SPIRITUAL GAME

'EMOTIONS'

22.12.2017
This is the last Article about Emotions, of the series '22 Spiritual Games'. 
The Emotional aspect has two levels for consideration. First lies on Third, actual,  Emotional platform of consciousness, where all Emotions are gradually engaged in the service of the Lord explained in 'Nectar of Devotion' by Srila Rupa Gosvami, and is the transformation from Matter to Spirit, form external consciousness to the internal, up to the fourth level – which will be included in the First part of my book. The Second aspect of Emotions will be explained in the Second part of my book and is considering the Third level of sannyasa. This is explained in the Bhakti Rasamrta Sindhu, the waves Srila Rupa Gosvami discusses further after the preliminary knowledge of 'Nectar of Devotion'. As well as the 'Jaiva Dharma' of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura with all most subtle Emotional aspects, and the most subtle vision of a Vaisnava Etiquette on that levels of sannyasa, also perfectly showed by Lord Caitanya, we know from Caitanya Caritamrta for example. 
Here we are presenting the last and most powerful example of the Games, or relaxed engagement into the process of self-realization, the Meditation as a tool for spiritual progress. 
 
GAME SIX: 'PROCESS OF MEDITATION' 
This process is used when one wants to reach the sense of consciousness of one's own Internal Entity. Here the change of beliefs takes place from that which is detrimental and useless to the beliefs which suit to one's desires, which gives the power of life. The Meditation is the shortest way for that internal grow. 
Effective Meditation separates one from Physical consciousness, which causes the Resistance, like the cork kept by someone in the water, in the moment he releases that cork it immediately goes to the surface of the water – when there is no... Emotional Opposition (which is associating the participant of the self-realization process all the time in decreasing percentage, up to the top , culmination, and end of the process),... there are free, high, pure, and fast vibrations – this is one's natural place without any Resistance, the spiritual plane. 
Meditation is withdrawing the consciousness but one is still aware. Then one can recognize how he is feeling this higher vibrations, the new kind of 'Vibrational Sensitivity' appears in someone's realizations. This is the stage of 'Concession', one direct himself to the Source of Energy, to one's Internal Entity, to God with the words: 'Here I am in the state of Acceptance. I am allowing the Source of Energy to flow through me... please engage me in your service. This is the explanation of Maha Mantra given by Srila Prabhupada. 
We have Three general kinds of Meditation, First: Yoga Meditation with withdrawing the thoughts, pacify the mind, recommended for practice of more conscious breading – relaxing, which is important. Second: Meditation on the form of the Lord, starting from His Lotus Feet and gradually rising higher up to His lotus Face and smile, as recommended by the sastras. And the Third Meditation on the Mantra (including mantras, verses, spiritual songs, etc) where meditation on Maha Mantra is the most powerful vibration, immediately absorbing the mind of a participant, through the transformation into spiritual reality. This last meditation on Maha Mantra Hare Krsna and Sri Sri Radha Krsna, is explained by many acaryas, each word or line of Maha Mantra has some meaning they explain for meditation...
  
You are watched from the sky... Imagine you are standing on one side of the closed door, on the other side is all you ever wanted (spiritual desires), this all is waiting until you decide to enter. In the moment you open this door, all this things will flow to you...  And then we will organize the Seminar 'What to do with all the things which were gifted to you'... 
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We are leaving in a Virtual World where all things are steered by the 'Law Of Attraction'. One receives something he things, no matter he wants that or not. When one's Attention is directed to a certain thing, the harmony with that thing is created which then appears in one's life. God and the Universe respond to one's vibrations, to one's 'Attraction Centre'. That 'Attraction Centre' for devotees is Krsna or Radha Krsna.
GAME FOUR: 'VIRTUAL REALITY' Here we will discuss little lower EMOTIONAL level: 'BOREDOM'.
Generally people create vibrations while seeing the coming things, peoples, situations. The thoughts of those people are similar to their experiences. One can change this through the 'Process of Virtual Reality'.
Often the appearing of one's desire is a long term process connected with 'chewing' something one does not want, in the way of contrasts, when one is sick he wants to be healthy, when one have no money he wants money, when there is chaos one wants peace, etc.
There are three steps:
1.Asking, 2.Respond to one's request of God and the Universe, 3. Acceptance, Concession, to remain in open position to what one is asking for, and accept.
The steps 1st & 3rd are different, when one concentrates on something, prays for it, often he is not with the harmony with that thing, rather one concentrates on LACK of it. To receive the answer and come to the step 3rd one must find the proper vibration with that subject, like the radio waves, one can find the particular wave, find the desired station – the Spiritual Source, and receive the answer. Attune oneself by observing one's EMOTIONS. If one feels fatigue, frustration, anger or pain, that means the harmony is not achieved. Here the Resistance is removed and one can recognize the thoughts which cause the Resistance to withdraw from them. When there is no Resistance God is answering to one's prayers.
This FOURTH GAME of 'VIRTUAL REALITY' is like a work of a director on a film. One can think about creating the positive, bona fide, enlightening films, about for example: Book distribution – how the books illuminate the towns and villages; about Bhagavad Gita, stories from Srimad Bhagavatam and Caitanya Caritamrta, Srila Prabupada, the Vaisnavas, Spiritual World, Radha Krsna, Meditation, Deities, Rituals, Sadhana, Spiritual Arts like music, dance, cooking, dressing, or Animations, or Theatre, so many things. Who knows maybe one day ONLY such films will be broadcast on TV and Internet (or programs on Radio), all over the World.
As a director of a film one things about the place of action, the moment of action (day or the night), the air or light, the temperature, elements, dialogue, the mood and so one. No matter one is alone or with someone else (but with whom one feels good). The goal here is to woke up the positive vibrations which can bring one to express agreement to the flow of the positive ENERGY of God. Here one creates only all positive what he wishes, the complication can be only one's bad mood, anger or doubts. Every thought which causes bad EMOTIONS is wrong (what one things is projected on the plane of experience, sometimes through the contact with other's bad feelings – which create Resistance in one).
This process like exercise for the mussels, brings more and more positive results and good feeling.
And through this process and stimulation of one's imagination one can discover that this is delightful experience, and causes positive EMOTIONS. The dominating vibration will change, and the experiences in life will reflect this wonderful changes.
That visualizations are opening for more creative service to the Lord, Sri Sri Radha Krsna without any other feelings than positive, step by step covering the spare time with engagement on spiritual platform.
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Continuing the cycle of the improvement of one's condition on the Subtle area, now of the 'Emotional Body', we are entering the next Game.
The focus on one's Devotional Service depends on many factors also from external reality like the influence of others on our experiences of life and our own determination to create reality favourable to give 100% (not half-sleep/dream sometimes) to the service to the Lord.
GAME THREE: 'CREATIVE ATELIER' Here we work once again on OPTIMISM in everyday life. When one would thinks about four areas of his life, WHAT I WANT AND WHY: 1.My body (for example: break stereotypes, negative thoughts and cultivate the positive vision of one's own good health, condition, power, etc.) 2. My Home (for example: create prosperity in one's life, not LACK of it as a system of commonly accepted reality, one do not need to be completely renounced in poverty, renunciation means give up all inauspicious material engagement, but create positive opulent worship of the Lord in many wonderful aspects in one's home and in the Temple, without any limits, bring Opulence of Prosperity), 3. My Relationships (for example: to COOPERATE, so much stressed by Srila Prabhupada, which sometimes or often brings some distance, negation, opposition, resistance, although it is so auspicious to build oneness in the service to the Lord). 4. My Work/Service (for example: how to get full satisfaction from the work/service to the Lord, become enthusiastic all the time and get from the service complete happiness) and how to create it all in Krsna conscious way in 100% effective. There is the concentration of ENERGY, while the desires are clarified with precision. This process helps to get conscious access to the power of the Universe, to the ENERGY of the Lord.
One personally attracts like a Magnet the thoughts, people, living style, or so one. When one sees thinks as they are one attracts similar things, but when one sees things as he wants to see them, he attracts that one's, therefore the better one sees things, the better results he achieves. The worse one sees things the worse results he gets. This process helps to decide what kind of a Magnet one want to be.
 
'So welcome 'Modest/Small' on the planet Earth'..., you can do everything, achieve everything..., but unfortunately YOU DO NOT SEE YOURSELF THROUGH YOUR OWN EYES,... but through the eyes of other people, therefore you did not achieved the position you actually want to be on'.
Focusing on one's personal way of progress, one will no longer be under the influence of others opinions or persuasions. One can be the individual, purposeful 'creator' of oneself and one's experiences.
Many experiences may seems to be a common orderliness of one's life: that the health is not good, there is no power in it, and so one, no prosperity, but one can change this for positive perfect experiences through OPTIMISTIC VIEW.
One's reality is actually not the reality it actually is.
Through this Process one will achieve things one wishes, and not the things, one thinks are his reality.
What you 'create' through this process it appears in reality, then the SERVICE to the Lord, to Sri Sri Radha Krsna attains the level of completeness and this... satisfies Their Lordships completely. Hare Krsna.
 

'22 SPIRITUAL GAMES'
01.12.2017
We are continuing the Play. The question may arise: Why to take time for such things? Better just chant Hare Krsna and be happy. The answer is: Yes!... But... something is missing, the concentration is not always good, the plans, so called problems are more powerful, grabbing the attention somewhere else..., so many things are going one instead of full concentration on the Holy Name. Even systematic reading or study of the sastras is sometimes a challenge. An we are not always inside of the Temple.
I remember one class of late HH Suhotra Svami long time ago (I think Radhadesh 1995) when he was saying as he used to surprise, about the situation of devotees. He said about our subtle body which has many holes, like a soldiers after the battle, someone without leg, someone without hand, or just with injury here and there (in the form of samskaras). That we need a real recovery. And from that time I wanted to know what it is this subtle body and how to repair it. The inspiration came at that time to read Patanjali's 'Yoga Sutras' with the yogabasya's commentaries of Vyasa. There was the analogy I still remember of the spot, when something drops to the cloth. To remove the 'gross' substance from the cloth is not so difficult, but to remove the spot which sink in the cloth, the 'subtle' spot is much more difficult. So to purify the 'gross body' from dirt is quite an easy thing, but to remove the dirt from the 'subtle body' is much more difficult.
Through years I was searching for the answers about the subtle body, about the Mind. My project, who knows why Krsna inspired me to do that, now transformed into the writing a book about it. Therefore I am here giving some hints of that points analysing the subtle bodies and now the EMOTIONAL body. This GAMES may look like childish, but why not to feel like a 'Child of God' and take it easy and have a fun with the whole so serious and difficult process of purification. This working on one's subtle dirt can make one more conscious and can help to better concentrate on Sravanam and Kirtanam.
 
GAME TWO: 'MAGICK PYXIS PROCESS'
Here we are also concentrating on feelings like OPTIMIZM, Positive vibrations, Enthusiasm, Appreciation, etc.
This process can help to focus on a spiritual desires, how do we want to serve the Lord, individually, in what way, and so one. Imagine you are sitting on a chair, and next to you is a 'Magic Box'. Yo are the creator and what is in the box is your creation. It is your world. You are like a Giant, you can stretch everywhere and grasp whatever you want and throw to your 'Magic Box'.
Whatever you desire to have to serve the Lord, whatever thing, etc. you throw into your box. You will see that soon you will precise your individual service to the Lord, what you want to do exactly, how to serve will be clear, whatever you want to offer will manifest. Because the Lord if fulfilling all desires He will manifest all we create for the service.
This goes gradually, some things are easy to get, some still possess some RESISTANCE which will be removed later. When the desires will clarify and be strong all will manifest.
This process is very powerful, it makes stronger the point of visualization (accepting on subtle level). Most of the people create reality on the basis of what they see around themselves. However Creative 'control' comes only when one creates his own thoughts. During visualization one have
that control.
This can be a good fun and joy to imagine how to serve the Lord, as we have the example of 'Asta kaliya-lila' where devotees imagine how to serve the Lord in Vrndavan (also we have the same in Lord Caitanya's pastimes) during the day divided into eight parts, or raganuga bhakti. Of course we have the Pancaratra process with the ritualistic visualization of items offered to the Lord, this is done in more or less short puja terms as a daily sadhana.
The 'Magick Box' process may be more spontaneous and free, done everywhere and at every time, and what is interesting one may see how many personalities also from different dimension could be engaged in such process-service.
One can learn how he can 'allow himself' to appear in his life a GOOD and even transcendentally Good manifestations. Transforming the life into Spirit, in this way open more and more broadly for starting really serve Sri Sri Radha Krsna. Ki jay!

“22 SPIRITUAL GAMES” 
25.11.2017
This is the new series of Articles, a new and wonderful project: 'Spiritual Games of Transformation  of Matter into Spirit'. We can call it a 'Spiritual Hazard', safe and transcendental form of a play and a good fun, to make the progress more easy and relaxed. This can be practised few minutes a day, or the whole day if one likes. 
The idea is to turn from a False Ego (or Ego-centric position) of 'I' and 'Mine' into the Real Ego mood of Vaikuntha. And this it the turn of our external Emotions, Feelings into a POSITIVE VIBRATIONS of a Spiritual atmosphere. The goal of this Game or Play is to increase our Steadiness – Nistha in the process of self-realization, to practice Devotional Service in more broad and global sense... to finally attain the desirable HARMONY with God.
 
GAME ONE: “THE 'APPRECIATION' PROCESS”
We are living in the World of sorrow, misconceptions, pain, anger, frustration, or so one, dominating so to say. Therefore it is sometimes quite difficult to find internal balance when people are addressing to each other such negative Emotions.
One can try to avoid such situations, more effective can be practice of the Process of Appreciation, redirect the attention to the positive Emotions.
This first Game introduces one into the platform where the OPTIMIZM is the basis, to find out the POSITIVE Emotions, things, etc. and avoid (eliminate) criticizing or resource all negative and pessimistc, which causes Resistace to progress. 
The point is to organize some time during the day (15 minutes or more) to look around and start to transform Matter into Spirit through the personal ability of Creativity. For example:
'Look at this World how amazing creation of God it is: mountains, stars, flowers to offert to the Lord, everything you see as nice', 'Look at this persons, no matter what Sampradaya or religion they are, how wonderfully they serve God who is pleased',  'Appreciate other devotees, the effort they do, the wonderful Temples and Deities, whatever is attractive in devotional sense', etc., as a part of a Vaisnava Etiquette. 
The point is to just give some attention to certain positive things or persons and try to Appreciate all around and in this way turn all into a Spirit, Vaikuntha. This honest Appreciation is non different from Love as transcendental vibration. More one is trying to Appreciate all more new ideas are coming to Appreciate more and more, attracting them and bringing the Opulence of Appreciation. This Game opens to this World which is then in it"s internal sense actually non different from the Spiritual World where Appreciation and Love are the essence. Where the Lord, Sri Sri Radha Krsna are dwelling in such Pure Love of Their devotees. 
 

EMOTIONAL BODY
03.11.2017

This is my so called 'Come Back', with some points from what I am working on in my book about Cultivation of Devotional Service. 

We can think about what Srila Prabhupada said: 'First to be conscious then Krsna conscious' Therefore in my book I am considering this in many aspects.

I am now writing about 'OUR EMOTIONS', how important is to see or observe them, use them in proper way to develop better consciousness. 

There is some gradation of Emotions from the top – down. The position where we are on which level should be our concern. Higher we are, the better is our connection with the SOURCE, God Himself, and HARMONY with God and 'All-What-Is'.

So here is the example of this levels of 'EMOTIONAL ORIENTATION', going from the best mood down to the worse: 1. Joy, Knowledge, Power, Wisdom, Love, Appreciation, 2.Passion, Desire, 3.Enthusiasm, Happiness, 4. Positive Expectations, 5. Optimism, 6. Hope, 7 Satisfaction, 8.Boredom, 9. Pessimism, 10. Frustration, Irritation, Impatience, 11.Emotional Anxiety, 12 Disappointment, 13. Doubt, 14. Concern, 15 Accusation, 16. Discouragement, 17.Anger, 18.Revenge, 19. Hatred, 20.Jealousy, 21. Feeling of Threat, Feeing of Guilt, Lack of Confidence or Self-esteem, 22. Fear, Despair, Depression, Helplessness.

The task for each individual on whatever social, religious or so one position one can be is to analyse this levels of EMOTIONS through careful control or rather transformation to positive thoughts, bringing the higher and higher Emotional moods up to the level number 1. This is an interesting phenomena worth to notice, to avoid all possible lower moods coming from for example bad habits, trauma, social influences,  etc.. in everyday life to better work, function, chant Hare Krsna, and get full satisfaction from the service to the Lord. 