Friends, I was recently reading a blogpost that I liked. However, I did not get any response to my comment. It was written in it that only Hindu religion is theistic religion, all others are atheists. The Sanskrit word Aastik is derived from the word ‘Asti’, which means ‘is’. Meaning, the one who believes only in ‘Is’ i.e. existence without name and form, is a theist. ‘Na Asti i.e. Naasti’ means ‘does not exist’. One who believes in ‘nothing’ is an atheist. Anyway, name and form do not exist. Ice forms water, water forms steam, steam forms clouds and water forms again. Despite changing so many names and forms, everything remains water. If we continue this tradition of cause and effect from back to back, everything becomes finer and finer, and in the end only the sky is left. Meaning everything is sky or void or soul form. Void is not void of absence or darkness but void of indescribable form. That is why Hinduism seems escapist, but in reality it is not so. The real believer is not the one who completely rejects name and form. Rather, the real theist is the one who considers the true and real existence to be higher than the false and fake existence in the form of name. If we do not accept name and form at all, then how will worldly life run and how will human civilization develop? In such a situation, everyone will become like detached monks. The whole science is dependent on name and form. If you don’t give a name or form to a thing then you will not be able to understand it and how will you be able to control it. Science will not be possible without accepting name and form. On the other hand, other religions are also not completely atheistic. The real atheist is not one who believes only in name and form and denies pure existence. Rather, the real atheist is the one who gives more importance to the existence of name and form than the pure and real existence. While accepting the existence of name and form, pure existence itself comes to be accepted, because ‘is’ seems to be with everyone. The existence of pure ‘is’ and the existence of name and form are dependent on each other, and both co-exist with each other. They cannot remain separate from each other. The difference is who is given more importance in the mind. Meaning, the difference is only in the perception of the mind. The worldly life of a theist is the same as that of an atheist. The difference lies in the ideology or perception of the mind of both. Just by changing the perception of the mind, adverse effects like heaven and hell are created. It means clearly that no one can be a complete theist or a complete atheist. In behaviour, everyone is of mixed nature. Various theological scriptures have been created only to keep the mind’s perception theistic. Spirituality only improves the perception of the mind. Worldliness will work only through science. Formation and improvement of mental perception is a natural tendency, just as man himself gets drawn towards the experience of happiness. I don’t see much contribution of religion in this. Religion does not teach man which situation is pleasant, rather man learns it himself from his own experience. Anyway, human psychology is very complex and diverse. No such general rule can be made in this regard, as is made for inanimate objects like general rules like gravity etc. Here, every person’s mind is unique in itself, for which the rules should also be unique. Yes, a religious book can declare a general principle for everyone, but that too should be unanimous and scientifically or spiritually proven. Although there may be human exceptions to that too. Man has to take worldly practical steps himself according to time and circumstances. Meaning everything cannot be written or told. That is why people of all types of beliefs will be found in every religion. Yes, proportion can vary due to different reasons. For example, the Yaksha asked Yudhishthira what was the greatest wonder of the world. To this Yudhishthir replied that people die every day, but despite seeing this, living people think that they will never die. There is no bigger surprise than this. Yaksha was satisfied with this answer. A person with positive perception will take this story in such a way that even while living life with full enthusiasm, a person should always remember that someday his life will end, hence one should not be attached to life. Meaning, do not be attached to name and form, that is, while handling worldly affairs according to the time and place, adopt theistic belief, not atheistic belief. But a person with negative thoughts will take it as if there is nothing left in life, hence one should always remain as if dead. Completely give up the worldly world full of name and form and become a staunch believer. Dharmashastra had written a good story from its side, but how did its author know that many people might misinterpret it. Similarly, Guru can also explain only general rules and principles from his life experience, even he cannot follow every step.
Holding the breath for a few moments and then taking long deep breaths brings more attention to the pure existence of thoughts, and less to their nominal diversity. If Kundalini Shakti is also combined with that Pranayama, then the effect increases manifold, because it gives more strength to the revelation of suppressed thoughts, due to which theism becomes more effective. With Tantric power the effect increases further many times more. With fast and shallow breathing, thoughts keep changing continuously with the breath. Due to this, attention is focused only on their superficial names and there is no time to go into their depth. But when the breath is slow, long or stopped, then the same thought of the mind remains till the breath stops or till the completion of one breath or for many consecutive breaths. Due to this, those thoughts fell as if rise from, grow and merge into soul repeatedly. The word Om ॐ also reflects the same process, in which the letters A, U and Ma represent birth, growth, stopping and dissolution respectively. Om is the seed mantra of Sahasrara because the entire universe keeps on arising, growing and dissolving in the form of thoughts in the mind itself. The two sharp curves or rings on the two sides of this letter ॐ are three-dimensional, but appear two-dimensional on paper. The ring on the left curves to the other side along the curvature of the left brain, and the curvature on the right covers the posterior side of the right brain. Meaning the entire brain is covered with Om. The lunar dot above it is the Sahasrara Chakra point. From this we realize that the names and forms were false, the real form of thoughts is like the void sky or soul, that is, only the existence without names and forms is real, from where they appear to be born and also appear to merge into it. Thoughts change quickly due to fast and shallow breathing. Therefore neither do we see them being born from the void soul nor do we see them merging into the void soul. This makes them visible to us truthfully. We think that the old idea that has now been replaced by the new idea is true, and our brain itself has taken hold of the new idea in its place. Anyway, it is difficult to pay attention to shallow fast breaths.
The meaning is clear that Kundalini Yoga helps in becoming a believer. One of the reasons for this is that during Kundalini Yoga, by maintaining focus on the breath and body, one does not pay much attention to the name and form of thoughts and only their existence remains aware. This is like the practice of witnessing, meaning we are watching them like a witness. And are not affected by them. Additionally, the body remains in a fixed posture during yoga asanas, and resists reaction or movement according to thoughts. Even with this the nominalization of thoughts does not become effective.
The handle of thoughts is breath. This is because thoughts move in sync with the breath. It is very difficult to capture thoughts without breathing. Watching the breath means watching the thoughts, meaning witnessing. When we are not watching the breath, we are not watching the thoughts either. At that time we ourselves become thoughts. When we are not watching the breath, we ourselves become the breath. No one can see oneself. If seen, it goes to someone else only. Meaning then there is no witnessing. There can be only two feelings, either spectator feeling or visual feeling. If the viewer does not have the feeling of being a spectator then the visual feeling is created automatically. Meaning, the viewer doesn’t remain detached from the scene but becomes the scene itself. This can happen to a father while watching his son playing in the field. If there is spectator sentiment then there cannot be visual sentiment. Both feelings cannot live together. It is a characteristic of the spectator’s feeling that he is not affected by the joys and sorrows of the scene. If a man is being influenced by his thoughts, it means that he does not have a spectator or witness attitude towards his visible thoughts but has a visual or self-conscious attitude. If thoughts are considered as the form of self then it is knowledge, but if the self i.e. man becomes the form of thoughts then it is ignorance.
In this matter, I liked the words of a Tibetan Buddhist yogi that pay attention to the breath as well as the thoughts, that is, leave the thoughts open, only then meditation takes place. Meaning, neither suppress thoughts nor ignore them. When the attention remains on the breath or keeps going there intermittently, then the attachment to them will automatically reduce and the feeling of being a spectator towards them will arise.
Perhaps what is often thought that the uniform darkness of lifelessness is devoid of name and form is wrong. In fact, in the form of that darkness, the worldly thoughts in the form of name are located in a subtle form, which when given a chance, appear again in a gross form. The real existence without name and form is that of the completely pure soul i.e. God, which is indescribable. However, it is attained only from the world of name and form, because it resides in every particle.
It is written in the scriptures that darkness of lifelessness does not actually exist. We feel it due to the illusion created by worldly attachment. This is the same illusion as after spinning on a circular wheel, after getting out of it, all the things around it also appear to be rotating for some time. The faster or the longer we move around, the faster and longer we feel the things moving around. Similarly, whatever kind of worldly life will happen, the darkness of lifelessness that follows will also be felt in the same way. This is called the subtle body. Then just as the feeling of spinning ends after some time itself, similarly the darkness of the subtle body should also disappear after some time. Meaning man himself should become free after death. But this is not written anywhere in the scriptures. Logically, it seems that just as a man returns to his previous worldly state after the false feeling of wandering, in the same way, after the illusion of lifelessness, a man should re-enter his old worldly life, that is, he should be reborn. But the one who has previously experienced complete liberation or awakening, perhaps he goes back to his previous liberated state, that is, he becomes free. Still, this seems to be somewhat scriptural.
The more massive a black hole is, the more light it swallows and the more darkness it creates inside itself. The information about its original star would be stored in it in the form of the same virtual darkness. It is possible that after some time that darkness will be born again in the form of a similar star. Scientists call this the release of energy through the white hole to another unknown universe. Whereas those stars which are of lesser weight, their destruction leads to darkness for a short period of time, and they merge into the infinite sky full of infinite energy, meaning they become free. They must be like our ascetics and recluses, who keep their worldliness light.
Demystifying Kundalini 