“Tp – eye to mind – logical way – conscious .”

Tp – eye to mind – logical way – conscious . Tq – jump to ego.

High res pics. – unconscious – samskaaraas – reactive mind.

Tp \= Tq – intellectual level. Tp \> Tq – Instinct level (slave of unconscious mind bullock cart) Tp \< Tq - Intuition Decisions are taken at Survival level. That’s why regret all the time. This is not me result. Swing of moods or dilemma – u r at the instinct level. U will be continuously passing judgement without giving time for tq. U will be taking wrong decisions at survival level. If u don’t repent – intellect – tractor. If u feel continuously rejuvenated, happy excited, intuition, aircraft. You don’t have unconscious. You are superconscious. U r aircraft. Shoulder pain – not doing anything - instinct. Unconscious level – becomes conscious – intellect – not tired.. Intuition – rejuvenated. decisions are taken from an illogical plane. Not living, just surviving. Our of fear and greed, not out of awareness. Bring peace and silence instead of memories to this tp. More peace, the whole thing become conscious.

Intuition is a wonderful subject. You ask Modern day CEOs, how they took major decisions on their lives. What cased the turning point in their lives. Again and again their answer surprises us. The CEOs these days again and again they say that their success came from something beyond their intellect that gave them the Energy or the guts to take the decisions. Not just successful CEOs, even scientists. The other day I had a chance to have lunch with Dr George Towns, Nobel laureate in the field of laser and maser. I asked him ‘Sir, how did this happen? How were you able to do this?’ He answered in a beautiful way: I was just sitting in a park in Washington DC; suddenly something happened. The conclusion was there in me. Suddenly the revelation of the conclusion was revealed to me. I penned down what I experienced. Now I had a big difficulty. I had the conclusion but not the steps. I was not able to present this to anybody else because I know only the conclusion; I don’t know the steps. Not only with Charles Town, again with Einstein. He says, “Whatever new happened to me, it came through intuition not through intellect.” He says a beautiful saying, “ The Intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and rational mind is a faithful servant; we have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” Whether we believe it not or accept it or not, there is something called Intuition. Of course, even Einstein says this as a gift, because he doesn’t know; we are not sure when it will come and whether it will come or not. But Yogis, the mystics say again and again, you can work for it and you can be sure about it. You don’t have to think that Intuition is a gift. You can work for it. It can become a part of your life. Whatever new thing has happened, it has happened only through intuition, it has happened only when something has happened beyond your intellect – means your whole Being is integrated. You are at your peak. When you are at your peak, something opens. You may call it revelation or Intuition, which happens beyond intellect. Yogis have again and again said that it is a science. If you can tune yourself to this Intuition or this Energy, which is continuously available in your Being, you can use this in your regular life. In the West, I is always an accident. Once in a while, it happens. With Yogis, again and again they say it is an incident; you can make it happen. They know how to make it happen. Today we will see what is Intuition; how the mind works and how you can awaken that power inside our Being. With a small diagram, I will try to present how usually our mind works; how you process the information in your mind.

How does the mind work? You see something. First, the eye sees. In Sanskrit, they call this part as chakshu. It is almost like a digital signal processor (dsp); The signal, the input is converted into a digital file. Then it goes to the memory; in Sanskrit, we call it chitta. When it goes to the memory, a little more work is done on the file. For example, if you are seeing me now, the file is processed through chakshu, the it taken to chitta, memory. The Memory first starts analyzing; it first excludes. It starts saying, this is not an animal, this is not a plant, not a rock. All the excluding process is done by the chitta. Then the file goes to the mind – manas. The mind starts processing. Now it says, it comes to a conclusion, this is a human being, a human being taking classes. Next, your mind starts associating all your memories, something which you have attended earlier, something to do with yoga or meditation, or this type of IM – all these things, you try to associate. Next, the whole file takes a quantum leap, and then your ego decides based on your past experiences. If you have past experiences with yoga and meditation, and it has been ok, if you think that is has helped, you decide to sit or you think this is not for me. Understand this small process. You are seeing me. The eye passes the information to the chakshu. The chakshu converts it to a digital signal. The memory then does all the exclusions – this is not, this is not. Then, the mind does the identification; ‘This is it’, is done by mind, manas. Then the whole file takes a quantum leap; you decide based on your past experiences you decide whether to sit here or leave the hall. Now, the gap between the eye and mind - this process is conscious. You are aware of this process. It happens with your awareness. But the mind to ego process – you are not aware about it. It May times, the process happens without your awareness. You decide against your logic. You decide against your thought process. For example, according to the data that you have collected, You know that smoking is injurious to health; it is not good for your body; it is not good for your mind. But when the mind takes an unconscious leap to ego, simply you take the decision to smoke. The Conscious process says, no – it is not good for health. But the unconscious process says…it doesn’t even say, it just takes the decision and you execute. Many times, the decisions are not under your control because the unconscious is very powerful. The Unconscious can be used in three ways – at the instinct level, the intellect level and the intuition level. As long as the Unconscious is filled with negative memories and restlessness, it works at the instinct level. You decide just instinctively. You don’t even know why you are angry. Suddenly you burst. Sometimes, you feel some activities or some words that you speak, you feel it is not me. You do something and then you think, ‘This is not me, how did I do it? How did I allow this to happen?’ This happens because the Unconscious is working in the instinct level. Many times, you just associate things without even any logical connection. For example, if you have been disturbed by somebody who was wearing a white dress, the moment you see somebody wearing a white dress, the past memory comes up and you feel the anger. This is the instinct level. Without your conscious mind, without even you understanding, just like that it happens. If your Unconscious is too much loaded, if your Unconscious is restless, you will be at the instinct level. The next is the intellect level. OK, you are conscious, but you don’t have enough of enthusiasm. You just go with a conscious mind, ‘alright…’, but you are not creative, not innovative. You don’t take big steps, you don’t grow. It is just like a faithful servant Einstein says. The intellect is a faithful servant. You can be a servant throughout your life. You can be just a servant, but nothing more or big can through you. You will be collecting the datas, processing it and delivering it – nothing more than a computer. If you are standing only at the intellect level, we are not using our potential to the maximum – the extent to which it is supposed to be used. The next is intuition. This is very…you need little deep understanding. You need to go deep into whole Science; only then you will be able to understand what I mean the by the word intuition. Intuition is something which happens you beyond your intellect. Suddenly you know for sure that this is the right thing and you have enough Energy also to do it but you don’t the step because this Unconscious is always a quantum leap. So you don’t know the step how you came to the conclusion but you know for sure this is right. This Energy is needed is whenever you are faced with a situation where there is no precedence. When you are stuck with minimum data and you need to take decisions or you have a lot of choices and you are not able to decide what you are supposed to do…in these type of situations, the Intuition Energy can help you. The Intuitive power can give you the courage or give you the right choice. The Intuition again and again gives you the Energy not only to decide but to execute what you have decided. People ask me, Swamiji how do I find out whether I am having intuition or I am just intellectual. Sometimes I am confused about whether it is Intellect or Intuition. I tell them, be very clear, if you confused, it is only intellect. The very confusion shows that it is only intellect. When you have the Intuition, when you experience Intuition, not only you get the intellectual clarity, the answer, you get enough of power to execute it. You don’t know…you just have the power. The potential power which is inside your Being is just unleashed. You open up and just like that you start expressing it, executing it. Now the next question: How to awaken the intuition? How to awaken the intuitive power? If you can consciously give rest to our conscious minds…usually our conscious mind never rests. If you can give consciously rest to it, for a while, the Energy which is in that Unconscious level will open up and usually when the unconscious level Energy opens up, first whatever we suppressed will come out. Next, will come a pure Energy which we call Intuition. When pure Energy starts coming out from the U level, you don’t use the Unconscious at the instinct level or intellectual level. You use it for Intuition. The higher level Energy starts happening in you. And ofcourse, above all, Yogis feel that the higher level Energy heals you physically, mentally and emotionally. Apart from healing, mainly I want you to concentrate and understand that this can help reduce the stress and to decide spontaneously. Spontaneity has nothing to do with datas which you collect; it is something to do with the way in which you process the data. The same data, same information can be processed in many ways. Intuition is all about how you process and how you come to the conclusion beyond your intellect. We can prepare ourselves, we can tune ourselves to this Intuitive Energy through techniques methods which we call meditation. In the East we use the word meditation to tune ourselves with the higher Energy, which is in our Being, which continuously invites you again and again to experience it. Whenever we find time, sit with yourself. You can always see, if you have given appointment to ourselves…actually we give appointment to everybody, we never give appointment to ourselves. If you have given appointment to yourself, you can always see that some part of your Being wants to express, wants to do something more, but we never give chance or time to that part, to that portion of our Being. We are so caught up with our intellect. We think that our intellect is the Ultimate, but again and again Yogis prove something more than intellect is possible. And in any discovery or invention, you can see that the role of intuition is always there. Whether it is Einstein or Newton, they have had something beyond intellect. With Newton also…in every one of our gardens, apple falls…but none of us have become Newton. Something beyond mind has happened to him. Something beyond intellect has happened in him, which can happen in every one of us. It is not that it can happen only to N or E. It can happen to every one of us. If we can tune ourselves to that Energy…Tuning ourselves to that Energy is what I call Meditation. At the end of the session, we will have a very practical session, which can awaken the intuition in you just after a few days of practice. When I say a few days, I mean just 2, 3 days. 2-3 days is more than enough to tune yourself with this Intuition. As on now, we are using this Unconscious Energy either at the instinct level or the intellect level. It can be tuned and you can use it at the intuition level to make the decision, creativity whatever you call.

Your mind works through instinct, intellect and intuition. Through instinct your mind decides by negative memory and restlessness unconsciously. If you are disturbed by white dress a nurse would disturb you unconsciously. Through intellect you work at conscious level but not energetically, not enthusiastically; you work as a computer, as a robot. In intuition, you suddenly know what is right but you don’t know how, but you have energy. You have minimum data, no precedence. You have many choices, suddenly one pops up. Intuition gives you the power to decide and implement.

Q & A

Q: How to rest consciously?

A: Yes. Consciously resting means thoughtless awareness – that is what I call meditation. I will make a small diagram…we have two levels of Consciousness and two levels of thoughts. In the waking state you have I consciousness and thoughts ( conscious, jagrat). In dreams you have thoughts but no I consciousness. The frequency of thoughts is more than the frequency of I consciousness. That is why in the dream, you cannot control your dreams. The dreams will happen as they want. But in the waking state, you can control your thoughts. (subconscious, swapna). In deep sleep you have neither I consciousness or thoughts (unconscious, sushupti). There is a fourth state which you have never experienced – what I call intuition or meditation - You have I consciousness but no thoughts (no psychological term, turiya). This is what I call meditation or intuition or thoughtless awareness. In Sanskrit we call it Samadhi. If you can experience this zone, this fourth state, we can experience the Consciousness, what I call beyond intellect. The Bliss, or the peace or the intuition. The practical use of this fourth state is it can give you so much of creativity, courage, confidence; you can decide spontaneously; The ability to take spontaneous decision is what is call responsibility. The more you are able to decide spontaneously, the more you become responsible. There are so many situation, you cant work with just data. First of all data will not be available, or very little data will be available. There will be no precedence like decisions taken by your elders etc. So in that type of situations, you need something more than what you call intellect, you need something beyond just your data. You need what I call the thoughtless awareness. If you experience just a glimpse, not only your life in your office or at the corporate level, even in your relationships, it can totally change. Relationship failures happen because of our reactive mind. In the reactive mind, when I say Unconscious mind, I mean two things. One is, collecting all the arguments and then passing judment. Another is, your judment is ready, you just collect argument to support your judgment. You decide he or she is wrong, then you go around collecting some arguments to support your judgment. It means you are only working at your instinct level. Sometimes the instinct and intuition look the same. People ask me how to differentiate. In intuition, you will tremendously energetic, alive. With instinct, you will feel tremendously drained. Whenever you use your intellect and feel drained, be very clear you are working at the instinct level. Many times, our anger and other emotions, we just decide instinctively, then we will understand and think: why did I do this? Then you feel guilt. Guilt is the gift from the Unconsciousness or the Unconscious decision-making. If we can experience this fourth state what I call meditation, surely we will be able to harness the Energy, which is in our Being, what I call intuition. Waking – Conscious, Dreaming – Sub-Conscious, Deep Sleep – Unconscious. Because psychology could not go so deep, there is no word. So thoughtless awareness is what I call consciously resting.

Q: where does intuition come from?

A: It comes from you, from no one else! Because we have not experienced that zone, that part, that dimension of our Being, we have forgotten it. That’s something called I exists. Some one asked in a seminar: when I hear the phone I remember someone, and he is there on the line; I remember some one at a party and then I see him. To more than 70% in the audience this happened. Here too. If it happens in one person’s life once, you can sy it is a coincidence. But 70% you cannot call it a coincidence! There is more to it. There is some logic behind it. We may not be able to know logically but it is not that it is nothing. When you know the logic, call it an incident; When you don’t know you call it as a coincidence. Nothing can happen without a cause on planet Earth. It is always cause and effect. When you know the cause and effect link, you call it as an incident. When you don’t know, you call it as a coincidence. There is something that happens only from you. When this happens from you, intuition also has to happen only from you. Let me explain how it happens, how you come upon those moments…

Knowingly or unknowingly, you just fall deep into the restful state. You just fall into this fourth state for a moment. You just fall into this thoughtless awareness. This thoughtless awareness can happen to you whenever you are blissful or you are totally relaxing. Whenever you have a glimpse of intuition…See…Intuition is not something away form you. It again and again happens in you. Only thing, we take these things as coincidence and brush it aside. We don’t give enough importance to it and we don’t encourage our Being to grow in that line. Whatver you brush aside never grows. U need to encourage it. You need to allow it to grow. For eg., when your child starts speaking, unless you sit and listen, it will not speak to you. If you just brush it aside, if you just keep quiet, he will simply be quiet, nothing else can be done. In the same way, your Being tries to relate with you again and again through these small incidents. If you can encourage it, if you can recognize it, naturally it will express the higher dimension what we call I. When you don’t encourage it, when you just brush it aside in the name ‘Oh! This is just a coincidence’, you are not encouraging the higher dimension of your Being. Whenever you get a glimpse or experience Intuition in your life, you are falling into this state what I call meditation, thoughtless awareness. You can fall into that state accidentally. That is the way it has happened to all the scientists. Now we have techniques. Why make it accidental. It can be made a reality like in day-to-day life. So, whenever you experience the thoughtless awareness without your knowledge, you get a glimpse of intuition. It always happens only from your Being.

Q: Knowledge from Vedas comes from a higher state of intelligence

A: some one who creates a formula to reproduce an experience in the outer world you become a scientist. One who does it in the inner world is a rishi. Meditation is nothing but a formula to reproduce the same experience that happened in you when you got a glimpse of intuition in a much deeper and greater level in your Being.

Q: In a team environment how to work intuitively?

A: Nice. See, alongwith intuition, you get enough energy and courage to convince others. Why do u think the conflict raised? It always raised when you are not able to relate, when you are not able to look into each others eyes. All conflict starts only from inside. When it starts form inside, it expresses outside. When intuition happens, you will be so clear about it…I asked Dr. Charles, ‘Sir, when you say you had a revelation, I can accept. I can accept because I know. I can sympathize with your idea. But how did the scientific community accept? After that I had to sit and work out the path, how I arrived at the conclusion. When I did that, naturally the community accepted One more thing: When intuition happens in you, you will have the intelligence to create the logical path also. And you will be able to present it logically. When it happens it happens at the intuitive level. When you express, you can always express it with intellect. And one more thing: Whenever intuition happens, your intellect also gets sharpened to express it. There is conflict only when you can not look another in the eye, when you can not be honest. When you are intuitive you have the power to be honest. You have the power to create the path to reach others. Your intellect gets sharpened to express yourself intelligently. Normally we do not trust our own Being. We think we are our weakest link. Strength of a human being is not that way. We are more than want we are. Intuition is an experience. When you experience, you will have enough energy to express it. It is after all Energy. Energy is intelligence. Your Being is intelligence. One more thing: WE never trust that our Being is intelligent. We always measure our Being only with our weakest link. You weigh yourself only with your weakest link. You are not your weakest link. You are something more than your weakest link. The strength of a chain can be measured based on our weakest link. But the strength of our Being cannot be measured with our weakest link. It is not reality. You are something more than what you think you are.

Q: How does one control thoughts \\?

A: The dream state is a time for catharsis, which you need to go wild. You are so controlled. In the dream all your suppressed things come out. For example, if you are fasting for 3 days, you will have a feast in your dreams. You need this time for catharsis to happen. Too much of suppression will not do good. So it is good if you are not able to control your dreams. You need that time for yourself.

Q: If I sleep with a problem in my mind I wake up with a solution?

S: How do you feel when you wake up? Person: I feel good S: then it’s fine. But if you feel disturbed give this up. You need to give time for yourself atleast in your dreams. Modern day psychologists they say, if you r dreams are continuously disturbed for 14 days, there is every chance that you will be emotionally imbalanced. SO we must allow some time to dream also.

Q: why do we doubt ourselves?

A: from a young age you are taught to doubt yourself. We are not allowed to believe ourselves. We do not trust ourselves. That is why again and again we take for things for granted and never trust ourselves. In the initial level, questioning yourself is ok. But a higher level, you need to trust yourself. Too much questioning makes you schizophrenic. It makes you a split personality. One side will do something and the other side will be doing something else. We need to do some patch up work with ourselves. Jesus says beautifully, love thy neighbor as you love yourself; but we do not even love ourselves, where to love others? First we need to love ourselves. First integrate yourself, then we can go for others. Integrating ourselves is what I call meditation. Meditation is nothing but integrating yourself. When you integrate yourself, you will start experiencing the peak of intellect. The peak of instinct is intellect. The peak of intelligence is intuition. When you integrate you start growing.

Q: There are so many types of meditation, what do I choose?

A: what do you think is the best software? You will say what you have written because that is what you know best. I can only tell you what I know, that’s what I know best. I can give you a simple meditation that can give you all the positive effect of meditation or samadhi.

Q: How do I execute the intuition properly without doubting…

A: When you really have an intuition, this doubt will not be there. Even if you don’t trust yourself it is there in you. All ‘Ifs’ are negative all ‘Is’ are positive. What IS is positive. What IF is negative. If you are at ease with yourself, you have had intuition. Else you have had only instinct

Q: How is prayer different from meditation? People think they see God. Is it intuition?

A: Intuition is not about God or someone else speaking to you. I do not know about what you say. If some one says God spoke to him, if he is successful people will follow him; otherwise people will call him mad.

A: The conscious mind always struggles to take the intuition away because intuition means risk. Intuition is only for the people who have got the courage, who have got guts. Who want to achieve – only their Conscious mind allows the intuition to work. Again and again you have the glimpse of intuition but you are not able to handle it because of your trained conscious mind. SO once in a way, you can try, when it is not very risky…I always tell people: Jump before you think; if you start thinking you will never jump. I have not seen anybody jumping after thinking. The moment you jump you have to stop thinking. If you are continuously thinking, how will you jump? So I don’t think anybody who thinks can jump. And anyone who jumps has to stop thinking. So wherever it is not risky, you can trust your intuition and you will see that you encourage it. Many times the successful CEOs words become a book. That becomes a law. Ofcourse, it is something to do with intuition. But just because somebody is successful, you cannot say that all is Intuition. There is a clear cut science behind it. That science is what I call – you will fee so much of joy, energy, bliss after it. And one more thing: When you live with Intuition, you always feel totally satisfied, that you have done your best. You will live such a deep satisfaction that within yourself apart from the outer success, which you usually miss even if you make enough money.

Q: are there different levels of intuition as with intelligence

A: the longer you can stay in thoughtless awareness the stronger will your intuition be

Q: what is the link between inner and outer world

A: This is a very deep question. Only thing I am a little afraid that I have to make a few statements which I cant prove intellectually, which I don’t usually do. There are some things which you cant explain just based on the intellect. I need to make a few statements which you cant understand straight away intellectually. Of course if you work on it, you will be bale to understand. For example, if we have a formula, x x2 is 4, first we have to substitute 2 in the place of x. Then when we get the solution, we know that x is equal to 2. But we need little patience till we work and finish the calculation. YOu will ask me, why only 2? Why not 3, why not 4? SO you need little patience till we finish the calculation. SO now I will be making 2, 3 statements. YOu need to have little patience till we finish the analysis. First thing: There is no such thing called inner world and outer world. The whole thing is one and the same. Again and again, it is your inner world projected in the outer world. Whether you believe it or not, accept it or not, want it or not, the Truth is Truth. There is only one world - Your Being. Whatever happens there, you start creating in the outer world. You start expressing. The difficulty is, you start creating and you forget what you created. The process is so unconscious. YOu are continuously fighting with your own desires. Then when something wrong happens in the outer world, you say, no, no, I never wanted this; this has happened. Many times, our desires are fighting with ourselves, continuously creating a tug of war inside you and we project these things in the outer world. When these things happen in the outer world, we say no no this is not mine. Inviting concept. Before inviting you don’t know whom you are inviting. Same way, before you express, you don’t what you are creating in your mental setup. Until the things that happen in the Unconscious level comes to the conscious level, you don’t even know what is going on. That is the problem. That is why we are not able to accept that whatever happens in the inner world only happens in the outer world. It is you who is giving space or place in everything. Of course we can go the extreme…I don’t have time now to prove it..but even accidents are created by us. This is an important statement to be understood. You tune yourself. If you tune yourself to BBC, we see it. If we tune yourself to CNN, you see it. Same way, it is you who is creating the possibility for things to happen around you. And one more thing: Whether you believe it not life is surely under your control, atleast the major decisions is in our hands.

Q: If in a team does intuition promote competition

A: Intuition is always complementary. It cannever contradict each other. If there is contradiction, be very clear: there is some missing link. Something is missing. In the world, there is nothing called contradiction. There is no contradiction. People tel me, Swamiji there is so much of contradiction in my inner world and outer world. I tell them No, it means there is some missing link. Try to find that. There is no contradiction on Planet Earth. Everything is complimenting. Please understand: I am neither pessimist nor optimist. I am not here to give you some positive suggestions or positive solutions or positive thoughts. No. I am just telling the truth. Just the reality. The moment you think something is positive, you already think it is not the truth. You have decided that it is not the Truth! I tell you, there is nothing called positive or negative. I am just telling what is truth. So be very clear, if there is contradiction, there is some missing link. Work for it. Whether physical, mental, emotional or social levels, I is always complimentary to your Being. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Delivered at Microsoft in April 2005

Tp – eye to mind – logical way – conscious . Tq – jump to ego.

High res pics. – unconscious – samskaaraas – reactive mind.

Tp \= Tq – intellectual level. Tp \> Tq – Instinct level (slave of unconscious mind bullock cart) Tp \< Tq - Intuition Decisions are taken at Survival level. That’s why regret all the time. This is not me result. Swing of moods or dilemma – u r at the instinct level. U will be continuously passing judgement without giving time for tq. U will be taking wrong decisions at survival level. If u don’t repent – intellect – tractor. If u feel continuously rejuvenated, happy excited, intuition, aircraft. You don’t have unconscious. You are superconscious. U r aircraft. Shoulder pain – not doing anything - instinct. Unconscious level – becomes conscious – intellect – not tired.. Intuition – rejuvenated. decisions are taken from an illogical plane. Not living, just surviving. Our of fear and greed, not out of awareness. Bring peace and silence instead of memories to this tp. More peace, the whole thing become conscious.

With a small diagram, I will try to present how usually our mind works; how you process the information in your mind. Why should you attend this chakra meditation camp? What does it hold for you? Let me try to answer this question in this session. For that, let us first analyse the working of the mind.

How does the mind work? Just look at this diagram here. It is a diagram to show the processing of information that enters through the eye. Let me explain it to you.

You first see something. First, the eye sees it. There is something what you call chakshu in Sanskrit, which digitizes the information seen by the eye. It is something like a digital signal processor – the DSP in your computers. The signal or the input is converted into a digital file by this chakshu.

Then the file goes to the memory. In Sanskrit, we call this portion chitta. In the memory, a little more work is done on the file. For example, if you are seeing me now, the file is processed through chakshu, then taken to the chitta, memory and the memory first starts analyzing the information and does a process of exclusion on it. It starts saying: This is not an animal, this is not a plant, this is not a rock etc. The excluding process is done by the chitta.

Then the file goes to the mind or manas. The mind does the job of identifying the file. It says: This is a human being; a human being who is taking a class. Your mind then starts associating what you are seeing with all your memories. It associates it with similar things that you have seen earlier. For example, when you see me talking here, you associate it with some similar class which you have attended earlier - some yoga class or some meditation camp.

Next, the whole file takes a quantum leap to the ego and your ego decides based on your past experiences what your next action or decision is. If you have past experiences with yoga and meditation, and they have been alright for you, if you think that it has helped, you will decide to sit here, else you will think it is better to move!

Just try to understand this process: You are seeing me. The eye passes the information to the chakshu. The chakshu converts it to a digital signal. The memory then does all the exclusions on the file – ‘this is not’, ‘this is not’. Then, the mind does the identification of the file – ‘this is it’. Then the whole file takes a quantum leap to the ego. Here, you decide based on your past experiences, whether to sit here or leave the hall.

Now, let us call the time for the process between the eye and the mind, as Tp. Tp is the time taken for the process between the eye and the mind to happen. This process between the eye and the mind is logical and conscious. You are aware of this process. It happens with your awareness. But the quantum leap from the mind to the Ego is mostly an unconscious process for you. It happens without your awareness. Let us call this time Tq. During this time, you simply decide illogically; you decide against your thought process.

Why does this happen? Why do you decide unconsciously and regret later?

This Unconscious zone is filled with negative memories and restlessness. All your past memories what we call samskaras in Sanskrit are in this zone as files. Without any logical connection between them, these incidents are stored here. What happens is, when the file takes a quantum leap to this area, there is so much of data stored and there is so much of restlessness in you because of this, that you just take a quick and hasty decision purely from your instinct and pass the file back. It happens as an unconscious and quick process.

For example, according to the data that you have collected, you know that smoking is injurious to health; it is not good for your body or your mind. But when the mind takes an unconscious leap to the ego, you simply decide to smoke! The Conscious process says: No, it is not good for health. But the unconscious process says…actually it doesn’t even say, it just takes the decision and you execute it! It is a pure instinct-level decision.

This Unconscious area is very powerful. It can be used in three ways – at the instinct level, at the intellect level or at the intuition level. As long as the Unconscious is overloaded with negative memories and restlessness, it works at the instinct level, like how we just saw. You simply decide instinctively.

When you are at the instinct level, you always end up regretting most of your decisions. You wonder: Why did I behave in that fashion? This is not me! How did I allow this to happen? This happens because the Unconscious is working in the instinct level. At this level, you just associate things without any logical connection and jump to a conclusion.

For example, if you have been disturbed by somebody who was wearing a white dress, the moment you see somebody wearing a white dress, the past memory simply comes up without your knowledge and you feel the anger. This is the instinct level. Without your conscious mind, without even you understanding, just like that it happens.

In the chakshu diagram, when Tq is lesser than Tp, that is when the quantum leap is so small when compared to the process between the eye and mind, you are at the instinct level. No time is given for the quantum leap. As soon as the file goes to the unconscious, the decision is taken. You will be continuously passing judgment without giving any time for Tq. When you function this way, you will be tired also. Your Unconscious will be so overloaded with your memory files.

It is something like this: When your hard disk is loaded with all high-resolution photographs, it will become slow and inefficient, is it not? In the same way, when your Unconscious is loaded with all past memories, it becomes inefficient and simply takes superficial and illogical decisions.

The next is the intellect level. Here, you are conscious; you take decisions logically, but you don’t have that extra enthusiasm. You are just there with a conscious mind, that’s all; you are not creative, not innovative; you don’t take big steps; you don’t grow. You are like a faithful servant. Einstein says: The intellect is a faithful servant. You can be a servant throughout your life. You can be just a servant, but nothing more or big can be done through you.

At this level, you will just be collecting the data, processing it and delivering it; you will be nothing more than a computer. When your unconscious zone is at the intellectual level, Tq will be almost equal to Tp. You don’t take hasty decision out of restlessness and overloading of your Unconscious zone, but you take decisions in a logical and conscious way. If you are standing only at the intellect level, you are still not using your potential to the maximum – the extent to which it is supposed to be used.

The next level where you can actualize your entire potential is the intuition level. If you can infuse a deep silence and peace into the unconscious zone and replace your engraved memories or files with silence and awareness, you can be at the intuition level; then Tq will be greater than Tp and you will take decisions from intuition.

This needs a deep understanding. You need to go deep into the whole Science, only then you will be able to understand what I mean by the word Intuition. Intuition is something which happens you beyond your intellect.

What is Intuition?

Let me explain. Suddenly you know for sure that something is the right thing and you feel that you have enough Energy also to do it, but you don’t the steps how to do it. You don’t know the steps of how you came to the conclusion but you know for sure that something is right. This is what is Intuition.

This Energy of Intuition is needed is whenever you are faced with a situation where there is no precedence. When you are stuck with minimum data and you need to take decisions, or you have many choices and you are not able to decide what you are supposed to do – in these type of situations, the Energy of Intuition helps you.

Intuition gives you the Energy not only to take the decision but also to execute what you have decided. People ask me, Swamiji how do I find out whether I am having an intuition or I am just being intellectual. They tell me, Swamiji, I am confused about whether it is Intellect or Intuition. I tell them: Be very clear: If you are confused, it is only intellect. The very confusion shows that it is only intellect. When you have an intuition, you will be so confident and brimming with Energy that there will be no room for confusion.

With intuition, the potential power which is inside your Being is simply unleashed. You open up and just like that you start expressing it, executing it. If you read about scientists and CEOs who have been involved in major breakthroughs in their fields, again and again you will find that they say they their success came from something beyond their intellect that gave them the Energy or the guts to take the decisions.

The other day I had an opportunity to have a meal with Dr George Towns, Nobel laureate in the field of LASER and MASER. I asked him ‘Sir, how did it happen? How were you able to do this?’ He answered in a beautiful way. He said, ‘I was just sitting in a park in Washington DC and suddenly something happened in me. The conclusion was there in me. Suddenly the conclusion was revealed to me. I immediately penned down what I got. I then realized that I had a difficulty - I had the conclusion but not the steps! I was not able to present it to anybody else because I knew only the conclusion; I did not know the steps. Then when I sat down, I was able to get the logical steps.

Not only with Charles Town, even Einstein says, “Whatever new happened to me, it came through intuition not through intellect.” He says beautifully, “The Intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and rational mind is a faithful servant.” We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”

Whether we believe it not or accept it or not, there is something called Intuition. Of course, even Einstein calls this as a gift because he doesn’t know whether it can be consistently had. He is not when it will happen and whether it will happen or not. But Yogis, the great Mystics, again and again say that you can very well work for it and you can be sure about having it. You don’t have to think that Intuition is a gift. You can work for it. It can become a part of your life.

When intuition happens beyond your intellect, your whole Being is integrated. You are at your peak. When you are at your peak, something opens. You may call it a revelation or an Intuition or anything. Yogis have again and again said that it is a science. If you can tune yourself to this Intuition or this Energy, which is continuously available in your Being, you can use this in your regular life.

Intuition is the Energy of your Being. When this pure Energy starts coming out from the Unconscious level, it also heals you physically, mentally and emotionally. Apart from healing, it reduces stress and helps you to take decisions spontaneously. Spontaneity has nothing to do with data that you collect; it is something to do with the way in which you process the data.

The same data, the same information can be processed in many ways. Intuition is all about how you process and how you come to the conclusion beyond your intellect. We can prepare ourselves, we can tune ourselves to this Intuitive Energy through techniques and methods.

These techniques are what we call meditation. In the East, we use the word meditation, to tune ourselves with the higher Energy, which is in our Being, which continuously invites us again and again to experience it.

Whenever you find time, just sit with yourself and observe. We are always ready to give appointment to others, but never to ourselves! If you just sit with yourself, you can always see that some part of your Being wants to express, wants to do something more; but we never give the chance or time to that part, to that portion of our Being. We are so caught up with our intellect. We think that our intellect is the Ultimate, but again and again Yogis prove that something more than intellect is possible.

This meditation camp is all about how the mind works, how to unload the deeply engraved memories in our Unconscious, how to prevent further loading and how we can awaken the latent power of our Being to move from instinct, to intellect to intuition, so that we may live like a Master and not a slave.

Knowingly or unknowingly, you just fall deep into the restful state. You just fall into this fourth state for a moment. You just fall into this thoughtless awareness. This thoughtless awareness can happen to you whenever you are blissful or you are totally relaxing. Whenever you have a glimpse of intuition…See…Intuition is not something away form you. It again and again happens in you. Only thing, we take these things as coincidence and brush it aside. We don’t give enough importance to it and we don’t encourage our Being to grow in that line. Whatever you brush aside never grows. U need to encourage it. You need to allow it to grow. For eg., when your child starts speaking, unless you sit and listen, it will not speak to you. If you just brush it aside, if you just keep quiet, he will simply be quiet, nothing else can be done. In the same way, your Being tries to relate with you again and again through these small incidents. If you can encourage it, if you can recognize it, naturally it will express the higher dimension what we call I. When you don’t encourage it, when you just brush it aside in the name ‘Oh! This is just a coincidence’, you are not encouraging the higher dimension of your Being. Whenever you get a glimpse or experience Intuition in your life, you are falling into this state what I call meditation, thoughtless awareness. You can fall into that state accidentally. That is the way it has happened to all the scientists. Now we have techniques. Why make it accidental. It can be made a reality like in day-to-day life. So, whenever you experience the thoughtless awareness without your knowledge, you get a glimpse of intuition. It always happens only from your Being.

Q: Knowledge from Vedas comes from a higher state of intelligence

A: Someone who creates a formula to reproduce an experience in the outer world you become a scientist. One who does it in the inner world is a rishi. Meditation is nothing but a formula to reproduce the same experience that happened in you when you got a glimpse of intuition in a much deeper and greater level in your Being.

Q: In a team environment how to work intuitively?

A: Nice. See, alongwith intuition, you get enough energy and courage to convince others. Why do u think the conflict raised? It always raised when you are not able to relate, when you are not able to look into each other’s eyes. All conflict starts only from inside. When it starts form inside, it expresses outside. When intuition happens, you will be so clear about it…I asked Dr. Charles, ‘Sir, when you say you had a revelation, I can accept. I can accept because I know. I can sympathize with your idea. But how did the scientific community accept? After that I had to sit and work out the path, how I arrived at the conclusion. When I did that, naturally the community accepted One more thing: When intuition happens in you, you will have the intelligence to create the logical path also. And you will be able to present it logically. When it happens it happens at the intuitive level. When you express, you can always express it with intellect. And one more thing: Whenever intuition happens, your intellect also gets sharpened to express it. There is conflict only when you can not look another in the eye, when you can not be honest. When you are intuitive you have the power to be honest. You have the power to create the path to reach others. Your intellect gets sharpened to express yourself intelligently. Normally we do not trust our own Being. We think we are our weakest link. Strength of a human being is not that way. We are more than want we are. Intuition is an experience. When you experience, you will have enough energy to express it. It is after all Energy. Energy is intelligence. Your Being is intelligence. One more thing: WE never trust that our Being is intelligent. We always measure our Being only with our weakest link. You weigh yourself only with your weakest link. You are not your weakest link. You are something more than your weakest link. The strength of a chain can be measured based on our weakest link. But the strength of our Being cannot be measured with our weakest link. It is not reality. You are something more than what you think you are.

Q: How does one control thoughts \\?

A: The dream state is a time for catharsis, which you need to go wild. You are so controlled. In the dream all your suppressed things come out. For example, if you are fasting for 3 days, you will have a feast in your dreams. You need this time for catharsis to happen. Too much of suppression will not do good. So it is good if you are not able to control your dreams. You need that time for yourself.

Q: If I sleep with a problem in my mind I wake up with a solution?

S: How do you feel when you wake up? Person: I feel good S: then it’s fine. But if you feel disturbed give this up. You need to give time for yourself atleast in your dreams. Modern day psychologists they say, if you r dreams are continuously disturbed for 14 days, there is every chance that you will be emotionally imbalanced. SO we must allow some time to dream also.

Q: why do we doubt ourselves?

A: from a young age you are taught to doubt yourself. We are not allowed to believe ourselves. We do not trust ourselves. That is why again and again we take for things for granted and never trust ourselves. In the initial level, questioning yourself is ok. But a higher level, you need to trust yourself. Too much questioning makes you schizophrenic. It makes you a split personality. One side will do something and the other side will be doing something else. We need to do some patch up work with ourselves. Jesus says beautifully, love thy neighbor as you love yourself; but we do not even love ourselves, where to love others? First we need to love ourselves. First integrate yourself, then we can go for others. Integrating ourselves is what I call meditation. Meditation is nothing but integrating yourself. When you integrate yourself, you will start experiencing the peak of intellect. The peak of instinct is intellect. The peak of intelligence is intuition. When you integrate you start growing.

Q: There are so many types of meditation, what do I choose?

A: what do you think is the best software? You will say what you have written because that is what you know best. I can only tell you what I know, that’s what I know best. I can give you a simple meditation that can give you all the positive effect of meditation or samadhi.

Q: How do I execute the intuition properly without doubting…

A: When you really have an intuition, this doubt will not be there. Even if you don’t trust yourself it is there in you. All ‘Ifs’ are negative all ‘Is’ are positive. What IS is positive. What IF is negative. If you are at ease with yourself, you have had intuition. Else you have had only instinct

Q: How is prayer different from meditation? People think they see God. Is it intuition?

A: Intuition is not about God or someone else speaking to you. I do not know about what you say. If some one says God spoke to him, if he is successful people will follow him; otherwise people will call him mad.

A: The conscious mind always struggles to take the intuition away because intuition means risk. Intuition is only for the people who have got the courage, who have got guts. Who want to achieve – only their Conscious mind allows the intuition to work. Again and again you have the glimpse of intuition but you are not able to handle it because of your trained conscious mind. SO once in a way, you can try, when it is not very risky…I always tell people: Jump before you think; if you start thinking you will never jump. I have not seen anybody jumping after thinking. The moment you jump you have to stop thinking. If you are continuously thinking, how will you jump? So I don’t think anybody who thinks can jump. And anyone who jumps has to stop thinking. So wherever it is not risky, you can trust your intuition and you will see that you encourage it. Many times the successful CEOs words become a book. That becomes a law. Ofcourse, it is something to do with intuition. But just because somebody is successful, you cannot say that all is Intuition. There is a clear cut science behind it. That science is what I call – you will fee so much of joy, energy, bliss after it. And one more thing: When you live with Intuition, you always feel totally satisfied, that you have done your best. You will live such a deep satisfaction that within yourself apart from the outer success, which you usually miss even if you make enough money.

Q: Are there different levels of intuition as with intelligence

A: The longer you can stay in thoughtless awareness the stronger will your intuition be

Q: What is the link between inner and outer world

A: This is a very deep question. Only thing I am a little afraid that I have to make a few statements which I can’t prove intellectually, which I don’t usually do. There are some things which you can’t explain just based on the intellect. I need to make a few statements which you cant understand straight away intellectually. Of course if you work on it, you will be bale to understand. For example, if we have a formula, x x2 is 4, first we have to substitute 2 in the place of x. Then when we get the solution, we know that x is equal to 2. But we need little patience till we work and finish the calculation. YOu will ask me, why only 2? Why not 3, why not 4? SO you need little patience till we finish the calculation. SO now I will be making 2, 3 statements. YOu need to have little patience till we finish the analysis. First thing: There is no such thing called inner world and outer world. The whole thing is one and the same. Again and again, it is your inner world projected in the outer world. Whether you believe it or not, accept it or not, want it or not, the Truth is Truth. There is only one world - Your Being. Whatever happens there, you start creating in the outer world. You start expressing. The difficulty is, you start creating and you forget what you created. The process is so unconscious. YOu are continuously fighting with your own desires. Then when something wrong happens in the outer world, you say, no, no, I never wanted this; this has happened. Many times, our desires are fighting with ourselves, continuously creating a tug of war inside you and we project these things in the outer world. When these things happen in the outer world, we say no no this is not mine. Inviting concept. Before inviting you don’t know whom you are inviting. Same way, before you express, you don’t what you are creating in your mental setup. Until the things that happen in the Unconscious level comes to the conscious level, you don’t even know what is going on. That is the problem. That is why we are not able to accept that whatever happens in the inner world only happens in the outer world. It is you who is giving space or place in everything. Of course we can go the extreme…I don’t have time now to prove it..but even accidents are created by us. This is an important statement to be understood. You tune yourself. If you tune yourself to BBC, we see it. If we tune yourself to CNN, you see it. Same way, it is you who is creating the possibility for things to happen around you. And one more thing: Whether you believe it not life is surely under your control, atleast the major decisions is in our hands.

Q: If in a team does intuition promote competition

A: Intuition is always complementary. It can never contradict each other. If there is contradiction, be very clear: there is some missing link. Something is missing. In the world, there is nothing called contradiction. There is no contradiction. People tell me, Swamiji there is so much of contradiction in my inner world and outer world. I tell them No, it means there is some missing link. Try to find that. There is no contradiction on Planet Earth. Everything is complimenting. Please understand: I am neither pessimist nor optimist. I am not here to give you some positive suggestions or positive solutions or positive thoughts. No. I am just telling the truth. Just the reality. The moment you think something is positive, you already think it is not the truth. You have decided that it is not the Truth! I tell you, there is nothing called positive or negative. I am just telling what is truth. So be very clear, if there is contradiction, there is some missing link. Work for it. Whether physical, mental, emotional or social levels, I is always complimentary to your Being.