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April 7, 2022
Guided Meditation: Allow Grace To Be Your Center Always
In this guided meditation, we explore through the sensations of the body and utilizing the thoughts of the mind, we watch them and rest as the Witness, which is Pure Awareness. By centering in that Pure Awareness, we find Grace is what keeps it there.
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Transcript
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00:00:00.118 --> 00:00:06.378
Also again, just breathe as you are and we'll just do this for a couple of minutes.
00:00:06.538 --> 00:00:14.303
So just breathe in and breathe out, inhale, exhale as natural as you can, keep your eyes open if you want to.
00:00:14.512 --> 00:00:18.387
If you want to close your eyes, like I tend to do you can do that too.
00:00:18.836 --> 00:00:20.367
It's totally up to you.
00:00:20.486 --> 00:00:23.358
Be as free as you can and as natural as you can.
00:00:55.393 --> 00:00:59.334
Keep the inhalation and exhalation as natural as possible.
00:01:57.016 --> 00:02:00.947
Now I want you to take in what your senses are taking in.
00:02:00.998 --> 00:02:09.038
So if you have your eyes closed, use the sense of hearing and listen to what surrounds you.
00:02:10.568 --> 00:02:17.566
Can you hear the cars rushing past?
00:02:20.199 --> 00:02:29.609
Can you hear children playing outside or adults taking a walk and you can hear them having a conversation.
00:02:33.399 --> 00:02:37.459
You can hear the birds chirping, maybe dogs are barking.
00:02:39.688 --> 00:02:41.188
Maybe where you are.
00:02:43.179 --> 00:02:50.894
There may be strong breeze and you can hear the breeze crashing against the windows and the doors.
00:02:54.003 --> 00:03:09.941
And if you have your eyes open, take in what you can see, whether you can see trees or if in your home, have a look at the furniture in your home, observe everything as much as you can.
00:03:12.276 --> 00:03:15.556
You may see the TV, it may be on and on mute.
00:03:16.151 --> 00:03:18.578
You may see outside the window.
00:03:20.830 --> 00:03:30.741
If you have your eyes closed, then you may see darkness, you may see aspects of light.
00:03:30.770 --> 00:03:36.837
You may see different shapes of light and different colors of light appearing.
00:03:41.403 --> 00:03:49.957
So right now, I just want you to observe everything as much as you can, with the capacity that you have.
00:03:51.334 --> 00:04:00.883
And then I want you to, after you've observed everything around you, I now want you to look within you.
00:04:02.533 --> 00:04:15.177
So by looking within, I mean, by observing, observe if there's any part of your body that may have a certain sensation.
00:04:16.461 --> 00:04:19.408
So it maybe you have tingling in the feet.
00:04:19.627 --> 00:04:23.983
Your arm may suddenly move, your eyes may twitch a bit.
00:04:29.124 --> 00:04:39.365
You may notice your breathing, you can feel your chest moving up and down when you're breathing.
00:04:41.567 --> 00:05:02.314
Note down, every sensation, observe every sensation and especially during meditation, you may even start feeling hungry and you may feel like you need to eat something.
00:05:03.583 --> 00:05:14.252
Remember, these are all tricks of the mind, and we're going to go to the mind in a minute, but I want you to just observe your body, your belly may start rumbling.
00:05:15.939 --> 00:05:21.019
You may feel your heart racing a little, more than usual.
00:05:24.646 --> 00:05:25.714
Just observe it.
00:05:26.105 --> 00:05:28.327
And let's do that in some silence.
00:05:29.444 --> 00:05:30.225
Just observe.
00:05:30.225 --> 00:05:45.432
And even if you can, if it's possible for you and you are a regular practitioner of meditation, you may be able to even hear a certain buzzing, around you and within you when you're meditating.
00:05:45.432 --> 00:05:48.913
So if you're able to hear that, that'd be great.
00:05:48.973 --> 00:05:54.324
But now to just observe, what is happening within the body.
00:06:43.550 --> 00:06:48.440
If your mind tries to drift away, bring it back to looking within the body.
00:07:35.370 --> 00:07:38.271
Now I want you to observe your mind.
00:07:41.478 --> 00:07:50.749
So if a image arises in your mind, if a thought appears in your mind, I want you to just watch the thought, watch the image.
00:07:51.168 --> 00:07:52.098
Don't do anything.
00:07:53.629 --> 00:07:54.379
Just watch it.
00:07:56.999 --> 00:08:01.399
If you don't have a thought, you're awesome and that'd be great.
00:08:02.329 --> 00:08:07.418
But if you do have a thought, an image or a feeling or an emotion appear in the mind.
00:08:08.923 --> 00:08:15.713
Or anything that has some level of content, just observe it.
00:09:24.192 --> 00:09:38.105
The more you watch it without resistance, you will find that these thoughts, these images, these feelings, emotions, whatever content arises within the mind will slow down and let them slow down.
00:09:39.456 --> 00:09:41.255
Allow them to slow down.
00:09:43.278 --> 00:09:47.749
If you interfere, you will get the incessant chattering going on.
00:09:48.418 --> 00:09:53.374
If you just observe, watch the thought slow down.
00:09:53.693 --> 00:09:56.854
Watch the feelings slow down.
00:09:59.520 --> 00:10:02.671
Watch the images dissolve away.
00:10:37.784 --> 00:10:47.856
Allow everything to slow down, allow these contents of your mind to rest a little.
00:11:00.615 --> 00:11:14.109
If you find that the mind is resisting a little, just inform your own mind, if you must, that you would deal with those thoughts later, but right now you have to be present in the meditation.
00:11:16.383 --> 00:11:19.352
Because we're not here to make enemies with our mind.
00:11:19.352 --> 00:11:21.452
We are there to befriend our mind.
00:11:28.684 --> 00:11:41.865
So let your mind be at rest, knowing that you will deal with the thoughts, the feelings, the emotions, the memories later on, the future planning later on.
00:11:58.794 --> 00:12:08.624
If you've been able to slow down your mind and enter stillness, stay there.
00:12:09.057 --> 00:12:27.413
If you haven't, then I want you to watch the thought, watch the image, whatever it is, whatever content, I want you to watch it and then I want you to watch the watching.
00:12:28.496 --> 00:12:29.756
And we'll do this together.
00:12:31.309 --> 00:12:35.210
So watch a thought or the content appear within the mind.
00:12:36.318 --> 00:12:53.918
If it has to be a pink elephant, think of the pink elephant, watch the pink elephant and then watch the watching.
00:13:07.413 --> 00:13:14.076
When you watch the watching, you find there is stillness there.
00:13:21.447 --> 00:13:30.885
Even though that pink elephant is still there in the mind, it's doing nothing to the one that is watching.
00:13:32.929 --> 00:13:39.235
The watching of the elephant, the pink elephant, the image, the thought.
00:13:44.586 --> 00:13:51.595
That is what we call Awareness, Pure Awareness or Pure Consciousness.
00:13:52.970 --> 00:14:15.063
The Rishis of the East call this Brahman, the Ultimate Reality, some call this Being, some call it Presence, the Buddhists call this shunya.
00:14:19.238 --> 00:14:28.576
And the Sikhs call this, WaheGuru or Nirakar, which means Formless.
00:14:34.296 --> 00:14:36.785
This is the real essence of Shiva.
00:14:42.923 --> 00:14:48.178
And this is all within you, but not as something separate.
00:14:49.298 --> 00:14:51.794
It is your very being is who you are.
00:14:53.804 --> 00:15:00.125
For years you may have been told that you are this body mind complex.
00:15:02.230 --> 00:15:28.062
And to a certain degree in this world, yes, you are that name of form and in the world that has a place, but the whole purpose of spirituality is to understand that we are 'That' which we seek.
00:15:33.980 --> 00:16:06.128
If we remind ourselves if we may, of the Mahavakhyas in the Upanishads, Aham Brahmasmi, which means 'I am Brahman.''I am Pure Consciousness.' J Krishnamurti calls this your natural state.
00:16:14.378 --> 00:16:17.192
And this is always there in the background.
00:16:28.916 --> 00:16:56.732
It's always there in between the thoughts in your mind, in between the images in your mind, in between the colors are presented in your mind and presented through the sense objects It's that silence that you sometimes don't acknowledge throughout the day, but it is there.
00:17:01.672 --> 00:17:03.652
It's always been here.
00:17:05.582 --> 00:17:12.898
It's so close to you that we fail to see it.
00:17:14.409 --> 00:17:28.979
It's like when we're looking for a necklace that is already around our neck, we are seeking the Truth, without realizing that the truth has always been within us.
00:17:33.425 --> 00:17:36.105
So let's take a look into this Truth.
00:17:37.212 --> 00:17:45.267
Let's be as you've always meant to be, and you always will be.
00:17:48.691 --> 00:17:58.592
This Stillness, this Shapeless, Awareness, you can see it has no form.
00:18:04.801 --> 00:18:10.531
It has no image for the mind to cling to.
00:18:13.146 --> 00:18:32.395
It pervades everywhere, even within space, For example, it's the space between your eyeball and your eyelid.
00:18:32.605 --> 00:18:34.826
It is within that space too.
00:18:36.895 --> 00:18:38.006
It is that close.
00:18:47.122 --> 00:18:48.801
It's absolutely free.
00:18:51.736 --> 00:18:53.355
You cannot name it.
00:18:55.605 --> 00:18:58.935
Although, we do make concessions when we name 'It'.
00:18:59.776 --> 00:19:12.692
But in the experience right now, it may be a separate experience, but for those that live in this all the time, they don't need to refer to it as Awareness or Brahman or Consciousness.
00:19:21.093 --> 00:19:23.962
They see it as it is.
00:19:25.392 --> 00:19:46.198
Again, in the Upanishads, they refer to this as 'Is-ness' sometimes, to refuse a name Even Lao Tzu refused to give it a name and said that the Dao that can be named is not the Dao.
00:19:58.229 --> 00:20:00.568
You cannot define it in any way.
00:20:09.210 --> 00:20:11.874
You cannot label it in any way.
00:20:16.208 --> 00:20:17.827
It doesn't move anywhere.
00:20:35.990 --> 00:20:56.832
It's vast in it's experience, yet it feels that it is immediately here at the same time.
00:20:59.607 --> 00:21:00.528
It's so close.
00:21:00.538 --> 00:21:01.657
It's so vast.
00:21:08.502 --> 00:21:11.113
It's absolutely full of peace.
00:21:20.419 --> 00:21:24.719
It's like an ocean without a wave in sight.
00:21:52.455 --> 00:22:04.159
It cannot be held in a container, because there is no container big enough or vast enough or small enough to contain it.
00:22:10.972 --> 00:22:13.623
No image can be made of It.
00:22:20.414 --> 00:22:28.805
And therefore it cannot be disturbed in any way.
00:22:32.201 --> 00:22:34.646
So we feel that essence of peace.
00:22:36.693 --> 00:22:38.584
Here there is contentment.
00:22:39.605 --> 00:22:42.739
Here no desire can arise.
00:23:09.480 --> 00:23:24.454
In the east, we use the word 'Ananda', it is loosely translated as bliss or joy or happiness.
00:23:32.965 --> 00:23:41.519
And it's not really a feeling, it's so natural to be in bliss right here and right now.
00:23:42.306 --> 00:23:44.731
It has this awareness.
00:23:52.059 --> 00:23:58.299
It's because it's so content in itself because it's so peaceful.
00:24:00.599 --> 00:24:05.517
Joy is its natural way of being.
00:24:17.173 --> 00:24:35.953
This is a happiness that, although you're just touching right now, but the more we meditate, the more we immerse ourselves in this bliss, and here lies Pure Radiance.
00:25:00.982 --> 00:25:13.174
And this Awareness, this Consciousness doesn't just belong to me or you alone.
00:25:16.299 --> 00:25:35.911
But we understand that each and every human being, each and every living being from the blade of grass in the ground to the farthest star in the universe.
00:25:40.148 --> 00:25:44.679
That awareness is shared amongst every thing.
00:25:48.905 --> 00:25:51.846
Therefore, you cannot feel inferior in this.
00:25:52.356 --> 00:25:55.276
Nor can you feel superior in this.
00:25:56.949 --> 00:25:59.779
All you feel is being centered.
00:26:09.580 --> 00:26:23.563
Allow this awareness to be centered within you and see this centeredness in everything.
00:26:25.962 --> 00:26:34.423
When you leave this meditation try to bring this centeredness to the forefront of the mind.
00:26:35.645 --> 00:27:02.378
Usually it's in the background and if we are alert enough, we can notice it in the background, And when we are more in tune with this and we go more into the center of 'This', this can be at the forefront amongst all activity.
00:27:05.348 --> 00:27:13.924
This is what the Sages and the Rishis and the great teachers have told us will happen.
00:27:21.239 --> 00:27:27.648
So allow yourself to be centered in this.
00:28:08.747 --> 00:28:11.297
It doesn't matter what is happening around you.
00:28:13.413 --> 00:28:15.574
It doesn't matter what's happening in the body.
00:28:16.320 --> 00:28:43.409
Nor what the mind springs up, this center is always there, always available Feeling and experiencing this center throughout the day, it's what can be called grace, kirpa in in Sanskrit.
00:28:51.420 --> 00:29:03.258
Allow that grace, that Awareness to be your center always, regardless of what's happening around you.
00:29:15.817 --> 00:29:18.580
Because this is nothing, but what You are.
00:00:00.118 --> 00:00:06.378
Also again, just breathe as you are and we'll just do this for a couple of minutes.
00:00:06.538 --> 00:00:14.303
So just breathe in and breathe out, inhale, exhale as natural as you can, keep your eyes open if you want to.
00:00:14.512 --> 00:00:18.387
If you want to close your eyes, like I tend to do you can do that too.
00:00:18.836 --> 00:00:20.367
It's totally up to you.
00:00:20.486 --> 00:00:23.358
Be as free as you can and as natural as you can.
00:00:55.393 --> 00:00:59.334
Keep the inhalation and exhalation as natural as possible.
00:01:57.016 --> 00:02:00.947
Now I want you to take in what your senses are taking in.
00:02:00.998 --> 00:02:09.038
So if you have your eyes closed, use the sense of hearing and listen to what surrounds you.
00:02:10.568 --> 00:02:17.566
Can you hear the cars rushing past?
00:02:20.199 --> 00:02:29.609
Can you hear children playing outside or adults taking a walk and you can hear them having a conversation.
00:02:33.399 --> 00:02:37.459
You can hear the birds chirping, maybe dogs are barking.
00:02:39.688 --> 00:02:41.188
Maybe where you are.
00:02:43.179 --> 00:02:50.894
There may be strong breeze and you can hear the breeze crashing against the windows and the doors.
00:02:54.003 --> 00:03:09.941
And if you have your eyes open, take in what you can see, whether you can see trees or if in your home, have a look at the furniture in your home, observe everything as much as you can.
00:03:12.276 --> 00:03:15.556
You may see the TV, it may be on and on mute.
00:03:16.151 --> 00:03:18.578
You may see outside the window.
00:03:20.830 --> 00:03:30.741
If you have your eyes closed, then you may see darkness, you may see aspects of light.
00:03:30.770 --> 00:03:36.837
You may see different shapes of light and different colors of light appearing.
00:03:41.403 --> 00:03:49.957
So right now, I just want you to observe everything as much as you can, with the capacity that you have.
00:03:51.334 --> 00:04:00.883
And then I want you to, after you've observed everything around you, I now want you to look within you.
00:04:02.533 --> 00:04:15.177
So by looking within, I mean, by observing, observe if there's any part of your body that may have a certain sensation.
00:04:16.461 --> 00:04:19.408
So it maybe you have tingling in the feet.
00:04:19.627 --> 00:04:23.983
Your arm may suddenly move, your eyes may twitch a bit.
00:04:29.124 --> 00:04:39.365
You may notice your breathing, you can feel your chest moving up and down when you're breathing.
00:04:41.567 --> 00:05:02.314
Note down, every sensation, observe every sensation and especially during meditation, you may even start feeling hungry and you may feel like you need to eat something.
00:05:03.583 --> 00:05:14.252
Remember, these are all tricks of the mind, and we're going to go to the mind in a minute, but I want you to just observe your body, your belly may start rumbling.
00:05:15.939 --> 00:05:21.019
You may feel your heart racing a little, more than usual.
00:05:24.646 --> 00:05:25.714
Just observe it.
00:05:26.105 --> 00:05:28.327
And let's do that in some silence.
00:05:29.444 --> 00:05:30.225
Just observe.
00:05:30.225 --> 00:05:45.432
And even if you can, if it's possible for you and you are a regular practitioner of meditation, you may be able to even hear a certain buzzing, around you and within you when you're meditating.
00:05:45.432 --> 00:05:48.913
So if you're able to hear that, that'd be great.
00:05:48.973 --> 00:05:54.324
But now to just observe, what is happening within the body.
00:06:43.550 --> 00:06:48.440
If your mind tries to drift away, bring it back to looking within the body.
00:07:35.370 --> 00:07:38.271
Now I want you to observe your mind.
00:07:41.478 --> 00:07:50.749
So if a image arises in your mind, if a thought appears in your mind, I want you to just watch the thought, watch the image.
00:07:51.168 --> 00:07:52.098
Don't do anything.
00:07:53.629 --> 00:07:54.379
Just watch it.
00:07:56.999 --> 00:08:01.399
If you don't have a thought, you're awesome and that'd be great.
00:08:02.329 --> 00:08:07.418
But if you do have a thought, an image or a feeling or an emotion appear in the mind.
00:08:08.923 --> 00:08:15.713
Or anything that has some level of content, just observe it.
00:09:24.192 --> 00:09:38.105
The more you watch it without resistance, you will find that these thoughts, these images, these feelings, emotions, whatever content arises within the mind will slow down and let them slow down.
00:09:39.456 --> 00:09:41.255
Allow them to slow down.
00:09:43.278 --> 00:09:47.749
If you interfere, you will get the incessant chattering going on.
00:09:48.418 --> 00:09:53.374
If you just observe, watch the thought slow down.
00:09:53.693 --> 00:09:56.854
Watch the feelings slow down.
00:09:59.520 --> 00:10:02.671
Watch the images dissolve away.
00:10:37.784 --> 00:10:47.856
Allow everything to slow down, allow these contents of your mind to rest a little.
00:11:00.615 --> 00:11:14.109
If you find that the mind is resisting a little, just inform your own mind, if you must, that you would deal with those thoughts later, but right now you have to be present in the meditation.
00:11:16.383 --> 00:11:19.352
Because we're not here to make enemies with our mind.
00:11:19.352 --> 00:11:21.452
We are there to befriend our mind.
00:11:28.684 --> 00:11:41.865
So let your mind be at rest, knowing that you will deal with the thoughts, the feelings, the emotions, the memories later on, the future planning later on.
00:11:58.794 --> 00:12:08.624
If you've been able to slow down your mind and enter stillness, stay there.
00:12:09.057 --> 00:12:27.413
If you haven't, then I want you to watch the thought, watch the image, whatever it is, whatever content, I want you to watch it and then I want you to watch the watching.
00:12:28.496 --> 00:12:29.756
And we'll do this together.
00:12:31.309 --> 00:12:35.210
So watch a thought or the content appear within the mind.
00:12:36.318 --> 00:12:53.918
If it has to be a pink elephant, think of the pink elephant, watch the pink elephant and then watch the watching.
00:13:07.413 --> 00:13:14.076
When you watch the watching, you find there is stillness there.
00:13:21.447 --> 00:13:30.885
Even though that pink elephant is still there in the mind, it's doing nothing to the one that is watching.
00:13:32.929 --> 00:13:39.235
The watching of the elephant, the pink elephant, the image, the thought.
00:13:44.586 --> 00:13:51.595
That is what we call Awareness, Pure Awareness or Pure Consciousness.
00:13:52.970 --> 00:14:15.063
The Rishis of the East call this Brahman, the Ultimate Reality, some call this Being, some call it Presence, the Buddhists call this shunya.
00:14:19.238 --> 00:14:28.576
And the Sikhs call this, WaheGuru or Nirakar, which means Formless.
00:14:34.296 --> 00:14:36.785
This is the real essence of Shiva.
00:14:42.923 --> 00:14:48.178
And this is all within you, but not as something separate.
00:14:49.298 --> 00:14:51.794
It is your very being is who you are.
00:14:53.804 --> 00:15:00.125
For years you may have been told that you are this body mind complex.
00:15:02.230 --> 00:15:28.062
And to a certain degree in this world, yes, you are that name of form and in the world that has a place, but the whole purpose of spirituality is to understand that we are 'That' which we seek.
00:15:33.980 --> 00:16:06.128
If we remind ourselves if we may, of the Mahavakhyas in the Upanishads, Aham Brahmasmi, which means 'I am Brahman.''I am Pure Consciousness.' J Krishnamurti calls this your natural state.
00:16:14.378 --> 00:16:17.192
And this is always there in the background.
00:16:28.916 --> 00:16:56.732
It's always there in between the thoughts in your mind, in between the images in your mind, in between the colors are presented in your mind and presented through the sense objects It's that silence that you sometimes don't acknowledge throughout the day, but it is there.
00:17:01.672 --> 00:17:03.652
It's always been here.
00:17:05.582 --> 00:17:12.898
It's so close to you that we fail to see it.
00:17:14.409 --> 00:17:28.979
It's like when we're looking for a necklace that is already around our neck, we are seeking the Truth, without realizing that the truth has always been within us.
00:17:33.425 --> 00:17:36.105
So let's take a look into this Truth.
00:17:37.212 --> 00:17:45.267
Let's be as you've always meant to be, and you always will be.
00:17:48.691 --> 00:17:58.592
This Stillness, this Shapeless, Awareness, you can see it has no form.
00:18:04.801 --> 00:18:10.531
It has no image for the mind to cling to.
00:18:13.146 --> 00:18:32.395
It pervades everywhere, even within space, For example, it's the space between your eyeball and your eyelid.
00:18:32.605 --> 00:18:34.826
It is within that space too.
00:18:36.895 --> 00:18:38.006
It is that close.
00:18:47.122 --> 00:18:48.801
It's absolutely free.
00:18:51.736 --> 00:18:53.355
You cannot name it.
00:18:55.605 --> 00:18:58.935
Although, we do make concessions when we name 'It'.
00:18:59.776 --> 00:19:12.692
But in the experience right now, it may be a separate experience, but for those that live in this all the time, they don't need to refer to it as Awareness or Brahman or Consciousness.
00:19:21.093 --> 00:19:23.962
They see it as it is.
00:19:25.392 --> 00:19:46.198
Again, in the Upanishads, they refer to this as 'Is-ness' sometimes, to refuse a name Even Lao Tzu refused to give it a name and said that the Dao that can be named is not the Dao.
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You cannot define it in any way.
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You cannot label it in any way.
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It doesn't move anywhere.
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It's vast in it's experience, yet it feels that it is immediately here at the same time.
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It's so close.
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It's so vast.
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It's absolutely full of peace.
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It's like an ocean without a wave in sight.
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It cannot be held in a container, because there is no container big enough or vast enough or small enough to contain it.
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No image can be made of It.
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And therefore it cannot be disturbed in any way.
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So we feel that essence of peace.
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Here there is contentment.
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Here no desire can arise.
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In the east, we use the word 'Ananda', it is loosely translated as bliss or joy or happiness.
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And it's not really a feeling, it's so natural to be in bliss right here and right now.
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It has this awareness.
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It's because it's so content in itself because it's so peaceful.
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Joy is its natural way of being.
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This is a happiness that, although you're just touching right now, but the more we meditate, the more we immerse ourselves in this bliss, and here lies Pure Radiance.
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And this Awareness, this Consciousness doesn't just belong to me or you alone.
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But we understand that each and every human being, each and every living being from the blade of grass in the ground to the farthest star in the universe.
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That awareness is shared amongst every thing.
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Therefore, you cannot feel inferior in this.
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Nor can you feel superior in this.
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All you feel is being centered.
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Allow this awareness to be centered within you and see this centeredness in everything.
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When you leave this meditation try to bring this centeredness to the forefront of the mind.
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Usually it's in the background and if we are alert enough, we can notice it in the background, And when we are more in tune with this and we go more into the center of 'This', this can be at the forefront amongst all activity.
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This is what the Sages and the Rishis and the great teachers have told us will happen.
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So allow yourself to be centered in this.
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It doesn't matter what is happening around you.
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It doesn't matter what's happening in the body.
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Nor what the mind springs up, this center is always there, always available Feeling and experiencing this center throughout the day, it's what can be called grace, kirpa in in Sanskrit.
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Allow that grace, that Awareness to be your center always, regardless of what's happening around you.
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Because this is nothing, but what You are.
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