Pranayama is killing people! – ||Vedic Yog Rahasya||

||Pranayama||

My Beloved disciples and Friends,

In these times when everyone is indulging in some kind of Yoga practices it becomes necessary for me to give correct information on:

 Why one should choose Yoga?

 What are parts of complete Yoga System?

What are precautions one should observe?

The Yoga is a discipline for self-realization. This is such a powerful practice oriented  system that it can never fail irrespective of your individual faith, cast, creed, color of skin. The Yoga is scientific – It is about control of mind. Its central part which is known as Pranayama or breath-control is today being recognized by psychologists and medics. The simple fact that breath can serve as a handle to our emotional state of being and also clarity of thought. Choosing Yoga not only develops you physically but also gives you a solid foundation to take a quantum jump within i.e. Dhayan. It can be summarized that our state of being depends on what is in our mind and thus the control which Yoga gives you over your thoughts and emotional and desire-sets is astounding. It is sure shot theraputic-transformative therapy which elevates normal humans to the domain of super-Humans.

The Yoga is divided in 8 Parts:

1. Yama  2. Niyama 3. Asana 4. Pranayama 5. Pratyahara 6. Dharana 7. Dhyan 8. Samadhi

Just a note – First four parts are to be executed, done by you. These four things require your efforts. Rest four are effortless attainment based on the preparation – naturally.

The precautions:

As a central part Pranayama is not only most essential but most powerful and unavoidable too. No amount of efforts or courage can make you successful in your inner journey if you do not have control on your breath. If you do not have capability to absorb huge quantities of raw energy (prana) from outside word it becomes impossible to attain elevation of your inner consciousness also known as Kundalini. But there is a most important preparation as per our Vedas which is known as Nadishodhana before you indulge in any sort of Pranayama. If you dont do Nadishodhana before practicing Pranayama it is extremely injurious to your physical and mental health and its devastation doesn’t end here – your vehicle for spiritual growth i.e. nadi-tantra is destroyed thus stopping your spiritual growth forever. Of course longer your practice heavier price you pay!

The need of Nadishodhana has been validated by every texts and treatise on Yoga by Gherand, Matsyendranath, Gorakhnath and many other including our Vedas. These books are not in chronoligical order even then they echo the same view about the of practice of Nadishodhan before any other Pranayama.

It is my duty to inform the you and all through this medium that people who are not following the Vedic dictum of Nadishodhana before any other Pranayama are heading towards the catastrophe if they are not following the rules inscribed in Vedas and validated by hundreds of Yogis at later date. Today so many people are practicing pranayama before Nadishodhan around the world that I fear tomorrow India may be blamed for spreading this epidemic.

To make all of you aware about this subject we broadcasted a programme on Shraddha MH1 Channel. This program was presented by my yoga guide Yogi Shri Balenduji Giri Maharaj.

Program Name : Vedic Yog Rahasya

Channel : Shriddha MH1

Time : 18:10 IST – 18:30 IST*

The program was telecasted in the month of Septemeber’ 09 for 21 days!

Right from the day this post was made public I have been receiving questions about the authenticity of my claim. People doubted my statement as they felt how come commercially successful teachers like Baba Ramdev, Sri Sri Ravishankar have never warned them about it. Intelligent observation it is and surprisingly the answer too lies in the question itself.

This age is of quick-fixes. People are keen to get  ready to consume materials. If someone comes to you and says that Yoga preparation itself would take almost a year… will you have guts to save your enthusiasm for the 366th day? Will you be able to keep the humble learner’s attitude for so long? People want quick results.. even if that comes with its side-effects! They want instant breast implants, cosmetic surgeris to get rid of acne, consume kilograms of antibiotics in their much-shorter-lifetime, consume bottled juices and junk,fast or even precooked food.. I wouldn’t be streteching it beyond limits if I say that his madness to save time has become an epidemic, a compulsive disorder rather than just the need of hour. Who has time for the elaborate step by step practice of Yoga?

The market-Savvy Gurus understand this very well and this understanding of these cunning Gurus comes handy in popularizing themselves and making them public icons. It is so easy to identify how these gurus are exploiting people’s scarsity of time to their advantage. It only needs little bit of intelligence and courage to ponder and question..

If you are serious seeker and devout yoga learner you may want to explore and understand what basic mistakes are knowingly and repeatedly being propogated by these TV Gurus. Do read following posts -

 http://agyaatdarshan.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/yoga-books-selfhelp-book-on-how-to-read/
http://agyaatdarshan.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/pranayama-dont-indulge-in-it-without-preparation/

May existence bless you with health, love and light..

- Ach. Agyaatdarshan

Mindless mind

||Aroma beyond words||

After one of my medition sessions I had once told my beloved desciple friend.. “If you want to experience God, your mind should be able to indulge in synthesis.. and when I am saying synthesis it does not merely mean putting different pieces together. Synthesis is much more than this.. “

Although he nodded affirmatively but I know for sure he had not understood that. Since that time I wanted to destroy the false feeling of understanding in him.. I knew what he understood is not what I meant so I have decided to elaborate on that. Actually mind’s function is to split, to divide, to create grades, shades and hues.. mind can not do real synthesis ever if it is not meditative.

Now the question comes what is meditative mind? The meditative mind is the state of ‘Dhaarna’ in classical yogic term. A stage which is achieved after perfecting the ‘Praanaayaama’. The authentic Vedic Yoga system is a eight-fold path starting at Yama, Niayama… culminating to sate of Samadhi. First four steps are done and are in our control. It means Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama are the four steps which require your effort. You can do something about it.. you can exercise control over these. These fall in the domain of your doing.

The last four steps are the fruits which happen own their own accord. You can not do much about these.. in fact you can not do anything about these. Just like a gardener you choose and then prepare the proper piece of land. Till the land, sow the seeds.. water them and then only thing you can do is protecting the plant and allow it to grow. Once it has grown up you will have to just patiently wait.. when the season arrives.. it flowers and you get the fruits too.

The meditative mind is the state where buds have arrived.. some of them have opened up a bit and you are able to feel the aroma around. No proof is needed that fruits are not far away. When you have gained control prana and thus on the brownian, zig-zag motion of your mind your mind starts disappearing.. it no more functions from one of its halves. The left and right are balanced and connected. The ida-pingala are open.. the sushumna takes birth. Actually activation of sushumna can be in medical or psychological terms defined as a state of your mind when its both the lobes are free of residual irritations and accumulations, your logical and creative faculties are bundled together and thus a new vision is born.. but mind you! it is much more than this.

In this state of flowering you are able to see things wholly, completely and your mind is now in synthesis mode. It is no more getting irked or agitated by absorbing in spliting a phenomenon in good or bad.. a state which is not falling in the domain of pain and pleasure.. you are no more discriminating. Surprisingly you are wiser than before. You will choose the best option for yourself out of multiple choices presented to you but now you would know you have done it without thinking about it. So knowledge dies and wisdom is born.

In this state your sense of being a thinker or doer dies. You become a flute through which winds of existence flow and a divine melody is playing on its own. It is such a beautiful state.. blissful.. much more special and euphoric that the state of mind when you fell in love for the first time in life. Now you fall in love with the existence.. your beloved is everywhere.. he is embracing you from all the sides.. touching you.. playing with you in so many forms and in so many ways. The feeling is like constant intercourse with the divine.

But yet again I repeat.. although you may feel now you understand but I bet you have not. Because howsoever good words I use, whatever elaboration I make.. you have to indulge if you want to experience orgasm. And orgasmic bliss can not be put in words. So? Come, learn the art of intercourse with divine.

Love and Light – AD

I want to live!

||Dive deep||

Sonu: One professor was retiring from our college. A day before he showed me, a long biodata he had formed, with some 63 publications out of which around 15 in international journal and when i appreciated it, he said when he did all the stuides , he felt he was doig a great job, but today feels futility of it and questions what was the need of it. I felt as if he was questioning his whole life. AD, Please give me some insight what does really achievement mean and how one should live? I dont want to feel this way ever.

AD: Sonu, this feeling is not very unique.. it has been the case with almost every so called learned ones. Some realize it just before their death, some may be bit more intelligent and are able to see the terminal.. the result much before. But this is bound to happen the way you live your life today.

I have heard when Einstein was dying someone asked him “What would you like to become if you take another birth?” And he replied.. “I would prefer to be a plumber in my next life. I will not want to be sceintist again.” Now we may think.. what a great scientist and what great discoveries he made in his life time.. the more intellectual lot of us would like to become an Einstein but what a joke.. Einstein himself is not interested to be himself ever again!

This is nothing new beloved Sonu, the way most of people live life at best it can be summarized in one word “Mistake”. And who wants to repeat the mistake? None. But believe me despite this elmost everyone would repeat this mistake. Why the mistake is repeated is another bigger question but I today I prefer to talk about why life becomes a mistake.

The word mistake is a beautiful word – I am not taking its dictionary meaning. I would rather give it another meaning – Miss in taking.. When you do not receive an idea or thing in its intended way.. you are commiting miss-take. And exactly this is happening in your life. Life has so much to offer and people go on missing. Someone said life is just about 2500 weekends for those people are alive over weekends only.. I say life is about infinite of moments.. endless.. eternal… undivided.. totally unstructured. It is you who have broken it in groups of months, weeks. Existence divided it in day and night.. merely two divisions but human mind has grouped it in so many ways. And every group has space for future projection. And future can be projected when you miss the present.

And there are certain basic miss-takes. People are missing the beauty of flow of time. The ceaseless eternal flow of time has been captivated in your watches. The time has lost its meaning. Numbers on your dial have more meaning to you now. The utter joy of watching undivided flow of time is lost.. in stead of the beautiful river flowing we have made a ladder out of it. Now we grow old in steps of years.. weeks… hours.. not in eternally flow. So called Yoga Gurus have robbed off the pleasures of breathing and meditation just by ignorantly introducing number counts in breathing.. the whole mind gets focused on the numbers.. the sheer joy of breathing is gone!

There is mistake in learning process. There is immense joy in learning but only when learning is an end to itself.. not the means to an end. Till the time is not bothered about exams his learning is a natural and divine phenomenon because the child is learning.. but he is learning it all without having any purpose. And for him learning is beautiful.. thrilling experience. But the competition driven utilitarian society is not interested in your joy.. it is interested in your utility so it will give you grades on how you learn, what you learn and whether you are able to prove that .. all senseless efforts but very engaging.. because these are fodder to your animalistic instincts.

There is mistake in using what is available for us. Out of this social hypnosis people forget that life is not about acquiring anything.. storing anything.. it is about experiencing but then we want to save it for tomorrow. A mistake again. It is happening everywhere.

You mistake is in receiving yourself as you are.. this gives rise to competition.  This extends to other domain as well. So much wealth has accumulated in few hands that 80% people in the world are without sufficient food, cloth and shelter. Why? Because yet again there is war going on.. who is better business man, who is richest person on the earth. The whole life is lived on these basic animalistic instincts of competition. Out of completitiveness the situation is getting worse by each passing year. Sociatist may be living in fools paradise that someday everyone will have equal share on nature’s resources I bet it can never be possible unless the right seeds are sown in the minds of people. It is not possible before we cut the competition off.

There are mistakes in experiencing relationships.. The bonds between two people are no more the consistent flow of love energy, they have become the names given to these. In reality there are no names.. it is only flow of loving energy between two hearts. The vibrations of heart keep a relationship alive.. but people would prefer to miss a joyous relationship rather contaminate it with ridicule and indignity unless it has a tag on it. So many times in life we commit this mistake.

The life becomes a series of misses. And why? In fact there are so many wrong notions about life which are being taught.. some consciously and some unconsciously. And trust me these all engage you in a mind game.. these do not allow you to be what you are. This eats up your life.. and at the end of it people feel deceived. They feel that they have been cheated and have been persuaded by some unknown force to do all that which they did so enthusiactially all their lives.

People are being blessed by elders “Live long”.. I say don’t live long.. I say it doesn’t matter how long you live but how deep. And to live deep you have to develop the awareness. You have to get rid of your watches, your degrees, your money, your tags on relationships.. when you leave it all. And When you have thrown these concepts out of your window.. when are able to shrug it off and say “So what!” then only life can starts.

The professor you are talking about is a brave man who admitted it in front of you. He is lucky too.. he still have some time left in his life and he can definitely live. He has learnt his lessons which are definitely beyond the books he read. Now is the time for him to “live” but trust me that would’t happen so easily. Old habits die hard. Only a master can wake you up by banging your head on a wall. But telling you.. never ever try to wake sleeping people. They get angry easily.. they want to sleep for some more time.. till the time they are pushed into the valley of death and thus the sleep continues. So you have seen him.. learn from his mistake.. meditate upon it. I can assure you – you will experience a paradigm change.

But then awareness is the key.. no momentary realization has been able to bring about a revolution. Draw the learning out of an encouter.. and live that.

If you ask me, I have a simple formula – If you want to live life.. remember death. – AD