Notes from the Autobiography of a Yogi

Notes from the Autobiography of a Yogi

Chapter 15 - Cauliflower robbery

This was a very interesting and humorous read I really enjoyed.

In this chapter I learnt that God, divine father cares for all of us and works for all of us. Most of the times we forget that he is there to look after us and just keep working harder and harder, suffering more and more.

The truth is that father is there and he feels for each one of us. He just wants us to approach him with faith, he just wants us to ask him trustfully.

Many a times, he is looking out for us and answers our requests but we fail to notice it, even if we do notice it sometime forget it after the excitement were off.

Divine father has given us every power to choose our own faith. He wants us to make the choice of returning back to him and start searching for him. He is disappointed when we ask for more and more of his worldly gifts and not directions to reach him.

There are a lot of divine laws that id covering our world, we have only started to re-discover them one by one through the relentless pursuit of finding how the universe exist.

We are all in search of the hidden laws of the outer universe, there is no diminishing energy exploring the out world and universe. What father wants us to do is to explore and probe the   inner world and find him. All the laws are applicable to the outer and inner world.

Sri Yuktheswar always emphasised the importance these in life:
1. Daily practice of Kriya Yoga
2. Self respect
3. Simple diet
4. Regular exercise
5. Calmness
6. Determination

Diet and exercise is not new to a lot of us, we know they are important and we are in a struggle to achieve them.

Calmness and determination might be new to a lot of people, it is new to me.

I have always felt that I am not very determined in anything that I take up. Distraction is our main enemy. Most of the times we don’t know why we are doing certain things in life. We are carrying out orders that were given to us without any thought to why they were suggested in the first place.

Remove everything from your life, if you want to be determined to achieve one thing in life. Removing the other priority will help you to think better and focus on only the most valuable thing for you. Then put all your focus into achieving that goal.

In self- realisation, there is nothing more important than finding divine father. Put them as your first priority and then remove everything else that is standing in your way. Ask him to take care of the things that are coming in, if you are forced to take up something, understand that it must be your dharma instructed by divine father.

Everything is him, every moment is him. Don’t be judgemental about the results of things. Believe in him to make everything better for you. 

Getting back on track

Today I could meditate for 30 mins after I woke up at 5:50am.

I need more time for my meditation, I will wake up at 5:30 am tomorrow.

The energization exercises are helping me alot to meditate properly.

I really have to make myself wake up at 5:30pm

Reiki is experiential

August 24th

Reiki is truely experiential. The way for anyone to learn Reiki is to practice it and heal themselves in the process.

For some reason, I have bargained this process.I told myslef that I do not require Reiki healing. I could learn it from the books but sadly that was not the case with me. I don't know how to explain Reiki. I can only help the person experience it.

The process of learning has to start from me. I am a Reiki master but I can't tell the world that I don't know how to experience Reiki.

There is still a part of me that resists the healing required for that part, It is that part that always says no to Reiki..

When should I stop the bargain? When should I accept healing for me?

Live in the present and accept people and situations as they are. This was a powerful message that I recieved today from one of my books.

It was so profound that it struck my heart.

The time is now.

21 day

After the Reiki 3b,  I was confused with the two schools of learning that I am going through.

I wanted to know what I should focus on and on the meditation the answers came as,  for the next 21,  till September.  I am not supposed to read any books on healing and only to focus on the Reiki 21 day cycle.

I will get more clarity afterwards. In the 21 day cycle,  or would be best to split it into two one session in the morning and another one in the evening.

Today will be my first day,  I will start in the evening.

Holy science

Today I started the Holy science book written by swami yuktheshwar giri

I could not fully grasp what swami was explaining. So I thought I will meditate upon those topics.

My mind kept wandering away.  I used the prayer technique to bring it back everytime.

Meditation and prayer

Today in the meditation my mind was wandering.

But in every in breath I prayed to my father to help me concentrate. It made me mindful and I was able to concentrate for sometime and then again my mind wandered.

It was  a good meditation,  I will keep using this simple, method in my meditation until I am able to concentrate for the entire 30mins.

The best part is,  I feel like my father is listening to me and helping me concentrate.

Talking to my father

Today I was deeply disturbed before the meditation.

After reading the book "How to talk to God"  I realized that renunciation means giving up small pleasures for the highest pleasure of attaining Gods Kingdom.

I prayed for 30mins I could concentrate well for 15mins but when I started the om chanting I started to lose my focus.

I need to increase my meditation time to 1 hour - 45min meditation and 15mins writing.

I have wake up at 5.30 am everyday,  if I have to do that.

I need to develop that zeal.

Om chsnting

Today meditation was om chanting.  The mind keep running away from me alot.

The first few minutes I was able to concentrate on the reading from guruji.

Then I lost track of my mind and thoughts started to pour on to me.  I switched between chanting and silent meditation when ever I noticed that my mind has wandered.

I will continue this meditation till I get another meditation techniques. 

From today I will pay attention to my mind and how try to bring it to the present.

I will have to control my mind and offer it to my father.

Meditation is all about patience

Today the meditation was about helping me understand how I was impatient.

I could concentrate with my breathing exercise or with my silent meditation.  Thoughts came at me one after the other.

After a while I was reminded about the lesson taught in the last meditation class.
Patience and detachment.

I was not at all patient enough and sought after advanced techniques only to find that I was not ready for them.

So  I started doing the other chanting. 

Meditation with 24 breath

Today I wanted to do the Reiki healing before the meditation, but father told me to do the breathing exercise.

I competed the 24 breath and concentrated on the third eye.  When even my mind stated to wander,  my closed both my nose for few moments.

Father told me to do the Reiki healing before and after waking up.

I realized that all the sorrow I have been going through was because I felt that my father couldn't fill my heart.  Today I realized that he could fill my heart and make me complete.

I just have to insist on hearing and knowing him just like a innocent kid.

I have to eat less and pray before eating any food.  Making Reiki a habit would be good as well.

I read the chapter on "cosmic vibration speaks all languages "

Distracting throughts

Today's meditation was simple.

I tried to wake up at five but it is still hard more me,  may be I will start with six and then slowly move to 5.

I read a chapter on how to talk to God and meditated upon it for some time.  It was good,  I cook of hear the ohm in my breath for few minutes and then I got distracted by my thoughts. I poyilla my self into the meditation.

After that I did few sessions of alternative breathing, but could not complete the twelve breaths.

From next day  I will do the 24 breath cycles.

My divine father is constantly talking to me through his cosmic vibration, the reason why i am not able to hear him is because my spiritual receiver is not fine tuned.

Meditation is the best way.

I need to concentrate more on the avoiding distractions,  is it a good idea to buy a counter?

Meditation with father

Today I came back to bangalore.

When I was at home, I didn't see the need to meditate.  I was caught in the Maya created by my father.

But when I came back to bangalore,  I got his clear messages again.

I think I will be able to hear him better when I am alone. I will go searching for him when I am alone. He would be my companion when I am alone.

In today's meditation I read the book "How to talk to God " then meditated upon the chapter "one with God,  one with God's power ".

In the chapter,  guruji told me about my divine father.

About his powers and how if I could have the same abilities as my father of I unite my consciousness.

My father become personal when he created the material world,  everything is him.

He created the cosmic matter, consciousness, and energy. Just like the human body,  energy and casual body.

I am truly one with my father.  I have to remind my self in every breath.

The meditation was good I could bring back my focus every time it strayed away from my focus.

After mediating about the chapter,  I did the alternative breathing.

I lost my focus couple of times,  but it was good.

Why am I mediating?

Today I had an interesting Meditation.

I started off with the breathing techniques and then when I started to do the spinal breathing,  I realized that I was not ready for it.

I would focus on the third eye for some time from the pressure left from the fingers after the breathing exercise.

The most interesting thing about today's meditation was that I started asking the question

Why do I want to meditate?

It gave me interesting answers Everytime.
But one answer was constant,  to know my divine father,  to hear him,  not just internally by from outside.

It was wonderful,  I will keep asking this question when ever I get distracted.

I want to know my divine father.

Today I read the first chapter from the auto biography of a yogi.  But i couldn't analyze the reading.  Maybe tomorrow.

I know my divine father will talk to me.

Concentration

In the meditation,

I tried to concentrate simply on the spiritual eyes.  But i couldn't focus for a very long time.
Thoughts kept coming to me.

I tried the alternative breathing technique and spinal breathing technique.
I was able to concentrate on the third eye for sometime.

The improvements I am thinking of are
To state with breathing alternative,  this will give me focus on the spiritual eye for sometime.

Then try to talk to divine father.

While doing the first breathing, think and analyze on what you have read.

When you start to get distracted, do the the spinal breathing.

Again focus on the spiritual eye,  if you want hold both hands in such a way that the thumbs meet at the spiritual eye.

After the spinal breathing do the aum chanting in until the end.

Before the meditation pray to the divine father and saints to guide you.

After the meditation ask them to be with you for rest of th he day.

Detachment

In the meditation I started practicing detachment.

Even ever a thought comes to my mind,  I ask myself to detach from them.

Call out for achan in the meditations.

For this week keep the message of detachment strong by detaching from the desire of food.

Some people are better off without a life partner

Acha,  divine father,

Some people are better to the world with out any martial ties.

I think I am one of them

Today I am sitting in the hospital to consult the doctor on my worsening cold and sneezing.

I am hear the cries from two ladies whoes mother just passes away.  I can feel the pain in their cry even thought I can't understand their native kannada.  Those are coming from their heart.
It touched a deep part of my heart,  where once on a Saturday early morning,  a younger me was crying just like that in front an ICU.

A man is not supposed to show his tears,  the world taught me.

My father was only 56 when he left me.  I am almost half way there.

Sometimes I think my father should not have married. 
Acha, you are not to be blamed,  you did not know what was the responsibilities that are going to be thrusted on you .

He didn't have the strength to face the life when everything turned against him.

People should not get married because society thinks they are ready.  They should get married when they know they are ready,  to keep their loved ones happy,  to life for others and to take on more responsibility than their own.

I am not going more than you Acha.

May be you have planned for my life with purpose that requires me to alone.

What ever it is Acha,  I accept it.

Please keep her happy.

How to concentrate during meditation

July 18,2015

The meditation is now a habit for me,  I am sitting to meditate every day for 30min.

The most challenging thing is to stay focus on the stillness.  My mind keep wandering around every few minutes and I realize it every late.

Today I did the Aum chanting only for few minutes and then tried out a hybrid on the alternative breathing technic and the Aum chanting. But it was not very effective and I stopped after few minutes.

The next thing I tried out was the breathless state.  The breath would be stopped and I try to focus on the  manipura Chakra.  Even that was not very effective. 

I have to consult a doctor to fix my breathing problem so that I can breath more freely from the next day.

To find my father Aum

July 16,

I have been trying to find the right  meditation for me.  I tried meditating  with yoganada's aum chanting and I would not concentrate for a long time.

Today I learnt the alternative breathing technique and spinal breathing technique.

I realized today that I M still not ready for them,  I need to continue with the aum chanting for more time maybe for the entire month of July.

Clearly have not yet developed the concentration required for the advanced stages.

Reiki symbols part 3

The Reiki symbols have 4 parts :
1. The symbol
2. The Japanese name
3. English translation
4. A pledge or a promise

The last component is your intent or wish.  It is very important to make sure that your intent should not be contradicting the promise of the symbol,  if that happens the symbols might not act upon your intent.

The symbols act as tools in your journey,  whatever it is you are focusing in your life at that moment. It can be somthing as simple as reaching a destination in the real world,  learning a new skill or journey to your life purpose.
The symbols also act as a channel for you to connect and access the energetic forces of the universe easily and consistently.

It is very important to know how and why the symbols work because it will help us to avoid making mistakes in the symbols on a conscious level.  Most of the practices belive in the concept of Let  go,  let God, and Reiki seems to be made to work like that. The basic understanding of the blue print of the symbols will help us to use the symbols better and respect them.

The symbols are taught to be used in a particular sequence, but they seems to work in any fashion you apply them.  The order of the symbols will help in focusing the energy of your intention.
If the mental emotional symbol is used first, the focus is first given time improving the mental attitudes and emotional attitudes of life. When the power symbol is used after the ME symbol, it makes the ME a royal command.

If the distance symbol is used first,  it sends the power to all the ten directions,  and if the master symbols is used first focus is given to balance integration and enlightenment.

I believe that the master symbol can be used before meditations,  it might be helpful to sit on the master symbol and to draw a pyramid around you when meditating.  This will help you to be grounded and empower your root chakra and kundalini.

The four Reiki chakras are part of the 8 sacret  Buddhist symbols found at the foot of the statue of the healing Buddha in Yakushiji in Japan.

Reiki symbols part 2

The symbols are used with their names and symbols.
It is not enough go say the name of the symbol,  you have to draw the symbols as well.
The symbols are activated by three names,  the symbols are pictures of energy and the sound is the activator.

The distance and master symbols are those which reflect their meaning through names,  other two needs the name and the symbol to represent their true meaning.

Reiki symbols part 1

Reiki symbols have always been considered as sacred and secret. It is considered sacred as it is used in Reiki initiations and it had been a closely guarded secret until recently. They is a ceremony after the Reiki  2nd, where the materials and papers used to learn the symbols would be burned and there by committing the symbols to memory.

Reiki symbols are part of the creative power of the universe,  it is one of the reasons why symbols are considered to be sacred.

The symbols are  beloved to be of three components :
1. Cosmological -  bringing to form from the diamond world of reality where angels and God's reside
2.  Initiation -  used to initiate and open the energy channels in students
3. Journey - to assist a master in the spiritual quest of life.

Reiki symbols are supposed to be used with their sound, only distance and master symbol can be invoked only by sound.  The other 2 requires the symbols to be drawn along with their name.

The symbols represent meanings much greater than ordinary human perception,  most of the symbols doesn't contain their complete meaning in their names.  It  takes the sound to activate the Reiki energy associated with the symbols.