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In our daily lives, we go on making judgements about things. We conclude ‘this is it’, ‘this is bad’, or ‘this is good’, without trying to understand that it is simply an imagination in the mind. When we make a judgement, it gets absorbed in the mind as an imprint. For us, that is now the fundamental truth. The more we go on making judgements, the more imprints we acquire in the mind which shapes our behavioural structure; how we think and act in the world. So we have created a separate world inside our mind with these judgements that we go on making. We become stubborn in our thinking, and this can make the mind go out of our control.

Babaji recommends that with a regular meditation we can purify the mind of these imprints so that it comes under our control again. Peace and contentment can be regained naturally.

“Gradually you are able to control your mind.  You don’t let it go out of control.  You don’t allow it to go on imagining and making judgments as it wants.  You will wait and see always.  You are not in a rush to make a judgment. 

Those people who try to boast that they can judge immediately, often they become prejudicial. You can see in life, in society. They misjudge and try to create such circumstances of conflicts unnecessarily; a big conflict happens. One starts fighting with the other, one misunderstands the other and a big, huge conflict arises.

These types of things happen.  Sometimes countries also fight and go into conflict if there are misunderstandings.  So, both are unable to live peacefully.  So, that is what we need to avoid, need to be careful about.  This becomes possible for us if we practice spiritual sadhana.”

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In this technique of Jangama Meditation, the instruction is “Closing the eyes, focus the mind and sight inbetween the eyebrows”. Initially some may have a bit of trouble trying to keep the eyeballs on one point. That’s because the eyeballs tend to move parallelly always.

Babaji advises, “Remain relaxed, don’t get confused trying to locate this point.” “Even if both are at a distance, not coming immediately into the central point, no problem. First, steady the eyeballs so its movement stops for a while, that is more important.” When the eyeballs become steady they hold the mind there and the mind can stop.

This is important for the meditation to happen and the mind to become quiet and under control.

Making the eyeballs steady and keeping them still takes patience. If the mind runs off into thoughts, we gently bring it back, if it runs off, we gently bring it back. Slowly but surely, as we have that patience with ourselves, the mind starts to become more concentrated, steady and quiet.

Watch Babaji talk about keeping the eyeballs and mind steady in the short video below.
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Meditation Master Babaji explains how by analyzing and making a judgement about a thing, we absorb it as an imprint in the mind so that it stays in the mind and becomes a habit to stubbornly think in that way only.

“You learn to keep the mind quiet by the practice of meditation. Otherwise, it absorbs an imprint suddenly. When it makes an analyzation, it makes a judgment also. It ends up doing that. Then it can become stubbornly a little bit egoistic. That is what is known as the rajasic nature of a person’s mind (raja means king). That means, once it decides “This is a foe”, the mind becomes stubborn like a king. “This is a foe.” “Why is he a foe? He need not be a foe, maybe he is something else, maybe a friend, or maybe just nothing. Why are you thinking that?”  “Because I am saying he is a foe.  How dare you tell me that he is not a foe!”  Like that it becomes egoistic. So, that is how it absorbs all these things.

All this happens finally if we do not take care of the health of the mind and keep it under our control. Like I have told, a railway engine needs to be kept under our control. If we lose that control, it can be dangerous or disastrous for whoever is inside or outside. In the same way for the human mind also, it becomes violent and such a person can become dangerous to others and disastrous to one’s own self.“

Babaji advises if we can adopt the technique of meditation properly by just watching and not getting involved in any thought that comes up during meditation, we will be able to live in the world and execute whatever tasks we need to without absorbing imprints and becoming habitual in the mind.

 “Once the job is over, you will feel very peaceful and free and that thing won’t be sitting there, that won’t be playing in the mind.”

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“Happiness is not in the object. It is in your mind accepting and becoming quiet, getting satisfied for a while. That’s what gives you happiness actually.”

~ Shiva Rudra Balayogi

Meditation is the practice to make the mind quiet and achieve that real happiness. As we go on practising the technique of just watching, the mind becomes purified of all its habits. If we look for happiness in external objects all the time, our mind goes into cravings and thus we become unhappy. Through a daily practice of meditation we can enjoy the things of the world while at the same time knowing the limitations. Inner peace can come as the mind remains contented and happy in itself.

Click on the image below to watch Babaji talk about happiness. (1 minute short video)

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Meditation Master Babaji gives advice on the importance of being patient with ourselves in our practice and not to be in a rush and force anything.

In meditation we should just relax and forget the outside world. If we keep putting in efforts just to watch and not get involved in any thought or vision that comes up, this mind can become quiet.  Slowly but surely we will gain the upper hand of our thoughts and imaginations and achieve peace.

“While trying to do sadhana, often seekers are likely to be in a rush and force it upon themselves. So after some time they are likely to become tired and give up sadhana. All that is required is to practice to remain quiet. The mind has lost its natural state of remaining quiet and consciously in the Self by getting into its own endless imaginations. Now all that is required is gently, politely, peacefully, in a relaxed way, just practice to remain quiet. More force and an unnecessary rush gives unhappiness and frustrations.”

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Getting into worries can become a habit in the mind which torments us and makes us lose our peace.

To remedy this, Meditation Master Babaji says,

Either one should be able to keep the mind quiet, or keep it positively engaged.

Otherwise the mind is liable to become a devil’s workshop; we can conjur up all sorts of worries which have no impact on the issue at hand and simply make us suffer unnecessarily.

Usually when the worries come, it confuses a person and your focus on the work you are trying to do gets affected.

With the regular practice of meditation, we can learn to cool this mind down and prevent it from going into worries easily. We can remain positive in a difficult situation and learn how to keep quiet without getting lost in our imaginations.

In so doing, we can navigate through life much better – we can focus properly on our work at hand without worrying about the outcome all the time, let go of things that happened in the past, and maintain that enjoyable peace within our mind.

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Watch Babaji talk about overcoming worries below.
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As Meditation Master Babaji mentions in this short video below, there are two aspects to the mind, watching or thinking. If you thinking you cannot be watching; if you are watching you cannot be thinking.

‘Watching’ here means just applying our attention but not getting involved into any thought or imagination. All these thoughts are there in the mind because we are mentally holding onto them.

In meditation we practice watching so that the mind stops thinking. As Babaji says, all thoughts and visions disappear and what remains is the pure consciousness. At this final stage its conscious attention is now always to itself.

“In meditation, first you pay attention so that you’re just watching and you’re not doing anything. Then you become one with yourself, finally.”

Watch Babaji talk about the ‘two aspects of the mind, watching and thinking’ below.

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The Jangama meditation technique that is taught by Shiva Rudra Balayogi (Babaji) is one of the most ancient techniques of meditation.

The instruction is to concentrate the mind and sight inbetween the eyebrows and just watch there.

As Babaji says,

‘As long as the eyeballs are moving parallelly it gives a jerk to the mind also, making it to spin. So naturally, without harming the health of the brain, when the eyeballs can come together, it can hold the mind and it can totally silence the mind. So that is why this point between the eyebrows is also known as ‘agna chakra’ – ‘commanding circle’. When you are able to keep the mind here (inbetween eyebrows), you become the commander of the mind. Means you can hold, without thinking anything, hold on to the silence of the mind. That’s when you realise mind is trying to watch itself. In other words, you are trying to watch yourself.’

Thus all unnecessary, negative imaginations that take us away from peace can be washed away once and for all. Eventually, through dedicated practice, we become the commander, the master of the mind. We can be quiet in the mind when we want to be quiet. We wouldn’t be constantly sucked into our imaginations and becoming a victim of those imaginations.

Watch Babaji talk about the ‘commanding circle’ below.
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Nowadays, with so much exposure to the outside world through gadgets and advancements in technology, it can be an added challenge for parents to bring up their children.

As Babaji says, slowly we can recommend a daily practice of meditation to prevent the mind going into stress, getting confused and becoming rebellious.

We can teach the child about concentration. If we understand the essence of concentration we can be a champion in any field; sports, academic work, whatever it is. We can become like a genius in the world.

Furthermore, there will be no confusion. We can sort out our problems, and if they can’t be sorted out, we can graciously accept. We can think of what we really need, without becoming greedy. We can thus become peaceful and act with good character and culture.

As Babaji also mentions, children observe our actions closely – they watch very carefully what we do more than what we say. Therefore as we meditate ourselves that will serve as a great example to our children also.

Watch Babaji talk about encouraging children into meditation and spirituality below.
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Watching in meditation is when we just accept whatever is there. We don’t bother whatever comes up. No brooding about why something is there, why it is not there. If we can just accept, then the mind starts to recede and become quiet. This is the purpose of meditation; to become quiet in the mind.

In the same way, in our daily lives also, if we can accept a result that comes without going into brooding, our mind can recede and become quiet.

Watch Babaji talk about Meditation as acceptance in the short video below.
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