SMRTI PASTLIFE REGRESSION THERAPY: Try Heartfulness Meditation on your own and see how you feel.

The concept of meditation

“Here we like to go beyond the mental level of experience, both during meditation and after. Through Heartfulness, a non-dogmatic way demanding no belief and no faith, we solely depend on our inner radar, our hearts. In this way our heart becomes our master, guiding us, and it is also our heart that obeys and follows, becoming a disciple itself. Thus, the heart is both the master and the disciple.”

Our Master explained that at some point we realise that the purpose of this existence is human evolution. The grosser body takes millions of years to do so, and the soul cannot evolve because it is pure and immutable. Therefore it is the evolution of the subtle bodies which we must be concerned with – that is, the evolution of chit, manas, buddhi, and ahankar. Chit means consciousness, Manas is mind, Bhuddi means intellect, and Ahankar is the ego.

Manas, mind:

“Now, I would like to come to what becomes of this manas, the mind, the thinking apparatus. What are we taught with Heartfulness meditation? We are taught to think repeatedly on one object – Divine Light present in our heart. Thinking it is present there. It is a function of the mind. A stage comes in life when slowly we start feeling things. From a temporary, momentary experience, we try to maintain these feelings for as long as we can. We get into this habit of graduating from this aspect of constant thinking through meditation to constant feeling – what we call constant remembrance.

“What happens when we don’t think properly? That is damage to my thinking faculty, manas. When do I lose this ability to think properly? There are many situations. Number one is anger. Another one is being obsessed with passion. And there are so many things like this. The basic root of all these things is desire. Because desire takes our attention from thinking on the right object to another object that we cherish the most at that moment – the object of our desire. And when the desires are not fulfilled, we start feeling some sort of restlessness. This restlessness disturbs us. Something heavier starts happening in the heart, and these vibrations are somehow evaporated or sublimated to the next level, or the next chakra. From the heart to the next chakra is the atma chakra and it affects the second point. This constant failure in satisfying the desires, resulting in constant restlessness then affects the next chakra, we call the third point, and the result of repeated restlessness is that you feel disgusted, you feel angry – those vibrations are settled on the third point. Per contra, when certain desires are fulfilled, it gives some level of contentment or satisfaction. Right or wrong, let us not go into that. But it gives us peace.

“When desires are gone, manas, your mind, functions properly. All of a sudden, you are able to think just perfectly when you have no desires.”

Buddhi, intellect:

“Similarly, what happens to this intellect? Intellect becomes wisdom.”

Chit, consciousness:

“What becomes of consciousness or chit? Whatever the consciousness we have – let us say the consciousness of a stone, to a plant, to an animal, to a human, to a saintly level – consciousness simply expands to the extent of becoming totally divinised.”

Ahankar, ego:

“Now what happens to ego? Ego becomes more and more refined.

“What to do with the ego, and how to refine it? The ego is such an ugly thing.”

“You cannot destroy the ego. The moment you cut it, its face pops up in some other direction. So we have to handle it very carefully. The only way, and also given as a solution in our prayer, is when we recognise that ‘Thou art the only God and power to bring us up to that stage.’ We are able to transfer the responsibility, the ‘doership’ –“I am doing it” or “I am capable of going there.” The ego is subdued in some fashion. When we give our responsibilities to our God, we will still be doing the same thing, but the credit goes to Him. Each time we do something, the credit is given to Him, even before we act. Then only can the ego become subdued. That is why in a Heartfulness system like ours, Sahaj Marg, so much importance is given to humility. Humility is the total opposite of that egoistic state. So, constantly cultivating this humility is the only prescription in subduing or taming the ego.”

“All the three prescriptions, morning meditation, evening cleaning and night-time prayer, are perfectly designed to nurture these four subtle bodies.”

Egregore and mutation

“When you enter the hospital, trying to see one of your loved ones who is hospitalised, you feel something there: a lot of concern, a lot of sadness, and a lot of anxiety. That is the atmosphere created there. It reminds you of your sick or aching loved one. The purpose of your visit determines what you feel in the heart. Suppose you fall in love with a beautiful nurse in the hospital, would you have the same feeling of anxiety and sadness? It is the same hospital you are visiting. When we visit the church, everyone has one purpose – to worship God. It creates a very special atmosphere. When we meditate together, that also creates a very special atmosphere. All this environmental effect is affecting us at a greater level.”

“The environment that we create affects the well-being of the foetus growing in the mother’s womb.”

“Imagine the spiritual atmosphere which is created in our meditation halls, or when parents meditate together in their own homes early in the morning before the children wake up. It creates a profound atmosphere in which the children will wake up in the morning. It affects this particular spiritual environment, and that we call ‘charged’. Sometimes we enter the meditation hall and we feel it is charged. According to Babuji Maharaj, when this vibratory pattern will reach a certain level, mutation will start.”

“This change, this mutation at a genetic level – we can accelerate that process by creating that spiritual condition, that spiritual joy and harmony, within ourselves.”

Kamlesh bhai explained that Heartfulness meditation “is all about feelings. Our entire life is led by feelings and inspirations, and that is the role of the heart. And when we manage to listen to the feelings and capture the inspiration that comes from within, I think we can master our life by listening to the heart again and again. And the whole exercise of fine-tuning the heart with the mind is through this meditation on the heart.”

About setting the goal, he said “If you want peace of mind, you set your goal so that you feel peace all the time – that is your goal. Some people say, ‘I would like to have much more than that. I would like to feel liberated from within.’ That is that person's goal. Another person will say, ‘I would like to achieve and feel universal consciousness.’ That is that person's goal. So I think the goal is individually driven. Even if someone says, ‘Let this be your goal,’ it is still a futile establishment. I must have my own goal, based on my heart's signals.”

Kamlesh bhai clearly described the process of Heartfulness meditation. “We recommend the method first, and it goes like this:
Gently sit and relax, with your eyes very softly closed. Think of the presence of the Source of Light within the heart. That is all. Stay on this one idea and go ahead with this one idea for as long as you can sit.

“After a few days of practice like this on your own, if you would like to meditate with a companion or a preceptor or a guide, or if you would like to meditate with the help of transmission, you can make a request. Now you will be able to see the difference between the meditation done without transmission and meditation with transmission. You compare and you decide which is good for you.”

Heartfulness Meditation is a practical technique that you can use in parallel to any other spiritual approach:

Try Heartfulness Meditation on your own and see how you feel.

Meditating with someone who has the capacity of yogic transmission can help you explore the Heartfulness practice more deeply. There are no charges for this, and we invite you to experience the unique benefits of this transmission.