Take care of yourself. Give yourself time
for daily meditation! Please give yourself a peaceful moment every day to see the silence within you. This daily moment will surely nourish you!

TO HELP YOU IN YOUR PRACTICES
I will answer the questions from some of
you about postures that are suitable for meditation. I will also explain how to still a bubbling mind. Some days ago I got this question you all might be interested in:

"Santhi, can you please give some helpful instructions how to handle a bubbling mind and how to find the silence within?"

THE VERY NATURE OF THE MIND
is dynamic. It is in movement and hence
in a state of flux. The quality of the mind constantly changes between Satva, Rajas
or Tamas.

THOUGHTS ORIGINATES FROM memory that is stored in the mind. This part of stagnating information and knowledge in the memory is due to the Tamasic quality of the mind.

THE THOUGHTS COMING OUT of the memory are constantly exposed to analysis. This is the active quality of the mind which is called Rajasic. After analysis right and wrong, good and bad are discriminated and determined. The outcome of it is called knowledge. Synthesizing of knowledge is due to the Satwic quality of the mind. This knowledge is again stored rather stagnated in the mind. This storing function is due to the Tamasic quality as you have seen before. Mind constantly moves between these qualities and hence always in a state of flux.

WHILE THE MIND IS DOING its natural dharma of moving from one quality to another we feel that a lot of things enter the mind. Usually people tries either to avoid or suppress these pop-ups.

ATTEMPTS TO AVOID OR SUPPRESS
the pop-ups will in the long run end up in psychological problems. The only possible way to deal with the pop-ups is to simply look at them. When you start to look at them, you unknowingly become an Observer and not the Doer. As you shift your position from the Doer to the Seer, your perception also changes and you will start to see the process.

IN THIS PROCESS THERE ARISES
naturally a gap between you and the pop-ups. In the gap you may be able to see the silence. When once you feel the silence between thoughts you have touched the Observer within you.

WHEN YOU ARE WITH THE OBSERVER
rather than with the Doer, you are not any more involved in the way you were involved and will start to experience deeper silence. You start to relax with the Seer beyond the qualities of Satwa, Rajas and Tamas. In course of time you without effort or strain relax with the Seer within. There, you are beyond dualities. You are the Seer itself. This state is considered as yoga by the masters. Yoga is the cessation of the fluctuation of the consciousness!


I ALSO GOT THIS QUESTION:

"Santhi, what about sitting in the Lotus position when meditating? Can you please give some guidance how to sit while meditating?


IT SEEMS FROM THE QUESTION that you keep a firm idea that one should sit in meditation in Lotus posture. Lotus posture is a beautiful posture as the name itself denotes. That doesn't mean that one should sit in Lotus posture for meditation though it is a meditative asana.

CERTAINLY IT IS DIFFICULT FOR everyone, especially if you are a beginner,
to sit in Lotus posture as the body is stiff and tired due to the fatigue that had gone into your cells, muscles and tendons by your style of living.

LOTUS POSTURE IS AN ASANA. According to Master Patanjali "stiram sugham asanam" means long steady and comfortable posture is Asana. When the body is steady, the Prana that is moving in the body naturally will be steady.

WHEN THE PRANA IS STEADY the mind that has been in motion due to the Pranic flow also will be steady and you will naturally starts to withdraw your senses. When the senses are withdrawn, the mind is withdrawn and when the mind is withdrawn you start to become one with the inner witness, the Seer. This is the highest state of meditation which is known as Samadhi.

SO ANY POSTURE THAT IS COMFORTABLE for you is Asana for you. Lotus posture is designed with a view to arrest the downward flowing energy so that the energy starts to move between Ajna Chakra and Manipura Chakra. As a result there will be the tendency for the mind to dwell in the aspects of higher Chakras such as acceptance and vision, compassion and love and integration and that in turn enable the practitioner to understand the higher and subtle principles of existence. As the legs are crossed and tight and the foot is blocking the flow of energy downward there is a greater chance for the energy to flow upward.

AS THE SPINE IS ERRECT IN THIS posture and the downward flow of energy is arrested at the groin, the chances for the energy to stay in the spine are higher. Spine, being the most sensitive region of the nervous system, the practitioner gets into the experience. There will come sharpness of intelligence when his awareness is drawn in Manipura Chakra in lotus posture. When awareness is drawn in Anahata Chakra in lotus posture, compassion and love are experienced easily. When the awareness is focused to Visuddha Chakra integration comes to the practitioner. When the awareness is drawn in Ajna Chakra in lotus posture it is easy to enter into a state of stabilized intellect.

THE CHANCES FOR THE ENERGY to flow through the right and left channel is very limited in this posture that the person naturally gets into a state of balance. When a person is entering the state of balance the mind starts to relax. The relaxation that comes to his body and mind will lead to clarity and intergration.

MORE OVER YOU ARE STAYING with Chin Mudra in this posture and in your awareness you have crossed the Satwa, Rajas and Tamas and established the union with the absolute consciousness.

THIS IS A GREAT POSTURE for meditation! That doesn't mean everyone should sit in this posture for meditation.

THE MOST IMPORTANT POINT you have to keep in mind is that the body should be relaxed while you sit for meditation. It is important to find your own comfortable posture allowing you to sit for a long time.

WHEN YOU SIT A LONG TIME in meditation there will be a natural settlement of the mind. So try to find your own comfortable posture for meditation. You can even sit in a chair if you can't sit on the floor.