When God cannot teach you anything he makes you a teacher. I have to make sure in this lifetime I am going to learn something. This subject is so vast we are going to start with the God you are going to meditate on. You want to meditate on God but you do not truly know the kind of God you are looking for. Paramahansa Yogananda is the only master who described the duel God, whom the Romans called the jealous God. The God of two faces; the God connected with doors and gates which is a perfect explanation.
First we have the aspect of God in creation that is cosmic intelligence which created the world and the entire universe without form with his infinite intelligence. He permeated ever atom of creation with this intelligence. But that intelligence which is in our brain and mind pertains to our soul not to our ego and therefore we have great difficulty and we are living in ignorance. I can prove it to you.
Do you know your real name? And that name is “Sat Chit Ananda” ever blissfully conscious of your eternal existence. That is your real name and therefore when you begin to develop that kind of intelligence and you know where you came from, you know who you are, you know where you are going, and you know the God you are looking for, then you are in cosmic intelligence but you cannot be that cosmic intelligence until you work one hundred percent with the key which opens
that intelligence, your conscience. Your conscience is God’s cosmic intelligence vibrating through you. Each time you interfere with your conscience you are back into ego consciousness, ignorance and duality. You have human intelligence which endlessly lies to you and you have divine intelligence and your conscience.
Than you have cosmic light. Since God needed some bricks to build his universe; h e built the entire universe as light and at the same time w e have cosmicdarkness. That light is here right between the eyebrows. When you meditate do you see any light? Most of us see nothing but darkness, complete darkness the Kali Yuga state. You want to meditate and you get so board with i t you quit because we see nothing, feel nothing and hear nothing.
Then as God stirs the galaxy and solar systems it makes a sound, a great sound of Aum. In that sound you have two powers, attraction and repulsion. You have beautiful music like Mozart and you have heavy metal and rap. One leads you to upliftment and one leads you down the drain. The whole universe is made of a positive and negative approach in everything.Then you have cosmic wisdom which created religions to unite all being under one God. Instead we have cosmic wisdom but we do not know. The role of every religion
in the world is to teach union, not separateness, but instead of teaching cosmic wisdom, they are teaching cosmic confusion. There are endless wars between religious people in the name of one God, and everybody is willing to kill each other and die for their religion. Suicide bombers are killing themselves and others every day thinking they are going to heaven by dying for their beliefs. We have great knowledge but absolutely no wisdom.
We do not know that anybody you hurt on the other side of the earth affects you own body. It is like hitting your foot with a hammer and oh! my head hurts. Therefore everything happening on this globe today affects your daily life in thoughts, words, feeling and actions.
You have cosmic love and you have cosmic hate and that force keeps every nation separated from each other with different customs, different languages, different everything that causes total confusion. Then you have cosmic joy and then we have cosmic sorrow. People suffer separation at death because the concept of death creates universal sorrow. The concept of death stems from the greatest ignorance of who we are. Therefore, when you lose a child, a father, a mother, everybody grieves, because they experience death, and do not realize they are immortal.
In the future this concept will not even exist. You have cosmic peace and cosmic unrest and not what I call perpetual motion but perpetual commotion.You have people like that, the moment they enter a room they become perpetual commotion. We have unrest everywhere. We have cosmic beauty and cosmic ugliness in human behavior towards one another. There is torturing in concentration camps and the devastation of world war two oppression, and dictator ship and so on. We have cosmic love and cosmic hate. Consequently, worshiping God with the mind, whatever type of yogi you are will, endlessly, put us through the experience of these dualities. As long as you are worshiping God with your ego no matter how advanced your ego is you are experiencing duality.
There is a yoga in which you do not have these dualities and that is cosmic bliss. Anchor yourself in that which is changeless and once you have obtained that cosmic bliss which is nothing else but your own soul divine nature, you will experience all these states of God without duality. To seek God, put your mind (ego) aside, shut-off the five senses and look at the door of the infinite, there is this hidden stair that will take you up there where God can be perceived without duality. And that is known as the spiritual eye.
Why are we meditating? What we are trying to achieve when the great sages and spiritual masters from India say there are two kinds of people in the world, the ones that meditate and seek God and the ones that don’t. For those of you who meditate, you have a clear advantage over those who do not meditate. In meditation the conscious mind is used as an instrument through which the soul transmits knowledge to our physical brain. This instrument then gradually establishes a close relationship with the soul until they become literally one and knowledge merges into wisdom.
Visualization is not meditation or a form of it. Meditation is not thoughts, it is focusing your attention on the object of meditation. For example, if you want to know what a lake is, you can jump into the lake, swim into the lake and absorb into the lake. Likewise, meditation is absorbing oneself into the object of meditation. And true meditation is absorption in God and which has absolutely nothing in common with the unscientific techniques of breathing taught by a host of ill-advised zealots.
According to the scriptures, which affirm that human beings require one million years of diseaseless, normal evolution to perfect the brain of a human to achieve the sublime state of cosmic consciousness. There is a technique called Kriya Yoga which is a method through which a human beings evolution can be quickened. A copy of the book “Autobiography of a Yogi” by Paramahansa Yogananda, a spiritual classic, explains the actual meditation technique of burning off karma, which is freely given by the Self-Realization Fellowship in Los Angeles California in lesson form, mailed to your home.
During your meditation you must break the connection between the body and your mind. As long as you are conscious of your body you cannot go deep into meditation. You have to have complete forgetfulness of your body and that means the “state of absolute immovability” in your meditation. As long as you move even once, like scratching ourself, you have broken that magnetic field and you have to start over again at that point to gain depth in meditation. Desires are constantly agitating you and wisdom can only be perceived when you stop moving. Intuition comes the moment you are still and guides you. That is why some people quit meditating; they cannot go deep enough to gain any results and they lose interest.
Some have what is called the yo-yo syndrome; this alternating condition is when two tendencies over power each other then alternately like two lovers who sometimes become angry affect alternately with deep enthusiasm for meditation and then sudden dryness and indifference, then in one moment they get very interested and drop everything else. It is impossible to resist temptation of this world unless you have something better gradually given to you through meditation.
Meditation is the cultivation of concentration upon that spiritual eye. The moment your eyes go down you fall asleep and lean forward like I see many do. You are not locked up at the point between the eyebrows. You cannot enter into these higher states of consciousness until the ego becomes relaxed. The western mind is so intellectually uptight that it has to rationalize everything; that is why it takes a long time before we can feel anything. We need to go beyond the ego self to be able to relax and to experience real feelings. No wonder we are unable to love one another.
