MANIPURAKA CHAKRA🔗

Manipuraka Shuddhi Kriya

ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE

Manipuraka Shuddhi Kriya is a meditation technique drawn from ancient Christianity. Known as glossolalia, the technique was further adapted by the Sufis as 'gibberish'. It is a cathartic technique that bypasses mental processes and roots out worries in their most elemental form - which is just negative energy. It is a powerful technique to cleanse and the manipuraka chakra or navel energy center, which is locked by stress, worry and other deeply engraved negative mental patterns.

All your worries are nothing but words! They are nothing but the sum total of all the languages you know. All your life, you have put your worries into words, spoken about them in some language which you know. Now, you are going to speak in a language which you don't know! You are holding all your worries, negativity and suppressions like a weight in your navel area. Can you see how heavy that area feels? Now you are going to act out all those suppressions - in noises and actions. Remember, no words! When you start using words, your inner chatter begins to come up. During this meditation, don't allow your inner chatter. Simply get to the core of your deepest suppressions and pluck them out of your system! Just vomit them out in sounds. This technique is a powerful meditation. It unblocks your unconscious and allows all the negativities stored inside to dissolve.

Typical psychoanalytical sessions, when patients talk to their analysts or even throw things around for catharsis, are still conscious process-es. Only ten percent of your stored memories will be released. Processes such as hypnosis are through the unconscious and you have no control. This technique is a superconscious process in which you retain awareness while cleansing yourself. This technique should always be practiced on an empty stomach, and at least four hours before sleep.

INSTRUCTIONS

Step 1 (20 minutes): Stand apart with your eyes closed. For a minute, concentrate on the manipuraka area. All your worries and suppressed negativity will start rising up into your conscious mind. Just experience all the tension and stress up inside. Now, imagine yourself in some situation of conflict. Imagine that you are fighting hard with someone. Talk to him - in a language that you don't know! Just use nonsense sounds. If anyone is listening, it should not make any sense to them. Try to convey your problem, your pain, to the other person. But the other person simply doesn't agree with you! How do you feel? Angry? Throw out your anger on him!

Anything that happens in you, any word that happens in you, express it as a sound. Do not use words. If you use words, only familiar and recent emo-tions will surface. Also, words will give rise to only more words without actually work-ing on the emotions beneath them. Shout absolute gibberish; only this will open up your unconscious; only this will bring up the deeply hidden emotions. Recall all the painful incidents of your life. Visualize the persons involved and feel the emotions involved in those incidents. Bring out all the emotions. Become completely immersed in them. Be aware of nothing else.

If tears come, let them! Don't stop yourself. Scream, wail, cry, throw your limbs about, roll on the ground if you feel like. Create as much violence as possible! Once you start, you will find that you really won't be able to stop – so much will be com-ing out. You may feel like vomiting, so keep your sick bag ready! Nothing to worry, it is a sign that your system is geeing cleansed and balanced, that's all. Do the technique sincerely - this is your chance to get rid of a life-time's suppressions. Enter completely into the meditation.

Step 2 (10 minutes): Stop! Now, simply sit in silence and bring your awareness to your mani-puraka chakra. You will feel a tremendous lightness in that area. During this silence, just be a witness to your thoughts. Do not sup-press them or chase them. Just let them flow before the deep silence of your being.

Repeat this meditation every day for 21 days minimum, or until you feel as if you have nothing left inside to throw out during the medita-tion. Right from the very first day onwards, you will find a change, a great peace blossoming in your Being. Enjoy the peace!

Mahamantra Dhyana (Chanting the Primordial Sound)

Heals the chakra : Anahata (‘that which cannot be created’) Location of chakra : In the heart region Chakra locked by : Asking for attention Chakra unlocked by : Selfless love Meditation technique from : Tibetan Buddhism Duration : 30 minutes

ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE

Mahamantra (The Great Mantra) meditation is a technique to make your mind centered and integrated, and fill you with energy. The Mahamantra is the essential vibration which is resonating not only in your Being, but in all of Existence. This technique is designed to make your whole body mantramayaa (vibrate with the mantra) through humming. Humming is a powerful means of bringing your awareness to the present moment. If you hum intensely, you cannot have any thought at that time. So your Thoughts Per Second (TPS) automatically comes down. The energy generated by the humming cleanses the energy blocks in the mind-body system. When you are intensely humming, all the ideas which you have about you will be completely shaken. Like an earthquake, this is a technique for a ‘mind-quake’!

This technique will also fill you to the brim with energy, so that you stop seeking attention from others. Attention-need is nothing but low energy. Attention is energy. When you are in a high-energy state, you don’t need attention-ener-gy from others. Instead, you will be overflowing with energy, which you will start showering upon others! Chanting the mahamantra is known as the mahamantra uchchaad-ana – uttering the mantra which is beyond utterance, beyond speech or writing, beyond expression. It is the anahata dhwani (the unheard sound). When you experience the energy of this meditation, you will under-stand that you are based in this anahata dhwani. When you practice this meditation, your entire energy becomes cen-tered on yourself.

This meditation should be done on an empty stomach or two hours after a meal. It is best to practise it early in the morning, as it gener-ates a tremendous amount of energy in your body. If you practise it at night, it may interfere with your sleep. It can be done either alone or with a group. When done with a group, it effectively energizes the place where it is done. 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.

Step1 (20 minutes): Sit in a relaxed way, cross-legged, with your hands on your knees, palms facing upwards. Keep your spine erect. Your head, neck and spine should be in a straight line. Close your eyes. Really close your eyes. Usually, when you close your eyes, it is just like putting off the TV outside and switching on the inner TV. So don't just close your eyelids – close your eyes! There is a good way to do this: just imagine that your eyeballs have turned to stone! 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. Just harden your eyeballs with mental pressure; the images in your mind will die. Your thoughts will also stop, or become slow. Don't be too worried about keeping them arrested. Just proceed with the meditation. Now, with your mouth closed, start humming. Just create the vibration Mmmm. Don't chant any other mantra, don't chant Om or Hoom. Imagine your body as an empty vessel. If you put your mouth to it and hum, what sound do you hear? Create that same vibration inside yourself. Hum as loudly as possible, as deeply as possible, as lengthily as possible. Put your whole effort into your humming. The sound has to come from your naabhi kamala – from your loins. Don't attempt any kind of breath control. Your breathing will auto-matically take care of itself. Just continue humming in an intense yet relaxed manner. Let your whole body be filled with the vibration of the humming. Become the humming! Whatever thoughts arise, throw them also into the humming. Gradu-ally, they will disappear. After some time, you will feel that the humming continues without your effort and that you have become simply a listener to it! You enter the state of ajapa – where you don't even have to do the japa (chanting), the japa happens on its own. You don't have to repeat the mantra, the mantra will repeat you. (At the end of twenty minutes, you hear the command 'Stop!', and the music stops.)

Step 2 (10 minutes): Instantly stop your humming. A great silence floods your Being. For a moment, time stands still. Witness this silence. Experience the tremendous calm in and around you. During this time, the energy created by the humming enters all the corners of your being and cleanse it deeply. It establishes you in the awareness of the present moment. This awareness is all that is needed to dissolve the negativities, bring clarity and enable you to experience your true potential. After a short while, thoughts will slowly start entering into this si-lence. Don't stop them; don't enter into them. Simply witness these thoughts. Remain silent and blissful. Become a centre of awareness. Remain centered in the anahata chakra. You will feel completely centered, calm.

Shakti Sagar Dhyana (Ocean of Energy)

ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE

All your life, you have been running a race against others. Now, you will run against yourself! You have always put a mental limit on your own potential. You already have an idea that you can do this much, and no more. Not only physically, but in everything in your life. You don’t know that you are actually a source of tremendous energy! In this meditation, you will realize that you are much more than what you imagined. You will see new resources opening up inside you. There is an immense reservoir of energy inside us that most of us are not even aware of. If you know how to tap into this vast energy source, you can simply go beyond what you now think are your limitations. Intelligence is nothing but functioning at the highest level of energy available to us. During this meditation, you unlock the resources of Intelligence. When you awaken to the understanding that you are a unique expression of the cosmic energy, the need to compare yourself with others falls away effortlessly.

People with heart disease, high blood pressure or other serious ailments are recommended to avoid practicing this technique.

INSTRUCTIONS

Step 1 (20 minutes): Stand in silence with your eyes closed. Concentrate your entire awareness upon the vishuddhi chakra, located in your throat region. When you do this, the cosmic energy enters through the vishuddhi chakra and becomes a tremendous source of energy for you.

Now, standing in place, slowly begin to jog. If you find this difficult, you can stand behind a chair or use some support. Start jogging slowly, very slowly, in the same spot where you are standing. Start slowly, then increase your pace. Keep jogging faster and faster in the same spot. Push your limits only to the extent that you can, with no discomfort.

At all times focus on the vishuddhi. You will be able to feel the energy coming from it. As you jog, be aware: ‘I am awakening the cosmic energy in me. I am awakening the unique energy in me.’

Let this be a physical decision! Your very muscles have to decide, ‘I am renouncing all the past sams-karas. I am opening up the unique energy which is available to me.’ Let your whole body feel that you are expressing much more than what you think you can.

The important thing is never to slow down at any point in time, and to always keep your eyes closed, and your awareness on the throat region. When you do this, you automatically absorb the energy that is generated during the movement. Your body has tremendous potential that you have never used! When you enter totally into this meditation, you will find that the higher levels of energy open up. So keep jogging. Let the energy rise!

Step 2 (10 minutes): Relax. Stop jogging and just sit down quietly wherever you are.

Keep your eyes closed. Focus all your attention on the vishuddhi chakra. This will help assimilate and distribute the energy you have released during the jogging. While doing this meditation, you may wear your mala (rosary) around your neck. It will absorb and retain the released energy for a longer time.

Divya Netra Dhyana (The Divine Eye)

ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE

The Ajna chakra is also known as the 'third' eye' and the Chakra Raj – the Master chakra. It is such a significant chakra that there is no religion that hasn't worked on activating it. When the Ajna is awak-ened, the whole Being enters into a different realm. A whole layer of faculties opens up.

There is an old saying that if you die in Varanasi (a holy town in In-dia), you are assured of liberation. Varanasi is not just the town as we know it. It is also the region where the vaarana (eyebrows), meet the naasi (nose), which is the exact location of the ajna chakra. It symbol-ically represents the death of ego in the liberated or enlightened state.

Divya Netra Dhyana is an extremely powerful technique where you come in direct contact with the master's energy. This meditation is most effective when practised in the master's presence. Alternatively, you could practise with the picture of Swamiji's eyes that is available for use in this meditation. (Don't use just any picture of Swamiji as it won't have the desired effect. The recommended picture was taken when an actual Ajna meditation session was in progress.) If you don't have access to this picture, you may use a lamp lit with ghee (clarified butter) or sesame oil. You could use a candle too, but ensure that it has been made out of vegetable fat.

INSTRUCTIONS

This meditation involves two separate techniques: one for cleansing the ajna, and the other for energizing it. Our lower chakras mainly need cleansing and channeling. The higher chakras need energizing also – pumping the energy up to the chakra. In the two phases, you will need to alternately close and open your eyes.

Step 1 (5 minutes): Close your eyes and focus on your ‘third eye’ - on the area of your ajna chakra. Just see through your eyes, whatever images you are seeing behind the closed eyes.

Step 2 (5 minutes): Now open your eyes - but do not see! Look through your eyes, not with your eyes. Don’t look with your two eyes as you normally do. Instead, try seeing with your third eye, as if your brow chakra were actually an eye that you could see with.

With your third eye, gaze intensely at the master’s third eye, or at the flame of the lamp. Try not to blink. Initially, you may feel some discomfort. You may experience a burning sensation in the eyes, or tears may come. Let it happen. This is all part of the cleansing process.

Repeat both steps twice, then repeat only Step 1 and end the meditation.

Be prepared to have unusual experiences during this meditation. Your ajna has never been activated before. Opening the ajna will open you to a whole new realm of experience.

You may see visions of your favourite deities, or find that Swamiji’s form disappears and is replaced by a point or beam of light. Sometimes you may see total emptiness where his form or picture was. Don’t be alarmed or lose your clarity at these moments. You are not being hypnotized! In fact, only now are you finally being dehypnotized. Only now is your superconscious awakened. If you see only light or emptiness, it is a sign that you have done the meditation with deep sincerity. Because that is the truth of our nature. We are all nothing but energy. The physical body that we perceive as our own, and the physical existence of everything around us, is nothing but an illusion. That’s why the ajna chakra is known as Maya Harana – destroyer of illusion.