Introspection and transformation through prayer

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"Active meditation makes you meditatively active," says Daaji. Every act of meditation creates a new state of consciousness within. How to preserve and expand this inner state? How to ensure that this beautiful state created within does not wither away in the daily routine? The first step is the awareness that my meditation creates something within that is valuable to me. It is something that I must nurture, enliven and imbibe within. Daaji explains in with great simplicity how our habits and desires hinder our progress. Even when we are aware of the challenges we have, we are often helpless in accelerating change. This is where prayer helps in invoking the higher source within us. We have the infinite source of consciousness within. Through prayer, I am able to invoke this source to transform my inner journey. Is prayer just a few words or is it a state of being? Explore this class with Daaji and find out for yourself.

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Hello, everyone, let's see what has happened so far. We have learned how to relax, how to meditate and how to do cleaning. What is the purpose behind all these things? After every meditation we have a typical weather peculiar condition emerging as a result. Don't we like to maintain that spiritual status or inner condition, all that lightness that you felt after the meditation, or that you feel so centered within yourself that you like to continue in this state of centeredness within. Let's call it as a meditative state, which is emerged out of this meditation.

Is it enough that we meditate for a few minutes and enjoy that meditation? Wouldn't it be nice if it can extend beyond this 30 4050 minutes of meditation literally be wonderful if we can meditate actively daily, but to remain wedded actively meditating versus meditatively remaining active that two different things. Often enthusiasts who start spiritual practice In the beginning, they love it so much and slowly it so happens that we fall in love with such a state and we like to go on extending such estate for a longer period otherwise having earned a spiritual condition and losing it right away would be like you know you have your weekly or monthly salaries. And before the second discharge of third discharge, you're blown away all your salary what will happen to such income? What will happen to such family? in those this scenario with meditative state, what will happen if you go on losing meditative state?

It will be a tragedy you have worked on nothing. So how to make Ensure that the meditative state remains to heart's desire. So the quickness that your heart is desiring and let's make a willful intention before meditation itself. Let's become more called lizard with this fact that yes I need to stay in touch with this inner state and that there is a need for such a thing. So this was of awareness. This was an intention so it'd be good enough to start with and let's see how it mushrooms and becomes a big, giant thing later on in our life.

Where meditative state becomes very nature of us in a more palpable way. know these intentions Reporting certain states are easily made possible when the inner urge or inner thirst, inner restlessness makes our heart call for something higher. If you are happy with our present state, then there's nothing to worry about. If you are content with your present state, there's nothing to worry about. Then the idea of evolution will fail. If we really want to evolve, expand the consciousness, then I have to keep my goal higher than the present one.

The present condition must not satisfied Me, President richness doesn't satisfy us vice president spiritual states would satisfy us. So what is this inner call? When you offer this voice of the heart to a higher level of consciousness or AI or souls, or as some system talk about that I'm now connected with my inner resources, or my inner divine source or the godly agency. Somewhere somehow we're trying to invoke the higher health. That means I went to lower state, which is good. They did not feel inferior about it.

In fact more we feel smaller about ourselves in front of God better it is. That is me remind ourselves of Lord Jesus statement. That to enter the gates of heaven, no one had to become very humble and significant become lucky children. But child is that sort of innocence, that sort of innocent approach in our prayer in our inner connectedness will have to be recalled. So, now, having established the goal that yes, some higher state is by goal, which of course will change every day. Once you reach a certain higher level of consciousness, that has become your normal state now, but then something had will be perceived in smaller and smaller doses.

You would pray that yes, I must achieve that state. And after a couple of meditation you may be able to achieve then what happens to that level of consciousness it becomes normal for you. And again something higher is inspiring you. It is like always some higher is calling us. It's like God is always calling us towards himself. Center is yawning towards itself.

Now having fixed certain level of goal we start wondering what is it that is preventing me What can prevent me from achieving it? There's so many things in this world. The biggest stumbling block is myself. Letting Go that I am so and so. Why should I need this is a state that you go is that Ohio State Then my present state, then you have sought yourself in the food pen. So how can I ask you something higher when you don't even become cognizant of its presence because you think yourself, so full of certain things that is out of ego.

Secondly, the mundane things in the world that you know, I had to satisfy this desire, I had to satisfy that desire. And we already talked about certain levels of impressions that we gather some scars we call our karma as we call sounds good as alerting but the effects arising out of karma says that the day we discussed about how some scholars performed Newton's law where it says the actions and the actions are equal, and opposite in direction, in spiritual reality. Let's see for example, some Looks at God you look at someone and you're attracted. Will the reaction with the same emotional level it can create a tsunami in our heart just a single glance can create a tsunami of love or at times, certain act can create a tsunami of hatred of anger, a simple thing creates become so mega. So inner realms don't follow the Newtonian principle.

It has its own rules and principles. Some scars or something are the impressions as something that belongs to the past the past that is created my psyche, based on which I react today. If I was not exposed to certain level of surrounding, and if I had not made up my mind in certain ways, I will not react in that particular way. So, if my heart is clear from all kinds of impressions, then I'll be able to make a fresh, neutral, unbiased reaction to every situation. That is the purpose, the ultimate purpose of all this practices that I had become absolutely beyond these likes and dislikes. Beyond this pools and pushes of the world, I should be able to transcend myself through this inner consciousness how I react to other situations.

But the desires unlike some scholars play a different role. This is something that has to happen in the future. Something I desire To have it displaying go to part into the future by designing it in the present. But there's some scholars, the impressions that I have formed and that is created by psyche belongs to the past. Similarly what I desire for the future also creates my patterns of psyche spectrums of spike is our psyches are created in my inner realms. So we slowly realize okay, I cannot change the past is already created by psyche, but slowly with this process of cleaning, I'll be able to free myself from it, but desires which is something in my check something in my control at the moment.

To a large extent, how far should I be fueling this inner desire that can become one day the subscriber So desire in one way you can call as the future of cameras, futuristic cameras. Then once we identify ourselves and say okay, these are my issues deserve by problems, then do we realize that I should get rid of them or to live with them? Naturally we like to get rid of them. Sometimes we get so much used to this way of life we put up with this is like a lazy man, even though there is a fire in the house. He's not able to even become aware and want to take a notice of it. He's so lazy, that the fire gone, but he's going to destroy himself.

That sort of laziness is not recommended. It's not desirable. Similarly in a lethargy towards oneself, this callous attitude that, Oh, I'm fine with myself, but look at the people who are so cognizant of day to day affairs which happens within, at every moment, they want to go on changing, to become better and better and better. We need to have this three things constantly going on in the mind what I want, what is blocking me, or stopping me from achieving it? And, most importantly, what can help me to achieve it? So we submit ourselves to higher forces.

You may call auto names you like religions call such an entity as God or the Lord, or the Divine Principle. Psychologically or in spiritual terms New Age stuff calls it of consciousness higher self, what to me? one fact always remains true that grosser things cannot appreciate the subtler. Take, for example, Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in physics. He talks about positioning of the electron in its field versus its speed in its field. You may identify its speed, but you may not be in a position to identify its location at the same time.

But when you argue thus, you need to identify something even smaller and subtler than the electron To identify these two things position and the speed, but is there anything like that? Likewise, to appreciate something very subtle, I will have to become even subtler. I cannot remain grasa and try to appreciate something very subtle. It is contradictory, only subtle can appreciate the grace of beauty if you might like to call it the grace of objects in its full manifestations, when we will have to become very subtle inside. And can you imagine the subtlety of the final thing, subtlety of God for example, or subtlety of the ultimate can I become subtler than that? So that I can appreciate divinity or the ultimate?

Something to think about. So to my heart clearly is when heart cries out for such a moment that yes, I like to become subtler. I'd like to appreciate and become one with the goal. So, each time you achieve something, it becomes something, the entire thing is already calling you. you attain that something even greater is awaiting. And this chain goes on and on and on.

When we realize this, that I need higher help. The heart cries out is really deeply searching introspection, the moment of introspection identifies that yes I need to achieve that, what is my problem? How to get rid of it and the source of improvement, we call God or the guide. Ultimate Guide is always got the real master of our life is always caught. And we see almost my cart. Though our real goal of human life, it will ever mess dispatch.

That highest principle is the goal of my life. We are yet but slaves of wish. Putting bar to our advancement, the work the only God and power to bring us Up to that stage. So, with such a simple submission that we identified three things. Here, the most important thing I can understand to this these few simple lines this prayer or submission is not offered. Just for myself.

It's for us all, we as ours, we are yet but slaves of wish pudding bar to our advancement. The Lord Allah, God and power to bring us up to that stage. It is no longer about myself. That's the beauty of such a submission. It's no longer a selfish thing that is my Lord. I'd like to achieve this for myself.

It's what the entire universe then what happens when such of such submission is made? I think automatically you will be able to see the magic of God's grace. Something will start descending. something even more powerful than yogic transmission. Something more intense than gravity. I like to call it as grace.

We need to invoke this grace. It's like, you know when there's a storm or typhoon or tornado air moves because it moves towards a low pressure zone. When we create the intense inner vacuum in our heart, then grace descends very softly, very gently, automatically. So, we need to create the vacuum, how to create the vacuum. Well, evening cleaning is very effective in in doing this in creating such an environment inner environment becomes purer and simpler only with such a simple and pure heart one can create such a vacuum, such a spiritual vacuum which can be filled only by grace. Generally we offer prayer just before going to bed and right after we wake up in the morning, just before going to bed and The tiling for good for next few hours, instead of making this 786 hours of sleep, only for physical vest, we like to ensure that we derive spiritual benefit out of such inactive so called inactive hours and productive hours.

No doubt we get physical and mental rest. But there is another element to it where we can have spiritual succor or spiritual nourishment. Even when we are at sleep. How is it possible trigger trigger something in us through prayer that my Lord you know after you finish this prayer, which is just three or four lines, that which you already have made yourself me With at the end of it, you say, all throughout the night Even during my sleep, I will remain connected with the Lord. All Imagine that you are sleeping in the lap of the Lord. This like when you were children and slipping in the lap of a mother or father, feel that comfort in associating yourself with the entire principal entity.

Maintain this for a few minutes with the conscious mind, maybe two minutes, three minutes. And by that time, I suppose most people go to sleep because of the comfort derived out of this sentiment. Also let there be the inner current of thought that soon as I wake up, I'll meditate and Connect myself with still another higher level of consciousness and maintain that during daytime. Finish the union cleaning that has spoiled with level of consciousness, the gain the inner balance of centeredness that you had earlier and mingled with family members with joy with such purity and simplicity. And again at night time cycle is completed through prayer. So this is how we can spend or 24 hours while working in our day to day affairs, going to work whatsoever with the work, going to business or going to universities College of schools in well, paying attention to professors or lectures, held this inner connection established already.

Even while doing this daily business affairs or work or even while cooking for our family, when we remain inwardly in tune with this deeper level of consciousness, I think the whole exercise changes its nature and we laid out such a great benefit. In just a few months of such a training, I think life can change drastically. I wish you would give it the genuine a serious try. Need to believe in my words, this plate for seven days and see what happens. These few elements of this heartfulness practice If you liked that you make this approach even simpler. We have this app called let's meditate.

You can download that on your phone. It will walk you through various elements of this practice when it's relaxation. Second is meditation. Third is cleaning. And fourth is about how to offer a prayer, how to connect with our inner selves, how to connect with ultimate. We also have hotspots all throughout the world where you can have trainers, you can take the help of trainers, these trainers will not charge anything to learn.

You can go to their place of meditation and have group meditation as well or individual meditation if you'd like to have individual meditation and fill this at a deeper level. I hope this is enough. for the day, Until then, have a good time.

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