*Day 28*
Question - Gurudev, just like we get rid of a rotten apple, when we find a rotten apple we say okay, throw it away. So, lets say you are surrounded by twenty people and you love them all, but there is one person who is really disturbing your peace. You don't hate them, but you can not say, I will probably not see them tomorrow.
Gurudev Sri Sri - Yes definitely. You have the choice. You should do that, but dont keep thinking about the person all night and all day. You know, that there are some people who are not so fit to be in that place.
So you show them their place but with a smile, with ease. That is the difference. Instead of getting stuck thinking about them and trying to repair them or questioning," Why is this person like that?" So they are.
They may grow tomorrow. It doesn't matter but they are part of the same consciousness. So, we need to balance these two worlds. That's why you need that bravery. Its easy to be in either of the worlds.
But the skill in life is to balance these two, the practical life and the ethereal life, the ethereal truth and the practical truth. The body which is so solid and physical and the mind which is so intangible. Life is a combination of this sort of opposites.
Question - Gurudev, moving from the object to the senses and then from the senses to the intellect and then to the memory, how? When you are looking at the scenery do you look at the eyes, becoming aware of the eyes that are looking at the scenery? How do we do this?
Gurudev Sri Sri - That is meditation. That's what we do all the time, you take your attention from the environment to the body and start feeling the body, feeling the eyes.
Close your eyes tight and release. Feel the body. Your consciousness is all the time in the body, but when you do Yog nidra (yogic sleep), what do you do? You take the consciousness to each part of the body.
You move it around. Its not that it was not there. Otherwise you would be dead. Consciousness is in you, but you consciously move the consciousness through different parts of the body.
You are bringing the consciousness which is scattered making it focussed and concentrated to one part of the body. When you bring it to the left leg, then you feel the left leg more than the right leg. And then you move it.
That is what we are anyway doing, bringing awareness from the sense object to the senses and from the senses we take it to the thoughts, the mind. Then at some places you just let go and that's when you feel relaxation.
