Circle of Good Will - The World Teacher Trust

and work. The slogan is: more work, more money,more things to buy, more places to travel and so on.Man burns himself in the bureau of the mind andtherefore dies in the mind. As said earlier, mind is but achamber; the house is the place of rest. From the houseto the Father’s house, there is also the path. Reachingthe Father’s house from one’s own house would bea later step. From the bureau there is no path to theFather’s house. One has to come home and then go tothe Father’s house. That is how it is.Man is essentially a being. He is not just a doer.Doing and being are intended to alternate. From thehouse to the office and from the office to the house isthe game. But the story of man is that he goes to theoffice and forgets the house; he also forgets the path tothe house. An aspirant is like the one who is in searchof the way home; but the others have also lost theaddress. When the aspirant is restless to reach home,his aspiration becomes fiery. With fiery aspiration,when he searches for the house, a Teacher appears toshow the way home.The way home is through respiration. Throughrespiration one can reach pulsation. And pulsationis the door that opens and closes alternatingly. It hasa centripetal and centrifugal function; one needs towait at the threshold and move in at the appropriatemoment to reach home.Every night in sleep one is taken into the chamberof the heart by the Mother Nature. One thereforedoes not know how it is in the chamber. Even whilecrossing the threshold into the chamber, one is asleep.To consciously move into the chamber, the step ofPranayama in “Patanjali Yoga” is helpful. Pranayamais not doing respiration as an exercise. Pranayama is ahappening as well. Observe the inhalation and followit with the awareness, with the mind. Follow it slowlyand silently. With inhalation you enter, then withexhalation you make a U-turn, and once again you moveout – move out with equal awareness and as slowly asyou moved in. Again an exhalation takes to a U-turn tobecome inhalation. Observe with full awareness, withmind. Follow inhalation and exhalation just like analert detective. Be only focussed on the movement ofair, in and out. What is important is total awareness. Beas alert as you can! Gradually when you follow the pathof respiration with full alertness, you will necessarilyslow down at the U-turn, where inhalation transformsinto exhalation and exhalation into inhalation.Observe that U-turn of inhalation and exhalation. Observethe point where inhalation transforms into exhalation.Observe that point with keen interest. Remember you areobserving. You are not doing anything. As you regularlyobserve the point, you meet the principle of pulsation,which is a centripetal and centrifugal action. Take72 73