Allow Your Deeper Intelligence To Flow
When doing The Invitation, simply trust Guruji's voice and presence without the mind's interpretations - let the deeper intelligence flow and don't buy into any conceptual understanding of whether it's helping or hindering.
When I’m si^ng with The InvitaHon* the more relaxed I get the more pressure and tension I start to feel in my head area (head region) and that pulls the aZenHon and most of the Hme I feel stuck there so this is the killer or whatever we call it. Also, the mind is saying at the same Hme that ‘now you're si^ng here again wasHng your Hme because you don't know if you're in the right posiHon’ and also it's saying ‘what if you are making things worse by si^ng in the wrong posiHon.’
Okay, okay this is a good one. So let's really look at this, so what happens is (and you can correct me if I misunderstood) when you put on *The InvitaHon and you follow Guruji's [Sri Moojiji] words then you feel very relaxed iniHally and then suddenly you find some pressures appearing in your head and your face, it can feel like something is tensing up over there and the mind…
It’s also coming right now.
Coming right now?
Yeah.
Very good, so the mind uses that to say ‘You must be doing something wrong or you have not really understood how to do this and even worse you are making it worse.’ So you started off more Free than [Sangha Ananta Smile] you are now… asking this kind of quesHon while doing *The InvitaHon. The mind uses this kind of circumstanHal evidence to convince you that there's something wrong, there's some mistake. Now, the good thing about the guided meditaHon especially something as potent as *The InvitaHon, is that you just have to put it on, you cannot do it wrong. The only seeming mistake you can make is by trying to do it too hard or too much. Like when it's put on then Guruji is asking these quesHons which very naturally you will answer from your intuiHon, from your heart. Any of these things you will say ‘no, no’ very gently you will noHce, this intuiHvely you will noHce. Especially a quesHon like this ‘Can you die, can this die?’ There is no conceptual way to answer that in the right or wrong way. So *The InvitaHon is to not go to your head in any way and come up with any conceptual answers, just go along with what your heart is telling you and from your deeper insight you will see you cannot die. So, the only seeming wrong way to do it is to try and become conceptual about it and say ‘Can I die? No, no, was I born? No, no Banki said ‘I’m the unborn’ therefore ‘No, I can't die’ so the set of inferences is not the way to do *The InvitaHon (and not that you are doing it like that). I’m saying that one set of trouble I found with *The InvitaHon or guidance meditaHon where people try to become too heavy or intellectual about it. So it doesn't feel like (it doesn't seem) like you're doing that. So now in a way your quesHon is ‘Why does this happen to me?’ And we cannot truly say. All I can say is that it is not uncommon (especially in India) when you are finding yourself to be open and empty for something to get like acHvated in the head region and someHmes can seem to get very… Like here also when I used to meditate (much earlier before meeHng Guruji – Sri Mooji) what would start happening is like something would just start to get very constricted and then the mind will come and say ‘But, this can't be good.’ But I was part of a spiritual Sangha then and I noHced that those who are meditaHng, it was happening to many of them, then I just felt like ‘Okay, this is what happens, it's fine, it's completely fine.’ So I would recommend the same approach - Just trust Guruji's words, Guruji's Presence, and whatever is unfolding in the body-mind set of percepHons, just trust that all of that is Grace. Anyway, you are not trying to do *The InvitaHon for some sort of progress or something like that. So the mind’s aZempts to say ‘But, you're not making progress you are actually regressing’ you can throw that away because what Guruji is poinHng to is not a result of some progress or it's not in the Hme that you can have a sort of phenomenal relaHonship with it. It is just immediate, immediately you come to this Self-discovery and following the simple quesHons that he's posing to us and using the Presence of his voice and the beauHful Presence that is available, we come to an immediate insight. So it's not in the construct of Hme that can play with this whole thing of progress and regress and doing beZer or doing worse, it's not any of that. The only thing that you have to do in Hme is to put it on.
[Smiles]Yeah.
That's all you have to do then what happens to you, how it happens, whether it is good, bad, all is his problem that is the inner a^tude that you should take when you follow the meditaHon. Just make it Guruji’s thing. The mind comes and says ‘But, this is not helping you’ all my father's problem all for him to deal with. Nothing, nothing is my concern. He said ‘You should do the invitaHon’ that's it, I do it because he said that's all. And the rest of it is not my concern because like I’m saying for you to say ‘it's not my concern’ because we don't know what is good for us, what is bad for us, what is helpful, what is not helpful, so that's why trust comes in. If you were to do only that which you already knew is raHonal in your head, then there's no need for trust because everybody does what they think is raHonal anyway. Trust is needed and especially devoHon is needed when we can't fathom ‘what is happening? Is it making something beZer? Is it making it worse? Where am I going with this? Am I going to get it?’ all these kinds of quesHons we don't aZempt to answer because we trust the Master. Then the mind cannot poke you in these ways, it cannot poke you in these ways and say ‘What's happening? Are you doing the right thing? Are you doing it right? There’s no wrong way to do it actually.
So basically you are saying ‘Let the minds speak but don't put any value and also…’
Don’t buy into any of it’s constructs. Because what the mind is doing is pretending to be a friend saying ‘I’m your spiritual friend and you watch how’. Trying to convert this manifest play into a conceptual understanding is what the mind does in every situaHon and when we buy into that noHon that ‘this is true, this is what actually is, Mr. mind you have an accurate representaHon of what is’ that is what is called ‘belief.’ When Consciousness gives it that Truth value then, then we make this box, conceptual box, which the mind will constantly poke (it’s own box) just to make you suffer that is the game of this, this limited the, the seller of the limited ideas about ourselves, that's how it plays is.
And the same with the, the pressure like that comes just let it be also.
Of course, of course.
All right.
An example is coming, coming here so I’m going to menHon that - So what happened with Socrates is that he was told by the authoriHes to drink the poison chalice, chalice and somebody said (Plato and all these other disciples came and said) ‘You must appeal this, you must fight this, you must go to protest.’ And Socrates said ‘But, I don't know whether that is worse or beZer so why should I challenge it if life is bringing it here for me?’ In the same way, whatever experiences are coming we don't know whether they are for the good or they are for the bad. So we just have to follow our heart, you have to just trust. Conceptually we cannot know, so it is beZer to just allow the deeper intelligence to flow as it is flowing. Like I could give you many reassuring answers like ‘It's your condiHoning that's been blown out of you or some chakras are opening up or something is happening’ but I don't want to do that because I don't want to provide more reasons. It is a reason that gets us in trouble and it is trust that saves us. so I don't want to give you a reason. I want to just invite you to trust.
Thank you, thank you.
Very good, very good my dear. *Reference – The InvitaHon To Freedom, a Powerful Guided MeditaHon by Sri Moojiji hZps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5_sbzSXs0E
Key Teachings
- The mind uses any physical sensation or circumstance as evidence that you're doing something wrong - don't buy into its constructs, simply notice and let them pass
- The Invitation meditation cannot be done wrong; just follow Guruji's words intuitively from your heart rather than trying to conceptualize answers
- Whatever arises (tension, pressure, doubt) is part of Grace - trust the Master's guidance and allow the deeper intelligence to flow without needing to understand intellectually
From: What Do You Intuit About Who You Are? - 29th April 2022