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Is this thought really important to you?

A guided meditation on analyzing and releasing thoughts to achieve mental freedom.

Settle into a comfortable posture, relaxing the entire body. Observe the natural breath, feeling the body's energy and motionlessness. Release all thoughts to relieve stress. Now, analyze your thoughts. From many thoughts, select one major thought. Investigate its cause, origin, and importance. Recognize that this analysis itself can create tension. Forgive the thought, forget it, and become free. You possess the power to give it up. All mental modifications are like waves on water; they will calm down. Relax physically and mentally. Do not return to thoughts that cause stress. Bring awareness to the center of the brows and look inwardly toward a beautiful future. The past is past; remain present. Purify your energy with each heartbeat, breath, and thought, moving toward light and clarity. Feel the shelter of the lineage. Conclude by feeling the breath, chanting, and gently returning awareness to the body.

"Analyze your thoughts, and from many thoughts, pick up one major thought."

"All the vṛttis, all the thoughts, just like the waves on the water. It will calm down."

Filming location: Debrecen, Hungary

Sit in a meditation posture. Be comfortable. If you have a problem sitting on the floor, you can sit on a bench. Adjust yourself in such a comfortable way that during the meditation you will not feel discomfort. If you have a mantra, then practice. Take your mālā in your hand, and now close your eyes. Withdraw the self from the external world, and for the time being, come into this hall. Be aware of your being in this hall. Feel comfortable. Relax your whole body. Relax your elbows so that your shoulders are relaxed. When the shoulders are relaxed, your neck is also very relaxed, and it means your back muscles are relaxed, and your stomach muscles are relaxed. The whole trunk of the body is relaxed. Feel and relax your face muscles, your eyelids gently closed. Feel the breath, a normal and natural breath flow. I know that I’m inhaling, and I know that I’m exhaling. Relax. Feel your legs. The joints. The whole body, kāya astairyam, the motionlessness of the body. Feel the motionlessness of the body. Relax. Feel the energy of your body. Incoming and outgoing energy through the body: with inhalation, you are recharging the energy, the vitality. While exhaling, your energy goes out and brings all the toxins out. Feel the expansion and contraction of the body with the breath. Input and output, the energy. Feel relaxed. Feel physically and mentally comfortable. Just release all the thoughts. It means releasing the stress. Relax. Now, analyze your thoughts. What am I thinking? Just analyze your thought. Every one of you has different thoughts. What do I think? Any kind of thought with which you are occupied now. What do I think? Why do I think? Just this thought. How important is this thought? It’s time for your meditation. This you can think after. Do I think? Why do I think? Analyze your thoughts, and from many thoughts, pick up one major thought. What do I think? Why do I think? What is the cause of my thinking? Go in the past. Analyze your thoughts. What is the cause of this thought? From where is it coming? How important is this thought? Why do I think? Where is the cause? In which direction, in which distance, from where is this thought coming? Which creates a tension in your brain. Analyze and relax. Forgive it. Forget it. Become free. Do you have the power? Do you have the energy? Do you have the willpower? That you can give up this thought. Yes, you can. Relax and go ahead. All the vṛttis, all the thoughts, all the vṛttis, just like the waves on the water. It will calm down. Relax, relax. Physically and mentally, emotionally. No sorrow. Don’t run back to that thought again which creates in you stress, fear, anxiety, or the cause of the thought, the form of the thought, the distance of the thought. How you can free yourself from this. Relax. And now bring your awareness to the center of your brows. And inwardly, look into the far distance. From the present to the future. What will be now? You are in a beautiful, beautiful park or forest. Or a mountain, or a beach, or in the ashram. Yes, create your imagination’s beauty for the future. There are more beautiful, joyful, and divine things for the future waiting for you. Open your inner eyes from thy brow center. Past is past. Just be present, and your intuition, your beauty, your steps towards the beautiful future. What did I think? What do I think? And what should I think? Past, present, and future. Remain in the presence. Emerge, open your eyes to that far distance about the future. You can create, you can realize, you can achieve. Yes, you have, you have that future. Purify your energy. All the malas, the impurities of the past in your body, in your thoughts, in your feelings, in your mind. Clean out. Enter into the purity. By your each and every heartbeat. With your each and every breath, and with each and every thought. It is connected, directed towards purity, divinity, spirituality, and realization. Get out of the darkness of the past. And wake up in the dawn of the future. Go ahead with your mantra. Light, harmony, energy, clarity, confidence, the joy in the… Imagine an ordinary space, a beautiful dawn rising, or a beautiful flame. Remain on this beautiful light, the light of the candle or dīpak, or the dawn. Relax all the tensions. Relax your jaw. Relax your temples. Near your ears. Try to relax your whole brain center. Relax. Happiness, divine feelings. Confidence. Feel the shelter of all our past masters. Feel under the shelter of Mahāprabhujī, Devapurījī, and Gurujī. That is the final place for us, the Brahma Loka. Relax. And now, feel your breath again. Feel the whole body, full of the energy. Feel the expansion and contraction of the trunk of the body. Be aware of your being here. And deep inhale and exhale. And we will chant Aum three times. Deep inhale… Oṁ… Oṁ… Oṁ… Hold your palms. Rub your palms. Place your hands on your face. Gently massage your eyelids. Open your eyes. And bend forward. Stretch your back and fold, touch your head on the ground. Feel the circulation towards the face, muscles, and the brain. Feel relaxing again. Bring your hands to the back. And keep your head on the ground. Again, release your hands. Put your hands near the head on the ground, and slowly, with the help of your hands, get up. Hari Oṁ. The vṛttis which we have in our memory, the thoughts which are circling in the whole of our three bodies—physical body, mental body, and subtle body—and these fixed ideas, the fixed thoughts which are dwelling in these three bodies, it’s like a virus. And this only can be taken out through meditation and mantra. It’s not difficult to get out. Sometimes it’s a fixed idea that we are searching somewhere outside. And we are fixed, we say, "Yes, this is that." But when reality comes, then we will know that we were searching in the wrong place. Therefore, in meditation, we have to analyze each and every one of our feelings and thoughts. From where did the thoughts begin? Very in the beginning. Where was the cause of this? You meet someone somewhere, and you are happy, and you like it. But you should know that on that point, there began both. That both are the Udāna and Prāṇa. You see the utthāna, but the pathan is hidden when it is not in your destiny, and it is not meant for you. That time, it happens that Patañjali, which was underground in the unconscious level, but we were not aware. Now that Patañjali is coming up, and that utthāna is sinking in the water down. So these are the waves of those vṛttis which were not meant for you. What you did, and that is the cause of suffering, that creates the stress, that creates the heart disease, that creates the stomach problems, that creates our livers, all organs in the body, our glands, and those who have lots of emotional problems which are swallowed down, then we are overloading our thyroid gland. And then we have the thyroid problem. It must not be only this case. There can be some other case, too. But mostly, it’s that unspoken, to thyself, to clear up. No one can clear up when you speak to somebody. So it is within us, and only we can solve the problem. We can bring the clarity, and so that’s very important. The meditation, and it’s very important to realize in that deep level of meditation, and yes, you can solve or you can achieve. Nothing is impossible; everything is possible. Therefore, it is said, "Take time and Guru Kṛpā." It will bring us to that light, that Brahmaloka, that Bindu. So it is said, clear up the problems. Remove my cinta. Cinta means worries. So this cintā is like a fire. That fire which is burning the body, the crematorium. But that fire can burn our body quickly. But another fire is called cintā. And this cintā is burning you slowly, slowly, slowly to the end. So that kind of cintā, that worries, is killing us slowly, so therefore it is hate. Gurudev Śaraṇātmā, Cintāmerī, Mitade Gurudev. Śaraṇatumārī, I am under your shelter. Remove my worries. Kṛpā karo dayā, O merciful, please be merciful to me. Please bring my boat from this ocean to the mainland. When the little child is scared and very restless, then it comes to the lap of the parents, and the child’s worry is gone. So the child surrenders itself in the lap of the parents. Similarly, we surrender our worries at the shelter of Gurudeva’s holy feet. And that shelter we can have through meditation, through mantras, through prayers. It must not be that you are all the time sitting beside. It is everywhere, everywhere, everywhere. Just tell, where is He not? He is everywhere. So it appears to you immediately, it appears to us immediately, in our heart, and in our thoughts, in our feelings, and our visions. When we meditate like this, we were meditating today. So, I wish you all the best, and good evening further. Bless you in the name of our lineage. Oṁ Śānti. Adios.

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The text contains hyperlinks in bold to three authoritative books on yoga, written by humans, to clarify the context of the lecture:

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