 scan your body and feel like from the top of your head till the toes your body is completely relaxed and ready for meditation. Gently bring your attention to the heart where you feel the heartbeat and have a subtle thought that there is a source of divine light in your heart and that this is pulling you inwards. Attracting you, if you have those, just don't pay attention to them. Watch them go and gently bring your attention back to the heart. Stay with that feeling until Daji comes so that you are ready to receive transmission and to experience heartfulness meditation. We will wait in silence till Daji comes on the screen and I will move to the side. Namaste everyone. My humble gratitude and special thanks to Gautam Jayanti for annoying us the members of Heartfulness joining hands at Auroville celebrating Pujya Sri Aurovindo's birth anniversary, 150th birth anniversary. Since childhood we have been hearing his name, his contribution as a student. I have always remembered him as one of the freedom fighters later on when I grew and studied a bit of philosophy also. The great names of Aurovindo stands out along with Swami Rakananda and many great personalities of that order. Their contribution in upliftment of humanity's consciousness is enormous. He dreamt of this world where the super consciousness, the super mind of God can descend and engulf each and every one and benefit from the super mind of God so that peace may prevail on its own love and harmony may prevail on its own it's a lofty dream to be fulfilled and he hit the very head of the nail in the right spot. Many of us struggle with this idea why are we here on this planet? What is the purpose of our existence? Many a times the answer comes doing our best in each field whatever we are maybe we are doctors maybe we are IT professionals maybe we are businessmen we are home maker we are a farmer doing your task as best as possible anything less will always make your heart heavier filled with guilt not having reached your full potential and that spoils the consciousness. Guilt is the biggest weight on our consciousness when we read all this literature and when we contemplate on all this one thing stands out very strongly that our existence as we see this life in the physical body there is invisible mental body and often impalpable subtle body called the causal physical body now fundamental question arises can it evolve if the purpose of life is evolution can the body evolve? I may like to swim like a dolphin and fly like an eagle but how many years, millions and millions of years it can take for me to fulfill my dream of flying or swimming like a dolphin I don't have millions of years at my disposal the limited age frame that I have I can only age and decay so physical body definitely cannot evolve it can only age next thing let's talk about the soul the cause of our existence whether you call it soul or whether you call it life force but something keeps us going whether you believe in a God or not whether you believe in soul or not that is not the question but one fundamental factor remains that there is something within me that keeps me alive people call it Batman soul many names are there science says it's a life force so let's stick to that whatever makes you happy all our literature ancient literature says soul the life force remains the way it is it is eternal it is pure in itself there is nothing you can add to it no possibility of evolution so both the ends the physical body as well as the causal body they cannot evolve then what evolution are we talking about we're talking about evolution of consciousness that is possible then in order to understand this consciousness what becomes of this consciousness if you see this slide there's a larger circle that represents consciousness and within its terrain there is intellect there is mind and there is ego the field of consciousness is affected by all these lower circles of intellect, mind and ego consciousness keeps changing from the animal level of existence to human level of existence to divine level of existence and much more beyond that consciousness is affected by our intellect our mind the way we think the way we feel also and how this ego interferes or refines our consciousness so let's study what becomes of mind for example if consciousness has to evolve the other three things and many other aspects related to consciousness field has to be studied we're going to touch only on these three aspects intellect, mind and ego what becomes of intellect what becomes of mind and what becomes of ego at the pinnacle of evolution of consciousness mind so in order to understand evolution of mind we have to understand the function of the mind function is to think function of the mind is to think what becomes of it when it is fully evolved it remains in resonance with the heart mind eclipses with individual heart mind moves away from mere thinking into instant feeling let me share with you something when you are encountering some problems in life they become arose and you keep brooding over it for days or months together until your mother or your spouse or your sister notices it they begin asking you what is wrong with you and you may say the problem that you have with them often they come up with an instant solution even before you finish your questions on the problem how does that happen how does your mother is able to fill the problem or your wife fills the problem and comes up with a solution which you could not solve by continuous thinking or brooding over it problems can easily be solved by feeling the problem likewise experiencing when we meditate we meditate with thought idea of the thought and what is the thought we think that the divine presence is there in my heart it's a thought but as the process unfolds during meditation we move away from thinking to feeling there is a little step or larger greater steps we take during meditation where thought is actualized in the form of experience that is the progress of the mind when it moves away from thinking to instant feeling you think of God and instantly you are able to feel you think of your beloved you are feeling the essence the vibratory pattern of your beloved right in you likewise the intellect intellect what becomes of intellect as it evolves psychology says intellect when it matures becomes intelligence when intelligence matures it becomes intuition when intuition evolves becomes wisdom there are no special words when you are able to quote what becomes of wisdom when it evolves there are no words for it likewise ego what becomes of ego is there anything like ego at all yes ego can be your best friend just as mind can be your best friend as well as your worst enemy many people who meditate they are tormented because they are not able to regulate their mind and they begin to consider I have been victimized by my own mind my mind doesn't stop thinking rubbish likewise ego I can prevail upon anyone with ego and become the target of the hatred will that help me evolve when many people hate you because you are so egoistic what becomes of your consciousness think over it if you are a musician for example and you are a best you are good at playing a flute and you share this knowledge with people in aroville oh I can play flute and immediately says to Jayanthi why don't you come and perform you go to Pondicherry at aroville and start performing your flute is it egoistic to say I am a flutist? No it's a fact if you are a doctor and you say you are a doctor there is no ego about it it's a statement of fact it is what it is once you perform you have flute recital at Pondicherry at aroville everyone on their feet and clapping away for few minutes you feel so much of satisfaction in your heart that wow I did well the next day you are invited again would you be happy with your yesterday's performance or today's performance you will like to surpass your own performance so here the very idea that I would like to surpass my own performance that was yesterday I can become even better so ego is now utilized in your own individual transformation of your talent you are taking your own talent to a next level there is improvisation but to say that nobody is better than me in entire India and playing the flute I am the best, no one is better than me then it is arrogance so ego can manifest in many faces it can show many faces it is up to us how to transcend the mind the intellect and ego and affect this field of consciousness wrong thinking of the mind applying wrong intelligence to logic and blatantly becoming arrogant what becomes of consciousness it will shrink, it will contract for contra when you do find or you come across that Eureka moment like Archimedes intelligence, the thinking and the ego he did not even realize that he was naked in the term and started running Eureka, Eureka, Eureka he was not even conscious of himself what becomes of consciousness then it's simply skyrockets it is at its pinnacle now coming back to buddhistry or a will or a windows dream it was a dream but was it practical suppose if you are successful in bringing down the supreme mind of God on earth can you imagine what would have happened to earth it would have been totally transformed every human being, every tree every animal creature, every little thing on this planet would change but does or can the nature tolerate uniformity everywhere let me ask you one thing if everyone in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Middle East, China, Russia all throughout the planet everyone were given entry to heaven all at once virtuous and non-virtuous saints and criminals all given free entry to heaven what will become of that heaven can you call that heaven anymore changing consciousness means changing your own self within transformation reigning of consciousness from heavens from supreme mind of God is comparable to reigning from the sky the actual rain that we experience in in monsoon in India it falls in Telangana and it is rocky land it falls in Rajasthan full of desert it falls in forests, falls in rivers and oceans all individual human beings are like these entities some are forests, some are stones some are like rivers some are like fertile soils, fertile heart fertile hearts can take the benefit of when the consciousness rains from above hearts which are stone like desert like of course the rains will cool them a bit but you cannot grow anything on them so even if supreme mind of God had an opportunity of descending how many would get this transformation it would be possible only in those hearts who are deceptive and our deceptivity is different each individual's deceptivity is different it was a beautiful dream of Pujya Sri or a window it is up to us how to fulfill those dreams and actualize that potential he was not ignorant about it he knew very well that if Lord Krishna could not change the consciousness of Duryodhan if Lord Rama could not change the consciousness of Ramana or his mother Kaikei what are we, we are mere human beings great personality is like Swami Rakananda or Auroville they can dream all they like if Gods can fail who are we to succeed in changing transforming human individuals each one of us has to be welcoming to this change each one of us has to become thirsty and hungry for such a change each hunger or thirsty are they possible to be quenched or quelled philosophies and theologies however great the only purpose they can serve is to create some longing in our hearts create some level of thirst create some level of hunger for higher level of consciousness having such levels of longing what is the next step I must fulfill my thirst I must quench my thirst to quell my hunger I'll have to eat, I'll have to drink and that is practice the way we have this consciousness is very limited this limited consciousness is like a thin film of water which is sandwiched between two giant oceans of super consciousness and sub consciousness we must allow this thin film which is sandwiched between two giant oceans to expand into super consciousness and permit it to dive deeper into sub consciousness is it going to happen automatically no can anyone bring it down can Lord Krishna bring it down can the great would just say Aravindu bring it down and help me into sub consciousness and dive into sub consciousness the thin film can become a broadband I can go into super consciousness only through meditation and meditation alone I must practice reading books, intellectualizing it is not going to help me reach and cross or make me fly into sky of super consciousness it is not only meditation and not just meditation of ordinary type it must be aided by something that can take my consciousness and help me fly into super consciousness you need a carrier and that carrier has to be more refined than consciousness itself and what is more refined than consciousness we'll take up that in the next argument sub consciousness which is the darkness how the sub consciousness was created all psychologists agree that sub consciousness is the product of my past and past baggage remains ingrained in our being in our consciousness in two forms mainly one is emotional memory and another is cognitive emotionally I can forgive anything but I cannot forget because it's part it is hardwired in my brain memory especially the cognitive memory is hardwired in my brain emotional is also embedded in my consciousness but I can let go of it I can reduce the burden of my emotional memory by letting it go by forgiving by doing the evening cleaning that is taught in heartfulness way evening cleaning does one fundamental thing it improves our understanding understanding is there new awareness have seen and with this new awareness the darkness created by all these impressions can go away rising into sky of super consciousness when we close our eyes and we reach to that super consciousness in a very natural way and this soaring into the sky of consciousness again just as super mind can affect the hearts consciousness of people depending upon the level of opening of the heart more open the heart more deserving the soul it can impact us in a better way faster way and impactful way consciousness people say what is the use of improving consciousness can you give me some examples how consciousness can change my life what are the practical applications of consciousness refined consciousness versus a very gross level of consciousness consciousness in order to understand this role of consciousness I will have to define what is consciousness it can simply be defined as one thing it's a degree of awareness next step once you become aware with your consciousness what do you do next you respond you reciprocate most proper way so consciousness is also about reciprocating appropriately degree of awareness with calculated or appropriate reciprocated response reciprocal response let me explain to you what I am trying to say you are in your bedroom with your wife you have some argument you are fighting you are on top of your voice suddenly your toddler your daughter comes into the room is four year old the moment you notice your daughter has entered the bedroom that means you have become aware of her presence this awareness is noticed how will you reciprocate how will you respond would you continue fighting or would you start smiling at each other and take your daughters in your arms and hug her that's one level of response if you don't do this and continue fighting that also reflects your level of consciousness well well well we are all struggling we are all moving ahead some with the total speed some will giant quantum leaps but we all are moving trees and animals they are also evolving but through meditation millions of years can be saved you are then on an accelerated path of evolution of helping evolve your consciousness that's why Lord Rama Lord Krishna and saints sages like Aztavakra, Vasisthamuni, Vishwamitra they all talk about consciousness how to help it evolve if you read Vasistha Sanjita or Vishwamitra's contribution or Ramgita Aztavakra Gita you know this was the same time Raja Janak having dialogue with Aztavakra Lord Rama and Lakshman talking about consciousness during their journey in forests that was the only entertainment they had all through 14 years both brothers and mother Sita would sit together under a tree and talk about consciousness and it is there registered in Lakshman Gita or Ramgita you can refer that you can also look into I mean topics on consciousness in Vasistha Sanjita this was the same time same epoch so you can say consciousness is not a new topic for us it has been going on and on and on but somehow we have lost the way of how to improve it how to make this consciousness soar into sky of super consciousness and allow it to plunge into deepest oceans of our subconsciousness again hard fullness way of practice helps us to broaden this very fine film of consciousness when you hear all this thing it looks so beautiful oh wow consciousness makes you happy to listen it makes you also happy to undergo such dreams okay I would like to you all my consciousness great you feel blissful when you are at its pinnacle the bliss of a yogi romance of the teenagers or romance of married people or the playing of children with their toys they are all degrees of pleasures degrees of enjoyment just as a child is happy with playing toys teenagers and married people happy with their romance a yogi is also in a state of bliss savoring the flavors spectrum of consciousness it's also like a toy in the hands of a yogi you are still playing with a toy I will leave you with the question my dear friends what is your own consciousness what is it that supports this consciousness thank you for your listening and look forward to your visit at kanha thank you namaskaram namaskaram please come to kanha my dear absolutely we have been eagerly looking forward to it that he and do hope that we are able to come there and we have heard such wonderful things about it and thank you so much for your blessings your insights today we deeply appreciate it namaste thank you and I forgot to thank your representative who came to specially invite me brother luka the team has been working very hard with your blessings I think they have made all this happen thank you so I hope you have got a nice introduction to meditation we were very lucky to have directly daji come and hold this session and during the day so today I will invite you again after breakfast to explore this practice that he is speaking about what do we do in heartfulness to allow this change of consciousness to happen being part of it is also something that I liked when I discovered this method when I was in France I felt I didn't want to receive explanation about text but I wanted to be part of it I wanted something that would empower me to be myself the agent of my own change understand myself better and practice and there is no other way than to have a daily practice in any path of yoga to be able to feel the change so what I liked in heartfulness is the simplicity of the method and the fact that it can be embraced by anyone so Auroville being the symbol of all those cultures coming together 164 countries coming together at the onset of this place it is very important that the method that for me I wanted to choose should be something that everybody can relate to and I've been very lucky to be involved in heartfulness with the international program that invited people to India to Chennai at the time, Kanna was not available to learn this method and then take it back to their country and regardless of their cultural background, education religious belief they all felt the effect of this method and went back to their country trained to be able to also pass on this teaching because if we are waiting for everybody to come to India and it's going to take a lot of time we have to be able to give this knowledge everywhere and why, in my experience, why is this you know something that people can understand, it's because it all touches the most important organ in our system, it's the heart if you talk from the heart to the heart to someone you know this is the best way to reach out and even if we don't speak the same language, it's breaking from heart to heart allows a communication to happen so in the day to day I will invite you to come again at 11 o'clock, is that correct and I would like to take you to an experience, not only a talk but an experience of the second element of heartfulness which is the cleaning practice that Daji also evoked what can I do for myself to help for example my mind to settle a little bit so that I can enjoy my meditation better but also you know cleaning works at the level of my daily life, it changes my daily life but it also works at a deeper level so we will talk about that at 11 o'clock and how all this is part of yoga 10 o'clock, sorry and there is a third part third technique practice that we have also in heartfulness is the one that you do just before you go to sleep and it's a short practice of 10 minutes of again a short meditation with an intention in Sankalpa where I enter the night in a state of consciousness that will allow you know my sleep to also be part of this evolution of consciousness we're talking about so how to enter the sleep not with a you know very heavy head hitting the pillow and falling asleep because we are so tired we sleep with a lighter consciousness that allow those hours also to be effective now all this is yoga it's a specific you know modern way of raja yoga and this is what heartfulness offers we train in meditation so that we maintain that condition of less fluctuation and we also help the fluctuation to be less by doing the cleaning part okay so if you want I'm going to take you through the experience of a guided cleaning but before that I will take you through an experience of what is awareness through breathing practices and a little bit of movement too okay there's a big fantastic science behind yoga that is for me more interesting than medically understanding our body because it really deals with subtle practices we are subtle we are not mechanical we are not just physiology we are energy and this continuous of energy starts with the asanas understanding of my body reacts to things so there are things that happen here the breath you know which is the link between the body and the mind and then the mind which is really the domain of heartfulness practices okay so before we start with movements and breathing the cleaning practice is a simple practice that we do at the end of the day we say when your work is over so you've finished your work and whatever you come home it's quite important that you come home so that you are in that environment that is yours energy is different it's your home it feels good and then you sit in the same position that you know comfortable for meditation and you will use your mind so it's not a meditation it's a practice where you use your willpower to remove all the impressions of the day from the back and you imagine your back from the top of the head till the tailbone and tail spine and imagine that the entire back is letting go of all these impressions what are impressions impressions is anything that you've lived during the day what you spoke what you heard what you saw what you felt it leaves a trace it leaves the trace in different ways most of the time we're not aware sometimes we know very well that something went wrong or something was too you were too happy about something that you would want it again you don't want to let go that's also an impression that happens during the day this is taken care of by the evening cleaning now Daaji also spoke about the subconscious subconscious to understand what it is he said everything that you know you've kept from the past is there in your subconscious how do I address that a deeper cleaning can be done by the you know when you sit face to face for a meditation by people who are trained as meditation trainer and allows those impressions that have personalized to be removed why should we remove them because they form the patterns the habits of you know what we're used to do so I'm sure all of us experienced you know these moments where you feel like why do I still react like this or why am I again in this situation I know consciously that I don't want to be in that situation but I'm still there and that happens you know this capacity of getting away from these habits happens when you have removed what keeps you going those tendencies so cleaning works at different level you have the one that you do every day to make sure that you don't create habits that you can you know focus better that your meditation will be better and there's the one that is done at a deeper level once a week or twice a week where the meditation trainer will help you to remove something that is deeper and an image that comes that is really really nice is the image of a river so the river has a river bed it has the water flowing in it yes so when I go and when I do the cleaning practice I'm able to remove the water from the river bed but the river bed is still there and that is a tendency that is in myself and for that I need to do my own practice work also on the yama niyamas of yoga the way I behave my lifestyle so that I'm able to let with practice this river bed completely go you know completely disappear and then that tendency is not there so like Daji was saying you know there's no possibility of just a magic thing that will allow you to immediately soar into super consciousness or you know being more aware of your subconscious there's a need for us to practice everyday I'm sure you're all busy very busy in your life whatever you know and I'm speaking as a doctor but also as a mother so mothers are very very busy all day long they have time to do a practice for their own and specially they don't take the time to do it so to find a practice that allows you know really a simple thing to be done in the morning in the evening and just at night this was possible for me and that's why I stuck to it for past 30 years because I felt it's helping me I work faster, I'm more available for my family and nicer, we're more quiet and I also enjoy it because I get to know myself better so enough speaking I would like to invite you for an experimentation of this technique now is the beginning of the day so this is something that we should do more in the evening and that very very we call it also rejuvenation, it's very freshening like when you enter home you sit comfortably you can remove your bags or whatever with things on the floor and on the chair sit with your feet if possible, if your feet are reaching the floor plant them on the floor, you can come a little forward on your chair so that your back is straight so fit on the floor for people on the chair, otherwise just a great spine attitude and I would like to close your eyes and first to be aware of the noise outside the room in nature, the birds the garden you've entered before coming to this place keep them in your mind slowly bring your attention to the room this room where we are all seated the noise in this room the people around you now bring your attention to your body seated on the floor on the chair become aware of your feet, your legs your back straight, shoulders relaxed your hands on your knees spine is straight, chin slightly down awareness of your body scan your body and feel if there is any tension or maybe some pain somewhere be aware of the body now become aware of your breath normal breathing be aware of the inspiration and the exhalation, like the waves they come and go during inhalation relaxing with exhalation let your awareness stay on the breath now become aware of your thoughts are you here in this moment is your mind getting distracted become aware of your mood how do you feel right now you're feeling happy, feeling sad are you feeling upset are you feeling tired just be aware now bring your attention to your heart beyond all this the core of your being the seat center of all your systems now bring back your attention to the breath place a hand on your abdomen just below the navel and when you exhale let the hand draw inwards let your abdomen draw inwards on the exhalation let the inhalation be natural when you exhale slowly, consciously take your abdomen inside and exhale try to make your exhalation longer keep your hands on your knees release the counting, the exhalation breathe normally and slowly open your eyes now follow me with a few movements of the spine so take your hands to the side and slowly being aware of people next to you maybe you can shift a little forward and backward inhale take both your hands up above your head join the palm of your hands above your head extend to the ceiling and exhale come down again inhale while you do this stay very aware of the inhalation and exhalation exhale very good one more time inhale interlock your fingers and stretch stretch and exhale now place your left hand on your right knee place the right hand at the back inhale here and as you exhale turn and look at the back and stay there, breathe there then come back to the center same thing on the other side take your left hand on your right knee left hand behind inhale exhale look at the back inhale and come back to the center very good now you can grab the chair at the back or interlock your fingers at the back straighten your elbows open the chest inhale here, look up and exhale release the elbows round your back, take your chin to the chest again inhale take your chin to the chest one last movement so all of you make sure you take your right hand to the ceiling right hand to the ceiling the other one is on the floor and as you exhale a small bending lateral bend very good you can close your eyes if you want inhale stretch up to the ceiling and exhale down same thing on the other side inhale take your hand to the ceiling left hand close your eyes exhale bend to the side inhale up to the ceiling and exhale down now take your hands on the knees close your eyes feel the effect of this simple practice of the spine on your body and scan your body one more time how does it feel is there a shift in my energy at the body level by observing we train our sensitivity our awareness starting with the body is a very good place to start keep your eyes closed bring again your attention to the breath observe the inhalation and the exhalation when you inhale your chest is lifting up when you exhale your abdomen slowly goes inwards draw your abdomen towards the spine inhale chest up exhale abdomen towards the spine try to lengthen the inhalation lengthen the exhalation now at the end of inhalation pause for one second and at the end of exhalation again pause for one second be aware of this instance between inhalation and exhalation now drop the breath regulation keep your eyes closed and we will start the guided cleaning we start with the thought that all the complexities all the impressions elements that have impacted my system are going out through the back you can imagine either vapor or smoke give this strong suggestion to yourself all complexities and impurities leave your system through the back imagine your back from the top of the head till the spine and visualize all these impurities coming out in the form of smoke do not try to remember anything in particular as you sit here now whatever is troubling the flow of energy is leaving your system through the back you have to put your will power it's an active process all complexities all impurities leave my system through the back now try to feel the process happening all impurities leaving from the back and leaving you pure again all the complexities going out of your system in the form of smoke and as they leave you you become simple again and when you do it in the evening continue this for 15 minutes and as the process of cleaning goes on you will start feeling lightness in the heart in this space that you have created invite the sacred the sacred current from the source to enter your heart and feel your heart completely the sacred current enters from the front and helps in the process of cleaning all the complexities and impurities leaving your system through the back in the form of smoke and in its place the sacred current from the source is filling your heart it's filling your heart and your entire system completely your heart is a sacred place and we end the process of cleaning with a thought that the cleaning has been well done and when you feel ready you can slowly open your eyes so this guided part is the cleaning practice that we do in the evening to complement the morning meditation morning meditation helps the expansion in meditation only we become more and more aware but to help that the cleaning process allows to prepare ourselves and to remove things from the subconscious that may prevent our growth so we'll open the floor for questions I hope you have an idea of what consciousness is all about, consciousness can be in my body it can be in my breath I can allow my focus to happen when I maybe start with the breath it's difficult for some people and slowly, you know with the mind that regulates we can enter meditation if you have questions we'll be happy to answer I invite my husband to join to answer the questions maybe if you want to some of you maybe have tried for the first time if you want to share how it felt could you feel a difference with meditation it's not a process where we let go and we let the things or we witness we have to be active in this part all the time so we do it for 20 minutes any questions, we have a mic if you want you want to add something yes yeah it's working no this one yeah two questions do you have any questions yes hi definitely it does feel better now that we have let go of some of our the impressions what we understand it as in my understanding to be able to meditate peacefully we have to maintain some amount of awareness throughout the day so how can we make sure we maintain awareness throughout the day while we are doing our daily work or whatever because I think that's again one of the most difficult things to do when we are doing something we are teaching our children or cooking or whatever work we may be doing how can we make sure we are aware so it's a good question so the both grow together okay so it's good already that you are aware you should be aware during the day we start with the meditation in the morning so that it sets the mood for the day and then we try to retain the feeling that we had at the end of meditation throughout the day so it might be intermittent at the beginning and then it might become more and more important more and more frequent but the fact that you are interested already to be more and more aware is a good place to start and there will be moment where you will be completely engrossed in doing something else and feeling very much out of balance with the practice of meditation and cleaning there's really all the tools that will be more settled and where you will be able to take a step back in your daily activities so that you are not completely taken by life as it happens so it's both you practice those two moments so that you are more aware intensely at that moment and then slowly you have also to practice during the day remembering this moment but first you have to have a taste Is it good to practice this cleansing on empty stomach or is there any condition like that? So all practices in yoga are always better on empty stomach but there's no such prescription you will feel a difference again as you practice if your stomach is too full you will never feel good to do any inner practice because then your attention is on something heavy but that is not a prescription as it is and there are days when you just feel too domestic, too lazy you just don't want to do anything I know I have to be aware for example if I have to practice cleansing on certain days I just don't feel like is it okay to just let go or do I have to make up my mind that no matter what I have to sit through this it's a good thing to try to work with telling yourself no matter what you have to do but the most important thing will be the attitude and if a good reason for you to be feeling like you want to sit and do it is if you enjoy your practice and if you enjoy and you feel I'm definitely better if I do it so for me the cleaning was the thing that really drove me to this meditation before meditation itself because I think my mind was too busy so I did not feel anything at the beginning in meditation but cleaning I could feel immediately the effect I would be less tired the place where I was using this the most was when I was on night duties and although on night duties you understand that it's ER it's very very busy you are always on the call there's a lot of tension I had to do my cleaning practice to be able to survive emotionally and physically so when you feel it has an effect then you want to do it so there's less of a drag of oh I have to do it it is not something that you push yourself to do it's something that you feel like let me see how this is going to make me understand myself better feel better and understand others better also thank you new to this technique so excuse my ignorance just by thinking or imagining that your past let's say impressions of the day go by imagining they go out I'm not very convinced I mean just by self-hypnosis we can say they go out or imagining the light from divine is coming in it comes in it helps I mean I'm not fully convinced so can you give me some thoughts on that I can relate to you because I was very doubtful when I started to so I started in the same place where I thought okay all these things of even self-conviction I didn't I didn't believe it until I started I tried you know and so with practice when you feel actually that it is happening so you start with thinking and then you feel it is happening and that has a different effect and with only with your own experience of trying it so I tried at some point I felt okay I have to try because I saw people were practicing this method then they were successful they were really people I could really you know I felt they have something special let me try what they do no but how do we really know I may be fooling myself that the sanskars are going out but I mean how is there some way of knowing that some compliment I will add something by taking the opposite thought that you have if you use your thought to think of something gross you will feel immediately the effect on your body so the thought is all powerful and with our thoughts we create our life and we know this because when we have a bad thought we have a physical reaction so here you're using the thought power in a positive way and in a light way you start with a thought and then with the will power you push things so it's not just thinking also you start with a suggestion that all impurities are cleaned out but then you back the suggestion with your will because if you just think as you say well it's a happy thought but it has to be back with a will at the beginning you may do it properly you may not do it properly so that's why in this system we have a backup system where you can have those sessions of cleaning done with people we call preceptors we have people called preceptors who can do this cleaning for you and you will so that really makes your own because the whole basis is your own practice those are really the poles that create a momentum that will create the possibility of continuing remembering in the day and that will deepen your interest but then your interest will be really awakened so at the beginning having those sittings where the cleaning is done on one to one you will feel lighter so that's not something I mean that's my experience but that's something that should be your experience now when you feel lighter you start thinking okay there's something here so I'll try on myself and maybe at the beginning it will be less effective when you do it on yourself than when somebody else is doing it on you for some reason it's easier to do something on somebody else than to do it on ourselves always so it really helps to take sittings and for that we have people and then there's another level of cleaning is when you go to see some people like G there are a few people that are at a certain level then their thought is more powerful than ours that the meaning of that is it's effective so if they just see you for 5 minutes they may do more in terms of cleaning than we would be able to do in 30 minutes so you see there are levels of the more your mind is under your control the more you will power the more effective will be your cleaning on yourself or on others so but we should not start with a doubt because I mean it's human to doubt but the thing also is that the moment you doubt if you see it for example and say okay I don't think this will work it will not work you have introduced what we call the poison in your mind and your mind will not basically produce the results so the mind can do many things many wonderful things use the mind to clean ourselves but you can also get the help of somebody else to do it for you if you're not comfortable how to maintain our peace firstly plus time our how to maintain our peaceful for our sleepless time for the sleepless time no no no not sleeping time actually overworking time some sleepless time sleepless you mean not able to sleep not able to sleep overworking time how to maintain our peace okay so that's that is definitely this this technique especially for that okay so again if you feel not comfortable when you do it on your own take the help of preceptor meditation trainer to help you but you have to attempt to it day after day after day so that you'll be able to do that but you will definitely your sleep will be better if you do the cleaning in the evening okay okay thank you our brain produces you know on the electroencephalogram you know our brain has different waves okay and when we start doing these practices we end up having a brain in we are not sleeping but our brain is at the same state as when we are sleeping and in that state our body actually you know makes a lot of substances our body to heal and to rest and to restore itself so this practice of meditation and especially cleaning will help you to sleep better you know it does but if you actually if you start not sleeping when she's working when she's not sleeping how to make it peaceful she is asking she is asking when she is working same thing she is asking not for sleep did I answer your question or not actually I have one of your baby she does not sleep well she is playing in the midnight also so I work in the morning midnight all the time always I am working and sometimes sleeping I don't have some separate time to sleep to care for me so that's a very so that's your moment if you can have someone that's my experience with babies not sleeping at night especially your own the only thing that really keeps you know sane because we need to sleep I used to tell my husband cats die if you don't let them sleep we need to sleep so when you feel so powerless this cleaning will definitely help either you do it for yourself if you are too tired take the time ask your mother to take care of the baby and take the time to take a meditation session and it will definitely help you okay you know for women we have less strict rules because the masters they know that women's life is very demanding so Daji is many times telling the story of his own preceptor she had no time to meditate and her family was also against it she used to go to the bathroom a little longer than usual and meditate there so you know and also for ladies you know some ladies they have to cook early morning so the master says for them they can meditate anytime in the day for us we advise before dawn because it's the best time but if you can't anytime you have even if it's only 10 minutes you will center yourself and you will feel refreshed so take those time anytime of the day and if sometimes you cannot go to sleep for me what I do is I start doing my cleaning lying down we should not do this normally we do the cleaning when we come back from work suppose you had no time to do it you lie down you start doing your cleaning you will go to sleep meditation cleaning meditation this ways some differences here meditation is better or cleaning is better for me for you when you feel heavy it's an indication you should do 10 minute cleaning when you feel agitated that your mind is going you feel unsettled unbalanced that's the time when you should sit and just meditate on the heart because just 10 minutes of that you will feel your energy regroup and your balance restore because if you don't keep a minimum of balance nothing you do will be correct your work, the way you talk everything, the way you behave the balance we have is the minimum we should take care of then we talk of expanding consciousness but first we need peace so get that peace within yourself and sometimes it goes because of circumstances that's what I call unbalanced then you meditate a little bit if one person is practicing in the house it will affect the others so when you practice know that you will also help as a mother you want to cook well you want to take care properly taking care of yourself first allows you to take care of others better so don't make it a struggle that you feel bad that you can't do it but try to find the time to do it it's really worth it I was thinking of this place you know the we have 5 minutes no? yes is that correct? yes you know this place is called whole of unity she's very beautiful to talk about one of the method that deals with exactly that topic no unity so someone was asking before the session do you think that there is an evolution of consciousness at the global level and when you come to a place like Oroville where there is a group of people who have come to do that to try to bring some unity to go beyond the differences that are there keeping the diversity of people you realize you know so in my field I work with many schools of yoga I realize that we really share the same same aspiration and and that the idea of service is also there service and unity is there in the heart of all these different methods and it's very nice to know that Oroville is inviting all these schools to come and to propose what they do because Taji also recognizes that start wherever you are with whatever methods that suits you they all are yoga paths they all lead to the same concepts when we work together and we speak together the same language and we have different techniques but that's only the techniques so look at the technique that suits you this one suited me and I actually didn't have to look anywhere else because I still feel it suits me and I still discover more I still feel more and more rich as I practice so but unless you make your own experience in terms of words it's all about feeling and for that it needs a dedicated daily practice nobody can teach you, you have to feel yourself now madam is on the screen though I mean online we are going to listen to madam and our brother Manoj who is the resident of Oroville and Jain Thiravi is the secretary for Oroville foundation and before that she has been holding lots of hats in fact when you look at a personality you normally see that okay she is the secretary and an office but to come to know that she is a good writer she has written lots of books and she is a scientist and she is a very active person and worked as a secretary for health and family welfare for Gujarat government for many years and she was initiating all the programs especially for Swachh Bharat that type of cleanliness program for the whole country so she is holding lots of things but here now she is a secretary and she is going to talk on Oroville and the integral yoga and we do have our brother Manoj who is standing right here will also join us here on stage and he will talk about Oroville and especially about Swaribindo and his integral yoga and how it evolved to this stage so after that he will take all our questions regarding whatever you are understanding so it is interesting when I was having my tea over there one of our sisters said that this is my first time I don't know anything about this place that was very interesting yes so this introduction on Oroville and integral yoga by madam Jayanta Ravi as well as integral yoga by our brother Manoj will really help us to understand Oroville and its purpose here thank you madam Ravi on screen before that our friend Marco will play a small movie on Oroville which will give you an introduction about Oroville after that ma'am will take over at the moment in the planet I believe we are really sowing the branch in which we are sitting and we are going to have to be a quantum jump into something else if you look around the world today you see division, terrorism, war, racism, politics everywhere looks absolutely impossible yet I think everybody feels within themselves it does not have to be like that there should be somewhere upon earth that no nation could claim as its sole property a place where all human beings of goodwill, sincere in their aspiration would live freely as citizens of the world obeying one simple authority that of supreme truth many people who would like to experience a different way of living and a better future which everybody dreams of somehow not knowing where and how to go about it Oroville provides that possibilities Oroville is an international township where already we have 40 nationalities and one of the important aims of Oroville is to practice human unity if we could achieve unity here what a fantastic example it will be to the outside world a place above religion, a place above nation a place above color, creed, caste there are numerous theories and ideas about what it will take to make the world a better place more freedom economic and social reforms cleaner cars canvas shopping bags spiritual ideals new technologies Oroville, a 44 year old experimental city is an attempt to prove true the simple theory that living our lives from a perspective above our differences in conscious awareness of our interconnection with all others is the key to actualizing a more life-affirming environment on our planet Oroville is the realization of the dream of Mother Mira Alfaza and Sri Arbindo that a city be established on earth where individuals of great diversity would live in pursuit of human unity Sri Arbindo was one of the first revolutionaries in India a predecessor to Gandhi in May 1908 he was arrested for conspiracy and held by the British for one full year he spent his time in prison in the practice of yoga where he experienced the possibilities of a divine life on earth after his release he fled to Pondicherry in southern India it was during this time in Pondicherry that Sri Arbindo developed and refined the process for affecting the inner transformation he had experienced in prison a process he called integral yoga a practice meant to transform rather than transcend life a divine life upon earth the ideal that has been placed before us can only come about by a spiritual change in our whole being and a radical and fundamental change an evolution or revolution of our nature Sri Arbindo he's been described as a philosopher, as a sage he said I am not a philosopher I was a politician and a poet and what people consider my philosophy is just a rational expression of my own experiences at the same time Mira Alfaza a young French woman with similar teachings as a member of a French delegation to Pondicherry in 1914 the mother, as Mira Alfaza would come to be called met Sri Arbindo and later returned to live permanently at the ashram together they spent their lives practicing and teaching a life meant to realize divine consciousness on earth after the death of Sri Arbindo in 1950 mother Mira took up the work of their dream of a place on earth where a gathering of people of great diversity could live as one united family a city she would name Auroville as money became available she bought up strips of land around a lone banyan tree on a barren plateau near Pondicherry on February 28th 1968 5000 people came to celebrate the inauguration of Auroville as part of the celebration one man and one woman from 120 nations brought samples of their native soil and combined them in the urn at the center of the amphitheater over the loudspeaker the mother presented the charter Auroville belongs to nobody in particular Auroville belongs to humanity as a whole but to live in Auroville one must be the willing servitor of the divine consciousness Auroville will be the place of an unending education of constant progress and a youth that never ages Auroville wants to be the bridge between the past and the future taking advantage of all discoveries from without and from within Auroville will boldly spring towards future realizations Auroville will be a site of material and spiritual researchers for a living embodiment of an actual human unity there is no guru here no living person to whom one can go and ask questions we have just this the charter and that's our guide mother had one French architect our chief architect Mr. Roger Angé she appointed him as the chief architect for this place Roger Angé had a huge office in Paris as architect and one time he came to Pondie and met the mother and when the mother met him and heard that he is architect in Paris she said I have a town to build international town in Auroville to build would you like to do he said yes and it was a beginning mother gave in the beginning a sketch to Roger and this plan which mentioned as galaxy plan it came into being in 1968 at the time of inauguration of Auroville this town's plan is proposed for a population of 50,000 people it is fairly small but at the same time relatively dense but which is also an element of experiment here how because land is limited the resources are limited right from land, water, energy everything is a part of that how in 5 square kilometers approximately a population of 50,000 can live together in very healthy, happy inspiring quality of life idea is not to compromise on that and it has all the aspects like right from organic agriculture, renewable energy water management less impactful building material this galaxy plan essentially has 4 zones residential, cultural industrial which can also be called economical and international zone and in the center is the peace area what we call peace area is Matrimandir complex Matrimandir itself, amphitheater banyan tree which is a geographical center of township which is surrounded by the gardens surrounded by the lake this is the central peace area vanakkam everybody can you hear me vanakkam namaste if you can hear me can you raise your hand so I can good excellent so very happy to meet you all today we had the privilege of seeing all of you and especially listening to daji this morning and now as we want to spend a few minutes talking about what Auroville is and what is it that it was meant to do I thought I will start with the Sri Aurovindo Gayatri also known as Sri Aurovindo Gayatri and it is a special chant a mantra where Sri Aurovindo says let us meditate on the most auspicious form of the spiritual sun Savitri and may that light of the supreme illumine all our dimensions every part of our being with the truth so with this we will quickly I would like to take you through two portions today first of all we are very happy that so many of you have come from different parts and we want to extend a very warm welcome to all of you to Auroville and hope that this is not the first of your visits that you come here often and that you also and in fact the purpose of the city also as you read in the Charter or as you heard in the Charter in the film which is the very basis of Auroville Auroville I was told that many of our sisters and brothers who are attending today's program would like to hear a speak so I also want to I am coming to Auroville you all may have come to Auroville for the first time but again we are coming to you many of you should come to Auroville there are many events there are projects you can participate you can do it we welcome you all so Auroville it was set up in 1968 so we are just about stepping into the 55th year Ambatthi Ainda the step we are doing it was set up on the 28th of February and actually she gave what is known as the Auroville Charter which you heard in the film that was shown to you I think the most important lines in it she said it does not belong to anybody it belongs to nobody in particular but it belongs to humanity as a whole but to live in Auroville one must be a willing servitor of divine consciousness and then she also says it will be a place of an unending education of constant progress never ages so in your Auroville you will also find many people who are on the other side of 90 there are many people above 300 you will find them walking in Matrimandir doing their work being able to speak being able to help others and so on it also wants to be a bridge between the past and the future so the basic what Auroville is is based on what was the integral yoga of Sri Aurobindo and his direct action he was somebody who spent the initial part of his life in England he did not want Sri Aurobindo to have any trace of Indianness Indian Indian Indian father made England a very young age until the age of 21 he did so well academically he studied in different schools then went to send the King's College at Cambridge and really excelled in it after Indian civil service and then he joined he cleared all the exams but horse riding he remained absent because of which he was not selected people say that he did not join because this was a colony of the British and he didn't want to having these thoughts in his mind and did not want to serve under the British is what is believed and so he chose not to take the Indian civil services where he was selected and of course he came back after doing a lot of then he came back to India and worked at Baroda with the Maharaja Saiyaji Rao who was the ruler of the Gaikwad state of Baroda and Anga when he was there for nearly 13 years he immersed himself in Indian culture different languages for the first time he learnt Sanskrit he learnt Bengali he learnt different parts culture, meditation and so on and that is where he started growing but of course the other important point in his life was at the Alipur jail when he was imprisoned later when he went to Punjab and went to Bengal and also joined the movement following the partition of Bengal and following the revolutionary movement there he was actually in the Alipur bomb blast case an under trial and he was in the prison and that is where he had a very special experience he actually experienced Sri Krishna and Kali it is believed that Sri Vivekananda was also experienced by him he felt his presence in our Anga Jail and based on it when he came out he was already a changed man in many many ways and after that when he returned back through Chandranagar to this town of Pondicherry back then which was a French colony and he devoted his whole years there to a lot of internal sadhana but basically what he has given us is based on the secret of the Vedas that was also the title of the book that he had written and then he had given that whole gist in a book called Life Divine and so in the third Pathi Naka Auroville wants to be the bridge between the past and the future so the Vedic knowledge and the future and taking advantage of all discoveries from outside and from within Auroville will boldly spring towards future realizations and it will also be a site of material and spiritual researchers and a living embodiment of an actual human unity so this was the basis and if you look at the other aspects of Auroville we find that in fact he had given on the day of the independence of India 15th August which also happened to be his birthday it was his birthday it also happened to be India's independence day and that is where on that day he gives a very special speech which was telecast on all India Radio Tiruchira Palli so in that speech he talks about five dreams that he has and the first dream he says would be a revolutionary movement which would create a free and united India in fact he also says that the partition of India also must go he feels it will be a completely united India the second was about the liberation of the peoples of Asia and her return to a great role in the progress of human civilization the third fourth and fifth dreams are what have actually led to the formation of Auroville the third was a world union forming the outer bases of a fairer brighter and nobler life for all mankind and the fourth was the spiritual gift of India to the world and the fifth was the evolutionary step towards or to lead towards a higher and larger consciousness so it's basically all of these which are to be practiced or experimented at a crucible at a location in India and it is with that aim and the nocturne Auroville Nagarath build Pondraddhode Yenna Anna Yodha she got it in her idea that the city was founded and in the film she had got an architect back then who was one of the top architects of the world to actually design the entire city and in this there are about 50,000 people who have designed the entire city and she wanted us and she wants us to manifest that city so that is what we are all here for and the city automatically as we build the infrastructure as we build the housing all of it more and more people can come and we want to extend a special welcome invitation to all of you and all our sisters and brothers from all over India and the world to come to Auroville to visit it come as a volunteer come as an intern and participate in all these activities that we are doing so once again we want to extend a very warm welcome to all of you to come to Auroville and thank you again for being here today now I will stop with this and hand it over to Manoj Pavitranji Namaste Namaste it's great to see when spiritual communities come together and connect and share what I would like to share today first of all you have already heard the stories of Shri Aurobindo these are the stories that really deeply move us and the reason why we are here the reason why we are all here so without bringing some aspects of his story it is difficult to convey that deeper movement and I would like to start with the year 1893 that was a very very important year not only for India but also for the world that was the day that was the year when Swami Vivekananda went to Chicago and gave his famous speech at the parliament of world religions it is exactly the same year Gandhiji was thrown out of a train in South Africa and he decided to take on the battle that firing him woke up with that incident such an injustice cannot be accepted and world will change third important incident is not at all known beyond Shri Aurobindo and mother circle that was the year Shri Aurobindo returned to India landed in Bombay and a profound spiritual experience came to him spontaneously what we may refer to as a vast calm and peace that descended upon him we know that every mantra ends with Shanti, Shanti, Shanti that's really like the foundational experience the foundation to be laid of peace, vast peace and this experience came to him spontaneously when he arrived on the shores of India it was like a welcome gift from mother India to Shri Aurobindo and that experience stayed with him and it depended and many such experiences unfolded one interesting thing about Shri Aurobindo's approach to spirituality as it was and it is very life affirmative so he was very deeply into action he wanted freedom of the country and he was immersing in understanding Indian culture and he came across yoga that too another interesting experience where his brother Balin, he was down with fever and a yogi came who took a glass of water did some gestures did some mantras and gave the water this fever had been lasting for quite some time and when his brother took the water fever disappeared but Shri Aurobindo this was an indication oh if yoga can give such power I want that power to liberate the country he was into application of the power of yoga for the liberation of the country and he got into deep practice he was deeply into Pranayama he was practicing for hours 5 to 6 hours then it came to kind of a plateau he was not able to proceed further he was stuck though he had tremendous energy great flow of inspiration poetic writings political action all that was happening but spiritually he was not able to proceed further and that time he met a Maharashtrian yogi called Vishnu Bhaskar Lele and it is Lele he told him who told him observe thoughts will come from outside before they come and settle reject it that was a very simple instruction and Sri Aurobindo took the instruction sat in concentration and he could see thoughts arriving and he started rejecting thoughts soon his mind became like a clear blue sky free from thoughts yoga chitta vritti niroda that he did he did in three days and arrived deepened into the experience of nirvana and interestingly he had to give a talk because it was in the middle of the movement for freedom of the country and he was completely blanked out he did not know what to say but Lele told him you go and stand in front of the people speech will happen and that's what exactly what he did he went there stood in front of the crowd completely emptied in a state of deep nirvana and a profound speech happened through him that incident onwards he was completely relying on that divine inspiration to speak through him, to work through him guide him everything was left to that divine force no more from mental intelligence or mental effort and struggle that was replaced by the divine action and he was deeply into the freedom struggle where he was going around giving talks, meeting people and as you heard he was in the jail, he was arrested and there he had another deeper experience where it was referred to as the Vasudeva experience we know in Indian tradition of liberation of ascending into higher planes and dissolving into the formless on other end he was experiencing divinity involved and sustaining everything isha, vasya, idam, sarva and in the form of Krishna who was behind all things and he was practicing his yoga in the jail that led to that realization that immanent divine divinity in things and moving all things that's where also he had guidance from Swami Vivekananda who led him through a deeper experiences of ascending into higher planes of consciousness remember Daji was speaking today morning about the sub-conscient ocean below and the super-conscient ocean above and that thin layer in between he was ascending into the super-conscient layers there he came across many many stratas of consciousness and he maps it meticulously and this is one of the great work that he has done in terms of a detailed of the planes of consciousness that lies above the mind when the mind evolves beyond the normal strata that is available to it what are the stages of that ascension so he referred to one level as higher mind beyond that illumined mind beyond that the plane of intuition over mind and beyond that something that transcends mind altogether and he referred to that as the super-mind later he found the reference to it in the Vedas the Vedic Rishis refer to as the rhythm and the Upanishadic Rishis refer to that as Vijnana and or Mahas Vijnanas also is here but then he realized that knowledge of that was relatively lost in the long history of India and by the time he came out of the jail he had his greater mission worked out for him already he saw that humanity was heading for an evolutionary crisis and freedom of India was only a step on the way and India has a great work to do for the world because at least for the last 5,000 years in this country this exploration of consciousness this research into consciousness and how that can be operationalized in the world had been going on and that work is coming to a point that has to reach to the world and there is an evolutionary transition that is bound to happen on earth which has not happened so far and he was not referring to individuals liberating but a whole new species arising on earth as a result of what he referred to as the Supramental Consciousness coming down and becoming operational in matter on earth and that became his work and when he came to Pondicherry when he left freedom struggle because he wanted to work on this and there was a clear inner guidance where he came here settled working on this ascending into those higher levels and not in a trans condition we know about Samadhi Nirvigapa Samadhi Swapna Samadhi all that but in a state of trans withdrawal from the externalities going into deep trans ascending whereas what he was working on was how to bring that into active dynamic living condition of the body it is not even Swapna Samadhi we can say in the Gita's language Karmasamadhi in action how you establish that higher consciousness in the body as a result there is a transformation that is bound to happen eventually leading towards a new species on earth and he says though these things are implied in the yoga of the Gita it is not explicitly stated it is implied whereas now time has come and we can see that on earth now in the world the mind is reaching a plateau the level of complexity that is created by our present civilization is so intricate so vast it is no more possible for the mind to understand and manage the complexity and we are likely to self-destruct and a whole new being whole new consciousness in an active creative condition has to be established and that was the work he and mother his spiritual collaborator who joined him who took up and in 1956 by the time in 1950s Yorvindo had already left his body brought in this higher consciousness closer to the physical but there was strong resistance in the physical and he said I will work from the other side the subtler side of reality mother would continue from this side and he left in 1950 within six years mother would bring down into earth consciousness the supramandal force on February 28th and that is a decisive turn in the history of earth but not known beyond Yorvindo and mother's community because it is a subtler work happening in consciousness something that they have worked for decades finally manifesting and that was almost like disrupting the balance of earth from old to something new that will emerge and that work is going on behind the scenes on one hand we have a world that is disintegrating breaking apart of the old world and there is a whole new world that is arising and a new consciousness that is happening and within the species the higher level of consciousness is bound to manifest more and more and according to Shri Yorvindo and mother eventually a new species will arise on the planet and so there is this whole collapse of the old awakening and rising up of the new a whole new creation happening so you can see our mind will be increasingly becoming obsolete and higher consciousness than mind will be necessary and in that context to accelerate that work already in the 60s there was this cold war happening and in his five dreams Shri Yorvindo even mentioned a catastrophe might intervene and destroy the work but he said even then the divine will will prevail in 1960s when mother had this idea of creating Oroville she wanted to bring in all the nations together the reason is there was this tremendous conflict building up the cold war between US and Russia and tremendous build up of nuclear weapons and destruction was imminent and she wanted to tilt that balance and she wanted the nations to open to collaboration and even if the scale is small if the nations collaborate there will be a tilt of balance of the power of destruction so this idea of Oroville was brought forth and all the nations of the united nations 124 member states agreed like a miracle even US and USSR came here with a handful of soil to collaborate and on that ground Oroville was late but it is like a seed a small seed but she said the size and the scale of action is not the important part but the very fact that these nations are collaborating that makes the difference and she was planning a city for 50,000 people from all over the world a city that is dedicated to the evolution of consciousness for human unity a place of unending education and there was a master plan to build a city and she said no rules and this is not an ashram you have to build a city and you have to find ways of organizing yourself defining your own rules as you evolve finding a way of self-government and sustenance a self-sustaining city a city with a soul an unlike unconventional traditional ways of building a city where we see in the town planning we have economic zones that is meant to generate wealth that sustains the city life so even in the beginning when Aurovilleos conceived people were suggesting we should start industries first mother said no build Matrimandir first the soul of the city and that was right at the center and the early decades of Aurovilleos building of Matrimandir the soul of the city and the soul is now building its body, its mind its life and all its commerce everything that is unfolding how do we self-organize and evolve how do we create a collective life that focuses on self-discovery apply yoga in life where Sri Aurobindo said all life is yoga everything we do in daily life is a means for spiritual progress and transformation and how do we do that how do we open ourselves to that karma yoga that is continuous non-stop it is not about only the meditation that is sitting but how do you meditate in action how to make action transformative and of course for that the center in the heart the divine seated in the heart finding that forms the first condition because that connects us with the divine presence that is there in everything so that every act becomes a consecration to the divine doesn't matter what you do taking bath changing dress eating meals cooking meals doesn't matter what taking that into a consecration and are you coming from that deep sense of the sacred and how are you able to open to the divine influx the divine shock the entering and acting through the instrument and that became the simple process where mother said remember and offer it's extremely simple one hand on other side it is very difficult because we live in forgetfulness waking up to that presence within and enabling every little action to be a consecration to the divine so that we understand what Vedic Rishis we are singing Agni meele purohida yajnasya devaritvijam hotaram datnadatamam that perfect order and delight how does it manifest and what is this Agni this human aspiration that longing in the heart the will to progress the sacred thirst and that's not a matter of technique and that is something that is there like growth of the plants the trees the awakening of a seed everywhere this fire is working through and it is working through us to progress so opening ourselves to that will to progress that thirst to grow into that divine nature and when that call from below moves our actions grace from above is bound to come and as the Agni was referring to the rain from above but how receptive are we how do we prepare ourselves to be receptive to the grace that is pouring down into the instrument so how comes cleansing purification of all the instruments so that we are receptive to the grace that is pouring in and we can become the willing servitors of the divine consciousness and how do we prepare a whole society towards this how to transform our education system towards this how do we transform our healthcare system towards it how do we transform our economic system towards it how do we transform our governance system towards this and this is a lab and it is a prototype in the making and we are not the scientists we are the guinea pigs the divine we are all manifesting something to which our little mind is unable to really grasp but the more it becomes silent the more we become peaceful the more we can open to the vast action of a higher consciousness that is omnipresent omniscient omnipotent and that is acting through all but we need deep quietude to be receptive and it can move and it can transform our human nature into divine nature and so that is the process and each one is left to find in their own way and perfection of integral yoga is when each person unique way of opening to that presence that force that guides leads transforms thank you any questions I will be happy to take up we have few more minutes when you said around 50,000 people are planning to live in ROL so what are the steps taken by ROL towards that so far ROL had been building its ground regenerating the soil but in terms of outreach to attract people it was never done it is like when flower blooms bees would come though unfortunately only around 3,300 bees have come so far and from 60 countries we need to create conditions that attract more people and we are still figuring out how to do that especially say when you have a living spiritual master when mother was there things were very easy it was pouring in in the absence of a spiritual master living here this became a question of ordinary human nature trying to figure out in their own way in our own way in our own limited way and figuring out even the 3,300 how do you live in harmony now before we bring in brigger inflex that itself is a challenge when each one is coming with their own language their own difficulties you know that even within a given family how difficult it is to create harmony so imagine people from all over the world with such diverse culture coming together so there is a in a way battle ground karmakshetra kurukshetra there is a battle happening number of people who are willing to join we are waiting and the conditions of the game here is fundamentally different there is no private property nobody can own any land no one can have any asset if you are starting a business creating wealth it doesn't belong to you it belongs to the divine and having the courage to drop the past and jump into that fire and give yourself to the adventure of the unknown where you have no safety belt you have to find the way and we have as of now 3,300 people we hope we pray we request mother send them probably many of you might get inspired most welcome but it is an adventure there is no shortcut only the true spiritual consciousness will attract the right people I ask the question because even I born here but I know very limited about the Auroville even the residents here in around bondage area even they are very limited knowledge about the ashram even we live within around ashram so we see something like these people are something like aliens so we are something different local so something people should we should think yeah one of the differences there is no fixed technique and method prescribed by mother and she or even though that everyone practices something that can be scaled up they have established a force that is doing its work and each individual has to find their own way of transformation there are fundamental principles that are common that makes it very difficult for people to understand often people read mother and she or even though and say what is the method how do I practice I don't know and this is a challenge and we need to do work in that area to make sure even though more accessible and find ways of conveying that you can convert every little activity into a practice so that more and more people learn the art integral karma yoga and it's not a technique again that's a challenge but there is work to do there and we are working towards that and yes I hope this reaches out attracts the right people Namaste and thank you for the introduction in the deep aspect also I was wanted to know in a norovillian life how is how does the community sense of community manifest do you have things that you do together or some or place where you eat together or something like this where is the where does the community manifest in everyday life the center of it is mother and she or even though now for them connection for that unifies everyone holds everyone together in spite of all the differences then in terms of practically coming together and experiencing in the early decades it was building of matrimon there working together concreting digging the soil and parallelly digging the earth planting trees that is satsang and that's karma yoga and well when you work together that's where all the differences show up and it's very easy to come together meditate and we do have people who ever wants to create group meditations come together do that relatively easy but when you take up a project work on it that's when the ego shows up and that's where the boundaries that are well hidden shows up and in that you it is even though it is painful it doesn't look as pleasant as singing bhajans or sitting in meditative but that's where the ego boundaries get exposed and you become more and more self aware and transformation happens and of course there are places like solar kitchen which is our largest community kitchen where we eat together and there are many community kitchens many art events many all types of collective events are happening where we meet but it is in work really the deep bonds are made and when you go through the challenges because Auroville is a place full of challenges and that's when the the cracks in consciousness the gaps in consciousness get become visible and there is nowhere to hide your naked of your own limitations and you see it okay this has to be worked on we are not able to sit together and talk to each other okay let me take a deep breath let's find a way it doesn't look very pleasant but that's where we build the true foundation thank you any other question please I don't think that is actually any individual work in Auroville just show one work people think that I am an individual doing it where is it if you kind of want to come out of your house and put yourself into one of the thing as a participant or kind of contribution to the community then again it is a contribution to the whole community there isn't any individual work here what do you have you come out of your house you can only come out for a social work you can only come out for that social work you come out for your protest you go to that and you hook up that is the solution the other part is that the protest Auroville is a society that is the whole it is not an individual work I am just explaining that there is nothing you can move as an individual anything that you want to come out of and just put your feet, it becomes a community. It's a place of collective yoga. You do it for everyone. Where are the Keldigarh? Is there any restriction that only this number of people should come from a country like that? No. There is no such restrictions. And is there any specific practice which can take people to super conscious levels? As I was explaining simple things like remember and offer your work, work as worship, though there are hundreds of such simple practices given. Even it is up to each individual to take up even just one and go deep. And there is no formal demand on individuals to you must practice this or that. This is a place where individual liberty is maximized. And it is allowed for you to find your own ways, struggling or stumbling your way through mistakes but learn from the mistake because this place demands individuals who are individualized. That is you become a strong individual. You are able to think for yourself and the soul is individualized. So that space of individual liberty is very important for people to find their own method. So there is nothing that is common for everyone. There is a common belief that a practice has to be done every day in a given time, in a given amount of time. Only then and that too guided by a master, there will be a sustainable growth, a sustainable development or a promotion rather to higher levels. There is a common belief in India. In every system there is a belief that there should be a practice and that should be practiced every day in a given time. Yes, non-stop. That's why Sri Aurobindo says all life is yoga. Everything that you do must be done from that perspective. One can do things mechanically. Even one can do puja, bhajans, everything mechanically. It will not have effect. What makes the difference is the conscious aspiration behind the action. So once you become conscious and you need to develop it individually and it cannot be brought from outside. So every act as you become more and more conscious becomes a consecration. We do call that as a constant remembrance. In remembrance of the higher consciousness we have to do all this karma. But in addition to that we have practices also. It is required especially to establish and begin our ground, forming our ground. Group practices are good. For example, I have a group of people with whom we work and what we found is when you practice together as a group it is ten times more effective than trying to do alone. And so group practice together. But you have a wide palette of options because each individual is at a different stage of growth. And according to the requirement of that individual we need to customize it. And those who are practicing similar practices come together and do it together and that accelerates tremendously. That's how we are exploring it. Thank you. Maybe it's time for lunch. Brother, good afternoon brother. What is the ultimate goal of this integral yoga? Here we have no living guru. What is the ultimate aim and goal of the integral yoga brother here? An integral union with the divine. Not only in the formless but in the very matter itself. All the way across the spectrum. Then whatsoever the divine does, that's the right thing. Is it a difficulty without living guru doing these such a practice? Sri Aurobindo is alive and present everywhere in every particle of this place. Mother is present everywhere. Only the body has disappeared. It's not visible to us. But it is our common experience. Whenever we run into any difficulty when there is a deep call there is a direct intervention, help that happens. And it is our common experience. So it is not that they are gone and not available. They are present. But of course someone who has embodied that consciousness and that presence, physical presence always helps but it is left to the individual to find with whom you want to associate with.