Recently I got an email from someone seeking a meditation technique to help his situation. The gentleman had apparently learnt the sri vidya and some other vidyas (names of which, even I don’t know) from an avadhoot baba who conducts shivirs across the globe. I told him that he knew so much, he should be the one giving me lessons in yog; so how could I possibly help him? His reply was, ‘that is what the problem is. I have learnt the vidyas, but I do not know what to do now, how to prove myself…’
This gentleman is not an isolated case. There are so many across the world who are caught up in the buying and selling of myriad vidyas and kriyas in the hope of gaining name, fame, money, power, success or for the solution to a physical problem. There exists no kriya, vidya or upay to solve your life’s problems. The only method lies in improving one’s karma. The law of karma states that whatever you give, comes back to you manifold. If you want to grow financially, start feeding the poor. If you wish to increase your knowledge, start teaching the underprivileged.
The problem is that we have reached a stage in kaliyug where hardly anyone understands what yog is or who a yogi is and what is the purpose of any vidya. As a result, the majority of people ends up chasing the various tamashas being sold in the market, without achieving anything only to realise later that they wasted their time. The purpose of yogic kriyas and vidyas is the evolution of a being; to help him break the pull of maya, not entangling himself in it and go beyond. For this to happen, one has to have the desire to go beyond the mundane (and not just to solve business/physical/emotional problems). One will only think of transcending worldly desires once the basic desires are met with and is satisfied in the physical realm. If you ask a beggar to sit with his eyes closed and do dhyan, he will just not be able to do it. He would first want his stomach to be full—only then would he be able to think of anything else.
Therefore, as long as you are merely looking to improve your physical life and are desirous of power, wealth, relationship and status, these vidyas are of no use. Even if you gain information about them from the various books in the market that give a detailed description of the various vidyas, you will not be absorb their gyan or experience. There is nothing wrong with fulfilling the physical desires. You took this body because you desired an experience, but you hold the hand of a Guru to rise above it and go beyond. First the desire has to set in and then one takes the journey forward holding the guru’s hand.
Coming back to the case of the gentleman who wrote that email, sri is the ultimate vidya, next only to Gayatri sadhana, but it cannot be given en masse to anyone or everyone. Any vidya or kriya is handed down by the guru to the shishya as per his or her capacity and requirement. It is a private relationship between them, not to be discussed with anyone outside, for it is considered a breach of faith and the backlash is severe. And avadhoot is in a state where he is above the level of the five elements, or in other words, is beyond the pleasures of the five senses. Such a person usually lives in seclusion and does not leave his or her place to hold shivirs across the world and definitely does not charge a fee to teach you tamashas.
So I would suggest, that for the time being, let these vidyas be. Improve your karma by doing something for someone else, as that is the key to growth and satisfaction in the physical realm. Once you have perfected the physical life, come to Dhyan Ashram for the journey beyond.
Yogi Ashwini is the spiritual head of Dhyan Ashram.
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