December 2021 Chitra Puja

"The only real security comes from within. Gain security, and if your security comes from within you, you become unburdened."

Jai Gurudeva!

This morning our monks celebrated the chitra nakshatra with our monthly padapuja to Gurudeva. Yogis Dayanatha and Haranandinatha performed the abhishekam in Kadavul Temple. The monks gathered to chant Sri Rudram and meditate, inwardly connecting to Gurudeva's mystical presence.

Gurudeva: \"Being on the path is a marvelous thing, but it is a path...\"

\"There are jungles on either side, and if we wander off into the jungle, taking too many liberties, continuity of the vibration of our unfoldment will begin to wane.\"

\"Suppose you are meditating regularly in the morning and at night, day after day. Perhaps they\

re not long meditations, but they are regular. You are generating a certain vibration out of it. If you then stop that routine and take your awareness into feeling sorry for yourself or mentally arguing with a friend, you lose the subtle thread of superconsciousness.\"'

\"You\

re going through an old, old pattern and it will be difficult to get back into the vibration of meditation. Your dreams at night may become nightmares.\"'

\"Your circle of friends may change. This is called, in a sense, spinning out into a different area of the mind. If you have not yet experienced this yet, its not a recommended experience on the path.\"

\"And if you have experienced it, you know what I am talking about, and you know the importance of protecting yourself and your meditations. Psychic protection, to sensitive people, is extremely important.\"

\"It involves every detail of life, your home, friends, clothes, diet, even your dreams.\"

\"You should live in places that are clean, very clean. Paint your place. Assure yourself that the inner atmosphere is clean and unpolluted.\"

\"We have an outer atmosphere and we have an inner atmosphere. The inner atmosphere can become polluted, too, just like the outer atmosphere can. All sorts of influences from the astral plane can come in on the inner atmosphere, and this we don\

t want.\"'

\"We want the inner flow of the inner atmosphere, which is within this atmosphere of air and ether, to be absolutely peaceful and sublime.\"

\"Keep your environment positive, so that the inner feeling is always content. Keep your home shrine or meditation space radiant, so that the inner feeling there is always uplifting.\"

\"As you advance along the path, the radio mechanism will become highly tuned, very positive. Being positive, it will register all types of influences.\"

\"Influences that are distasteful to you will come through as strongly as influences that are really magnificent.\"

\"You have to learn to shield out the static by finely tuning this mechanism.\"

\"That is why you strive for mastery of sadhana, mastery of concentration, your ability to hold awareness where you want it, when you want it for as long as you want it, and mastery of your ability to experience kaiif, pure awareness aware only of itself, by taking awareness out of the entire context into just being aware.\"

\"This practice of kaiif is one of the fundamental protectors from psychic or astral invasion, for when you are in that state, great clarity and willpower persist and the lower states are transcended.\"

\"To attain and sustain kaiif is a simple practice. You pull awareness out of the thought processes. You pull awareness out of the emotion processes. You pull awareness out of the bodily processes, and you\

re just completely on that pinnacle of being aware of being aware.\"'

\"That\

s so necessary to practice every day, even if you do it for a split second. The experience of kaiif can be attained by anyone on the face of the Earth, at least for a split second, because it\'s so easy to be aware of being aware. To hold that experience and to stabilize the physical and emotional elements long enough to hold that intensity for even a minute takes more practice--not too much, but consistent practice.\"'

\"To maintain kaiif for two minutes requires more effort, more will, more dedication to the life of sadhana. Five minutes requires more. That\

s the test.\"'
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