Deeper Preparation for Effectively Using Secret Sounds, Part II

Baba Sri Siva Speaks:

"Blessings. Last week I discussed how you are creating misery through the power of your past actions and thoughts, your karma. The good news is there IS a way out of karma.

Currently, the misery prolongs and you may ask, “Is there a way out or do I have to suffer to my death? If that is what karma means, do I have any hope?” Yes, you do. But as I have said last week, it is difficult to make changes in this area.

Why is it difficult? Because you are fighting against material reality. Reality is of two kinds. One is a spiritual reality, and another is a material reality.

Let me give you an example. There is ice, snow, water, steam—all of which are H2O. These are different stages of H2O at a different temperatures. When H2O become ice, it acquires maximum physicality.

It is very difficult to change the structure of the ice because it has become like a stone, very hard. But when it is snow, it is easy to change. When it is steam, it is easier to change. But now, at this phase, we are living a material life that is comparable to the ice.

That's why it is difficult to change. But remember I am not saying that it is impossible to change. It is possible to change, but it requires energy to wake up and diffuse your karma.

You can diffuse materiality, the material elements that are going to come that you created in your past births. You do this by becoming alert. All you need to do to diffuse your karma is to dispel the spell. You are under a spell. You are like a robot. You are asleep although you say you are in a waking state.

You have to become alert to the core. You have to create more energy to diffuse the karma. When you become alert, you begin to challenge reality, challenge karma. When you challenge karma, you are not going to accept things as they are. Every minute you are going to be conscious. At no time are you going to be unconscious.

If you are unconscious, you are allowing things to happen. You are causing the karma to manifest. The moment you become alert, you challenge karma. So the way to diffuse karma is to become alert and not allow the robot to continue in the way it is continuing.

It requires a tremendous amount of energy to do things better. You are not going to live life the way you have lived so far. The way you have lived so far is to just live life without consciousness.

We love to forget ourselves. We have no consciousness to realize that we are breathing. That's why the Buddha said that at least for an hour you should become conscious of your breathing. And he said that while you are doing this exercise, you have to be so conscious that you should not even miss one breath. Because the breath and the mind are related processes.

Yet even for five minutes, you cannot put your mind on the breath. If you have successfully become aware of your breath for an hour, that will change your life entirely because by that time you will have created enough energy, enough alertness to diffuse karma.

So what will diffuse karma is attention. If you are attentive, then things cannot get overlooked. You can stop things by virtue of your own attention. We don't have much attention now. We just allow things to happen. So with attention, you can stop things. This is the law of nature. Attention means care. Attention and care are synonymous. If you bring more attention, you bring more care.

You don't care now. Mike Tyson has great muscles that you and I don't have. Why? Did he care for his muscles? He did. Did you care for your muscles? No. And how did he care for them? His whole life was the muscles.

So what you need is care, more attention. When you bring more attention, then you become more alert. Then karma will stop. Karma stops because you are waking up to a different dimension of existence where you are able to see the karma coming forth, and then the attention burns the karma.

This is how you avoid the dangers that are yet to come. Patanjali, the enlightened Indian yogi who collected the Yoga Sutras, stated why people need to meditate. You have to meditate because you have to avoid the danger that has not yet come.

You have created enough dangers for several lifetimes. They are unfolding. This lifetime is not enough to live those events, so you are going to create other lives to enjoy it or suffer it. So what you have to do is just meditate more.

By meditating you create more awareness. The Buddha sat under the bodhi tree before his enlightenment, and he began to relive all the karma that he had to pass through. And emptied it.

Then, there was no more karma to emerge. That is why he said that total reality is emptiness. There is nothing out there and in that emptiness you are full. Emptiness is not a negative quality. Emptiness is unlimited life in which you are not defined. You are infinite. And that, he said, is the nature of every human being to live without karma.

That is produced by awareness. When you become more aware, you see into the limited circumstances that the mind creates and makes it real. For example, look at a six-year-old girl—she wants all kinds of toys. And what is your attitude toward the girl? Why does she want all these toys? Why does she want chocolate all the time? But for the kid it is so real and so tempting.

The same analogy applies to grown-up people also. The only thing is that they like different toys. The toys are different. For the grown-ups, these toys are very real. Just as for the girl, the chocolate and the candy bars are real.

For the Buddha, he is able to see from his own plane that these are all games. We have to end playing these games at some point in our life. When you do that, you end karma. What can make you come to this conclusion is more awareness. More awareness means more intelligence.

The Buddha means one who has accessed Buddhi. Buddhi means intelligence capitalized. It is not intelligence in the Western psychological sense. Intelligence is universal understanding in which you understand everything about yourself and about the cosmos.

From that perspective, everything seems to be a game—an illusion. One has to wake up to the reality which is infinite intelligence. Intelligence is synonymous with awareness. You have to become aware. You eat with awareness. You sleep with awareness. You study with awareness. You work with awareness. You play with awareness.

You never lose your awareness no matter what you do. What happens now is that your awareness is being eaten by your thought process. The thought process is like a vampire. It sucks up all of your energy and limits you. And you live a life as though there is no existence other than thought existence.

Thoughts are your guests. They check in and check out. You are the host. No thought can remain within the system forever. Become alert. The thought will fall away like a dead leaf from a tree. The moment you become aware and tell yourself, “This thought is trying to cheat me and make me unhappy, I dismiss you”, the thought will fall away.

If you give reality to the thought, that thought will give rise to another thought and another thought and another. And, “Oh, how he cheated me on this” and then you will begin to analyze all the incidents trying to make up a case to make yourself more miserable. You can become alert and dismiss the thought. “I don't want it. I don't want to be unhappy. I don't want this thought at all.” And for that you need more consciousness, more awareness, because you can't allow the robot thought do its thing.

Sometimes it is the knowledge that becomes the problem. Shakespeare had a great understanding about this. In his play, “Othello”, somebody came and told Othello that his wife, Desdemona, was having an affair with another guy, even though this was not actually true. He successfully planted this suspicion in Othello's mind, and Othello's mind began to rage. “This woman is cheating me!” And in the play he puts his hands on his head to see if he has horns, indicating he thinks she is cheating. The gesture is from a belief in ancient Greece that if your wife cheats on you, you will grow horns. And he begins to analyze the situation. He continues to analyze, analyze, and then he concludes that he's just like dust in the wind.

At one point he says, "What sense had I of her stol'n hours of lust? I saw't not, thought it not, it harmed not me." He wonders what is bothering him, is it that Desdemona is really sleeping with this guy or the knowledge that he has that she slept with him? And he says, "I had been happy if the general camp...had tasted her sweet body, so I had nothing known", meaning if his entire army had slept with Desdemona and if he had not known, he would be in bliss. So what bothers him is not the actual act, but the knowledge that she has slept with this man, which he does not know whether it is true or not.

So you have to step outside the thought process and for that you need awareness. And then you can check what you can do and what you cannot do. But sometimes there will be an obstinate thought. It can be there for two and a half days according to the yogis.

If you have a very serious obsession on an issue, it cannot stay there for more than two and a half days in a very intense way. After that, it has to drop out in some way or other. It's not going to have the same intensity.

So by becoming more conscious you can stop these processes and when you do that, you are diffusing karma. So you have to learn to develop more consciousness within you.

There is a bodily awareness that you have to create, and then awareness of the consciousness itself is another project. While sitting here, you can become conscious. Right now, you are unconscious. I can create consciousness in you provided I tell you how to do it. It's a simple exercise. Try this right now.

Just sit and then become conscious of yourself, conscious of your body. In order to remain focused, you should keep your eyeballs still. Keep your eyeballs still and just become conscious of your skin all over the body. You will be creating an energy field.

You see how it happens? So if you remain in this way, you'll become more and more conscious. The Buddhists believed in this methodology because it agreed with their system in which there is no God, no soul. What exists is your own consciousness. You are not using your consciousness in the right way.

The Buddha is not dead even today because of his philosophy. Remember that the Buddha lived 600 years before the Christ, at a time when civilization was not existing in many parts of the world. He came with his idea that there was no God, no soul. What exists is consciousness, you must be alert and this is the process of evolution. And that's how he challenged karma.

This is the Buddhist model. But I don't totally subscribe to the Buddhist model. My own tradition is a tradition that equally emphasizes changing the physical reality. My tradition is called the Tamil Siddha tradition. It's a very small tradition that is not very well known.

These people believe in changing life both materially and spiritually. You have to challenge even your material reality and change it not for the next life, but right now for this life itself. So their philosophy is 200% life: 100% material progress, 100% spiritual change.

But then their concept of mind is mechanistic. The mind is a bunch of sounds. This is the model of the Siddhas.

And what did they mean by the statement that your mind is a bunch of sounds? Your mind is made up of language. Ninety percent of your mind is language. If you pull out language from the mind, the mind would not exist.

Then, what is language? Language is sound; sound and meaning put together. Now, what is sound? Sound is just a bunch of vowels and consonants. So if you understand vowels and consonants, you have understood part of your mind.

So, if you want to change your mind, change the sounds in your consciousness. Your mind has a sound pattern. Your unconscious has a sound pattern.

Next week I will continue this discussion. In the meantime, continue to re-read this newsletter and the other newsletters. Spend some time each day doing some of the suggested exercises.

I have discussed elsewhere that your money karma is carried out in life through the planets. I recommend that you find out which planets are directly involved in creating financial hardships for you and do some remedies to change those bad influences."