Hari Om.
Your whole lifetime is engineered by God, and God only engineers
the destiny of lives by the number of breaths he gives us. We fix that by how
we breathe those breaths. In comparison, it’s like a cellphone. 2 people can
top it up for the same amount of money but one might use it longer than the
other person. That’s the way we use this breath.
Kriya Babaji is a perfect example of the usage of breath and
all of us should catch ourselves breathing and change the way we breathe so we can
enjoy for a longer period this journey given to us by God. Whatever we do in
life – eating sleeping, breathing, walking – is all based on yoga. And the
total concept of yoga is based on pranayama. Prana is the life force energy
that enters the body and sustains the body through your existence in the time given
to you determined by the number of breaths God has given you. It is the most
important aspect of this body. The day your prana disappears is the day you
disappear and become just a body, you’ll no longer be a father a mother, or a
son, anymore – but just a body. The identity of the father, son or mother is in
the prana. When I call you I’m calling your prana because that is your
existence. Once the prana is gone you’re just a body.
We are all living in just the body. We are not living the
prana, the most important aspect of this journey is breathing – not eating. You
can live without food for a number of days but you cannot live without prana
for an hour – you’ll die. That is how important the life force energy is. And
the beauty of this journey is that when both members of a household walk the
journey together, a total state of bliss is easily attained. It is very
important to understand that. This is not a single journey for a householder.
It is a journey for both householders because the most important ingredients in
any household are devotion, dedication and discipline. And the most important ingredient
to attain states of bhakti is the same: devotion, dedication and discipline.
And only these ingredients can spice up the spiritual journey. Only after attaining
the spiritual journey will you realize what life is all about. It’s not about
running in the park or the bush, it’s much bigger than that and as long as you
don’t understand this concept of life, and life itself you’ll understand nothing
on this plane or in this universe.
As Paramahansa Yogananda said, “You are a single unit of
pure consciousness”. But we are not living by that. Instead we are living by
the mind and letting it continually dictate to us how we should live this life.
How should we live this life? There are only 4 aspects to this life: the Kriya
Babaji Mantra states them clearly – “Om Kriya Babaji namaha aum”. To attain the
state of Om you have to nullify the state of aum. Aum is your states of
wakefulness, sleep and deep dreaming. Om is the universal existence of
consciousness called God. And how do we explain the states of aum? In your waking
state it’s like you’re standing on the first floor of a building looking out of
the window. What you see outside is the awake state. The sleep state is when
you’re on the second floor looking out of the window – you can see the first floor
and the second floor. The deep dreaming state is when you’re on the third floor
and seeing all three floors. But the ultimate state is standing on the roof and
being able to see everything, that one pure conscious called God, or the state
of turiye. It is a very important
state in our lives, and it is important to attain it in this lifetime. But we cannot
attain it because we are living in the aum state continually – either awake,
sleeping or dreaming. When we are awake we become the greatest faculty of food,
then we sleep and start dreaming. And all that is based on the anamaya kosha, the physical body. But the
Om state, the state of turiya, is the anandamaya kosha, the most blissful state
of the body and we need to attain that state in this present lifetime – that
state of total purity. And once we attain it we have attained the state of
turiye, a very important state on this journey of ours through the material
plane.
Everything we do in this life whether playing music,
singing, sitting and daydreaming – is all yoga. It is all based on your breath.
When you’re in a deep dream state you breathe slower than when you’re in a
sleep state. When you sleep you breathe slower than in your waking state. We
all need to transform, but how are we going to do that? It is done by continuously
reciting the name of the Lord. The most important aspect is the name of the Lord.
Subconsciously, at the back of your head you must have that name 24/7, and then
you will receive great heights of liberation, of moksha, and attain nirvakalpa samadhi
– but we need to first start by understanding prana. Once we understand that then
everything else is easy.
Hari om.
