Auspicious Breath and Meditation - Soham

The Divine, auspicious breath of soham emanates from a human being. Soham means “I am that” (Divinity). The sound of the breath in human being, i.e., soham establishes the nature of Divinity. If one tries to contemplate on the form without recognizing the sound, he will not be able to understand the nature of Divinity.

Soham is sathwic in nature. This sathwa guna is Easwarathwa (the Shiva Principle).

There is another principle that emanates from this Divine breath, namely, Vishnuthwa (the Vishnu Principle). What is the form of this Vishnu Principle ? The feelings in the mind. In other words, mind is the Vishnu Principle.

There is yet another form which emerges from the navel of Vishnu, namely, Brahma. Thus, the principles of Brahma, Vishnu and Maheswara are emanating from the Soham Tathwa in a human being itself.

In this trinity, Shiva is the Soham Tathwa, Vishnu is the Mind and Brahma is the Vak Swarupa (in the form of words). It means, every word that emerges from the human being is Brahma; every resolve (sankalpa) emerging from the mind is Vishnu and every breath coming out of the body is Easwara.

Thus, Divinity is permeating the entire human body. The body is living, as long as the life breath emanates from the body.

Baba (Discourse delivered on the occasion of Dasara Celebrations – October 12, 2002)

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Meditation on the form without the sound of the transcendental OM (Soham), the mantra, it will not be possible to understand the nature of Divinity. Instead of focusing on the form, we can focus on the place in the body in general, the bronchial tube, it helps to get away from the form if for some reason it should seem difficult.


Patanjali's Sutras focus an the bronchial tube is the place where the breath comes in as So - the unlimited - the light. It is breathing out as Ham - the limited body - darkness and ego.
Light, silence, unlimited is taken in and from that place all disturbance gets out - therefore, it a place in our body where it is always calm and silent.
Focus on the lights and divinity, sun, moon, polar star get us aware in my experience with the relationships between the light and its reflection and the right direction. 
In the principal of Soham is Divinity permeating the whole body. In the right picture of Baba is vibuthi, holy ash, appearing as the indestructible principle.
 

When you sit for meditation on the soham principle, you will observe that the “so” comes in and “ham” goes out while inhaling and exhaling. This process has to be watched carefully. Here “so” relates to the Divine Principle and “ham” to ahamkara (ego).

Baba