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be telling you that I am here, which you alone will know, those signals you alone know. Everyone of us receive our own signals. Thoughts that come to us, therefore inspite of our determination thoughts will come. Thoughts relating to office, thoughts relating to house, thoughts relating to all other things that are connected with us will come but you should know that you should treat them only as uninvited guest. We never wanted them to come. They come, be so, we do not bother about them. Its existence or otherwise is of no concern for us but at the end of meditation if you still remember those thoughts, kindly make a note of it to know in which area you are stuck up.
There are five planes in which we live, one is your physical plane or the Annamaya kosa, another is the vital plane or the Pranamaya kosa, vital plane relates to your desires, urges, third plane is that of the mental plane or the Manomaya kosa where your thoughts are there, various thoughts are there which are not necessarily connected to Pranamaya or Annamaya, they may be related, perhaps they are. Then later than that we have got the Vignanamaya kosa - that is the reason why you are sitting in meditation at all because it is the Vignanamaya kosa alone which made you understand that you have got an aspiration to live for and it is what was able to convince your Annamaya, Pranamaya and Manomaya kosas to keep a low profile and then it says now I am going to meditate. It is the success of Vignanamaya every time you sit in meditation because you are able to contain the other things, you are able to say no. Otherwise if the Pranamaya kosa is more important then you say ‘No, No, I will attend to the prayer later, I will go and attend to this first’. My wife is demanding this or my husband is demanding that or ‘No, No, I am feeling terribly hungry I must go now and eat’, even though you might have eaten just now. The impulsive tendencies, impulsive tendencies that arise because of the wants of, the physical, vital and mental planes, are the barrier, which you have already been able to put down when you have come to sit in meditation. The mere fact that we are all sitting here and talking is a fact that must enable us to remember that we now are living in the plane of Vignanamaya and it is the Vignanamaya that is transacting. I am not transacting with you at the animal level-at the Annamayakosa, or the Pranamaya kosa, not at the mental level. I am transacting with you at the Vignanamaya, talking about your aspirations. So note what type of thoughts that were disturbing you at the time of meditation at the end of it. If you feel terribly