You Transform Yourself by Breathing

Meditation with Mataji Shaktiananda

19·10·2022

Reach for each one of your breaths.
May it be enough for you.
Let, at the same time, each breath reach you,
in this way you reach serenity, stillness.
Administer each breath, according to what your need is.

Think, feel well: What would you like to reach in you?
And what could be impeding you?
And both the one and the other, depend on your breath.

To reach yourself in that and from that state,
in which you know you were created,
with all of the simplicity or complexity,
of substance, of forms
and what you have gone on acquiring.

Do you believe you have reached yourself?
Have you reached the Being that you are?
Have you produced achievements?
Have you acquired confidence?
And, on the other hand,
have you known how to dissolve any impediment deposited in you,
due to what was experimented?

And your breath can do it all.
It is the most sophisticated mechanism that you possess.
That which regulates, modulates, your entire structure,
your entire system, your entire Being.

Execute, right now, your most conscious breaths,  
claiming that for yourself.
I am as my breath, I am what I breathe, I am my breath.
My breath is what I reach of myself,
it is what I am, what I feel
and it is what is felt of me.
It is my present breath,
it is what produces my condition of life,
it is what I live.

If you could create some creed for yourself,
-if it is that you need it-
believe in your breath.
Sweet contact, vital conduit, inner strength.

It may even sound exaggerated to you,
it is love.
All that you breathe is love.
Or do you still doubt what creation is?
Do you still resist, fear, judge and condemn all of this?
And there you go, about what lovelessness is.
And you should not.

Attend to your breath,
the most constant, the most intimate,
the one who knows as well when it ceases.
Try it.
It is more than retaining, it is sustaining yourself with your inner breath,
which would also be, your own love.

Play with yourself more each time.
Or does it seem to you that all this air is breathable?
That what is expelled by all those warlike fumes, is breathable?
That so much mental intoxication, is breathable?
That so much misunderstood power, is breathable?
That so much spiritual disassociation, is breathable?

Breath because, equally, one has to breathe.
You will say, and if what I breathe of myself, isn’t pure either?
Who told you?
Who accused you?
Who denies you?

It is for this reason that the greatest necessity, is to trust.
And you have to do everything possible,
for it to be in you.

You will say, how?
And it is what you do, trust in that.
By breathing like this, you know yourself, you feel yourself, you perceive yourself,
you regulate yourself, you transform yourself.
That is the purest part of all of this.
And you are doing it, what more?

You go on feeling what the breath itself goes on provoking.
Analyze, study, what it provokes in you.
It provokes you to feel yourself well,
it provokes you to do well,
it provokes you to reach this,
it provokes you to be more.
What else?

And meanwhile the breath is there, sustaining you,
in the nothing itself, in your very own nothing.
Immense.
It is immense.
The sentiment, the feeling, the state, is immense.
As much as you want it to be.
As infinite as you are able,
as possible as it is,
as much you, as you are.

Beloved,
how can I tell you in words what you are?
And I run the risk, permitting myself to reach you.
And you let me.
I thank you.

Attend to your breath,
reach yourself here, today, now, in you, in this game.
Breathe fully, deeply, consciously
and thank yourself.
Breathe.

Om Namaha Shivaya