Looking Inward by Swami Purnachaitanya

Author:Swami Purnachaitanya
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789354920578
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 2021-06-05T00:00:00+00:00

10-Minute Exercise

Sit quietly and close your eyes for a moment. Allow the breath and the mind to slow down; you can take a few long deep breaths. Once you feel settled, consciously feel as if you have died. Really feel it, believe it for a moment. All the pending work in the office, the chores around the house, the social responsibilities, everything is gone, finished. You can spend all your life trying to finish those things first, but it never ends – until you die. So now you are dead, you are free from all of that. All the pending work, all the things on your to-do list, they are all no longer your concern. You don’t have to do anything anymore right now.

Now consciously also drop all your identities and the labels you have accumulated over the years. Maybe you were a doctor, an engineer, a father, a sister, a neighbour, a good singer, or a bad one; whatever it was, it is all gone now. Even your name, your gender, your relationships. It is all gone. You are nobody. You are nothing. You simply ceased to exist.

Feel as if all the desires, all the goals, dreams and ambitions you had have been fulfilled. You experienced all that you wanted to experience, and now there is nothing left. There is nothing left that you are craving for or want right now.

Even the world has stopped existing. The planet, the earth, it is all gone. Everything is gone. Really feel it.

Allow yourself to be with this feeling for a moment. This is dispassion. You are nothing, nobody, and you don’t need anything right now. The more you are able to feel this, the more you will find the mind settling down. Suddenly there are so few thoughts, and you become so peaceful. Rest there in that space for some time.

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