneously within Mother Earth’s Crown Chakra allowing expansion, illumination
and the release of sacred wisdom from Mother Earth’s Crown Chakra to either be returned to the inner planes or anchored
into the consciousness of humanity, whichever is appropriate.
I know all is in balance and
harmony as we all resonate with the truth of the Creator.
We are all divine receivers and magnifiers of the light of the
Creator. And so it is.’
Please practice this invocation as often as you wish, always leave time after the
invocation to allow the energy to flow into your Crown Chakra. Imagine the light from the Core of Enlightenment within the
Source of the Creator flowing and penetrating your Crown Chakra, observing as the light fills your entire being while being
aware of the shifts it instigates within your being.
Heavenletters™,
bringing Earth closer to Heaven. HEAVEN is here to reach every soul on earth to reawaken:
* Our connection to God * * Our belief in ourselves *
* Our awareness of our shared worthiness to God * * Peace
on Earth * God is always bringing us closer to Him.
Heavenletter #5230
Martyrdom Is Not Your Calling, March 21, 2015
God said:
Beloveds, now it is time for every
single one of My children to let go of blaming others for the straits you find yourselves in. Others may not have been ideal,
yet, it is not for you to blame anyone for a situation you are in. Rid yourself of the idea that someone or anyone is out
to get you. If you look over your shoulder all the time, you are relegating yourself to what you perceive and may perceive
amiss.
We don’t argue that you are innocent, that you don’t deserve whatever it is. We don’t
argue that, yet you have to let go of being victim, for, if you are victim, what is there for you to do but to accuse those
who victimized you, or you believe did, or really did? Regardless, where is the benefit for you? You may be absolutely right
in your innocence yet where does that get you?
Eliminate the word blame from your vocabulary. It just doesn’t
get you anywhere. No matter how limited someone has been, you are the one lighting the fire that you attach to them. I assure
you that those you hold responsible for whatever you hold them responsible of are not focused on you. You may have given your
thoughts and your life over to thoughts of them and others that you see as like them.
Whatever may occur, others
think they are right, just as you think you’re right to accuse them of malfeasance. How foolish of you not to let go
of the past. You have to let go. Don’t glue resentment to you. Why let everything untoward get under your skin and fester
there? Why give over your life to your thoughts about others as if you have no life and responsibility of your own?
I am aware that sometimes you think of Me as a bad guy. It is hard for you to forgive Me. You want Me to you give an explanation
of how I could have let something hurt you so much and so you feel fervently that I let you down as if I have gone out of
My way to disappoint you. You count so much on Me to prevent life from hurting you.
You have to bounce back.
You have to let go of enmity and resentment. No one can be responsible for your recovery from hard-heartedness. Hard heartedness
is the same as a closed mind. No one is going to change your mind and get away with it. You are firm about that.
Beware when you are certain you have everything figured out. If you are so certain about the parts others must play in your
life, your mind is closed along with your heart. You are not the arranger of what other people must be and do.
By and large, you are mistaken. You are mistaken in your judgement. Even if, by some stretch of imagination, your judgement
happened to be correct, you still have to let go of your judgements. Do you really want to spend your life sparring mentally
with others – or with Me?
You do not run the show. You may have even given yourself over to your summations,
and you hold strongly to the unfairness. Hold on, and you certainly will incur more unfairness.
Anyway, what
is it that you must take so seriously? What are you reliving, and why do you want to? It seems like you keep tying the knot
around your neck tighter and tighter. Every affirmation of how badly you’ve been misunderstood and treated by others
continues the pony show. You can feel vindicated by how badly you are treated and how mistaken others are about you. What
you may well be doing is jutting your chin out and asking for more as if your being mistreated satisfies something in you,
makes you feel self-righteous and, so you hang a sign on you that establishes that you are born to be a victim.
You are not born to be a victim. If you are a victim, you are perpetuating yourself as a victim to yourself. Sometimes, dear
one, it is you who don’t understand. I tell you frankly: Martyrdom is not your calling.
Dhyana
or meditation is the keeping up of the flow of one idea, like the flow of oil
Notes and Commentary
Meditation is of two kinds, viz., concrete
and abstract. If you meditate on any picture of concrete object, it is concrete meditation. If you meditate on an abstract
idea, on any quality (such as mercy, tolerance), it is abstract meditation. A beginner should practise concrete meditation.
For some, abstract meditation is more easy than concrete.
The aspirant can take up the practice of meditation after he is well up in
pratyahara (abstraction of senses) and concentration. If the senses are turbulent, if the mind cannot be fixed on one point,
no meditation is possible even within hundreds of years. One should go stage by stage, step by step. The mind should be withdrawn
again and again to the point when it runs. One should reduce his wants and renounce all sorts of wild, vain desires of the
mind. A desireless man only can sit quiet and practise meditation. Satvic (pure) light diet and brahmacharya (celibacy) are
the prerequisites for the practice of meditation.
Consciousness is of two kinds, viz., focusing consciousness and marginal consciousness. When
you concentrate on trikuti, the space midway between the two eye-brows, your focusing consciousness is on the trikuti. When
some flies sit on your left hand during meditation, you drive them with your right hand. When you become conscious of the
flies it is called marginal consciousness.
A seed which has remained in fire for a second will not undoubtedly sprout into leaves even though
sown in a fertile soil. Even so a mind that does meditation for some time but runs towards sensual objects on account of unsteadiness
will not bring in the full fruits of yoga.
(The
section ‘Attention and Interest’ now continues.)
Interest develops attention.
It is difficult to fix the mind on an uninteresting object. When a professor is lecturing, when the subject is abstract and
metaphysical many people leave the hall quietly because they cannot attend to a subject which is not interesting; but if the
same professor sings and tells some interesting and thrilling stories, all people hear him with rapt attention. There is pin-drop
silence. Lecturers should know the art of attracting the minds of the hearers. They will have to change the tone to talk with
force and emphasis. They will have to watch the audience and see whether they are attentive or not. They will have to change
the subject matter for a short while and bring in some nice stories and suitable illustrations. They will have to look at
the hearers directly in their eyes. So many things are necessary if one wants to become a successful lecturer, and wants to
make the hearers attentive.
Napoleon, Gladstone, Arjuna and Jnanadeva all had wonderful powers of attention.
They could fix their minds on any object. All scientists and occultists possess attention to a remarkable degree. They cultivate
it by patient, regular and systematic practice. A judge and surgeon can get positive success in their respective professions
only if they are endowed with the power of attention to a high degree.
When you do any work, plunge yourself
in it. Forget yourself. Lose the self. Concentrate upon the work. Shut out all other thoughts. When you do one thing do not
think of any other thing. When you study one book do not think of any other book. Fix the mind there steadily like the arrow-maker
who had no consciousness of his surroundings. Eminent scientists are so busy and attentive in their experiments and researches
in their laboratories that they forget to take food even for days together. Once a scientist was very busy at his work. His
wife, who was living in another district, had a serious calamity. She came running up to him in the laboratory, with profuse
tears in her eyes. Strange to say, the scientist was not a bit agitated. He was so very attentive to his work that he even
forgot that she was his own wife! He said: "Madam! Weep for some more time. Let me make chemical analysis of your tears."
Once
some gentleman invited Sir Isaac Newton for dinner. Newton repaired to his host's bungalow and took his seat in the drawing
room. The gentleman forgot all about Newton, took his dinner and proceeded to his office. Newton was musing within himself
very absorbedly on some important point of science. He did not stir from his seat. He forgot all about his dinner and remained
in the same chair like a statue for a long time. The next morning the host saw Newton in the drawing room and then only remembered
having invited him for dinner. He felt sorry for his forgetfulness and apologised to Sir Isaac in a meek voice. What wonderful
power of attention Sir Isaac Newton had! All geniuses possess this power to an infinite degree.
When
a great misfortune has befallen you, or when you pass in review a certain course of conduct in order to find out the cause
of the failure, it may take possession of your mind to such a degree that no effort of the will can make you cease from thinking
over it. An article has to be written, a book is in the process of preparation; the work is carried on even if there is loss
of sleep and you are unable to tear yourself away from it. The attention which began voluntarily has taken entire hold of
the field of consciousness.
If you possess strong power of attention, anything that the mind receives
will be deeply impressed. Only an attentive man can develop his will. A mixture of attention, application and interest can
work wonders. There is no doubt of this. A man of ordinary intellect with highly developed attention can turn over more work
than a highly intellectual man who has poor attention.
If you attend to one thing at a time you will
get profound knowledge of that subject in its various aspects. The ordinary untrained man of the world generally attends to
several things at a time. He allows many things to enter the gates of his mental factory. That is the reason why he has a
clouded or turbid mind. There is no clarity of thought. He cannot do the process of analysis and synthesis. He is bewildered.
He cannot express his ideas clearly, whereas the disciplined man can attend to a subject exclusively as long as he likes.
He extracts full and detailed information about one subject or object and then takes up another. Attention is an important
faculty of a yogi.
Every little act demands concentration and your whole-hearted attention. If you want to pass
a thread through the eye of the needle you must remove all fibres that are disjointed. Then you must make it a single fibre
and with great care and one-pointed thought, pass the thread into the needle.
When you climb a mountain,
or go down a steep descent, you will have to be very careful, otherwise you will slip and fall into the deep abyss below.
When you ride on a bicycle, if you talk to your friend on the road a motor car might dash against you from behind. If you
are a bit absent-minded when you walk on the road you will trip against a stone and fall down. A careless barber will cut
the nose of his customer. A careless washerman will burn the clothes of his master. A sleepy aspirant will dash his head against
the wall or fall down prostrate on the ground. Therefore, you must develop attention. Attention leads to concentration.
When
you take up any work, apply your whole heart, full mind and soul to the work. Do it with perfect concentration. What another
can do in six hours, you can turn out within half an hour, smoothly and in a methodical and orderly manner. This is yoga activity.
You will be taken as an accomplished yogi. Even when you study, study the subject with perfect concentration. Do not allow
the mind to wander. You must shut out all external sounds. Fix the gaze at one point. Do not allow the eyes to wander. When
you study one subject do not think of a movie or sweetmeats or a friend. The whole world must be dead to you for the time
being. Such must the nature of your concentration. It will come to you after some steady and constant endeavours.
Be not
troubled. Be not discouraged. There will be some delay. Wait coolly and patiently. Rome was not built in a day. It is all
a question of time. Do not leave the practice even for a day, even when you are sick. In your failure lies the secret of your
success, and in your weakness the secret of your strength. Plod on. Push on. Gird up your loins. Nil desperandum. Be bold.
March on courageously. Be cheerful. A brilliant future is awaiting thee. Practise. Feel. Rejoice. Become a yogi or world figure.
Be sincere and earnest. Rise up. Awake. Thy light has come. O my dear children of Light and Immortality. It is 3.30 a.m., brahmamuhurta.
This is the best time to practise concentration on Atman, memory and will-culture, and to catch hold of the mind. Sit in your
favourite meditation posture and do vigorous practice now. May success and divine glory attend on thee. Melt the bubble mind
in Brahman, the ocean of knowledge, and enjoy supreme bliss.
Hatha Yoga Techniques
Tratak* is one of the cleansing techniques
in the light of hatha yoga philosophy. Tratak also plays a very prominent part in raja yoga and jnana yoga.
* See
Volume II: Health and Hatha Yoga
Tratak is steady gazing. Write the word OM in black ink on the wall. Sit
in front of the drawing. Concentrate on it with open eyes till tears come into the eyes. Then close the eyes. Visualise the
picture of OM. Then open the eyes and again gaze till tears flow. Gradually increase the period. There are students who can
gaze for one hour. Instead of OM you may draw a big black dot on white paper and fix it on the wall. Gaze at this black dot
on the paper. The wall will present a golden colour during tratak.
You can also do tratak on a candle flame,
a bright star or the moon, on any picture of the Lord — either Krishna, Rama, Siva or Lord Jesus.
Practise
tratak for one minute on the first day. Gradually increase the period every week. Don't strain the eyes. Do it gently with
ease and comfort, as long as you conveniently can. Repeat your mantra, Hari Om, Sri Ram or Gayatri during tratak. In some
people who have weak eye capillaries the eyes may become red. They need not be alarmed unnecessarily as the redness of the
eyes will pass off quickly.
Practise tratak for six months. Then you can take up advanced lessons in
concentration and meditation. Be regular and systematic in your sadhana. If there is a break, make up the deficiency or loss
on the next day.
Tratak steadies the wandering mind and removes tossing of the mind. It gives tremendous power,
removes a host of ophthalmic ailments and brings siddhis.
Tratak with open eyes is followed by visualisation,
which is the calling up of a clear image of anything. Tratak and visualisation help a lot in concentration.
Gaze
at the picture of the Lord (your tutelary deity) for a few minutes and then close your eyes. Try to visualise the picture
mentally. You will have a well-defined or clear-cut picture of the Lord. When it fades, open your eyes and gaze. Repeat the
process five or six times. You will be able to mentally visualise it clearly after some months' practice.
If you
find it difficult to visualise the whole picture, try to visualise any part. Try to produce even a hazy picture. By repeated
practice the hazy picture will assume a well-defined, clear-cut form. If you find this difficult, fix the mind on the effulgent
light in the heart and take this as the form of the Lord or Devi.
Do not bother yourself if you are not
able to have perfect visualisation of the picture of the Lord with closed eyes. Continue your practice vigorously and regularly.
You will succeed. What is wanted is love for the Lord. Cultivate this more and more. Let it flow unceasingly and spontaneously.
This is more important than visualisation.
Nasikagra chakra is fixing the gaze on the tip of the
nose. This is also called the nasal gaze. Do not make any violent effort. Gently look at the tip of the nose. Practise for
one minute in the beginning. Gradually increase the time to half an hour or more. This practice steadies the mind and develops
the power of concentration. Even when you walk you can keep up this practice.
Bhrumadhya drishti is gazing
at the ajna chakra, between the two eyebrows. The seat of the mind is the ajna chakra. The mind can be controlled easily if
you concentrate there. In this you should direct the gaze towards the ajna chakra with closed eyes. If you practise it with
open eyes it may produce headaches and foreign particles may fall into the eyes. There may be distraction of the mind also.
Do not strain the eyes. Practise gently from half a minute to half an hour. There must not be the least violence in this practice.
Gradually increase the period. This yoga kriya removes tossing of the mind and develops concentration.
When
you practise concentration at the tip of the nose you will experience various sorts of fragrance. When you concentrate between
the eyebrows you will see lights. These are experiences to give you encouragement, to push you up in the spiritual path and
convince you of the existence of transcendental or super-physical things. Do not stop your sadhana now.
You can
concentrate also on the heart or anahata chakra. This is the seat of emotion and feeling. A bhakta should concentrate there.
He who concentrates on the heart gets great bliss.
The crown of the head or sahasrara is another centre for
concentration. Some vedantins concentrate there.
Stick to one centre of concentration. Cling to it tenaciously.
Never change it. The guru will select a centre of concentration for you if you are a student of faith. If you are a man of
self-reliance you can select a centre for yourself.
A hatha yogi tries to concentrate his mind by having his
breath controlled through pranayama. Kumbhaka or retention of breath also helps concentration. It checks the velocity of the
mind and makes it move in smaller circles and ultimately curbs all its wanderings and thereby renders it fit for concentration.
The
raja yogi tries to concentrate his mind by restraining the various modifications of the mind by not allowing the mind to assume
various shapes of objects. He does not care for control of breath but his breath becomes necessarily controlled when his mind
is concentrated.
DHYANA
"A continuous flow of perceptions (or thought) is dhyana, meditation." (III-2)
What
is Meditation?
Meditation is the flow of continuous thought of one thing, of God, the Atman. It is the keeping
up of one idea of God alone always, like the continuous flow of oil.
Meditation follows concentration. When
persisted in and perfected it brings about the experience of super-consciousness or samadhi, the ultimate state of Self-awareness
or realisation.
That state of the mind wherein there are no thoughts, is meditation. Meditation proceeds from
the mind. All worldly thoughts are shut out from the mind. The mind is filled or saturated with divine thoughts, with the
divine glory, the divine presence. ''Though men should perform tapas standing on one leg for a period of one thousand years,
it will not, in the least, be equal to one-sixteenth part of dhyana yoga (meditation).'' Paingala Upanishad.
Meditation
is the only way to attain salvation. It kills all pains, sufferings and sorrows and destroys all causes of sorrow. It gives
the vision of unity and induces a sense of oneness. Meditation is a balloon or a parachute or an aeroplane that helps the
aspirant to soar high into the realms of eternal bliss, everlasting peace and undying joy.
Meditation
is the royal road to attain God-head. It is the grand trunk road which takes the aspirant direct to the destination of divine
consciousness. It is the mystic ladder which takes the yoga student from earth to heaven, it is the divine ladder that pushes
them to the heights of asamprajnata samadhi, it is the step in the staircase of unbounded intelligence to take the aspirant
to the highest storey of non-dual meditation and kaivalya mukti (liberation) of a vedantin. Without it no spiritual progress
is possible. It is the aerial ropeway that allows the devotee to glide easily to the other shore of samadhi and drink the
honey of love and the nectar of immortality.
Every human being has within himself various tremendous powers, potentialities,
capacities and latent faculties of which he has no conception. He is a magazine of power and knowledge. As he evolves he unfolds
new powers, new faculties, new qualities. He must awaken these dormant powers and faculties by the practice of meditation
and yoga. He must develop his will and control his senses and mind. He must purify himself and practise regular meditation.
Then only can he become a superman or God-man; then only can he change his environment and influence others; then only can
he subdue other minds, conquer internal and external nature and enter into the super-conscious state.
Just
as the light is burning within the hurricane lamp, so also is the divine flame burning from time immemorial in the lamp of
your heart. Close your eyes. Merge yourself within the divine flame. Plunge deep into the chambers of your heart. Meditate
on this divine flame and become one with the flame of God.
If the wick within the lamp is small,
the light will also be small. If the wick is big, the light also will be powerful. Similarly, if the jiva (individual soul)
is pure, if he practises meditation, the manifestation or expression of the Self will be powerful. He will radiate a big light.
If he is unregenerate and impure he will be like burnt up charcoal. The bigger the wick, the greater the light. Likewise,
the purer the soul, the greater the expression.
Meditation is the only valuable asset for you. Success
in yoga is possible only if the aspirant practises profound and constant meditation. To meditate is our foremost duty. It
is for that we have taken our birth here. To concentrate, to purify, to meditate and realise our essential divine nature is
our foremost duty. Realisation cuts the knots of ignorance, desire and action and gives permanent satisfaction, everlasting
peace and eternal bliss.
What Happens in Meditation?
During meditation the mind becomes calm, serene and steady. The various rays
of the mind are collected and focussed on the object of meditation. There will be no tossing of the mind. One idea alone occupies
the mind. The whole energy of the mind is concentrated on that one idea. The senses become still. They do not function. Where
there is deep concentration there is no consciousness of the body and surroundings. He who has good concentration can visualise
the picture of the Lord very clearly within the twinkling of an eye.
Do not try to drive away the unimportant
thoughts. The more you try the more they will return, the more they will gain strength. You will tax your energy. Fill the
mind with divine thoughts. The unimportant thoughts will gradually vanish.
All mental modifications
such as anger, jealousy, hatred, etc., assume subtle forms when you practise meditation. They are thinned out. They should
be eradicated in toto through samadhi or blissful union with the Lord. Then only are you quite safe. Latent mental impulses
will be waiting for opportunities to assume a grave and expanded form. You should be very careful and vigilant.
An aspirant
says: "I am able to meditate in one posture for three hours. In the end I become senseless but I do not fall on the ground."
If there is real meditation you will never become senseless, you will experience perfect awareness. This other is a negative
undesirable mental state. You will have to get over this state by keeping up perfect vigilance.
Those who practise meditation
will find that they are more sensitive than the people who do not meditate and because of that the strain on the physical
body is enormous.
Considerable changes take place in the mind, brain and the nervous system by the practice of
meditation. New nerve currents, new vibrations, new avenues, new grooves, new cells, new channels are all formed. The whole
mind and nervous system are remodelled. You will develop a new heart, a new mind, new sensations, new feelings, new modes
of thinking and a new view of the universe (as God in manifestation). The purifying process leads to a deeper insight into
Truth. This is the action of the grace of the Lord upon the soul in meditation.
When the mind becomes steady
in meditation the eyeballs also become steady. A yogi whose mind is calm will have a steady eye. There will be no winking
at all. The eyes will be lustrous, red or pure white.
In the beginning of your practice you may
get jerks of the hands, legs, trunk and the whole body. Sometimes the jerk is very terrible. Do not be afraid, do not be troubled.
It is nothing, it can do nothing. It is due to sudden muscular contraction from influence of new nerve stimuli, when the prana
becomes slow and the outward vibrations make the mind come down from its union with the Lord to the level of physical consciousness.
Remember that new nerve currents are formed now owing to the purification of the nadis. The jerks will pass off after some
time. At times there is tremor of the body during meditation. This is due to the prana being taken up to the brain from the
trunk, etc. in the process of meditation. Do not be afraid. Do not stop the meditation. You will have to pass through all
these stages. When you get these you are improving, you are progressing. Plod on and persevere. Be cheerful. Help is from
within, from the Inner Ruler. These are all new sensations. Be courageous and bold. Courage is an important qualification
and virtue for aspirants. Cultivate this positive quality.
When your meditation becomes deep you
will lose consciousness of the body. You will feel that there is no body. You will experience immense joy. There will be mental
consciousness. Some lose sensation in the legs, then in the spinal column, back, the trunk and the hands. When the sensation
is lost in these parts it feels that the head is suspended in the air.
When you practise rigorous meditation,
natural retention of breath without inhalation and exhalation will come by itself. When this comes you will enjoy immense
peace and you will have one-pointed mind.
You will feel that will-power is radiating from you. Your
consciousness will be deeper now. Thoughts of God will start the spiritual currents in the body. Do not check these currents.
(If heat is produced in the head, apply butter, amalaka oil or brahmi oil. Take cold bath three times during summer. Take
butter and sugar-candy.)
When you fix the mind, either on Sri Krishna, Lord Siva or the Atman, even
for five minutes, sattva guna is infused into the mind. Subtle desires are thinned out. You feel peace and bliss during the
five minutes. You can, with the subtle intellect, compare this bliss from meditation with the transitory sensual pleasures.
You will find that this bliss from meditation is a million times superior to sensual pleasures. Meditate and feel this bliss.
Then you will know the real value.
During meditation, when your mind is purer, you will be inspired. The mind
will be composing fine poems and solving intricate problems of life. Stamp out these pure thoughts also. This is all dissipation
of mental energy. Soar higher and higher in the Atman only.
Just as salt melts in water, the pure
mind during meditation melts in silence in Brahman, its substratum.
The object of meditation will come before
you much quicker if you practise regular meditation. You will feel as if you are covered by the object on which you meditate.
It will seem as if the whole space is illumined. Sometimes you will experience the sound of ringing bells. You will feel the
inner peace of the soul.
When your meditation becomes deep, you generally operate through the subtle
causal body only. This becomes your normal consciousness. Yogis and bhaktas like Lord Gauranga, Tuka Ram and Tulsidas identified
themselves with their causal body and had this as their normal consciousness. A bhakta, too, becomes one with Brahman. He
has divine auspiciousness, yet he has a thin ethereal body. He keeps up his individuality. A whirlpool is one with the whole
mass of the water. It has a separate existence also. Similar is the case with the bhakta who has a life with his causal body.
During
meditation you will have no idea of time. You will not hear any sounds. You will forget your name and all sorts of relationships
with others. You will have no consciousness of your body or surroundings. You will have equanimity of mind. You will not hear
any sounds. There will be stoppage of up-going and down-going sensations. The consciousness of egoism will also gradually
vanish. You will experience inexplicable joy and indescribable happiness. Gradually, reasoning and reflection also will cease.
After
a short practice of meditation you will feel that the body gets lighter in a short time, say fifteen or thirty minutes, after
you have taken your seat. You may be semi-conscious of the body also. There is a great deal of happiness owing to concentration.
This happiness resulting from concentration—ananda (bliss) is quite different from sensual pleasures. You must be able
to differentiate between these two pleasures through the intuitive mind rendered subtle by constant spiritual practice and
meditation. Concentration and meditation have a power to sharpen the intellect. A trained intellect can comprehend subtle,
philosophical, abstruse problems beautifully well. A disciplined intellect that can differentiate between the happiness derived
from concentration and deep meditation, and the happiness derived from worldly pleasures, will naturally run daily to enjoy
this kind of new happiness. Such a mind will loathe sensual pleasures. There will be extreme abhorrence and positive aversion
to objects. It is but natural, because this kind of happiness is more lasting, sustained, self-contained and real, as it emanates
from the Atman. You can distinctly feel that the mind is moving, that it is leaving its seat in the brain, and that it is
trying to go to its original abode. You know that it has left its old groove and is now passing into a new groove.
In the
beginning the aspirant remains in a state of bliss for some time. He comes down. By constant practice of incessant meditation
he continues to remain in that exalted state forever. Later on the body idea completely vanishes.
A sudden
stroke of mystic illumination puts an end to all empirical existence altogether and the very idea or remembrance of such a
thing as the world, or the narrow individuality of the spirit in this world, absolutely leaves.
Benefits of Meditation
This world is full of miseries and sufferings.
If you want to get rid of the pains and afflictions of this worldly existence (samsara), you must practise meditation. Meditation
is the pathway to divinity. It is the royal road to the kingdom of Brahman. It is a mysterious ladder which reaches from earth
to heaven, from error to truth, from darkness to light, from pain to bliss, from restlessness to abiding peace, from ignorance
to knowledge, from mortality to immortality. Meditation leads to knowledge of the Self which brings about eternal peace and
supreme bliss. Meditation prepares you for the integral experiences of direct intuitive knowledge.
Truth
is Brahman. Truth is Atman. Truth is quite pure and simple. You cannot realise the Truth without reflection and meditation.
Be silent. Know thyself. Know That. Melt the mind in That.
The fire of meditation annihilates all
foulness due to vice. Then suddenly comes knowledge of divine wisdom which directly leads to liberation or final emancipation.
Regular
meditation opens the avenues of intuitional knowledge, makes the mind calm and steady, awakens an ecstatic feeling and brings
the yoga student in contact with the source or the supreme Purusha. If there are doubts they are all cleared by themselves
when you march on the path of dhyana yoga steadily. You will yourself feel the way to place your footstep in the next rung
of the spiritual ladder. A mysterious inner voice will guide you.
If you wind a watch at night it will run
smoothly for twenty-four hours. Even so, if you meditate for one or two hours in the brahmamuhurta (one and a half hours before
sunrise) you can work very peacefully throughout the day. Nothing can disturb your mind. The whole system will be charged
with spiritual vibrations.
Many of your doubts will be cleared by themselves during meditation. Some
will have to wait for some time for the clearance of some doubts. However much the teacher explains to you, you cannot understand
certain things at a certain time. You will have to evolve a little more. When you have evolved, those doubts which tormented
you three years ago will become clear now.
Meditation gives a lot of spiritual strength, peace, new
vigour and vitality. It is the best mental tonic. If a meditator gets irritated very often it shows he is not doing good uninterrupted
meditation. There is something wrong in his spiritual practices (sadhana).
Meditation develops strong
and pure thoughts. Mental images are clear-cut and well-defined. Good thoughts are well-grounded. Through clarification of
ideas, confusion vanishes.
Meditation is a powerful tonic. It is a mental and nervine tonic as well.
The holy vibrations penetrate all the cells of the body and cure its diseases. Those who meditate save doctor's bills. The
powerful, soothing waves that arise during meditation exercise a benign influence on the mind, nerves, organs and cells of
the body. The divine energy freely flows from the feet of the Lord to the different systems of the sadhaka (aspirant). Meditation
itself is a panacea for all diseases. (If you are seriously ailing you can do japa and light meditation while lying on the
bed.)
If you believe that preventing disease is a choice that sure beats the alternative, you'll love my guest on
Cosmic LOVE today at 5pm PST (8pm
EST). The show is archived for free podcast listening by Monday.
Dr. Art Franklin is a Naturopathic Doctor who, since
1965, has dealt with over 30,000 cancer patients from all over the world, utilizing Nature's products that can't be patented
by Big Pharma.
Art is now 81, lived a good life, helped a lot of people, and he'll be sharing what he's been doing
to get about a 97% cure rate for even the 'hopeless' cases in hospice. Recovery is usually within 7 weeks. He was once one
of those 'hopeless' cases with terminal stage IV cancer and given 60 days to live. That was 11 years ago, and he is still
cancer free.
Dr. Art doesn't make medical claims. He doesn't cure cancer. The body heals itself when the right natural
modalities build health in the biological terrain of the tissues, cells and organ systems of the body.
That's
what natural healing practitioners do. And Dr. Art has made an art of it, finding what is biologically correct in the
healing arts.
Welcome Dr. Art Franklin to Cosmic LOVE with your Presence!
Christopher Rudy
PS: The effect of the rare cosmic "triple-play" -- see 'Equinox, Solar Eclipse and Super Moon' -- will still be strong today, so this could be a likewise 'rare' event:)
Is the time right for a Galactic community? 
