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Radha: What is the importance of heart and the hara?

Dr. Yugandhar: Dear Radha,Good evening to you and each one on the board.Let us throw some light today on the heart and the hara. Most of the people are ruled and governed by either the head or by the heart. To be head full means to work more with their head and to ignore their own and others’ emotions. They are unmindful of their feelings of their own and others. They are the very practical head oriented people.

The other category is heart oriented people. They don't work with head. They are driven by their feelings. They are most instinctual. They are not intellectual. Their inspiration and strength is feeling. Everything that they do is driven by the strength of their own emotion. These people work from their heart.

All the conflicts of the world emerge from this pluralistic nature emerging from head or heart consciousness.

A few people ventured into reaching their centre of their own consciousness otherwise called as the hara. These people are called the enlightened ones or the awakened ones. They woke up from the slumber of head and heart consciousness. Head full or continuous heart full activity creates some kind of emotional and psychological slumber. It leads to spiritual lethargy. They are oblivious of the spiritual reality. But a few have examined and scanned their own feelings and thoughts and reached their core of their consciousness, where their head and heart become one. The thoughts and feelings become one.

At Hara, all the dualities cease. A man of hara is the one who is driven by both thought and also the emotion. He is mindful of his thoughts and also the feelings. Get into the Hara by breathing through the abdomen - use the diaphragm - watch the smooth rise and fall of the abdomen with every inhalation and exhalation and you are at your centre - The treasure of inner peace and silence.

Best wishes! Thank you very much.

Hara Awareness Cannot be Taught

Radha's question to Dr.Yugandhar

Radha : How hara breathing can be taught to teenagers and how will they be benefited out of it?

Dr. Yugandhar: Spiritual wisdom or anything that is related to enlightening aspects of our lives including hara breathing cannot be taught. All these things have only to be learnt. Nothing can be taught. All these things can only be introduced. Ultimately it's the student or the seeker because of his ardent nature and interest in learning can enter the path of evolution.

However, all these things can be introduced and the person who is introducing with his or her sheer intent can inspire the subject or the student to enter the path of evolution. There are no special modifications for hara breathing for children or teenagers or old people.

Hara breathing is simple- keeping the mind’s eye unto the hara , the centre of one’s consciousness - and watching the movements of the abdomen -Raise and fall of abdomen with every exhalation and inhalation. So slowly the mind’s eye gets fixed unto the hara. When the mind’s eye gets fixed unto hara, the mind gets emptied. Emptiness is meditation – and when emptiness is triggered, when emptiness is, initiated, when emptiness is in the process - the subject has entered the path of meditation.

It is neither the technique nor the practice which is called as meditation, What happens with the technique or practice is what is called as meditation. What happens is emptiness, what happens is the letting go, what happens is the complete cerebral data in the form of thoughts and emotion to be emptied. That process is called as meditation - it has to happen and it needs only two things - seriousness and sincerity.

When the subject is serious, bent upon it, automatically it happens.

What are its benefits?

Once the mind gets emptied - once the subject experiences the letting go phenomena, what can be done with that is pure individual's choice? The application part of it is individual's choice. What and how do you want to apply your emptiness of your mind into your routine activities of life, what and how to apply is only a choice? For teenagers may be - academics, may be getting one’s love may be chasing a career,etc, one can apply the emptiness to these. So the mindlessness or the emptiness of the mind leads to mind fullness. That is the application of mind.

Emptiness first, followed by application of it.

Mindlessness first, followed by mindfulness

So this is the trend, what is more important for one is least important for the other. So teenagers’ options of development can be worked upon with intense emptiness of the mind.

Thank you!!!

Siddhis, Laws of Nature and Hara

Pankaj Patel: What are the laws of nature?

Dr.Yugandhar: Laws of nature are primarily empirical and arbitrary. They are not hard and fast. They are not ‘rules’. They are the reflections of self-created mass belief systems born out of the herd consciousness of the mankind. For example: the mass belief system believes that humans cannot communicate with each other in non-linguistic way. That is why we are unable to use our telepathic abilities. So, the entire thoughts, ideas and beliefs of this ‘herd’ consciousness turn into a strong, global psycho spiritual matrix. A huge fabric of Psycho-emotional-spiritual matrix aided by the divine intelligence turns finally in to the laws of nature.

These laws always change from different phases of the planetary evolution. What was the law in Satya Yuga is not the law in Kali Yuga because of the density of the psycho spiritual matrix. In certain yugas as Satya Yuga, the psycho- spiritual matrix is not so very dense as is seen in Kali Yuga. Hence, there was lot of siddhis displayed by our Gods and Demons as per the Ithihasas we have been reading. Ravana had great powers, almost as good as Rama. But, Rama outsmarted Ravana in the siddhis. Same with Sri Krishna, who outsmarted Narakasur, along with Satyabhama. So, all these Gods, so called Gods outsmarted the Demons. Who could not outsmart are called Demons, who outsmarted are called Gods.

The only difference between these two people is: if A is meditation or sadhana or spirituality, B is self realization or awakening or enlightenment and C is the siddhis or powers or defied laws of nature or denial of laws of nature. Siddhis are nothing but, going against the so-called laws of nature. To attain the siddhis one has to pass through B i.e., self-realization or awakening or enlightenment. If a person bypasses B and jumps from A (sadhana or meditation) in to C (siddhis) he can be called as a demon, a Ravana, a Bakasur or Hitler or Saddam Hussein, who are more interested for self power and control over others. The 'Stitha' Consciousness needs to get transformed into 'Siddha' Consciousness. If a person passes via this enlightenment process, the siddhis attained will be used for over all benefit of the mankind. So, this psycho-spiritual matrix, which is other wise called as the laws of nature change with time, change with period. 

In the present Kali Yuga there are some people who can go against the self-created laws and their conscious level is so much powerful that they can display all the siddhis but they must pass through this stage B . How does one explain a Yogi defying the so called laws by way of stopping their heart for more than an hour, levitation etc?

Once this Kali yuga slowly declines, fades and enters in to next level of evolution, the psycho-spiritual matrix or the laws of nature will become little more liberal so that so many modes of communication happen and what was a law will not be anymore a law. This is the way we need to understand the so-called laws of nature.

Sreenivas: How do we manage both spiritual and social pursuits together without each interfering into other?

Dr.Yugandhar: The whole problem lies in dividing the socio and spiritual realities. Seeing the external world and the internal world as two separate states of consciousness, as two separate frequencies, as two separate worlds. The fact is that these two are not two separate frequencies; the subjective and objective are not two separating things. They are one and the same, they are reflections (of the same or each other), they mutually reflect.

All the challenges or the problems or the situations in the worldly life in the name of social pursuits need spiritual wisdom. And the social challenges in fact can be utilized; can be taken as premises and perspectives. The social challenges can be taken as precipitating factors to go within and search for spiritual wisdom. Once we get the insight from this internal search, the same can be applied for all the social problems.

We use the word ‘individual’. Let us understand this word ‘individual’. The word ‘individual’ means the undivided whole, no duality. When you become one undivided entity (or) one indivisible self, you are called as individual. So, the very division between social and spiritual reality is creating this schizophrenia in the consciousness. In fact, the whole world is suffering from horrible pandemic scourge called as nuclear amnesia. Let me coin in a new word today – nuclear amnesia. Nucleus, the very center of our consciousness, very core of our consciousness has been forgotten. There is a horrible amnesia and we are all revolving like electrons in the orbits. And the very center of the consciousness has moved from the very center to different levels of orbits. People who are farther away from the nucleus, moving more in external orbits far away from one’s core - they see that the social reality and the spiritual reality are totally different. They see the huge gulf between the internal and external world. The more you move from the peripheral, centrifugalized phenomenon towards one’s core moving towards inner orbits, slowly the gulf between the outer self or outer orbits or the social reality and the inner reality, the very core of consciousness gets diminished. So much so that, you become totally empty. You feel the holistic consciousness ruling the whole world outer and inside. So, I want to say that the spiritual wisdom and the daily life cannot be separated. If you see from separated consciousness, we suffer a lot. And the whole problem lies here. Spiritual enlightenment and daily life cannot be separated. It is impossible to separate and one should not try to separate them.

The Journey upto HARA blog

In this blog, I wish to share the story behind this blog and the underlying purpose. 

During the last one and half year, I was editing the HARA monthly e-magazine. Every issue of this e-mag was packed with insights from Dr. Yugandhar and the teachings of other great masters. It was great fun to receive answers to our burning questions from Dr. Yugandhar as voice notes on Whatsapp messenger and then to transcript them word by word into text format. The HARA e-mag received great appreciation from many individuals and also received appreciation from organizations like  the Portuguese Yoga Confederation and the GMR group.

An Email from GMR Group

Our GMR Group  Chairman Sri G M Rao desired that the employees of GMR Group shall be introduced to  spirituality and spiritual concepts to bring about inner excellence of employees as a part of organization building exercise. In this connection he desired that the speeches and articles of spiritual masters  shall be uploaded into the Gnet, a portal of GMR employees. GMR employees visit this Gnet  portal every day for their work related matters. In that portal we are creating a port-let exclusively for spiritual empowerment of our employees.

In this connection we request you to kindly permit us to take  the articles and other content from HARA E-magazine and upload the same into Gnet, the portal for GMR employees.
We wish to inform you that we will acknowledge name of HARA magazine and author’s name  while uploading the above material into the above GMR portal.

An Email from Portuguese Yoga Confederation

We write to Your Excellencies to express our interest in being able to count on the cooperation of HARA MAGAZINE as our MEDIA PARTNER in the GRAND COMMEMORATION OF THE WORLD YOGA DAY 2014 - PORTUGAL, organized by the Portuguese Yoga Confederation and Yoga Sámkhya Institute, Philosophical and Cultural nonprofit Institutions, designed for the first time in the World by Portugal in 2001 and celebrated since 2002 on the Solstice - June 21 ( when not coincidentally with a Sunday, this DAY is celebrated on the Sunday immediately following), and on two different days

All great initiatives need to evolve and in order to make these interesting teachings and insights related to Hara more accessible online, we decided to create a blog about this topic.

In order to discuss the same, I called Dr. Yugandhar last night and he informed me with great delight that I had called him at the very right point of time since he is about to start a new phase wherein he will be dedicating more time to his work related to HARA. That is a great news for me and as you read this blog in the days to come, you will know why I say so.

Work and Spirituality

In the course of our conversation, Dr. Yugandhar emphasized on the  integration of all aspects of life like work, relationships and everything else as one spiritual whole. This oneness can come only by centering ourselves at HARA.

Abundance

Hara is the center of abundance. Abundance need not only be stashing of currency notes, it has to be seen as richness in all areas of life. Maha-Laxmi or the great abundance can only happen when the practice of centering at Hara becomes a joy.

Planetary Evolution with Hara Awakening

Hara awakening is the way towards one-ness within and one-ness worldwide. In this era of strife and conflict due to many social and religious conditioning, becoming one at Hara will dissolve all the programming inflicted upon us, thus giving a fresh breath of life and creation to mankind. To forward this, the idea of having an online awakening and learning center was envisioned. 

My Journey towards Hara (by Radha Raja)

The first experience towards Hara, knowingly or unknowingly.It happened in a renowned spiritual institution in Banglore, they said ,you have three days training to become a healer. They called it Anandagandha . The meditation was Anandagandha meditation, all that we had to do was continuously look into our Hara. This gave me immense bliss.

My first experience towards bliss!

We had to put our attention in our Hara,and we had to Heal!

The more we did,the more benefits were attained to ourselves. In the name of healing,we would be in our Hara and enjoy the bliss. Then, various spiritual practices happened with  breathing, years passed, experiences happened.

Shifts with roller coaster. But as I had tasted the nectar,I always knew my final goal.

After 8 years, I experienced an  intensive programme on Qi-gong by a master named Agung. The emphasis is on Dan -tien ( Hara) here. Again, I was knocking the doors to reach there, to my surprise it happened - A wonderful experience, while doing the movements of Qi-gong, I could realize the energy expanding. The more I saw it, the more wider I opened my perspective towards material and spiritual world.Diversions and laziness, again, I went into other practices. My mind wants to try out all new practices every time.

The third time ( NOW , with this blog and Dr. Yugandhar), feels like a strict warning, again Hara. This time - I better take it seriously.

To remind me this, the moment I remember the word Hara - wherever I am and whatever I do, my attention immediately shifts to  abdominal breathing.

Thank You Dr. Yugandhar and Floyd

Each day with a new experience, with the HARA way , I am transcending and transforming self !

Going to your centre (Hara) by Dr. Yugandhar

In this hard-hitting video, Dr. Yugandhar talks about Laziness and how it leads to spiritual retardation and spiritual poverty.

He explains how only a person centered at Hara can truly be spiritually rich!

Dr. Yugandhar also explains the importance of abdominal breathing - which is truly the breathing of a Yogi.