SWAMIJI: That is because you are not focused in that Parabhairava state. JOHN: My experience is, when I become more one-pointed and it becomes less and less and less, all of a sudden that panic comes and I go, “aaaaaaaahhhh,” I take that, like I’m not breathing, I get a shock that, “no, I’m not breathing and then I take a breath.” SWAMIJI: If it comes down from here, it goes up to this, then it returns there. JOHN: But my problem is before I get to that point. And in the end, it breathes only this much. JOHN: When you are breathing and you are becoming more one-pointed then your breathing becomes less and less. JOHN: So it becomes less and less as you. JOHN: Breathing slows down automatically. SWAMIJI: When it is one-pointed, then you don’t breathe. JOHN: My experience is though when you try to be one-pointed on watching your breath and so forth. SWAMIJI: No, you don’t get urge for breathing. JONATHAN: But there is that feeling that you need more breath. JONATHAN: But from a practical point of view, you were demonstrating that to me one day when you went to Harvan, and you stopped on the side of the road and you said, “the breath must only go this much.” But if a normal person sits down and makes their breath go like that, then they are short of breath, isn’t it? Or does that feeling go? It goes in suṣumnā nāḍi and is finished. You are residing in the central vein, suṣumnā nāḍi.
It is only the glamour of madhya nāḍi, the central vein. You breathe only from here to here, bas! That is all. Inside is this, i.e., when you don’t breathe at all. JONATHAN: Yes, suddenly you would breathe. You know when in my courses 162 I was not breathing. You will never become suffocated, because it is life it is life-full at that time. JONATHAN: But Swamiji, when you do that though, some-times in breathing, you don’t get enough breath it feels like you’re not going to get enough. You have to breathe very slowly, very slowly. You have to breathe in your own nāsa (inner consciousness).įor instance, you have to breathe like this and this only this much. You have not to breathe in and out like that.
įor instance, you breathe in and you breathe out. Prāṇāpānau samau kṛtvā, nāsā abhyantara cāriṇau, you should breathe out and breathe in, in samatā. Cakṣu caivāntare bhruvoḥ, in between the two eyebrows you must feel the sensation inside, between two eyebrows. Bāhyāṁ sparśān bahi kṛtvā, those outside sensual objects, you should keep them outside. Prāṇāpānau samau kṛtvā nāsābhyantaracāriṇau // 27//
Sparśānkṛtvā bahirbāhyāṁścakṣuścaivāntare bhruvoḥ / Please join us also for our annual four-day retreat, May 10-13th, held online for the first time. You are invited to join us online via webstream. This Saturday, May 9th, we celebrate Swami Lakshmanjoo’s Birthday. This excerpt is from Chapter 5 of the Bhagavad Gita, In the Light of Kashmir Shaivism, by Swami Lakshmanjoo).
It explains very clearly how to meditate with one-pointedness. The most important point about meditation is contained within this lecture.