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Understanding the Chit Shakti -the power of consciousness, Is like understanding say, the ocean currents, So you can navigate the boat of your life with ease. 

CHIT SHAKTI

Let me now talk to you a little about Ekam - it is the ground on which I am sitting right now which is getting streamed to you. Sunrise is  a very special time at Ekam. 

Ekam is built in the ancient mystical 3 dimensional energy form of surya or the sun. 

Every morning as the sun’s rays hit the sanctum of Ekam, powerful energies course through it and radiate out into the world. 

Ekam is a mystic powerhouse. It is a unique structure that combines the earth’s energies and the cosmic energies creating a powerful field within itself. Anyone who meditates inside the sanctum of Ekam will be able to access the powerful field of energy and effortlessly immerse deep into transcendence. 

The ancients in India called consciousness as Chit. 

Today as we delve into the power of consciousness let us understand Chit Shakti - the power of consciousness.

Understanding the Chit Shakti -the power of consciousness, Is like understanding say, the ocean currents, So you can navigate the boat of your life with ease. So you can take advantage of both tides – you can take advantage of the low tide as well as the high tide. 

To understand Chit -Shakti, let us realize a simple and yet a profoundly transforming insight from Krishnaji, 

Krishnaji says- All human beings only experience life from two states of being- a suffering state or a beautiful state. There is no third state of being. And the most important decision of our life is from which state do we want to live and experience our life.

Let me explain what a beautiful state is.  These are flow states, it could be experience of joy, gratitude, courage, peace, love, serenity etc

And if we look at suffering states- these are states in which you experience an inner disturbance. You experience agitation within yourself  and they are states where you experience friction.  It could be anger, anxiety, loneliness, sadness, depression, insecurity or guilt. 

Whether you are in a beautiful state or a suffering state - the test is your experience of life. Does the experience of your life feel like a flow or does it feel stressful and hurting. 

The first experience of these states is felt in how you experience life- whether you feel life is a blessing or you feel life is a burden. 

The second impact of these states is you see it in your decisions, in your choices, the actions and  consequences you will create in your life.

The third impact of these states is they affect the sequence of events that unfold in your life. They either bring chaos or they bring order into your life.

An angry mind is exactly like this monkey's mind. 

The more you are thrashed by life, the more tightly you will cling on to your anger.

BEYOND ANGER MANAGEMENT

In rural India there is a way of catching mischievous monkeys that come to steal from homes. 

They deliberately leave some very aromatic desserts in a tiny hole in a tree. 

The monkey gets excited smelling the desserts, and squeezes its hand through the tiny hole and gets hold of the delicious dessert.  

But the hole is too small for it to get 

it's closed fist out.  

The monkey struggles to get its hand out of the hole, but will not let go of the dessert and so is stuck. 

And the villagers easily come and catch it. They keep it tied for a day or two and leave it in the near by forests. The terrified monkey does not easily come back into the village after that. 

That's how it is with anger. You hold onto your anger  and refuse to let go of it, until you commit enough wrong actions - and utter enough wrong words, that will lead you to getting a beating from life.

An angry mind is exactly like this monkey's mind. 

The more you are thrashed by life, the more tightly you will cling on to your anger. Because each time you receive a blow from life like losing your respect, losing a job, losing your health, losing an opportunity,  losing a friendship or losing your wealth because of your wrong actions. your anger only grows towards the person with whom you were originally angry.

You  blame the other for all your problems. You refuse to see, that it is your holding on to anger and your wrong actions that is  givng you the beating, not what the other did to you years or months ago.

Remember, anyone can hurt you once, can hurt you ten times, or forty times but what hurts you the most is yourself; it is you who hurt yourself every time you move into anger.

When you are in anger, if i asked you - who is hurting you the most? Your fingers would only point in the direction of someone else. They would never point in the direction of your own angry mind. 

Just as until the monkey, chooses to let go of the dessert, it has no freedom. 

Unless, you make the decision to let go of your habit of blaming the other, there is no freedom for you from the one who hurt you. 

You are not free to love again. 

For a few moments, stop blaming someone else. Stop blaming yourself too. Calmly reflect  how much you have lost because  of your angry thoughts, angry words and angry actions.

Your state is the signal you are sending out into the vast all pervasive fabric of consciousness to draw either chaos or order into your life. 

If you are living in a stressful state or suffering states, it means you are signalling consciousness that you are open to problems or opening yourself or your life to chaos. 

If you are living in a beautiful state, it means you are signalling consciousness that you are open to solutions and order in your life.

Firstly let us understand that this universe is a living universe. It is a conscious universe. 

There is an immense communication that is going on all the time within each life from,  and from one life form to another life form,  and from various life forms to the whole.

Within the human body, there is communication going on between the cells through the various enzymes and the neuro peptides. A perfect state of communication between the various cells and the enzymes is what you call as health.

Between one species and another species there is a non-verbal communication going on. In the wild, when a tiger or a lion is full in its tummy and is lazy, the deer and zebras graze quite close to them. But when the lion or the tiger is hungry, these animals keep or  maintain a respectful distance from them. 

How does this happen? 

There is a communication going on in an invisible field.

The earth communicates to the trees, the trees communicate to their fellow trees and they also communicate to the mushrooms on the forest floor. 

There are certain kinds of ferns that grow in the hills near Ekam. The spores of these ferns open up only when a certain kind of birds sing. 

If they entire universe is communicating – how are we the human beings communicating to this magical field of consciousness? 

We do not communicate through our words. We do not communicate through our actions and mannerisms. With the universe we communicate through our state of consciousness. 

Your state is the signal you are sending out into the vast all pervasive fabric of consciousness. You draw chaos or order into your life. 

You may get  trained in  speaking very sweet words and probably very dignified behaviour, but if your inner state is screaming of suffering, then that is what you are communicating to the universe. You are  signalling to the universe that you are opening your life to chaos and problems. Similarly when you are in a beautiful state, you are wordlessly communicating to the universe that you are open to order, that you are open to solutions.

In whichever family the woman is disrespected and violated, in whichever family a girl child is violated  that family can never prosper. They will lose their abundance.

Domestic violence during global crisis

Our current global crisis has taken many lives and many businesses. 

This is obvious. 

What is not visible to the naked eye, is the silent torture, that is going on in families all over the world. 

Sadly domestic violence is on the rise in every Nation.

Often times, domestic violence is perpetrated by men. And during this period of lockdown, these men who are prone to violence are not going out for work. 

Many of them are addicts of some kind. 

Their frustration at being quarantined, and not being able to give in to their addictions, is being shown on innocent children and women. 

I would ask every perpetrator of violence to introspect, and to break free of their inner aggression. 

This would be the right time to do it.

No human being is born violent. Violence is not the true nature of any human being. It is an aberration that could have set in due to numerous reasons.

The first reason could be, that you have over the years allowed the fire of anger, the fire of suspicion and the fire of jealousy to grow in you, and consume you.

Is this your problem? Please reflect and see the truth. There is no shame in ever seeing the truth. It will transform you.

The second reason could be that you have a deep hunger to be loved, and you don't know how to fill your heart with love. You have somewhere equated love with control and having total authority over the other.

You want to own your partner or your children or daughter-in-law, like you own a piece of furniture.

This is something you must understand—Absolute obedience is never love; it is slavery.

Love is only possible between 2 people who respect each other.

When you hurt a person emotionally and physically, what they feel for you is fear or anger.

Love cannot arise in the heart of someone, in whom you have put fear. It cannot arise if you have insulted them.

If you want to be loved, it is never late, take the time- heal the hearts of people you have hurt.

Please reflect -Are you giving in to violence because you are hungry for love, and don't know how to find it, or, are you ashamed to ask for it with dignity and respect?

I want you to know this secret of consciousness - In whichever family the woman is disrespected and violated, in whichever family a girl child is violated- that family can never prosper. They will lose their abundance. They will not receive the grace of the divine.

If you really want to transform, take this step today.

Sit together with your family. Hold each others hands without shyness.

Ask the divine to bless you and your family, to live with peace and love, and to heal your hearts of all anger and bitterness.

With this prayer in your heart, You may either listen to this chant, or chant along. 

You will certainly find the beginning of a great change in your life.

The mantra is Hamsa Sohan Ekam, which at its simplest level means I am in the devine, the divine is in me, we are one.

Later in the day, you may also want to take sometime and apologise to your loved ones, if you have ever been violent with them.

And it becomes important that as a family, you forgive and support anyone in the family who wants to transform, and is making an effort to grow.

Namaste

Many of these people could have walked out fearing their own lives but they stayed, they stayed.
Hi Preethaji and krishnaji thank you so much for taking questions. One of the things that I have really been thinking about and I know a lot of other people are too is just thinking how can I help?  all we see lot of what is helpful right now is staying home and I think that’s something that lot of people certainly myself are familiar with. Normally when  disaster strikes we are used to going and volunteering and doing lot of things .  But right now the way to help is by not doing anything .  So how can we , but of course there are things that we can do  may be not we are used to doing , so perhaps you can speak to what somebody wants to help can do during this moment even if they have to do it from their homes.

Namaste, 

You are asking me what you can do from home? You can make a world of difference. 
Look around you with your eyes and your heart. Many countries of the world have encouraged their citizens to go into seclusion for more reasons than one. 
We are in this seclusion so our governments can equip hospitals better if the viral outbreak becomes bigger once we start moving around. 
We are also in seclusion so we don't catch it and spread it and we can give a breather to our health care professionals and frontliners. 
Now,  you asked me what can you do? 
This is what preethaji and I would want every student of the academy, every seeker who has come to ekam, every Deeksha giver to do. 
Support the health care professionals and frontliners around you - The doctors, nurses and the staff who work in every capacity in hospitals and the roads. 
If you truly felt them from your heart, you will know they too have families, they too have babies or young children or elderly parents back home. 
 They too have anxiety over what can happen to their families if something terrible happens to them. So many of these people could have walked out fearing their own lives but they stayed, they stayed to protect us and save us. Not because they are not afraid, they stayed inspite of their fear. 
These health care staff and other frontliners are putting their safety and their lives in the line, to ensure our survival. The least we can do is reach out to them or their families by phone if they are in your neighbourhood. Ask them if they need your assistance anyway and support them. Thank them and their families. Let them know how much their service means to you.
Many of them are working 18 hour shifts. Their faces are bruised behind with the masks. They are sick with fatigue. They are finding their joy in saving the lives of our loved ones, when we cannot even be next to them to care for them.
 Hold a prayer for them in your hearts like you would pray for your own mother, father or child. 
Remember prayers offered from a space of gratitude and compassion are very powerful. They do evoke a response from the universe. 
Let us connect to them from our hearts. 
Close your eyes for a few moments. 
Touch your heart with your palm. 
Think of the medical fraternity and people on various fronts serving selflessly . 
Let your heart open. 
Feel their environment - with so many sick people rushing in all the time - running around,-caring, feeding, cleaning, treating, curing, maintaining order. 
Feel deeply grateful to them and thank them in your heart. 
 Now ask the divine to bless them and to keep them and their loved ones safe. 
Finally see yourself reaching out to them and helping their families. 
Please open your eyes.  
Now go forward and act from your own homes. Take any action that comes from your heart.

If you want mental, emotional, spiritual and physical health you should practice 4 langhanams. 

our ancients in India used  one very simple principle. They called it - “Langanam paramaushadam” fasting is the ultimate medicine.  i want all of you to Wait, before you come to any conclusions. and i want you all to Listen to the end. 

 if you want mental, emotional, spiritual and physical health you should practice 4 langhanams. 

The first Langhanam is fasting food.  

our ancients did not see the human body as an eating machine funnily many people in seclusion are engaging in nonstop eating. This kind of eating will  only make you more sick and is going to make more prone to  infections.

Eat only when your digestive fire actually burns and asks for it, not when your tongue asks. That will also give some break to who ever is cooking at home 

Start eating only when your breath is flowing strongly through your right nostril; you can digest what you are eating most effectively when breath is flowing through your right  nostril because of the solar energy flow. Practice any kind of fasting- you can practice intermittent fasting, water fasting, or soup fasting. Remember, even animals fast when they are sick or want to heal themselves. Langhanam can also be eating right. All immunoglobulins, which are antibodies to fight diseases are all proteins. Eating right will mean taking the right amount of protein into your diet to enhance immunity

The second langhanam is fasting breath. 

Just as The more heat an engine produces the faster it burns out. Every cell is like an engine that is being powered, by the intake of breathe. The ancient yogis practised fasting of breath. they deliberately did slow inhalations and extremely long exhalations with breathe pauses. when you practise breath fasting, you will actually age slowly. Your thoughts begin to become more positive. You can more easily break away from negative thoughts. 

The third langhanam is fasting hurtful and pessimistic speech. 

Very few people have Vak- Shakti or the power of speech to manifest their goals. The more consciously you speak words that are true and  cause joy to others in a very pleasing tone- your vak Shakti grows. 

The final Langanam is fasting movement. It’s not about living down on your cushion, eating popcorn and watching TV. Fasting movement means sitting still, either observing your breath , listening to the sounds of nature or with the name of your divine being chanted inwardly. Sit still. Even if you can sit still even for 1 minute at a time. It will bring down the restlessness in your body, it will bring down the restlessness in your mind. 

Langhanam or fasting is power. Try practising these 4 langhanams and you will feel great power in your body, mind and consciousness.

How are you all? we wish you are maintaining inner calm and peace through this crisis. Do you know if you looked at history, history is an incredible teacher for all of us if only we can learn from the repeated patterns it reveals to us. If we simply looked at 100 years of human history we will realise that economic crisis in the world is always artificial and is induced because of the exploitative tendency of human beings, which is us.
From greed is born exploitation. from exploitation arises economic depression, 
To come out of economic depression the more powerful nation unfortunately takes recourse to war over weaker nations. as we all know War furthers creates divide; the richer nation's become richer and the poorer nation's become poorer. 
Well, this brings us to the question of "what is greed?"
Greed is not about wanting to generate huge wealth. And as is popularly believed the opposite of greed is not contentment. 

Choosing a frugal life, a simple life or choosing early retirement are all just life style choices it is not that you have become free of greed. 

Greed  is about generating wealth without a larger purpose to nourish the whole. Then wealth becomes a tool only for self centric pursuit. It is no more a means for creating symbiotic growth.

Wealth that is generated with the purpose of serving a larger purpose is always  sacred.  Such wealth serves the larger whole - your organisation, nation or the earth itself.

 If as a race we have learnt anything better from history,  we should resist the temptation of going for wars to build our falling economies because of the Corona global crisis . We should go forward towards creating technologies that are earth friendly. We should go forward towards creating economies that are not cancerous but economies that are sustainable. It is time for Governments of the world to rethink their economic structures. Unfortunately global economy has become too complex; and  people’s life styles too have become complex and not easy to maintain. 
It is time to be simplify. Only simplification can we find solutions to the existing problems. 
It is time for a massive change. 
This massive change it’s only possible when you can live from a connected state, from a connected consciousness that is why it is important to understand that we have to feel  connected so that we will not take the route of going for war to revive our economies if we do not feel connected then that is the route  most  probably we will take. 
Every individual should go for meaningful growth and not cancerous, greed driven growth. When your pursuit of wealth is born from greed, it will be cancerous. Like cancer you may grow your wealth very rapidly; but since it is born of self obsession and comparison, it will destroy you and your life like cancer. 
Let us all remember this law of the universe- only that which contributes to the well-being of the whole thrives. That which is self serving and hurts the well being of the rest will perish. 
The shift from exploitation to symbiosis must happen in our consciousness, it must happen at every level and most importantly at the family level too- it must happen in the way we serve and receive from our loved ones and  our family members. Symbiosis is to joyfully support another’s growth, while you gratefully receive another’s support for your own growth. You live in the realisation of the interdependence and mutual well-being. 

REFLECTION

Please take some time as an individual and reflect authentically-
have you been exploitative of any one in  your  life? 
Has it been important for you to receive help gratefully and serve others growth joyfully? Share your reflection in the comments below

Get rid of anxiety due to financial insecurity

Namaste 
we are on our fourth day together since we began this evolution series. I hope life is beautiful for all of you. Today let us talk about anxiety because anxiety is a state that most of humanity is living in today because of the coronavirus crisis. Sometimes crisis builds but most of the time crisis comes. It comes as an emergency situation. It can come as a health crisis, like the coronavirus now or it can come as a financial crisis, or a sudden change in the laws of the country, it can put your business in trouble and your business can start losing its value or what is happening now. It is sad to see millions are moving into a helpless situation of losing their jobs, companies cutting their salaries and most of the commodities are losing its value because they are going out of demand. Or it can come as a relationship crisis like losing someone that you love or like in times like now where all of us are forced to stay with each other between four walls and the challenge is our pent up anger, our years of frustration, it’s going to show up. And the challenge is how are we going to handle this without destroying our relationships? Crisis can come to all of us slowly or crisis can build itself slowly but when it hits you it is always sudden and life like you know it feels like it’s falling apart because you have no control of what’s going on, everything is happening suddenly you actually move into a tremendous state of anxiety. What happens usually is you move into panic. Panic then settles into long-term anxiety. And anxiety takes you away from the bigger vision of life and keeps you stuck in survival mode. All that you now care for is to survive. Your fear makes you get into places of uncertainty and you fear that things will go downhill from now. You stop trusting anyone. And you lose your inner spiritual power. And you move into a place of total lack. And all of this is self created fear for survival because you’ve lost the vision and purpose of life. In fact because of the suffering state, anxiety you are erecting too many blocks on this invisible plane of consciousness. You are communicating to the universal intelligence a wrong message, that you are not in a good state. Since you are communicating this to the universe you are going to create further problems in life. For having a beautiful life we misunderstand that we will have to live in a beautiful state and you will have to send out beautiful signals to the universe so that you can conquer any challenge and come out of your problems. Now staying in this state of anxiety is a curse that you are laying on yourself. We all need to wake up and rise above it. Over the next few days as you follow through on these precious lessons and short meditative journeys that Preethaji and I will lead you on, you will know how to conquer your anxiety, you will learn the secrets of the power of consciousness and find the strength to create a great life when you walk out of your homes when this crisis ends. Let me lead you into a powerful spiritual solution. Do this simple serene mind practice anytime you feel anxious it will break the habit of anxiety in your brain itself. Millions all over the world use this three minute practice, use this three minute meditation whenever they feel they are moving into anxiety. This practice is a great weapon that you can master. If you can teach it to someone else it would be an enormous service that you are doing for that person and it would bring about enormous blessing onto yourself and to your family members. All it takes is just three minutes to do this. Shall we do it now?