P5 – Lesson 5

Bhavana or Imagination

Hari is the simple name of Narayana, about whom, it was widely mentioned in the fourth phase lessons.

Hari is the beeja mantra that actually heals the people from within. You will heal in all aspects of life. You were introduced to Kundalini Mantra Hari hi om, hari-hari, hari-hari, hari-hi-om and you were also given the kundalini kriya of this mantra.

So far, you have chanted various basic mantras to tune the chakras which would cleanse your mind and intellect.

Mind and intellect are required to be clean towards the people you interact with. Meaning, when you talk to them or when you do works for them, you would have some imagination happening in your mind that is called “bhavana” in Sanskrit.

Shree Radha never did meditation nor does she know meditation but she is the incarnation of Nature or Prakriti.

She showed the example to the people that, doing meditation is not is not necessary to reach God.  Meditation used to happen with her automatically and all times. Meditation used to happen with her.

Shree Radha used to always remain in the bhavana of Shree Krishna. Meaning, she always used to think about Shree Krishna. Its like imagining Shree Krishna in mind in the form of human and thinking about him like .. you dress him up with good clothes, you imagine like you feed him food, you imagine that you play with him, you imagine that you dance with him by singing any song etc. This is a kind of lower level meditation that actually generate high amount of emotions and they would even bring tears. Those tears and emotions touch the supreme God or Shree Krishna. Without meditation, this is one way of shaking up supreme power or god. God, shakes up for such emotions and tears. Those tears do not come because you are in some problems and pains. Those tears come purely out of the love for him. After imagining like that for some time, automatically and involuntarily your mind will move and touch some point that actually brings tears. Those emotions and tears come out of imagination of God that actually is the essence of pure love.

Such pure love shakes up Shree Krishna or supreme power or God. It is called sending vibrations to God. When you imagine like that, for your vibrations, he cannot sustain. They generate tremors in him.

This kind of meditation of Bhavana is a “one of the greatest” spiritual practice that started with Shree Radaha. They are called Rasikas and Bhavukas in Sanskrit. Rasikas and Bhavukas remain in the thoughts of God always.

You can practice and see what happens. Such bhavanas and imagination will make you dance and sing. Saints in old days used to remain in such imaginary thoughts of God and out of such ecstasy they used to sing and dance.

Singers sing in the imagination of the songs and that is how they can include the emotions in their songs. Actors imagine themselves in the scenes and act and that is how they can perform well. Sportsmen imagine certain actions in the mind and act in the air. Some people play guitar in the air imagining themselves playing guitar.  These are all the actions of imagination.

You cannot expect yourself to be in always in meditation. Even if you do not meditate but yet keep the contact with God is one way by chanting the mantra. But still the mind keeps moving to so many things. You should give the mind some story of imagination and imagine, when you sit idle.

You can imagine, Krishna or God in the form of a child or friend or father or guru or any other way and you can imagine like giving him food, messaging his holy feet, putting flowers to him and praising him, singing for him and so on.

This kind of imagination actually cleans the mind and intellect so much.  You will start developing good emotions that actually generate positive thinking and good imagination of people and things in the world.

Bhavana Kriya

You can sit idle anywhere comfortably, chant “Om Shree Radha Krishnaya Namaha” few times. Then imagine god as said above like … You can imagine, Krishna or God in the form of a child or friend or father or guru or any other way and you can imagine like giving him food, messaging his holy feet, putting flowers to him and praising him, singing for him and so on.  Then see what happens.

You can also imagine the same story or mental actions whenever you are free.

After starting this Bhavana Kriya, observe your meditation and dreams.  You will start receiving the vibrations of God in your dreams and in your meditation.

Bhavana awakens devotion and love for God. Bhavana is essential for all your works in the world. When you work in the world , say for example, you apply for a job and you should do all works related to application of job with good imagination. Then you will act out of love and then all your work would be so neat and clean. Your work communicates to the other people. They see such vibrations in your work. Then they respond to your work.  You will start developing doing works out of love after starting this Bhavana Kriya.

You will start developing more love for your life partners, your children, your parents and so on.

You will also see MORE SUCCESS of your actions in life after starting this Bhavana Kriya. Success in your office tasks, household tasks and so on, will increase after starting this Bhavana Kriya. You will also act towards people more gently and you will find people also not having conflicts with you.

Whenever you feel like your mind is moving here and there that cause you bad mood, then you can do this bhavana kriya. You will find yourself with more and better energy later.