36. *(Total duration: 30 minutes. To be done on an empty stomach.)*

The Mahamantra meditation is an ancient Tibetan Buddhist technique to help you feel the energy source within you. It will create a good energy flow in you. It will fill you to the brim with energy so that you stop seeking attention from others and start giving energy and love to others as a result of overflowing energy in you. This technique will awaken the anahata chakra located in the heart center.

This will also make your mind firm and stable. Your mind is mostly oscillating with thoughts. This meditation makes your mind still by making it enter into the zone of no-mind. It is like a jumping board into infinity.

While doing this meditation you may wear your mala (rosary) around your neck. It will serve to store the energy that you create during the meditation.

This meditation should be done on an empty stomach, preferably early in the morning, or two hours after any meal. It can be done either alone or with a group. When done with a group, it effectively energizes the place where it is done.

Let me explain the technique to you:

Sit cross-legged in a comfortable position on the floor. Keep your head, neck and spine in a straight line. Those of you who are not

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able to sit on the floor may sit on a chair. Feel relaxed and close your eyes. Even after we close our eyes, we see forms and images from behind the eyelids. To handle this, imagine that your eyeballs have become stone-like. Just harden them with mental pressure; then the images will die. The movement of our eyes is very closely related to the movement of thoughts in our mind. That is why you are asked to arrest the movement of your eyeballs. Don't be too worried about keeping them arrested. Just proceed with the meditation.

Keep your lips together and produce the sound 'mmmm…' from inside. If you were to put your face inside an empty aluminum vessel and make a humming sound, the sound generated would be like this. Note that this is not 'Hum…' or 'Om…', it is simply keeping your lips together and producing the sound 'mmmm…'. This humming should be as lengthy as possible before taking the next breath. It should also be as deep as possible, from the navel center, and as loud as possible.

Don't make an effort to take in a deep breath after every 'mmmm'; the body itself will take breaths when needed. Don't become tense. Put in your whole being and energy into creating this vibration. Just become the humming. Let your whole body be filled with the vibration of the humming. After some time, you will feel that the humming continues without your effort and that you have become a listener to it!

110 At the end of twenty minutes, stop the humming. If you are playing the CD, you will hear 'Stop!' and you stop as you are, abruptly. Don't wait to finish a breath, just stop abruptly.

After stopping the humming, keep your eyes closed and remain silent and inactive for 10 minutes with a smiling face and blissful mood. If any thought comes to you, let it come. Simply watch your mind as if you are watching the television. Do not resist your thoughts or pass any judgment on them. Remain silent and blissful. During this time, the energy created by the forty-two minutes of humming will enter all the corners of your being and cleanse them deeply.

At the end of 10 minutes, slowly, very slowly, open your eyes. Try to talk very little for the next half and hour at the least.

Thank you.

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