Today, it will be brief and to the point. Actually, I have felt it numerous times that howsoever number of blogs I write about meditation and dhyana and spirituality, the non-perplexed will not listen.
He is convinced that focusing of breath is stupid. He thinks it is a pseudo-scientific thing. Any amount of justification, and somethings even I do not know how they work, but I just know they do, because they have worked for me.
But, see what Western modernity has rendered modern individuals to be. Whatever we call it Scientific temperament, this is not Scientific temperament. Scientific temperament today means that judge whatever has been said on common sense and accept or reject it. Actually, it works most of the times because Our country is ridden with superstitious nonsense. So, common sense works best to judge those. But what if common sense has to judge an ancient meditation technique, whether it will work or not? First of all, we do not know what is going to happen. We know some hints that we will become peaceful and so on, but the full extent promised in the book from where I have taken it (Vigyan Bhairav Tantra), is a lot. Like, it promises, that whatever you imagine in that state of meditation, becomes reality. Whatever you dream comes true. Now, the so called, Scientific mind will discard it on the basis of common sense.
But let me ask a question, should not a true scientific mind, conduct an experiment? Should not it be checked for real? What happens? Is not experiment the true basis of science and not common sense!
That is my problem with today's pop culture "Scientific temperament".
Coming to the meditation technique. Read attentively.
"Only while working on worldly things, like studying, gyming, etc. anything that has nothing to do with dhyana, like any worldly activity, Take your focus to the interval between the inhale and exhale. In between inhale and exhale. Keep doing the work you are doing, just now, you have to find a center. A center in between inhale and exhale. The center exists minutely in the midpoint of the breath line.
Once you find it, keep operating with the center. That is, live your life but 24x7, focus on the interval. Sometimes, it might shift. Sometimes, you might get distracted. But then, bring it back. It is there. This center is not made by your breath. It exists. Your breath inhale and exhale just pinpoint at this center.
The inhale of air points at this center. The exhale comes out of this center. "Pran-Kendra", the Tantra yogis call it.
In the center, when you sit with your focus with stability, Life becomes acting. It is as if, you exist in two different planes of consciousness. One in the world and one in that center. Ram used to use this. Krishna operated with this. Tantra yogis say this. You do this. And then you find, whatever you imagine, happens. This seems like some superstition. This seems like a law of attraction kind of idiocy. But it really is not.
I am telling Aankhan ki dekhi.
Tu Kehna kaagaz ki lekhi,
Mai Kehta aankhan ki dekhi"
And then, you have to be extremely cautious with your thoughts. You cannot just think anything. It starts happening. It gives you a certain responsibility. And life becomes an acting where you are both the actor and the director.
It is counter intuitive. It is what it is. I will not say, this is not literal. This is metaphoric and so on. We have to interpret it and so on. I think it is what it is. It claims boldly. I do it. I know it.
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