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concentrate on the air that flows in and out of your nostrils.
Breaths flow in and out, but what in the dickens are you going
to do with that focus? What in the dickens do your nostrils have
anything to do with it? Let go of this foolishness! Why don’t you
do this when you get an asthma attack? How can you? They say
that when the breath goes in, it makes the sound ‘so’ and upon
exhalation it sounds like ‘hum’. From that you get ‘sohum’
‘sohum’, ‘humso’, ‘humso’, and they tell you to meditate on
that. But the Soul is neither ‘sohum’ nor ‘humso’. The Soul is
not to be found in that word. Vitarag Lords have used the word
‘Atma’ as a way for us to understand the Soul in a word form.
However, the Soul is not to be found in books or in the
scriptures, here only the word ‘Atma’ is to be found. The real
or true Atma is to be found only with the Gnani. Do you think
that by observing your breaths in and out, you will remain in
samadhi? No. What happens there? The mind gets destroyed.
The mind is like a boat; it is necessary to cross the ocean of the
worldly life and reach across to the other shore.
Meditating as the Self is the true meditation. And the other
thing is that if you keep dhyan (pay attention) in making
khichadee, then your khichadee will be ready for you eat. Just
keep these two dhyans. All others are crazy (useless) meditations.
If one remains in the dhyan of ‘Dada’ it is fine, even if he does
not have any other understanding, because he will then become
‘that’. The Gnani Purush is your own Self; therefore, you will
gradually become that.
Attaining the Soul is atmadhyan i.e. meditation as the Self.
And in worldly meditation you are to meditate on the work at
hand. For example while cooking pay attention to the items of
food that you are cooking. All other dhyans being taug