The Art of Living Full Day in Awareness

Dear yogis..

The moment you wake up from bed, your mind will be very fresh after a full night’s rest and rejuvenation. Your mind will start from where you left off before going to sleep. If possible, try to create a distance between yourself and your mind and then try to be aware and start thinking in a very conscious way.

Try and organize your thoughts. Do not let it roam freely. If time permits, try to do exercise in a very conscious way. Usually, ordinary people do exercise in a very mechanical way, and their minds will roam somewhere else.

The next important task is when you go to the restroom, your mind will have total freedom. It will show many true aspects and faces of yourself. And this is the most important and sacred place in the whole world, next to the holy places. This is the place where you can totally be yourself as you are. This is the place where you can experiment with your real “I”. “I” can’t be touched by water. “I” can watch your body like an observer. This is the holy place where you can pray, meditate, chant slokas, chant kavasa or kaapu for yourself, your family and for the entire world. By doing so, you can clean the space contaminated by the negative working of the minds of other people who might have used your restroom.

Try to cleanse all your chakras, which get affected by the thoughts of other people with whom we have to interact during our day-to-day activities.

During the daytime, when you are travelling or whenever you get the chance to be alone, be yourself and get firmly rooted in your “I”.

While moving with others, keep at least 30 to 40% of your awareness on yourself. Then we will have the freedom to control our emotions and interactions. We will never get disturbed by others if we do this.

While driving a car or two-wheeler, your built-in system memory will drive the vehicle, and you can just relax and view everything around you like a movie. It will be a really great experience where you watch your body driving the vehicle, and you will be more like an observer.

In this way, you can steal many minutes in a day to become aware of your ‘self’ while doing all the mundane activities.

Dear yogis, let all this sink deeply into your heart so that you can follow it whenever possible.