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What is honor?
Have you ever thought about it? Honor is total attentiveness to the present moment, with a hint of gratefulness. If you honor the mountain it means that you are looking at the mountain with all your heart, all your mind. Without questioning or without debating in yourself, just honoring, being happy and grateful for what the mountain is. Similarly, respect and honor every moment in your life. That is practice. You respect your own body and that is practice,;that is sanas. sana is respecting your body every moment consciously.
Respecting your breath and honoring your breath. That is prnyma and keeping it up over a period of time is important. Any practice is a practice when it is done over a period of time without any gap, respectfully and honoring it every day. Then it becomes firmly established. Are you getting this point? It is a very vital thing. Just notice if any day your meditation has become dull or is not to your satisfaction. See if you have kept up the continuity of practice. Yes, I have been doing it every day. But it is still not good. What is the problem? I have not honored this mantra. I have not honored this time of sitting with myself. I am not honoring the life in me. So my meditation is going haywire. Honor this word (mantra) that the Master has given. This is so precious. Honoring the Master is honoring Masters word. It has been told just in one sentence. If you do not have honor or respect for the master, the mediation will not work. Why? This is because the honor and respect brings up the consciousness and awareness in you that helps you focus in the moment. If you do not honor the Master, the Master will not lose anything. It is your own mind that is at a loss because it is unable to be in the moment totally, unable to dive deep into the source totally. Honoring the source of knowledge, honoring the Master, honoring the knowledge and honoring the receiver. This is practice. A good sportsman will honor his coach. Due to his attentiveness and honor that he has for his coach he is able to move ahead in sports. Otherwise, if he keeps judging his coach and says, Let me do whatever I want to do, then what is the need of having a coach? Then the bond is broken there. Right? This is abhysa.