“Let you be very clear.”

Let you be very clear. Here Shiva is creating subtlest possible technique for human beings. Human beings cannot as such work directly on the ether, on mind. The thing which they can directly touch is only the breath and breath is the bridge between you and the universe. It is the bridge between your body and the mind. You can see very clearly, till breadth, you are only body. After the breath, you are mind. If you see all the five elements, till the air, you are only body: whether it is earth, water or fire or the air-all these four are only body. But after the breath, after the air, after the prana, it is mind. The ether is mind. The breadth is the bridge between your body and mind, your matter and spirit. Body is the matter; spirit is the energy. Breadth is the bridge between your body and mind.

Please be very clear. Constantly you are connecting with the universe. You are relating with cosmos through the breadth. The moment you stop relating, you are dead. The moment you stop relating, you are dead. He says, “This experience may dawn between two breaths after breath comes in and just before turning out.” Once the breathing goes in and before it turns out, it touches your inner space. Let you be very clear, every single breadth is directly managed by your atman, not by your mind. Let you be very clear. That is why, even if you forget, you go on breathing. If it is under the control of your mind, long before you would stop the breathing. Because you forget so many things. You would have forgotten this also. It is not under the control of your mind. It is under the control of Consciousness.

Every single breath you go and touch your inner Consciousness. You straight away go and reach your inner Consciousness, then come out. Every single breath is directly related to your inner Consciousness. That is the easiest method to reach Enlightenment. Let Me be very clear. With any other technique you have to do something. Here you don’t have to do anything. Just be and automatically you will be taken into the space where the Enlightenment is happening. Automatically you will reach the space where Consciousness is your nature. Automatically you will enter into the space where you are in Shiva Consciousness. Every moment, you are reaching the space of Shiva Consciousness, you are entering into the space of Shiva Consciousness without even your knowledge. Only thing, all you need to do is just be with the vehicle which goes into the inner space of Shiva Consciousness.

If you just keep quiet and sit in the train that is enough. Your breadth is the train, vehicle which is going into the Shiva Consciousness every moment but the moment it goes near the Shiva Consciousness, you feel a little suffocated and you say, ‘No, no, no, no, no. This is not for me. Let me get down.’ You get down and when the train comes back to your station, you get into the train and come back again. You think of going from here to Seattle, get into the train but the moment you reach Mt. Shasta, you feel, ‘No, no, no, no, no. It is too cold. It is not for me and you get down, wait there. When the train comes back, you sit in the train and come back to LA, that’s all!

Every moment, God has already created an automatic mechanism to reach Enlightenment. And one thing, he doesn’t trust us. He knows, He knows any job left to human beings, they will mess it, they will mess it. Let you be very clear, He has already created automatic mechanism, automatic mechanism where you don’t need to do anything. All you need to do is just sit in the train and relax. As they say in the flight, ‘Sit back and relax, enjoy your flight.’ Nothing else needs to be done. You are in Shiva Consciousness. All you need to do is sit back and relax. You are in Shiva Consciousness.

Here the first technique-such a beautiful technique. He says, “The state of fullness is formed by fixing them in two places of the origin. Just before the turning up, there will be always a gap where you don’t breathe, where the breath is not happening, where it is taking turn. If you can relax in that gap, if you can be aware of that gap, sudden explosion of Consciousness is possible in you.” You may think, ‘How can I achieve Enlightenment just by watching the gap between the breaths?’ Please be very clear, your breathing and your thinking are directly connected. They are directly connected.

If you observe, the length, breadth and depth of your breath... length, breadth, breadth and depth of your breath, it changes according to your thoughts. Let Me be very clear. Every single thought changes the length, breadth and depth of your breathing. Length, breadth and depth of your breathing can never be the same with two different thoughts. Every single thought brings a change, slight change may be in length or in breadth or in depth of your breathing. Every single thought is associated with a particular length, breadth, depth of your breathing. So your breathing is not same as you think.

You can see this obviously when you are caught in some emotions. Emotions like anger, you can see your breathing totally changes. Emotions like lust, you can see your breathing is totally different. The emotions, when you are caught in the emotions you can see how your breathing changes. You think only in the high emotions your breathing changes. Not only in the high emotions, even in ordinary thinking, even in a ordinary way of thinking, every thought has got its own length, breadth, depth of breath. Be very clear. Every single thought brings its own change in your breathing.

If you work on your breath, straight away you work on your mind. If you work on your mind, you are straight away working on your breath. But the difficulty is you can’t work on your mind, you cannot work on your mind. It is too subtle, it is too subtle. You cannot do anything. Try your best to work on your mind. End of the day you will feel only bored or tired, because nothing would have happened. It is like arguing with your spouse. Never you have end, never you will reach to end. Nothing will happen. You can continue, continue, continue, continue and continue. Either you should become tired or she should become tired. Otherwise nothing else can be done.

Actually one of our devotee, her husband came to Me. He is involved in some other meditation group and she is involved with our meditation group. He came to Me and started complaining, “What is this, Swamiji? After she came to Your meditation classes, the peace in my house is completely lost.” I said, “What happened? What happened? Please tell Me.” “No, earlier both of us were going to the same meditation group. We used to practice meditation. We will get energy to fight fifteen minutes. I will shout fifteen minutes, she will shout fifteen minutes. Things will be over, done. Now she has come to Your programs. She gets energy for one hour. I am going to the same meditation. I have power only to shout for fifteen minutes and she gets energy to shout one hour. Now what to do? I am not able to do anything. The peace in the house is lost.” And be very clear, and he really asked and he says, “She does all Your meditation techniques and is so active and alive. I am not able to do anything with her.” I said, “Then come and join our group. That is the only way, nothing else can be done.” Anyhow, arguing with your spouse leads nowhere. Same way, working with your mind, nothing can be done but working with your breath, something can be done.

Here, Shiva gives a beautiful technique to work on your breath and reach the state of Shiva Consciousness or thoughtlessness. One more thing if you observe, you stop breathing you can’t think. Your thinking will stop. Even for a moment, stop breathing, thinking will stop and if you stop thinking, breathing will stop. You can’t stop thinking completely but you can enter into the space where breathing is not happening in you. You can beautifully enter into that space without any side effect or after effect. The only byproduct or side effect will be Enlightenment and Shiva Consciousness.

Thank you