Twelve Shūm Meditations

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Mamsanī Guhmīmf

Shūm-Tyēīf Meditation for the Month of November

Mingbasīda, the first portrait of this month’s mamsanī, means a beautiful inner flow, spine-to-spine, between you and your guru. In this way ūkanuhshūm will become easy, possible, and a lot of joy will be emitted from your accomplishments. Mingbasīda—visualize the energy in your guru as being the same energy within you. If you can locate and identify with this basic life force between yourself and your guru, automatically and retroactively you will feel one with everyone in the universe, for it is the same energy which permeates all. §

Ūkanuhshūm names an assignment given by your guru to help you on the path, a challenge to test your ability to direct awareness. Nabaluhtyē means the constant working with ūkanuhshūm, working with yourself, striving inwardly, even when you don’t want to. Nabaluhtyē is the name of this inner area within the fourth dimension of the mind, a subsuperconscious state in which you are working with the instinctive-intellectual areas of the mind in order to accomplish ūkanuhshūm on the path. Before a natyē, a śishya, is allowed to go further, he must master ūkanuhshūm, working in and through the inner states of nabaluhtyē and mingbasīda. §

There are eighteen established ūkanuhshūm maā», known as the kanīf ūkanuhshūm. The first nine are the inglīf ūkanuhshūm maā», all of which are contemplative arts. They are: 1) bīmmuhū ūkanuhshūm, the art of fasting for religious purposes, purifying the physical body so that the inner bodies can vibrate and radiate through it; 2) shūmlīnuh ūkanuhshūm, practicing a contemplative craft or hobby; 3) banasana ūkanuhshūm, the haṭha yoga art of exercising the physical body and tuning the nerve system; 4) ānamsīnamnīamnyam ūkanuhshūm, maintaining contact with the inner power of the line of gurus; 5) the īimage» kaīf» ūkanuhshūm, seeking the realization of the Self, God; 6) the Shūm ūkanuhshūm, studying Shūm daily as a religious practice; 7) the rehmnam ūkanuhshūm, actively participating in building a temple; 8) the amsadanuh ūkanuhshūm, adhering to a daily vigil, which includes shūmnuhimage, meditation; and 9) the līfkaiī ūkanuhshūm, pursuing dance as a contemplative art, which can extend to gentle sports that employ the art of concentration, to the playing of music, and even, in a philosophical sense, to the inner ability to look at what one does not understand as the eternal divine dance of Lord Śiva Naṭarāja, known as sīfah, līfka ūū» kalīf.§

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1) Harmony with one’s satguru; 2) a beautiful inner flow, spine-to-spine, between you and your guru; 3) visualize the energy in your satguru as being the same energy within you; 4) if you can locate and identify with this basic life force between yourself and your guru, automatically and retroactively you will feel one with everyone in the universe, for it is the same energy that permeates all.§

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1) Constant striving on the spiritual path; 2) striving consistently and urgently to perfect a balance of the vūmtyēūdī and karehāna currents through haṭha yoga, padmāsana, prāṇāyāma, nīkashūm, and other ūkanuhshūm maā given by the satguru; 3) this pattern of constant striving is from the fourth dimension of the mind, pulling all the forces within; 4) this striving must be stimulated in the initial stages of unfoldment; one can lose consciousness of it, but it is an inner state that persists once nīīmf has become it many times during the initial training.§

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1) Awareness flowing through the mind, being singularly aware of one area and then another; 2) one of the many forms of awareness delineated in Shūm; 3) represented in mamsanī maā and mambashūm maā by a flowing line between portraits; 4) pronounced nīīmf, often pronounced and written simply as nīmf. §

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1) Order or direction; 2) spiritual yoga discipline, sādhana; 3) the state of causing a deliberate innovation to one’s consciousness by taking on a spiritual discipline; 4) this portrait means the taking on of, the name of, and performance of, discipline; 5) an assignment given by the guru to his śishya, the working through and final accomplishment of which helps the śishya arrive into a full control over the flow of awareness; 6) causing the student to employ all his faculties to accomplish sādhana.§

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