Belief From Experienceee

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1YOU GET BELIEF FROM EXPERIENCE - SADHANA STABILIZES IT

YOU GET BELIEF FROM EXPERIENCE;

SADHANA STABILIZES IT

GURUJI AMRITANANDA SARASVATI

There is a confusingly large amount of material to learn or dowhen you want to start on any spiritual journey. Personal factorslike interest, time available in a day, deciding on priorities,anxieties relating to what will happen if I do or dont do aparticular ritual or meditation, loss of interest in doing the samething every day are all important issues. This little note is writtento reduce confusion and give a simple regime to follow for you.

Interest increases when you are starting on something new, and it

keeps increasing the more you do it and the more you understandit. For example, suppose you decide to do everyday an earlymorning ritual starting 5 am. You start getting interested andsoon you will start at 4.30 am, 4 am, 3 am and finish the wholething by 6 am. It gives an immense satisfaction. After some timehowever some break occurs, like going to some other place whereit is not possible to do it the same way. Then you start feelingguilty; want to get back into routine. When you are able to dothat, you get back some of the lost passion, but not all of it. Over aperiod of time, may be an year or two, it may not be according toyour expectation. You start wondering, why is it that I waspassionately enjoying it, and why I am not getting the samepassion or satisfaction for it now.

We have to understand that nothing stays the same forever.Except perhaps that any given situation always changes, and thatit also passes away. The expectation that something will be thesame for ever is what went wrong. For example, when you are

free from tensions and fresh after a luxurious bath, meditationflows easily without any effort. Exactly the same meditation willnot go as smoothly as it did when you are angry by beinginsulted, are in doubt, afraid, feel ashamed, trying to avoidsomeone or some situation, feel inferior or superior, or feeloppressed on the basis of color or looks. All such negative


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emotions limit the effectiveness of the ritual or meditation. It isnot the fault of the ritual or meditation, but it is our notrecognizing or accepting that the result can and will be different

each time. Therefore consistency in passion for a ritual ormeditation is not to be expected. It will be good some times andnot so good sometimes. Just accept however it is. So, is it possibleto get consistent results in experience or can it be stabilized? Canan undying passion exist? What are the conditions for that? Wewill come back to these questions later.

I have talked to many people as to what they really want. Aftersome false starts, they all come up with statements like I need areliable connection to a higher power which does not judge me. It

should put a protective shield around me and help me whenever Ineed. Or, I want to see the Goddess. Teach me how to do thatOr, I am stuck in this environmentor karma. I have no freedom.Teach me how to free myself. They are all the same; people feellack of a loving power and hence helpless, so they need love andpower to overcome their destiny. Only a power which is notconfined by time, space or energy (matter), the Power of themother Goddess who created the trinity can rewrite your destiny.

How can I see Goddess or experience a divine connection to Her?What is the minimum I have to do?

Which has to come first; belief or experience? Without experienceyou are not going to believe it blindly. But to get an experienceyou have to put in some effort. This means that with a minimumeffort, a jolt, an experience has to come first. Belief, motivation,effort, commitment and faith flow easily once the experience ishad.

There are two important meditations just for gaining the firstexperience with minimal effort.

They are called

1.Kundalini2.Yoganidra.


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Each lasts about 30 minutes. They are best done together insequence. They admit many variations in using them and buildingup the motivation, to get deeper.

The first meditation which stills language but allows feeling thecoherence in the entire body is called Kundalini. This firstmeditation has to be done with the body moving as it likes withyour awareness being focused on its movement listening to thechant of a Devi/Guru mantra. The movements are slow andsinuous like that of a snake relaxing every part of its body. Youmay crawl on ground to feel your deep connection to earth andground negative energies, or rise up to dance like a snake. Let goof all inhibitions to touch all parts of your body. It is just like youare taking a bath with water which flows over every part of yourbody and you are massaging it gently.

The purposes of this 30 min meditation are to experience:

1.Total relaxation and fluid state of your being,2.Heal naturally all disorders coming out of censoring feelings3.To heal with your love by feeling others limbs as your own

limbs

You can do this alone in privacy of your home to make yousupple, or feeling the person to be healed in a trance like massagehealing and enhancing love in both of you, or by forming humanchains lying down. There is no relaxation greater than that of achild who has fed milk, resting in the lap of its mother. Humanchains of lying down allow you to feel both as a child of themother behind you and be the mother to the child in front of you.

After the first meditation you do the second. It is called

Yoganidra. Its idea is to still the body but keep language andthoughts alert. It names and relaxes each part of the body to relaxit, and covers the whole body. After sinking the body into ground,the spirit rises from it to soar and experience astral travel, goingbeyond limits of physical body. You can identify with the astralspirit to dream of other places and times, and when you come


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back it is as if the body comes back to life, with memories of yourexperience. Or, you just relax and tell your spirit what to do,letting it go out of your body to report its findings to you at an

appointed time. You will understand that you have a body thatsurvives the physical body, which can know and can find anotherbody to be reborn into. If you make a steady and deeply emotionalcommitment to achieve something before going into thismeditation, you are bound to get it. Thus you can achieve whatyou want.

These two meditations and some experimentation on theirvariations give you the initial jolt of experience, challenge yourprejudices and motivate you to go deeper into spiritual sadhana.

They are simple enough but sufficient to give experience whichbrings belief, motivation, commitment and faith.

To stabilize the experience, you must make a serious effort todeepen your sadhana. If you wish to follow a well proven Sri Vidyasadhana, you can learn by downloading them fromdevipuram.com. The courses given there can help you. Theyshorten the steep learning curve by structuring the courses intofive levels 000, 100, 200, 300 and 400. They do not force you to be

a vegetarian or non-vegetarian, to leave your family or to retainit. They are neutral to these ideas. Their essence is to overcomemental limitations which are the basis of the ideas of I and mine.

The mental limitations (ashta pashas) are that you are

1.Angry because of an insult -ghrina2. In doubt and depression - sanka3.Afraid - bhayam4.Feel ashamed - lajja5.Trying to avoid someone or some situation -jugupsa6.Feel oppressed because of caste or power or money or

knowledge - kulam

7.Feel inferior or superior on the basis of color -jati


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8.Need to conform to norms of society - sheelamThey are well known as ashta pasas in Sanskrit; ghrina, sanka,bhayam, lajja, jugupsa, kulam, jati and sheelam

How you react to such limitations depends on your habits like

1.Food2.Life giving breathing3.Reactive negative thinking4.Believing that higher powers dont exist5.Enjoyment can be sustained

Proactive habits overcome reactive mindsets to improve thequality of life for everyone. Food is important because you arewhat you eat: eat wisely. Breathing clears the vitality, prana.Negative thinking prevents you from learning how to progress,clearing it clears the mind. Putting the body to sleep but allowingexperience to go beyond limits of body makes you understandthat you live in separate bodies, and that physical death is acomma, not a full stop. It is called Vijnana. Confusing pleasurewith peace keeps you hankering for transient pleasures; it also

limits your freedom to remain a passive witness to both pain andpleasure.Anandais also a kosha.

Sadhanameans an attempt to clear the eight bondages making upego, and being careful in living to overcome the habits by wiselyimplementing decisions to allow the ground reality of God/dessto reveal its glory.

Most important, invite love into your life. Make your home anashram for love, laughter and light and play. Love adults as if

they were children. Play with children, they are such greatteachers. Play with elders as if they were in the prime of youthfulexuberance.

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