PROLOGUE🔗

INTENSITY - A
FORM OF
LIVING
ENERGY THAT
RISES AND
FLOWS
THROUGH
THE SEVEN
CHAKRAS IN
THE BODY

If like the river, people decide to
continue persistently on their
path, making necessary
modifications or turns on their
life course as and when necessary,
they will achieve their goals. If
obstacles frighten or hurt the
ego, then people may stop
flowing completely. This can lead
to stagnation in growth and
possibly depression and
frustration.

LIVING WITH
INTENSITY IS TO
LIVE WITHOUT
INNER OR OUTER
CONFLICT.

When a person is strongly
connected with an idea or
thought, they feel they can
overcome any obstacle. They can
flow towards the positive
achievement of their goals.
However, people can also
intensely create conflict. This is
not the expression or radiation of
true living energy within the self.
Intense people who constantly
create conflict can be described as
people who are not flowing
smoothly with people and life.
They have the intensity, but it is
used to create blocks and
obstacles. There is no flow or
natural expression of life energy.

There are people who are intense but
who lost the ability to flow; similarly,
there are people who just flow but are
not intense. In Sanskrit there is a word
– “Jnanavarishta bhakti”, used by the
famous Indian enlightened master
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. This
means that it is important to have
devotion or deep bhakti, but it is also
important to have the intensity with
knowledge. It is important to have
both the qualities of intensity and flow
to achieve life’s goals.

YOUR INTENSITY
IS THE ONLY
THING THAT
DECIDES WHEN
YOUR OBJECT
OF SEEKING WILL
HAPPEN

Tantra, the mystical science of
meditation techniques, says that to
know the truth one needs only one
condition, intensity. Be total in
what you are, what you do. Live
intensely in the moment and taste
the real life. Otherwise, you are not
living. You are just waiting for
death.

When you eat, intensely eat.
Let your whole attention
and energy be on the food.
Do not divert your
attention and thoughts to
what you need to get done
at work tomorrow or where
you want to go for your
next vacation. Enjoy the
food with all your senses.
Taste the food in your
mouth, enjoy the feast in
front of your eyes, touch
the food with love, and
smell the aroma of the
food.

When you eat this way
totally, you will enjoy
every morsel and you
will actually feed into
your system the living
energy the food is
meant to give. If you are
drinking water, drink it
intensely. Become the
thirst. Feel the coolness
of the water going into
your mouth, throat and
down your food pipe.
Let each drop of water
that goes into your
mouth give you the
feeling of fulfillment.

The Tamil classic, Periya Puranam,
describes the stories of
the Nayanmars, the ardent devotees
of lord Shiva. There are so many
instances of the devotees realizing
the Ultimate by simple activities
like making garlands for the Lord.

An example is Gananaatha
Nayanaar, a devotee of Shiva,
engaged in simple services like
plucking flowers for worship,
making garlands for the Lord,
sweeping and washing the floor of
the temple and keeping the lamps
in the temple burning. Just this
simple life led him to reaching the
Ultimate and brought him his
name ‘Gananaatha’ meaning the
chief of the ganas (attendants) of
lord Shiva.

Don’t cheat yourself and be
hypocritical by not admitting
what you feel. You cannot
hide anything from the
Divine. He knows you better
than you know yourself.
Your intensity is the only
thing that decides when your
object of seeking will
happen. If the intensity is
total, it will happen that
moment. If the intensity is
not integrated and total, it
will take more time because
the intensity has to gain
strength in that time.

The Sufi mystic Junaid, was taking a
walk one morning when a man came
up to him asking, 'I need to reach the
capital of this kingdom. How long will
it take?'

Junaid just looked at the man and
continued walking. The man was
going
in the same direction. He followed
Junaid thinking maybe he did not
hear him properly.

So, he asked Junaid again, 'Can you
please tell me how much time it will
take me to reach the capital of the
kingdom?'

WHEN YOU
LIVE
INTENSELY,
AUTOMATICALL
Y YOU WILL
BE LIBERATED.

Why? Why does your mind pull you to
the same experience again and again?
You may crave for a particular candy or
you may be addicted to something.
Why?

You cannot feel fulfilled by
offering sense pleasures to the
senses. Living intensely does not
mean fulfilling your senses,
pouring pleasures into your
senses, or living as you wanted.
Eat intensely. When you are
eating, only eat.
When you are sleeping, just
sleep.
When you are drinking, only
drink.
When you are making merry, just
be merry.

INTENSITY CAN
HELP YOU
OVERCOME
ADDICTONS!

Actually if you look deep
you can see it is because
you never eat the candy or
cater to the addiction
completely with full
involvement. You hold
back from throwing
yourself into the action
fully. Maybe you feel guilty
about it or you have too
many confusing thoughts
at that time. So you decide
to just do the action
ignoring your thoughts
and feelings that are
coming in the way of your
pleasure.

You see, part of you wants to indulge
in the action. Another part of you
argues why you should not. You are
caught in too many thoughts, many of
them self-contradictory. You lose
energy in fighting with yourself.
Finally, you are not integrated whether
you do the action or not. You are not
intense. So the desire is not
completely fulfilled and leaves behind
its memory in your inner space.

Engraved memories of desires that
are not completely fulfilled are
called samskaras. These engraved
memories have the power to make
you return and travel in that same
path. Whether it is coffee or
champagne or smoking, whatever
engram you create will have the
power to make you do the same
action again and again, till you feel
completely fulfilled with that habit
or with that enjoyment or pleasure.

If you enjoy your addiction
intensely even once, only
once, you will be
completely liberated. That
engram will never ask you
anymore to travel in that
path. It will liberate you.w
of life! It is a law of life!

Karma is nothing but
unfulfilled engrams and
desires, which are inside your
being, which constantly
make you again and again to
travel in that same path,
trying to give the experience
of fulfillment in your inner
being.

Unfulfilled engrams are what I
call karma. You keep your body
alive, you keep your mind alive,
because still you have hope that the
body can give something to you,
the mind can give something to
you. Still you have the hope you
can enjoy something, or something
needs to be fulfilled through the
body and mind. That is what I call
karma.

FOR ALL THIS,
THERE IS ONLY
ONE THING
NEEDED ON
YOUR PART: LIVE
INTENSELY