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So now, the first answer Shiva gave to His wife, His companion, His lifelong companion is this, “Radiant one! If you’d like to experience the illumination, you can concentrate between the two breaths.” Between when the breath comes out and comes in, in this between time then you will have the benefit of the illumination. […] But you should not concentrate on the physical breath, but in between. What He meant between the two breaths – one comes out, and one comes in – is that the non-breath, the non-breathing being, that’s what we should concentrate on. That means we should always remember the Almighty. The One without breath. The One for Who breath is not necessary. The One that breath cannot touch. Etc, etc...
This is only for the one who already understood the way of practice. It’s not to go out and to teach the lay members of the society to concentrate between the two breaths. […] I’m afraid if you concentrate on the breath, you will make it like a rhythm. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. And later, suddenly someday, you’ll experience a state of non-breathing, and then you probably won’t know where to turn to for concentration, to go further than the breath rhythm. Then you get stuck there. […]
Shiva was very liberal. He wore snake(-people) and all that around His arms, and He chose man’s genitals for a kind of a symbol of the universal reproductive force. But what He actually meant is this, all the world was created by a creative force. It’s not the Truth. It’s not the Highest Abode of humankind, of the souls. The Creativity, the Force of creation which create the universe, came through Maya. So, in the old times, to talk about Maya and Creativity, He had to use a very crude object, like a man’s genitals just to let the people at that time know what He meant. […] In each period of time, the Master had to live, teach, and make people understand according to the people’s level of consciousness and of progress at that time. You should understand clearly. And so, don’t compare […]
