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Vigyan
Bhairav Tantra :
16th
Meditation technique |
The
technique:
16. Blessed
one, as senses are absorbed in the heart, reach the center of the
lotus.
The
fourth method is for those who have a very developed heart, who are
loving, feeling types, emotional.
Blessed
one, as senses are absorbed in the heart, reach the center of the
lotus. This method can be used
only by heart-oriented persons. Therefore, understand first what is a
heart-oriented person. Then this method can be understood.
With
one who is heart-oriented, everything leads to the heart, everything.
If you love him, his heart will feel your love, not his head. A
head-oriented person, even when loved, feels it cerebrally, in the
head. He thinks about it; he plans about it. Even his love is a
deliberate effort of the mind.
A
feeling type lives without reasoning. Of course, the heart has its own
reasons, but it lives without reasoning
If
someone asks you, "Why do you love?" if you can answer why,
then you are a head-oriented person. And if you say, "I do not
know, I just love," you are a heart-oriented person.
Even if
you say that someone is beautiful and that is why you love, it is a
reason. For a heart-oriented person, someone is beautiful because they
love him. The head-oriented person loves someone because he is
beautiful or she is beautiful. The reason comes first, and then comes
love. For the heart-oriented, love comes first and then everything
else follows. The feeling type is centered in the heart, so whatsoever
happens touches his heart.
Just
observe yourself. In your life, many things are happening every
moment. Where do they touch you? You are passing, and a beggar crosses
the street. Where are you touched by the beggar? Do you start thinking
about economic conditions? Do you start thinking about how begging
should be stopped by law, or about how a socialist society should be
created so that there are no beggars? This is a head-oriented man.
This beggar becomes just a datum for him. His heart is not touched,
only his head is touched. He is not going to do something for this
beggar here and now -- no! He will do something for communism, he will
do something for the future, for some utopia. He may even devote his
whole life, but he cannot do anything just now.
The
mind is always doing in the future; the heart is always here and now.
A
heart-oriented person will do something now for this beggar. This
beggar is an individual, not a datum. But for a head-oriented man,
this beggar is just a mathematical figure. For him, how begging should
be stopped is the problem, not that this beggar should be helped --
that is irrelevant. So just watch yourself. In many situations, watch
how you act. Are you concerned with the heart or are you concerned
with the head?
If
you feel that you are a heart-oriented person, then this method will
be very helpful to you. But know well that everyone is trying to
deceive himself that he is heart-oriented. Everyone tries to feel that
he is a very loving person, a feeling type -- because love is such a
basic need that no one can feel at ease if he sees that he has no
love, no loving heart. So everyone goes on thinking and believing
this, but belief will not do. Observe very impartially, as if you are
observing someone else, and then decide -- because there is no need to
deceive yourself, and it will be of no help. Even if you deceive
yourself, you cannot deceive the technique, so when you do this
technique you will feel that nothing is happening.
People
come to me, and I ask them to what type they belong. They do not know
really. They have never thought about it -- about what type they are.
They have just vague conceptions about themselves, and those
conceptions are really just imagination.
They
have certain ideals and self-images, and they think -- or rather, they
wish -- that they are those images. They are not, and often it happens
that they prove to be just the contrary.
There
is a reason for it. A person who insists that he is a heart-oriented
person may be insisting only because he feels the absence of heart,
and he is afraid. He cannot become aware of the fact that he has no
heart.
Look
at the world! If everyone is right about his heart, then this world
cannot be so heartless. This world is our total, so somewhere,
something is wrong. Heart is not there. Really, it was never trained
to be there. Mind is trained, so it is there. There are schools,
colleges, universities to train the mind, but there is no place to
train the heart. And the training of the mind pays, but the training
of the heart is dangerous. If your heart is trained you will become
absolutely unfit for this world, because the whole world is run
through reason.
If
your heart is trained, you will just be absurd in the context of the
whole pattern. When the whole world will be moving to the right, you
will be moving to the left. Everywhere you will feel difficulty.
Really, the more man becomes civilized, the less and less the heart is
trained. We have really forgotten about it -- that it exists, or that
there is any need for its training. That is why such methods, which
can work very easily, never work.
Most
of the religions are based on heart-oriented techniques --
Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and many others. They are based on the
heart-oriented person. The older the religion, the more it is based on
heart-oriented persons. Really, when the Vedas were written and
Hinduism was developing, there were people who were heart-oriented.
And to find a mind-oriented person then was really difficult. But now
the reverse is a problem. You cannot pray, because prayer is a
heart-oriented technique. That is why even in the West, where
Christianity -- which is a religion of prayer -- prevails, prayer has
become difficult. Particularly, the Catholic Church is
prayer-oriented.
There
exists no such thing as meditation for Christianity, but now even in
the West people are becoming crazy about meditation. No one is going
to church -- and even if someone is going, it is just a formal thing,
just Sunday religion -- because the heart-oriented prayer has become
absolutely unknown for man as he is in the West.
Meditation
is more mind-oriented, prayer is more heart-oriented. Or we can say
that prayer is a technique of meditation for heart-oriented persons.
This technique is also for heart- oriented persons:
Blessed
one, as senses are absorbed in the heart, reach the center of the
lotus.
So
what is to be done in this technique?
as senses are absorbed in
the heart.
..
Try! Many ways are possible. You touch someone: if you are a
heart-oriented person the touch immediately goes to your heart, and
you can feel the quality. If you take the hand of a person who is
head-oriented, the hand will be cold -- not just cold, but the very
quality will be cold. A deadness, a certain deadness will be in the
hand. If the person is heart-oriented then there is a certain warmth,
then his hand will really melt with you. You will feel a certain thing
flowing from his hand to you, and there will be a meeting, a
communication of warmth.
This
warmth comes from the heart. It can never come from the head, because
the head is always cool... cold, calculative. The heart is warm,
non-calculative. The head always thinks about how to take more; the
heart always feels how to give more. That warmth is just a giving -- a
giving of energy, a giving of inner vibrations, a giving of life. That
is why you feel a different quality in it. If the person really
embraces you, you will feel a deep melting with him.
Touch!
Close your eyes; touch anything. Touch your beloved or your lover,
touch your child or your mother or your friend, or touch a tree or a
flower, or just touch the earth. Close your eyes and feel a
communication from your heart to the earth, or to your beloved. Feel
that your hand is just your heart stretched out to touch the earth.
Let the feeling of touch be related to the heart.
You
are listening to music. Do not listen to it from the head. Just forget
your head and feel that you are headless, there is no head at all. It
is good to have a picture of yourself without the head in your
bedroom. Concentrate on it; you are without the head, do not allow the
head to come in. While listening to music, listen to it from the
heart. Feel the music coming to your heart; let your heart vibrate
with it. Let your senses be joined to the heart, not to the head. Try
this with all the senses, and feel more and more that every sense goes
into the heart and dissolves into it.
Blessed
one, as senses are absorbed in the heart, reach the center of the
lotus.
The heart is the lotus. Every sense is just the opening of the
lotus, the petals of the lotus. Try to relate your senses to the heart
first. Secondly, always think that every sense goes deep down into the
heart and becomes absorbed in it. When these two things become
established, only then will your senses begin to help you. They will
lead you to the heart, and your heart will become a lotus.
This
lotus of the heart will give you a centering. Once you know the center
of the heart, it is very easy to fall down into the navel center, very
easy. This sutra does not even mention this -- there is no need. If
you are really absorbed in the heart totally, and reason has stopped
working, then you will fall down
From
the heart, the door is opened toward the navel. Only from the head is
it difficult to go toward the navel. Or if you are between the two,
between the heart and the head, then too it is difficult to go to the
navel. Once you are absorbed in the navel, you have suddenly fallen
beyond the heart. You have fallen into the navel center which is the
basic one -- the original.
That
is why prayer helps. That is why Jesus could say, "Love is
God." It is not exactly right, but love is the door. If you are
deeply in love -- with anyone, it doesn't matter who... Love matters;
the object of love doesn't matter. If you are in deep love with
anyone, so much in love that there is no relationship from the head,
if just the heart is functioning, then this love will become prayer
and your beloved or your lover will become divine.
Really,
the eye of the heart cannot see anything else, and that is why it
happens with ordinary love also. If you fall in love with someone,
that someone becomes divine. It may not prove to be very lasting, and
it may not prove to be a very deep thing, but in that moment the lover
or the beloved becomes divine. The head will destroy the whole thing
sooner or later, because the head will come in and try to manage
everything. Even love has to be managed. And once the head manages,
everything is destroyed.
If
you can be in love without the head's management coming in, your love
is bound to become prayer and your beloved will become the door.
Your
love will make you centered in the heart -- and once you are centered
in the heart, you automatically fall down deep into the navel center.
17th
Meditation Technique
