Chanting or invocation… 

The first time I heard about yoga and chanting ohm I didn’t mind, I thought it was cute. “OM OM OM ” and a few Shanti 😀 

The moment I got to India in the first “Non studio- Non Gym” environment and they started the ritual of initiation I knew I was in a cult! They chanted for an hour putting stuff on your forehead, giving food to imaginary gods, thread around your wrist, I’ve said to myself “oh my god I will be here for 50 days, with this crazy people.”

But what are we rejecting? What are we afraid of? Do we believe or not in the effects of chanting? Is there something to it, we don’t know?

If it is a matter of belief, what is the big deal? If it doesn’t work, you can do it, anyway it is harmless, if it works, good for you.

Resistance to the unknown, putting yourself in a weird situation, because you cannot say the words, because they need a specific pronunciation.

At least use it as a mean to grow your self confidence, only those who have a strong confidence can do strange things, or act stupid, because they don’t search the approval of others.

The fact that you may lose that false image that you created about yourself, that you are a big man, we all know you’re not. Strong people don’t mind doing stupid stuff, only the weak, are worrying about their image.

But it is all mainly ignorance, we don’t know, so we reject. – like this you will never know anything in your life, a book may be knowledge, false knowledge. But Experience is wisdom.

So let’s look deeper into it.

Every vibration takes a form, conversely every form has a vibration.

When the vibration ends, the form deteriorates. When the form starts decomposing or it is damaged, the energy also get’s distorted.

Let’s take an apple. If you damage the form, the apple will dry faster, if you alter the vibration, the apple will die faster. So you can use bot either physical force or a certain vibration to increase or decrease the deterioration of an apple. There are many experiments around this, done on water, plants, food.

For every action there is a certain sound that is conducive to that action.  If it is war you need a certain music, if it disco another, if you want to relax another sound, for sport a different sound, for every state a sound may be conducive or unfavorable.

https://www.ted.com/talks/julian_treasure_the_4_ways_sound_affects_us

Now you go to the gym and you are lazy, a way to push yourself is to listen to 50 cent or put some active music, this will give you a boost. You are lazy and you put some nature music, you will go to sleep.

So it’s mantra and specific sounds in yoga. They generate energy, or direct energy, or invoke something which is dormant in you.

Sound gives you power over others. 

Imagine there are 1000 people. Somebody says

“You! Clean the toilet.”

Nobody wants to answer that. But once he says your name, it is like you have no escape. Giving your name, you give power to others over you. Because you where thought to answer or obey. What if you don’t understand the words? What if words are just sounds to you, whenever you experience another language. Can anyone affect you? give you orders?

But still there is a universal language, tonality pitch which can shake you, relax you etc. Somebody screaming at you, or somebody whispering in your ear different effects no matter the language.

You hear a lion roar in the night 10 m away from you, you will freeze. You hear some fish playing in the water you relax. So sound it is definitely a big impact in your life. You just never analyzed in that much depth.

If you chant “I want to go to hell.i want to die. May we all die” you will feel very weird about it, so because of that, they had to change the words to something that may engage your emotions positively.

“May there be light. May we create energy. May all be happy”

But the real important thing is the reverberation you create in your body by uttering those sounds.

So OM is not om but AUM, A – U –M every sound is producing a specific vibration to a specific part of the body, uttering this you generate a pathway for the energy. Which in Hatha is from down to up.

Another aspect you are 73% water, water and everything in creation changes its attitude physicality by thought, sound, intention. There are many experiments done on water, how sound is affecting water. How different particles take geometrical shapes for every vibration, unique and different, more and more complex.

So mantra may arrange geometrically your whole body, to become more receptive, to clean, to be as creation made you perfect, not distorted how you made yourself.

There is a whole system, as there is for asana, Nada yoga, the yoga of sound, if you want to know more, try learn experiment, see the facts and then form an opinion.

It is a shame to be an ignorant directly, at least get interested before, when you know nothing about anything, to form an opinion is pointless.

Is there such a thing as a second chance? Or are we doomed to an eternal hell?

In one of my conversations with a religious person, I realized that this cannot be true. What I call as God cannot and will never doom any of his creations to hell.

He will give unlimited chances, but everyone will experience the consequences of each action. He gives you the freedom to create anything good or evil, but attached to everything is the consequences of each action, to creates thoughts but also take responsibility over them.

On the other hand is the mind, the whispers, temptation, that are testing you to see how much you treasure something, may that be love, health, God, wealth, peace or ultimately your soul.

The mind is also one of your abilities, powers, that you didn’t yet took control over. So it seems like it s acting on its own, but it is actually being used and programmed by everything that you pay attention to, consciously or unconsciously.

The mind alone takes no action, only suggests. It is you who take, or not, into considerations the suggestions of mind, friends, heart and act upon.

So you will support the consequences of your actions, even thoughts. Because your mind, is your responsibility. How you will educate the mind, what you will allow the mind to experience or taste, that will determine also how the mind will act.

You can see it as a dog, once you are the owner, if it pees you have to clean, if it bites, it is your responsibility, whatever the dog is doing is on you, because you didn’t educate the dog. Same with the mind it s going to do its own thing until you take responsibility for it.

It is your duty to discipline and educate the mind.

When I refer to the soul, many will say it is my soul, well in order to be yours, you had to create it. Nothing is really yours, because if it would have been yours, nobody can take it from you.

You don’t really have a choice, to have or not a soul, a self. You can chose to have or not a mind, a body, a family, possessions.

Somehow you where created, and this is an extraordinary thing. You will exist forever. It is also  in your power, what you will experience, to some extent.

But your existence, is not yet or may never be in your power, for the moment, only your actions are.

As long as someone can take something from you, it does not belong to you. We have a false sense of propriety and belonging, but all this with time will fade away.

Body, propriety, health, mind, relationships, energies, it will all go and you cannot do anything about it, you can prolong it, you can maintain it, but even so, there are forces which are not yet in your control.

In the process of life, your arrogance, all mightiness, “better than everyone else”, immortal,  power, will all fade so you realize you are nothing, and just because you exist it is enough.

Life eventually will make you a pure being, in service which is the highest form of action, not being served, but to serve.

The weak needs to be served, the strong can serve itself and others.

Everything is actually given to you, either to test you, or to learn a lesson from. But you cannot keep anything other than your soul, without which, you cannot be.

The self/soul is also the “place” where you start feeling the presence of God, which is nothing else than your own presence. But this is a place, where you cannot bring the mind, the moment the mind tries to enter this place-state, you have the impression you are leaving this state.

Where you put your attention is where the energies are directed and is what you experience. If you move your attention from presence to mind, you will experience the mind, and it is not a beautiful experience. Presence is formless, while mind is a form. The problem is you are formless and holding a form, keep it for too long and it will cause pain.

Even a prison can be fun, if you know you will only be in the cell for a few hours, just for the experience of it. But knowing you are stuck and you cannot get out for an unlimited amount of time, or a long time, amounts to great pain.

It seems to be like a choice, either be in heaven or in the mind. Sometimes you can experience states in between, while you are trying to be practical in life, manage things, but always return to your soul, to your self and you ll be fine.

In the self, in the “isness”, in the being,  we are all equal and eternal, we are all one, we are all you. If you can use this term as “we are” because there is all acting like a whole, all acting as one, one being all.

You need the mind, or a concept, in order to create separation. As you feel you body, your breath, your mind, your heart, you will also feel everything exists.

In all other cases, you experience something else than you, but in this case you experience yourself.

“You taste the honey and in the same time you are the honey”

Do not be deluded by the mind which will say, if it is me, i should be able to move it or to have some ability, or be able to exercise a power over it.

Your heart, blood, cells ,  liver, neurons, electrons everything is in your body ,  but do you have control over them? Can you tell to 1 neuron to stop?

Can you command your pituitary gland to stop? Or the kidneys to stop or move at your will?

It is working as a car. You have some pedals and a driving wheel, some buttons for comfort, for practicality, you don’t need to hold the car, the suspensions the cables, everything is created so it works as a whole, to take you from a to b.

But they all form you, they are all in service of the one occupying the body.

They help you function as you are now, they are not separated from you, they serve you. But you also have to serve them. 

Just like this, everything applies to all around you, with which you have a relationship, either you are aware of it or not. It is still a relationship, if there would be no relationship, you could not even perceive it, or being perceive by it.

The soul or self is the ultimate destination, destination in the sense, it is not a place where you can arrive, or travel, it is not something you do, it is something you realize, it was always there as part of you, and you cannot be anything else than that.

The purpose of the mind-ego is to keep you separated and deluded by this place “state”, and the farther you are from it, the more the suffering, the further you are from yourself, from your soul, the farther you are from God.

Universe is giving you this freedom, for you to chose, will you be apart from the universe, or part of it?   But even this is an illusion, which is happening only in your belief, in your mind, because you cannot be separated from the self, you are the self, it is just you didn’t realize it.

Once you are separated from the universe, from life 🙂 you are dead.

You are in relationship with everything. Either you like it or not. You can use it or be used by it. Served it or be served by it. And the totality of all, and beyond all, is God.

Being the self and not realizing it, is like looking for food, while caring a bag of food with you, but you don’t know how to eat or what food is.

Looking for something you don’t know, it will take eternity.

“The thing you are looking for, is in the place you are looking from.”

So sometimes this things are showed to you, by the self, your higher self, something you may see, a taught, a disease, a guru a spiritual teacher, or just a nobody in a bus station, unlimited forms of expressions for you to learn.

All the knowledge and abilities are given to you, but are hidden by the mind, so you have to transcend the  limitations of the mind and find out who you really are.

This is why enlightenment is also called realization, you actually don’t learn a new ability or something new, you just realize something that was there all along.

Being hungry, caring a bag of food which never goes bad or empty.

If you just smell the food and bring it next to your mouth you will eat it intuitively. If you feel is causing pain to the body, you will renounce it. If you feel is bringing ease and health, you will continue.

So it is with life, just a learning process, a discovery of the self and everything around you, pointing or sending you back to yourself, all is the self.

Trust it and be it, it takes no effort to be yourself, No mantras or practices, no prayer no process, no distance or time.

You cannot be something else, you can just act, but no act will last forever.

The only thing which is forever is God, is you.

Because of doubt, you brought yourself where you are now, and by doubting the doubt itself, which came from mind, you will get the lesson and arrive home which is no distance from where you stand right now.

This came to me while thinking, if it is ok for a prisoner to experience freedom. There are many masters and spiritual teachers going to prisons, no to free them from their cell, but to free them from their mind.

Some prisoners in their cell, they experience a sense of freedom more than in liberty .So how can a person who robbed, or killed or did I don’t know what, deserve this freedom?

Well because God would never allow anybody to hurt you, because once the soul was created, the soul will be eternal, like God. But because you identify yourself, with something else than the self, with a person, that one day is going to die, you have the impression you will die with the body, if you think you are the body, everything happening to the body you will suffer.

If you think you are the mind, everything the mind is experiencing you will experience. But if you know you are the self, everything is just a passing experience, you are not attached to it.

PERSON= Prosopon (UK: /ˈprɒsəpɒn/,^[1][2] US: /prəˈsoʊpɑːn/;^[3] from Ancient 

Greek: πρόσωπον; plural: Ancient Greek: πρόσωπα prosopa) is a technical term encountered in Christian theology. It is most often translated as “person”, and as such is sometimes confused with hypostasis, which is sometimes also translated as “person.” Prosopon originally meant “face” or “mask” and derives from Greek theatre, in which actors on a stage wore masks to reveal their character and emotional state to the audience. 

So thinking you are a person, is like believing you are superman, if you really are superman, your super power should be at your will. But because you are not, you will suffer all illusions created or imagined, but never experienced how you expected.

So drop the person that you are, the act that is tiring you, discover the original self that you where meant to be.

The mind, devil, or evil forces of darkness can touch only this person, but they can never touch you, the real you, the self.

You may think it is the end of the world, but it is just a lesson, it will pass, you may loose your body in the process, the mind, your abilities of the body, but you may never lose your soul.

So maybe in our perception, only good deserves a chance, but in the eyes of God, everyone deserves all the chances, but they must first endure their doings.

Eventually we will all be in heaven. We will all realize the self.

Because once you identify with your true nature, you can never do wrongs, only when you are a person, every action is contaminated by the mind which is not pure. When you are a person, it is impossible not to contaminate the world with impurity.

Pain and uncomfort will only push you to move from person-hood to divine, because this is the only way to experience peace, going closer not further from life.

    Sometimes people need to put a mask, to feel stronger, until they realize it is still belief, in something they consider stronger than them.

Reality is, that strength, actually hides behind the mask. Without that, the mask by itself has no power other than hiding your fears and disappointments.

Same with identity, you may use it, until you realize that actually real strength lies behind that. This game may be played until we are mature enough to know that whoever created identity is stronger than identity itself.

Now the thing is, you assume an identity and think it is you. The identity you assume of course it will be imperfect because it is created mostly with the imperfect taught of protecting yourself, with a false identity.

We are here in this human form to solve some of the issues, to evolve, some of the karma from previous life, of just from this one, if reincarnation is not a fact for you or life after death.

It is called enlightenment or realization, because you don’t do anything really it is just a realization. You realize who you are, why you re here, how you get here and where you go. You can take a purpose or you can accept already the one who was given to you. Accepting it it just make is easier, it is like going with the flow, not swimming against it. It is just too tiring  and you are tired of all this nonsense, you just want some peace of mind and from there life starts.

So your identity is a problem. In order to solve it at least you should show your true identity. Because coming with your false identity is like going to a doctor, saying you have a cough and he gives you treatment for that, but you actually have ulcer. SO the true disease is not solved, you toke some wrong medicine for it.

SO start with what you are, not with the illusion and your belief of yourself of what you think you may be, like this you may get somewhere.

“Sadhguru: Two cows were grazing on an English meadow. One said, “What’s your opinion on the Mad Cow disease?” The other said, “I don’t care a hoot about it. Anyway, I’m a helicopter.”

If a cow realizes that it is a cow, it becomes a celebrity – a holy cow. It is that simple. It is just a question of realization. In India, we have always called mystics “realized” beings. Realization is not about inventing or discovering something; it is just about realizing who you are. If there is something you do not understand, it is mysterious to you. Someone who seems to know what others do not is called a mystic. But the mystic is just someone who has realized what is there. Others don’t because they are too self-engrossed to pay any attention to life.”

Stronger than identity, is no identity, because it can take any shape. By giving it a shape you just limit its power.

When “ God created mankind in his own image …” it didn’t say it for you to become something, but to realize you can be everything and that is eternal.

You can only take a complete image of God when you are formless, shapeless, no identity, empty.

Even science came to the conclusion that empty space has more energy than the entire universe.

Emptiness can hold everything, but when you re so full of yourself, there is no space left for anything, just limited potential.

Hold love for truth, search for truth, and discover truth.

God-atman-the universe-creator-Allah- Shiva so many names trying to define something that is infinite in nature, same nothing, described and put into religion by all nations. It has infinite forms and cannot be described and its most beautiful form it is “Nothingness” ultimate intelligence.

Its message it is being delivered through so many forms, religions, cults, nations, yoga, nature everything there is, but you have to make yourself worthy of the message, from an opinion making machine to an receptive being.

It will be given to you through a person you discarded, ignored, believed is lower than you, a beggar, an ignorant, a person who in your opinion has totally messed life, in that person is your salvation.

Through an action that you ignored, or thought you were above, that is not worthy of your attention or time.

The person you are not willing to listen, the action you think is not for you, to everything you put a resistance, create a new wall. But walls are not for protection but to imprison. You are protecting yourself from that which will make you stronger, thus making you more vulnerable.

Behind that wall, that you have raised, there is a massage, a lesson, something you need, but you are unaware of.  You will only become free after you put down all the walls.

Freedom make you vulnerable, only by showing your vulnerabilities you will become stronger. By facing your weakness.  

Behind every wall, something is waiting, that can change your life in better, but you will never get it until you are humble and willing to recognize that probably all this time you were wrong, mistaken, that your opinions or beliefs where self-created based on imagination, not objective observation, based on ignorance.

That now you are ready and willing to take a chance on something you disregarded as low, false, fake, stupid, or anything lower than yourself.

There is no lower than The Self, everything is Above it. The Self is the foundation of everything. Without The Self there is nothing; and still the self is a Devout to everything. Holding everything together.

The moment the individual self turns against creation, it turns against itself. Doubting yourself is doubting the creator.

There is no above or higher, of the self, this is just the ignorance of mind, there is only the mind-created concept of “outside” and still the self is in everything. You exist in the self, and think there is a separation.

There is a signature of the creator in everything that is created and this is what the created will always look for.

Its entire existence it is just a lesson, to realize that the creator was always right and should not be doubted, that there were never a separation, separation was just an imagination.

That the only way is forgiveness and that is nothing to be forgiven.

It is just a self-created game in which you think you are separated from everything. But thoughts are of the mind, without the mind you are part of a whole. All creation is just realization. You have to create the illusion of separation so you can rejoice in the joy of union.

Until the encounter with creator, you will never feel fulfilled. You will always search for fulfillment, and never cease to search until you recognize the feeling, the connection.

It is a homecoming feeling.

Being fulfilled means not gathering all, the only way to become everything, is to empty yourself and become a part of everything. From Individual to whole.

Ready to lose your individuality.

To “die”. The only gift we ever needed. The ultimate lesson. Going blissfully without fear, in what is the continuity of life, the source of life, not the end of it. There is no beginning or end, just the moment.

Always “now”, you never knew anything else. Just now. “Now” transforming in all kind of forms.

It is the comfort of knowing “life” that scares us of the unknown, death, fear of change, of what it was familiar.  Like a snake is changing its skin so are we changing our body, from physical to subtle, and still everything is just but a subtler form of creation, moving to another level of subtleness.

Until the ultimate, the infinite, when there is no more subtleness, when you just break the bubble of individuality and becoming one, one with all.

The source of life is death.  Try living without sleeping.

And what is a sleep but a conscious way of putting yourself to death, without knowing if you will wake up again, trusting, it will happen.

The source of energy is rest. Only by touching death, which is absolute rest, we have the energy to create life.

In stillness lies the infinite energy. Creation is just a consequence of that, a moment of vibration, a drop of stillness that never ends.

In the bible there was a passage

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”

A drop of nothingness …a drop of nothingness is the source of all life, the whole creation. An “accidental” spill of nothingness.