Which meditation is correct?
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- čas přidán 22. 09. 2019
- In this video Dada interprets Patanjali’s definition of Yoga “Citta vrittih nirodhah” in a more logical and practical way than is commonly understood. It aligns with the real world which requires that action be done in order for success to be achieved. In the same way, meditation is an action albeit subtle which ultimately ends in the state of “actionlessness” or infinite peace.
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The mantra at the end of the video is " Baba Nam Kevalam". Baba means "my most beloved One," Nam means "name of" or "to identify with," and Kevalam means "only." So the meaning of the mantra is "My most Beloved is the only One." You can find the full version of the recording here: • Video
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What a humble guy❤❤❤
Namaskar,
it seems you always manage to speak about the right thing at the right time in my life,
thank you so much for this channel
Simply fantastic... I bow to you, i bow to the eternal sage, Patanjali,🙏🏾🙏🏾.
Most difficult Patanjali's Yoga Sutra, and you have explained it so beautifully..
Love your attitude. I hear you with pleasantness and smile. Thank you 🙏
THANK YOU. Your videos are so very clear. I hope to achieve better states of mind.
It has been interesting to listen to you! Thank you for share!
i am very happy listening the instructions , i saw the ligth my next step
Thankyou for this incredible teaching brother , this is exactly what I needed
Namaskar Dada.
Beautiful video as always.
Namaskar
Sri Dada.
Many thanks to you, long life happy and a lots of fortune and knowledge.
Good vibration.
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Thank you for the explanation! I've been having some dilemas about action vs observation and you made it very clear.
Much love!
Namaskar
Just, Wow. So insightful and beautiful.
Will do my best to learn and practice from the most profound advice ever gifted. Thank you
Actually i heard u on u tube first time. As u elaborating about meditation. Is quite useful n it's in very simple way. Thanks to u. 🙏
Thank you Dada......you have answered some burning questions, for me. Namaska🙏🙏🙏🙏
So clear and helpful. Namaskar.
Dear Dada, I’m so thankful to have found your videos, I’m enrolled on the meditation course. I’ve been learning so much. I have been a practicing Buddhist for 6 years but always felt it didn’t address my feeling there was something bigger and your words on Supreme consciousness make so much sense to me. Thank you so much for spending time to help us understand . I’m so grateful.
In action lies the prosperity🤌🤌🤌
dadaji you solve all my doubts, namaskar.
It is a very useful supplement to your other lectures.
Hail Odin! Such excellent advice. My compliments from Germanic South America!
I dont know how many times I would immerse in this video to remember the wise words from Dada, a beautiful tool from the Supreme Conciounsness.
Great clarity!
Thank you for the Video!
Thank you for this wisdom
Wonderful! Thank you 🙏
The Igor !! Haha i love your accent. Thank you so much for your videos it’s very instructive
This helped me to realize why my meditations were becoming completely fruitless, all I was doing was observing, with the intention to not get involved at all. I became much more anxious by doing this. I feel what was missing was the subtle effort that should go hand in hand with the observation, a kind of corrective or redirecting force.
Looking good!
Great video
Great words of wisdom. I love your videos. You are awesome. Regarding Patanjali, Baba says in his book Yoga Sadhana, that the suspension of the propensities does not necessarily lead to the unification of the unit mind with the Cosmic mind. Hence Patanjali's definition of yoga is not acceptable.
you are now one of my main teachers! respect and love to you
Thank you! You 're welcome!
Thank you for so gian
Thankyou so much.
Only one word comes in mind thanks
Namaskár, Thank you it is very inspiring /\
Thank you! (धन्यवाद) very well explained Thank you again.
Baba nam kevalam = Satnam. Defined meditation beautifully. Great Soul. So I will say Satnam WahGuru.
Namskar🙏🙏
Thank you
You are fabulous
You speak funny, there`s something that tickles in you and your words, it always put a smile in my face when I listen to you.
You have bullet proof wisdom, I`m not making fun of you or what you share with us in any regard, but you are funny never the less.
I`m use to much more rigor, so is fresh air what I get from you, and your wisdom, warmth, sweet, peaceful.
About this video in specific, some examples of what you refer as to action will be really good pointers, recommendations too.
Inner and outer actions.
You just put me to review my situation in that matter.
Thank you big Brother of the Path...
Have a great day...!!!
Smile always.
Thank you.
The mango example is very convincing
Namaskar Dada, here I'm again after some gap from your strong pull of wisdom. Flow of the Supreme Consciousness through you. No comment for your another great explanation. It's my pleasure and gratitude to able to perceive invaluable messages about our the pure Consciousness and our Existance. I like your last statement...let the mind upon Him...the Doer become Knower. Many Actions...Drift (Mind) and then Bliss. Namaskar.
Thanks for sharing
Love your videos they are helpful for my practice... is. This meditation different from vipassana ? Or is this the same concepts... thanks namasaka
Thank you 🙏for shining a Light an this!Its mostly misunderstood!Everyone is Thinking to do less,sitt still forever and never think in Meditation,it’s not possible.As I Concentrated an a beautiful Bush bevor sunset by exident something in me sad:this is God,and I became the Bush with out any Expectations,it was pure Bliss,but it was such a shock,that I lost it right there!It was like looking true a window off possibilities?It would be the Best to be in a Staate like this forever,I can’t even describe this Staat.Complete Wholeness maby!They say Life lives true as,way so much Pain needs to be there? Is it putting as in a Staat off understanding?
It is strange to think Supreme Consciousness flows true us always,way then our actions don’t scholl this?I think we full in the Head mit Ideas,with old Conditioning and we do need to make Space first and let the old completely go,so New ways can be developed.It start with eating less Poison,as we all do Now
helps me find mantra at the end of this video please
Does it matter to take a break from your path every now and again? I took a week off this week. Will be back on breathwork, cold showers and meditation on Wednesday.
It is active!
Most think freewill is this large thing. A force that brings large results. But actually, One's will is very small. Meditation helps to focus and refocus will. Like "death from thousand punches", One's will should be a series of extremely small pushes aimed intently.
Which meditation techniques can lead you to achieving a superconscious state of mind at the highest echelon?
Hello sir can u say what is ego
I wish, I could meet you🙏
Maybe both approaches are correct and are required? There is a right use of the mind, but it is also true that you can't do anything either (to free yourself).
It is difficult to advance. However, neither approach would discredit the Yama/niyama so keep strong on those and leave the final work always in God's hands.
So dilute the egoic mind with the cosmic consciousness and vigilantly act on those teachings in the present moment?
The Universe is in constant vibration
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Thank you for the explanation it helped me understand much better . Question would you recommend mantra or breath for beginner or would you switch from one to the other , thank you
Baba Nam Kevalam
When we are not in a high level of consciousness the ego help you to strive to be more inventive, or to have better service, have better business in competition, be a better sportsman, or a better artist or singer, etc.
Therefore the ego help you to feel that you have an identity, like I’m a good engineer, I’m a good mechanic, I’m a good singer, etc. that help you to boost your confidence and help you to live a happier life until you know a better spiritual level for happiness.
Our ego is the most frightening thing that we carry with us around. It serves only to kill you inside out. Kill your spiritual progress, kill the knowledge that you have a soul, and kill your body too. Such is the force of the ego. It is just a kind of fixed belief in yourself, that you are this and you are that, and whatever you think is right. This is the kind of thing that stops you from knowing the truth, of knowing your great Self, because you holding on to your small self.
You identify yourself with your small self, it is even not your small self that what we call smal self doesn’t exist.
The small self
Whatever you think you are, is just a bunch of thoughts, a bunch of gained knowledge, a bunch of believe. It is not even yourself; it is just the thinking of the mind and all the knowledge that you have gained somewhere, such is the ego. Even no one there watching the ego still wants to show off, still wants to prove that he is right.
That’s why it is difficult to talk to your husband, or your wife, your children, your friends, or relatives, about the path that you are going. Even though it is correct and logical to their ears even. Even if they know it’s correct they just don’t want to follow because it is you who said it. Who are you to tell me that you know better than I am!
This is the trouble with the ego. And this is how civilizations have perished, that’s how many galaxies have been destroyed and disappeared, because of the ego and the mind.
The ego is nothing; it is actually made of a bunch of learned knowledge and then you think it is you. That you know this, that you know that. All the knowledge put together, what you learned from others, or society, or books, and you think it is you. You think you know it all and that anything else is not right, anything that you haven’t heard of cannot be true.
It is very difficult to recognize our ego
Once you set your ego at some certain point of your spiritual practice then you stop right there, you never will go anywhere. Our problem is that we don’t recognize our ego, if we do recognize it than we can cut it off, but it is very difficult. We don’t even know that we are proud, we don’t even know that we have ego.
For other people it may be as plane as the nose in front of your face, for yourself it is not that clear. Ego is the worst enemy of humankind, it makes so much trouble, causes so many war, causes so much hatred and discord around the world. It is the ego that does it, nobody else. If we can check our ego and keep it under control then the world would be peaceful. Never mind sitting there and praying for world peace! Don’t need to pray Just check your ego and everything will be peaceful. Each one think he knows better even better than the Master.
Ego is the last to go
It is a knife with two edges, if we don’t handle it well it can flair-up problems. If we have too much ego than it can cause us conflict with other people and stop us from spiritual elevation.
We have to meditate more and serve others more than we can go higher. Whenever we go higher the ego will have to leave because the ego is on the lower level of consciousness. When we achieve a better shield to make us feel good and confident and happy like our spiritual elevation, and our vision get higher and better, than we are happy and confident in any case and we are on a higher mood, at that time the ego will leave.
When we meditate and help others the ego will leave sooner or later, or leave gradually one step at the time, the ego will leave layer by layer.
Here on a lower level of physical consciousness the ego act also as a motivator, as a shield for striving for betterment, in that case it is helpful. But when the ego is too heavy of cause than it is more of a hindrance, like a tree overgrown in a path or in your garden it need trimming.
If you listen to your ego too much you forget yourself
You forget your great Self, your intelligent Self, your wise wisdom Self. The ego separates us from our true Self. The ego is the greatest enemy. Sometimes the ego destroys a marriage, destroys a relationship, destroys friendship, destroys the love between mother and son, father and daughter, because of the ego. The ego causes conflict all the time. This is how civilizations have perished, that’s how many galaxies have been destroyed and disappeared, because of the ego and the mind.
There is no completely harmless person next to you. Only saintly people true saints are harmless. They only bring good to you. They don’t ever harm you, even invisibly or subconsciously. But normal people half saint half human they are still harmful to you. If they don’t have the heart to change their habit or their way of thinking inside, they still can carry negative influence and can make your life trouble
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you all are really amazing,soon i will come to visit you.Can i have some details of how to get this possible?Namaskara
Namakar Gabriele, please email support@meditationsteps.org
Thanks for another very insightful and also funny video (had to laugh when you mentioned that being comatose or drunk won't get you enlightened either 😄).
Is there a chance to visit your ahsram and attend the sangha? Sadly couldn't find any info on your website...
If you would like to visit our ashram, please write to support@meditationsteps.org
hello meditation steps,
could you talk more about the differences in effect of say, a mindfulness meditation, a visual meditation, meditating on some problem or object specifically?
thank you, i really feel these are helping me better myself and would be overjoyed if you could answer.
Namaskar, the reason we do mantra meditation is because meditation is based on the principal, "As you think, so you become". So we should chose an object of ideation, which has a purifying and expanding effect on our consciousness. By meditating for example, on "Baba Nam Kevalam" (love is everywhere and is the essence of everything.) Meditators often find that they are able to find the solution to their problem after meditating, but we shouldn't waste our time meditating on a particular problem.
Meditation Steps Thank you !
Dearest Dada, is it okay to consciously alter negative to positive states, or is it better to allow what is happening spontaneously and not attach value to positive vs. negative feelings/thoughts? Namaskar
It is important to replace cruder thought of feeling with subtler one. The subtlemost is the ideation of divine consciousness. So it is important to ideate in supreme every now and then.
namaskar, why sometimes yoga sometimes "joga" .. is it just different dialect for the same word or is it joga as in meditation and posture for improved physical performance?
Woah!🙄 Clark Kent !!)
I think after Active meditation for 1 hour there should be a short Passive meditation when the mind should be allowed to flow freely for 5-10 minutes without any resistant from within . What is your opinion respected Dada in this regard ?
We recomend 30 min of dynamic meditation and 30 min of static meditation twice a day. But at the beginning of you spiritul way you can start with 5-10 min of meditation but do it regulary.
How can I get my guru who will help me in this spiritual path.
Please reply 🙏🙏
I would recommend you to first complete 100 hours of meditation with the basic technique, which I explain at meditationsteps.org after that is done, I would introduce you to the path. Where are you located?
I like Vipassana
Namaskar Dada, can you tell me please what means mantra words, baba nam kevalam, if you translate to English, thank you.
Namaskar Mario, Baba means "my most beloved One", Nam means "name of" or "to identify with", and Kevalam means "only". The meaning of the mantra is "My most Beloved is the only One."
@@MeditationSteps Namaskar Dada, thank you for answering my question, I start meditation few months ago and I was looking for sombady to help me with it, I spent many hours at Internet and I found you, for some reason I like the way you explain how to do meditation. Is the any way to contact you privately to talk about God? Thank you.
@@MeditationSteps Namaskar Dada, can I ask you about your opinion about Bhakti yoga (Hare Krishna), and what type of yoga you are doing, thank you, namaskar.
hmmmm.....I need to rethink about what I have been doing ...Let go , let god through my body and mind..))
Im in a pfaze of transformation, now i cant fully surender(my ego cant), i can feel the bones moving in my head and in my whole body, but still, im very scared, and the pain is unbearable, especialy in my kidnes( i was a doctor 1 month ago, quit my job cuz of this stage, and now us worse...)
Take care of yourself and contact a doctor if you have serious health problems.
Meditation also helps you to overcome this period.
@@MeditationSteps its beter now! So thanks
Namaste
I think the commenter was referencing the do nothing mediation
Where you sit with your eyes open and stop using your mind.
It seems a ton of masters have written and spoken about this. Eckhart tolle,
Bagavan maharishi, shinzen Young etc
Why do I loose mental equilibrium , when I am able to Sadhana properly ?
Why do I lose my control over my mind and activities when I'm not able to do sadhana properly , say I keep eating sweets , biscuits , etc ?? Kindly explain !!
In the process of spiritual elevation, we need to remove the knots from chakras. Through different means such as fasting, asanas, kaushikii, tandava, specific personal lessons on chakra meditation. When this is done, it is easier to maintain control
Thanks dada , namaskar
Mantra for muladhara... Please ..i am done wih baba naam kevalam.......... I have completed 100hrs of it.. But now i have no progress going on further
If you have done 100 hours diligently, I can help you to find someone in your location, who can impart a personal lesson and personal mantra
@@MeditationSteps yes please Dada! I too would love to take this further and would like to ask a few questions. How can I make contact?? I have been following you for a couple of years now and can't thank you enough for your help and insights.
Just write to me at FB, or write to our page on FB. Yes, you are with meditation steps for some time now, and your participation and comments were very encouraging.
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Interesting thoughts,even I do not agree with most of it.But those are only YOUR personal thoughts...who said that YOU are right ?? 🤔
Any ideas why those thoughts would be correct or incorrect?
Am I not inviting the cosmic consciousness to do the actions using me?
You truly are cosmic consciousness
@@MeditationSteps Well... I miss me. And I miss you. I miss everyone. And I don't know whether I will succeed. And I hope you are all well. Much love. Thanks for answering. I am enjoying watching you work.
OK I guess I do know that I will succeed. I forgot for a minute.
Amit K instinctively? the most common word could be “prayer” and the close relatives of prayer but it could be better to realize one in fact IS cc (as Dada wisely reminded me) and in that case merely ... proceed
@@amitk3474 I believe the situation is like an infant covering his eyes and imagining he has become invisible. With eyes covered, he smiles knowing his loving caregiver is paying full attention. It certainly seems like the satisfying part is the moment of uncovering and seeing the anticipated, beloved face. However, one ingredient is the moment between the smile and the laughter, the moment of uncertainty. What if the worst is true? What if CC is not there? As it is so common not to know or to doubt and then to rediscover, it seems like not knowing but still smiling, still breathing and letting the sound come out as though the true situation is even more wonderful than you ever imagined… that would be something like not knowing but still doing prayer.
I feel I should say something about the main theme: passive versus active. Without confidence that there is a thoughtful response coming from CC, one can worry that prayer is impotent and that can slide into a belief that prayer is passive, like asking for favors without being completely worthy of them. The process, the smiling, breathing, moving of the body into an intentional position and place, considering what to encode as in say, sing, whisper, think, form into art, manifest as movement, repeat, read, etc as prayer is far from passive and benefits from subtlety.
I learned a lot from Dada’s story of the morning he awoke he was so, so, so tired and had many responsibilities, even he wasn’t sure that he had enough energy to get through the day. I would describe his solution as prayer. I will try to remember which video it is in.
Some Gurus say:your Wealth is determents off the Grad off Happiness in your self,is that not again Attainment off Ego??If you look from a High Mountain that saying is 🙃silly?
I'd say, if you ever watch Olympic or professional sports you might see perfection in action.
Pointed spiritual discourse
Namaskar Dadaji, great video as always, I like your interpretation of Patanjali's definition of Yoga. One thing though... Don't you think it is also appropriate to mention that yours is a mere re-interpretation of a misleading definition, and the correct definition has been given by Shiva and reinforced by Anandamurti? As you said if you are sleeping, knocked out or even in catalepsy your vrttis are suspended but that is not Yoga. Yoga is the merging of unit into cosmic consciousness, and even in Samadhi, unless one reaches Moksha, one cannot enjoy the blissful state without the vrtti of spiritual desire. I think your audience would appreciate if you mentioned that, and it would provide a more comprehensive understanding, what do you think?
I think that those who try to understand will understand. Every video cannot be an encyclopedia of everything and should not be, so an interested viewer has to build an understanding episode by episode. At some other time, when some of our speakers will specifically talk on definitions of yoga, this topic will be elaborated further.
The vortex of desire for spiritual attainment attaches as much as those that seek sensual or monetary gain.
@@MeditationSteps Good point!
Instead, as one incarnation commanded...ponder: "thou shall not want"... while trying to answer the question "what do I want"? In this way, the ego is given permission to forget itself because the answer should always be the same.
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It would be really great if you did a video upon celibacy , it would also help a lot of you guys doing ' NoFap' :) Namaskar
Thank you, I will.
I prefer to meditate outside at night and naked. That way i can clearly hear what the stars have to say.
Lucky you :)
@@MeditationSteps omg the things it says too! People need to start talking to it!
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Who is god ? What is god ? Are you talking about yaweh, Shiva or allah ?
Meditation is more of a Swiss army knife rather than a hammer. There is guided meditation (subconscious reprogramming), focused meditation (things like Reiki for healing), contemplation meditation, etc.
Meditation is a tool to open the mind, trying to pigeonhole meditation will only result in the pigeonholing of your mind.
Are you going to become yogi from 1 litre Alcohol?
Should've replied with: if it works I'll join you too