Day 5: 18ᵗʰ April🔗

Swadishthana = 'Where your being is established' – from swa (self) + adhishthana (established)

Location: 2 inches below the navel Locked by: Fear, especially the fear of Death Unlocked by: Acceptance of Death Meditation technique from: Vedanta Name of technique: Nirbhaya Dhyana

Today we will be discussing the next chakra – Swadishthana. The Swadishthana Chakra is concerned with Death.

What is Death? If I ask you that question, you will tell me that Death is the event that happens at the end of our lives. If Death were nothing more than that, it would be so easy! But death is that which is happening every moment of our lives. Death changes the very quality of our life. It is not the end, it is the climax of our lives – towards which our whole life is been oriented.

Why do I say that? Because our whole life is controlled by our concept of death. Even our social structure is guided by our concept of death. The cultures which believe in a single life, with no concept of reincarnation, have poured all their energies into excelling in life. They have achieved the peak in terms of assimilation of information, gaining of knowledge and material comforts. These cultures have given rise to Science. Science helps us

Even when Yama returns, all that Nachiketa encounters is a loving guide, a spiritual master. Yama gives the great gift of enlightenment to Nachiketa.

What is the meaning behind this story? When you lose your fear of death, when you welcome the eventuality of death with courage, death no more has a terrible face. Death becomes a great teacher. From this story, one thing becomes clear. Be very clear – death is inevitable. It is inevitable. But when you accept that, half the problem disappears on its own.

A small story about Socrates: You all know Socrates was killed, he was forced to drink the juice of the poisonous herb hemlock. Just before he drank the poison, one of his disciples asked him, Master, aren't you afraid of dying? Socrates replied calmly, Why should I be? I know that only two things can happen after death. Either I will continue to exist, in some other form or name. So what is there to worry about? Or, I will cease to exist after death. Then, who will remain to worry? So either way, there is nothing to fear!

Do you understand? What is it we fear about death? If we continue to exist – fine, we continue to exist.

If we cease to exist, no one is left to even notice!

Another story: Once a Zen monk was ordered by the king to be put to death. He was supposed to be killed the next day. The monk remained calm and silent. One of his disciples, shocked by the monk's calm attitude, asked him, Do you realiZe you have only 24 hours to live? Aren't you afraid? The monk said calmly, I have lived, therefore I have no fear of dying.

Do you understand? He means, I have lived every moment of my life, moment to moment. Every single moment is so much for me – and you talk about 24 hours!

In fact, if you look deep inside, you will realize that most of us are not afraid of dying. We are afraid that we haven't lived our lives. We have not lived as we wanted to live, we don't feel fulfilled – there starts the fear of death! Continuously compromising for the sake of others, trying to live out a life that is not natural to us, trying to fit into a mould that society has prepared for us – no wonder we feel unfulfilled! The fear of life is what is reflected in the fear of death. When you have lived in the deepest possible way, to your full satisfaction, you will not be in fear of death. Live without fear. Live with the deepest individuality. raised his hands in a namskaar to all - and his hands dropped. That's all - like a drama.

What a beautiful, calm, courageous way to face death! That's the way we should all go to death.

Ramana Maharishi has created a meditation technique from his own death experience.

When Ramana was a young boy, one day he was just lying on his bed in his uncle's house in Madurai. Suddenly he got the feeling that he was going to die! He felt that death was coming upon him.

He had two choices - either to resist death, or to accept it. Usually people resist, so they pass into coma and leave the body. 99% of us leave the body in a state of unconsciousness. Though we know from the moment of birth that our life will culminate in death, we never try to visualize it, never try to actualize the possibility. At least once if you go through it with consciousness, you will lose your fear automatically. Ramana was courageous enough to choose the second path. He co-operated with the feeling, he allowed death to happen. He decided to see what would happen.

But what actually happened was something he never expected. He saw clearly the death of his own body. But more than that, he realized that something remained even after death, something which cannot be destroyed. That knowledge never left him.

When you conquer death fear, you conquer death itself. Because death is just one more imagination! Just as in but you can at least try and visualize it according to your understanding. Make sure there's some space between you and your neighbours – at least one foot on each side. Your etheric body is going to expand, and you'll feel uneasy if you are too close to someone else. But do it calmly – dead people don't fight for space! So, are you ready to die?

(the group practises Nirbhaya Dhyana* and later disperses)

(* Nirbhaya Dhyana is strictly to be practised only in the master's presence, so you won't find written instructions here for this meditation.)

The Manipuraka chakra is concerned with Worry.

What is worry? Listen carefully. I'm not asking you, What do you worry about? For that question, I know each of you will be ready with a long list – Swamiji, I don’t have enough money! Swamiji, I have such-and-such a disease! I have no peace of mind at home! I don’t have children, that is my problem! I have children, that is my problem!

(loud laughter from group)

And if you can't find any worries, you start worrying about not having any worries! In fact, elderly retired people come and complain to me they have nothing to do and no one to worry about, and so they have no reason to go on living! We come from all walks of life – different cultures, financial conditions, age groups. But one thing we have in common – we all worry!

Have you ever seen any child worrying about what people will think of him? As we grow up, society plays this idea constantly into our minds. Society teaches us to evaluate ourselves by the ideas and opinions of others - parents, teachers, friends, even strangers. Without external support, without certificates from others, we fear that our ego will collapse in no time.

There is another, deeply hidden reason for worry! The truth is, when you worry about something, you feel you have a definite point of reference against which you can measure yourself. That's why worrying gives a direction to your life. Without worry you feel as if your Being has no axis about which to move. This is why many of us are secretly in love with our worries. People come to me and say, My business is going from bad to worse, Swamiji! Last month I suffered heavy losses, and next month I know it's going to be even worse. So I ask them, If you already know that, why don't you close down your business right away? Why should you suffer? But they are shocked . What are you saying, Swamiji? What will I do then? Without a reason to worry, your ego loses its reason for existing! That's why you choose to remain in the dimension of Dukkha (misery). You can't relate to the opposite dimension, Ananda (bliss) – because in that dimension, you are nobody. To enjoy bliss, you need to first drop your ego. Are you ready to do that?

NO. You are ready to take on all worries, but you can’t let go of your ego! So you keep on finding excuses to worry. Each person worries that only he is unhappy, and everyone else is happy! But the strange thing is, everybody feels that he is the most unlucky, unhappy person! Is that possible?

A small story: In a certain kingdom, it came to the king’s notice that everybody was depressed, because each person felt that they had the maximum worries, and no one else had any worries. So the king announced a ‘Worry Exchange Offer’, where people could bring in their big worries, and exchange it for someone’s else’s small worries. A big space was made ready, and in the center of it a huge Worry Pot was placed. Anybody who wanted could come and dump his own worries inside it, and pick up any other worries they wanted. Only thing, they had to pick up some worries. The whole kingdom gathered for the event. Strangers met and starting talking to each other about their worries. After a long time, the event was declared open. Can you guess what happened? Not a single person came forward to drop their worries in the pot! After all, who wants to exchange their small, familiar worries, and take on the unknown worries of someone else?!

What happens inside your mind when you are worrying? Just watch your mind when you are worrying about stream of thoughts flowing through your mind. Write down, honestly, whatever thoughts come into your mind. Do this for five minutes.

Now, sit down and read what's written on that paper. You will be shocked! On that paper, you can see the record of your inner chatter.

Just see how disconnected, how irrelevant your thoughts are! You are running a mental asylum inside your head! This is the true nature of your mind - this uncontrolled flow of thoughts, this expression of insanity.

This is the mind you have entrusted your life to! This is the mind that has invented all your worries. This is the mind that is living your life for you. If you simply understand this much, you have taken a quantum leap towards freedom from worry.

A small story: One day, there was an accident on the road. People gathered and saw that a new car had banged into a wall. They asked the man inside, Why are you driving the car if you don't know how to drive properly?

Of course I know how to drive!, said the man. The only problem is, I don't know how to stop!

Just like this, you are also 'driving' a vehicle which you don't know how to stop - your Mind. Just try to stop your inner chatter, even for a few seconds.

Can you?

So also with the chakras. The problems, diseases, emotions you are struggling with are nothing but knots in the sthula, sukshma, karana shareeras (physical, mental and causal bodies). Once you clearly understand what is causing the problem, you can take the right steps to solve it.

As you all know, worry is closely connected to the Manipuraka chakra. Negative thoughts directly attack the Manipuraka chakra. Just test this: whenever you feel negative thoughts coming up, look into them and see where they are rising from. You will find that they always rise up from the navel. Whenever you feel worried, whenever a situation arises that you simply can't handle, the first thing to get affected is your stomach. You can physically feel depression as a weight in your stomach. Have you all noticed this? That's why the expression exists in all languages, I can't stomach it, I can't digest it. Constant worrying locks the Manipuraka.

So, what is way to unlock this chakra? (from audience) We should never get worried in any situation.

Yes, that's exactly the message given to you by all the so-called moral teachers. But how many people practise what

Some Christian priests were undergoing training on how to preach in church. The Father Superior advised them: When you talk about Heaven, bring a glow onto your face! Make your eyes sparkle. Wear an expression of ecstasy! Only then will people believe in Heaven. Only then will they long for Heaven! When you talk about Hell, just be as you are. That will be enough. (laughter)

Anyway, let’s come back to our point – what is negativity? Suppose a person suffers from a business failure. For his misfortune, at about the same time he has an accident, and his marriage also breaks up. How is he going to react? Oh, this is my bad period! Everything I touch is sure to be a failure! I am good for nothing! Why am I always so unlucky? What am I going to do? ... and so on!

The funny thing is, 99% of our worries never come true! 99% of our worries are totally unreasonable. And the remaining 1% which comes true is always good for us! (laughter) Gradually, this negative attitude solidifies in your Being permanently, and becomes a sort of ‘negative guidance’ in depression is the water itself.

The memories of those suppressions go directly to your Manipuraka. That’s why, when thoughts arise from the Manipuraka, they are coated with violence. When the Manipuraka is poisoned, you’ll see that all your actions have an unconscious violence – like plucking flowers, destroying things, misbehaving with your body, fighting with yourself and with others.

How do we go beyond depression?

Once you understand how the mind works, this becomes simple. Just as a key can be used both to lock and to unlock a door, you can use the same words playing in your mind to go beyond depression into Ananda.

The mantra to conquer worry is simple: continuous positive thinking.

Be alert. Whenever you become aware of a negative thought surfacing, begin to feed your mind positive thoughts.

You can verily change your thoughts by sitting down and creating positive, reassuring thoughts to counter the negative thoughts.

Repeat positive words to yourself.

These words are powerful mantras! Don’t underestimate their power.

Of course, in the beginning, when you utter positive words, your mind is not going to learn these words easily.

Because it has been trained to respond negatively!

So a small corner of your mind will continue to protest, Do into two parts and offers both arguments. Don't allow the negative part to speak at all. Just monopolize the conversation! What you do regularly with others, just do it with your mind! (laughter) Why are you laughing? This is what we usually do with others, isn't it? Everybody wants to talk, but nobody wants to listen! We are all begging the attention of the other, all the time! In fact, in the West, people are paying psychiatrists exorbitant amounts of money – just to listen! It is not a joke, it is a great pity. It hides a deep underlying fear, an insecurity.

There is another way of transcending worry – by NOT resisting it. Allow yourself to enter deeply into your worries, with acceptance and clarity. Be prepared to die into your worries! Acceptance is not impotence. Acceptance is a great meditation technique. Shiva talks about this in Vijnana Bhairava Tantra. Acceptance releases a great energy, gives you great clarity. When you accept your worries, when you enter deeply into them, you will come to a tremendous understanding that all your worries are just your own creations. When I tell you, you can understand it only intellectually. When it becomes your own experience, when you have that clarity, you will go beyond worries.

When I speak from my Being, it has to touch your Being. It will transform your life. There is no other way.

In Chicago, when Vivekananda opened his speech with Dear Brothers and Sisters of America, a person who attended that meeting writes in his memoirs, We felt as if a current of Love was passing through us, through our Being..! Today, at every street corner, you find politicians yelling, Blood brothers and sisters! Dearest members of my family..! Does anyone get impressed? The politician speaks from his head. Vivekananda spoke from his Being.

When the speaker speaks with totality, the listener is bound to listen with totality. His life is bound to be transformed. If your life has not been touched by my words, be clear, I have no authority to speak. You are free to doubt the truth of my experience. If you feel that my words have not been able to transform your life, there is no need to feel guilty. I take full responsibility. But there is no way you will not be touched by me!

If you listen with your heart, you will see my teachings working out in your life automatically, when the time comes. Only a teacher who is unsure of himself needs to urge his disciples to go back and practise his words. When a true master speaks, simply listening will do. I will practise. I will be inside you. These words are not my words, they are my Being. You will be carrying me inside! Just allow my words to stay with you. The energy that comes with these words will guide you always.

Now we will enter into the meditation.

As I told you, all your worries are nothing but words! 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 all 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.

First, for a minute, concentrate on the Manipuraka area. All your worries and suppressed negativity will start rising up into your conscious mind.

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, like how babies talk. 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! If tears come, let them! Don't stop yourself. Scream, wail, cry, throw your limbs about. Create as much violence as possible! (Only thing, don't beat up the other participants!) Scream as loudly as you feel like. No one is watching you; all of you are going to be blindfolded. Please do this sincerely - this is your chance to get rid of a lifetime's suppresions! Enter completely into the meditation.

After 20 minutes, you will be asked to stop. For the next 10 minutes, simply sit in silence. Focus on your Manipuraka chakra. You will feel a tremendous lightness in that area! It is as if you have taken a mental bath! A great peace blossoms in your being. Enjoy the peace!

(group practises Manipuraka Shakti Kriya and takes a short break)

Anahata = ‘That which is not created’ (from the Anahata dhwani or ‘unheard sound’ which you hear when this chakra is activated)

Located: In the heart region

Locked by: Asking for attention

Unlocked by: Selfless love

Meditation technique from: Tibetan Tantra

Name of technique: Mahamantra

The Anahata chakra is concerned with love, sentiments, emotions.

This chakra gets locked by constantly asking for attention from others. 80% of our problems are due to asking for attention. Whatever we do, whatever we think, we need the approval of the people around us! We have to earn a good name.

I want you all to do this exercise. Just note down, in a day, how many things you do to get a good name, to maintain your reputation in society. You will find that 24 hours you are involved in a signature campaign! In a big register you write, Good Father. Then you go to your son, to your daughter, and start begging them, Please sign this! (loud laughter from group) Then you go to your wife, to your boss, to your friends. You want them to sign, Good Husband, Good Employee, Good Friend. Of course, all these people also come to you for your signature! Each of us is continuously on a signature campaign. We need to collect as many good opinions as possible from society to prove our worth. Why do we bother so much about others' opinions about us? Because we don't know anything about ourselves!

Ha ha! Do you know what you mean by this sometimes, definitely..? You mean that sometimes the feeling comes up into your conscious mind. At other times, it remains hidden, you are not aware of it. Am I right? No Swamiji, I just do my duty! Ah, duty! The word duty is an ugly word! The word duty arises from the same feeling – if I don't do my duty, what will so-and-so say? What will he feel? Please don’t cheat yourself. Be very clear. Sit down alone and diagnose yourself deeply. Practically all our actions are prompted by the need for the good opinion of others.

(another voice) Swamiji, what about selfless service, done out of love? Such a thing does exist, but it is very rare! It happens only when the Anahata is totally opened. We’ll discuss how that happens.

Swamiji, for a few people, we do out of love… for others, for their good opinion, like you said… True. And you can easily see the difference. When you do out of love, no matter how hard the work, you don’t get tired. In fact, many Reiki and Pranic healers come to me and say, Swamiji, even by attending 10-12 patients a day, we feel drained. How do you heal hundreds like this? This is the answer. When you act out of love – when you allow it to happen – the

Be your own inspiration source! Come to a clear understanding that no joy is possible when you place your own center on someone else. If you understand this, half the problem is solved. Because you don’t know anything about yourself, you turn to society for an answer. And society happily puts its labels on you: Doctor. Father. Good-looking. Failure. Like a parcel without a proper address is pushed from place to place, we move around in society collecting these stamps. Because we don’t know where we are headed, we have to depend on society’s stamps to show us the way. And by and by, we forget that we are the parcel, not the labels! We forget that we are the stuff inside the parcel!

How to unlock the Anahata? The key to unlock the Anahata is selfless love. When you know yourself, when you appreciate yourself, you will have no need to ask for attention from others. When you are fulfilled, you will naturally start showering on others. A small story will make it clear to you - the difference between asking for attention and offering selfless love. Have you heard of the Brahma Sutra ? This is greatest book available to humanity. It is the unabridged edition of world philosophy, from which all other philosophies originated; the book of books. Vajaspati Mishra is the man who wrote a commentary on this book, an excellent commentary. This is an incident from his life:

Then he paid his wife the greatest tribute of all: he named his life's work after her: Bamati. Even today, the most outstanding commentary on humanity's most precious book carries her name: Bamati. Bamati has become immortal, just because of her selfless devotion and love.

Today, can you read the newspaper for half an hour in peace? Will your wife let you? Can she watch TV for half an hour? Will you allow her? (uproarious laughter from group) This is the big difference between asking for oneself, and giving of oneself.

For the next few days, I want you all to do this experiment. Choose a partner. It is your responsibility to look after the other person completely, like a child. I want your first concern to be for the other person's comfort. Always, your eye should be on whether he or she is happy and comfortable. Does he need anything? What can you do to help? Almost all our life, we worry only about ourselves. At the most, we worry about our close family, that too out of a sense of duty! Now, you will get a chance to see what selfless love is like! I don't want you to pair up with your friends or relatives! Choose a stranger -- the person standing closest to you. And be very clear: I don't want you to choose the person whom you want to be friends with later! Just choose at want you to just close your eyelids – I want you to close your eyes! For a moment, just imagine that your eyeballs have turned to stone. Immediately, thoughts will also stop, or become slow. Now keep your mouth closed and start humming. Just create the vibration Mmmm. Don't chant any other mantra, don't chant Om. Chant as lengthily as possible. Allow the body to sway. The sound has to come from your naabhi kamala – from your loins. 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 it. They say that Brahma the Creator rose from Vishnu's naabhi kamala – the lotus in his loins. Brahma is the embodiment of veda (knowledge), of mantra dhwani, of the primordial music of creation – which is this very expression. When you chant this mantra, you become a creator, you create your new self. With this meditation, you will be totally transformed, you will be born again. Do this for 20 minutes. There will be music accompanying your humming. Don't attempt any kind of breath control. Your breathing will automatically take care of itself. This is known as the mahamantra uchchaadana – the mantra which is beyond utterance, beyond writing. It is the

Swamiji chants an invocation:

The Vishuddhi chakra is concerned with comparison and jealousy.

What is comparison? Can someone tell me, what are the major areas where you see comparison? (The group gives a number of reasons. Swamiji sorts the answers under various topics.)

So now these are the major areas where we compare ourselves to others: money, wisdom, beauty (including health) and power. All your problems, all your complexes are nothing but these four issues. Now in each of these areas, all of us are somewhere in between the two extremes. Do you have or don't you have? On both sides there is a long list. Can anyone say he is the wisest man in the world? No. Do you feel that you are the greatest fool? Again, no. Can you claim you are the richest person? No. Can you say you are the poorest person? No. So both cannot be told – but the thought disturbs you all the time! We are haunted by phenomena about which we don't even have a clear understanding.

There are two types of reality: Existential reality and Comparative reality. Comparative reality is not absolute, but exists only in comparison to something else. In Sanskrit, we call beauty Maya. We say ya ma iti Maya (that which doesn't exist is Maya). That which doesn't exist, but which continuously disturbs! Am I right? So on both sides there is an endless list. How to judge? It is up to you which side you want to look – to be in ananda or in dukkha!

(from audience) Better not to look both sides! Is that possible? And anyway, why the fear to look?

Ramana Maharishi says:

Existence has enough abundance to satisfy the needs of the whole of creation, but not to satisfy the wants of one man! See the huge gap between our actual needs and our accumulated desires!

In Jainism, there is a belief that when you are born, the entire quantity of food that you will need during your lifetime is sent along with you. Which is a way of saying that whatever your true requirements in this birth, Existence equips you with the ability to fulfil them.

But our wants are endless! Every time one desire is fulfilled, a hundred more come up. It is our nature to desire without end.

A small story:

Early one morning Mother Earth, Bhooma Devi, was taking a stroll on a riverbank when a man came up to her and prostrated at her feet.

Mother! he cried, I am a poor man. I have no land of my own to grow crops. You are the Goddess of the whole earth. Please grant me some land, or my family will die of starvation.

Taking pity on the man, Bhooma Devi said generously, Alright! It is just sunrise now. I grant you that whatever distance you are able to cover on foot till sunset today will become your land.

Hearing this, the man set off at a run. He had to cover the maximum possible distance before sunset!

By afternoon, he was tired out. One part of his mind told him, Enough! You have covered many miles! This land will be enough not only for you, but for three generations of your descendants! But greed told him, In the scriptures it is said that a man has to provide for seven generations. What will happen to them? So greed drove him onward. At four in the evening, his body was screaming with pain. Stop! You now have enough land for seven generations! Again, greed raised the question, What about the eighth? Let me cover one more hill, one more field! After that I will rest. Now it was only a few minutes to sunset. By now the man was beyond reasoning. He simply continued to run, run like a madman. In the distance was a huge river. Let me reach that river. There I shall stop, drink some water and rest, finally rest!, thought the man.

Exactly at the moment of sunset, the man reached the river. But before he could reach out to drink the water, his body collapsed on the bank. He never got up again. This is no different from the way we live! We are so caught up with acquiring, we have no time left for enjoying!

Swamiji, we live in a competitive society. How can we stop comparing? Good question. you not to compare. But be clear as to why you are running. Bring clarity even into your comparison. See, there are two kinds of comparison: constructive and destructive. Constructive comparison is essential, it is good. In a practical sense, it gives you a yardstick for measuring yourself. It provides the stimulus to improve. Without comparing, how can you have a realistic understanding of yourself? Destructive comparison is nothing but the inability to accept reality. In the whole world, someone is sure to be better than you at whatever you do. 99.99% chances are that you're not the world's best engineer, the fastest runner or the most talented painter. Does that mean that you enjoy these things any less? To focus only on what you're lacking is the sure route to a completely unnecessary inferiority complex!

What is the root cause of comparison? Comparison happens because we don't know ourselves. If you are comparing yourself to others, it simply means that you don't appreciate yourself enough! Only when you don't trust your own Being, do you start comparing with others.

The Buddha says, nothing exists except in relationship. misery, not peace.

A small story: A king once went to a wise man to attain some siddhis (magical powers) so that he could become more powerful than his neighbouring kings. The wise man took him out into the garden, where a rose bush and a thorny plant were growing side by side. He told him, These are your teachers. They can teach you what you need to learn. The man was astonished. What do you mean, Master?, he asked. The Master said, For five years, this rose bush and this thorny plant have existed side by side. But not once have I heard the rose bush complaining that it wanted to become a thorny plant, or the thorny plant wanting to become like the rose bush. Each has accepted its own reality without complaint, without comparison. This is the most powerful siddhi you can attain!

How to unlock the Vishuddhi chakra? When you live your life with complete fulfilment, work out your maximum potential, you won't feel the need to compare. In meditation, the conscious analysis of desires will show you very clearly which are your own desires, and which desires you have acquired from others. Existence has already gifted you the ability to fulfil your own desires. You simply have to identify, with clarity, which are your own.

slow down! So keep going faster, faster. Your mind may tell you that it is too tiring - don't listen! Push your limits. Your body has tremendous potential that you have never used.

Actually, we have three layers of energy - the normal layer, the emergency layer, and Intelligence. We normally use only the first layer. We are happy with just that much energy! Very rarely, when we have to push ourselves, the second layer of energy opens up. But the third layer, we have never used. We are not even aware of it. Intelligence is nothing but functioning at the highest level of energy available to us. So don't tell yourself, I can't do it. When you enter totally into this meditation, you will find that the higher level of energy opens up. So keep jogging. Let the energy rise!

After 20 minutes, you will be asked to stop. For the next 10 minutes, just sit down quietly wherever you are. Keep your eyes closed. Focus all your attention on the Vishuddhi chakra. In this phase, you will absorb the energy you have released during the jogging.

Materials like silk, gold and diamonds are excellent storehouses for energy. During the meditation, if you wear these around your neck, they will absorb and retain the released energy for a longer time.

(group practises Shakti Sagar meditation and later disperses)