must read,a technique ,to liberate souls from boadage said by LORD SHIVA

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RADIANT ONE, THIS EXPERIENCE MAY DAWN BETWEEN TWO BREATHS. AFTER BREATH COMES IN

(DOWN) AND JUST BEFORE TURNING UP (OUT) -- THE BENEFICENCE.

 

That is the technique:

RADIANT ONE, THIS EXPERIENCE MAY DAWN BETWEEN TWO BREATHS.

After breath comes in -- that is, down -- and just before turning out -- that

is, going up -- THE BENEFICENCE. Be aware between these two points, and the

happening. When your breath comes in, observe. For a single moment, or a

thousandth part of a moment, there is no breathing -- before it turns up, before

it turns outward. One breath comes in; then there is a certain point and

breathing stops. Then the breathing goes out. When the breath goes out, then

again for a single moment, or a part of a moment, breathing stops. Then

breathing comes in.

 

Before the breath is turning in or turning out, there is a moment when you are

not breathing. In that moment the happening is possible, because when you are

not breathing you are not in the world. Understand this: when you are not

breathing you are dead; you ARE still, but dead. But the moment is of such a

short duration that you never observe it.

 

For tantra, each outgoing breath is a death and each new breath is a rebirth.

Breath coming in is rebirth; breath going out is death. The outgoing breath is

synonymous with death; the incoming breath is synonymous with life. So with each

breath you are dying and being reborn. The gap between the two is of a very

short duration, but keen, sincere observation and attention will make you feel

the gap. If you can feel the gap, Shiva says, THE BENEFICENCE. Then nothing else

is needed. You are blessed, you have known; the thing has happened.

 

You are not to train the breath. Leave it just as it is. Why such a simple

technique? It looks so simple. Such a simple technique to know the truth? To

know the truth means to know that which is neither born nor dies, to know that

eternal element which is always. You can know the breath going out, you can know

the breath coming in, but you never know the gap between the two.

 

Try it. Suddenly you will get the point -- and you can get it; it is already

there. Nothing is to be added to you or to your structure, it is already there.

Everything is already there except a certain awareness. So how to do this?

First, become aware of the breath coming in. Watch it. Forget everything, just

watch breath coming in -- the very passage.

 

When the breath touches your nostrils, feel it there. Then let the breath move

in. Move with the breath fully consciously. When you are going down, down, down

with the breath, do not miss the breath. Do not go ahead and do not follow

behind, just go with it. Remember this: do not go ahead, do not follow it like a

shadow; be simultaneous with it.

 

Breath and consciousness should become one. The breath goes in -- you go in.

Only then will it be possible to get the point which is between two breaths. It

will not be easy. Move in with the breath, then move out with the breath:

in-out, in-out.

 

Buddha tried particularly to use this method, so this method has become a

Buddhist method. In Buddhist terminology it is known as Anapanasati Yoga. And

Buddha's enlightenment was based on this technique -- only this.

 

All the religions of the world, all the seers of the world, have reached through

some technique or other, and all those techniques will be in these one hundred

and twelve techniques. This first one is a Buddhist technique. It has become

known in the world as a Buddhist technique because Buddha attained his

enlightenment through this technique.

 

Buddha said, " Be aware of your breath as it is coming in, going out -- coming

in, going out. " He never mentions the gap because there is no need. Buddha

thought and felt that if you become concerned with the gap, the gap between two

breaths, that concern may disturb your awareness. So he simply said, " Be aware.

When the breath is going in move with it, and when the breath is going out move

with it. Do simply this: going in, going out, with the breath. " He never says

anything about the latter part of the technique.

 

The reason is that Buddha was talking with very ordinary men, and even that

might create a desire to attain the interval. That desire to attain the interval

will become a barrier to awareness, because if you are desiring to get to the

interval you will move ahead. Breath will be coming in, and you will move ahead

because you are interested in the gap which is going to be in the future. Buddha

never mentions it, so Buddha's technique is just half.

 

But the other half follows automatically. If you go on practicing breath

consciousness, breath awareness, suddenly, one day, without knowing, you will

come to the interval. Because as your awareness will become keen and deep and

intense, as your awareness will become bracketed -- the whole world is bracketed

out; only your breath coming in or going out is your world, the whole arena for

your consciousness -- suddenly you are bound to feel the gap in which there is

no breath.

 

When you are moving with breath minutely, when there is no breath, how can you

remain unaware? You will suddenly become aware that there is no breath, and the

moment will come when you will feel that the breath is neither going out nor

coming in. The breath has stopped completely. In that stopping, THE BENEFICENCE.

 

This one technique is enough for millions. The whole of Asia tried and lived

with this technique for centuries. Tibet, China, Japan, Burma, Thailand, Ceylon

-- the whole of Asia except India has tried this technique. Only one technique

and thousands and thousands have attained enlightenment through it. And this is

only the first technique.

 

But unfortunately, because the technique became associated with Buddha's name,

Hindus have been trying to avoid it. Because it became more and more known as a

Buddhist method, Hindus have completely forgotten it. And not only that, they

have also tried to avoid it for another reason. Because this technique is the

first technique mentioned by Shiva, many Buddhists have claimed that this book,

VIGYANA BHAIRAVA TANTRA, is a Buddhist book, not a Hindu book.

 

It is neither Hindu nor Buddhist -- a technique is just a technique. Buddha used

it, but it was there already to be used. Buddha became a buddha, an enlightened

one, because of the technique. The technique preceded Buddha; the technique was

already there. Try it. It is one of the most simple techniques -- simple

compared to other techniques; I am not saying simple for you. Other techniques

will be more difficult. That is why it is mentioned as the first technique.