DHYAN FOUNDATION

A student of mine was given a certain intense sadhana  who started having experiences of the subtler worlds at regular intervals. Suddenly they stopped. I noticed she had started using her intellect and her ego was escalating. Yog begins where the intellect ends. I called her to the room where I do dhyan and made her sit in front of the asan where I sit for dhyan. Within 15 minutes, she started sweating profusely, lost control and had an emotional outburst. It took her nearly two hours to normalise. I sit in that asan for long hours every day. I do not expect normal people, who try to understand everything intellectually, to have an experience of that energy because though the intellect and the brain understand the energy,  they lack the experience of the same and hence cannot relate to it. I just made her experience, for a while, a higher dimension. Hence the reaction. Yog is a subject of energy. A yogi relates to an individual not by appearance, skin colour, birth or...

Yog is being in union with yourself. It can’t be explained merely verbally. You need to go through certain experiences, which will bring you face to face with what is called atma sakshatkar—your true self.  Once it happens, you are in yog; and once you are in yog with yourself, you are a yogi. Yog can be of several kinds; you might choose to be in yog with fashion, with beauty, with sport. A practitioner of yog is in yog with himself or herself…  that’s a yogi. Yog is for evolution, the rest are all bhogis. A rakshas undergoes enormous tap (penance) to impress God. When God finally appears to grant him the desired boon, what does the rakshas ask for? Immortality.  Riches. Pleasures… Why? He is limited by his karma, so he cannot ask for anything beyond that. He cannot understand a world beyond. He is bound by his desires, he needs that experience, so he asks only for that. It’s wrong to think that the spiritual is divorced from the mat...