Self Awareness Through Meditation

Author(s): Ranjitsingh Kumat
Publisher: Ranjitsingh Kumat

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SELF AWARENESS THROUGH MEDITATION
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only by plants and animals. The question what time is it? Or what is the date today? would be quite meaningless. For them time is now. For them the past or the future has no relevance. If you want to end suffering, "Make 'Now the primary focus of your life. Say yes to life-and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you. This will miraculously transform your whole life.941
Dissolving the Pain-body
“As long as you are unable to access the power of the Now, every emotional pain that you experience leaves behind a residue of pain that lives on in you. It merges with the pain from the past which includes the pain you suffered as a child, caused by the unconsciousness of the world into which you were born. This accumulated pain is a negative energy which pesters your body and mind. A pain-body may be dormant 90 percent of the time; in a deeply unhappy person, though, it may be active up to 100 percent of the time. The awakening pain body may take the form of irritation, impatience, a somber mood, a desire to hurt, anger, rage, depression, a need to have some drama in your relationship, and so on. Catch it the moment it awakens from it dormant state. "42
“The pain body survives if it goads you to unconsciously identify with it. Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. Its survival depends on your unconscious identification with it, as well as on your unconscious fear of facing it. The pain-body may seem to you like a dangerous monster that you cannot bear to look at, but I assure you that it is an insubstantial phantom that cannot prevail against the power of your presence. You are now the witness or the watcher of the painbody. Stay present, and continue to be the observer of what is happening inside you. Become aware not only of the emotional pain but also of the “the one who observes”, the silent watcher. This is the Power of the Now, the power of your own conscious presence. "43
Use the power of Now and you have acquired the “art of living”.
SHIVA SUTRA—OSHO RAJNISH
Osho Rajnish, explaining one of the stanzas of Shiva Sutra says, “Mantra is that which results in the death of mind. When there is ‘no-mind, the bridge between you and your body is broken. Mind alone is joining you with your body. Once the bridge is broken, you are separated from the body and