Before I touch on Nectar, one of the problems in spiritual progress is that when in difficulty or adverse conditions we resort to our “natural” state of dealing with it. It could be depression, aggressiveness, anger or fear or cowardice. With time, we tend to “forget” the pain and ignorantly we say time heals. However, the seeds, the basic way we react has not been eradicated. Next time, in this life or the next life we will have to deal with it again.
When time heals, we are merely covering our eyes or putting blindfolds on our personality. A yogi, acknowledged and realizes he has a problem. The problem is not the situation but the problem is his inferior way of dealing with it (anger, fear etc). So he constantly endeavors to not fall back to the “human” way to deal with it but tries to remain established in his higher self – the pure consciousness. This is NOT easy. This is why Yogananda said it is easy to go to Savikalpa Samadhi. But to go to Nirvikalpa Samadhi is extremely difficult. (His definition of Nirvikala samadhi is to remain in samadhi or in the consciousness of the self or having some prana inside the brahmanadi at all times). I am facing this problem. During meditation, it is easy. But after meditation, during activities, it is very difficult to rid the consciousness of worry and fear.
There are a few things that can help. I will give them in descending order of most effectiveness. Having said that, the best method is always the most difficult also.
1) Using will or your Sankalpa shakti, which in turn decreases the distance the breath travels outside the nostrils (I will discuss this in great detail in my future blogs under Shiv Swarodaya) and this in turn leads us to automatically going to the higher self
2) Using Mantra while our eyes are gazing upwards and inwards
3) Using mantra with some imagination of the diety or Paramhansa we are trying to focus on
4) Using mantra in anyway.
In all methods though, one has to have a specific and clear goal that is pure. When I say pure, the only goals that are acceptable are – either to rid the consciousness of worry or to be established in the higher self. No discussion or justification or vengenance is accepted or permissible.
Bhavin