When you sit for your practice then full attention and full concentration should be kept from your navel to nostril or till mid eyebrows Now if your feet or knees or shoulder moves meaning you are moving Body is not getting still then how will you practice? For practice it is necessary for the body to become still When kirtan happens, when we sing When you dance, I am not saying to be still at that time Rather think that kirtan is happening, and one person is just sitting, does not move, does not sing that would look weird and if everyone is dancing and one person is sitting idle in side unhappy or sad, even that looks weird, Similarly when you sit for the pranayama at that time if body moves, then that is weird At that time body should be still Whosoever you have faith in, whoever inspires you now ninth guru from all the ten guru's, One picture of him a very beautiful portrait Of Guru Teg Bahadur Sahib, a little side pose sitting in a meditative posture The specialty is that, their half eyes are open, not fully open and half open eyes One of the method of meditation in path of Yoga half opened eyes Just see the body, whosoever painted that did a very commendable job Their spine is absolutely erect Head, neck and spinal is erect Hands are on knees and eyes are half opened If you'll see the face, very calm and if you'll see the eyes, so still that is sign of meditative person The body of a meditative person should be like this Then at home wherever you practice If you faith is in on Guru Teg Bahadur, then use one of his picture If your emotion is on Buddha then use Buddha's picture or statue If your faith is on Mahavir Swami then get a small and very nice picture Question is of, that to your mind one base is required Now the mind runs here and there to bind the mind in one place, picture or statue helps a lot I say again, that statue is not Guru neither his symbol nor his identity but that will do the job of reconciling your scattered mind very well When you will see with great feeling an devotion Whatever you have kept have kept of Mahadev then Mahadev is renowned, all the meditative sutras, methods and techniques is coming from him If you are watching, See how still his body is like a mountain, so huge You will never see bowed spine in any picture the craftsmen, painters of India understand very well, even today and even thousand years ago that's why you see an idol of Shiva that is older than the old one Thousand or two thousand, three or four thousand old if is there Even in that their spinal column is erect and body is still Eyes either half open or fully closed So from wherever you get inspiration, their picture sign like a reminder that will make you remember, keeping in front sit and do pranam and feel it that we can be like you Like you are sitting like a mountain, we can also sit like this At Time of pranayam or when you are doing your manta jap even at that time the body should not move Yogasanas is for this only That there is so much strength in your body that you can sit without moving If having pain in knees, take ayurvedic medicine Do asanas properly The series which you are doing in morning session One asana comes 'Utkat asana' the chair pose You do chair pose and see how strong the knees will be but to do correct is important Your knees and your hip should come in straight line If suppose this is your knee and hip, and like it's up, then it's wrong and if you took hip below the knees then that is also wrong so making the wrong angle will hurt your knees but if you put correct angle then very benefit, Your ligaments get strengthened Your body fluids from which which we call greece in common language so chair pose, the whole sequence which you are doing after so much consideration new people who started learning What asans they should do, so that their organs should be benefited I am making your tomorrow's yoga session a bit special because now you were just doing asanas but in tomorrow's class From which asana, Which organ or part of body is getting benefited understanding its anatomy Will talk about those Asanas Do your asanas properly, take your diet properly so that finally when you sit for your practice Should not cry Back starts crying, When you start, I speak to erect your spine, then everybody does after five to ten minutes, the waist begins to bend, shoulders begin to bend, itching is happening foot fell asleep, got used to moving so that has to be monitored, that has to be checked when you sit down In closed eyes whoever your inspiration is Remember them and If you have seen our commentary on Bhagwad Gita in Hindi or English, If you have taken that, in opening there's a picture of Sri Krishna in which Sri Krishna is meditating in Padmasana This photo is at least 70 years old Gita press Gorakhpur has published this so that was always dear to me whatever photo most people have statues you have seen, either they are standing or playing the flute with Cow or with Radha but you'll never find his meditative posture that's why in Gita, I have specially chosen this picture, will keep this only this will inspire people If our lord can do mediation sitting in Padmasan, then why can't we? -- Whether Shiva, Guru Nanak, Guru Teg Bahadur Some painter has also made a photo of Guru Gobind Singh Ji Some people make objections that they should not be made, some say should be made See, everything has a benefit and benefit is this, whatever we read about them in scriptures or books but not everybody has power to visualize that that how he actually look like So artists uses that He makes, we see and feeling gets attached Should keep doing whatever is required to make your practice better feeling should be deep, prayer should be true So you asked for the garbage of the world, you got it too, If you ask for this nectar, how will you not get it? surely you get Question is with how much heart we are asking and how much soul? When I say soul, it means the individual self, With how much pain the jeeva is asking? and Krishna in Gita says, 'Mamaiva ansho jeev loke, jeev bhoot sanatana' Jeev is eternal and is my part, So ishwar is saying, my part I am alike him, If he is sat-chit-ananda then I am sat-chit-ananda If I want happiness, it is inside me, there's no reason that I don't get it But not from outside, it gets from within, that's why we get nothing from running outside and those who search within, his life is heaven, is Baikunth Now this prayer should be done daily..daily Not only on shivir you are doing, if mind is again trapped in the world then it is like, we dug a pit for water and dug four feet pit and then left Water was 400 feet down and you dug a pit 4 feet, How will you get? So every day a pit should be dug in the same place, then you will definitely get it So for meditation, sit for pranayama daily Jap should be done daily, everyday What will happen, if in one minute your mind has crore thoughts then by practice it will come down till lakhs then it will be in few thousands then in few hundreds and then in Some will be left in hundreds and then a time will come that only a single thought will be left that everything is silent everything is still Even this is a thought but then only this thought will remain and a time will come when this thought will also absorbed and when this last thought also get absorbs, that state is called meditation Mediation doesn't means you sit with closed eyes, or doing pranayama or doing mantra Meditation means when mind becomes totally thoughtless, no thought is there now So this is a process from which you have to make your mind go through this everyday Like you bathe daily from body, similarly pranayama is bath for your mind Someday if mind got a little distracted then don't sit for Nadi shodhan directly, first do Bhastrika then Like if thunder storm occurs, the clouds fly away and the sky get clears again So Bhastrika is that thunderstorm of breath which blows away thoughts of mind, how bad the mind is or in depression or in sadness or in pain, in tribulation, do this, try it, You'll know it by doing it
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