Sahaj Samadhi Meditation with Rishi Vidyadhar Ji - Day 3

What a day it was! Attended Ganpati Homa with Rishi ji in morning and then an amazing knowledge session in evening. Feeling so grateful to be on this path. 

Below is what I could capture from the Q&A session during Sahaj: 

• The purpose of meditation is to get in touch with something that is non changing - the Suchetan Mann. 
• Meditate not for having a good experience but to experience who is experiencing all the experiences. 
• Everything is changing, but the one who experiences the changes remains unchanged. 
• By running behind material things we are satisfying only our ego not our self. 
• Spending health to gain wealth and then spending wealth to gain the health back is ignorance. 
• Sadhna is the real wealth, which will go forward to your birth(s). Rest all - money, name, fame - will remain here for our kids and relatives to fight for. 
• All the mantras have power to give you enlightenment, to take you the highest. 

Secret of silencing our mind: 

If you make a sound higher than our normal pitch, our mind goes into silence. That is why during Pujas Veda boys chant at higher pitch. 

Number of thoughts in each of tamas/rajas/satva 

Tamas 14-21 thoughts per minute 

Rajas 7-14 thoughts per minute 

Satva 4-7 thoughts per minute  

Doshas and their effect 

Vats leads to thoughts of futures. 

Pitta leads to thoughts of past. 

Kapha leads to lethargy. 

Aama gives rise to doubts - leads to stiffness of ego and attachments. 

Food - how much? 

Ayurveda recommends light breakfast and light dinner and appropriate lunch. A glass of milk is good enough as dinner. 

• Whether you believe or not we humans are recycled materials. 
• Our time management is different from time management of consciousness. Mind can be with one topic only for 20 mins and intellect can be with one topic for 45 mins. 
• Every emotion has a corresponding breath pattern. In general, every negative emotion we breath fast and with every positive emotion we breath slow. 
• There are 72400 nerves required to transport energy in our system. 

Vata aggravation and its affect 

With vata aggravation these four emotions come - greed, jealousy, lust and inertia. As per ayurveda, vata aggravation is responsible for 57% diseases. 

• All fast food digest slow. Opposite values are complementary ;) And before it digests, you stuff more! 
• If you are worrying and hurrying to make your future bright, you are mistaken. Only by removing your past you can make your future bright. Those who run behind money, name and fame, health and happiness never come behind them. Those who take care of health and happiness (which is by keeping mind in present), money, name and fame follow them. 
• Only if you do something to free your mind from the prison of past, only & only then you will be designer of your future. 
• If you try to control your mind (which can happen only for sometime) once it goes out of control, you will be in bigger trouble. 
• What are desires - all our desires are for Love. The moment we start getting it, all our expectations and desires will go away. 
• If you can not be child, be child-like. 
• Lord Krishna lived in body for 126 years.  Three people - Arjuna, Yasodha and Udhava - got enlightened during the life time of Krishna. 
• Only when people start feeling your absence, you have lived your life successfully. People should feel your absence more not your presence. 

How to live our life: 

• Always work for a cause not for applause. 
• Don't do things to impress others, but to express your love.  
• You should not get value from things but things should value because you used them. 
• People should not feel your presence but people should feel your absence when you are not present.  

Present Moment 

Our life is like an hour glass. The sand that is poured down in past, the sand above and yet to pour down is future and the sand that is passing through the hole is our present. In any case our future will have to pass through the present. Therefore, if you take care of your present, you are automatically taking care of your future. If you are in present moment, you don't have to handle situations, you become the handler. 

• Time and mind are related. You don't have to mange your time if you manage your mind. All your management study is helpful only if you know mind management. When time is ahead of you, you are agitated. If you are ahead of time, you will be frustrated. So be with the time - be in present moment. 
• Don't think you will change the world; you change yourself. During Krishna, Rama, Jesus's time did world change? No. Only those who wanted to change, changed. 
  
  
  12 'S' formula of a happy living: 
  1. Sri Sri Ayurveda 
  2. Sadhna 
  3. Seva 
  4. Satsang 
  5. Smile 
  6. Silence 
  7. Swadhyaya 
  8. Simran 
  9. Samarpan 
  ... 
  
  
  Three things happen when a person lives in moment: 
  1. Pura Kul Mukt Ho Jata Hai 
  2. Darti Pavitr Ho Jati Hai 
  3. Scripture Become Alive 
  
  
• In meditation you lose your grip on your body. 
• Events have reference; Knowledge has relevance; Life has reverence. 
• Those who don't spend time to know their existence, they are like someone sitting on a treasure and still begging. 
• Judgments can not be removed from life. Make your judgments light like breeze. If you level a person good - attachment happens; if you level a person bad - detachment happens. Both are not good. Be dispassionate. Be physically close but mentally distant - that is dispassion.  Dispassion can not be practiced; it is a happening - a by product of our sadhna. 
• There is no harm on planning but if it changes, accept people and situations and move on. 
• Any good or bad thought of past will bring misery. Your past is invalid data, but learning from past is gem. An course is an event, it will not have any relevance after sometime but learning is gem.