IdentityVisualizationVerse 104advanced
I Am Everywhere
Drop attachment to your own body and contemplate "I am everywhere"; with firm, undistracted vision, you grow happy and vast.
Source verse · Verse 104
विहाय निजदेहास्थां सर्वत्रास्मीति भावयन्। दृढेन मनसा दृष्ट्या नान्येक्षिण्या सुखी भवेत्॥
vihāya nijadehāsthāṃ sarvatrāsmīti bhāvayan | dṛḍhena manasā dṛṣṭyā nānyekṣiṇyā sukhī bhavet
Drop attachment to your own body and contemplate "I am everywhere"; with firm, undistracted vision, you grow happy and vast.
▶ Practice this technique10 / 20 min · eyes either
How to practice
- 1Relax the constant concern for and identification with your own body.
- 2Contemplate firmly: "I am not confined here — I am everywhere, present in all places."
- 3Hold this with a steady mind and a vision that does not dart to other things.
- 4Let the felt centre of "I" expand beyond the body until you rest as the all-pervading; happiness follows.
Practice note. Begin by simply loosening the assumption "I am only inside this body". The expansive "I am everywhere" then has room to become real.
Terms in this technique
- aham
- The sense of "I"; the self that is inquired into.
- ātman
- The true self; awareness as one’s own being.
- cit
- Consciousness itself, the aware principle.
- bhāvanā
- Contemplative imagination; cultivating a state through felt imagery.
Sources consulted
- Jaideva Singh, Vijñānabhairava: The Manual for Self-Realization (Motilal Banarsidass, 1979)
- Swami Lakshmanjoo, Vijnana Bhairava: The Manual for Self Realization (Universal Shaiva Fellowship, 2007)
- Bettina Bäumer, Vijñâna Bhairava: The Practice of Centering Awareness (Indica Books, 2011)