Three steps to Enlightenment

Let’s start the satsang, today’s satsang in Bhagavad-Gita 5th chapter Sanyasa Yoga 27th and 28th verses.

स्पर्शान्कृत्वा बहिर्बाह्यांश्चक्षुश्चैवान्तरे भ्रुवो: |

प्राणापानौ समौ कृत्वा नासाभ्यन्तरचारिणौ || 27||

यतेन्द्रियमनोबुद्धिर्मुनिर्मोक्षपरायण: |

विगतेच्छाभयक्रोधो य: सदा मुक्त एव स: || 28||

sparśhān kṛitvā bahir bāhyānśh chakṣhuśh chaivāntare bhruvoḥ

prāṇāpānau samau kṛitvā nāsābhyantara-chāriṇau || 27||

yatendriya-mano-buddhir munir mokṣha-parāyaṇaḥ

vigatechchhā-bhaya-krodho yaḥ sadā mukta eva saḥ || 28||

Beautiful, both the verses!

स्पर्शान्कृत्वा बहिर्बाह्यांश्चक्षुश्चैवान्तरे भ्रुवो: |

प्राणापानौ समौ कृत्वा नासाभ्यन्तरचारिणौ || 27||

यतेन्द्रियमनोबुद्धिर्मुनिर्मोक्षपरायण: |

विगतेच्छाभयक्रोधो य: सदा मुक्त एव स: || 28||

sparśhān kṛitvā bahir bāhyānśh chakṣhuśh chaivāntare bhruvoḥ

prāṇāpānau samau kṛitvā nāsābhyantara-chāriṇau || 27||

yatendriya-mano-buddhir munir mokṣha-parāyaṇaḥ

vigatechchhā-bhaya-krodho yaḥ sadā mukta eva saḥ || 28||

Both verses together you need to understand. Let me give you the translation.

“The one who has made the sense objects remain outside by retaining the sight between the eyebrows being in deep meditation; by balancing the life breath that moves inward and outward through the nostrils; by subduing the senses, the thoughts and the intelligence; having removed desire, fear and anger; being intent upon loosening the bonds, remains always relaxed and free”.

Understand this few sacred secrets:

First, Bhagavan starts with the lifestyle. The first line He says is, “The one who has made the sense objects remain outside, by retaining the sight between the eyebrows.” The first part, “One who has made the sense objects remain outside”. This teaches you Enlighten life style. The second statement, “Retaining the sight between the eyebrows”. This is the technique. Please understand. Enlightened lifestyle prepares you for the extraordinary experiences; techniques gives you extraordinary experiences; enlightenment, Realization, Samyama gives you extraordinary powers. See the three classification clearly. Enlightened lifestyle is more life solution. That prepares the ground, root. Then comes technique, which gives you extraordinary experiences. Then comes “Realization - Anubhava or Anubhooti” which gives extraordinary powers.

If you see Gnanasambandar’s life, Gnanasambandar is one of the great incarnation. He is considered to be the incarnation of Subramanya, Skanda. Because Gnanasambandar had Parvathi, Parvathi’s Milk, breast Milk, the Enlightening Milk, He is considered as the incarnation of Subramanya in the Shaiva Siddhanta Tradition, one of the great saint. If you see His life, the experience of Devi appearing and giving Enlightening Milk to Him, leads to the Samyama, Realization and expression of extraordinary powers. In His life, the life solutions did not play much role, play much role because from the very young age, He had the extraordinary experiences and powers.

If you understand these three classification, many of your confusions related to spirituality will disappear. Many time people try to think one is enough or one is higher than the other. Please understand, if you are matured, even one is not necessary. In these three nothing is necessary. “Ashtavakra” - the moment He is born, He neither had experience, nor had any powers, lived enlightenment! Sri Ramakrishna had all the three. Life solutions, means the enlightened lifestyle and then the extraordinary experiences and Samyama the power, Realization.

In Gnanasambandar’s life if you see, you will see two things. As a three year old child, He did not study any Shastras, He did not start going to school, He did not learn the lifestyle of enlightenment. He did not practice anything. Straight Devi appeared and gave the Enlightening Milk. And that experience has led to the Samyama, Realization and He started expressing extraordinary powers. Neither one is higher than the other nor one is lower than the other. For ordinary people, all the three are required. Don’t try to have just one, not the other. If you have only technique, you may have extraordinary powers, but you may not have enlightened lifestyle. The lifestyle of compassion, love; the nervous system to radiate the joy. You may be missing that.

I have seen many street magicians in Bharat. They have real powers. Please understand, they are not just doing some magic. They have miraculous powers. I Myself have seen that, in the street some of the tribes who are followers of one or two of the techniques. They will follow just one or two techniques and have one or two powers. I have seen them converting ash into Kumkum; just an ordinary rope into snake; it is not magic, it’s a real power. They play with the miraculous powers. But, they miss an important dimension of life - The Enlightened lifestyle. Because of that these powers are not useful to their life. It is not useful to others' life.

Yesterday somebody asked Me, “Swamiji, I have studied many of the spiritual philosophies, organizations, followers, I have read many spiritual literatures, modern day spiritual organization. One thing, I can distinctly see the difference with your teachings and your organization. Your teachings, either your teachings or your disciples, so intense in everything. How is this Swamiji? How do you manage it?’’ That is why I have to suffer so much, really! See the amount of intensity. I don’t cut brinjals, I cut diamonds. Understand, when you cut brinjal the stress and strain is lot less. The pressure you need to apply is lot less, the work you need to do is lot less. But when you cut diamond, the stress and strain is too much. Even if you pour millions of litres of coolants, coolants become steam in the heat produced. My love is the coolant. But how much ever I produce, I pour the coolants, the very heat I create makes all the coolant into steam.

If you know the diamond cutting process, you will understand what I am saying. Coolant is usually used to reduce the stress and strain during the cutting process, the grinding process. In Mansarovar, this time, usually I drop something in Manasarovar. It is a tradition when you go to Manasarovar or Varanasi, you drop some of your important patterns there and come back. What pattern I have? I have nothing! Last time somehow I find something to drop. I have decided to drop - whoever comes to Me for any boon I will not judge. Any power expresses through this body blesses that, attests. Over. Only ‘Yes’! no ‘No'! I dropped the ‘No’ and I am living!

This time what will I drop? I tried My best. Finally I found one thing. I don’t have anger itself in My heart. But sometimes to train the disciples, I show the Rudraroopa. Hmmm! I have decided I will drop that. So, you guys will not, I don’t know, especially people live around Me or lived around Me can’t believe. Almost in last 20 days I am not screaming at anybody; I have not raised My voice; I have not shown My big-big eyes. I also told My disciples that we will do a brain study on Me that even that groove, anger groove, and the red cells which is responsible for anger has disappeared from My brain. The moment I said I am dropping, dropped! Over! The whole physiology has changed. The whole bio-memory is different. Of course I never had anger inside. It was only a show, mask with which I used to play, so that people feel, people understand that what they are doing is wrong, sometime when they do wrong. Now that’s also over.

They asked Me “Why did you drop this Swamiji?” Many people, they had the crocodile tears. "No no no no no! You cannot drop this!”. I said decision is not in your hand. I already decided. This is the way it is going to be. Through this I am increasing the coolant. That’s all! Nothing else! Through this the coolant has increased. The intensity which My teachings and you guys radiate is because all this three is given equivalent importance in our sangha. The enlightened lifestyle, constantly I am doing through morning satsang.

And the technique, I don’t know, how many thousands of meditation, Kriya, Yogic techniques I have shared; techniques. Next, a very important thing - Realization. Kundalini Awakening comes under that classification. Please understand, just by the look, touch, word, so much of energy transmission, energy radiation, kundalini awakening, experiences, Samyama, is happening. So much of... intense spiritual transformation for so many people is possible because all these three are happening simultaneously. Simultaneously all these three - enlightened lifestyle through the teachings, techniques and experience.

Here Bhagavan is sharing these three in this one verse, “The one who has made the sense objects remain outside by retaining the sight between the eyebrows”. First line is ‘Enlightened lifestyle, means made the sense objects remain outside’. Second line: ‘Retaining the sight between the eye-brows’ it’s a technique. Third: ‘By balancing the life breath that moves inward and outward through the nostrils’ - this again a technique. By subduing the senses: This is a enlightened lifestyle. The thoughts and intelligence: This again enlightened lifestyle. Having removed desire, fear and anger: Enlightened lifestyle. Being intent upon losing the bonds, remains always relaxed and free: The last line is experience, Samyama. Pick up all the three in your life, that is the complete spiritual life. “The one who has made the sense objects remain outside, by retaining the sight between the eyebrows, being in deep meditation; by balancing the life breath that moves inward and outward through the nostrils; by subduing the senses, the thoughts and the intelligence; having removed desire, fear and anger; being intent upon losing the bonds, remains always relaxed and free”.

Bhagavan is giving the technique. We will try this technique from today. See, keep all the sense objects outside, means decide, all your sense organs, you are shutting it. Consciously close it. Put a shutter Tuk, tuk, tuk, tuk, tuk.. And then bring your awareness to your centre of the eye-brow, the Ajna. Feel very clearly the Prana going in and Prana coming out. Both are balanced. It means the moment you bring your awareness, it will automatically balance itself. You don’t try to control. Just bring awareness. See, it’s like a kids. You don’t need to control. Just if you bring awareness on them, they will settle down. You don’t need to control. Just bring the awareness that you are watching. There is an eye on the child. It will simply settle down. Bring your awareness on the Prana going in and coming out. Internally do not allow the boiling’s to happen. Desire, fear, anger, those boiling’s weaken your nervous system.

I tell you, if you allow the boiling of fear, desire and anger you will have the worst old age. You will be in hell. You will not be able to control your nervous system. That leads to suffocation, so many other disorders. So let Me give the step-by-step instruction for the technique. Sit and visualize all your senses are shut. I will guide you.

Please get ready. Sit straight. Close your eyes. Visualize all your senses are shut. I am telling you guys to close the sense door, and in Singapore they are closing the centre door. Close the door of the senses. That is more important... And bring your awareness to the eyebrow, the Ajna chakra. Do not control, but bring awareness to inhaling and exhaling Prana; Prana which goes inside and outside. And do not allow the desire, fear, anger inside you. Subdue the senses, the thoughts and the intelligence.

Meditation process music

Do not allow the anger, fear to work. Keep the senses shut. Bring your awareness to the centre of your third-eye between the eyebrows.

Meditation process music

Relax. I bless you all.