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00:00World Meditation Day is around the corner. Meditation is being promoted as you know
00:04globally as a tool for stress relief, productivity and mental wellness. How can
00:09you know the modern meditation practitioners that we are seeing with
00:13the younger generation as well. This breath in breath out, stomach and tummy
00:18out, this is not meditation. Just given so much importance to all the petty
00:24things in life. How to eat, where to step, which color to wear. Even animals do not
00:30need training in breathing and we are being taught how to breathe. What's going
00:36on? We see that you know mindfulness and heartfulness are something which are used
00:41very casually these days. Not focus on walking or chewing. Walking will happen
00:47digestion will happen. What if you are mindful of your digestion also? Well you
00:51know, you should breathe mindfully. Why? Is there anything wrong with your breath?
00:56Meditation is nothing but an...
01:03Namaste sir, my today's question is that meditation day, World Meditation Day is
01:09around the corner and we see with that inner change where meditation is being
01:15promoted as you know globally as a tool for stress relief, productivity and mental
01:20wellness. So my question is regarding that, that how can you know the the modern
01:25meditation practitioners that we are seeing with the younger generation as
01:30well, you know move beyond using meditation as just being a you know personal
01:34calming technique where mindfulness and heartfulness are used very casually.
01:40The false cannot be turned into truth.
01:45The false can be only seen as false. The false has to be seen as false and just dropped. You
01:56cannot paint it as the truth now.
02:12Meditation is nothing but an observation of the naked inner fact. That is meditation.
02:21To stand naked and honest in front of what is. That is meditation. To stand without defenses,
02:38justifications, armors, apologies in front of the bare fact. That is meditation. This breath in, breath in,
02:51breath out, stomach in, tummy out. This is not meditation.
02:58And sir, just related to that only we see that you know mindfulness and heartfulness are something which
03:08are used very casually these days, you know. No, I am trying gutfulness these days. You know,
03:16how about you know, the poor guts are feeling sidelined. How about lungfulness?
03:23Brain fullness, heart fullness. What do I say? Sir, the inner work is about emptying yourself. Not about this or that kind of fullness.
03:43That kind of fullness. You are already full of nonsense. What more do you want to be full of?
03:50What more do you want to be full of? The root is neti neti. You are already full to the brim. You are overflowing, over saturated. Now drain it out. That is what wisdom is about. Not this fullness, that fullness.
03:57You say you say you will be mindful. Mindful of what? Of all your nonsense. So you will concentrate more on it. I will not forget this. It was Pondichari once I found it.
04:04A woman walking with a very creepy kind of poise.
04:11She would keep one step and then wait and keep another step and then wait and then keep another step and then wait and then keep another step.
04:18So I inquired and I inquired and I was told she is walking mindfully. She said, she will go for it.
04:25This is neurotic. They said, this is neurotic. They said, no, this is mindful walking. You have to be mindful of everything.
04:32And I was told she is walking mindfully. She said, she will go mad. This is neurotic. They said, no, this is mindful walking.
04:40You have to be mindful of everything. You have to be mindful of everything that is happening. You have to be mindful of everything that you eat.
05:01Everything that, not everything that you eat. Every movement of the chewing action. So now you are eating mindfully. It is about being, the real thing is about being so absorbed in the truth that you leave prakritic processes to their own territory.
05:31You don't interfere there. You don't interfere there. You don't have to be mindful. You have to simply say, atma apni prakratiparai.
05:38You have to say, walking is not something I will concentrate on. Walking will happen on its own. My job is to surrender myself to the truth. Not focus on walking or chewing.
05:52Walking will happen. Digestion will happen. What if you are mindful of your digestion also?
06:01Well, you know, you should breathe mindfully. Why? Is there anything wrong with your breath?
06:11Then you should also make your heart beat mindfully.
06:15The best thing happens in your absence. In your prakritic apparatus, the best movement happens in your absence, not in your presence.
06:32The mind must be empty, never full. What is this cult of mindfulness?
06:45Your job is to withdraw, recede and disappear from where you are not needed at all.
06:55When to sleep, when to wake up. This is not your territory, sir.
07:00Let the ancient mother take care of all these things.
07:06Which put to place first on the ground when you get up. This is nonsense.
07:28You go to the saints and they will say, we have forgotten everything.
07:35Nothing is remembered anymore. And you are talking of being mindful.
07:40And in being mindful, you have just given so much importance to all the petty things in life.
07:50How to eat, where to step, which colour to wear.
07:58Let that happen spontaneously in your immersion.
08:04No, I am not straw manning mindfulness.
08:14I have studied it and there is a deep philosophical flaw with the concept.
08:20Observation is not mindfulness. Observation is not
08:47about placing something in the mind. Observation is about seeing the futility of all this
08:54that is already in the mind. Observation is about seeing the futility of the mind itself.
09:02Observation is about freedom from the objects contained in the mind.
09:12Observation is about being maintained in the mind. And mindfulness tends to be the opposite.
09:33Observation feels like you're saying, no, I m free.
09:41I don t care for a thing.
09:46There is nothing in the mind.
10:04Where are the words coming from then?
10:06Not my business to know.
10:16How will you utter your next sentence?
10:23Just as I would take my next breath without my will, without my volition, without my plan,
10:31without my agency.
10:34The ego is not needed.
10:40If I can breathe without being present, I can also speak without being present.
10:58And to be able to speak without being present requires faith.
11:05To be carefree of how your words would be received requires faith.
11:11To be carefree of how your words would be received requires faith.
11:24To be mindful of what you are saying is a very ordinary thing.
11:36To be mindful of how the others would take your words is again something very ordinary.
11:46Freedom lies in keeping these mental concerns aside.
11:53No, no, I am not mindful of my words or your reaction to my words.
11:59You are talking of mindfulness.
12:02You are talking of mindfulness, I am carefree.
12:05Not mindful, but carefree.
12:06Not mindful, but carefree.
12:08You could even say mindfree.
12:10You could even say mindfree, not mindful.
12:23And it is because of keeping a lot of objects in our mind and being more mindful is what is
12:29getting reflected in Prakriti, with the devastation happening, obviously, obviously.
12:43You remember what the saints sung of Murali Baj Uthi Anghata and then Sun Sun Bhol Gaiya Sab Bata.
12:57The emphasis is always on forgetting, never on remembering.
13:04When the Divine Flute comes to you, you don't need to keep anything anymore in the mind.
13:15You just drop it, it's gone, forgotten, left behind, pushed aside.
13:20Why should I be mindful of something as petty as the next morsel or the next trip on the ground?
13:32Am I an animal?
13:35Even animals do not need training in breathing.
13:47And we are being taught how to breathe.
13:52What's going on?
13:54This is faithlessness.
13:59We distrust entire existence.
14:03Even breathing has to happen as per our will, our plan, our volition, our architecture.
14:24And perhaps this is also what means when you say that the right meaning of living in the moment,
14:35in the sense of having the right centre, then only…
14:38Your job is to do the one right thing and then be relieved of all else.
14:49What do you do?
14:51One thing and then I say, I take my leave now.
15:00Do the one thing that is needed to be done and then disappear.
15:21Sir, existence knows how to take care of you, don't worry.
15:29You are in the lap of Badi Ma.
15:36She knows how to give birth, she also knows how to give death.
15:46She also knows how to give breath.
15:49So don't practice all that.
15:59And doing that one right thing is all about self-knowledge and seeing oneself…
16:06Even that one right thing you don't have to do.
16:21You only have to know all the nonsense you have been doing.
16:26You have to drop the nonsense, not even do the one right thing.
16:30The one right thing is your fundamental nature.
16:33It will happen on its own.
16:35It is continuously happening just that it is shrouded, circumscribed.
16:41You have to remove the shroud.
16:43That is Neti Neti of Vedanta.
16:45You don't have to do the right thing.
16:47You have to stop doing the rubbish.
16:50The right thing you cannot plan.
16:56The right thing you cannot execute.
16:59It just happens on its own.
17:00And if you do it, it cannot be the right thing.
17:02If it is right, it will always happen without your urgency, without your doership.
17:11The right breath is when the ego is absent.
17:15The moment the ego is there, the breath will get disbalanced, disturbed.
17:21You want to correct the breath?
17:25Stop focusing on the breath.
17:27Look at yourself.
17:28You will find a bundle of lies there.
17:31Drop those lies and breath will be automatically taken care of.
17:35You don't need to focus on breath.
17:38You don't need to focus on the contents of the mind because all that the mind has,
17:43is nothing but an object the ego has preferred to relate itself to.
17:50So, look at the subject.
17:53It is the subject that has accumulated all the mental objects.
17:57And once you see through the falseness of the subject,
18:01all those objects will find no reason to stay there.
18:05Because those objects exist only to the deluded subject.
18:09Once the subject is gone, the mind is empty.
18:12Professional practitioners of all those things will find my words toxic.
18:24That's fine.
18:27You have already poisoned life so much with these half-baked concepts.
18:42You do not really know what toxicity really means.
18:49I think to know that toxicity, it's something which is really important is to do the both kare,
19:00volunteer at the bookstall.
19:01That's what helps us really to see our thoughts.
19:04Obviously.
19:05If there is a utensil, there is a utensil that you perceive as hot, glowing hot, red hot, what will you do?
19:17What will you do?
19:18You will start putting ice packs on the surface of the utensil?
19:24Is that what you do?
19:26What do you do?
19:27Huh?
19:28Gloves.
19:29Gloves.
19:30Wait.
19:31What do you look at?
19:44The burner below the vehicle, the utensil.
19:47And do something with the knob itself.
19:56The utensil is hot, really hot.
20:02And your solution is to put some ice on it or try some other smart trick.
20:15But one thing you don't want to see, where does the heat come from?
20:25It's sitting on a burner.
20:30Rotate the knob, sir.
20:34That's self-observation.
20:37See where all of it is coming from.
20:45All your life you will happily run around with ice packs instead of just turning the knob.
21:10Thanks.
21:11Thank you, sir.
21:12Hi.
21:13My name is Neeraj Kumar.
21:17I am basically from Gajabad, but I am now staying in Kerala for the last three years.
21:27By profession, I am a teacher.
21:29I teach in an architecture college.
21:34I have joined Gita sessions through Acharya Ji.
21:39I am listening since the last ten months.
21:44Before joining the Gita session, I used to consider Gita as just a religious text.
21:52And it was more about worshiping things.
21:56But after attending the sessions through Acharya Ji, I found that this Gita is more about clarity, logic, and it also gives you a mirror to look within.
22:17So, I am very grateful to attend.
22:21I am very grateful Acharya Ji came in my life and gave a lot of clarity.
22:26A lot of questions that I used to think earlier, but never found the answer.
22:33I was very confused.
22:34I was very confused.
22:35What is right?
22:36What is wrong?
22:37But then, after, since I started listening to Acharya Ji and Gita verse, I got a lot of clarity.
22:46A lot of answers that I, earlier I never found.
22:52So, I would advise everyone to join the Gita community to get the answer that you might have in your life.