Om..... Watching your breathing is an important step in meditation. It is also in keeping with teaching. Anything we do should be in keeping with teaching. To be a sakshi, to be a witness of your breathing will help you. Also watching your mind is to be a saksi to whatever happens in you. This watching your breathing is a great help. It takes certain practice . During the day. Whenever there is time, you must practice this. Just watching your own breathing. More you practise, easier it would be. The watching takes place as the air is inhaled and exhaled at the nostrils. You don't require to watch air inhaled into lungs. All the way you do not watch. You watch only as the air is inhaled at nostrils. As it is exhaled again at the place. The mind has an occupation , just watching, which does not involve thinking. In the process, the body gets more relaxed. If you watch your breathing, you have pulled you away from your physical body, the annamaya. Doer along with the pranamaya is interior to the body. Therefore body is relaxed, more relaxed. OM....... OM........ OM........ OM........ .
Now, You are yourself, OM...... OM......OM...... OM .......
As you hear these chanted words you recognise this fact. The fact is, there is an external world reported to you by the ears. These words are formed by the external world. The ears hear these words without your will. Hearing takes place, Let the hearing take place. You don't interfere it with your will. You don't know what is going to be the next sentence. What type of sound or words you are going to hear. You don't know nor you want to know. At this moment, this is what you hear. Again at this moment you hear these words. Now you hear Om.... Om.... Om...
What do you hear , does not alter you. You remain the same person. Suppose your mind has a process of thinking, there again you don't interfere. You don't judge yourself on the basis of your mind. If you are not judgemental with reference to yourself, you can appreciate what it takes to be kind to yourself and others.
Sri ..... Rama ....... Jayaram ....... Jaya .... Jaya .... Rama ..... OM ........ OM ...... OM .......
Om Santih Santih Santih.
