“First a few words about Siva sutra.”

First a few words about Siva sutra. Then we will enter into the sutras.

Siva sutra is an applied science, the technology to experience the ultimate truth in our life. Vedanta is like theory, the science. Siva sutra is like applied science, the technology to experience what Vedanta gives as a theory. What you learned as intellectual truth, in Siva sutra you are made to experience that. That becomes part of your being. Just reading about the ultimate truth may not be a direct help. It may be an inspiration but it would not be useful in any way unless it becomes your experience. Unless it becomes your experience, words cannot do anything. It would not be able to transform your life.

A small story: a father went to meet his future son in law, would be son in law. After meeting him he asked, “my dear what is your plan about the future? What would you want to do to make a living?” Son in law was studying Vedanta and may be all the philosophies. He said, “I would study Vedanta. God will take care of me”. And after a few minutes again the father in law asked, “my dear, how are you planning to take care of my daughter?” He replied “Oh your daughter? I will study Vedanta. I will study Gita. God will provide her”. After few minutes, again he asked, “my dear son in law, what is your plan about taking care of your kids? The children?” He replied, “Oh kids, I will study Vedanta, god will take care. God will provide”. Father comes back to his home. His wife asked, “what is happening? What happened in your meeting? What do you think about him?” He said, “I know two things. One he has no plans for his life and he has no plans about the future. Another one thing, he thinks I am god” (laughter). “He thinks I am god”, means he thinks father in law will provide him. Understand Vedanta is not going to do anything directly in your life. It may give inspiration. But unless you are transformed, unless it becomes an experience in you, you wont be helped. Shiva sutras are a technology to directly transform your being. It straightaway works on your being; It straightaway transforms your being. Here Shiva is not giving any theories. He straightaway gives you the technology to explore, to expand, to experience your inner space, what I call Shiva consciousness. May be different words; atman, god, self, nirvana; whatever word I may use; it’s the same, the eternal bliss.

Now let us enter into the Shiva’s words, Shiva’s sutras to understand the teachings of Shiva. Today’s topic death demystified. So lets enter in to the Shiva’s sutra so that we can demystify the death experience and death itself.

Kapalandar manonyasya ishtanmeletalochanam kanena manasodartya lakshaye lakshamuthamam

Beautiful sloka. Let me give the translation, and then we will enter into the sutra itself. Of course I am giving you the translation just to give you the understanding but really you will be able to understand the sutra only when you receive the explanation. It is because; to tell you honestly Sanskrit cannot be translated. It has got so many meanings that it is impossible to translate. If you have knowledge about Shakespeare or if you are really a poet and experience Gitanjali in original Bengali, then you will understand translation is simply impossible. If you enjoy Shakespeare you will understand translation is simply impossible. Even if you miss a single word, you wont be able to experience the juice and the real essence. So now, I will try to give you the translation for the information. But you will understand the sutra itself when we see the explanation, because only that can give the real meaning what Shiva wants to convey.

“With intangible breath in the center of forehead as this reaches heart at the moment of sleep, have direction over dreams and over death itself”

This is the translation. Let us explore step by step what Shiva means by this sutra and how it can transform our life. One thing I want to tell you, this single sutra can give you the tremendous power to fulfill all your dreams and to give you the realization dreams are not ordinary thing as you think. Dreams are made of the same stuff with which this world is made. If you think dreams are ordinary, this world is also ordinary. If you think this world is something reality for you, dreams are also reality. This sutra will give you the experience, it will give you the power, it will give you the energy to make your dreams into reality and it will give you the intelligence to understand whatever you think as reality is nothing but dream. It will do two works. It will give you energy to make your dreams into reality and it will give you intelligence to understand that the reality itself is nothing but one more dream.

The first line; with intangible breath in the center of forehead. You should understand the word intangible breath: in Sanskrit we call prana. Intangible breath means, not the air, which goes in and comes out. Air is just a vehicle in which the prana goes in and comes out. Prana is the life force. The energy itself, its like understand this one example; if a truck comes inside the temple and drops something, leaves something and goes out, the same thing: the truck is the air, truck is the breath and the product which comes, the product which is delivered is prana. Constantly the air is going in and leaving the prana inside and the air comes out. The air is going in, leaving the prana inside and air is coming out. Constantly you are taking prana through the air. From the cosmos you are taking the prana through the air. Here when shiva says intangible breath, he means about prana. He is not speaking about breath. He is not concerned about breath.

In Bharat, if you have attended Kumbhamela you will know. You might have seen hundreds of sanyasis; I have seen, they will put their head inside the earth and it will be buried, head will be buried for three days. Three days they will keep their head under the earth. Head will be buried. Logically you can’t understand. Logically you will be thinking then how are they alive? How they are breathing? How the prana is being supplied to the body? But in Bharat yogis know they can take the prana directly from the cosmos without the help of air. As long as you take prana through air you need to breath. You need to inhale and exhale. But when you can take the prana directly without the help of air, you don’t need to inhale or exhale through the nose. Your body will directly take the prana from the cosmos. One more thing: as long as the incoming breath bringing more prana and going out emptily; if it comes with prana shakti and goes out as empty vehicle, your life will be strengthened. If the reverse starts happening i.e it comes with less prana and goes out with more prana shakti a person can understand his death is nearing. Or he is going towards the death. That’s the reason all great masters know or who can sense the prana shakti, can tell about their death. They will be able to predict about their death. Before six months of their passing away, they will be able to see very clearly, the prana moving out of the body. Just empty air will enter, but when it leaves, it will go with prana.

There is a beautiful concept in Ayurveda; they call it as the peak age. Till particular age a person will be receiving more prana through the incoming breath. Less prana will be going out through the exhaling breath; the out going breath. The moment the outgoing breath starts carrying more prana than the incoming breath, they know now the person is moving towards death. If more prana is brought through the incoming breath; if the incoming breath is carrying more prana than the outgoing breath, then you are going towards life. You are expanding; you are strengthening your body; you are strengthening your energy. If the outgoing breath is carrying more prana than the incoming breath, be very clear you are going towards the death; you are working towards the death. Great masters Buddha, Shankara, Guru Nanak have all predicted their death. All of them have predicted their death including Mahaveera. All of them have very clearly predicted about their death. It is just because they are able to sense the prana. They can very clearly experience the amount of prana; they will be able to very clearly feel what is happening with their breath.

This technique is a beautiful technique. Now Shiva is giving you the technique to work on the prana and increase the amount of the prana. Not only he is saying the basic truths about the prana, he is also giving you the technique to work on the prana to increase the prana incoming and above all he is giving you the ultimate freedom from the death itself through this technique.

Lets enter into the technique. The intangible breath in the center of the forehead, as it reaches the heart at the moment of sleep have direction over dreams and over death itself. Now he is introducing the next thing; the intangible breath in the center of forehead; the prana moves, functions, stays on the center of forehead, means agna chakra when you are in waking state. When you are in dream state it moves around the neck; around the vishuddi chakra, when you are in deep sleep it moves around the anahata, heart center. That is why you can never fall asleep if your head is straight. Unless you relax your head, unless you allow the prana movement, unless you relax, the prana cannot move from forehead to anahata. That is the reason, unless you relax your head, you cant sleep. Even if you are laying on the bed, try to keep the head straight. You will never be able to sleep. You will never be able to fall asleep. If you think constantly, your head will be straight and your shoulder will be under stress. The stress in the shoulder and the head being straight, both are very closely associated. If you see in your life, early morning go to the office, you don’t have to do any work. Just sit on your chair and think about your problems, get stressed. You will have shoulder pain. Without starting any work, you don’t have to do anything, just remember your manager and meditate on him. You will have shoulder pain (laughter). Remember your manager and meditate on him, you will have shoulder pain. Whenever your shoulder is stressed, actually all the pain and the stress you experience first in the shoulder only. When your shoulder is under stress, head will never rest; head will never relax. It is very closely connected. That is why people who think constantly, they can neither relax their head, nor they will be able to fall asleep. Even when you are laying on the bed, try to keep the neck straight. You can’t fall asleep. You would not fall asleep. Even when you are sitting, just put your head down. Simply you will start sleeping and snoring. Actually going to some spiritual discourse is the best way to get sleep (laughter); spiritual lectures, spiritual books, if nothing works start doing some mantras. These two three are the ultimate techniques to fall asleep; anyhow because in spiritual lectures you don’t have to think much. You can just sit and relax. You don’t have to do anything. Whenever you relax, whenever your neck is relaxed, your prana will start flowing towards the anahata, towards the heart center, you will fall asleep. You will fall asleep. Usually when you are in waking state, your prana will stay in agna. If you know this basic information, we can enter into the sutra or the technique. That is the reason I am trying to give all these esoteric information. These are all the knowledge or the experiences of ancient rishis. They have done deep research on human consciousness and how to use human consciousness to develop the life.

Actually the whole west, west has done so much in the field of mind. They have done all possible things to enrich human life using the mind. Means outer world. East has done all possible researches to enrich the human life using consciousness. West has worked in the line of the mind; the outer world. East has worked in the line of consciousness; inner world. Both of them have tried their best to enrich human life. To make the life more comfortable; more blissful; more happy; these are all few techniques created by the ancient rishis to make your life more blissful; more ecstatic, using your consciousness.

The intangible breath in the center of forehead, as this reaches the heart at the moment of sleep, have direction over dreams and over death itself. Now he had given the technique. He says be aware at the moment when your prana reaches the heart; when you fall asleep and have direction over dreams and over death itself.

Let me give a small diagram and explain how this technique is going to help you and how to practice this technique. We all know two things: life and death. These two basic things you all know. Life moves from, constantly life is slipping, entering into death. Life slipping into death is what we call as living. Please understand, actually we don’t live. We are just waiting for death to happen. Ordinary human beings don’t live. Life is just slipping into death and life is disappearing into death. That is the reason, how many years you may live, you wont feel satisfied. You wont feel you lived your life. Because we don’t know what is life. Just something is sleeping. You are not aware. You are not even aware, what is happening in your being. When you become conscious at some point, some point of the life, when you become conscious of life, when you start thinking, contemplating about your life, when you bring awareness into your life, you create a new center in your being. Between this life and death, when you bring more awareness into your life, you create a new center, new space in your life, what I call consciousness. Whenever you are conscious you will start deciding about your life. Please be very clear, whenever you are aware of your life you will naturally start deciding. For example, the more you become aware, the more you start designing or choosing what type of car you should drive, what type of house you should live, what type of life you wanted, every inch you start deciding. You start deciding about every inch. You become conscious about everything. How you should talk, how you should behave, how you should think, every inch you start becoming aware. The consciousness starts happening only when you become aware. You start controlling the life itself only when you become aware. So awareness creates a new thing in your life, you start controlling the life. Only when you become aware you start controlling the life. And if you become completely aware, you will start controlling the death also. The moment you start becoming aware, you start deciding, you start controlling your life. You bring things under your control only when you become aware. The moment you bring awareness into your life, consciousness grows and you start deciding, you start controlling the life. This happens in the conscious level. See, whenever you are conscious, these two things happen you know.

And the unconscious level, the dream and deep sleep; if you are consciously thinking, it is life. If your consciousness can’t think it is death. In the unconscious level if you are aware it is dream, if you are not aware of anything it is deep sleep. Please understand this one diagram. You will be able to understand this technique and the very understanding can transform you. Practicing is one thing. This very understanding will inspire you to practice, because these are all the basic truth about life. Once you know that the best way to bring energy is through breathing, after that you don’t have to do it consciously. Just because of the very understanding you will start doing it. Now we are working on your consciousness. In the waking state, think this way, when you are aware, the conscious state or what psychology calls as conscious state, if you are aware, it is life. If you are not aware, it is death. In the unconscious state, if you are aware of something then it is called as dream. If you are not aware of anything it is called as deep sleep. In the life if you bring more awareness, you start controlling life. In the same way, in the dream if you start bringing more awareness, you will be able to control the dream and the deep sleep.

Understand this is the conscious level. In the conscious level if you are aware of any movement around you, it is called life. If you are not aware of any movement, it is called death. In the unconscious level, if you are aware of any movement, it is called dream. If you are able to see anything, if you are able to feel anything, if you are able to experience any movement, it is called dream. In the unconscious level itself if you are not able to see anything, if you are not able to understand any movement, anything, then it is deep sleep. These are the four things.

Between life and death, if you are aware of living, if you are conscious about living, you start controlling the life. You start deciding. You think, I think this type of car wont help me; this type of house is not going to work for me; I thing enough with this wife. You start deciding I am done with this job. You start deciding. The more you become conscious, you start chiseling your life. You start controlling, deciding your life. Same way, again here if you bring little more consciousness to this space, if you become conscious of the dream state, if you bring the same consciousness to the dream state, here you will be able to control your dream and the deep sleep. Controlling life and death, controlling dream and deep sleep both require one important thing, awareness. Awareness is the main key to control life and death and to control dream and deep sleep.

Here Shiva is giving you the technique to bring awareness in to your dreams. And he says bringing awareness in to your dreams not only helps you to control the dream and deep sleep, it can help you to control the death and life also. We may thing how? He is answering. Let us see the sutra and you will see the answer. He goes to the extreme of saying all of us know if you bring awareness in the life, you can control your life. If you become completely aware of the prana; prana flow; how the prana is coming, how the prana is going, how to retain more prana in the body, we can control the death also. This all of us can understand. But Shiva says bring awareness to the unconscious, to the dream state. Not only you will be able to control the dream, you will be able to control the deep sleep; he says you will be able to control the death and life.

He gives so many different techniques; he offers so many different techniques to give us the experience of ultimate truth and energy. How Shiva is saying control over dream and deep sleep can bring control over life and death. Let us see. With intangible breath in center of forehead, when you bring prana to the forehead, when you start experiencing prana in the forehead, you will understand not only prana is separate from air, it is made of a stuff, it is the stuff out of which the reality and the dream both are made. Whatever you call as reality, whatever you call as dream, both are made of the stuff called prana. Prana is the energy; prana is the substance, with which this reality and that reality both are made. One more thing, when Shankara says this whole world is maya, he means this only. He means the stuff with which this world is made; with the same stuff only that world is also made. When you understand this, you will have the tremendous power, you will create tremendous energy to control both. As of now you are just a victim. You can’t even control your dreams. Understand, you may think you are a big person. You may have big identities. You may have big concepts about you given by the world; given by the society that you are a great person; you are this; you are that; all your university degrees; all the certificates given by the society; all the big name and fame. Everything you may have. But you can’t even control your dreams. You are just the victim of your dreams. You are in unconscious level. At least if that energy; that space can be used to bring more and more awareness in to your being, if it can be used to raise the level of consciousness in your being, it will reflect in the life.

If the quality of your dream changes, if the quality of your deep sleep changes, the quality of your life will change. The quality of you dream, quality of your life, both are directly connected with each other. Because life is nothing but daydreaming, dream is nothing but nightlife. Nightlife is dream. Daydreaming is life. In the day whatever you do, you call it as life. In the night whatever you do, you call it as a dream. In the day if you are not able to do anything, you call it as death. In the night if you can’t do anything you will be calling it as the deep sleep. In the day if you have tripudi, there is a beautiful Sanskrit word tripudi means in the daytime if you have the three things experiencer, experience and the experienced. Its like a, you can give explanation, give an example: coffee, the person who drinks the coffee and the experience of the coffee taste. In the daytime if you have all these three, it is called life. In the daytime if you don’t have all these three, it is called as death. In the nighttime if you have all these three it is called dream. In the nighttime if you don’t have all these three it is called as deep sleep. Now you can understand the direct relationship with your dreams, with your deep sleep, and with your death and the life itself. Shiva is trying to give meditation techniques for all kinds of human beings. People with insomnia: not only this technique will heal them; they can straightaway use that time for useful things. Even if you are not sleeping, if you can enter in to this technique, after finishing the explanation, I will exactly explain the technique itself as to how to go in to that space. If you enter in to this technique, not only your insomnia will be healed. It can give you different consciousness; different understanding.

Shiva says, with intangible breath in the center of forehead as this reaches heart at the moment of sleep have direction over dreams and over death itself. The intangible breath in the center of forehead means, your prana staying in the forehead. As of now, always your prana stays in forehead. The moment you start moving towards the dream state, it starts coming towards the throat center visuddi. The more and more you move towards the deep sleep state, it goes to the anahata, heart center. Same way in the death also, the more you are energetic, the more you grow in the life; the prana gets centered, accumulated, in the forehead. The incoming breath bringing more prana, outgoing breath going empty means your prana will be centred on the forehead. If the incoming breath is bringing less prana and the out going breathe is taking more prana means, slowly the prana will slip into visuddi, throat center. If the incoming breath is not bringing prana at all, only outgoing breath is taking prana means you will fall completely in to the heart center. If you understand the basic truth about the prana, you will understand life and death, dreams and deep sleep. Both have got same formula. Actually from life to death and falling in to deep sleep state from waking state, both are directly related to prana movement.

If the prana movement, coming in and going out is handled properly, you can handle life and death and dream and deep sleep. Both can be handled just by handling the prana. Prana is the thread. If you know how to handle that single thread, you can handle life, death and dream and deep sleep. Dream and sleep, life and death both can be handled just by the single key, single thread called prana. It is a very deep yogic subject. It is a very intense subject. I am trying to explain the intense truth, the intense subject, basic things about the life, how you grow towards the life or you grow towards the death. In life you can see till particular age you will be becoming more and more strong. After that age you will be becoming more and more weak. That point, that center point is what ayurveda calls as peak age or the peak energy. Growing towards the life or growing towards the death, both are directly connected to the prana. Both are directly connected to the movement of the prana shakti. Same way, moving towards the dream or moving towards the deep sleep, dream and deep sleep both are connected to the movement of prana. If you can handle the prana to control the dream and the deep sleep, you will be able to handle the prana to control the life and death itself. Shiva says very beautifully, if you can be aware of dreams, if you can be aware when we fall in to the dream state, when your consciousness is slowly fading away. Whenever you are falling asleep, whenever your consciousness is slowly fading away, if you can remain aware, if you can be aware, you will be able to handle, change the dream itself. And if you are able to change the dream, let me be very clear, one more thing, if you are able to change the dream, the first thing you will do is that you will stop dreaming. You will stop dreaming, because you know uselessness of dreams. You know you are wasting time and energy in dreams. Person who can be aware of dreams will never dream. Person who is aware of life will never take one more birth. That is why in the east, all the scriptures, all the spiritual scriptures, whether it is the Vedas or dammapada or Siva sutra or guru grand sahib, any spiritual book, they are aimed at only one goal, not taking one more birth; only one goal, moksha. Person who is aware of dream will never dream. He will simply stop dreaming. Person who is aware of life will not have life. He will simply stop life. He will not take one more body. When you become aware of dream, you stop dreaming, simply enter into the deep sleep. Same way when you become aware of life, you stop living, enter into death. Now you need to understand important thing. When I use the word death, I don’t mean you will commit suicide. When I say when you become aware of life, you will enter in to death, I don’t mean you will commit suicide. You will stop living in the normal way. You will stop living with identity. You won’t carry, you wont give importance to the identity. That is why enlightened masters are called dead people. Actually the enlightened people are already dead as far as the world is concerned. They don’t have identity and they don’t have life as you understand. Their life can’t be called anymore as life. Practically if you want to give any term to their life, the only term that you can give is death. They are not alive as you think. That’s the reason again and again all the scriptures say the spiritual people are reborn. They are no more alive as you think. The moment you are aware of dream, you stop dreaming. The moment you are aware of life you stop living. Stop living, as you understand the life. When you are in deep sleep, you are beyond dreaming. Same way, when you stop living, you are beyond life. You can never be tortured by the things of the life. Life will just like a pale, or it will look like a film. It won’t penetrate; it won’t disturb your inner space.

Let me give you the gist of this whole sutra. By bringing more and more prana in to your agna chakra, the third eye and being aware when the prana falls in to the anahata, when you fall asleep, you will have the power over your dreams. You will be able to alter; you will be able to arrange your dreams, as you want. Because of this power you will simply stop dreaming. When you can stop dreaming and fall asleep, when you can control your dream and sleep as you want, be very clear, you will have tremendous power over life and death, because dream and deep sleep are made of the same stuff with which the life and death are made.

Even though it is little difficult logically to understand how can it be, once you enter in to this technique and try to practice it, then you will understand how Shiva is giving you straight truths in the form of Shiva sutras and the technology. For example, if you remember you are a doctor or a lawyer constantly in your daytime, you will remember the same in the dream also. If you are taught to remember something in the daytime constantly, you will remember the same in the night also. That is why if you are afraid that you may miss any of your exams when you are studying, the very fear will reflect in your dream. Always you will have dream as if you miss the exam; you did not go to the exam; or that day some thing else happened, you are sick; you will always have this type of dream; impact of life over the dream. Now Shiva is saying, work on the dream; change the dream; change the consciousness of the dream; let it impact the life. We know only one route. Penetrating or changing the life and from life we touch the dreams. Now Shiva is saying touch life from the dream. Because in dream you don’t have to go for a job, in dream you don’t have to work for your living. In dream by very nature you don’t believe anything is important. You are not bothered about building a house in dream; buying a car in dream; or having bank balance in dream. But you are really concerned about buying a house in waking state; your bank balance in the waking state. You are bothered about your car in the waking state. Trying to do spiritual work in waking state is difficult, because you are occupied with so many things. But trying to do little spiritual work in dream state is possible because there is no need to do anything in the dream state. So Shiva is working from the other way. He is asking you to improve; to develop the consciousness, awareness in the dream state.

Now let us go to the practical side of the technique. You are supposed to be aware of your being; of the prana movement when you fall in to the dream; when you fall asleep. Means when the prana moves from agna to anahata. When you relax from here to here. When you are falling asleep, you will travel through the same route, again when dieing you will travel through the same route. If you become aware of that route when you are falling asleep, you will become aware when you are dieing also. If you become aware while falling asleep and if you are able to handle, control that route, same way you will become aware when you are dieing, you will be able to handle and control the same thing. Now Shiva is saying, with intangible breath in the center of the forehead, means the prana, in agna chakra as it reaches the heart at the moment of sleep. Whenever you fall asleep it reaches the heart, or whenever you are growing weak, you are becoming weaker and weaker; whenever you are traveling towards the sleep or traveling towards the death, it will be falling to anahata. It will be falling towards the heart. Be aware at that moment. Have direction over dreams and over death itself. If you can be aware when the prana falls in to the heart center, every day you will stop and alter, manage your dream and deep sleep. If you are aware when the prana slipping from agna to anahata, once for all, means at the end of the life; then you will be able to stop and change your life and death. If you want you can extend. If you want you can bring it little early. If you want you can postpone. You can play whatever way you wanted. Here Shiva gives the ultimate technique to predict or postpone your death itself.

Be very clear, this is not theory. These are all truths of thousands of years of R\&D of our rishis. Our rishis have done thousands of years of research and development in the human consciousness. These are the truths published by them after thousands of years of their R\&D. let you be very clear; this technology, these techniques can directly develop the quality of your life from today. You don’t have to think; oh if I practice for ten years, may be eleventh year it will give results. No. Let me be very clear. Because we do not know this technology, we started suspecting the science itself. For example, some way theory of gravity is useful; Applicable in your life. You will not suspect the truth of theory of gravity. You will not suspect the science of the theory of gravity. You will not suspect the formulas created by the scientist. But if it does not have any direct application in your life; if you don’t have any direct benefit in your life about the theory, naturally you will tend to forget and tend to question, you tend to suspect, finally you tend to completely throw the whole science itself. Just because you will not practice this technology, this kind of truths and techniques in our life, we started suspecting the whole spirituality itself. And we started suspecting, really is it going to work for me? Really is it going to help for me? Really it is going to do anything for me?

Let you understand two things. Now whatever I have spoken is not only going to help you for your death. It will help you every moment. You may think how? You may think how can it help you every moment? When you start becoming aware in the dream state, actually dream state means nothing but low prana, means the prana moving towards the heart center. That is the time you fall in to the dream state. If you can be aware at that time, naturally you will be able to control your dreams. Naturally you will be able to control the prana. Not only you will be able to control your dreams, you will be able to bring yourself up any moment. You can bring yourself directly up. Because whenever you are aware that low prana is coming, you can increase the percentage of prana in your body. Power is knowledge. The knowledge that the prana is becoming low is enough to bring more prana in to your body. That power you can have. That power is knowledge. If you can bring the prana up, if you can bring more awareness, more energy in the dream state. Whenever you are falling in to dream or falling asleep if you know that prana is coming down, if you are aware, immediately you can stop and bring it up. Same way when you are dieing, relaxing from the body, when the prana falls to the lower level, you can stop and bring it up. Not only at the time of death; even when you are falling sick, your prana is slowly slowly falling towards the anahata. The more your prana falls towards the anahata, the more you fall sick. If you can stop the prana movement and bring it up, you will naturally heal yourself. You will heal yourself. It’s the ultimate technique to heal your body and rejuvenate your body. Next thing, if you can change, alter, if you have power over your dream through the prana, you will be able to exercise the same power over your life and alter the incidents. Altering the dream and altering the life is nothing but one and the same. Both are connected to prana. When you are able to handle the prana, naturally you can handle life itself. Only when you enter in to this technique, only when you enter in to this meditation itself, you will start experiencing the depth or the truth expressed through this technology, through this technique. This one single sutra can, not only lead you to liberation, it can bring tremendous energy to heal you physically and tremendous energy to make your dreams in to reality.

Let me give you the gist. By becoming aware of the intangible breath, the prana in your forehead, whenever the prana falls towards the heart center, two times it falls. One: when you fall asleep, another one: when you are falling in to death. Falling asleep and falling into death. Both the times the prana is coming down. If you can stop that prana, you can stop the prana just by becoming aware of it. Just by being aware of that prana, you will be able to stop falling in to dream state or in to the deep sleep. You can bring it back to life. In the same way, when we fall in to the disease or death, we can stop that and bring it back to life. You can heal your body and mind. The next thing, whenever you are aware of this falling, not only you can bring it back, you can even handle it and manipulate it as you want. You can start having the dreams of your wish. Same way you can start having incidents in your life as you want. You can repeat or create or remove, manipulate any incident in your life. It may look like a too big promise from Shiva. But I tell you, anybody who can enter into his being and play with these techniques, will understand the truth behind these techniques. If you are constantly thinking about something, you will start remembering the same thing in the dream also.

For example, whenever you are frightened, if you have the habit of calling the god Rama or Krishna’s name, even in the nightmare time you will remember the same name. How many of you have experienced this? Even in the nightmare, if you are threatened, you will remember the same name. You will remember the same god. Automatically it will happen. If you are doing anything strong in the life, it will create an impact on the dream. If you are doing anything strong in the dream, that will create its impact on life. Now Shiva is asking you to work on the dreams so that it will create the impact on life. Now let us enter into the technique of working on the dream. Means stopping when your prana flows in to the heart. It may flow to fall asleep or to die. For both reasons it may flow towards the heart. Now how to be aware and how to bring it back? How to rejuvenate it? How to raise the consciousness? We will see in the meditation technique.