<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><rss version="1.0"><channel><title>Diary of hakotiankar kotiankar</title><link>http://hakotiankar.rediffiland.com/</link><description>Diary of hakotiankar kotiankar</description><language>en-us</language><item><title>Yoga Or Union</title><description><![CDATA[<P class=MsoTitle style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" align=center><I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT size=4><STRONG><FONT face="Courier New, Courier, mono">Yoga or union<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></STRONG></FONT></SPAN></I></P><P class=MsoSubtitle style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" align=center><EM><FONT size=4><STRONG><FONT face="Courier New, Courier, mono">LOVE IS THE <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">ULTIMATE</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">STATE</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> OF YOGA OF CONSCIOUSNESS WITH THE ENTIRETY.<SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>Yoga of all the energy in the universe gives rise to the undifferentiated totality we call god. </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Yoga of all the individual consciousness gives rise to the infinite consciousness.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> Yoga of our individual ego with the ego of the unlimited gives rise to unlimited bliss.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></STRONG></FONT></EM></P><P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p><EM><FONT face="Courier New, Courier, mono" size=4><STRONG> </STRONG></FONT></EM></o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoSubtitle style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" align=center><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><EM><FONT size=4><STRONG><FONT face="Courier New, Courier, mono">Yoga of bindhu with nada gives rise to energy as heat, light, &amp; sound. Yoga of different light frequencies forms interference patterns on the retina of the eye to give birth to vision of things perceived by the eye. <o:p></o:p></FONT></STRONG></FONT></EM></SPAN></P><P class=MsoSubtitle style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" align=center><FONT size=4><STRONG><FONT face="Courier New, Courier, mono"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><EM>Yoga of all the different </EM></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: normal">frequencies</SPAN><EM><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> of energy of heat and light gives rise to space and air.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></EM></FONT></STRONG></FONT></P><P class=MsoSubtitle style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" align=center><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><EM><FONT size=4><STRONG><FONT face="Courier New, Courier, mono">Yoga of different sounds combined together in different ways gives birth to words; yoga of words with meaning gives birth to our understanding as soon as it is accepted and stored in the memory. <o:p></o:p></FONT></STRONG></FONT></EM></SPAN></P><P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p><EM><FONT face="Courier New, Courier, mono" size=4><STRONG> </STRONG></FONT></EM></o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT size=4><STRONG><FONT face="Courier New, Courier, mono">Yoga of all the different colors of light as seen in the rainbow gives rise to clear white light (Some may like to call it yellow).<o:p></o:p></FONT></STRONG></FONT></SPAN></I></P><P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT size=4><STRONG><FONT face="Courier New, Courier, mono">Yoga of all the different frequencies of sound gives rise to the universal sound called as omkara "Ohm" pronounced as "aum".<o:p></o:p></FONT></STRONG></FONT></SPAN></I></P><P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT size=4><STRONG><FONT face="Courier New, Courier, mono">Yoga of hydrogen and oxygen gives rise to fire and water.<o:p></o:p></FONT></STRONG></FONT></SPAN></I></P><P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT size=4><STRONG><FONT face="Courier New, Courier, mono">Yoga of heat light and air with water gives raise the material earth (compounds of different salts and chemicals).<o:p></o:p></FONT></STRONG></FONT></SPAN></I></P><P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT size=4><STRONG><FONT face="Courier New, Courier, mono">Yoga of different carbohydrates, protein with water and consciousness gives rise to the first livings cell.<o:p></o:p></FONT></STRONG></FONT></SPAN></I></P><P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT size=4><STRONG><FONT face="Courier New, Courier, mono">yoga of different cells with minerals from earth gives rise to the plants and trees.<o:p></o:p></FONT></STRONG></FONT></SPAN></I></P><P class=MsoSubtitle style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" align=center><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><EM><FONT size=4><STRONG><FONT face="Courier New, Courier, mono">Yoga of the five powers of the consciousness gives rise to consciousness.<o:p></o:p></FONT></STRONG></FONT></EM></SPAN></P><P class=MsoSubtitle style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" align=center><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><EM><FONT size=4><STRONG><FONT face="Courier New, Courier, mono">Yoga of all the five sense organs in the brain gives raise to the mind.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></STRONG></FONT></EM></SPAN></P><P class=MsoSubtitle style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" align=center><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><EM><FONT size=4><STRONG><FONT face="Courier New, Courier, mono">Yoga of understanding with feelings gives birth to joy in the mental level and if we can remove all meaning and understanding we attain joy in spiritual level.<o:p></o:p></FONT></STRONG></FONT></EM></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><EM><FONT size=4><STRONG><FONT face="Courier New, Courier, mono">The yoga of bioelectric signals within the channels of the body due to pressure or friction gives birth to sensation.<o:p></o:p></FONT></STRONG></FONT></EM></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT size=4><STRONG><FONT face="Courier New, Courier, mono">Yoga of different chemicals with the taste buds gives rise to taste and <o:p></o:p></FONT></STRONG></FONT></SPAN></I></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><FONT face="Courier New, Courier, mono" size=4><STRONG>It becomes obvious that YOGA OR UNION IS EVERYWHERE in the manifested universe. All these tell us that everything is in separation and the omnipotent being one is where YOGA OR UNION is complete.</STRONG></FONT></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=center><o:p><FONT face="Courier New, Courier, mono" size=4><STRONG> </STRONG></FONT></o:p></P>]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:46:21 +0530</pubDate><link>http://hakotiankar.rediffiland.com/blogs/2008/07/20/Yoga-Or-Union-1.html</link></item><item><title>spiritual life</title><description><![CDATA[<P class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Spiritual and domestic life.</B> </P><P class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">All Acts We perform in either Spiritual and domestic life</SPAN> is the way we help god, nature, and ourselves experience, everything we choose by merely desiring or bringing forth the exact feeling from memory is the initial act, this is really creation or destruction of things in our life, which also is an act of re-circulation of energy in their independent cycles related to the nature, this keeps the universe going towards its normal course of destruction or end (when the omnipotent withdraws his consciousness from it). This cycle of creation and dissolution has been repeating itself from time in memory, generally expressed as, "with out beginning or end".<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p> </o:p></B></P><P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center>The best part of living in this material universe is that we don't "un-do or destroy" all the changes we have created, before we depart from this life, leaving it to be destroyed by others is not our real behavior, we say this as we watch little children playing on the beach building castles, they will not let even their parents touch as along as there is enough time before going home, as soon as the parents call them to take them home, they first run over the castle destroying it so that no one else can play with it. (They are so pure with no corruption in their desire and feelings to such an extent that we can safely equate them to be similar to god as we define or know, since even god destroys everything just before going to sleep. <SPAN style="COLOR: red">They live in the most natural sense in their desire that is present in the now; their wants are not attached to any other thing but only which they are involved with at present</SPAN>).</P><P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><o:p> </o:p></P><P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center>This is not so in real life of many of us, one of the reasons may be we cannot really destroy what we have created or we really do not have enough time to destroy in the real life, or we are attached to them so much that we really don't want to destroy them, this is the real reason we develop attachment to created things, or we are so involved with the process of death that we cannot destroy these things for lack of time, in the ending moments of our lives. </P><P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><o:p> </o:p></P><P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center>Thus what we see all around us is the creation designed by our fore fathers from the beginning of creation. This creation in the preliminary stages of each creation cycle is always done by the first born (mind born) sons of the god whose consciousness entered the celestial waters to from the golden egg inside which this entire creation exists. They leave their mark here on earth to remind the living that they where here thus they do not have to take rebirth. </P><P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><o:p> </o:p></P><P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center>Some of us remembered by our name, earned due the works done by us towards development of society or the name, building monuments, social service or some good deed as considered by the society or donate very large sum of money to a good cause that is defined by us, of our children, the name of our linage, guru, or the people we grow up with, this is the easiest way known to us. </P><P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><o:p> </o:p></P><P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center>Ultimately we all like to be remembered because we like to live for ever as we really don't die we only change bodies. This also means that as long as we are remembered, it is as good as we are living, even though without body but at least in name, this is the reason for the urge to become great attain name and fame and live in the memory of the living or remembered by people, as along as they remember us we really don't take rebirth. We write history, teach fairy tales, folk lore teach or enact dramas of things done by great kings and heroes. This tells us one great truth, as far as our understanding and acceptance, if we want god to take rebirth we should stop remembering him, look at the history as given in the puranas, the situation in the world was so bad that no one was thinking of god and thus had to take birth in the human form and reestablish righteousness in the earth. The reason we are asked to remember the gods, fore fathers, saints or incarnations of the lord is to ensure that they are living at least in name; this will confirm that as long as they are remembered they need not take rebirth. </P><P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><o:p> </o:p></P>]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:03:06 +0530</pubDate><link>http://hakotiankar.rediffiland.com/blogs/2008/07/13/spiritual-life-1.html</link></item><item><title>stick to disciplines</title><description><![CDATA[<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P><H1 style="MARGIN: 1pt 0in 0pt 0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><FONT size=3>How one can stick to disciplines?</FONT></H1><P class=MsoBodyText2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Think of our practice as <SPAN style="COLOR: red">Dharma</SPAN> (righteousness) related to the past teachings of seers, which must be adhered to as if being alive in the present depends only if these methods written in the texts. These are to be implemented in ones life possessing this information and knowledge without implementing in ones own life. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoBodyText2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: red">Kama</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> or desires we are presently attached to should be at par only with relation to this dharma and <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoBodyText2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: red">Artha</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> the wealth that is required to enable these acts should be from the pure (source of wealth should be self earned or righteously attained). <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoBodyText2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: red">Mohsha </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">the merger with the ultimate is actually not in our hands or with our powers thus it is left to the mercy of the ultimate.<SPAN style="COLOR: red"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P><P class=MsoBodyText2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: red">( a personal note : we have seen and experienced that most of the things the text says are impossible to be practiced in the present, thus we are guided by the present day religious leaders, But we would advice letting our subconscious decide, as it is closer to the soul and cannot be wrong as per the universal order.)</SPAN></I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Eight spiritual qualities that help in maintaining once practice or stick to disciplines are given in the text. <o:p></o:p></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: red">This does not mean that these are the only ones that one should follow.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P><OL style="MARGIN-TOP: 0in" type=1><LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1">Compassion towards all living beings, this is required as everything in this world is god. This will enable the sense one oneness with the whole. This quality comes from our true basic nature, which is love, love is a liking towards the self as I, the ego of limitedness, compassion towards all living beings will ensure to remove this limitedness of the developed ego.</LI><LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1">Tolerance is mainly aimed at withholding oneself from reacting to a situation that is understood by the individual as not liked by him /her. This reaction was a developed in stages, that will slowly take a natural habit if allowed to grow further it may become beyond our control.</LI><LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1">Helping everyone who come to us seeking protection, guidance, give freely to everyone the knowledge this will ensure that we continuously receive the pure knowledge from the universe. When we consider that everything is one then we are actually giving it to ourselves thus it comes back multifold.</LI><LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1">Refrain from envy. This is very necessary as similar to the above paragraph we will receive it back in multifold. </LI><LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1">External and internal purification. The most common purification we know is taking a bath with water or washing cloths related with external purification. Internally we use the flow of vital energy "prana" its reservoir or store is at the navel chakra, Manipura, it is also called as "shakthi chalana" (flow of prana in a desired way is shakthi.)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">    </SPAN></LI><LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1">Calmness with alertness in all situations. This quality will develop by its self as we progress in our sadhana or practice. Alertness is vital to ensure that we unconsciously don't do something that is considered by the society as wrong and become a victim of the curse or bad feelings of others. </LI><LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1">Selfishness: externally it means we develop a hate or adverse feeling to wards others. Internally it means self love, if self is considered as body then we are dividing our consciousness with something else thus the flow of energy will be divided thus effect will be similarly less.</LI><LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1">Do not hanker for things or have desires, (This does not require any explanation) </LI></OL><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><o:p> </o:p></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN> </P>]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:29:07 +0530</pubDate><link>http://hakotiankar.rediffiland.com/blogs/2008/06/29/stick-to-disciplines-1.html</link></item><item><title>Meditation Turyia continued 3 &amp; 4</title><description><![CDATA[<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center>Meditation Turyia continued 3 &amp; 4</P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p> </o:p></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><o:p> </o:p></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center>"<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Vision lights"</I></B> as per another aspirant with very clear and detailed description of her visualizations up to minute details, this aspirant we can safely say has reached a very high state of concentration indicated by the detailed description of the vision giving the measure of the purity level achieved in using the third eye (thoughts) just imagine the level of concentration that can be arrived at with clarity, the texts say that it must be possible to describe up to the level of markings in the every smallest part of the eye with respect to physical characteristics, in the subtle level up to the essence of all the sense organs and up to the clear feelings in the supreme level, thus she is still on the verge of achieving meditative bliss or may be she is satisfied with the experience thus is still not there. This does not mean that she is not enjoying the session, in fact she is enjoying it so much that she is not letting go.</P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center>Meditative bliss is possible either by letting go of the attachment to the vision or total surrender of all our previous understanding stored in the memory, as long as the intellect is active occupied with the vision and thoughts or mental dialogue is taking place due to the act of comparison the consciousness thoughts cannot be stilled and consciousness cannot be free thus it cannot transcend into the absolute. <SPAN style="COLOR: red">Books we read, talks we hear from the guides can create an intense craving for the same experience, this is the main cause of getting stuck</SPAN>, <SPAN style="COLOR: blue">or most of the time creating these by strong desire super imposing these on the mind by the memory and concentrating on these with an understanding that the author of the book must be right and this is what we want to get there deters the development of bliss</SPAN>. LET ME ASSURE YOU THAT IT IS ONLY OUR ASSUPMTIONS THAT ARE THE REAL THINGS THAT BLOCK OUR OWN PROGRESS, as every individual will experience only that what he knows or only that which they have accepted as correct until he is consciously or unconsciously using his mental ability. </P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center>Bliss that we are referring to is the ultimate universal one rather that our own individual understanding, it requires details if we are in the mental level, very often these details are not given in the books mainly due to the fact they cannot be described within the limited vocabulary of the language, thus, the experience in the mental level will definitely not same for everyone as the understand is different, these will vary as per the tastes or development of individuals and individual development is not universally same thus it cannot be the supreme state. The supreme state if we may call it (Turyia) is universal. Every one of us will experience the same since logically it must be the ultimate one.</P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center>Total surrender of all our previous understanding is one of the needs to progress if speed is our requirement this understanding needs to be rearranged as per the universal cosmic memory by detaching it from our individual one if we want to understand the totality. One important argument on this to easily let go can be, "THIS UNDERSTANDING (individual memory) DID NOT BRING ME TO GOD CONSCIOUSNESS TILL NOW.<SPAN style="COLOR: red"> <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">It is also limited so cannot make me experience the unlimited or absolute,</I></SPAN> SO WHY KEEP IT, WHY NOT ACCEPT THE TEXTS AS THEY ARE SINCE THE FORE FATHERS HAD ACHIEVED THEIR ENLIGHTENMENT THROUGH THEM."</P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><o:p> </o:p></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><o:p> </o:p></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center>Meditation Turyia continued 4</P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B>"Deep sleep is really a meditative bliss" </B>whether with consciousness or without consciousness we say this because the experience is the same <SPAN style="COLOR: red">(Total freedom, complete feeling of relaxation, All thoughts are stilled! Thus no emotions or feelings! Thus no stress! The joy of this stillness is unique)</SPAN>. Note that the consciousness is focused very far from the imagined location of memory namely the functioning of the heart and rhythmic breathing. Achieving the state consciously is the difference in experiencing true joy not related to any single thing. (Note joy is also limited only up to the clarity we have, TO PUT IT IN TERMS OF UNIVERSALITY FOR US LAYMEN "JUST IMAMGINE HHHHHHH MMMMMM mmmmmmmm.." with out a beginning or ending one continuous un-struck primordial un born thus undying NADA or hum without attaching consciousness). Just try this place your child small baby on your chest and hum this tone or call it tune, he / she will fall asleep within seconds (please be careful to have clear unbroken tone or tune). All the joys experienced in life till now are connected to some thing with variance in the quality and quantity as per each individual understanding of joy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </SPAN></P><P class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" align=center>Concentration to reach meditation or detaching the consciousness from senses and memory, stilling all the thoughts, beyond mind is only single process of getting to the state of bliss (turiya); it is "dhayana"( continuous concentration) of whatever topic is in "Dharana" (concentration). Total involvement with out and break in any act can also bring about meditation (LOST IN THE ACT OF OBSERVETION WITHOUT FEELING OR THINKING OF ANY THING but the thought we are concentrating) any thing that satisfies or creates the complete opposite or removing the difference between all the opposites (going above duality), say after a satisfactory meal or say after a satisfactory sexual orgasm or say after a satisfactory extreme joy or sadness .. Also can make us experience limited Turyia with a slight difference as it is linked with the act. The easiest way to reach there is to think of the thought that you most intensely desired (craving, want, longing or madly want to posses LOVE OR BAKTHI)!!!. The only problem here (if the thought is more of physical or materialistic it is easily interacted with, that means you will like to get involved!) Then the state is lost, that is meditation is terminated without you even realizing, the intellect again starts to correlate everything creating an internal dialogue of thoughts that enables staying in that state we are interacting with. THIS WE DISCRIBE AS CHANGING FROM VERTICAL COMPONTNET OF TIME TO THE HORIZANTAL COMPONENT OF TIME.</P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=center><o:p> </o:p></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><o:p> </o:p></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><o:p> </o:p></P><P align=center> </P>]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:56:44 +0530</pubDate><link>http://hakotiankar.rediffiland.com/blogs/2008/06/22/Meditation-Turyia-continued-3-4.html</link></item><item><title>Meditative state "Turiya" continued 2.</title><description><![CDATA[<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p> </o:p></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">One of the stages we may experience in dawning of meditation<o:p></o:p></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center>Many of us may experience this and other, revealed by enlightened persons but they are not necessarily a requirement as per any universal rule. Many of us will experience this after reading this article as we will anticipate this, this is natural. <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Reading</st1:place></st1:City> experiences written or heard of other enlightened persons will also do the same, this is O.K as long as we manifest it due to our desire to experience them, but if these do not manifest it we will end up as stress, <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: red">thus anticipation can lead to problems some times</SPAN></I>.</P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><o:p> </o:p></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center>"<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">I feel I forget myself</I></B>" as quoted by one of the aspirants in an e-mail, is one of the stages we reach if our practice is progressing with or without anticipation, {YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT PATH, ALSO KNOW THAT JUST LIVING OUR LIFE OR ANY DAILY ACT CAN ALSO LEAD TO DAWNING OF MEDITATION, kindly note that all activity can lead to the state of meditation AS THEY ARE ALL LINKED TO THE OMNIPOTENT. This is done by becoming one pointed and our thoughts focused only with it consciously.}</P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center>This may be also experienced as being conscious during dawning of dream state or deep sleep state, transcending the awake phase of consciousness (<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">consciousness being attached to the sense organs using intelligence correlating with the memory</I>) into the dream phase (<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">describing and creating a dialogue of the vision created in the electrical and magnetic field called mind. Many of us experience this in the subconscious mind, here anticipation and strong unsatisfied desire plays an important role</I>). </P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center>All persons who experience this can remember their dreams and then can transcend into conscious dreaming easily (complete loss of external awareness, meaning awareness changing to or related with the subtle essence of the five sensory organs). The next experience can be, transcending into conscious deep sleep. And the next is seizure of all identification with the observed. And further into merging with the observed.</P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: red">To master this we have used observing any movie and not loosing the connection or relationship between the different changes that take place as the movie unfolds (scenes, location, characters with out any emotional involvement). This means maintaining the link in the three sheaths, (BODY posture, stress or relaxed), (MIND, correlation with memory) and (SPIRIT feelings and beyond mind experience). [<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Meditation in the movie hall really helped</I>]. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center>Alternately when we experience this, immediately think that we have transcended or deliberately think that the state of awareness has changed from active awareness of sense organs to active awareness of subtle part of the sense organs, we are now awake not in the physical body state but in the subtle mental state, the proof is that we will be aware of the activity of the mind namely thinking nothing in particular at first but being aware of everything. Caution is necessary here to maintain only observation with out identifying, or interacting or analyzing anything. This is necessary because if we do so we loose the preliminary state "dawning of meditation". </P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><o:p> </o:p></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center>The only difference in sleep, clear vision awareness and meditative state of bliss (turiya) is that there is consciousness, <SPAN style="COLOR: red">but there is no identifying with anything thus it is without boundaries or limitation only this can expand our awareness into the ultimate. </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is only awareness (consciousness) of the whole universe without differentiation, as if it is all inside the head at first, then the boundary of the mind surpasses the boundary of the head and human limitation, expanding our awareness into the unlimited, it is just observing the complete (Example that we feel may explain " Just look straight with open eyes in front THERE WILL BE MANY THINGS THAT IS PRESENT IN THE VISION , but the consciousness will select only one of them this is because consciousness can focus only on one thing at any given instant, now think of some abstract thing that is not obviously visible Say flow of energy everywhere within the vision WHAT WILL HAPPEN ? <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Identifying with any single object will end IT IS AS IF WE ARE OBSERVING EVERYTHING ALLAT ONCE, when we master this then stop thinking of energy also YOU WILL BE THERE INSTANTLY. The only way we know that we are there is, when we become aware that there is nothing you need to do (physically, mentally or spiritually) there because everything we can imagine is already there, actually we don't even imagine!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>the entire vertical component of time is perceived (just like a observer watching there is no involvement with anything, a higher stage there to this is no separate observer and the observed, it may seem that you are being observed but you are actually observing, there is no difference between you and that which is observed) the minute you get involved with anything the state is lost and you are back with the living, the horizontal component of time. This state is like everything is happening and yet WE ARE STAND STILL with reference to our own frame of time (meaning that the relative time of our consciousness stops and only the universal time component as identified by all the consciousness involved with creation in the manifested world is active THIS IS OBSERVING, yet active within the time frame of those involved there is no flow of time for the person in meditative bliss ONLY PRESENT RELATED TO HIM exists and it observes the movement as per the desires of all the active components in the universe. Note here that this is not the ultimate state.The state that is beyond this state, there is totally no separation with what you are aware of. YOU BECOME ONE WITH IT. This is the end no further thing to define and confine within words and meaning and experience! Just Know that there is No You! Different from the rest... YOU ARE THE TOTALITY! MEANING THE LIMIT IMPOSED BY THE EGO OVER THE CONSCIOUSNESS IS REMOVED.</P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><o:p> </o:p></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center>The logic that defends this is; - Consciousness moves into the recesses of the heart or focuses on the functioning of the heart, far away from the assumed location memory during deep sleep, and somewhere in between during dream sleep shuffling between the heart and mind, thus it never rests, even after it leaves this body after death. The only time it will rest is when the omnipotent decides to do so, in other words, consciousness being the part of the omnipotent will be active until omnipotent is active or awake (EVEN HE WILL SLEEP, AND THE WHOLE UNIVERSE WILL BECOME STAND STILL AS SOON AS HE WITHDRAWS HIS CONSCIOUSNESS from the cosmic memory), it is linked with an unbreakable connection through feelings "Bhavana" [Communication using feelings is the highest medium called "PARA". <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">(Read my article on communication)</I>] so this will carry on until all memory that was not understood is present in the active and sub conscious memory, because these topics that were forced to be side tracked ( converted to SATWA or TAMAS) are stored in the memory and have a potential to attract the intellect as there is change or difference (RAJAS). Thus, intellect cannot rest until it reaches a stage called Satwa or Tamas. It will stay there (Satwa or Tamas) until it gains sufficient potential to start moving to wards the opposite, <SPAN style="COLOR: red">thus we cannot stay in turiya until we are in the realm of DUALITY.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:45:06 +0530</pubDate><link>http://hakotiankar.rediffiland.com/blogs/2008/06/15/Meditative-state-Turiya-continued-2.html</link></item><item><title>Busy with lots of personal work</title><description><![CDATA[<P>Hello! everyone,</P><P>Not possibleto post blogs for the next two weeks.</P><P> </P><P>Wish you all have a nice time.</P><P> </P><P>H.A.Kotiankar</P>]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 07:56:06 +0530</pubDate><link>http://hakotiankar.rediffiland.com/blogs/2008/06/01/Busy-with-lots-of-personal-work-1.html</link></item><item><title>Meditative state "Turiya" continued.</title><description><![CDATA[<SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p><P class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><STRONG><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Meditative state </SPAN>"Turiya" continued.<SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></STRONG></P><P class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Meditative state </SPAN>"Turiya" <SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">is said to have been achieved only when we can stay in this undefined state for any length of time, in the beginning there may be just glimpses of it. These tend to become more frequent, and next it stays there for a short period, only when it becomes continuous we can say we are in the state of Turiya, Meditative state, the state of never ending bliss has been reached, this bliss is without any definition and co relationship with anything either with words or its meaning, neither with its taste, smell, sight, feeling, nor sound as all these will only mean that we are still in the level of senses and not in the plane of spiritual awareness! Until then we are only in the process of getting there. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">That is why we where always saying meditation dawns on us it cannot be forcefully acquired except during hypnotic sessions controlled not by us but by the conductor of the show. Yes, we can or may say that god may be hypnotizing us! This is really expanding our space or vision from the limits of our definition and awareness to the unlimited; we become the observer of everything in short, <SPAN style="COLOR: red">No interaction just observation</SPAN>. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Thus we will see the design of the creator that if memory of the past is still alive then. We will tend to co relate and develop feelings and then words with meaning and then definition of things. This is why until memory is present we may just reach there but cannot stay there for long as we will see the things happening and want to help, this will mean taking a decision to come back among the living human beings. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Everything similar between us gives is the collective space or vision or creation of the manifested universe, similarly everything similar in the state of meditative bliss us gives the collective space or vision of the entire un-manifested and manifested universe with out any limitation [In short How it is here it is replicated there the only difference is the purity and clarity]. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">The various yogic methods teach us to gradually stop identifying with the activities of the mind and thus expand its influence to the entire universe. This is when the whole knowledge is revealed to us and we become aware that all the limitations are our creation. Making new patterns of thinking nothing and keeping the mind alert, so that it does not slip back into the old ways of pleasure seeking. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Along with expansion of mind, it brings with it the stable state of one pointed ness of the entire vastness. And as all the memory is exhausted say undifferentiated, comes peacefulness, tranquility and silence, THIS IS WHEN MEDITATION AS PER MY UNDERSTANDING STARTS, SO WE WERE IN THE STATE OF CONCENTRATION</SPAN> <SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">UNTIL IT STARTS, LINKED WITH THE MANIFESTED THROUGH THE SENSES..<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: red"><STRONG>Union of the five powers of the consciousness, an inter section at a single point "Bindhu" that creates the "NADA" experienced as subtle feelings with in the limits of our understanding is awareness.<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center>Five powers intersect at a single point "Bindhu or dot"; understanding of this in the subtle level will give us easy to utilize the consciousness during concentration and arrive at a meditation state and get a clearer experience. {We will go deeper into this in our next article}</P><P class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center>Happy concentration to meditation may all who read this with sincerity attains this state.</P><P class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center></o:p></SPAN> </P>]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 14:13:52 +0530</pubDate><link>http://hakotiankar.rediffiland.com/blogs/2008/05/25/Meditative-state-Turiya-continued.html</link></item><item><title>meditation state 1</title><description><![CDATA[<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p> </o:p></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Meditative state "Turyia or samadhi"<o:p></o:p></B></P><P class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">All the energy signals in different frequencies amplitude and wave length are brought by the center of nervous system the brain through connections with the senses using two way communication, the consciousness is what decides the energy that should be focused or witnessed or perform identifying (interacting, defining, analyzing, wanting to understand, or just observing). The two ways communication is what ensures the unbroken communication, meaning that to stay with those particular sense organs continuously, this TWO WAY COMMUNICATION should be established. This depends on our likes and dislikes and the intensity of desire we have for the same will ensure the stead fastness we maintain the link. This is what we require to establish with the point of concentration detaching from the sense organs as far as possible to achieve single point concentration with the pure abstract topic. Now we have achieved the state to allow mediation to dawn on us. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">When consciousness stops identifying itself or with the focused a state of freedom (stilling is experienced, it is a state of silence just like in deep sleep where there is no active consciousness of awareness, but in the meditative state of bliss (turiya) there is consciousness with out definition!!! This is what we progress as purification sets in.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center>Yoga or union can be achieved through many ways, in many levels and different proportions or aspects.</P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center>Astanga yoga can be used in all the three paths of spirituality, </P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .75in" align=center><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">1.<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">      </SPAN></SPAN>Karma desire less acts of any work performed towards the entire mankind, with out anticipating any returns.</P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .75in" align=center><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">2.<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">      </SPAN></SPAN>Bakthi devotion to the supreme self, and<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .75in" align=center><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">3.<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">      </SPAN></SPAN>Janna acquiring true, correct, and supreme pure information, understanding or knowledge, practicing the same to achieve wisdom. </P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><o:p> </o:p></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center>The complete understanding of yoga is possible only if all the three paths of spirituality are used in combination; this is as per the capacity of each aspirant and will make it possible for all to apply this in all the three in every walk of life. We are not going to deal with details of the three paths mentioned above, as it will lead to anticipation of the same causing a limitation and not freedom with complete expansion Yoga or union Or Merging "I" &amp; "i"</P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><o:p> </o:p></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center>The only permanent thing in this whole universe manifested and un-manifested is nature; some of us know her as Mother Nature or Prakrathi. Purusha Consciousness enters her (YOGA in body mind and spirit {the five elements}) to start the creation of everything in the manifested and un-manifested. Similarly Mediating on these is enabling our consciousness to enter these elements, this is required because we will not be able to understand these elements to the subtle part, more over it is not possible to transcend into the next chakra with understanding the previous. When we are at the lower chakras then we can say that our meditation or state of concentration is engrossed with the single element pertaining to that chakra, progressing to the next chakra will then happen when difference between say earth element and water element is reduced or removed completely. </P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center>How is this done? Simply by first breaking them down to their basic structure (atoms) and then to the energy that both posses that is the element fire, NOW WE SEE THE NEXT CHAKRA that is the fire element in the manipura chakra, proceeding further up we remove the difference between fire and air, further up remove the difference between air and space (pure energy in expanded form), from here onwards we enter the energy zone with different lights. Above this we remove the differentiation of lights to reach the zone of true transparent light [note here kindly don't concentrate on the rays as they have the capacity to burn everything just stay with the center of the disc which is cool and pleasant, but not cold.] <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </SPAN></P><P class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center>The state of true undifferentiated meditative bliss as we understand and experience is called "Turiya". </P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center>It is not a dream, it is not a conscious feeling of sleeping or relaxed feeling of sleep or detachment from everything that is external and internal, and it is definitely not deep sleep or unconsciousness. </P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center>To explain this state within the limited vocabulary available in any language known to us is just impossible. It can be best described with feelings an exceptional experience, [<I>to put it as a child's way of expression "YES" describing it with both hands fists clinched bent at the elbow body slightly crouched and an broad smile on the face may just touch the tip of the ice berg</I>]. May be in the future new words will be developed or invented to enable limiting the limitless. Thus, this is always quoted in the texts as negating everything "<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: red">neither this nor that</SPAN></I>", or as "<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: red">not this not this, nethi- nethi</SPAN></I>". This is because everything is happening all at the same time. And consciousness can focus only on one thing at a time and selecting any one thing from the totality will only make us loose the state and come back among the limited definition of that which we have selected.</P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><o:p> </o:p></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center>Will Be Continued.</P>]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 15:59:14 +0530</pubDate><link>http://hakotiankar.rediffiland.com/blogs/2008/05/20/meditation-state-1-1.html</link></item><item><title>soul of the soul</title><description><![CDATA[<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue">The soul of the soul is consciousness,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>{Awareness or that which enables detection of change, </SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: red">ananda shakthi</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: blue">, which means both joy and sorrow},</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: maroon"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: maroon">The soul of consciousness is feeling, <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: maroon">{Bhavana, the difference in each micro division or frame of observation [this gives rise to the sense of time] (by meditation we are changing our ability to experience from macro to micro)}, <o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: maroon">The soul of feelings is the active state of energy <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: maroon">{Bindhu (the point) and nada (the vibration around the point, this is [anahata nada the un-struck sound, this give rise to all form and vision)]} , <o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: maroon">The soul of energy is activity (Kriya or Karma) this enables experience and individuals reference of time,</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: #333300"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: #333300">The soul of activity (Karma) is desire to experience, <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: black">The soul of experience is reflection or consciousness of oneself, (desire to experience oneself either by ones own senses or through the interaction with others,</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: red"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: red">The soul of action (karma) is desire for union {Yoga},<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: red">The soul of desire or union or yoga is love {bakthi}.<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"> {This is due to the hidden truth that we were one, now after separation we are trying to achieve that same oneness, the whole commotion is due to the existence of simultaneous activity in different ways to achieve the same goal of ones). <o:p></o:p></I></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: red">The soul of love is knowledge,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: navy">The soul of knowledge is the understanding (Wisdom, Janna),</SPAN></B><SPAN style="COLOR: navy"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue">The soul of understanding is the similarity of observed and accepted <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">details stored in our memory as words, vision (shapes and form),<o:p></o:p></I></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: red">{The soul of similarity is accepting the meaning of the word. </SPAN></I><SPAN style="COLOR: olive">The soul of shape and form is sound;</SPAN><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: green"> <U>the soul of vision is reflection of light</U>,}</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: red"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: #ff6600">The soul of the word is the meaning attached to it by us</SPAN>,<o:p></o:p></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: black">The soul of oneself is god as defined by us, <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">The soul of god is pure conscious undifferentiated energy known as "pradhana"<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"> (the first and foremost subtle of the subtle thing that exists in the entirety all by its self. </I>This is rajas; the activity of change from satwa to tamas the mula prakrathi that is always in balance through the action of rajas, this is the cause of change that enables detection of difference between consciousnesses's which compares the previous state (stored automatically in the memory with the presence using intellect (budhi)<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">).<o:p></o:p></I></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><o:p> </o:p></I></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">May be continued in future..<o:p></o:p></I></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0.25in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: 9pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align=center><B><I><o:p> </o:p></I></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 13:56:59 +0530</pubDate><link>http://hakotiankar.rediffiland.com/blogs/2008/05/18/soul-of-the-soul-1.html</link></item><item><title>concentration 2</title><description><![CDATA[<P class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Concentration (Continued)<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></B></P><P class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center>Since the time our reasoning matured and our absorbing nature was developed by purification and perfection in the course of the yoga sadhana (living in a systematic way as defined in the texts, say that any act performed by us is a sadhana, it is only our individual understanding of these that create disturbance to the peace), we have been studying the mind under the various topics some of which are: - mysteries of the mind, power of the seat of reason &amp; Knowledge, intellectual ability, grasping the nature of things, understanding of the nature of the mind (meaning, quality, magnitude of the range of mental vision). This has helped us to simplify the methods of meditation and concentration. Mind works through the internal essence or subtle part of the main sense organs and external senses. Mind is always dynamic, alert and continuously informed within the limits of its exposure and development. There is one law of nature that says that everything is in a constant motion, time cycle, <SPAN style="COLOR: red">if their flow of energy is not restricted then there is joy, peace or harmony</SPAN> as it will be in the most natural domain, and on the other hand, when restriction or becomes stagnant there is sorrow, disturbance or discord (friction, argument, fright fear, or grief). This will cause anything that is stagnant to cause pain, stress, strain, &amp; discomfort (a characteristic of the basic element air), this is exactly what happens when contraction on a feeling of sorrow &amp; pain. The gross is more stagnant than the subtle, which has greater characteristics of fluidity, which is more stagnant than the fire due its higher mobility, which is more stagnant than a gas, which is more stagnant than energy and space. Thus, thoughts of space and energy will make us arrive at the state more easily in comparison with gross things. This is what is achieved when we transcend from gross (physical or external thing) to subtle, and then to super subtle realm of energy and space. </P><P class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center>We consciously or unconsciously gather information (energy) in the process of living, through our internal &amp; external senses, the assumptions we make when we accept the perceived, learn, and reason with the topic (subject or object), they are stored in the memory, this is stagnation in a way and is the cause of all the things we experience while living. That information that is accepted by us or understood is stored in the memory (establish impression firmly in the mind, the power of retaining and recalling past experience). Thus, when a similar signal or some thing related with a topic is brought to the mind by the senses, it is compared with the memory, and then consciousness is generated along with an illusionary picture, visualized in the mind along with the experience. </P><P class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B>Say we are concentrating on an apple</B><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">, the eyes can see the reflected light from the surface of the apple along with its texture and shape, and this is using only one sense organ. Keeping this in active memory now add the feelings (reflections) of touch, taste, smell, and the sound of crunching without actually eating it, if this generates the same enjoyment (experience) of eating it then our concentration has become wholesome or single pointed with respect to one main topic of eating the apple. Note, even though there are so many different signals they are actually dealing with only one topic of concentration and in a sense it is a global feeling (more complete as it covers all the topics of that apple. We have created the reality with complete clarity using our gross senses and further aided the conscious ness with subtle sense (the essence of gross sense organs) to create a reality in our imagination. <SPAN style="COLOR: red">(</SPAN><B>Care to be noted here is not to generate a flow so large in the initial stages, as it can manifest or create the apple in reality, this is necessary as many of the components that create this may not have been purified, [<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: red">this is done by guiding the intensity of the desire to superficial aspects at first and then gradually increase this intensity to experience higher clarity with respect to subtle essence and still higher in the feelings level and then to energy level the final stage to generate the oneness of all things.</SPAN></I></B>]Yes, this requires very high level of will power, determination with purity and perfection<SPAN style="COLOR: red">)</SPAN>. We can start with an apple or any other </SPAN>thing / subject / object or abstract thought with open eyes and then graduate to the level of tip of the nose and the further graduate to closed eye or internalization of concentration. But mastering the tip of the nose concentration is vital for progress as per our experience and understanding if we want to achieve the state of meditation called "<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">turyia" or meditative perpetual bliss</B>. Note here that do not assign any specific place to the consciousness during the internalization of concentration, (say mind inside the head, heart or any where out side) just think of the point with out reference, let it be any where it really does not matter, this will help in expanding or engulfing the entirety easily. In meditative state, there is the flow of energy and consciousness is active with the difference to the other states by not attaching it with any one particular thing, this means that there is global awareness rather than specific awareness. Thus if we can consciously tune our activities in this manner we can achieve success easily since we can guide the energy in the direction we intend (guide). Perceptions of (sound, smell, sight, touch &amp; thought), divine illumination, enlightening experiences are all energy impulses of larger and larger frequencies and wave length when compared to gross things. The sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of soluble solutions in terms of say acids (which dissociate the fluid components to give hydrogen ions) and bases (which dissociate to give hydroxyl ions), is also dependent on the amount of water or dilution, or the product of an acid and a base or a salt and water. Hydrogen ions being the simplest atoms with only one proton and electron makes them closest to the pure energy, thus consciousness becomes faster and faster and globalization becomes easier. Similarly mechanical vibrations transmitted to elastic medium (sensation of hearing) create some auditory effect. A mental image generated can also create by an auditory perception, not real auditory perception of strange nonverbal sounds, composite sensory nerve supplying the hair cells of the reception area organ and the hair cells of the cochlea (A sensory system located in structures of the inner ear that registers the orientation of the head). The sensation produced by pressure receptors in the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain, ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body and its parts the internal organs. All are responsible to make the mental vision complete, the synchronizing of all these signals from the different senses with respect to frequency, wave length and amplitude create the harmony when we are able to understand them as same thing in many different signals, their difference is removed and flow of energy is directed towards one single path. THIS IS SAME AS REMOVING DIFFERENES WE HAD ASSUMED. Now intellect is free to experience only this as there is no more need of any further correlation. This is when we experience the first glimpse of peace. Note if we change the topic then the state is lost, thus we need to come to one single point and stay with it, gradually we develop the understanding that all the rest is similar and give up the activity of engaging our intellect to them. This is maturity when related to working of the mind and brain. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P><P class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center>To Be Continued ...</P><P class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><o:p> </o:p></P>]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 15:52:47 +0530</pubDate><link>http://hakotiankar.rediffiland.com/blogs/2008/05/04/concentration-2-1.html</link></item></channel></rss>