The Great Sacrifice - Sacrificing The Mind to The Heart
There is only one great conciousness in this universe and its a big leap in your day to day life to understand that this conciousness is not in the melodramas of your mind. It instead is so easily known that there is a region of conciousness behind your own thoughts. Meditation burns the thoughts by turning awareness away from those thoughts (this is the sacrifice part) to the mantra. Sometimes when I want a quick fix to tune into the truth, I let my mind think about my heart and my heart expands and rotates. The petals unfold and I let the energy of this feeling pervade my body and my conciousness. Instead of getting caught up in the mind, I turn the mind over to the blooming heart. If I am paniced or overwhelmed and really in need of help, I can see the heart as a great fire (fire of yoga) and I set my thoughts ablaze. This is my essential surrender or sacrifice. Push away fear, it is not your friend, when you are trying to attain samahdi. Cause thats what you are doing, attaining samahdi. That is samahdi...pushing awayt fear and letting your heart maintain and equal balance in your conciousness. All I know that is it is important to have courage and compassion with yourself. Don't try to hard, let it come to you like in a game. Just think about it, play with it. Enjoy it. The shakti is now and forever. Grace and Effort are yours. Surrender and Faith reside in your own self. The rememberance is in the picture of perfection. Pick a picture of perfection. Your teacher, a sunset, a vista, or a loved one. Fix your mind on perfection, use the supreme words, Om Namah Shivaya" this reminds yourself of where the shakti or energy comes from. Two wings of the bird as grace and effort. The grace comes from remembering the intention of your teacher. The sankalpa. Sacrifice the thinking thinking thinking thoughts to the power of God's grace and go to your heart and hang out there.
