Every yogi has only one ultimate goal – to become one with existence. This is called Mahasamadhi. How do yogis achieve this goal?
Questioner: I want to ask a question about breathing. Some doctors say, “Breathing is a spontaneous activity. Just breathe normally.” Some people associated with yoga say, “Take deep breaths, it has a good effect. What is its significance?”
Breath changes as you pass through each emotion
Sadhguru: You are asking the question, what does breathing have to do with your well-being? Breath is not just the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide. How you breathe determines many aspects of your existence.
Have you ever noticed that when you go through different types of thoughts and feelings, your breath has a different texture? When you are angry, you breathe one way. If you are calm, breathe in another way. If you are very happy, breathe in another way. If you are sad, you breathe another way. The way you breathe, the way you think. You breathe the way you think. This breath can be used in many ways as a medium for doing other things with the body and mind. In Shambhavi we use a very simple process of breath, but it is not related to breath. Breath is just a medium; It’s just a beginning. What happens is not related to the breath. Pranayama is the science whereby consciously breathing in a certain way, the way you think, feel, understand and experience life can be changed.
Breathing Meditation Method
If I ask you to watch your breath, which is the most common action people do these days, you will feel that you are paying attention to your breath but in reality, it is not. You are only able to pay attention to the sensations produced by the movement of air.
It’s the same way that if someone touches your hand, you think you know that person’s touch, but in reality, you only know the sensations inside your body, you don’t know how the other person feels. does. The breath is like the hand of God. You don’t feel it. The breath you do not feel is called kurma Nadi. I am not talking about the sensations generated by the air, I am talking about the breath. Kurma Nadi is considered to be a string that binds you to this body. An unbroken string that keeps on moving. If I take your breath out, you and your body will be separated because the soul and the body are bound by the kurma Nadi. This is a big hoax. These are two but seem to be one. It’s like marriage – they are two but when they come out they pretend to be one. There are two people here, body and soul, two completely opposite people but they pretend that they are one.
The point where the breath is bound to the body
If you go deep inside through the breath, to the deepest center of the breath, it will take you to the point where you are actually tied to the body.
Once you know where you are bound and how you are bound, you can untie it at will. You can leave the body with awareness as easily as your clothes. When you know where your clothes are tied, it’s easy to remove them. When you don’t know where it is tied, you pull them from somewhere, it doesn’t come out. The same thing applies to the body. If you don’t know how your clothes are tied, and if you want to take them off you will have to tear them. Similarly, if you don’t know where your body is tied to you, you will have to destroy or break it in some form or the other if you want to leave it. But if you know where it is tied, you can very clearly catch it at a distance. Whenever you want to leave it, you can drop it with awareness. Life turns out to be very different.
What is Mahasamadhi?
When one leaves the body completely at will, we call it Mahasamadhi. It is generally known as Mukti or Moksha.
Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 8, Verse 10-13: At the time of death, with an unshaken mind full of devotion, by the power of “YOGA” fixing the whole “PRANA” (breath) between the two eyebrows, he (the seeker) reaches the Supreme Resplendent “PURUSHA.”
Having closed all the gates, having confined the mind in the heart, having fixed the life-breath in the “head”, engaged in the practice of concentration, Uttering the one-syllabled “OM” the (symbol of) BRAHMAN and remembering Me, he who departs, leaving the body, attains the Supreme Goal.
You have reached an extraordinary experience of equanimity, where there is no difference between what is inside the body and what is outside. The game is over. It is something that every yogi desires and it is something that every human being is striving for, whether consciously or unconsciously. They want to expand themselves in some form or the other and this is the ultimate expansion. It’s just that they are going to God in instalments, which is a very long and impossible process. If you keep counting 1, 2, 3, 4, you will keep counting. You will never reach infinity. As soon as one realizes its futility, he naturally turns inward for it, separating the process of life from the body.
