Chapter 14 - Offering To Shiva
Day 68
Pure consciousness, pure understanding and pure knowledge start from love. Desires are below the navel. Imagination is between the navel and throat and between the throat and the head, in between the eye brows lies pure consciousness.
Only one pure consciousness shines in us. This alone is called Brahma Vishnu and Maheshvara. Brahma is the creator and creates all desires.
Vishnu is the protector everything in the world is sustained only by love. Shiva offers liberation, brings transformation and gives knowledge.
Our lives should reach the highest level, like Mount Meru, and we should cultivate the essence of Shiva, innocence, auspiciousness.
That light should glow within us, and for this to happen we need to keep going deep in meditation. What does it mean to go into meditation? So many techniques have been given up till this point.
There are already many ways. Life is like a game of snakes and ladders. You climb up and fall back down once you run into a snake. Again, you roll the dice and climb higher.
If you hold on to these sutras, they will help you in any place, at any time whether going up or falling down in the wheel of life. Earlier, the sutras explained how to get rid of worry.
You cannot run away from worry. You have to sit down and analyse it. Your very mind is the mantra, and the mantra is the mind. Guru is the means. Using various sutras, a great effort has been made in the Shiva Sutras to guide us on the path.
Therefore, they should be read over and over again. We have a tradition of repeating the Durga Saptashloki and other verses 11 21, or 31 times and so on. This is because when we repeat something over and over again.
The knowledge it contains is made available to different parts of the mind. What is the mind? It is not one person, but 100’s, maybe 1000’s of personalities. Just as there are 100 of people in a community, there are hundreds of cells in your mind.
All of them need to continually educated over and over again. When can we say that all the people in a village have been educated? For this, everyone in the village has to be educated. Is it not?
Similarly, to have complete knowledge, we need to educate all the thousands of cells that are in our brain. This takes practice. By repeatedly going into knowledge, you will experience an evolution of consciousness.
If, for one day, you do not practice, then it means those atoms that came to school that day have lost a chance to learn. Only after one year will they regain the chance. There is a shift system even in a day.
Different atoms work at different times. That is why the consciousness needs the nutrition of knowledge again and again. What do these atoms ask you to do after gaining all this knowledge?
Offer everything, offer knowledge too. Become the embodiment of knowledge. You do not need knowledge, do not look for it somewhere else. Sit, meditate and see that you are knowledge. The last sutra says where knowledge resides.
Is it in an object? Is it in the eyes? Where is it? It is in our
consciousness. The mind is filled with knowledge. Outside knowledge is only to blossom the mind, which is already filled with knowledge.
You should have knowledge in meditation. Know, "I am knowledge. I do not need knowledge." The best knowledge is acquired through meditation. That knowledge is pure and flawless, and will make you content.
You will be content to the extent that you have knowledge. Contentment and knowledge go hand in hand. You will be discontent to the extent of your ignorance.
We need a small thread to fly a kite. With that thread, the kite can fly to any height. Likewise, every sutra has the ability to uplift our consciousness. So read the Shiva Sutras again and again.
Question - How do we observe the chakras?
Gurudev - Observing the chakras means that for every emotion in the mind, there is a corresponding sensation in the body. Sit and observe. Meditate and see the body as a pillar of light.
This is a type of meditation. Do you know what happens in meditation? You are holding onto some idea and then you let go. When you let go, you feel infinite rest, and in that state of infinite relaxation meditation and samadhi become possible.
Say you are worried or have some regrets, and you have the idea that worry and misery are a part of you, let it be. Accept the feelings and move ahead. Life is not only this, it is vast and infinite.
Let this be your attitude : "I have faced sadness, big or small, many times in my life. I can go through this too." How is this possible? Suppose you have a cold. You keep a handkerchief in your bag to wipe your nose.
When this handkerchief becomes dirty, you still keep it on your lap or in your bag. You wash it only after reaching home. You do not throw it away just because it is dirty.
Similarly, you may find some disturbances or restlessness in the mind, which sometimes happen because of you and sometimes because of the environment. You may be feeling fine, then someone who is upset passes you by and immediately your heart starts beating faster.
Have you experienced this? Or sometimes, without any reason, you may suddenly feel upset. The mind has been filled with different thoughts, concepts and attachments.
