Your Yoga. Changing Old Ideas about How the World Works.

Changing Old Concepts of How the World Works

The world around us is a house we built, brick by brick, at some time in the past. What are the bricks of this vast house we inhabit, called the Universe? Each brick is a thought, concept or view of ours. We think this house into being, and our thinking sustains what we once created. Although the Universe seems to be one, everyone actually has their own, because everyone's concepts, and therefore bricks, differ. Someone is on holiday by the sea, admiring a unique sunset. But that sunset does not exist for you; it is absent from your universe. Even moving one metre from where that person sees the sunset would change it: the rays refract differently there, the sky's appearance differs and the horizon shifts. When you and another person touch the same flower, you touch two flowers belonging to two different Universes.

You see, you cannot inhabit the same Universe as even one other person. Your Universes may be similar, but not identical. What works for one person fails for another. What one sees, another misses. Sounds one enjoys irritate another. Illnesses easily cured in one person may prove fatal in another, and so on.

Although I have written simply, many will find this difficult to understand. It is familiar to look at a tree and think in borrowed concepts, such as "God created it", or to look at mountains and think "Nature created them". Realised Yogis always know that "God", "Nature" and similar terms are names for ourselves: not our present selves, but those who created and now sustain Everything you see. If they use these terms, it is only because they understand that you cannot yet grasp many things. Higher levels of understanding exist, and many of you have not reached them. Above all, begin to understand that "God", "Nature" and "I" are you yourself. Through your thoughts, you create your house-Universe as its god and creator. It is yours alone: nobody else can see it or walk within it as you do. People say that thought is material, that energy has become matter, that trees, mountains and rivers are energy lowered to slow vibrations. But this is not so. There is only your thought. It is as though you are inside your dream, creating through thought the Universe you see each day upon waking. You are reading these lines now, but you see only your own dream. Nothing is material; there is only your dream, your Universe.

Returning to the practical side, suppose someone has had a runny nose for a year. Every remedy has been tried, but nothing helps. In the house-Universe described above, there is a brick, a concept, that this illness cannot be cured. You have created a Universe composed entirely of your thoughts in which your illness, the runny nose, cannot be healed.

This applies to everything. Illness is only an example. Perhaps a mother cannot establish a good relationship with her daughter, although her relationship with her son is excellent. Why? Read the beginning again: in your world, you have created a thought-concept-brick containing none of the material called "I can have an excellent relationship with my daughter".

No money? Unlucky in love? Constant exhaustion? Wanting to meditate but always feeling obstructed? Unable to stop smoking despite hundreds of attempts? Change your concepts. How? Try the new practice below.

Description of the Practice

In a sense, all you need is a reboot. You cannot simply make one concept disappear and replace it while the "system is running". It is like a computer: switch it off and back on with the programme you need. Or, for those more familiar with computers, switch off only the part of the system you are changing, without shutting down the whole machine.
From time to time, you hear that someone experienced clinical death and, on returning, not only lost an illness but gained paranormal abilities. Or someone underwent severe stress or shock and an illness disappeared. The whole computer did not shut down; stress switched off part of the system, which restarted with new data.
I hope the computer analogy is clear, so that you can now act with understanding to help yourself improve. You need to enter a state that exists BEFORE the concept you wish to remove comes into being. Where is that state? It is where you stop your mind. I explained how in my new practice "Entering the Void", part of the broader practice "Natural Enlightenment". I will not repeat it here; read it using the link.
Perform "Entering the Void", but first create the thought of what you want. Lie down as described, close your eyes, relax and concentrate on a single thought: that you can have as much money as you wish in this life, or that you can write poetry, paint, sing or compose music. The thought should not be "I want lots of money". You may want anything, but this practice is different. It changes "I cannot have lots of money" into "I can have lots of money", or "I cannot write poetry" into "I can write poetry". Concentrate on the thought-concept that this possibility exists in your house-Universe, since at present you have created one in which it does not.
Then perform "Entering the Void". You may stop your thoughts only very briefly; that may still be enough. Return from that state with the same thought you entered with, and concentrate on it for a while, for example 1–5 minutes.

Note

You may need to repeat this practice several times to obtain a result.
You can use my programmes to consolidate the result, for example "SSSP–NLSK" or similar programmes from the sections "Offline Programmes" and "Online training".

Questions and Answers

Q: How can all these Universes fit into one space? Is there really one Universe rather than many? Does every ant also have its own? How many Universes are there?
A: Infinity is not merely a beautiful word. Universes may touch and enter one another, not just in pairs but in multitudes, forming worlds. An ancient symbol of intersecting circles, representing Universes, illustrates this very well. Long ago I placed a photograph of it in the site's photo album; take a look. It is one of the designs called crop circles. You can see many Universes entering one another to form the mandala of the World or Being. Today this symbol is better known as the "flower of life". You are right that this is hard to understand, as I wrote. It is difficult to grasp that even an ant inhabits its own Universe. More precisely, it is not the ant but whoever inhabits it, let us call it the Soul, which reincarnates and will eventually become human. That Soul always lives in its own Universe, whether in an ant's body, a human body or beyond the human stage, because being Human is not evolution's endpoint.

Q: You have touched on something very important. Even reading the practice changed my consciousness. But I cannot understand how I can be God.
A: "God" is simply a word invented by people and given meaning by them. If someone calls a tree a flower or a bird, does it stop being a tree? No. Words decide nothing. If something exists, it exists; words have nothing to do with it. People are deeply entangled in words. Meditation teaches a wordless path, the path of Truth: knowing what things are by touching them with consciousness. That is why I teach meditation; teaching anything else makes no sense. I will therefore not explain why you are God, but recommend practising meditation more actively. You will discover everything yourself. Otherwise, you will never truly know, even if you read every book or hear answers to every question.

Q: Is anything in my universe real?
A: It is not exactly a thing, but there is one reality: you yourself. Again, this does not mean what you currently think of yourself or see in the mirror, but what lives within your body. Let us call it Consciousness, though that word also says little. Seek yourself. Ignore words.

Q: Does my universe, or ours, have an end or an edge?
A: Of course. Reason, or the mind, is limited.

Q: May I still believe in God while understanding what you have written? May I love Him, ask things of Him and pray to Him?
A: Yes, because He really does exist.

Q: Will my universe disappear when I die?
A: You will never die. There are different kinds of illusion. The illusion of life in a physical body will become the illusion of leaving it, which you will think is death. That will not last long. The remnants of physical life will quickly leave your consciousness, and the illusion of another reality will take over completely. Your Universe will change, and continue changing as you pass from one illusion to another, until you reach the world beyond illusion. Then there will be only Reality, only pure Consciousness.

Q: Why can I, the creator of all these stars, planets and galaxies, not create a million dollars? Compared with all that, it is nothing. I cannot materialise anything, not even a gram of matter.
A: Because your present self is a product, a creation you yourself made, and it was not endowed with those abilities. You need to become your original self, the one who created you and your entire Universe. Then you can do whatever you wish.

Q: As I understand it, "I have..." is better than "I can...". The first is in the present, while "I can" points to the future, which may be far away.
A: You have not quite understood the practice. It is about establishing a possibility. Imagine many people at a station, each wearing a sign saying "I am a failure". Then you see someone whose sign says "I am fortunate". That person has the potential for happiness, while the others do not. The practice moves you from one category into another: a category in which happiness can happen, not necessarily in some distant future but whenever you wish. The same applies to money, well-being, joy, happiness, skills and abilities.

Q: Can I make many replacements at once? I want to replace every "I cannot" with "I can", "I know how" or "I know".
A: Yes. Before "Entering the Void", hold in mind an image of a Universe where you have no limitations. But such concentration requires much energy, so it is better to begin with something simple.

Q: I record my own voice saying things such as "I can become Enlightened", and listen through headphones while practising. Immediately after entering the void, I hear the suggestion as the first thing entering my consciousness. This helps me concentrate on it. Is this worth doing?
A: Yes, you may do that.

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