STILLNESS: The Doorway To Nothingness

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”

• Hope this moment is fulfilling for you but such as it is in our existence, the moment seems short-lived. Should we ask why it is so fleeting or can we acknowledge that it is never-ending. The details of our activities do not cultivate the unfolding of this instant nor does the mind with its thoughts and emotions. It is the stillness within nothingness that manifests everything.
• The now of this moment is nurtured by the space of nothingness. Here in this stillness is where the conscious garden grows. The one that looks beyond the mind knows there is only one truth to find. There among the highs and lows, in and outs and ups and downs remains a stillness every unbound.

“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”

• This is where a decision should be made. Step fearlessly into this realm of simplicity or stay outside cast in a self-made Hell. The stillness of totality is one step away, granted the mind casts shadows that darken the way. Be gone details of a mortal world, I am what I am and I shall always be free. The nothingness of this moment is the essence of being.

Stillness Speaks Through the Space of Nothingness

• “In the morning we bathe our intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the religion, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial; and I doubt if that philosophy is not to be referred to a previous state of existence, so remote is its sublimity from our conceptions.
• You are the creation that creates the creator, which in turn creates the creation. This is simply an endless circle, no beginning and no end. It is the simplicity within stillness that offers everything. You do not come and then must go, you are constant, eternally so…do not look out there to find what you already know.
• During all the Moon transitions we experience a powerful point of stillness which we call “the Void” where everything in the universe stands still.
• The void can be intimidating for the first time we experience it, because we are programmed with mental chatter and it is very hard to witness the vastness of nothingness. Be an observer of nothingness an surrender to it, without being afraid. You are not dying, you are transforming: you grow, expand, evolve.
• But if you are lucky enough to reach that point of zero balance, great opportunities come your way, powerful manifesting and personal powers, opening your heart and mind to new levels of pure awareness.
• The void can be experienced during meditation when you can let go of the mental chatter.
• Whatever you do, don’t panic, you have been upgraded beautifully to new levels. Many people would love to find stillness of the mind, as it’s one of the hardest things to accomplish in this crazy world.
• Take it easy and breath deeply. The void will help you unwind emotional thoughts, negative patterns, allowing for abundance, healing and beauty.
• If you experienced the void You must be sensitive as not many people can feel it. That is an amazing gift you have, harness the power of it with positive emotions and thinking.
• Keep this energy in (for yourself) for a week or two until the energies that you have been upgraded to settle and ground into your energy centers and then you can share your experiences with others.You probably have the ability to make a difference in others people’s lives in the near future.
• If you haven’t experinced the void yet, you need to calm your thoughts by meditating. It seems as you are close to experience it.

How to float with the void, how to be one with the VOID…

• Please understand: it is not intended as an escapism method, it is intended to find peace within.
• It takes a few minutes of meditation. We have quite a few guided meditations to chose from and we designed them to act upon subconscious mind for the greatest good for all.
• It actually requires dedication to seat in meditation, training your mind to find peace. Expect no magic silver bullet.
• We came into this world to experiment and grow. So if you want peace, meditate!!!
• The void will come, and when it comes it’s total bliss.
• The anxiety disappears, the madness goes away, and life starts to actually make sense. Add a prayer/intention before starting meditating and then let it go.
• What we usually suggest to people we work with is to just stay with what comes to mind and observe the thoughts.When thoughts start taking over, tell yourself:

“This is the time for myself, I choose to let go now. I will deal with the thoughts (whatever thoughts come) later after I finish this meditation”.

• So what happens the mind will understand that you will go back to your thoughts (supportive or unsupportive) later. You will notice after the meditation is over if your thoughts were unsupportive you will disregard them, even laugh at them, because meditation helps you get rid of fake imagined thoughts that will probably never happen in reality.

When everything is peace you will feel, see, be part of the void.

• To help you get there, imagine complete darkness and try to open your eyes in the total darkness or empty space, observe the darkness and stay with it, breath into it.
• Just be there, don’t try to reconstruct the darkness, just let it happen with you being part of it.
• And when that happens, you will know your essence, I promise you will feel GOOD!!!
• During the last moon transmission three centers were awakened after we have gone through a complete process of emotional cleansing including pain and suffering cleansing that was done this time in a complete different way, more balanced I should say.
• The three centers that were awakened were the crown chakra, heart chakra and the root chakra (base of the spine).
• There was a vortex awakening energy from the ground spiraling and cleansing all the way through the crown and then from above the same way all the way down into the earth.
• It usually starts from above and go deep into the ground, this time started from the earth opening into the universe then from above like a spiral of energy going deep into the earth. Very intense energy and clear visual.

“The power of life resides in the power of the mind, power of the heart, power of your roots”

“Use your inborn gift of laughter more and more every day”

“Angels are with you always”

Chit Shakti

• If we could consider that life is passing through us instead of “we are the life”, a fundamental shift in awareness will happen.
• Life has begun well before our existence and will continue well after us.
  Life is movement. The concepts of creation that we believe based on our individual yet relative existence and its associated identifications are the illusions that alienate us from the truth that life is unstoppable and continuous. Our addiction to our identities causes limitations. Law of karma is the flow of life through time. So, when we understand that life is passing through us, our levels of acceptance will surpass our eye for differences. Life creates differences spontaneously. That variety is what we call life. Everything transforms and everything evolves in its appointed degrees shifting frequencies when they do it, beyond regular or logical comprehension that mind or intellect has a capacity for. This also means the emotions of human relationships have only temporary experiential value and grossly insignificant in the grand plan of the flow of life.

Only what mind holds, mind recreates. Nothing lasts forever.

• The English word mind doesn’t say anything because it’s just one generic word, which does not describe different dimensions of what the mind is. Mind is not just one something sitting here (Gestures) and doing something, okay? There is really no such thing as mind. In the yogic culture, there is no mind. There is a physical body, there is a mental body because what you are calling as mind right now is a certain combination of memory and intelligence. There is memory in your body, more memory in your body than you can imagine. If I have to get at you again, it’s okay, I’m picking on you. You definitely don’t remember how your great-great-great-great-great-grandmother looked like but her nose is sitting on your face right now.
• You don’t remember a thing consciously but your body remembers one hundred percent. How ten generations ago, your grandmother was, your body still remembers. A million years ago, how your forefathers were, your… still your body remembers, isn’t it? It’s not forgotten and it’s not going to forget. Your mind is not capable of this kind of memory. Your body has a trillion times more memory than your so-called brain. This whole shift towards the brain and intellectual process is an Eu… is a European malaise — they gave too much significance to thought. This has happened because they lived under a subjugated society, religiously subjugated society where you are not supposed to think anything except what’s written in some book, otherwise you are dead. They lived like this for a longtime. Because of this, when they got little freedom to think and managed to live, they started celebrating their thought too much.
• In the yogic understanding, there are 16 dimensions to the human mind. These 16 dimensions fall into four categories. These four categories are known as buddhi, manas, ahankara, and chitta. Buddhi is the intellect — the logical dimension of thought. Unfortunately, the modern education systems and modern sciences have largely limited themselves to buddhi. That is a buddhu (foolish) way of existence.

THE LIMITATION OF THE INTELLECT

• Buddhi or the intellect cannot function without a certain bank of memory or data. Depending on the data you have, the intellect plays around. Suppose in your memory system, there are 10 gigabytes of memory. Depending on how sharp your buddhi is, one person can produce, let’s say, a trillion thoughts with these 10 gigabytes. Someone else can produce 10 trillion thoughts with the same 10 gigabytes of memory.
• In the yogic understanding, there are 16 dimensions to the human mind.
• If you can think a little better than someone else, it is considered as intelligence today. If someone says one thing and you can say ten things to that, you may be socially smart, but you are not any more intelligent. Unfortunately, in today’s systems of education and academics, everything is determined by this. If you can make more things out of it, you are considered intelligent, which is not true — you only have a sharper buddhi. The buddhi will not take you beyond limits in any way, because it can only function based on the data that is already there. It is not capable of accessing anything beyond that.

THE MEMORY OF YOUR FOREFATHERS

• The next dimension is called manas. Manas has many layers to it. But manas is not just the brain — it is right across the body. Every cell in the body has a phenomenal memory — not just of this life but of millions of years. Your body clearly remembers how your forefathers were a million years ago. Top to bottom, there is manas — this is called manomaya kosha. In every cell in the body, there is memory and intelligence, but no intellect. Intellect is only in the brain.
• What is in the brain is intellect, not intelligence. Intelligence and memory are right across your body. But people have never been trained how to use this intelligence.
• In English language, everything comes under one banner called “mind.” The idea that intelligence is only in the brain has produced human beings whose consciousness is seriously constipated. What is in the brain is intellect, not intelligence. Intelligence and memory are right across your body. But people have never been trained how to use this intelligence. Instead, they use their intellect for everything. No wonder they are stressed out whatever job you give them. The whole weight is on only one dimension of the mind out of sixteen. It is like loading a sixteen-wheeler truck and trying to drive on only one wheel — you can imagine the stress! That is what today’s world is going through.
• People may be using other dimensions of the mind marginally, unconsciously, but they are not trained to use them. They have only been trained to use their buddhi, or their intellect. They are very smart. They know everything about everything, but they do not know how to figure their own life. They do not even know how to sit here peacefully and at total ease within themselves. If there is true intelligence, the first thing that you need to figure out is how to make life happen. You know how to make the world happen, but you do not know how to make your life happen. You do not know how to conduct your mind, your energies, your emotions or your body.
• If you ask people to become fit, they become tight. If you ask them to live in a more natural way, they become fat. Where is the intelligence? There is only intellect. Intellect looks good only in comparison. Suppose you are the only person on the planet, your intellect will not mean anything. Only because there are a few idiots around you, you shine. By itself, intellect will not be of any consequence.

THE SENSE OF IDENTITY

• The intellect directly connects with the third dimension of your mind, called ahankara. Ahankara is sometimes translated as ego, but it is much more than that. Ahankara gives you a sense of identity. Once your ahankara takes on an identity, your intellect functions only in that context. It is important to function beyond the intellect, because the intellect is seriously enslaved to your identity.
• There are other ways to know life beyond the identities we have taken on for our survival in the world.
• Our identities, such as belonging to a certain nation, community, or whatever else, are necessary for our survival in a particular society. But you cannot think beyond this because you are functioning only from your intellect, and the intellect takes its sustenance from ahankara. Only along the axis of ahankara, the intellect can function. The intellect cannot transcend this, because that is its nature. But there are other ways to know life beyond the identities we have taken on for our survival in the world.

THE COSMIC INTELLIGENCE

• The fourth category of the mind is called chitta. Chitta is mind without memory — pure intelligence. This intelligence is like the cosmic intelligence — simply there. Everything happens because of that. It does not function out of memory — it simply functions. In a way, what you call cosmos is a living mind, not in the sense of intellect but in the sense of chitta. Chitta is the last point of the mind. It connects to the basis of creation within you. It connects you with your consciousness.
• Chitta is always on — whether you are awake or asleep. Your intellect comes on and goes off. Many times it fails, even when you are awake. If chitta or the intelligence within you was not always on, you could not stay alive. Try to conduct your breath with your intellect — you will go crazy. Chitta is keeping you alive, keeping you going, making life happen. If you touch this dimension of your mind, which is the linking point to one’s consciousness, you do not even have to wish for anything, you do not have to dream of anything — the best possible thing that can happen to you will anyway happen.

THE DIVINE ENSLAVED

• When people touch this dimension of the mind, it is called ishwara pranidhana in yoga. This means God becomes your slave — he works for you. You know, yogis say, “Shiva is my servant. He does everything for me.” In a way, otherwise, I would not be here. Once you know how to consciously access your chitta, everything that is needed will simply happen in the best possible way. If you go by your intellect or your buddhi, today you think “this is it,” tomorrow morning you think “that is it” — like this it goes on endlessly.
• Chitta is the last point of the mind. It connects to the basis of creation within you. It connects you with your consciousness.
• Once you know how to consciously keep your chitta on, once the Divine is your servant, when someone really efficient is working for you, you do not have to do anything. Simply sit; the best things will happen — things that you could not imagine. People always think if their dreams come true, their life will be great. I think that is a very poor life, because you cannot dream about anything that is not at all in your experience. My wish and my blessing for you is things that you could not dream of, things that you never thought possible, must happen to you. What you did not dream must happen to you — that is why you should not dream.
• Instead of seeing how to delve deeper into yourself, you go on projecting stupid ideas into the world. People think that is a great thing to do. Last time when I was in the US, and someone said to me, “Sadhguru, how do you manifest all this?” I said, “I do not manifest anything. I am just fooling around. I got a very efficient partner [Shiva]. I simply leave it to him, and it happens.”
• Chit Shakti is about touching the dimension of your mind that is pure intelligence — unsullied by memory, unsullied by identification. It is beyond ahankara, beyond buddhi, beyond judgment, beyond divisions — simply there, just like the intelligence of existence that makes everything happen. If you access this, you do not have to worry about what happens or what does not happen. It will happen in a way that you never imagined possible.
• Once you have access to your chitta, it is also a multi-pointed telescope. It makes you see things that no one else can see — in every direction.
• Once you have access to your chitta, it is also a multi-pointed telescope. It makes you see things that no one else can see — in every direction. It is your crystal ball. It is a magnifying glass that brings the very core of life close to you. For everyone else, it is far way. Everyone thinks the Divine is somewhere up there. Where exactly, no one knows. All they know is, it seems far away.
• The moment you start looking at life through your chitta, where there is no memory, there is no karmic substance and no division. Suddenly, the Divine is right there, bang on, in your face all the time. You cannot miss it.
• The idea of Chit Shakti is not to keep asking for things. The idea is that if the physical arrangements of life happen easily, you can dedicate more time for your spiritual wellbeing. It would be stupid if just because it happens easily, first you want to be a millionaire, then you want to be a billionaire. The main intention is that your physical life happens more easily, that it does not take your entire time to handle it, so that you will have time to close your eyes and sit. Please make use of it for this purpose.

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