Chit Shakti meditation is not just visualization. In the
yogic understanding, there are 16 dimensions to the human mind. These 16
dimensions fall into four categories. These four categories are known as
buddhi, manas, ahankara, and chitta. Buddhi is the intellect – the logical
dimension of thought. Unfortunately, the modern education systems and modern
sciences have largely limited themselves to buddhi. That is a buddhu (foolish)
way of existence.
The Limitation of the Intellect
Buddhi or the intellect cannot function without a certain
bank of memory or data. Depending on the data you have, the intellect plays
around. Suppose in your memory system, there are 10 gigabytes of memory.
Depending on how sharp your buddhi is, one person can produce, let’s say, a
trillion thoughts with these 10 gigabytes. Someone else can produce 10 trillion
thoughts with the same 10 gigabytes of memory.
In the yogic understanding, there are 16 dimensions to the
human mind.
If you can think a little better than someone else, it is
considered as intelligence today. If someone says one thing and you can say ten
things to that, you may be socially smart, but you are not any more
intelligent. Unfortunately, in today’s systems of education and academics,
everything is determined by this. If you can make more things out of it, you
are considered intelligent, which is not true – you only have a sharper buddhi.
The buddhi will not take you beyond limits in any way, because it can only
function based on the data that is already there. It is not capable of
accessing anything beyond that.
The Memory of Your Forefathers
The next dimension is called manas. Manas has many layers to
it. But manas is not just the brain – it is right across the body. Every cell
in the body has a phenomenal memory – not just of this life but of millions of
years. Your body clearly remembers how your forefathers were a million years
ago. Top to bottom, there is manas – this is called manomaya kosha. In every
cell in the body, there is memory and intelligence, but no intellect. Intellect
is only in the brain.
What is in the brain is intellect, not intelligence.
Intelligence and memory are right across your body. But people have never been
trained how to use this intelligence.
In English language, everything comes under one banner
called “mind.” The idea that intelligence is only in the brain has produced
human beings whose consciousness is seriously constipated. What is in the brain
is intellect, not intelligence. Intelligence and memory are right across your
body. But people have never been trained how to use this intelligence. Instead,
they use their intellect for everything. No wonder they are stressed out
whatever job you give them. The whole weight is on only one dimension of the
mind out of sixteen. It is like loading a sixteen-wheeler truck and trying to
drive on only one wheel – you can imagine the stress! That is what today’s
world is going through.
People may be using other dimensions of the mind marginally,
unconsciously, but they are not trained to use them. They have only been
trained to use their buddhi, or their intellect. They are very smart. They know
everything about everything, but they do not know how to figure their own life.
They do not even know how to sit here peacefully and at total ease within
themselves. If there is true intelligence, the first thing that you need to
figure out is how to make life happen. You know how to make the world happen,
but you do not know how to make your life happen. You do not know how to conduct
your mind, your energies, your emotions or your body.
If you ask people to become fit, they become tight. If you
ask them to live in a more natural way, they become fat. Where is the
intelligence? There is only intellect. Intellect looks good only in comparison.
Suppose you are the only person on the planet, your intellect will not mean
anything. Only because there are a few idiots around you, you shine. By itself,
intellect will not be of any consequence.
The Sense of Identity
The intellect directly connects with the third dimension of
your mind, called ahankara. Ahankara is sometimes translated as ego, but it is
much more than that. Ahankara gives you a sense of identity. Once your ahankara
takes on an identity, your intellect functions only in that context. It is
important to function beyond the intellect, because the intellect is seriously
enslaved to your identity.
There are other ways to know life beyond the identities we
have taken on for our survival in the world.
Our identities, such as belonging to a certain nation,
community, or whatever else, are necessary for our survival in a particular
society. But you cannot think beyond this because you are functioning only from
your intellect, and the intellect takes its sustenance from ahankara. Only along
the axis of ahankara, the intellect can function. The intellect cannot
transcend this, because that is its nature. But there are other ways to know
life beyond the identities we have taken on for our survival in the world.
The Cosmic Intelligence
The fourth category of the mind is called chitta. Chitta is
mind without memory – pure intelligence. This intelligence is like the cosmic
intelligence – simply there. Everything happens because of that. It does not
function out of memory – it simply functions. In a way, what you call cosmos is
a living mind, not in the sense of intellect but in the sense of chitta. Chitta
is the last point of the mind. It connects to the basis of creation within you.
It connects you with your consciousness.
Chitta is always on – whether you are awake or asleep. Your
intellect comes on and goes off. Many times it fails, even when you are awake.
If chitta or the intelligence within you was not always on, you could not stay
alive. Try to conduct your breath with your intellect – you will go crazy.
Chitta is keeping you alive, keeping you going, making life happen. If you
touch this dimension of your mind, which is the linking point to one’s
consciousness, you do not even have to wish for anything, you do not have to
dream of anything – the best possible thing that can happen to you will anyway
happen.
The Divine Enslaved
When people touch this dimension of the mind, it is called
ishwara pranidhana in yoga. This means God becomes your slave – he works for
you. You know, yogis say, “Shiva is my servant. He does everything for me.” In
a way, otherwise, I would not be here. Once you know how to consciously access
your chitta, everything that is needed will simply happen in the best possible
way. If you go by your intellect or your buddhi, today you think “this is it,”
tomorrow morning you think “that is it” – like this it goes on endlessly.
Chitta is the last point of the mind. It connects to the
basis of creation within you. It connects you with your consciousness.
Once you know how to consciously keep your chitta on, once
the Divine is your servant, when someone really efficient is working for you,
you do not have to do anything. Simply sit; the best things will happen –
things that you could not imagine. People always think if their dreams come
true, their life will be great. I think that is a very poor life, because you
cannot dream about anything that is not at all in your experience. My wish and
my blessing for you is things that you could not dream of, things that you
never thought possible, must happen to you. What you did not dream must happen
to you – that is why you should not dream.
Instead of seeing how to delve deeper into yourself, you go
on projecting stupid ideas into the world. People think that is a great thing
to do. Last time when I was in the US, and someone said to me, “ how
do you manifest all this?” I said, “I do not manifest anything. I am just
fooling around. I got a very efficient partner [Shiva]. I simply leave it to
him, and it happens.”
Chit Shakti is about touching the dimension of your mind
that is pure intelligence – unsullied by memory, unsullied by identification.
It is beyond ahankara, beyond buddhi, beyond judgment, beyond divisions –
simply there, just like the intelligence of existence that makes everything
happen. If you access this, you do not have to worry about what happens or what
does not happen. It will happen in a way that you never imagined possible.
Once you have access to your chitta, it is also a
multi-pointed telescope. It makes you see things that no one else can see – in
every direction.
Once you have access to your chitta, it is also a
multi-pointed telescope. It makes you see things that no one else can see – in
every direction. It is your crystal ball. It is a magnifying glass that brings
the very core of life close to you. For everyone else, it is far way. Everyone
thinks the Divine is somewhere up there. Where exactly, no one knows. All they
know is, it seems far away.
The moment you start looking at life through your chitta,
where there is no memory, there is no karmic substance and no division.
Suddenly, the Divine is right there, bang on, in your face all the time. You
cannot miss it.
The idea of Chit Shakti is not to keep asking for things.
The idea is that if the physical arrangements of life happen easily, you can
dedicate more time for your spiritual wellbeing. It would be stupid if just
because it happens easily, first you want to be a millionaire, then you want to
be a billionaire. The main intention is that your physical life happens more
easily, that it does not take your entire time to handle it, so that you will
have time to close your eyes and sit. Please make use of it for this purpose.
