happens, it happens through the brain. Meditation happens through a person's brain; meditation does not happen through the eyes. Meditation happens through the brain, right? If we visualize Maharaj's murti murti 1) Sacred idol of Bhagvãn used to offer worship. There are eight types of murtis that can be worshipped: stone, wood, metal, earth, engraved or drawn, sand, gems, and mental. 2) The form of Bhagvãn. Tap to open in glossary → We visualize it with the intellect. It is not visualized with the eyes. The eyes have only taken it in. Still, we would have had darshan darshan Seeing. To see with admiration and devotion. To see Bhagvãn, a sat-purush, and murtis, with inner or outer vision, with the intention of receiving their grace and blessings. By doing darshan properly a bhakta develops affection for Bhagvãn, and Bhagvãn develops affection for that bhakta. [Sãrangpur – 2]. Tap to open in glossary → But the brain has darshan darshan Seeing. To see with admiration and devotion. To see Bhagvãn, a sat-purush, and murtis, with inner or outer vision, with the intention of receiving their grace and blessings. By doing darshan properly a bhakta develops affection for Bhagvãn, and Bhagvãn develops affection for that bhakta. [Sãrangpur – 2]. Tap to open in glossary → Is it not so? If we have meditated on Maharaj... what meditation, if we have had darshan darshan Seeing. To see with admiration and devotion. To see Bhagvãn, a sat-purush, and murtis, with inner or outer vision, with the intention of receiving their grace and blessings. By doing darshan properly a bhakta develops affection for Bhagvãn, and Bhagvãn develops affection for that bhakta. [Sãrangpur – 2]. Tap to open in glossary → if we have had darshan darshan Seeing. To see with admiration and devotion. To see Bhagvãn, a sat-purush, and murtis, with inner or outer vision, with the intention of receiving their grace and blessings. By doing darshan properly a bhakta develops affection for Bhagvãn, and Bhagvãn develops affection for that bhakta. [Sãrangpur – 2]. Tap to open in glossary → then we would have had darshan darshan Seeing. To see with admiration and devotion. To see Bhagvãn, a sat-purush, and murtis, with inner or outer vision, with the intention of receiving their grace and blessings. By doing darshan properly a bhakta develops affection for Bhagvãn, and Bhagvãn develops affection for that bhakta. [Sãrangpur – 2]. Tap to open in glossary → But if one visualizes properly, then through the intellect, meditation can be done on the front, back, and everything. Maharaj... it happens like that. Therefore, meditation happens through the brain, through the intellect. The intellect is not balanced. When does it become balanced? It becomes balanced when the attachments to this world decrease. And these... these people have found it physically. What I am saying, what I am talking about, they have found it physically. What is physical? That if everything is being used, and one thing is not being used, then use that properly too. Using it properly means it has become balanced. Just as pranayama balances the mind. In that, even more than that, this physical... pranayama is physical. Its effect is only in the nostrils; if one is running more and one is running less, then pranayama balances it. And when it stops, the mind... the prana and the mind are completely joined. In that, the brain is joined to all of our limbs too. And if that is balanced, then it quickly attaches to God, like Maharaj... it seems Maharaj has said so. That if it is balanced. Balance happens in two ways. One is if this attachment is given up, then it happens, or if it is used with the left hand, and one uses it with the left hand, then it happens. That is, if both limbs are used equally, then too the brain becomes balanced automatically. That is called physical balance. Pranayama is physical balance. And the other one, then mental comes in. But based on the physical... control the mental from the physical. So... but all these experiments now, since some have passed away, and there is no guru guru A teacher. He will guide you on the path of kalyãn. Tap to open in glossary → In this, though, one should not venture into other things of ashtanga yoga; in this, Maharaj has said there is no other problem. That since this burns, so in this, do another visualization, and do another visualization of this; do it this way. By doing so, his brain becomes balanced. Then the brain attaches to God quickly. So Maharaj has mentioned balance in two ways in that. All the experiments of this world balance like this, they say; they balance the mental from the physical. And pranayama is also of both types. Pranayama is called both mental and physical, right? Actually, pranayama is physical only, right? Through it, the brain becomes balanced. And the state of pranayama is indeed mentioned. When one controls the prana, the mind directly becomes stable and attaches to God. And where concentration of the mind happens, then automatically siddhis manifest. Such is the principle of the Yoga Sutras. That even if you concentrate the mind anywhere on the objects of this world, still siddhi siddhi Wealth. Riches. The siddhi are shown to bhaktas on their way to Akshardhãm, to test their love for Bhagvãn. Tap to open in glossary → then if one concentrates on subtle objects... in that too, if the mind concentrates on the murti murti 1) Sacred idol of Bhagvãn used to offer worship. There are eight types of murtis that can be worshipped: stone, wood, metal, earth, engraved or drawn, sand, gems, and mental. 2) The form of Bhagvãn. Tap to open in glossary → So all this would have been integrated, they say; the principle of yoga is that it becomes stable in one place. But stable balance... if it is unbalanced, it will not become stable. As long as the brain is unbalanced, being more attached to some object, having no attachment to some, having dislike for some and attachment to some, if it is so, it is not called balanced. Therefore, it becomes balanced through that attachment. Maharaj has said that too in a Vachanamrut. That through pranayama, the mind joins with God, it is not... it is not just like that. If one does not do pranayama, ashtanga yoga is indeed a means. The mind remaining in God is its fruit. If one does not do pranayama, and withdraws the senses that are attached to their objects, and if they are controlled, then for him, it has been achieved without ashtanga yoga. So this is a kind of practice exercise; we may do it sometimes. It seems so. But we have never experimented with it. In the mind, it felt like it is a process of ashtanga yoga. Therefore, in ashtanga yoga, a guru guru A teacher. He will guide you on the path of kalyãn. Tap to open in glossary → And it may go awry, if one is doing pranayama and if it becomes excessive, what Ramdev Baba teaches as pranayama and yoga is only related to health. And it is only up to that; those are pranayamas that are all related to health. They are not related to spirituality. So there is not much of a problem. Now the other... yes, kapalbhati. If one does that, what is it mentioned for in the Yoga Sutras? It is for purification of the nadis. Bhastrika is for purification of the nadis, so all that is mentioned. If purification of the nadis happens, then pranayama is achieved quickly. The very meaning of achieving pranayama is that both... those nadis, Ida and Pingala, both run in balance. Currently, a person's pranayama is almost never running in balance throughout the twenty-four hours. They would be inhaling more from one nostril and less from the other nostril, and again if it changes, they would be inhaling more from the other nostril and so on. But there is no balance, not much. So they balance it through the process of pranayama, through exercise. In this, they balance it through the exercise of the limbs of the body. In this, Maharaj has said that they balance it through visualization. It is the brain that is to be balanced; it is the intellect that is to be balanced. So they balance through the physical now, this new... and pranayama is... half physical and half that, whether to consider pranayama as physical or that... how to consider it depends on that. So they balance it like that. In that, Maharaj said they balance it through visualization. If the brain becomes properly balanced through visualization, then the brain quickly attaches to God. It is the same in pranayama; while doing pranayama, shunya pranayama. Shunya pranayama is indeed a process of ashtanga yoga; shunya means that his brain goes neither this way nor that way. It goes neither into attachment nor into dislike. So when both attachment and dislike go away, then it attaches to God; then taking that, it attaches to God, meaning God... In ashtanga yoga, in this process of shunya pranayama, it is not said so; attaching to God is not in the root... in the root. It is not about attaching to God. To attain samadhi means to become free of attachment. To attain samadhi means to become free of attachment. While doing seva, they say, to remember Maharaj, to think of God, then that is somewhat similar to this... to become free of desires. They say, could it be that it becomes balanced by both? So this attachment becomes balanced, right? Whether attachment is balanced, prana is balanced, or all physical limbs are balanced, its effect is on the brain. Its effect is on the intellect, and once the intellect is balanced, then in the Gita, that... these four types are mentioned in the Gita, Prajahati yada kaman... Sthitapragna Sthitapragna A person with a stable understanding. A bhakta of Bhagvãn who has no doubts at all regarding the svarup of Bhagvãn, and glorifies His strengths. He also glorifies those charitras of Bhagvãn that appear to be inappropriate, in exactly the same way that he glorifies charitras that are appropriate. [Gadhadã II – 17]. Tap to open in glossary → He is called sthitapragna sthitapragna A person with a stable understanding. A bhakta of Bhagvãn who has no doubts at all regarding the svarup of Bhagvãn, and glorifies His strengths. He also glorifies those charitras of Bhagvãn that appear to be inappropriate, in exactly the same way that he glorifies charitras that are appropriate. [Gadhadã II – 17]. Tap to open in glossary → sthitapragna sthitapragna A person with a stable understanding. A bhakta of Bhagvãn who has no doubts at all regarding the svarup of Bhagvãn, and glorifies His strengths. He also glorifies those charitras of Bhagvãn that appear to be inappropriate, in exactly the same way that he glorifies charitras that are appropriate. [Gadhadã II – 17]. Tap to open in glossary → And in God... and in that too, if he joins it to the murti murti 1) Sacred idol of Bhagvãn used to offer worship. There are eight types of murtis that can be worshipped: stone, wood, metal, earth, engraved or drawn, sand, gems, and mental. 2) The form of Bhagvãn. Tap to open in glossary → Therefore, Maharaj said that either ashtanga yoga balances it, or one balances it by becoming free of desires. So today, free of... today... this seva, seva is a great means to become free of desires. It does not balance through ashtanga yoga. But selfless seva balances his attachment. Because if there is attachment, and he immediately does seva of God and does it with a selfless attitude, then attachment begins to be uprooted from his jiva. Attachments to the world begin to be uprooted, and the intellect begins to be balanced automatically. When the intellect is balanced, then his mind attaches to God. We go to attach... to attach to God, then either attachment obstructs us or dislike obstructs us. And we are not without both of those; we are so deeply buried in the mud of both of those, therefore the mind does not attach to God. It is so. Expounded topic: Miraculous meditation. Main points: An ekantik devotee of God achieves meditation. That is, an ekantik devotee achieves meditation, such is the essence of this Vachanamrut that Maharaj has stated. Its meaning is that an ekantik devotee's intellect becomes balanced. That is straightforward. That if one is ekantik, joined with God, then he has neither contempt for the world nor respect for the world. Whatever respect there is, it is for God. 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