The Philosophy Of Soul And Matter: [05.02] Transforming Your Vibrations (2)

Those who have experienced the philosophy of vibra­tions and karma live differently from those who are unaware. They have seen that inside passion, like a magnet, attracts particles which lead to banda: bondage. Changing inside causes you to alter outside effects. So the "seer" practices samvara: stoppage of the influx of karmas. Because you are always "on the air," you are aware before you think, you are aware before you speak, you are aware before you act. You know that the thought you send out is going to bring back the same kind of reaction from the person you send it to. It is something, which must be experienced directly, not only in words.

The following story illustrates this process. Once there was an elderly woman and her young daughter who were going on foot to the village of their relatives ten miles away. Having already walked many miles, the young daughter grew weary. Her mother noticed her fatigue, and when a man rode by on his camel, she asked him: "Please, Sir, would you mind taking my daughter on your camel to the next village? It is only five miles away and you can drop her at the edge of the village where her aunt will meet her."

The man who was enjoying his ride as a sport did not feel inclined to do this woman a favor. In a hurry he answered, "No, I don't want to take your daughter on my camel. I am taking this ride for pleasure and cannot take the time to go to that village."

As he rode away, he turned to see who was the girl. To his surprise he saw she was a beauty, wearing gold ornaments too. He thought, "If I had taken her on my camel, I could have done whatever I wanted with her. It is never too late. Let me go back and tell the old woman I have changed my mind."

Meanwhile, the old woman has a flash: "I must have been crazy to have asked a stranger to take my daughter five miles away from here. Anything could have hap­pened. It is good that he did not agree to my request."

Then she saw him standing by a tree waiting for them. He greeted them saying: "Yes, I have changed my mind. I will take your daughter on my camel." The old woman smiled and told him: "Friend, do you know? The thought, which has come to you has just now passed before my mind and I have heard its message. Before when you spoke spontaneously, I did also; then I said "Yes," and you said "No." Both of us were at that time sincere and trusting. Now impurity has come in you, so doubt has come in me." Man does not understand this cosmic law and thus creates his own defeat. In our lonely moments we think in negative ways. Then slowly those negative thoughts become concrete. In fact, they become so solid that we are not in a condition to break those concrete conditions.

This universe is a resource-giving studio because "like-and-dislike" vibrations are being created at every moment. That is why the highest meditation is highest Awareness. Do what you want to do in aware­ness: you walk, sleep, talk, communicate, meet friends, do all of your business. You are aware of your self twenty-four hours a day, not only on Sunday. So, you become actively calm and calmly active.

From
To Light One Candle:

Stmavat sarva bhutesu
sukhaduhkhe priya~priye
chintayannatmano'nistam
himsSmanyasya nScharet

[Jam Yogaihistra. Hemchandrachirya]

All living beings are souls,
alive and conscious, just like me.
As I like to be happy and do not like to be
in pain, in the same way, all beings like to
be happy and do not like to be in pain.
By keeping this insight
at the core of my being,
I will not cause any harm, pain or
loss of life to any living being.

In awareness, living becomes a joyous process. It becomes the way to prosperity. What is prosperity? To live with freedom according to your inner precepts, to master your thoughts and then you have nothing to master, to live in a positive way, to change your metabolism with living. In this way your life becomes a cornucopia.

Why do we not understand that we have created men­tal partitions? Because we have understood impartial earth, rain, wind and sun but we have not understood the impartial nature of Godhood in goodness. We have not seen the Godhood in our own self. And that is the reason we are creating partitions. We must not waste time to change the direction of the wind, but just open the sails toward the direction we want to go. So, we open ourselves in order to receive the fresh breeze of blessings, which is always here. Changing our attitude we change our altitude.

Mahavir, from the time he left home and renounced the palace, practiced living in a state of fearlessness, which is neither attraction nor repulsion—it is being in balance; it is being filled with love. He meditated on making every moment of life filled with love, whether people received him well or pushed him out, whether they gave him praise or abuse, whether they offered him alms or not. He took love as a process, as an experiment in his life.

Once a shepherd met him on the way and warned him: "Stop here because a little distance up that road, there is a big cobra. It has killed many people." Mahavir meditated on Maitri- universal love, saying to himself: "It is an auspicious occasion to test my love. Let me see if I have assimilated love in all the cells of my body. Otherwise, what is the use of all my phil­osophy and all my meditations?"

He did not pay heed to the shepherd. He walked up the road and saw a huge tree under which was an anthill and a big hole inside the anthill where the cobra lived. The cobra came out. For most people, this would have been a frightening moment.

Here Mahavir stood full of love. He was sending vibrations of pure love beaming from his eyes. Nevertheless, the angry cobra bit him on the toe. Then he turned around to go back into his hole, knowing that the man would fall down dead on him. But that did not happen.
Instead of blood, a stream of milk flowed out from Mahavir's toe. It was confusing for the cobra. Mahavir's whole being had turned into that loving feeling. And like a mother whose blood turns to milk in preparation for the coming of a newborn infant Mahavir had a mother's deep affection for all children, even for a cobra. As a result, the cells of his body had become transformed.

Then Mahavir instinctively thought: "Serpent! Be aware! Because of anger you became a cobra. Now be calm and be aware!". An animal develops fury when provoked. Mahavir sent him only the flow of love, and the cobra put his head down, feeling Mahavir's deep peaceful presence.

Vibrations are working on our body cells. If you want to live healthily, you have to work on that. You can attract from the universe healthy cells, because you have at the center of you a magnet of love. Like a load­stone, it always attracts. With this loadstar in you, you attract similar vibrations and healthy ceils from the universe. With awareness, your vibrations are pure, bringing to you only what you need to fulfill your mission.

So we are now enlightened that we must be aware of the passion we create—is it zeal or is it repulsion? By repulsion we mean anger, hatred, ill will, resentment, possessiveness, jealousy, deceitfulness, pride, all of which create negative vibrations and pick up un­desirable particles leading to mental and physical heaviness and deterioration. We realize that these particles become a binding force and that because of them, we do not experience our infinite power.

We all have infinite power inside, but these particles form a covering and limit our power. Negative karmas bind us like iron shackles; they are difficult to break when the time comes. In the meantime, they take us to our destination by filling us with love instead of ill will, with appreciation instead of jealousy, with com­passion instead of callousness, and with awareness instead of imbalance.

For the process of liberation:

The first principle is samvara: stop. You stop any neg­ative thoughts even before they start, or at least before they can gather any momentum. Otherwise, there is a downgoing movement which ends in some abyss.

The second principle is nirjara which means evapo­rate, drop down, shed down. If we do not become aware of negative thoughts which enter our mind on the same day, then at least with awareness the next day we can get rid of them in an introspective meditation: nirjara.

You say to yourself: "I want to free myself from that event. If I keep that thought in me, then I am not going to enjoy my life." In nirjara, we observe that any neg­ative emotion, hate, anger or resentment, can enslave us. If we do not throw it away, it will corrode inside. It is like keeping the peels and seeds of fruit until they rot, smell and invite insects into our home. So, you go to the root of any negative thought or event and become so alert that, like a furnace, your intense awareness burns all karmas.

You can use the vibrations of words, mantras, positive meditation, self-affirmation, self-investigation to neu­tralize old vibrations and free yourself from them. Taking the responsibility on yourself and using your own power of awareness, you will realize that the in­tensity of your meditation is strong enough to free you.

Jn following these two practices: stop and shed, samvara and nirjara, the soul becomes liberated from the power of insentient karmic matter. It is like drying up a dirty lake. Stopping unpleasant vibrations from coming in is like preparing a frame on a dam so that additional water will not come in. Then you let the heat of the summer sun dry the lake, just as you allow the fire of your meditation to burn old accumulated karmic vibrations. Then the place where the lake used to be is dry and clean, ready for a temple. Similarly, consciousness, which has become clear and cleansed can experience a blissful and prosperous life.

Your body will also become a clean temple in which you dwell. Your mind will be spacious and receptive. You will live and work on the level of higher vibrations and you will be free to feel the divine. The blessings of the uni­verse will echo in your consciousness and your heart will pulsate with creative life.