The Guest House -Rumi

                            THE GUEST HOUSE      

This being human is a guest house. 
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness, 
some momentary awareness comes 
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all! 
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, 
who violently sweep your house 
empty of its furniture, 
still, treat each guest honorably. 
He may be clearing you out 
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice. 
meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.

Be grateful for whatever comes. 
because each has been sent 
as a guide from beyond.

– Rumi, translation by Coleman Barks

The Science of Completion as written in, The Nithyananda TImes Magazine

All human beings need to know why they behave the way they behave, what drives them to do the things they do. Whatever their profession, whatever attitudes they react with, the cause is always the same: their root pattern is responsible for everything in their lives.

The first strong experience that shocks every human being in early life, which influences them to continue the same behaviours, is called the “root thought pattern”.

Once this pattern takes root in people, their growth stops. Only the pattern continues to grow. Unfortunately it becomes so much a part of their identity that people do not realize that it is something separate from them. It becomes the master, directing every decision and causing imbalance and suffering. At times, people even enjoy this suffering because they feel it is a challenge to face, justifying their worthiness. People may create a foolish difficulty and call it “adventure”, to show that they are brave or clever.

Complete the Pattern to Reclaim Energy

When a water pond becomes covered with plants, the plants grow so thickly that the water cannot be seen. That is how the root thought pattern covers the consciousness. Once the pattern is cleared, the consciousness can be discovered! Even basic behaviours such as attention need are actually root thought patterns. Every effort in life – to earn money, to form relationship – are driven only by root thought patterns. This is like being driven by an enemy. Enemies will not drive each other to success! Any pseudo-success that is gained by striving from a root thought pattern cannot bring any fulfilment to the person. Whether the driving emotion is lust, anger or some other emotion, it controls its host and gives a sense of powerlessness. Only enlightened beings have no experience of powerlessness. The best way to help any human being is to assist them to identify their root pattern and complete with it. Once completion has happened, so much energy is released that all powerlessness disappears.

The first responsibility of every human being is finding their root thought pattern and completing it. This completion itself allows the flowering of the four principles of integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching to happen in the person.

Completing the pattern is necessary to awaken the Kundalini Shakti and to activate the latent strands of DNA. With completion of one’s pattern one becomes a blessing to the world. Without completing, nothing attempted is of any benefit even if it is intended to enrich others.

Either one enriches or encroaches: one is either a blessing or a burden. To enrich and bless, each human being must find their root thought pattern and complete with it. Only then, life really begins.

Memories with emotional attachements are incompletions

Change, Completion, Incompletion

One day after initiating this blogspot, called Embrace Change,  I find myself sitting in the Raja Saba Hall where we gather every morning for Puja and Satsang and Swamiji starts speaking on the subject of "change". I thought, "hey thats my blog" so I thought I would share with you his wisdom on change?  I know you are not familiar with some terms so let me explain simply so this article will make sense.

Completion, being in a state of completion is having nothing sitting in your inner space that is impacting the present moment. (No thoughts, no worries, no meetings you have second thoughts about, no one you need to apologize to, nothing that you have left undone and it is occupying your inner space to the point where your present moment is impacted or your mind is occupied on other things that have absorbed your attention to fix or change or let go from.) Got it? No HOLES in the WHOLE.

Incompletion: Having any psychological hangovers or situations, emotional turbulence, people, concerns, worries that are impacting your inner space in this present moment. Definitely there are HOLES IN THE WHOLE!

"Life is eternal excitement. Life is eternally changing and change brings excitement.This is the most stable lifestyle you can have. Having the clarity and cognition that life is change is the greatest stability you can bring to your life."  So when one choses to embrace change from a place of completion, no negative mental patterns impacting  decisions,  this is stability.

Change is a law of life.

 Out of incompletion, fear, insecurity or powerlessness, we may think we want to embrace change in our life because we need to do 'something' to change an external situation. However, when we try and bring stability hoping to minimize the impact of change by stopping or creating a buffer not to let that change happen, then stability brings the curse of boredom. Stability then is a space where change is not possible. The effects of change on your inner space makes you afraid of change. This is because we are afraid of the incompletions we have to go through during every change. This I experienced in the beginning of my stay here  in India. I found myself feeling fearful about my future second guessing whether or not I should be here rather than back home setting up my life! I went through all the scenarios what would happen when I returned including whether or not I would have enough money. The mind goes through every fear.

 One needs to look in and see what is causing the fear.  Truthfully I am completely safe, well fed, I have a place to sleep, a place to work, an outdoor yoga studio, a place to run, easy access to shopping whatever I need and family to come back to. What I don't know presently is what impact this choice will have on my future and where my future will be and what that will look like! We are so use to setting up our lives and making sure that the future is secure and only then we feel safe in the present.

Here in Dyhanapeetham, we are learning to embrace change one minute at a time and be in completion every minute and then what shows up is not from a predictable past pattern but from an amazingly perfect source called existence which has all of us completely contained and presents to us extraordinary solutions, ideas, work, whatever we need even if we don't know we need it. But definitely something better than we ourselves could have picked from some predictable past habit.

When we make decisions externally to alter or change a situation for our internal incompletions in life, we are going to get more and more into a mess. Here is a simple example. You decide to get married because you are lonely and you don't want to be alone.  Listen! You can not milk security, or love or guarantees in life when the cause for your problem, loneliness, is rooted inside you as a conflicting thought pattern, a misunderstanding that is impacting your decision to get married and is impacting it now in the present moment. As we all know, marriage is NOT going to heal your loneliness. So you will create more complications for your life and then what will you do?  You need to re-cognize the internal cause. Recognize it from another perspective. Shift the cognition. Making a choice from a limiting belief about you, others or life perpetuates more of the same.

The essence of this message is that making changes in one's life is not necessarily the solution to "Change". Rather, "change" lived as a law of life, eternal excitement is the best stability and the solution. If we are living and making choices from incompletions, that WILL kill the excitement in our life. When we work out of  incompletion, we become tired and boredom will set in. We certainly wont enjoy the results.

When you bring completion then any change you bring externally does not take away your excitement inside and even if you bring stability it does not lead to boredom inside. SO change without feeling unstable is very important. I think I am at this point enjoying the change and feeling very stable in this environment as I clear my inner space of fears and focus on this moment.

Taken from Morning Satsang talk given by Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda
www.nithyananda.org

The Ajna Chakra, Sixth Chakra, Third Eye

The third eye also known as the Ajna Chakra, located between the eye brow center is a chakra that really piques my curiosity. Before I expound on this one energy center  let me give you the foundation for the Chakra system, a subtle energy body system every human being has although they might not be aware of this.

There are 7 chakras or major energy centers that  coordinate along various points on our body. These energy centers are the power point centers through which  the entire energy in our  system flows. Located along with each energy center is a gland that supplies that center with nourishment. Whenever we experience low moods, low emotions or feelings of powerlessness, perhaps anger, fear, worrying, jealousy, etc...dissatisfaction and frustration happen inside us. The major energy points or chakras will shrink or collapse. This is what leads one to being at dis-ease with the body as the gland is not able to supply proper nourishment, prana or life energy for this energy center which in turn affects that one area of body.

When we are creating, contributing sharing enriching our lives with others, feeling high emotions from living without conflict, depression and suffering, in other words simply flowing with life, gratitude and content with everything happening in one's life, our chakras expand leaving one with experiencing and expressing more and more vitality, health and life energy also called Kundalini Shakti. The Kundalini Shakti is the dormant life energy inside each of us waiting to be used. (More on this later....)

The point is, 'Seeing is our life'. When we see with our eyes, we have the physical experience. When we see through our mind, we can understand it with our mental body. Even blind people continue to see in their inner space. Regardless we all continue to see through our inner eyes.

What about the third eye? The third eye is for conscious seeing. The third eye awakens the non mechanical parts of the brain and helps you to experience telepathy, materialization, teleportation and other extraordinary powers.  Uri Geller was a man known for bending spoons. In one of his books he writes about the day his body took off across New York City and landed on a friends kitchen table. This is no joke and I am sure you can find the book to verify this. We are not exposed to these truths and to the power and possibilities of this body. Yet Jesus was quoted saying in the bible when we was performing miracles, "these things I do, you too will do and more".  I believe these are the times he spoke of.
                                                                     

The third eye is the gateway to consciousness. Literally, there are 2 optic nerves connected to the outer side edge of both eyes that travel back along the side of the head, just like a head band connecting at a point called the "Pineal Gland" which is located at the top back of the skull. The pineal gland is the gateway to consciousness. The opening possibility of the third eye is programmed in all DNA. In Hinduism they wear what is called a "bindi", processed turmeric energized by a master to continuously work to awaken it. It is the most important energy center in the body. It is not just the brow center it is the browsing center for the cosmos where you can download and upload anything.

It awakens when you start giving attention to it. It is a bridge between the physical world and the psychic and cosmic space. All the extraordinary powers, psychic powers are achieved through the third eye. The third eye is a direct bridge to God.

My initial experience happened years ago as I was sitting in a beautiful church by my home on Charnwood in Troy Mi, and I was wondering if it would be a good practice to meditate. So I sat in the little prayer room that holds many beautiful religious objects and I closed my eyes and asked if meditation was a good practice for me. I decided to sit until I got an answer. 45 minutes later, a white light in the middle of my forehead shown like a beacon!! what an experience! The light went on!


A Suggested Technique

Close your eyes. From within, let your eyes follow upward to the point between the brow and hold the inner gaze there as you bring awareness to your breath,. breathe gently and slowly, be mindful, focusing on the flow of air. Try this for five to ten minutes.  Increase your time a little more every day. Listening to soothing music is optional for this simple meditation technique.