Cabo San Lucas, Mexico July 22 – 25, 2010

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This Presentation is for the General Public and for those who want to be Future Pillai Center Facilitators

Course Designed and Taught by Dr. Pillai

• Thought Management:
  • Thought control, elimination of negative unrealistic and unrewarding thoughts.
  • Promoting powerful positive and prosperity thoughts.

• Mind over Matter:
  • Mind and soul healing of conditions and diseases.

• Overcoming Obstacles in Meditation:
  • Arresting the wandering mind and
  • developing one-pointedness perseverance to stay the course

• Understanding different forms of trance


• Developing Supernormal powers

DAY 1 - RESTRUCTURING THE MIND

• How to Restructure the Mind
• Absence of Mind is the ‘Higher Self” that gives you omniscience, omnipresence and omnipotence
• Identification with thought forms
• Pain and pleasure
• Right knowledge, verbal delusion, sleep, memory
• Perception without the senses, interference, evidence from proof
• Non-Attachment, control mind-wandering, Rajas, Tamas and Satva

TYPES OF CONCENTRATION

• Mind and Object Oriented
• Mind and Object Free

Mind And Object Oriented Concentration consists of the following:

• Vitarka: Concentration on gross objects
• Vichara: Concentration on subtle objects
• Ananda: Blissful feeling occupies the mind
• Asmita: “I” Consciousness

From The 4 Preceding Refine To The Following 3 Types

• Savichara Concentration
  Leaves out number (i) from preceding (Vitarka)
• Sananda Concentration
  Leaves out number (ii) (Vichara)
• Asmita Matra Concentration
  Leaves out number (iii) & (iv) (Ananda and “I” Consciousness)

Mind and Object Free Concentration

Asamprajnata Samadhi
The second type of MindObject-free concentration is obtained by total renunciation of all experiences, meditations and actions. Gods, angels, disembodied beings have access to this concentration on varying degrees.

Can human beings attain MindObject-free Samadhi?
Yes, through discipline and techniques. However, techniques and disciplines constitute the slow track. The fast track is devotion to Isvara (God). If one dedicates everything to God, thought, word and action, God’s grace gives him the Mind-object force consciousness.

Who is God?
One who is omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent. His sound is OM. Meditating on OM one will be liberated. When you are in sorrow-free consciousness you will be illumined. Mind can be controlled though renunciation and though desire of some object.

Types of Cognition

• Word-object-idea-togetherness cognition (Savitarka) Word, the object that word refers to, the meaning or idea of the word are together in every ordinary cognition. For example the word 'cow' and the animal it refers to and the meaning which says that it is an animal are different from one another


• Memory-free and object alone cognition (Nirvitarka) It is memory that gives knowledge orientation to the object. When there is no memory you can see the object by itself


• Truth Perception – deeper levels of 1 & 2 (Savichara & Nirvichara) When consciousness is purified by all feelings mentioned above, one sees the rtambhara prajna (truth consciousness)

DAY 2 - MEDITATIONAL PRACTICE (Sadhana)

• Meditational practice involves discipline, austerity, reading scriptures, meditation and surrender to God. Meditational practice is required to dissolve:
  • Ignorance… is the fundamental impurity
  • Egoism… is the false identity with the empirical self
  • Attachment… is remembering pleasures
  • Aversion… results from misery and pain
  • Fear of Death… is fear of annihilation
• These cravings are primarily responsible for innumerable births and deaths. They can be stopped by meditation
• Acceptance of pleasure and avoidance of pain are quite natural. However, in analysis both create rebirth and are based on the flux of the 3 gunas.
• Regardless, future pain must be avoided
• Understanding the nature of object-consciousness, intellect, the neutral observing self (purusa) along with the mutative gunas provides clue for liberation.
• Eight techniques for Liberation & Enlightenment
  • Restrain
  • Observance
  • Yoga asana
  • Regulation and breath
  • Controlling the senses
  • Fixing the mind on an object
  • Meditation
  • Perfect concentration

DAY 3 & 4 - SUPERNORMAL POWERS

Supernormal powers are obtained through a practice called Samyama.

Samyama is combining three forms of concentration:

• Fixing the mind on a particular point (Dharana)
• Uninterrupted concentration on the object alone excluding other thoughts (Dhyan)
• Concentration wherein only the object exists and not even the ego (Samathi)

Samyama meditation reveals everything about the object not just one feature like the three meditations mentioned above. One can practice Samyama meditation and develop omniscience.

• The past and the future
• All languages including that of animals
• Past lives
• Read other people’s minds
• Become invisible
• About hidden and invisible objects
• About the galaxies (Samya on Sun, Moon and the Stars)
• About the composition of the body
• Controlling thirst and hunger
• See the invisible siddhas
• Everything
• Gain heart intelligence

HOW TO GET:

• Fore-knowledge of death
• Strength of an elephant

This is a “crash” program and each session will be packed with both theory and practice.

*SPECIAL NOTE: A teacher training program from Pillai Center is under development. Simple Enrollment Into The Program Does Not Qualify You For Admission Into The Teacher Training Program