The MOST POWERFUL Meditation Technique for Mind, Body & Soul | How To MEDITATE by Swami Mukundanand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj2pgXfADN4 Full Text 1 now we discussed karmyog, to achieve success in karmyog, you must someday do sadhana in isolation, isolation means where the world cannot distract you , it could be in your puja room or wherever or even if people are together doing sadhana, that's also isolation, in that isolation, absorb your mind in God just as milk, if it is put into water, it is unable to retain its original undiluted identity, It gets diluted, but if you keep it separate from the water for a few hours and transform it into yogurt and then churn the yogurt to extract butter, this butter will challenge the water, Mr water, I'll sit on your head and float, you can't do anything to me, as long as I was milk, you would dilute me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj2pgXfADN4&t=1 2 So the transformation was done, separate from the water, like the milk is our mind, like the water is the world, so all day long no matter how much you try, you are not able to achieve that state of karmyog, now for some time you block out the world in isolation and transform your mind into butter which means absorb it in God, then when you start going through your daily routine you will discover you are able to retain the divine consciousness, this is called “Ekant Sadhna”, even the Bible is saying when thou prayest, enter thy closet, and lock thy Door https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj2pgXfADN4&t=88 3 so how long should we do this “ekant sadhana”, the scriptures tell us you should do it for 2 hours every day, 1/10th of your money, you give in charity, 1/10th of your time you give it to God, so 1/10th of 24 hours is 2 hours, take out 2 hours for God, now some people say 2 hours swami ji, it takes us 1 hour to go to our office and 1 hour to come back, did God not know the traffic conditions in Chicago ? for the residents of Chicago, God has got a special scheme, take out only 1 hour but for 1 hour at least make a resolve I will definitely do it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj2pgXfADN4&t=156 4 And if you say, no swami ji, you said it and I heard it, that will not have any benefit because when you hear it, you feel inspired, you think ah yes, yes, it's like putting the rod in the fire and it becomes red hot but the moment you remove it, after half an hour it's back to normal, so at the time of the satsang, people say I found the goal of my life and it's all fallen in place, now if they don't take a definitive step, slowly the inspiration starts waning out and next year when swami ji comes ! if our J K Yog volunteers phone up, you know, that Mukundarand has come again, which Mukundanand, now you can't expect any swami ji to sit down in Chicago all the year round because they have to give this knowledge to your brothers and sisters elsewhere, this step has to be taken by you, the sadhna has to be done by everyone on their own. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj2pgXfADN4&t=225 5 So what is the best time for this sadhana ? morning time is the best, it's called Brahma mahoorat, Brahma means God, mahoorat means time, this two hours before sunrise. Of course God did not realize that we would introduce daylight saving time, it's a general time of the day when you wake up fresh, your mind is empty, at that time it's easy to plant God into the mind, then through the day when the world starts getting in, it becomes that much more difficult to take the mind to God, so the morning time is the best fresh mind, undisturbed atmosphere, clean environment, but if you say I'm busy in the morning never mind some other time of the day or you split it up half morning half afternoon or evening, whatever, set up your timetable based on your need and requirement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj2pgXfADN4&t=307 6 Now when you sit for sadhna, what to do, remember the main point is the mind, if it is without the mind it will not work, and the mind is what people are not taking to God, Sita Ram Sita Ram Sita Ram, wake up the child it is school time, he's not getting up, Sita Ram Sita Ram, what Sita Ram are you remembering ? Are you remembering your neighbor Sita Ram das or your servant Ramu or what are you doing ? If you're remembering God, then bring God in front of you, so until we attach the mind to God, it is only a physical drill, we can do the Arti also and the mind is thinking my chappals are outside, I hope nobody has taken them, God says this will not work, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj2pgXfADN4&t=377 7 so how will you take the mind to God ? Many people say swami ji, this is the tough one, everything else is easy bhajan kirtan, taking the mind is difficult. Some people go one step further, they say swami ji, when we do our worldly works, the mind stays in focus and when we sit for bhakti in the morning or our puja, at that time the mind starts rotating in the world, such thoughts come that were not coming all day long, now note what is happening. When you were doing your worldly work, the mind was focused and when you started you doing your bhakti, the mind is out of control ? why, the reason is in your worldly work, you engage the mind and when you started doing your bhakti, you were just doing it with the body and the mind is empty, mind says give me some work to do otherwise I'll find it myself, idle mind is a devil's workshop, so you have to give your mind the work and what is the work ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj2pgXfADN4&t=447 8 This is the Roop Dhyan that I teach, how to do Meditation ? First of all bring the image of God in front of you, howsoever you wish, any form that you identify with, bring the image in front, now your mind has got a basis to rest upon, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj2pgXfADN4&t=538 9 of course the saints were in such a state that the image of God was in their eyes and wherever they looked they saw the form of their Isht Dev, hence Hanuman said सिय राम मय सब जग जानी,करहु प्रणाम जोरी जुग पानी ॥ (अरे संसार में श्री राम का निवास है, सबमें भगवान हैं और हमें उनको हाथ जोड़कर प्रणाम कर लेना चाहिए) and the gopies say जित देखूँ श्याम मई है, wherever we look we see Shri Krishna, that was the state of siddhi, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj2pgXfADN4&t=565 10 you have to start off as a sadhak, which means stabilize your mind on the image of God in one place, now contemplate upon His virtues, He is like this, He is like that, He's the ocean of knowledge, grace bliss, because the mind is attracted to qualities, wherever you see qualities you get drawn, Oh such a nice guy, Oh so kind-hearted, Oh so beautiful, now the mind is pulled and God is the ocean of qualities, so why is the mind not getting pulled to God ? because we have not thought of them, there's a deficiency of vitamin C (“Chintan”) or contemplation, you have to contemplate the qualities of God and then contemplate your relationship with Him, He is mine, I am His and likewise you want to withdraw the mind from the world, so start off from here, I am the soul not the body, the world is not mine, bring these thoughts to yourself, and you can even serve God in the mind, all the puja that you are doing you can do it in your mind as well, this is called manasi puja, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj2pgXfADN4&t=593 11 like you know what NASA does when they need to put an astronaut in space, they have a simulator, they simulate the environment, good practice, zero gravity environment, likewise when you meet God you will serve Him, so God says you can simulate it all in your mind, here is Shri Krishna, I am meeting Him, I'm pressing His feet, I'm fanning Him, this is the manasi seva, this will grow your love so rapidly, you just try it out and see because there's no restriction, If you have to worship your deity now you want to offer a diamond necklace, are baba in these days of recession, how will I get diamond necklace ? but in your mind you bring the Kohinoor Diamond and offer that necklace. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj2pgXfADN4&t=693 12 Once one trader, he listened to Swami ji's lecture and he came to know you can do manasi puja, so he was a kanjoos (miser), he said oh, I will not have to spend money, so next morning he sat down and he brought Shri Krishna in front of him and brought the Ganga jal Yamuna jal, of all the sacred rivers and started bathing Shri Krishna, then dressed Him, then fed Him, one hour went by and he enjoyed so much, imagine his love is increasing by the minute, so he said this is so nice he'll do it tomorrow, so he started doing it everyday, a year went by and the whole dhyan became enlivened, he's feeling as if it's all happening before him, the reel starts off, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj2pgXfADN4&t=750 13 one day he was making kheer, you know, sweet rice made in milk, so he was making the kheer and he was seasoning it, he added some kesar, some saffron, some pista, elaichi etc. but it seemed to him that all the saffron has fallen in, now saffron is so expensive, every strand costs money and he was a kanjoos, so even in the dhyan, that nature is remaining, he said oh my God, so in his meditation he started taking out the saffron so that I will reuse this tomorrow, Shri Krishna was noting and he said you know, let me give him the fruit, so Shri Krishna manifested and actually got hold of his hand, so his divine reverie broke and he saw Gopal ji is right here, Shri Krishna said kanjoos makhi choos, did you spend any of your father's money in the saffron that you had to take it out ? but that of course is a joke but this is the manasy seva https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj2pgXfADN4&t=810 14 in this way you keep on absorbing your mind in God and as a helper, if you wish, you take some kirtan, so now it becomes three-fold, you're chanting with the mouth and you're hearing with the ear and you're meditating with the mind, so kirtan is all the prayers written by the saints, the names of God, virtues of God, leelas of Gods, you sing those kirtans and hear them and the main thing is the smaran, remembering with the mind, this is called Tridha bhakti, in all the scriptures, this is exalted (to make somebody rise to a higher rank or position) above anything else in this age of kali https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj2pgXfADN4&t=894 15 Ved Vyas has written in the Srimad Bhagvatam, remember Him, sing His glories, ,i.e., three-fold, Chant, Hear, Remember. So when you keep doing this, you can then after some time try another kind of meditation, that's Virha dhyan, in that you keep the image of your Lord in front , but the sentiment changes, when will you give me pratyaksh darshan ? when will You actually manifest and reveal Yourself to me ? This longing to see God, longing to receive love of God and since I don't have it, means I'm not yet eligible, this humbleness and with humbleness, you cry out for His grace, So this crying out for the grace of God for His love, for his Darshan, this is called Virha dhyan, it is extremely powerful but if you do it for some time the mind will get tired, then you shift again to milan dhyan, He is there with me, then again shift to contemplation, then again shift, so in bhakti, you can keep moving your mind in the Nam (Name), Roop (Face, Body), Leela (Actions), Gun (Glories), Dham (Abode), saint of Bhagavan. In this way the mind goes on getting purified and the more your mind is purified, the more your spiritual power enhances and everything comes under control, greed, desire, hatred, envy, anxiety, the whole perspective changes, so now the 14th Golden Rule is to practice sadhana on a daily basis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj2pgXfADN4&t=954 Transcript 0:01 now we discussed 0:07 karmyog, to achieve success in karmyog, you must someday 0:15 do sadhana in 0:19 isolation, isolation 0:21 means where the world cannot distract 0:25 you , 0:26 it could be in your puja room or 0:31 wherever or even if people are together 0:34 doing sadhana, that's also 0:37 Isolation, in that isolation, absorb your 0:41 mind in God 0:45 just 0:46 as 0:48 milk, if it is put into 0:51 water, it is unable to retain its 0:55 original undiluted identity, It gets 1:00 diluted, but if you keep it separate from 1:03 the water for a few 1:05 hours and transform it into 1:08 yogurt and then churn the yogurt to 1:11 extract 1:13 butter, this butter will challenge the 1:17 water, Mr 1:19 water, I'll sit on your head and float, 1:22 you can't do anything to me, as long as I 1:25 was milk, you would dilute me. 1:28 So the transformation was done, separate 1:32 from the 1:33 water, like the milk is our 1:38 mind, like the water is the 1:42 world, so all day long no matter how much 1:45 you try, you are not able to achieve that 1:49 state of 1:50 karmyog, now for some time you block out 1:54 the world in 1:56 isolation and transform your mind into 2:01 butter which means absorb it in 2:05 God, then when you start going through 2:08 your daily routine you will discover you 2:12 are able to retain the divine 2:15 consciousness 2:18 This is 2:28 called “Ekant Sadhna”, even the Bible is saying when 2:31 thou prayest enter thy closet and lock 2:34 thy 2:36 door, so how long should we do this “ekant 2:40 sadhana”, the scriptures tell us you 2:44 should do it for 2 hours every day, 2:49 1/10th of your money, you give in 2:52 charity, 1/10th of your time you give it 2:55 to 2:57 God, so 1/10th of 24 hours is 2 3:02 hours, take out 2 hours for 3:07 God, now some people say 2 hours swami ji, 3:13 it takes us 1 hour to go to our office 3:16 and 1 hour to come 3:19 back, did God not know the traffic 3:22 conditions in 3:25 Chicago ? for the residents of Chicago, God 3:28 has got a special scheme, take out only 1 3:34 hour but for 1 3:37 hour at least make a resolve I will 3:41 definitely do it. 3:45 And if you say, no swami ji, you said it and 3:47 I heard it, that will not have any 3:51 benefit because when you hear it, you 3:54 feel inspired, you think ah yes, 3:57 yes, it's like putting the rod in the 4:00 fire and it becomes red hot but the moment 4:04 you remove it, after half an hour it's 4:06 back to normal, so at the time of the 4:10 satsang, people say I found the goal of 4:12 my life and it's all fallen in 4:15 place, now if they don't take a 4:17 definitive step, slowly the 4:21 inspiration starts waning 4:24 out and next year when swami ji comes ! if 4:27 our J K Yog volunteers phone up, you know, 4:31 that Mukundarand has come again, 4:33 which 4:37 Mukundanand, now you can't expect any swami 4:40 ji to sit down in Chicago all the year 4:43 round because they have to give this 4:45 knowledge to your brothers and sisters 4:47 elsewhere, this step has to be taken by 4:59 you, the sadhna has to be done by everyone 5:03 on their 5:05 own. 5:07 So what is the best time for this 5:11 sadhana ? morning time is the best, it's 5:14 called Brahma mahoorat, Brahma means God, mahoorat 5:18 means time, this two hours before sunrise. 5:22 Of course God did not realize 5:26 that we would introduce daylight saving 5:28 time, it's a general time of the day when 5:32 you wake up fresh, your mind is 5:35 empty, at that time it's easy to plant 5:38 God into the mind, then through the day 5:43 when the world starts getting in, it 5:47 becomes that much more difficult to take 5:51 the mind to 5:52 God, so the morning time is the best 5:57 fresh mind, undisturbed atmosphere, clean 6:02 environment, but if you say I'm busy in 6:05 the morning never mind some other time 6:07 of the day or you split it up half 6:09 morning half afternoon or evening, 6:11 whatever, set up your timetable based on 6:15 your need and 6:17 requirement. Now when you sit for sadhna, 6:20 what to 6:22 do, remember the main point is the 6:28 mind, if it is without the mind it will not 6:32 work, and the mind is what people are not 6:36 taking to 6:37 God, Sita Ram Sita Ram 6:44 Sita Ram, wake up the child it is school time, he's not 6:46 getting up, Sita Ram Sita Ram, 6:49 what Sita Ram are you remembering ? 6:53 Are you remembering your neighbor Sita Ram das 6:55 or your servant Ramu or what are 6:58 you doing ? If you're remembering God, then 7:01 bring God in front of 7:02 you, so until we attach the mind to God, 7:09 it is only a physical drill, we can do 7:12 the Arti 7:14 also and the mind is thinking my chappals 7:17 are outside, I hope nobody has taken them, 7:20 God says this will not 7:27 work, so now how will you take the mind 7:30 to 7:33 God ? Many people say swami ji, this is the 7:36 tough one, everything else is easy 7:40 bhajan kirtan, taking the mind is 7:44 difficult. Some people go one step 7:47 further, they say swami ji, when we 7:51 do our worldly works, the mind stays in 7:57 focus and when we sit for bhakti in the 8:01 morning or our puja, at that time the 8:05 mind starts rotating in the 8:08 world, such thoughts come that were 8:11 not coming all day 8:13 long, now note what is happening. When you 8:16 were doing your worldly work, the mind 8:19 was focused and when you started you 8:22 doing your bhakti, the mind is out of 8:24 control ? 8:27 why, the reason is in your worldly 8:32 work, you engage the 8:34 mind and when you started doing your 8:37 bhakti, you were just doing it with the 8:39 body and the mind is 8:42 empty, mind says give me some work to do 8:47 otherwise I'll find it myself, 8:50 idle mind is a devil's 8:52 workshop, so you have to give your mind 8:56 the work and what is the 8:58 work ? This is the 9:01 Roop Dhyan that I 9:03 teach, how to do 9:06 Meditation ? First of all bring the image 9:09 of God in front of 9:11 you, howsoever you wish, any form that you 9:16 identify with, bring the image in 9:19 front, now your mind has got a basis to 9:24 rest 9:25 upon, of course the saints were in such a 9:29 state that the image of God was in their 9:32 eyes and wherever they looked they saw 9:35 the form of their Isht Dev, hence Hanuman 9:38 Said सिय राम मय सब जग जानी,करहु प्रणाम जोरी जुग पानी ॥ (अर्थात: पूरे संसार में श्री राम का निवास है, सबमें भगवान हैं और हमें उनको हाथ जोड़कर प्रणाम कर लेना चाहिए) 9:45 And the gopies say जित देखूँ श्याम मई है, 9:49 wherever we look we see Shri Krishna, 9:53 that was the state of siddhi, you have to 9:57 start off as a Sadhak, which means 9:59 stabilize your mind on the image of God 10:02 in one place, 10:06 now contemplate upon His 10:10 virtues, He is like this, He is like that, 10:13 He's the ocean of knowledge, grace 10:17 bliss, because the mind is attracted to 10:22 qualities, wherever you see qualities you 10:26 get drawn, Oh such a nice guy, Oh so 10:30 kind-hearted, Oh so beautiful, 10:34 now the mind is pulled and God is the 10:37 ocean of qualities, so why is the mind 10:41 not getting pulled to 10:43 God ? because we have not thought of them, there's 10:46 a deficiency of vitamin C (“Chintan”) 10:51 or contemplation, you have to contemplate 10:54 the qualities of 10:56 God and then contemplate your 10:59 relationship with Him, He is mine, I am 11:04 His and likewise you want to withdraw 11:08 the mind from the world, so start off 11:11 from here, I am the soul not the body, the 11:14 world is not 11:16 mine, bring these thoughts to 11:19 yourself, and you can even serve God in 11:24 the mind, all the puja that you are doing 11:28 you can do it in your mind as well, this 11:30 is called manasi 11:33 puja, like you 11:36 know what NASA does when they need to 11:38 put an astronaut in space, they have a 11:41 simulator, they simulate the 11:44 environment, good practice, zero gravity 11:48 environment, likewise when you meet God 11:51 you will serve Him, so God says you can 11:54 simulate it all in your mind, here is Shri 11:57 Krishna, I am meeting Him, I'm pressing 12:00 His feet, I'm fanning Him, this is the 12:03 manasi seva, this will grow your love so 12:09 rapidly, you just try it out and see 12:12 because there's no restriction, If you 12:15 have to worship your deity now you want 12:17 to offer a diamond necklace, are baba 12:20 in these days of recession, how will I get 12:22 diamond necklace ? but in your mind you 12:25 bring the Kohinoor Diamond and offer that 12:27 necklace. 12:30 Once one 12:32 trader, he listened to Swami ji's 12:36 lecture and he came to know you can do 12:38 manasi puja, so he was a kanjoos (miser), he 12:44 said oh, I will not have to spend money, 12:48 so next morning he sat down and he 12:51 brought Shri Krishna in front of him and 12:54 brought the Ganga jal Yamuna jal, of all the 12:56 sacred rivers and started bathing Shri 12:59 Krishna, then dressed Him, then fed Him, 13:02 one hour went 13:04 by and he enjoyed so much, imagine his 13:08 love is increasing by the 13:11 minute, so he said this is so 13:13 nice he'll do it tomorrow, so he started 13:16 doing it everyday, a year went 13:19 by and the whole dhyan became enlivened, 13:24 he's feeling as if it's all happening 13:26 before him, the reel starts 13:30 off, one day he was making kheer, you know, 13:35 sweet rice made in 13:37 milk, 13:39 so he was making the kheer and he was 13:44 seasoning it, he added some kesar, some 13:48 saffron, some pista, elaichi etc. but it seemed 13:53 to him that all the saffron has fallen 13:56 in, now saffron is so expensive, every 13:59 strand costs money and he was a kanjoos, so 14:03 even in the dhyan, that nature is 14:06 remaining, he said oh my 14:08 God, so in his meditation he started 14:12 taking out the saffron so that I will reuse this 14:16 tomorrow, Shri Krishna was 14:19 noting and he said you 14:22 know, let me give him the 14:25 fruit, so Shri Krishna manifested and 14:29 actually got hold of his hand, so his 14:31 divine reverie broke and he saw Gopal ji 14:35 is right here, 14:37 Shri Krishna said 14:39 kanjoos makhi choos, did you spend any of 14:43 your father's money in the saffron that 14:45 you had to take it 14:47 out ? but that of course is a joke but 14:50 this is the manasy 14:52 seva, 14:54 in this way you keep on absorbing 15:00 your mind in 15:03 God and as a helper, if you wish, you take 15:07 some 15:08 kirtan, so now it 15:11 becomes three-fold, you're chanting with 15:13 the mouth and you're hearing with the 15:15 ear and you're meditating with the mind, 15:18 so kirtan is all the prayers 15:21 written by the 15:22 saints, the names of God, virtues of God, 15:26 leelas of Gods, you sing those kirtans and 15:30 hear them and the main thing is the smaran, 15:33 remembering with the mind, this is 15:34 called Tridha bhakti, in all the scriptures, this 15:38 is exalted (to make somebody rise to a higher rank or position) above anything else in this 15:42 age of kali 15:54 Ved Vyas has written in the 16:08 Srimad Bhagvatam, remember 16:11 Him, sing His 16:16 glories, ,i.e., three-fold, Chant, Hear, Remember. 16:21 So when you keep doing 16:24 this, you can then after some time try 16:30 another kind of meditation, that's 16:34 Virha dhyan, in that you keep the image of 16:37 your Lord in 16:39 front , but the sentiment 16:43 changes, when will you give me pratyaksh 16:49 darshan ? when will You actually manifest and 16:53 reveal Yourself to me ? This longing to 16:57 see 16:58 God, longing to receive love of 17:03 God and since I don't have it, means 17:08 I'm not yet eligible, this 17:12 humbleness and with 17:14 humbleness, you cry out for His grace, 17:19 So this crying out for the grace of 17:23 God for His love, for his 17:27 Darshan, this is called 17:31 Virha dhyan, it is extremely 17:34 powerful but if you do it for some time 17:37 the mind will get tired, then you shift 17:40 again to milan dhyan, He is there with me, 17:43 then again shift to contemplation, then 17:46 again shift, so in bhakti, 17:49 you can keep moving your mind in the 17:54 Nam (Name), Roop (Face, Body), Leela (Actions), Gun (Glories), Dham (Abode), saint of 17:56 Bhagavan. In this way the mind goes on 18:00 getting purified and the more your mind 18:03 is 18:04 purified, the more your spiritual power 18:08 enhances and everything comes under 18:12 control, greed, desire, hatred, envy, 18:16 anxiety, the whole perspective 18:20 changes, so now the 14th Golden Rule is 18:24 to practice sadhana on a daily basis Standby link (in case youtube link does not work): The MOST POWERFUL Meditation Technique for Mind, Body & Soul How To MEDITATE🧘 - Swami Mukundananda.mp4
