12. Inner Quiet Meditation Sadhana
Based on the December Mamsani
Find the place within yourself that is absolutely quiet. Go deep enough within that all of the forces of the mind can be seen and you are, like the hummingbird, totally quiet. §
Sadhana Practice In Shūm§
anīf§
If you are performing this meditation more than once, then use the following version.§
Sadhana Practice in English§
Begin your meditation by finding the state of consciousness you attained in your last meditation on anīf. §
Find the place within yourself that is absolutely quiet. Go deep enough within that all of the forces of the mind can be seen and you are, like the hummingbird, totally quiet. Each time try to go deeper into anīf in your current meditation than your previous one.§
Sadhana Practice In Shūm§
nalīf§
anīf§
Quote from Gurudeva §
Nalīf is the holding of the inner vibration from one meditation to another. For instance, if you perform ānīf in the morning just as you awaken, it sets a vibration which you feel all through the day; and we strengthen that vibration when performing ānīf just before we go to sleep at night. This holding of the inner memory, so to speak, or inner vibration, from one ānīf period to another is called nalīf. It is a challenge in itself, holding the inner awareness until our next meditation, all through the day, holding that inner thread so that we remain two-thirds within and only one-third in external consciousness. §
Supplementary Reading§
Twelve Shum Meditations Shum-Tyeif Mamsani for the Month of December§
Anīf means to find that place inside yourself that is absolutely quiet. Ānīf is an area in which we are deep enough within that all of the forces of the mind can be seen, and we are, like the hummingbird, totally quiet. We look out from that place and see the forces equalizing themselves.§
Nashūmīf is the perspective we hold while looking at the energy fields in and through things—looking at the inside of a tree, seeing how the energy comes up through the tree and finally causes a leaf to form. Nashūmīf is a state that you are in when you can see the ebb and flow of the eighteen predominant forces working within the mind consciousness. These forces are always trying to equalize themselves. Some are static, some are spinning, some are active, some are lifting others up. And this makes form as we see it in its various dimensions. We experience nashūmīf in the pull of forces between people who are close to us, and in the forces of nature, the full moon, the moon that’s waning, the noonday sun. The line flowing from nashūmīf to the next portrait means nīīmf». Nīīmf» is the flow of awareness from one area of the inner mind to another. §
Nalīf is the holding of the inner vibration from one meditation to another. For instance, if you perform ānīf in the morning just as you awaken, it sets a vibration which you feel all through the day; and we strengthen that vibration when performing ānīf just before we go to sleep at night. This holding of the inner memory, so to speak, or inner vibration, from one ānīf period to another is called nalīf. It is a challenge in itself, holding the inner awareness until our next meditation, all through the day, holding that inner thread so that we remain two-thirds within and only one-third in external consciousness. §
The very best time to meditate is as soon as you wake up in the morning; find ānīf. As soon as you go to bed at night, find ānīf. Then deliberately put the body into a state of sleep, which is putting awareness deep within the mind, which is into a state of meditation. How do you do that? Lay the body down, palms up, heels not touching, and go into the power of the spine. Feel the power of the spine, just like you do when you sit in meditation. You’ll feel your body relax. Concentrate the mind, concentrate awareness, right at the back of the neck, and the first thing you will know, it’s morning. §
ānīf 
12.43§
1) The sublime vibration of a place or platform of worship, an altar outside or inside; 2) finding the place within yourself that is absolutely quiet; 3) in anīf, we are deep enough within that all of the forces of the mind can be seen and we are, like the hummingbird, totally quiet; 4) from anīf, we look out and see the forces equalizing themselves.§
nashūmīf 
15.18.41§
1) Perspective, looking into the second dimension from the fourth, omitting the third, holding no mental or emotional association with what is observed; 2) the perspective to hold when looking at the energy fields in and through things; 3) from nashūmīf, we see the eighteen basic movements of nature, subsuperconsciously.§
nīīmf» 
06.46.148§
1) Awareness flowing through the mind, being singularly aware of one area and then another; 2) one of the many forms of awareness delineated in Shūm; 3) represented in mamsanī maā and mambashūm maā by a flowing line between portraits; 4) pronounced nīīmf, often pronounced and written simply as nīmf. §
nalīf 
15.42§
1) Meditation, holding the vibration from one shūmnuh
to another; 2) continuity between meditations; 3) after shūmnuh, or any type of meditation practice, pilgrimage or temple pūjā, a vibration fills one and remains with one long after; this vibration, or current, or sīdīsī, is called nalīf; 4) nalīf should be held from meditation to meditation or pūjā to pūjā; 5) it can be likened to a phrase in music, each time the nalīf vibration wears thin, we should reconstruct that area through shūmnuh, pūjā or another meditation; 6) nalīf is generally held within the vibration of the kalingkasim° kamshūmālingā; 7) it is possible to go in consciousness into bīvūmbīka, rehmtyēnalī, tyēmavūmna or kamakadīīsareh and not break the nalīf, but getting into a detailed discussion or argument within rehnamtyēvūm, or being remorseful or reminiscing the past in ākaiīlīsimbī, would break the nalīf; 8) it would then, with some effort, have to be reestablished; 10) nalīf is especially necessary to those yogī tapasvins who hope to advance in their rāja yoga on the Śaiva path.§
Additional Resources§
Living with Śiva, Lesson 117: To Realize the Spirit Within§
