Speaking Tree - Why do you need to control your respiration

Speaking Tree - Why do you need to control your respiration:

The psychic potentialities of human beings are immense, but people do not utilise them because most of their valuable time is wasted in undesirable thoughts, in psychic extravaganza. Suppose human life has an average span of sixty years. Twenty years of that is spent in sleep, and the remaining forty years are wasted in petty or useless activities. How much time do people really get to devote to worthwhile tasks?You can keep this psychic extravaganza in check either by a physical or psychic approach -- or by spirituo-psychic approach.

We should have some control over our breathing, over our respiratory system, because the waves of respiration control waves of thinking.

Whenever you are doing something crude, your respiration becomes very active; and when you are thinking of something subtle, it becomes extremely slow. And finally, when this respiration coincides, or becomes one, with one’s thought-waves, that stage is known as Hatha Yoga samadhi. That is, physical exertions, physical emanations, become one with psychic emanations.

Hence some degree of control over respiration is essential. The scope of rationality and rationalisation should be increased, and for this, unnecessary waves should be removed from the plane of physicality as well as from the psychic sphere. This will keep the mind free of burdens. “I must not bother about petty things, because that will waste my time” – we should remember this. This removal or rather withdrawal of unnecessary and undesirable thoughts will help you in rationalising the major portion of your mental faculty, so this must also be practised.

Now, one’s mental flow is concerned with both ideation and meditation. So far as ideation is concerned, it is connected with the healthy condition and proper functioning of glands and sub-glands. Ideation will not have any base to stand upon without a clear-cut idea. So idea must also be there. What should we do in deep ideation? We should maintain the adjustment of glands and sub-glands. And at the same time, not ask for any occult power, but take the ideation of the Supreme. Inspired by that ideation, meditate on Parama Purusha.

 Now, there is another apexed or pinnacled order of the mind, that is, meditation. Meditation means concentrated thinking, associated with several subtler and important cells of the human brain. Each and every nerve cell has got its own controlling point, and for all nerve cells there is a supreme controlling point. This supreme controlling point is called in Sanskrit the Guru Chakra, the plexus of the guru – it controls all glands. One’s meditation must be properly connected with this Guru Chakra.

Meditation must be done in a methodical way, and this concerns several nerve centres and the main nerve centre in the brain. The apex of this pinnacled order of spirituality, is the supreme stance. For this, human beings have been making constant endeavour since time immemorial, and this effort has made us move ahead, bringing us to our present status. Ideation must be associated with bliss. Ideas are mainly of three types: intellectual-cum-intuitional; actional; and devotional-cum-emotional.

When the mind moves along a particular track or follows a particular discipline in a methodical way, this is called bhakti or devotion; but when it does not follow a particular method, when it moves haphazardly, it is called emotion. This is the fundamental difference between devotion and emotion. That is, the final outcome of intellectual-cum-intuitional faculty and actional faculty is devotion, not emotion. (October 21 is the Mahaprayan Divas of Shri Shri Anandamurti).