112 ways to open the invisible door of consciousness.
- Radiant one, this experience may dawn between two breaths. After breath comes in (down) and just before turning up (out) — the beneficence.
- As breath turns from down to up, and again as breath curves from up to down—through both these turns, realize.
- Or, whenever inbreath and outbreath fuse, at this instant touch the energyless energy-filled center.
- Or, when breath is all out (up) and stopped of itself, or all in (down) and stopped—in such universal pause, one's small self vanishes. This is difficult only for the impure.
- Consider your essence as light rays rising from center to center up the vertebrae, and so rises livingness in you.
- Or in the spaces between, feel this as lightning.
- Devi, imagine the Sanskrit letters in these honey-filled foci of awareness, first as letters, then more subtly as sounds, then as most subtle feeling. Then, leaving them aside, be free.
- Attention between eyebrows, let mind be before thought. Let form fill with breath-essence to the top of the head, and there shower as light.
- Or, imagine the five-colored circles of the peacock tail to be your five senses in illimitable space. Now let their beauty melt within. Similarly, at any point in space or on a wall — until the point dissolves. Then your wish for another comes true.
- Eyes closed, see your inner being in detail. Thus see your true nature.
- Place your whole attention in the nerve, delicate as the lotus thread, in the center of your spinal column. In such be transformed.
- Closing the seven openings of the head with your hands, a space between your eyes becomes all-inclusive.
- Touching eyeballs as a feather, lightness between them opens into heart and there permeates the cosmos.
- Bathe in the center of sound, as in the continuous sound of a waterfall. Or, by putting fingers in ears, hear the sound of sounds.
- Intone a sound, as a-u-m, slowly. As sound enters soundfulness, so do you.
- In the beginning and gradual refinement of the sound of any letter, awake.
- While listening to stringed instruments, hear their composite central sound; thus omnipresence.
- Intone a sound audibly, then less and less audibly as feeling deepens into this silent harmony.
- Imagine spirit simultaneously within and around you until the entire universe spiritualizes.
- Kind Devi, enter etheric presence pervading far above and below your form.
- Put mindstuff in such inexpressible fineness above, below, and in your heart.
- Consider any area of your present form as limitlessly spacious.
- Feel your substance, bones, flesh, blood, saturated with cosmic essence.
- Suppose your passive form to be an empty room with walls of skin - empty.
- Blessed one, as senses are absorbed in heart, reach the center of the lotus.
- Unminding mind, keep in the middle - until.
- When in worldly activity, keep attentive between the two breaths, and so practicing, in a few days be born anew. [Lakshmanjoo says this is his favorite.]
- Focus on fire rising through your form from the toes up until the body burns to ashes but not you.
- Meditate on the make-believe world as burning to ashes, and become being above human.
- Feel the fine qualities of creativity permeating your breasts and assuming delicate configurations.
- With intangible breath in center of forehead, as this reaches heart at the moment of sleep, have direction over dreams and over death itself.
- As, subjectively, letters flow into words and words into sentences, and as, objectively, circles flow into worlds and worlds into principles, find at last these converging in our being.
- Gracious one, play the universe is an empty shell wherein your mind frolics infinitely.
- Look upon a bowl without seeing the sides or the material. In a few moments become aware.
- Abide in some place endlessly spacious, clear of trees, hills, habitations. Thence comes the end of mind pressures.
- Sweet-hearted one, meditate on knowing and not knowing, existing and not existing. Then leave both aside that you may be.
- Look lovingly on some object Do not go on to another object. Here, in the middle of this object — the blessing.
- Feel cosmos as translucent ever-living presence.
- With utmost devotion, center on the two junctions of breath and know the knower.
- Consider the plenum to be your own body of bliss.
- While being caressed, sweet princess, enter the caressing as everlasting life.
- Stop the doors of senses when feeling the creeping of an ant. Then.
- At the start of sexual union, keep attention on the fire in the beginning, and, so continuing, avoid the embers in the end.
- When in such embrace your senses are shaken as leaves, enter this shaking.
- Even remembering union, without the embrace, the transformation.
- On joyously seeing a long-absent friend, permeate this joy.
- When eating or drinking, become the taste of the food or drink, and be filled.
- 0 lotus-eyed one, sweet of touch, when singing, seeing, tasting, be aware you are and discover the ever-living.
- Wherever satisfaction is found, in whatever act, actualize this.
- At the point of sleep when sleep has not yet come and external wakefulness vanishes, at this point being is revealed. [Lakshmanjoo says this is another of his favorites.]
- In summer when you see the entire sky endlessly clear, enter such clarity.
- Lie down as dead. Enraged in wrath, stay so. Or stare without moving an eyelash. Or
suck something and become the sucking.
- Without support for feet or hands, sit only on buttocks. Suddenly, the centering.
- In an easy position, gradually pervade an area between the armpits into great peace.
- See as if for the first time a beauteous person or an ordinary object.
- With mouth slightly open, keep mind in the middle of tongue. Or, as breath comes silently in, feel the sound HH.
- When on a bed or a seat, let yorself become weightless, beyond mind.
- In a moving vehicle, by rhythmically swaying, experience. Or in a still vehicle, by letting yourself swing in slowing invisible circles.
- Simply by looking into the blue sky beyond clouds, the serenity.
- Shakti, see all space as if already absorbed in your own head in the brilliance.
- Waking, sleeping, dreaming, know you as light.
- In rain during a black night, enter that blackness as the form of forms.
- When a moonless raining night is not present, close eyes and find blackness before you. Opening eyes, see blackness. So faults disappear forever.
- Just as you have the impulse to do something, stop.
- Center on the sound a-u-m without any a or m
- Silently intone a word ending in AH. Then in the HH effortlessly, the spontaneity.
- Feel yourself as pervading all directions, far, near.
- Pierce some part of your nectar-filled form with a pin, and gently enter the piercing.
- Feel: My thought, I-ness, internal organs—me.
- Illusions deceive. Colors circumscribe. Even divisibles are indivisible.
- When some desire comes, consider it. Then, suddenly, quit it.
- Before desire and before knowing, how can I say I am? Consider. Dissolve in the beauty.
- With your entire consciousness in the very start of desire, of knowing, know.
- 0 Shakti, each particular perception is limited, disappearing in omnipotence.
- In truth forms are inseparate. Inseparate are omnipresent being and your own form. Realize each as made of this consciousness.
- In moods of extreme desire, be undisturbed.
- This so-called universe appears as a juggling, a picture show. To be happy look upon it so.
- 0 Beloved, put attention neither on pleasure or pain but between these.
- Toss attachment for body aside, realizing I am everywhere. One who is everywhere is joyous.
- Objects and desires exist in me as in others. So accepting, let them be translated.
- The appreciation of objects and subjects is the same for an enlightened as for an unenlightened person. The former has one greatness: he remains in the subjective mood, not lost in things.
- Feel the consciousness of each person as your own consciousness. So, leaving aside concern for self, become each being.
- Thinking no thing, will limited-self unlimit.
- Believe omniscient, omnipotent, pervading.
- As waves come with water and flames with fire, so the universal waves with us.
- Roam about until exhausted and then, dropping to the ground, in this dropping be
- Suppose you are gradually being deprived of strength or of knowledge. At the instant of deprivation, transcend.
- Listen while the ultimate mystical teaching is imparted: Eyes still, without winking, at once become absolutely free.
- Stopping ears by pressing and rectum by contracting, enter the sound of sound.
- At the edge of a deep well look steadily into its depths until — the wondrousness.
- Wherever your mind is wandering, internally or externally at this very place, this.
- When vividly aware through some particular sense, keep in the awareness.
- At the start of sneezing, during fright, in anxiety, above a chasm, flying in battle, in extreme curiosity, at the beginning of hunger, at the end of hunger, be uninterruptedly aware.
- Let attention be at a place where you are seeing some past happening, and even your form, having lost its present characteristics, is transformed.
- Look upon some object, then slowly withdraw your sight from it, then slowly withdraw your thought from it. Then.
- Feel an object before you. Feel the absence of all other objects but this one. Then, leaving aside the object-feeling and the absence-feeling, realize.
- The purity of other teachings is as impurity to us. In reality know nothing as pure or impure.
- This consciousness exists as each being, and nothing else exists.
- Be the unsame same to friend as to stranger, in honor and dishonor.
- When a mood against someone or for someone arises, do not place it on the person in question, but remain centered.
- Suppose you contemplate something beyond perception, beyond grasping, beyond not being, you.
- Enter space, supportless, eternal, still.
- Wherever your attention alights, at this very point, experience.
- Enter the sound of your name and, through this sound, all sounds.
- I am existing. This is mine. This is this. 0 Beloved, even in such know illimitably.
- This consciousness is the spirit of guidance of each one. Be this one.
- Here is a sphere of change, change, change. Through change consume change.
- As a hen mothers her chicks, mother particular knowings, particular doings, in reality.
- Since, in truth, bondage and freedom are relative, these words are only for those terrified with the universe. This universe is a reflection of minds. As you see many suns in water from one sun, so see bondage and liberation.
- Each thing is perceived through knowing. The self shines in space through knowing. Perceive one being as knower and known.
- Beloved, at this moment let mind, knowing, breath, form, be included.