Technique 2: Unlocking the Root Center🔗

To do this techinque we first need a deep and clear understanding of the Mooldahara chakra or the Root center which is located at the based of the spine. This energy center gets blocked by engraved memories and emotions related to Greed, Fantasy and Lust. 90% of your energy blockage takes place here. It is like having a 100 acre Office building and using just one small room of it. When this energy center is cleansed. It is a constant irritation to stay in present moment because of over expectation from life. Unrealistic expectations. Unable to actualize expectations, desires. Unable to manifest. it is a symptom saying I am not getting something or i am not getting what I expected, what I imagined.

Whatever energy of intuition and visualization is trying to flow through is getting wrongly invested and locked away in this chakra or energy center, in maintaining the engraved memories of lust and fantasy.

Ancient wisdom and now modern science and biological researches have proved that no man is 100% man, no woman is 100% woman. A man is 51% man and 49% woman, whereas a woman is 51% woman and 49% man. Just a difference of 1%. If you remember the 7 layers of our system hardware, it is only in the physical layer the outermost layer which is the outermost body with senses required for gathering data and experiencing life, that the difference in male and female is seen. As we go deeper into the other 6 layers, ther is no difference. But the conditionings that are plastered on a child from the families, society, etc will start getting stored in these innere layers as strong samskaras. A female infant is immediately put in a pink room before even realizing it is male or female. A child growing up is not allowed to express both the feminine and masculine energies equally. Until the age of seven, till the social conditioning has not taken a deep root inside, the child is not conscious of being male or female. He is just so beautiful and joyful to look at. When the conditionings and suppression starts in everything from toys, clothese, manners, then the boys start clinging to mothers because of the deep rooted search for fulfillment of the suppressed half of the energy from being expressed. The girls cling to fathers as role models. After age 14 the child starts collecting images from the media and society and at around age 21 the actual start for the life partner starts. After the honey moon ( not honey-sun) the distance reduces and reality sets in. But we are holding on to the cut and paste images that we had collected since growing up for the suppressed other half, all the way from immediate family circles, friends, society and media. We cherish this image as the one that will fulfill us to make us complete, because our inherent nature is not just male or female. Male or female is only in the external layer, but conditioning is so strong that it permeates into these other layers and causes the constant disturbance due to suppression of the energy channels. So these collage of image that one carefully collects and nurtures seems to not fit with the spouse anymore. There is always a difference, the other person also has been brought up similarly holding on to his or her collage of the other half.

Instead of dropping the image, we start chiseling the outer person to fit the image. Every moment we are holding up this image we have and looking through it as a transparency, we are constantly trying to superimpose this image over the other person and wondering why it does not match. The chiseling of the other person starts from both and instead of 2 persons there are 4 persons tyring to live with each other. This is how lust works. One may be able to notice lust in higher frequencies with spouses only because the relationship is more closer than any other relationship you have with others. At the same time the expectation and chiseling is also the highest.

Lust is when you are constantly on the look out for what can I get out of this person, this position, this place. Lust is the energy or emotion which are nothing but high frequency thoughts of these carefully stored imaginations, images, ideas that we have cultured about everyone. About every one, including how parents should be, spouses should be, children should be, a friend should be, siblings should be, ideal teachers, bosses, employees, ideal leaders, followers, etc. We grow such a complicated and massive database of these ideal images that we classify and collect about every person we come in contact with. This database is like a pandora’s box of images. Even strangers are not spared. We try to chisel and convert them with our unconscious expectation which is called fantasy. Fantasy can never match reality, because as we know everything is just energy constantly in motion, constantly changing, rejuvenating itself in every atom in the Universe.

If we were to watch with awareness, you can see how at the subtlest levels, the play of your mind steps in and passes judgement about every single thing you see and classifies them and stores them in folders. This imagination and images that we collect about others is not just to chisel them, we collect such collage of images of ideal jobs, ideal professions, ideal vacations, ideal pay, ideal family lives, ideal corporations, ideal cars, homes, clothes, idea of beauty, ideas about spirituality, etc, etc and sadly we start chiseling ourselves also to fit into these places. Almost everyone is in the wrong place. A doctor by nature has become an engineer and an engineer has become a serviceman and what not.

This is what seems to be making the decisions not only at corporate levels but in every aspect of your day to day life.

Almost noone seems to be expressing their full and true potential because so many many years of conditionings are constantly done and we once again due to another conditioning wrongly believe that the investment is too high to drop it. We don't realize that the moment we drop, the returns are phenomenally different and beneficial in every aspect.

Even images that we collect about diseases and their symptoms are stored in this energy center. There is something called placebo effect. If the patient and doctor both of them do not know when some colored water is given instead of medicine even then the patient gets healed.He gets the same effect of medication. This is called placebo effect. There is another theory, called reverse placebo effect, which is common in the West, but now this calamity is happening in the east.

When fantasies or imaginations or the super imposed image does not match the realtiy because of our expectations to match, then anger is experienced. Anger is a great energy which has to be used when necessary so that the chiseling of you from the other person does not take place, so that the other person does not force you into a frame. But you should never get disturbed by your own anger. If you get disturbed then it means that you have not gone through the anger with awarenss, you have allowed the anger to overtake you. This is the scale to see if you are using it as a tool and watching it from the time you bring it up, express it and see its effect as a watcher without getting affected by it, or if it is using you and you are getting lost in it. Knowledge about anger reduces any adverse effects of anger inside your own system.

Dropping fantasies and expectations means dropping the super imposed images that we hold about everything and everyone. These are not only past experience, but a conceptual image of everything and everyone. It is not past as it occurred or not an image of the person as he or she is, it is our perception or our imagination with our opinions, our logical opinions which is colored due to our background conditioning.

Dropping these images means, welcoming the present moment, the present person as is. This would mean being able to make spontaneous decisions without old images. When we are holding old images we never realize that these are colored images and not real, so we are continuously in a day dreaming mode. This means there is an under current of these thoughts constantly running. The misunderstanding is a great fear that if you stop day dreaming you will not be able to do next planning. You will not be able to make decisions in investing your decisions about what your plans should be next. You keep wondering how you would decide what your life should be like.

In Sanskrit Rajas is the term used for the restlessness caused due to greed which is the same as lust. Have some physical symptom recorded or remembered in your system. So whenever that physical symptom happens, you will remember you are in Rajas, the wrong energy is active in you. That physical symptom you will be able to capture a glimpse in a roller coaster. When you go through that you will be able to capture a glimpse of physical symptom of rajas. When you experience this energy it will be flowing from around the navel region. It is not that we are not intelligent but when Rajas is active, intelligence is not available to us. Those are the moments we make mistakes in relationships or business deals or life.

Rajas is the energy of lust which shows as restlessness and tamas is the energy of fear which shows as lethargy. Sattva is the energy of intelligence which is the middle path. I was experimenting on how to tell exactly what rajas is; how can you find out whether your rajas is working or tamas is working. I saw pure rajas gets activated in roller coaster when your body goes through very wild, unexpected and unmanageable movements. In India we do the ceremony of fire walking. Even during that time, rajas gets awakened. Here I can't ask you to go through fire walking. Try the roller coaster. That can give you an idea.

But before sitting, be completely relaxed and observe. Put your awareness near the navel center and see throughout the ride, what is happening inside your system during that sixty or ninety seconds. When you get down, don't start talking immediately. Don't start doing anything. Sit in one corner and observe what is happening. What all parts in your body are restless or how your mind is feeling. Just observe. That energy is rajas. Once we understand internally what rajas is, we are safe because whenever that feeling repeats we know this is the time we have to balance ourselves. This is the time we have to get back to the middle path, madhyapanta. Coming to the center or middle path means to watch your breath. This is not the time for us to answer any question to friends or family or relatives.

Understand many of us repent doing one small mistake and losing very big relationships, very big business deals, very close friends, very big people in our life. Before taking that kind of decision, before meeting that kind of persons, before talking to that kind of persons, just see if you are in madhyapanta; you will have the right word.

See, whatever you wanted to say, the same thing can be expressed in a beautiful way if you are in madhyapanta. You will have the right word. All you need to do is internally you should know. You should have the understanding whether your rajas is awakened or tamas is awakened. All you need to do is getting that glimpse or catching that glimpse of how your rajas or tamas operates. One more important thing, whenever rajas operates there is always one line of tamas; when tamas operates, there is always one line of rajas. If you understand even one of the energies, that's enough. If you get the knack of finding out whether you are having rajas or tamas that is enough because you know you need to balance and come to the center.

If it is rajas or tamas, you don't need that. We need to come to the center. If you have the idea how to diagnose or how to find out whether you are caught in rajas, that is more than enough; you don't need to bother about tamas.

Whenever you notice the symptoms of greed energy flooding you upwards from your navel, immediately bring the awareness to your breath. The breath is in the center of your being and the intelligence flows from the center. When you immediately bring your awareness to not get lost in the greed the whole intelligence is awakened. All you need to do is to bring ourselves back to your breath. Your intelligence simply opens up and shows you how to relate with every moment, how to relate with every relationship. Your intelligence will be completely available to you. I promise, when you are centered on breath, you can never do a mistake because the pure energy which flows in you is Sattva.

The Sattva energy is so intelligent that it knows exactly how to relate to the world, how to relate to any situation. It is the innate intelligence. If a strong visualization happens in you whenever you come back to the center, then that is vision or creativity. If a strong joyful mood happens in you, that is Ananda. When we un-clutch from this attitude of greed, it transforms to 'what can I contribute to this person, what can I add, how can I help to make him realize his goal to create space for him to grow, what does he need.'

I tell you when I say I really mean, you can live without your day dreaming. You may ask, then how will I plan for my tomorrow. Usually you are not planning, you are worrying.

Even by your planning, you are only reproducing your past into the future. You are recreating your past, limiting your growth by planning, because you do not have courage to live with spontaneity. You would need courage to live with spontaneous visions happening and to live with the spontaneous revelations happening. Constantly you are struggling with your day to day planning and your life. People who had courage to trust their vision and their spontaneity, only became geniuses. Please understand a little courage, a little courage to enter into the life without day dreaming can revolutionize your life. This is what I call psychological revolution. Just try for 10 days, without fear that your life will not fall apart in 10 days. If in 10 days if it can fall apart, then it is not worth having. Let it be taken away. Just try living for 10 days, life without day dreaming.

Suddenly you will see the quality of your spontaneity. Every single one of you is a visionary. Because of your planning and day dreaming, the quality of having visions is suppressed. If you just remove the day dreaming, if you remove the day dreaming and have little courage towards that quality of creating visions in you. Quality of living with spontaneity, suddenly you will see the visionary in you is awakened. The immense power of visualization which is the power of intuition will start flowing. It will have the power and intelligence. Right now all of us have only freedom without intelligence. That is the reason we are holding on to the day dreams and expecting to see it manifest.

People who live with super conscious never fail and miss in their decisions, because the depth of dilemma, oscillation, mood swings will be very less, very limited. When we drop these images there is no need for the mind to oscillate and so much of energy is saved and decision making becomes so sharp and straight without dilemma. Dilemma is suffering because intelligence is not there.

Understand we are not living with senses. We are living with mind. One way to find out is if we have some fantasy and imagination about drinking, smoking, some physical pleasure, or lust or some food and have an expectation about how it will be then it is living with the mind. If the ecstasy, experience of joy that you experience if it is more than your imagination or expectation then you are living with your senses.

Fantasy is mind. Experience is senses. You yourself can find out if you are living in mind or living in senses. If you are living in senses, then clearing the engraved memories is easy for you. Not living in senses means we are not living naturally. Due to so much of advertisements for food, makes your fantasy about food too big and experience too small. Porn - makes fantasy about lust too big, and experience too lost. You have lost connection with senses. You are living in mind, cerebral layers. Person centered on sense, experiencing the power of intuition and visualization is very easy.

These understandings should constantly encourage awareness of the happenings inside. Every time you meet someone or make decisions, having the awareness to see the play of the mind will help you in changing your mental setup. Meditation technique will work on clearing the unconscious zone which has all the engraved memories of the past. Ultimately in Vedic tradition or Jainism we don't believe knowledge can be gained only through sense. The true knowledge can happen to you through intuition if you know how to open that door, open that source.

Duration: 31 minutes for 21 days

This meditation technique is called Dukkhaharana which originated in the Kulaarnava Tantra. It will bring out all the suppressed emotions in you. Many Masters have employed this technique before. It takes totally 31 minutes. Breathing is the bride to the Universe. It is the system with which you are living your mind. If your thinking is calm your breath will be relaxed. If your thinking is aggressive, your breathing will also be aggressive. You first need to control your breathing in order to control your mind. In the first part of this meditation deep breathing is carried out in order to creae a churning in your repressed system. Your mental system is made fully alive by the increased intake of oxygen, it become more vital. Your cells will get most energy and will create more bioelectricity or bio-energy. This energy will melt all the repressed emotions like melting ice. It is like fanning the Muladhara chakra.

This technique may be practiced on an empty stomach, preferably in the morning. 21 days of Dukkhaharana will transform your Being and bring a glow to your face and body. This is like taking a psychological bath. You will be able to experience the Silence in you. When you kill dukkha or sorrow, Ananda or Bliss flowers in you and sends forth a beautiful fragrance from you.

First step:

Stand with your eyes closed.

Second step

Breathe deeply and rhythmically from the depths of your body, always through your nose with your mouth closed. Move your hands, flex your knees and bend to a semi-squatting position and then rise up. Move as if you are a bird in flight up and down, knees moving up and down, arms moving up and down all rhythms in line with your breathing. Do the movements gently and synchronize your inhalation with upward movement and exhalation with downwards movement. If you have a heart problem, do only as much as you can. Similarly, pregnant women and others with physical ailments – should consult their doctor before doing and limit the movements to only as much as they can. Do this for 10 minutes.

Third step

For the next 10 minutes, keep your eyes closed and tense each part of your body, part by part, limb by limb, then let it relax. Tense and relax one limb and then move to the next. Start with your feet, move to legs then move to thigh, next to the hips, then to the stomach and lower back, then to the chest and upper back, then to your arms from finger tips to shoulder, next to the neck and shoulders, next to your face and finally to the top of the head. Relax each part of your entire body before you move to the next part. This is like an isometric exercise with each part of your body. At the end of these 10 minutes, you will become vacant inside, you will become cool, calm and composed.

Fourth Step

For the next 10 minutes, sit down keeping your eyes closed and chant the 'hoo' kara sound, just the word 'hoo'. There is no need to chant it deeply and loudly. Just chant it in a normal voice. As you chant, simply witness whatever happens inside or outside your Being.

The first two part of this technique are actually a preparation for this third part that is the actual meditation. When you come to the third part you will see that the mind becomes silent effortlessly, by itself. Silence cannot be forced upon you, it can only happen by itself. Remain in this relaxed state with a smiling face and blissful mood. During this time, there may be many experiences, just watch them as you would watch the television. Watch your mind thought by thought. Don't focus on the muladhara at any time during the meditation as this will create fantasies which you are trying to remove. After 10 minutes of 'hoo' kara, sit silently for about a minute and open your eyes. Carry this energy and silence with you.