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Meditation with Vishwaguruji

The unwavering support of the mālā in spiritual practice. The mālā is vital support in sādhanā. Mental fluctuations, vṛtti, are not peaceful; when no vṛtti exists, there is no peace. Life can suddenly shift from happy to negative or joyful within a second. In moments of assessment, the mind thinks both “I will succeed” and “I don’t know.” Yet the best attitude is to feel that one comes to God, the cosmic everywhere. The mālā becomes the support, preventing loss from the path. Each bead holds power. During practice, one may begin to sleep or vṛtti goes out, like losing control of a horse. The chant declares the doer is not oneself. Give all thoughts into the divine’s hands. Despite different countries and languages, oneness is the experience. In meditation, pray to the Lord, acknowledging inability and surrender. Concentrate on the navel with normal breath. The mālā should be constant, with breath moving from bindu to navel and back. Inhale through nostrils, exhale through mouth, feeling the lips. Prāṇa and apāna expand and relax the body, while alert to breath.

“Nāhaṁ karatā Mahāprabhujī, karatā Mahāprabhujī, karatā he kevalam.”

“My Lord, my God, I cannot, I will not be successful, but I am in your hands, Lord.”

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

The waves are short, but they are. So, is that our different life? It can change within a very little second. The very happy, peaceful, and good can suddenly become very negative or not good. Or within one second, one can become very joyful. What we said is that we come from the university, and now these are the last days, and they will come to see whether you will be successful or not successful. At that time, everyone is thinking very differently. But the point is like this: yes, we will be, we will be, we are right—but still, in the heart, there are two parts. One will say, “Yes, it will be,” and the other, “I don’t know.” So there is still—we are not sure. But when it comes to that, you are, you have done. “Oh, I have, I got it, I got it.” Or others said, “You have saved.” How unhappy. So this is both sides: falling or not falling. And there is a point, but there are some very good sayings: if I will pass or not pass, it doesn’t matter. That one is very good and the best. But only one is that, and that is to feel that we will come to God. But where is God? So we say cosmic. Where is the cosmic? And that cosmic is everywhere, in the whole universe. Similarly, when we practice our sādhanā, we practice, we make a mālā. The mālā that we have is very, very important because vṛtti—and vṛtti is what is called not peaceful, and when there is no vṛtti, it is like there is no peace. It can be, it will be, or it will not be. Therefore, if we, from our mental, in our heart, we may not be on the path, the good path. But our mālā is our support, and we will not miss it, and so in each and every mālā’s bead, there is a power in everything. If you will go, mālā, out and you sit nicely, and in time, then two things happen. One is, maybe we begin to sleep. Or our vṛtti goes out. In such a way, we are lost in them; the horse is in our hands, or he is gone without. Nāhaṁ karatā Mahāprabhujī, karatā Mahāprabhujī, karatā he kevalam. This you know, that Mahāprabhujī’s only can do. We cannot do. So Nāhaṁ Karatā, Nāhaṁ means no. Karatā means doing, so I cannot do this. Nāhaṁ kartā, I cannot do. Mahāprabhū karatā Mahāprabhūdīp karatā he kevalam, Mahāprabhūdīp karatā he kevalam. So, depend on that in the Guru Devas. So our mālā, our thinking, our feelings, our thoughts of that kind—good or bad—all we shall give it into the hand. So in every, in all, every different country, we are all very much in oneness. Only we have different languages and different countries. How is it? There is maybe only the snow and glaciers, or very beautiful forests. Or very dry and very hot. That is the difference, but inside that, it is my belief and my experience. Therefore, we have a mālā in our hands. You are thinking about that, therefore we shall come to meditation, and we say, “My Lord, my God, I cannot, I will not be successful, but I am in your hands, Lord.” You see how the clock, I was concentrating, and how this clock will do with me. And I went to this vibration, sound, and I suddenly became oneness. So this sound brings that vibration: “Nāhaṁ karatā,” I am not, and I cannot. He gives all; we are all one. So in meditation, in our anuṣṭhāna, your mālā is very important. And then there are some kind of techniques we are giving. Then the mālā is either in our neck, or we put this mālā somewhere on the papers or with cloth. But it is with that God that we are. And that God is like, if we want to see from our Guru. In that, it begins and gives us. In that way, we will now do these techniques, so close your eyes. Concentrate on the nābhi, the navel. Normal breath, relax your stomach, but concentrate on the navel. The first movement is because of inhalation and exhalation. Lekin, Bhāṭ, peaceful. Now, the mālā should be constantly, and the breath from the bindu to the navel, and from the navel also to the navel, to the navel. Follow that energy up and down, from the navel to the bindu. How does it flow from the navel to the navel? Go ahead with your mantra, Nābal and Bindu. Inhale and exhale. Inhale with the nostrils and exhale through the mouth. Now, don’t move your head up and down, left and right, but only peaceful, straight. Inhale, exhale. Inhale, tilt the navel, and exhale from the lips, mouth. Feel the lips. It’s only you, you know, not others. Mālā is there. This prāṇa and apāna expand and relax your whole body, but alert from your breath. Now, take a deep inhale and exhale five times. Inhale through the nostrils, exhale through the mouth. Five times from the navel till sahasrāra and back to the anāhata. Try to chant, because you know, many times... Nāthabudip Karatā Mahāprabhudip Karatā He Kevalam Śānti Śānti...

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