Achaah Akinchan Aprayanthna - Secrets of Deep Meditation
My post again after a long time on this special Vijayadashami day.
I wanted to share my experience on the knowledge sheet of Gurudev Sri Sri RaviShankar Ji.
First the Knowledge below :)
Guruji gave the secret to go into meditation/samadhi. He said just remember three things before you go into meditation.
1. Achaah
2. Akinchan
3. Aprayanthna
Only when your mind is established in these three you can effortlessly go into samadhi.
Achaah - Being desire less! I want nothing; no desires for anything worldly or spiritual else the mind is either caught up in the outside world (people-relationships, bills, payments, laundry etc.), thinking about it or looking for some spiritual experience (light, fragrance, out of body experience etc.) in meditation. This is the biggest impediment to get into your being.
Desirelessness is bliss!
Akinchan - I am nothing! Dropping the 'I' for sometime, else the mind gets irritated even on the smallest of disturbance, noise. Even a door bell, barking dog or sound of utensils in the kitchen can drive you away from the center. And the mind goes 'I am meditating and people are making so much noise! I need to teach them a lesson!'
Dropping the 'I', I am nothing!
Aprayanthna - No effort! Meditation is effortless; you don't need to put any effort. Like you go to have a massage, you just lie down and the masseur gives you the massage, you don't have to do anything! Do you?
Let the divine work for you !
- Sri Sri Ravishankar
With sincere discipline, I [I am nothing! :) ] started practicing sadhana regularly with the remembrance of this beautiful wisdom and this subtle knowledge has done wonders. The experience of lights of various colours appearing in front of forehead, no idea of time, insensitivity towards sounds, environments, Names, relationship, extreme peace, bliss, feeling of rising up etc.. has been amazing. Remembering Achaaah, Akinchan and Aprayanthna was extremely helpful here and helped me not to fall back in terror of driving away the unimportant thoughts, expectations etc....
Let this knowledge work wonders for you as well!
Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavan-tu. May happiness be unto the whole world!
