Chants & Bhajans
Shri Babaji sings and explains the meaning of Adi Shankara’s Bhaja Govindam
“This was a mesmerizing song that Adi Shankara had composed. It says Adi Shankara was camping in the pilgrimage town of Banaras Kashi in India.
BABAJI´S TEACHINGS
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Amongst millions of thoughts, you have one thing which is the consciousness of existence. You feel always you exist, but currently, you are unaware of what is that consciousness of existence.
If we observe our mind, we can see that it is like a restless monkey. We are totally preoccupied with the thoughts and imaginations in the mind and not the mind itself.
How has the mind become so habitual to think?
“Mind has become habitual since time immemorial to recognize a thing, analyze, then make a judgement.”
The first step is making the mind quiet.
For that, adopting the right technique is necessary.
Jangama Dhyana Meditation Technique
Shri Babaji gives the specific instructions of the ancient technique that both Shri Babaji and His Master Shri Swamiji practiced to achieve Self-Realization.
The Greatest Secret of Meditation -
"Just Watch"
The mind has a tendency to think and crave. Its attention at present tends to be out in the world, in the creation. During meditation if visions come, when thoughts come, just keep quiet and watch them; then the mind becomes quiet very easily.
You cannot depend on an impermanent world for your happiness.
Spirituality alerts that you cannot depend on this universe, world or anything, including your own physical body for a permanent happiness. Because these things are all impermanent; it will go away one day in its own time.
Pay your attention. You are not that ‘I’ that you have imagined. When this imagined ‘I’ dissolves, what remains is the real ‘I’. This is what you have to achieve through meditation, meaning eventually go towards Self Realization.
How does meditation make you aware of the real Self?
When you want to go to the truth of existence you have to go beyond any form or formlessness because both are the imaginations of the mind. The actual truth is beyond all imaginations.
Only one single Self exists.
There is no separate entity. Only one Single Self. Like the droplet becomes one with the Ocean and the droplet no more exists, the Ocean exists. Droplet did not become the Ocean, the Ocean already existed.
Your existence itself is such wondrous amazing existence that you are, you tend to think that it is an emptiness, but it is not an emptiness, it is an amazing quality of Existence. That is how in scriptures like Bhagavad Gita, Krishna talks, “No weapon can slay, you are that Immortal Soul”.
The importance of a Guru
The Guru initiates the disciple into the proper technique of sadhana and lights the way on the spiritual path like a torchbearer, inspiring the disciple to put in efforts.
