Swamiji... I loved the Room Analogy. These courses are really wonderful. I am trying out all these meditation methods. Thankyou Swamiji for brining all these techniques into one course .
I am so grateful for these lessons. I have taken notes up to this point and the information is incredibly fulfilling. I will be typing and saving them for further study and to give to friends interested in the path of meditation (referring your videos)
As soon as I labeled thoughts it stopped me from analyzing and judgment of the thought. My mind starts analyzing alot but as soon as I label it as thought they disappeared. Very nice. I am so grateful for your clear and useful instruction. You really present things in easy to understand methods. 🙏🙏
Observing own breathing is so difficult to achieve.We are used to control breathing.I had been practicing this for months but I have not been able to achieve.I tend to control rather than observe.With these lessons I found the way to practice observation becoming witness to breathing by body.Still hard but confident.I think this practice will detach self from the body.Thanks Swamiji.
Thanks for your help, time and dedication. I really enjoy your videos and the way you explain them. Just one question , can I use ear plugs for meditation? I have been meditating for a while but now I'm doing it in a room close to the street and sometimes I hear cars even at 3:30 am. Thanks
A question here: how is Sakshi bhaav different to introspection? I mean Atma is the Sakshi witness, that is me. The mind will continue to swing around. To look at it is to identify for the mind. That’s just how it works, as long as body is alive. Because this body mind will be engaged in karma. Sitting and watching thoughts is in conflict with being engaged in life. Like a bystander? So Sakshi bhaav cannot really be something in time and space that is an action is it?
I think "introspection" can also include digging out the source of particular thoughts and emotions, whereas this is just observing them without judgment. Like, if you're feeling bad, you can do some introspection and try to find out the source of it.
@@alukuhito right introspection is an incorrect word choice by me. What I meant was the “looker” is the mind itself. Beyond the mind is more mind ! Nothing else. So it’s the same ahankara looking at the thoughts. Hence my question. 🙏🏼
Sir iam practicing brahmacharya so no sexual thoughts..but if I practice this meditation,sexual thoughts are popping up continuously..is there any solution to this
On the same path. The trick is to not suppress the thoughts. Understand that what you classify as a sexual thought is nothing but a bunch of different concepts (picked up biologically and experientially) acting through time and space (just like anything else). If you wanna understand this better, break every concept into the smallest of terms. For example, a sexual thought can be broken down to the thoughts of skin, the thought of 'names of each body part', the thought of genital organs, the emotion attached to the coming up of the sexual thoughts, 'this emotion manifesting as a physical sensation (biological) , the thought of you labelling this physical sensation as 'horny', the thought of clasifying horny as 'wrong' (experiential) --- you get the gist. Everything broken down simply all boils down to atoms, this further to energy and energy is nothing but consciousness at the end of the day. That's the trick. Don't hate the sensation. Every time the thought comes up, acknowledge it, understand it to be a bunch of concepts jumbled to together within a given moment of time. Say aloud if you want "God, I surrender these thoughts on to you". Observe the physical sensations they cause or keep observing your breath with these sensations in the background (both work) and they will go away on their own, just like any thought. Just try not to repress it, this creates a toxic pattern causing the thought to prevail. Also, you don't have to invoke the thoughts, only smile and observe WHEN they come up themselves. Good Luck
