非僅意志力！如何在意識的揚升波流中扶搖而上

Namaskar.

I will say a little bit more about meditation today.

What is meditation?

Meditation is the culture of the mind, the culture of thinking.

What is culture?

There are many cultures: agriculture, apiculture, musical culture, sculpture culture, many types of cultures.

And what is culture?

Like, if you take the example of agriculture is to remove something, and to add something.

You planted tomatoes.

So, you weed, you take some grass out.

You take the weeds out.

And then you water the tomatoes, you fertilize the tomatoes, and tomatoes will grow.

So, similarly, meditation, as the culture of the mind, is to remove some thoughts, which are harmful, which drain our energy, and keep us in the low vibrational level.

You remove those, just like weeds.

And then, at the same time you cultivate the higher thoughts.

Some person may object, and may say that according to Patandjali, the founder of yoga, meditation is....yoga is...

meditation is....yoga is...

'yogascittavrtti nirodhah.'

It means the suspension of the mind is yoga.

When the mind is functionless is yoga.

But nirodha is not like that.

Being in coma you're also functionless.

It is also the vrittis are suspended.

There is no vritti, there is no expression through vritti, there is no expressions trough thought in the mind.

But that's not the state of yoga.

But rather meditation is culture of ascending from crude thoughts to the subtler thought, to even subtler thought, to the subtlest thought.

And that subtlest thought is being thoughtlessness.

The mind becomes so subtle that there is no perceivable movement.

And that is termed as samādhi.

So, better definition, tantric definition of yoga is not 'yogascittavrtti nirodhah', the suspension of the mind is yoga.

Because there are many suspensions of the mind: coma, deep sleep, etc. But there is no yoga there.

Yoga is unity.

'Saḿyogo yoga ityuktah jiivátma paramátmanah.'

The unity between soul and cosmic soul is yoga.

So, it is a culture, you weed out the thoughts.

One teacher was explaining about meditation and about spirituality, about a spiritual endeavour, taking the example of rice.

Like, there is a box with a little bit of small plants, little grown plants...

The... what you call it? The seedlings.

And then the farmer takes those plants and puts them into the soil.

And that is meditation.

You take your mind out of the crude world, out of the crude occupations and put into the soil or spirituality.

The mind was thinking small things, futile things and now, it is thinking something great, something big.

That is spirituality.

That is essentially yoga. It is the process of yoga.

And then, there is a slow change in the quality, in the wavelength of the mind.

The mind is a wave.

So, when the waves are colliding...

Let's say, there is a wave of the mind, and then there is a wave of the object, so, you perceive an object.

There is a collision of the waves.

The waves are colliding.

So, that perception, if you are perceiving a crude object, the mind, as a result of that perception becomes cruder.

Similarly, if the mind collides with the subtler wave, the subtler thought as a result, mind itself becomes subtler.

So, that's all about it.

Changing the nature of the mind by accepting subtler and subtler thoughts.

In theory, it's very good and easy and...

But, in practice... in practice,

"I don't want to think subtle thoughts, I want to think bad thoughts, crude thoughts.”

Especially, if there is a habit.

The mind runs to those objects which it is accustomed to enjoy.

And then, you know, to enjoy the subtle things you have to become subtle.

The crude mind cannot enjoy the subtle things.

Even the subtle things are much happier, better...

but the crude mind cannot enjoy them.

So, the crude mind is repulsed from the subtle things, feels not good about the subtle things.

And it turns to the crude things.

So, it's a kind of vicious circle, 'I don't want to think about subtle things, I want to think about crude things.'

Another thing... so, one way to approach is through the willpower,☺ 'I am not going through discipline.

I am not going to think that, I am going to think that.'

And for that the principles of Yama and Niyama are there, the principles of discipline, yogic discipline, Shaocha – the purity of the body and mind.

But then, how long can you rely on your willpower?

Some day you will get tired.

Hopefully, by that day, when you get tired you already become subtle, so, you don't feel any attraction to the crude world, and rather you feel attraction to the subtle world.

I will give another metaphor.

Another metaphor is gliding over the air, like a paraglider.

You know a paraglider? Or a hang glider?

Or the birds.

You know, the birds are hovering in one place and they are not flapping the wings.

They are just like that.

And they are gliding over the air.

And they in that place because there is a flow, upward flow.

And it's so easy to be there, airborne.

So, similarly, in meditation, there is this upward, rising flow.

The current of air, that moves you upwards.

In individual meditation, when you sit...

It is said in tantra that 'When the mind is scattered, when the práńa is scattered, the vital force, when the intellect thinks so many thoughts, you cannot achieve the success.

So, you have to focus your mind.

You have to calm your práńa, the vital energy.

Vital energy means – your body has to become calm.

And your breathing has to become very calm.

And then you achieve the concentration.

Concentration is the main thing.

Once you have achieved the concentration, then that… upward current is created.

Simply what you need to do is to focus, you reach a very strong concentration.

And then as you reach that state, and then you repeat the mantra inside, the mantra, the vibration of words of the mantra, when you repeat it with concentration, will create the upward current.

On that current your mind will glide upwards.

It will…and then you can hover, in the higher realm, without making any effort.

In that state the mind automatically doesn’t want to think anything crude, anything harmful, rather mind enjoys a very subtle state.

The mind enjoys very subtle thought.

Meditation opens the doors and windows of the mind for the progress, and we need progress also, It's not only spirituality, but in mundane world also, the golden path is the middle path.

You cultivate your physical reality, you cultivate your material life, you cultivate your spiritual life, and in between them there is a golden path, the middle path.

You cannot totally ignore the world, you cannot totally ignore the spiritual world.

Both are going to...

if you ignore the material world, that's going to be later a problem.

If you ignore the spiritual world, also it is going to be later a problem.

So, we have to maintain both.

So, both the progress in material sphere and the progress in spiritual sphere you need energy.

Sometimes you feel the energy...

you're not moving, you're doing so many things, just like cockroaches - moving very fast, doing nothing.

You're doing so many things, no progress is done.

And that is a frustration iside.

You feel, "I'm not moving, I'm just like a bull, moving around the oil mill...

around and around,and around, and around..."

Fifty kilometers per day, but there is no movement, actually.

Just... or just like a squirrel in the wheel.

You're moving, and moving, and moving...

There is nothing done.

And for that, you know that, you feel that inside.

But you don't know how to move.

You have no idea, or you have an idea, you have no energy.

So, for that you need to catch upward current.

And it's very simple.

It's concentration.

You sit... Even now,

if you sit, very seriously, very-very seriously, you sit with a firm determination, just like Buddah took a firm determination, he said Ihásane shuśyatu me shariiraḿ Tvagasthimáḿsaḿ pralayaiṋca yátu Aprápya bodhiḿ bahukalpadulabháḿ Naevásanat káyamatashcaliśyate.

It means that, 'Let this body dry up, even if this body dries up, even if this flesh and skin and bones destroy themselves in this pursuit, even if I have to sit for millennia, until I reach the final enlightenment, this body will not move from this position.

What a serous thought!

He thought, "OK, I am going to do like this."

And then he sat, and then he sat there.

He was sitting for a long time, then he reached, then he became...

What a person he became!

You know that in our culture there where many Einstein, Newton, and Mozart, and Bach.

But first and foremost it's spiritual leaders, like Jesus Christ, like Buddha, Shiva, Krishna.

They have impacted the human society the most.

What power they got from sitting, from doing nothing. You sit there.

Out of ordinary you become extraordinary.

That is the upward current.

the flow of air, the flow of energy lifts you up, you glide on that flow.

So, if you want to experience that, nothing needed, you sit, and focus your mind.

You sit with that mood, with that attitude, ‘I am going to focus my mind very hard.

And really, I am going to focus'.

With that focused mind you repeat the mantra.

That mantra is going to fill up your sails.

And then you are going to sail toward the Divine world.

That is another thing.

Also... very important

search for the places where there is already upward current created.

Like people who have created in themselves that type of energy, that type of flow.

If you sit...

If you come in my room and I meditate, maybe you'd also like to sit and meditate together with me, Becuase I sit there with concentration and beautiful sweet flow.

And if you come and there are many people together and they have one purpose.

They come once a week with one purpose only: to perform the best meditation of the week.

So, the entire week they have been practicing, practicing, preparing themselves.

And then once a week they come with the seriousness to sit just like Buddhas there to sit just like Buddhas there and with all seriousness they do meditation.

Imagine, what kind of upward flow will be created if there are five people, or seven people, or ten people, or 500 people, or better 5000 people.

I saw, you know, some photos...

Oh... 10.000 children meditating for the world peace.

You know, these children, they are not trained.

They are not trained.

They don't know what concentration is, what it is.

If they are trained, those 10.000 is enough to change the world.

There will be such an amazing upward flow!

Everybody will get high.

There will be so many extraordinary personalities born in that process.

Yeah...

10.000, 100.000 the more the better.

And the more trained they are the better.

The more disciplined they are the better.

Because that discipline creates...

The place also.

The place of meditation is called Jágrti.

The centre of meditation is called Jágrti.

Jágrti means jágrata – is to wake up.

You come there in slumber, sleeping, you enter there – you wake up.

We... I remember in my city we had a Jágrti, an apartment, and one room was just for meditation.

Talking, eating, nothing was allowed there – only for meditation.

So, when you were coming into that room, you just wanted to sit and meditate, because already there is an upward current there, already there is energy inspiring for meditation.

So, gliding is very important, like a bird...

Sometimes it is important to flap the wings.

You flap the wings to get into the current.

So, you sit and with your effort, you focus, your mind very hard.

And then after maybe 20-30 minutes, maybe 40 minutes, maybe one hour you will feel the upward current, you will feel that your mind is sailing, is hovering, is gliding, and it is climbing, climbing up with your hard concentration.

And then searching for the people, you have to connect with the people who are also meditating, not just meditating...

Some people, they meditate, 'OK, done.' –

in a lazy way.

A little bit it helps, but serious practitioners, really those who try their best, at home they sit in the solitude, they sit and meditate, those people are just like gold, Those people are just like diamonds, rubies, and platinum, and all the precious things.

Those people are the very very essence of the earth, they are the best you can find on the earth.

So, try to connect with that kind of people, serious people.

You yourself maintain that serious atmosphere.

The spiritual gathering for collective meditation is not to socialize, is not to talk and haha-hihi, to eat and all those things, not for that.

It is for the serious practice.

This is your highest meditation of the week.

So, you come there with that preparation, with that mind, "I'm going to now make the spiritual progress.

You will see.

Myself, I have to do a lot of work, different work, apart from recording videos, there are many areas I have to do.

I sometimes get tired, but at the collective meditation I glide, I come... I climb,

I come... I climb,

and then, interesting, just 15 minutes ago I was thinking, I'm dissatisfied, not making progress, not moving anywhere.

And then, while we are singing the mantra preparing for meditation, already the doors and windows of the mind are opening, "OK, I'm going to do that, I'm going to do that..."

Just like psh-psh-psh...

I'm not thinking about those things, because I'm singing the mantra, I'm concentrating.

But just I'm...recognizing:

this window opens, that window opened, just thought 'pfiu-pfiu', and I recognize that thought, and I know that the energy is there.

The energy has come to me to do that work.

Wow! That's wonderful!

It's wonderful!

And yeah...

sometimes also we do, I meet with other teachers of meditation.

In pre-covid era we used to meet in Taiwan, and we, like, 20-25 teachers of meditation, we come together and we meditate and then, we do some meetings, this and that...

And then, the culmination is we go and we do something that we call Gurupújá.

Gurupújá is a sort of offering to Guru, offering to Guru you offer the colors of your mind, means your attachments, your desires, repulsions, everything, you just want to become completely pure, you offer it to Guru.

And at the same time the Guru, which in absolute sense is the Supreme Consciousness, blesses you.

I don't know, I find very powerful that practice – that exchange between you and the Supreme Consciousness.

And we do collectively with very serious minds.

And then, I just feel, like, OK, Sadananda, you're blessed now – go, do your work.

I feel, like, I've got a seed of progress in me.

And then I go, do the work.

So, meditation is the culture of the mind.

Like... yeah, we like the material culture: beautiful houses, nicely cut grass on the lawn, and the roads...

Everything, we like, that, you know, is proper.

Nobody will deny the importance of material culture.

Nobody likes to live a chaotic life.

What about the mind?

So, but to the mind we don't pay attention so much.

So, the culture of the mind is very important – disciplined mind, clean mind, Like, maybe some people, if they come to their mind, to visit their mind, oh... there are broken roads, and a pig sitting in the mud, and some drunk men going and singing the songs, everything is broken, the fence is like this, and the house is completely twisted...

the atmosphere in the mind.

I'm making a joke, and I'm making it like a metaphor.

As in the material sphere we like everything proper, So, in the mind everything has to be proper.

The mind has to become disciplined and high, gliding very high.

So, for that we need to catch the upward current, upward current.

And how to catch?

By focusing you create the current in you.

And then find the people who are also focusing.

And some people they don't... let’s say…

some person he is not meditating right now this moment, he is not focusing.

Maybe he is cooking something.

Maybe she is shouting at someone, scolding someone.

But that person already has created the upward current.

He is the flow or she is the flow.

One of my friends she sometimes likes to scold people.

‘What are you doing? This is not proper!’

But when she is scolding, I feel so sweet, you know.

There is an upward current in her, she has become flow.

She has become spiritual.

So, whatever she is scolding, or smiling, or shouting, doesn’t matter, because the flow is already created.

So, you just open your wings and you fly upwards, you glide upwards.

So, it is important to find people like this.

It is important to find serious And then, serious practitioners...

Sometimes serious practitioners become unserious practitioners, not serious practitioners.

They become tired from practice.

You know, it is an effort.

It is a big loss if we lose somebody out of practice.

It is a big loss for the collectivity.

So, we have to maintain, we have to try to keep inspiring each other.

‘No, no, no, don’t stop.

Don’t stop, these difficulties will pass.

Let’s do together.'

We have to maintain the flow in each one of us.

Because the more practitioners become, the more practitioners are there, the richer becomes spiritual world.

We all become richer in a spiritual sense, because the atmosphere for flying is there.

Also there is an upward current.

There is also downward current.

Some people just like downward current with bad thoughts, with crude mind.

So, you go closer to them, the whirlpool will suck you down.

So, this is also important - to avoid.

So, it is navigation in the air.

You are the navigator.

You are the pilot, flying the areal terrain like this.

So, this is all spirituality.

And this is also like a garden.

Taking out the weeds, and watering the tomatoes, and giving fertilizers to the tomatoes.

And you know sometimes it is the best, is like the permaculture.

There are many, many plants there in symbiotic relationships.

And those plants they support each other.

So, there is one plant of meditation.

There is a plant of yoga asanas.

There is a plant of service.

There is a plant of moral life.

There is a plant of music, and spiritual poetry.

And so all those plants intertwined create a spiritual permaculture in your mind.

Everything grows very nice.

So, just some thoughts came to me.

I was inspired with those thoughts actually.

Yesterday, I recorded the same video in Russian.

And I was very inspired.

I thought, ‘Yes, gliding is great.’

Just nothing to do, just make flap, flap, flap, flap, find upward current, concentrate concentrate concentrate...

start to feel that movement upwards.

Beautiful, isn't it?

So, you sit, maybe not today or maybe today.

Maybe on weekend. You sit, seriously!

Go take... wash yourself up with a cold water, then sit.

Very seriously, just sit.

Sometimes it's a tricky thing.

Sometimes in the morning it is good.

In the morning you find the flow.

Sometimes in the morning you're sleeping, evening you find the flow.

You try your different times, when the biology of the body supports it.

When you are very alert. Sit.

I mean, we have to sit twice a day, at least, for meditation.

That's the best.

Or even three times a day is good.

But also, you find a special time when you make a special effort entering to the flow.

There will be progress, there will be progress...

You will be amazed the progress is there.

The progress comes to you as a seed.

It's just like a seed, you plant the seed.

And it will grow into the tree.

So, there will be a seed of progress.

And then you just have to manifest it, nothing else to do.

But without seed you cultivate the barren land – nothing!

I do like a squirrel, running, running, running...

Nothing happens.

Are you not tired of this kind of life that you do so many things, but not real progress?

You want real progress, because everybody wants that.

So, get the seeds of progress in a form of spiritual energy through the flow in meditation and through cooperating with combining your efforts with other meditators.

But you have to be serious.

It's not like formality, it's not social, it's not for chatting, not for, you know, socializing.

It is for spiritual practice, the collective meditation.

OK.

Namaskar!