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chapter, 29th verse :
Apaane Juhvathi Pranam
Praana Paanam Thathapare
Praana paana Ghanti Ruthva
Praanayaama Parayanaah
New Translation :
Some offer the incoming vital air, into the vital air that is moving inward and some offer
the inwardbound vital air into the incoming vital air. Thus they do Pranaayaama by checking
the Praana and Apaana.
Bhagwaan is describing a very powerful process, a technique, method, to achieve the ultimate
consciousness. Here the word Praana and Apaana is used. Please understand, the word Praana
and Apaana, you need to understand in depth.
Some offer the incoming vital air into the vital air that is moving inward and some offer
the inward bound vital air into the incoming vital air. Thus they do Praanayaama by checking
the Praana and Apaana.
Let me give you the deepest meaning of this word Praana and Apaana. Constantly in you,
for a moment you remember you exist and after few moments you forget you exist and your
mind starts wondering here and there. Try, try this process, try to just sit and remember
about you, just -- I exist; I remember me; I exist; I remember me; just a self-remembrance!
Try, try the self-remembrance. In few seconds you will forget. Please understand, the moments
you remember yourself is Praana. The moments you forget you exist is Apaana. Unless you
forget you exist, you can't remember you exist. Unless you remember you exist, you
won't forget you exist. The Praana and Apaana live together. But how, Mercury slowly absorbs
the Gold, Praana can absorb Apaana. If Mercury and Gold is kept near, if they are touching
each other, Mercury will swallow the Gold and Gold will lose its qualities into the
Mercury. Same way if the Praana is allowed to function, means, if the self-remembrance
is increased by your conscious will, if you are supporting the self-remembrance by your
conscious decision, it will swallow the Apaana part, the self-forgetting moments. Please
understand, the most subtle Vedantic Truth, most subtle spiritual truth. If you try to
remember yourself, constantly be in the Unclutching or remembrance of the higher self. Only if
you try, you will understand what I am saying, just remembering - I exist; I am; I exist;
I am here; I feel me; Yes, I am alive; I remember me; I am !
If you just remember you, that self-remembrance., for some people that self-remembrance will
be there without disturbance, may be for 3 seconds; for some it will be 10 seconds. Usually
none of you will have more than 12 seconds. That's the maximum for a normal conscious
being. By the time one flicker of thought will come. If somebody can establish themselves
in the self-remembrance for 21 seconds he is enlightened, Jeevan Mukta. 21 seconds is
a too long period to be established in that self-remembrance. Then your mind breaks, you
become liberated being.
This self-remembrance, when you are trying, the thoughts which come because of your forgetfulness,
due to your forgetfulness, the forgetfulness is Apaana. Remembrance is Praana, forgetfulness
is Apaana. Now, you are not supposed to hate Apaana. Constantly you create a guilt in you
-- 'Oh, I loose; I forget; the forgetfulness happens to me; I don't remember; I am not
qualified.' You are constantly worrying and struggling with Apaana. Stop it! Work
on Praana. Whenever you remember, understand it's a luck, bonus, gift! Celebrate Praana.
Celebrate the moments of self-remembrance! Stop feeling guilty; stop suffering; stop
suffocating yourself for the moments of forgetfulness. But unfortunately your mind is tuned to suffer
the forgetfulness.
I always repeat -- Meera's Bhakti and Andaal's Bhakti! Meera constantly suffers for the few
moments she misses Krishna! Andaal constantly celebrates for the few moments she remembers
Krishna! Andaal is Praana, Meera is Apaana. That is why Meera's life has to have so
much of suffering and struggle. Andaal's life was so smooth and beautiful! Work on
Praana. Don't suffocate yourself with Apaana.
Just yesterday I gave you a powerful process -- Enchanting; Feeling connection; Unclutching!
In Sanskrit we will call it -- Ajapa-Japa; Mahabhaava and Sahaj Samadhi! Enchanting;
Feeling connection; Unclutching! When you try to do all these things, three, continuously,
you would have forgotten yesterday, many times. Many times yesterday, you would have had forgetfulness,
you would have lost doing all these three, you would have forgotten doing all these three.
Praanapaan Samayuktam
Bhajamyanam Chaturvidam
Bhagwaan says in another one verse in BhagvadGita itself --
Praanapaan Samayuktam
Bhajamyanam Chaturvidam
It means along with Praana and Apaana, in four ways, I consume everything. It is not
just food - it is Time; Space and Pure Consciousness. Please understand, Bhagvaan says, with Praana
and Apaana's help, I consume everything in four ways -- Time; Space and Pure Consciousness!
Everything he swallows, just with this one process of Praana and Apaana. I tell you,
if you can increase your Praana, the self-remembrance, you will consume this whole Maya and sit as
Vishwaroopa.
Please understand, Raman Maharshi very beautifully says :
Ullada, Allada, Ulladai, ullalal, ullatte, ulli, Irupade, Viara !
You can't understand even though it is in Tamil. Very beautifully he sang 40 verses
on Reality! It is called 'Ullagnarpada'. He says beautifully, let me give you the essence.
If you sit on the self-remembrance that 'I exist', all this name; form; time; space,
everything will just dissolve into yourself. That is the Advaita Anubhuti, the Ultimate
Experience!
I tell you, if the self-remembrance, if you are struggling between self-remembrance and
self-forgetfulness, that zone is Dvaita. If that struggle has reduced and the self-remembrance
has become more powerful than the forgetfulness, that is called VIshishtha Advaita. If the
self-remembrance has conquered the forgetfulness, that is Advaita, that's all! Understand,
if you are suffering the self-remembrance and self-forgetfulness, if there is a struggle
going on, that is Dvaita -- 'I am separate, ultimate is separate'- the gap! If the self-remembrance
has become more powerful than the forgetfulness, the self-remembrance is more than 51 %, it
is less than 49 %, now it is Vishistha Advaita -- 'It is me, but extension of me; I am
He, but extension of He.' When the self-remembrance becomes 100 %, it is Advaita, that's all
Please understand, just support your Praana consciously. When I say support your Praana
consciously, I mean constantly try to establish yourself in these three - Enchanting; Feeling
connection; Unclutching! Constantly! Take this up as a spiritual practice from today.
Next 21 days let all our satsangis, samajis, devotees try this. Whole day your body should
be working. Means, you can sweep, wipe, cook, drive. Whole day your body should be engaged
in your regular activities -- reading, even sleeping is activity. Engage yourself in some
activity or lie down and sleep. Even sleeping is activity, no problem! But along with your
activity establish yourself into these three. Whole day, the moment you wake up, start the
Ajapa-Japa. Ajapa--Japa starts and then feeling connection, with a deep prayerful mood; Unclutching.
The Feeling connection is the bridge between Unclutching and Ajapa-Japa. Constantly do
this. One important thing, if you are lazy, not doing anything actively physically, you
won't be able to establish yourself in self-remembrance. That is why never ever lazy people achieve
enlightenment. Please understand, if you are not physically active, if you are not constantly
doing anything, do not hope for enlightenment. That is not for you. So constantly do something,
may be cooking, driving, your job, your office work. Or if you don't find any office work,
come on here. We have a lot of volunteer work. Do some volunteer work. Constantly, go on
be doing and establishing yourself into these three.
I tell you guys, whoever successfully finishes this samyamaa, I will initiate you into the
Hungerless, Thirstless samyamaa, hunger-free, thirst-free samyamaa. Understand, I am very
successful in helping, putting some of our ashramites into that samyamaa. Almost 27 days
they have completed successfully without any food or water or nothing. Of course once in
a while they had little water but without any food. Now I have given them a break. Because
I am busy with this Madurai Adhinam work, I have given them a break. When I go back
to Bangalore, 6 th, I am going back after the Guru Puja. When I go back to Bangalore
I am going to start the samyamaa again. Whoever completes this samyamaa these 21 days successfully.
You see when I say complete, I mean you tried with your honesty that's all! Only condition
-- you cannot have guilt about the forgetfulness. In the whole day, 24 hours, even if you remember
the self-remembrance only 10 minutes, that's okay. Celebrate about that. Do not have guilt
about that forgetfulness. Because if you create guilt about that forgetfulness, you unneccessarily
empower the wrong side. The Apanaa becomes more strong. So support, encourage, inspire
Praana, means moments of self-remembrance. Try! These 21 days, all of you will do this
samyamaa. You will constantly do some work. If you don't have any work in your house,
come on, come to our center. We have lot of volunteer work. Do some work. Along with that
you will be doing these three -- Enchanting; Feeling connection; Unclutching. EFU! EFU
-- Enchanting; Feeling connection; Unclutching. Constantly do this, all these three. You are
capable of doing all these three simultaneously. You are capable! You are capable of doing
all of these three simultaneously. So please understand, these 21 days, this samyamaa will
be called as Pranaa samyamaa, encouraging and empowering the self-remembrance inside
you, the power of Praana inside you. Try this Praana samyamaa for 21 days. Whoever successfully
completes this samyamaa for 21 days, I will initiate you guys into Hungerfree, Thirstfree samyamaa. And EFU -- Enchanting;
Feeling connection; Unclutching - Enlightenment is For You -- EFU! Understand, practice EFU
-- Enlightenment is for you, that's all! Huh ? All our teachers, healers, acharyas,
everyone has to practice this EFU. Only then you can be acharya ,you can be a healer. You
can raise yourself in consciousness and you can raise others also into the superconsciousness.
And this EFU will give you constantly new new ideas to inspire others and helping others
to radiate enlightenment.
Essence of this verse, the sacred secret in this verse, 4th chapter, 29th verse, is -- Empower
the self-remembrance, Empower the Praana. Do not even bother about Apaana. Do not worry
about the forgetful moments. Do not have guilt about forgetful moments. Bring life to Praana,
bring life to moments of remembrance.
So, I bless you all and initiate all of you into this Praana samyamaa. 21 days we will
take up this samyamaa. And I bless you all - You will all successfully complete this
samyamaa. Then the whole batch, I will initiate into Hunger-free, Thirst-free samyamaa. I
think this is going to be the largest fasting ever happened on the Planet Earth. The largest
number of people at a time living, without food and water is going to be our Hungerfree,
Thirstfree samyamaa. Understand, I will do miracles! Make a huge group living without
food and water and medically showing people are not going into fatigue, low energy, no
side effect of foodlessness is there in your body. I will establish it!
I will establish it!