Continously meditate

CONVERSATIONS WITH ANNAMALAI SWAMI

‘MEDITATION MUST BE CONTINUOUS’

Q: The mind is always flowing like an unstoppable river. Most of the time I am not even capable of reaching the Self. How can I hold to something that I can’t even get near?

AS: When it rises, the mind automatically goes out to the world. If you do self-inquiry you can train it to flow towards the Self.

In deep sleep, the mind automatically goes to the Self, but you are not aware of it. Through the steady practice of self-inquiry, the mind can be trained in such a way that it automatically flows towards the Self in the waking and dream states. It is very difficult at first, but with practice, it can be done. Repeated self-inquiry makes the mind go back into the Self.

Other methods may produce good experiences but the good experiences will not make the mind go back into the Self and stay there.

Q: How much meditation is good? How many hours a day?

AS: Meditation must be continuous. The current of meditation must be present in all your activities. With practice, meditation and work can go on simultaneously.

  • LWB p. 280
  • photo: Annamalai Swami during his sadhana days in Palakottu

Be a king of cosmos.

Don’t be a beggar for success, fame, love, relationship, peace, health, vitality. Body and its pleasures, all will go away only that which never change will remain.

Surrender and stay in your real self state in every moment of remaining life.

Become center nail of the wheel, which witness circulation of the whole wheel without getting into its continues rotation or turmoils of life.

Get in tune with the nature and then stay in synchronicity in an unbroken state, without the second.

Conceive supreme Self in you.

Get pregnant with your true Self, once you are pregnant then nature will take its natural course ,you are free from it.

One can get pregnant only through having sex with Surrender. Find total Surrender in you and then give yourself to it.

Only wish for getting conceived with Supreme Self , have this sex every day , slowly and gradually a womb will be created in your mind and heart which will be filled with ecstasy ,love , compassion. It will start growing and taking lot of space of hate, jealousy, comparisons, ego, misery, anxiety.

Gratitude will start flowing ,glow of SELF will radiate on your face. Physical hunger will reduce and cosmic hunger will increase.

Present Moment

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one.
But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

When a journalist asked Eckhart Tolle to summarize his teaching, he said—Treat this moment as a Friend not your enemy. How you treat life is how life will treat you back for Life is a Mirror.

Whenever you are immersed in compulsive thinking, you are avoiding what is. You don’t want to be where you are. Here and Now.

This one moment – Now – is the only thing you can never escape from, the one constant factor in your life. No matter what happens, no matter how much your life changes, one thing is certain: it’s always Now.

Since there is no escape from the Now, why not welcome it, be friendly with it?

The division of life into past, present and future is mind-made and ultimately illusionary.

~ Eckhart Tolle
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Story of river

They say before entering the sea,
a river trembles with fear.
She looks back at the way
that she has travelled, from the peaks,
the mountains, the long winding road
which crosses forests and villages,
and sees in front of her such a vast ocean
that entering it doesn’t seem anything else
than having to disappear forever.
But there’s no other way.
The river can’t go back.
No one can go back.
Going back is impossible in existence.
The river needs to take the risk
and to enter the ocean.
It’s only when entering the ocean
that fear will disappear,
because it’s only then
that the river will know it’s not about
to disappear into the ocean,
but to become ocean.

Khalil Gibran

Clear purpose of life.

Passion for understanding of SELF , passion for merging into Supreme Self is the clear purpose of life. All other passions are mere illusions. Materialistic passions ,music, dance, singing all stay with you till this body last but passion for getting established in self is the utmost goal of human life, we have born to achieve this only.

Work in this world only to satisfy your basic needs above that is all part of small small passions satisfaction. Enjoy it till you experience its repeating pattern. Parties, cars, fame , business targets, pleasures will not end but earth will extinguished . Understand this in small time else you will take whole lifetime.

Life purpose should also include Carving Easy Path – so that it becomes easier for next generations to reach the goal in short time.

Once you get established in the SELF, then do whatever life throws up. Life will unfold in explosive manner when you stop deciding your future. Just surrender to the SELF.

Actually we are never separate from Supreme Self, we are only ignorant.