Forgotten Language

Our thoughts, suggestions create our reality. Using your very

own power of thought.

According to ancient yogic traditions, there are seven major

chakras or energy centers in our body. Each of these chakras
corresponds to a particular color-coded vibrational frequency in
the universe which influences our physical, emotional and
spiritual well-being. When our chakras are perfectly aligned
with the universal flow of energy, every aspect of our life
becomes harmonious and joyful. We reclaim perfect health, and
our love and passion for life becomes renewed.

When the chakras are aligned we can more easily bring forward
our trust, wisdom, clarity, power, confidence, love, compassion,
acceptance, emotional balance and discipline. It is by aligning
with our chakras, we get to acknowledge and embrace all aspects
of ourselves.

Suggestions
I am safe.
I trust more; I fear less.
I am centered & grounded.

Chakra suggestions have been used successfully for centuries &

many miracle stories .

When using the following suggestions, sit or lie down in a quiet

place and focus on the location of each chakra. As you speak out
or silently meditate on each suggestion, visualize a wheel
spinning face-up in a clockwise direction in the specific color
frequency of each chakra:

By using suggestions, energize chakras, we are acknowledging

that we are filled with greatness (Crown Chakra) and filled with
humility (Root Chakra). We are acknowledging that we are
learning and growing (Throat Chakra) and we are working to
accept and embrace our strengths and weaknesses (Solar Plexus).

Miracles
Experience the power(shakti ), confidence and strength( shiva )
that comes from energizing and aligning all of your chakras and
see the magic!

Muladhara
The root chakra is located at the base of our spine and
corresponds to the color red. This chakra relates to our basic
human instinct for survival, security and stability.

I am a divine being of light, and I am peaceful, protected and

secure
I am grounded, safe and prosperous.

svadhisthana
The sacral chakra is located just below our navel in our lower
abdominal region. The color of this chakra is a deep, saturated
orange and relates to reproduction on a physical level,
creativity and joy and relationships on an emotional level and
our energy and passions on a spiritual level.

I am radiant, beautiful and strong and enjoy a healthy and

passionate life
I am creative, loving, and passionate about life.

Manipuraka
This chakra is located above our navel and directly in our
stomach area. The solar plexus chakra therefore plays a vital
role in digestion and glows in a bright yellow color. This
chakra deals with growth and pertains to issues of the
intellect, personal power, control and spiritual evolution.

I am positively empowered and successful in all my ventures

I am driven, successful and will what I want to be.

Anahada
The heart chakra is located in the centre of the chest and spins
with the vibrant green color of spring. This chakra is one of
the most important meditation tools for cleansing and clearing
spiritual imbalances. The key issues related to the heart chakra
are unconditional love, compassion and wellbeing.
Love is the answer to everything in life, and I give and receive
love effortlessly and unconditionally. I am compassionate and
exude unconditional love.

Visuddhi
This chakra is centered in our throat and exudes a pale blue
light. The throat chakra governs our ability to express and
communicate clear thoughts and ideas. It is also related to
truth, maturity, independence and the ability to trust others.

I live in truth and clearly communicate with others.

My thoughts are positive, and I always express myself truthfully
and clearly

Aghya
The third eye chakra is positioned in the center of our
forehead, between our eyebrows. Also known as the brow chakra,
it spins in a deep saturated dark blue hue and helps us tap into
our inner guidance and divine vision. This chakra deals with
developing intuitive clarity, releasing repressed emotions and
attaining self realization.

I always see the reality in every situation through universal

consciousness.
I am tuned into the divine universal wisdom and always
understand the true meaning of life situations

Sahasrar
The crown chakra is located at the top of our head or in the
crown area and corresponds to the violet color. The role of this
chakra is based in awakening consciousness and attaining
enlightenment through the integration of the self into the one
universal form of intelligence.
I am one with the divine.
I am complete and one with the divine energy

seven chakras & seven suggestions, for self-acceptance

Top of Head: I am filled with greatness.
Between eyebrows: I am wise.
Pitt of throat: I am learning and I am growing. We are all
learning and growing.
Ribcages meeting: I love and appreciate myself as I am.
Navel: I accept myself completely. I accept that I have
strengths and I accept that I have weaknesses.
Sexual organ: I am both sensitive and strong.
Base of spine: I am filled with humility. I am enough as I am.

seven chakras & seven suggestions, for trust

sahasrar: I let go and I trust the process of life.
Aghya: I am a wise decision maker.
Visuddhi: I am filled with the power of spirit.
Anahada: I am filled with courage.
Manipuraka: I accept that I am learning and growing.
Svadhishthana: I am balanced. I know when to act and I know when
to wait.
Muladhara: I am disciplined.

Integation
Here we are integrating our trust associated with the Crown
Chakra with wisdom and wise decision-making. We are
integrating our trust with courage. We are integrating our trust
with balance and knowing when to act and when to wait. And we
are integrating our trust with discipline.

chakra and kundalini

kundalini chakra mantra
kundalini and prana
Mind Prana and Kundalini
kundalini and planets
chakra planet correspondence
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Osho Golden Light Meditation

Osho - "This is the whole teaching of The secret of the golden
flower of Master Lu-tsu. He's trying to make the path clear to
you: how the circle can be complete, how the light can
circulate, how you can move inwards, how you can also have a
little bit of sky, a little bit of heaven. And then you can be
happy anywhere - even in hell you will be happy."

You simply lie down, as you are in lying down in your bed, on
your back. Keep your eyes closed. When you breathe in, just
visualize great light entering from your head into your body, as
if a sun has risen just close to your head - golden light
pouring into your head. You are just hollow and the golden light
is pouring into your head, and going, going, going, deep, deep,
and going out through your toes. When you breathe in, do it with
this visualization.

And when you breathe out, visualize another thing: darkness

entering through your toes, a great dark river entering through
your toes, coming up, and going out through the head. Do slow,
deep breathing so you can visualize. Go very slowly. And just
out of sleep you can have very deep and slow breaths because the
body is rested, relaxed.

Let me repeat: breathing in, let golden light come into you
through your head, because it is there that the Golden Flower is
waiting. That golden light will help. It will cleanse your whole
body and will make it absolutely full of creativity. This is
male energy.

Then when you exhale, let darkness, the darkest you can
conceive, like a dark night, river-like, come from your toes
upward - this is feminine energy: it will soothe you, it will
make you receptive, it will calm you, it will give you rest -
and let it go out of the head. Then inhale again, and golden
light enters in.

Do it for twenty minutes early in the morning. The best time to

begin is in the early morning, immediately, just when you are
half-asleep, half-awake. And the process is so simple. It needs
no posture, no yogasana, no bath is needed, nothing. And then
the second best time is when you are going back to sleep, in the
night.

Lie down on the bed, relax for a few minutes. When you start
feeling that now you are wavering between sleep and waking, just
in that middle, start the process again, and continue for twenty
minutes. If you fall asleep doing it, that is the best, because
the impact will remain in the subconscious and will go on
working.

After a three-month period you will be surprised: the energy

that was constantly gathering at the muladhar, at the lowest,
the sex center, is in no more gathering there. It is going
upwards.

The Secret of Secrets - Osho

Enlightenment
During the thirteenth year, in the second month of summer, in
the fourth fortnight, the light (fortnight) of Vaisakha, on its
tenth day, when the shadow had turned towards the east and the
first wake was over, on the day called Suvrata, in the Muhurta
called Vigaya, outside of the town Grimbhikagrama on the bank of
the river Rjupalika, not far from an old temple, in the field of
the householder Samaga, under a Sal tree, when the moon was in
conjunction with the asterism Uttara Phalguni, (the Venerable
One) in a squatting position with joined heels, exposing himself
to the heat of the sun, after fasting two and a half days
without drinking water, being engaged in deep meditation,
reached the highest knowledge and intuition, called Kevala,
which is infinite, supreme, unobstructed, unimpeded, complete,
and full.

The formless is hiding in the form, the bodyless is residing in

the body and the
no-mind is the very core of the mind.

All search is desire; desire creates distance. No search is

desirelessness, and when there is no desire, where can you go?
How can you go? In that non-going something explodes. In Japan
that explosion is called satori; in India we call it samadhi.
That is enlightenment. If one can just stop all going for a
single moment the energy converges upon oneself and explodes.
And the sun is not as bright as that explosion is; it is as if
thousands of suns have suddenly arisen on the horizon. It is the
very source of light and life and love.

other mystics have said that you are filled with enormous light, as if thousands of
suns together have suddenly risen inside you, as if the whole sky full of stars has
descended within your heart.
These ideas appeal to the ego. The ego would like to have all
the stars, if not inside the chest then at least hanging on the
coat outside the chest. "Enormous light"... the ego is very
willing.

To cut the very roots, Buddha says the experience is as if you

were to blow out a candle.
There was a small flame on the candle giving a small light --
even that is gone, and you are surrounded with absolute
darkness, abysmal darkness.

THIS AFFAIR IS LIKE THE BRIGHT SUN IN THE

BLUE SKY, SHINING CLEARLY, CHANGELESS AND MOTIONLESS, WITHOUT
DIMINISHING OR INCREASING. IT SHINES EVERYWHERE IN THE DAILY
ACTIVITIES OF EVERYONE, APPEARING IN EVERYTHING. THOUGH YOU TRY
TO
GRASP IT, YOU CANNOT GET IT; THOUGH YOU TRY TO ABANDON IT, IT
ALWAYS REMAINS. IT IS VAST AND UNOBSTRUCTED, UTTERLY EMPTY.
This affair is like the bright sun. It has been the experience
of thousands of mystics that when they reach the highest peak of
their consciousness there is an explosion of light, something
like an atomic explosion.

One of the great mystics, Kabir, says, "It is shining so much

that it seems one thousand suns have risen suddenly around me.
Wherever I look, the sun that I used to see seems completely
paled ... the brightness of these one thousand suns is so much.
It has purified every fiber and cell of my being, as if I have
passed through fire the way gold does. All that is not gold is
destroyed by the fire and only the pure gold comes out.

"Passing through this experience of one thousand suns, for the

first time I know what purity means -- its fragrance, its
freshness, its absolute newness. It is never stale, it is never
past, it is never present, it is never future. You cannot divide
it into time segments. It always is; it is the very nature of
existence itself."

The descending of light is the ultimate, then the lingering

sense that there is more will disappear.

Just as the light has come it comes as a ray entering into your
unconscious darkness, and soon it becomes thousands of suns,
light exploding all over in all dimensions. Because of this fact
the experience has been called enlightenment.

I must have come across hundreds of mystics describing it as if

suddenly thousands of suns have risen within you. That is a
common expression in the mystic's language. So although the
disappearance happens from a different process, the ultimate
peak is that the whole being becomes light. And certainly light
always travels with the same speed.
he saw the Sumeru shining under thousands of suns - because in heaven you
cannot be so poor as to have just one sun - thousands of suns, and a golden
mountain far bigger than the Himalayas
there is an explosion of light, thousands of suns have suddenly
arisen. The light is so dazzling, one cannot open one's eyes.
The light is so bright; it takes time to get adjusted to it and
to look into it. In fact, when for the first time it happens,
the mystic feels as if he has fallen into a dark night. It is so
dazzling....

Hrit (Hridaya, Surya) chakra

Immediately below Anahata (at the solar plexus or, sometimes, on

the near left side of the body) is a minor chakra known as Hrit
(or Hridaya, "heart"), with eight petals. It has three regions:
a vermilion sun region, within which is a white moon region,
within which is a deep-red fire region. Within this is the red
wish-fulfilling tree, kalpa taru, which symbolises the ability
to manifest what one wishes to happen in the world.

Hrit chakra is sometimes known as the Surya (sun) chakra,[5]

which is located slightly to the left below the heart. Its role
is to absorb energy from the sun and provide heat to the body
and the other chakras (to Manipura in particular, to which it
provides Agni' (fire).

Hridaya: The Spiritual Heart is not Anahata Chakra

According to Tantric tradition, anahata chakra, the heart

chakra, is just a level or dimension of our being and of the
entire manifestation. The Spiritual Heart is more than this.
Hridaya: The Spiritual Heart is not just a spark of God; the
Spiritual Heart is God.

According to Ramana Maharshi, the great Advaita master, The

godly atom of the Self is to be found in the right chamber of
the heart, about one finger-widths distance from the bodys
midline. Here lies the Heart, the dynamic Spiritual Heart. It
is called hridaya, is located on the right side of the chest,
and is clearly visible to the inner eye of an adept on the
Spiritual Path. Through meditation you can learn to find the
Self in the cave of this Heart.

The word hridaya is a composite of hrid and ayam, meaning

center, heart, and this.

The spiritual practice recommended by Ramana Maharshi

If we accept the existence of this area of our body as having a

privileged place in revealing who we really are, then, as Ramana
Maharshi noted, it follows logically that this is the main point
on which our mind should focus while in concentration or during
meditations.

When we recognize the necessity of being aware of ourselves of

maintaining a witness consciousness as a fundamental spiritual
attitude, it is best to center ourselves in the region of the
middle of the chest. This is an important action and it will
help us to understand clearly that the essential awareness of
our own being is not a function of reason. It is not the mind or
a product of the mind, nor is it ordinary thoughts, but it is a
radiance emanating from the region of the chest.

It is written as well that the herbs used to awaken this

potentiality should be obtained and administered ONLY through
the Guru and NOT without a Guru. The reason for such is because
there are certain herbs that awaken only Ida and there are
others that awaken only Pingala; and there are those that can
and do suppress either or both. Aushadhi or the herbal Awakening
can be a very quick, albeit risky and unreliable method. It
should be done only with one who is a very reliable person, who
knows the science of it's use thoroughly, and versed in the arts
thereof.

In regard to Kundalini yoga, there are three important nadis:

ida, pingala, and sushumna (for the alternate names, see the
section below). Ida (, i "comfort") lies to the left of the
spine, whereas pingala (, pigala "tawny (brown)",
"golden", "solar") is to the right side of the spine, mirroring
the ida. Sushumna (, suum "very gracious",
"kind"[2]) runs along the spinal cord in the center, through the
seven chakras. Under the correct conditions the energy of
kundalini is said to uncoil and enter sushumna through the
brahma dwara or gate of Brahma at the base of the spine.
The Shiva Samhita treatise on yoga states, for example, that out
of 350,000 nadis 14 are particularly important, and among them,
the three just mentioned are the three most vital.[1]

3.6 "In the heart verily is Jivtma. Here a hundred and one nis
arise. For each of these nis there are one hundred niks. For
each of these there are thousands more. In these Vyna moves."
3.7 "Through one of these, the Udna leads us upward by virtue
of good deeds to the good worlds, by sin to the sinful worlds,
by both to the worlds of men indeed."

"The nis penetrate the body from the soles of the feet to the
crown of the head. In them is pra, the breath of life and in
that life abides tman, which is the abode of Shakti, creatrix
of the animate and inanimate worlds."

Ida is associated with lunar energy. The word ida means

"comfort" in Sanskrit. Id has a moonlike nature and feminine
energy with a cooling effect.[8] It courses from the left
testicle to the left nostril and corresponds to the Ganges
river.

Pingala is associated with solar energy. The word pingala means

"tawny" in Sanskrit. Pingala has a sunlike nature and masculine
energy.[8] Its temperature is heating and courses from the right
testicle to the right nostril. It corresponds to the river
Yamuna.

The Sutra of Golden Light

In the Sutra of Golden Light Guatama Siddhartha, the
Shakyamuni Buddha invites anyone experiencing misery and
affliction, bad health, poverty, loss, abuse, ill will, fear,
nightmares, or any other harm to hear his words. He states: To
these sentient beings I shall reveal this sutra called Sublime
Golden Light, which rids one of every harmful misdeed, and
expounds upon the profound.

During his discourse, Guatama gives testimony to the life of

Lord Ratnashikhin, a Buddha from an earlier on. He tells us
Lord Ratnashikhin vowed . . . at the time of death, whoever in
the ten directions hears my name, may they transmigrate from
their world and be reborn in the heaven of the Trayastrimsa.
There, may they be equal among the gods. Guatama goes on to
discuss, in some detail, how he used the name of this earlier
Buddha to save a community of fish whose pond was drying up.
The higher state discussed in this sutra is the Heaven of the
Trayastrimsha gods.

In Buddhist cosmology, the Trayastrimsa Heaven is an

extraterrestrial paradise in this world system where
inhabitants enjoy magnificence and pleasure for life spans of
many centuries. The Buddhist cosmology (or universe) is
distinctly different from that of other religions which usually
only recognize this solar system, with Earth as the centre of
the Universe, and the only planet with living beings. This
position is contrary to the Buddhist perspective, which
recognizes life is the rule not the exception in the universe.

The Trayastrimsa Heaven is named for the 33 people who were

reborn there after doing selfless acts of charity on Earth. It
is said inhabitants of this world, the Trayastrimsha gods,
visited Shakyamuni Buddha during his lifetime to receive the
dharma.

. . . In Practice
The English poet Lord Byron called Death, the sable smoke where
vanishes the flame; though most cultures are less romantic
about it. In fact, almost globally, humans fear death. Still,
it comes to us as a great teacher.

When we encounter those who are dying, or have just passed, we

have an opportunity to engender Lord Ratnashikhins vow. Simply
chanting or saying this sutra: Namu Sugata Ratnashikhin, over
those who are passing will help them to be reborn into the
Trayastrimsha Heaven. Dont worry about getting the
pronunciation correct, like many spiritual matters, it is the
intent that counts most.

In fact, it takes very little to help those who are passing.

All Ratnashikhins vow requires of us is a small amount of
presence, the intent to help, and the ability to act. Three
qualities that if cultivated regularly, would improve everyones
lives.
The most profound aspect of this practice is that it is not
limited to humans. Guatamas own example saves not a village of
people, but a community of fish. More and more the natural
world is at odds with human culture and we encounter dying
animals with much greater frequency. The ability to help them
pass on to a better world is quite possibly the best gift we can
give them until we can engineer a less caustic human world.

For a moment, lets get back to the three qualities needed to

enact Ratnashikhins vow. Presence, Intent, and Action: an
adept spiritual practitioner will see these qualities are nested
in the core of every deep tradition. By bringing them into our
death practices, we engender the act of dying with the dignity
and wisdom of life.

Ratnashikhins vow engages the living as well, as the dying, in

the act of passing on, transforming fear & loss into an
opportunity for compassionate action.

This Sutra was taught to me by the late Rev. Madeline Ko-i

Bastis a priest in the White Plum lineage of Soto Zen Buddhism.
Ko-i was ordained in 1993 by Matthiessen Roshi. She was the
founder of The Peaceful Dwelling Project, an educational
organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for
those with profound illness & caregivers working with terminal
and profound illness. Her books Peaceful Dwelling:
Meditations for Healing and Living & Heart of Forgiveness: A
Practical Path to Healing are among those I highly recommend to
students.

Hridaya, the literal, actual, physical seat of the intuition of the Self.
When Mercedes De Acosta met with the Bhagavan Sri Ramana
Maharshi at his ashram the Maharshi placed his right hand in the
form of a fist on her right breast and said:

"Here lies the Heart, the Dynamic, Spiritual Heart. It is called

Hridaya and is located on the right side of the chest and is
clearly visible to the inner eye of an adept on the Spiritual
Path. Through meditation you can learn to find the Self in the
cave of this Heart." (see)
A staunch devotee of the Bhagavan sent a letter from England
asking for an explanation as to the term Hridaya and its
significance. The following is the gist of the reply written by
T. K. Sundaresa Iyer and approved by the Bhagavan:

"Just as there is a cosmic center from which the whole universe

arises and has its being and functions with the power or the
directing energy emanating there from, so also is there a center
within the frame of the physical body wherein we have our being.
This center in the human body is in no way different from the
cosmic center. It is this center in us that is called the
Hridaya, the seat of Pure Consciousness, realized as Existence,
Knowledge and Bliss. This is really what we call the seat of God
in us.

"It is this Hridaya that is said to be different from the

physical heart, regulating the blood circulation. The Hridaya
has its being on the right side and is not commonly known or
felt. The primary thought in us arising as 'I,' when traced to
its source, ends somewhere in us and this place, where all
thoughts die, where the ego has vanished, is the Hridaya. From
this center is felt and enjoyed the Pure Consciousness.

"Hridaya described as 'the literal, actual, physical seat of the

intuition of the Self' has the meaning explained above. Perhaps
the words 'physical seat' may create some confusion. What it
really means is that there is a center of Pure Consciousness in
the physical body. It is related to the physical, but is not
itself physical.

"The word Hridaya is a composite of hrid and ayam - "center,

this". It is the center on the right, which we reach as a result
of meditation (Samadhi). From the Hridaya, consciousness arises
to the sahasrara through the sushumna and from there spreads out
to all the parts of the body through the several 'nadis'. Then
alone we become conscious of the objects around us. Man, due to
the illusion that these have real existence, experiences
suffering, as he strays far away from his Self. The seat from
where all these arise and manifest is the Hridaya.

"Whether in sleep, joy, sorrow, fear or satisfaction, we return

to this heart and that is why we feel lost to all consciousness
of things around. If by meditation or Vichara we attain to our
centre, the Hridaya, and thus are our real Self, we enjoy
unalloyed bliss.

"In the course of tracing ourselves back to our source, when all
thoughts have vanished, there arises a throb from the Hridaya on
the right, manifesting as 'Aham' 'Aham'. This is the sign that
Pure Consciousness is beginning to reveal itself. But that is
not the end in itself. Watch wherefrom this sphurana (throbbing)
arises and wait attentively and continually for the revelation
of the Self. Then comes the awareness, oneness of existence.

"When we steady our breath we feel the steadying of our

thoughts. Then the thoughts turn inward and melt away at a
point. Watching this point, where the thoughts vanish, will also
help us to merge ourselves in the Hridaya."

AHAM
Aham, a concept of Kashmir Shaivism, is defined as the supreme
heart (hdayam),[1] transcendent Self, supreme I awareness [2] or
infinite consciousness.[3] The space of Aham is where khecar
mudr (free movement in the space of the heart) is realised.
Khecar mudr is considered the supreme state of spiritual
evolution.

Sri Bhagavan uses these two meanings in

Sri Arunachala Aksharamana Malai - Verse 1:

Arunachalam ena ahame ninaipppavar ahathai veR aRuppai

Arunachala!
Arunachala en aham - Arunachalam is Heart, or the Self, or
Atman.

ahathai - the ego.

veR aRuppai - to root out (the ego.)

Arunachala Siva.

ahamkara is one of the four parts of the antahkarana (inner

organ) described in Hindu philosophy. The other three parts are
Buddhi, Citta and Manas.

Ramana Ashtottaram
Prostration to the Revealer of the light of the Heart, Revealer
of Inner Awareness. From very ancient times, the inner light,
Purusha or Person, the I-I shining in and as the Heart, had
been identified as Sat-Chit-Ananda, Being-Awareness-Bliss. But
the teaching was not precisely understood, nor was it widely
taught or applied in practice. In the Ramana Gita, Supplement to
the Forty Verses, and in many sections of Talks with Sri Ramana
Maharshi, Bhagavan has clarified, simplified and driven home the
teaching that the Heart, Being-Awareness-Bliss and the I are
three concepts standing for one sole Reality. Bhagavan is the
great and wonderful Teacher of this Vidya. He was an avatar who
came into this world to reveal once more the simple, direct path
of self-enquiry that discloses the identity of the sphurti of
I and the Hridaya, the Heart, as the seat or source of Being-
Awareness-Bliss.

Composition and Structure of nadis

The word nadi is derived from Sanskrit nad meaning hollow stalk,
sound vibration and resonance. Nadis are tubular organs of the
subtle body through which energy flows. Nadis are ducts,
channels which carry air, water, blood, nutrients and other
substances throughout the body. They are our arteries,
bronchioles, veins, capillaries and so on. In our so called
subtle and spiritual bodies, which cannot be weighed or
measured, they channel cosmic, vital, seminal and other energies
as well as sensations, consciousness and spiritual aura. From
the Atma dwelling in the heart, and the size of a thumb, radiate
101 nadis. From each of these 101 nadis emanate 100 subtler
nadis, each of which branches off into another 72,000.
They are called different names according to their functions.
Nadikas are small nadis and nadichakras are ganglia or plexuses
in all three bodies.
It is said in the Varahopanisad that the nadis penetrate the
body from the soles of the feet to the crown of the head. In
them is prana, the breath of life, and in that life abides Atma,
which is the abode of Shakti, creatrix of the animate and
inanimate worlds.
All nadis originate from one of two centres; the Kandasthana - a
little below the navel, and the Heart. Though yoga texts agree
about their starting points, they vary about where some of them
end.
Twelve digits above the anus and the genital organs and just
below the navel, there is an egg-shaped bulb called the kanda.
From it 72,000 nadis are said to be spread throughout the body,
each branching off into another 72,000. They move in every
direction and have countless outlets and functions.
The Siva Samhita mentions 350,000 nadis of which 14 are stated
to be important. The three most vital are Sushumna, Ida,
Pingala.8

Your Subtle Energy System

A slightly different angle:-

Pranic energy flows throughout your pranic sheath via fixed
pathways, called nadis (conduit, channel or artery), derived
from the Sanskrit root nada or nala (motion.) So nadi is energy
in motion. At various focal points within your pranic body,
networks of nadis intersect to form chakras (plexuses of subtle
energy centres.
As wireless mediums, the subtle energy tubes (nadis) are not
physical nerves or arteries, and the vortexes (chakras) are not
physical nerve plexuses. If you dissected a corpse, you would
not locate one nadi or chakra anywhere, because they are
composed of non-physical substance. In fact, even under an
electron microscope they are undetectable. Yet these subtle
energy tubes and centres give the very breath of life to your
body. Without them, your heart would not beat and lungs would
not move. Because they are not readily discernable for
scientific investigation, their existence is rejected by Western
medicine. However, the nadi system is the essence of Chinese
acupuncture and Ayurvedic medicine.
Why are nadis and chakras discounted as myth? Consider a man who
never saw a radio or television. If you told him these
instruments could pick up signals originating many miles away,
he would laugh at you. No wire transmits the signal, yet
invisible electromagnetic waves carry it.
Similarly, your body is akin to a radio that receives pranic
energy. A healthy body receives these energy waves as a clear,
well-tuned radio. An unhealthy body is an old dilapidated radio
that distorts the signal.4

The Five Pranas

Prana, in its capacity of the life force in breath, takes five

separate forms. These five vital forces (pancha prana) breathe
life into your body:
1. Prana (up-breathing) is inward and downward motion. Seated in
the heart (anahata chakra), it governs respiration, swallowing,
and movements of the gullet. Prana resides in the eyes and ears,
operates in the heart and lungs, and moves in and out of your
nose.
2. Apana (down-breathing) is downward and outward motion. Seated
in the anus (muladhara chakra) it governs excretion and the
kidneys, bladder, genitals, colon and rectum. It is responsible
for flatulence, ejaculation, conception, childbirth, defecation
and urination. It regulates the sense of smell, makes the body
stable, and its range of influence is from the navel to the
rectum.
3. Samana (on-breathing) is horizontal motion. Seated in the
navel (manipura chakra), it maintains digestive fire and
regulates stomach, liver, pancreas and intestine. its realm of
activity extends from the heart to the navel. Samana carries the
grosser product of food to Apana for excretion, and brings the
subtler material to the extremities. The word samana means
"equaliser".
The ancient scripture Yoga Sutras says "By conquering the vital
force called Samana, effulgence is acquired." By developing
Samana Vayu (current, impulse, vital air), all parts of your
body are properly nourished, and the energy supplied by food is
evenly distributed. By controlling Samana, you gain charisma and
a powerful aura. It is said in the scriptures that "seven
lights" proceed from Samana.
4. Udana (out-breathing) is upward and outward motion. Seated in
the throat above the larynx (vishudda chakra), it regulates
falling asleep, controls all automatic functions in the head and
maintains body heat. Udana is responsible for speech, music and
humming. At the time of death Udana separates the astral body
from the physical body. By controlling Udana, levitation can
occur. Udana is responsible for "kundalini" rising up your
spine.
5. Vyana (back-breathing) is circular motion, a combination of
Prana and Apana, by which these two are held. All- pervading and
moving through all the nadis, it controls the circulatory,
lymphatic and nervous systems, directs voluntary and invountary
movements of muscles, joints, tendons and fascia, and keeps the
body upright through unconscious reflexes. Vyana is responsible
for blood flow and lymph detoxification, sweating and
coordination of all systems. The word Vyana means "pervading
one".4

Nadis

Alambusa - Connects the mouth and anus.

Chandra - (see Ida)
Chitra - One of the nadis emanating from the heart through which
the creative energy (Shakti) of Kundalini passes to reach the
Sahasrara (crown).
[Of the 101 nadis, only the Chitra splits into two parts at the
root of the Sushumna.] One part of the Chitra moves within it,
extending upwards to the aperture of (randhra) of Brahma at the
crown of the head above the Sahasrara chakra. this is the
gateway to the Supreme Spirit (Parabrahman). The other part
of Chitra moves down to the generative organ for discharge of
semen. It is said that at the time of death, yogis and saints
consciously leave through the brahmarandhra. Since the aperture
is in the spiritual or causal body (karana sarira) it cannot be
seen or measured. When the prana rises upwards, via the Chitra,
through the chakras, it takes with it the radiance (ojas), a
creative energy latent in semen. The Chitra is transformed into
the Brahma nadi or Para (supreme) nadi.
Gandhari - One of the nadis said to be behind the Ida nadi,
terminating near the left eye, regulating the function of sight.
Hastijihva - located in front of the Ida nadi, terminating near
the right eye, regulating the function of sight, seeing.
Ida - starting from the left nostril, moving to the crown of the
head and descending to the base of the spine. In its course it
conveys lunar energy and is therefore called Chandra nadi. Its
function is cooling (tamas), inertia.
Kausiki - One of the nadis terminating at the big toes.
Kuhu - One of the nadis said to be located in front of
the Susumna, its function is to evacuate faeces.
Kurma - subsidiary nadi whose function is to stabilise the body
and the mind.
Payaswini - One of the nadis terminating at the right big toe,
said to be located between the pusa (which is behind
the pingala nadi and the Sarasvati (behind Susumna).
Pingala - (= tawny or reddish) starting at the right nostril
moving to the crown and down the spine to the base. As the solar
energy flows through it, it is also called Surya nadi. Its
function is burning (rajas), action.
Pusa - nadi situated behind Pingala, terminating at the right
ear. Function is hearing.
Raka - nadi creates hunger and thirst and collects mucus at the
sinuses.
Samkhini - terminates at the genital organs, is situated
between Gandhari and Sarasvati. It carries the essence of food.
Sarasvati - nadi which is behind Susumna nadi, terminating at
the tongue, controlling speech and keeping the abdominal organs
free from disease.
Soma - see Ida.
Subha -
Sura - nadi which is between the eyebrows.
Surya - the nadi of the Sun, see Pingala.
Susumna - from the base of the spine to the crown of the head,
up the centre of the spine. Its function is Agni, Fire (sattva),
illumination.
Varuni - nadi which flows throughout the body. Its function is
the evacuation of urine. Its position is between Yasasvini -
and Kuhu.
Vijnana - nadis are vessels of consciousness.
Visvodhari - nadi having the function of absorption of food. Its
position is between Hastijivhaand Kuhu.
Yasasvini - nadi. (before Pingala,
between Gandhari and Sarasvati situated between the left ear and
the left big toe. NB. In addition to the various primary and
minor nadis, the Shakta Tantra and Kundalini/Laya Yoga
traditions' emphasis was placed on the central nadis which
represented concentric (hence increasingly subtle) channels
along or in front of the spine, and along which are strung the 7
chakras. These 4 'central' nadis are;

Susumna-nadi - starts from the Kanda-mula, lying just below the

Mulhadara chakra and goes upward centrally within the vertebral
column.
Vajra-nadi - starts from the starting point of Susumna and goes
upwards, lying within Susumna.
Chitrini-nadi - starts at the starting point of the Vajra nadi
and goes upward, lying within the Vajra nadi.
Brahma-nadi or Brahmarandra-nadi - starts from the orifice of
Swayambhu-linga in the Muladhara chakra and goes upwards, lying
within Chitrini - .

The chakras are actually said to be strung along the

fine Chitrini nadi, rather than the Susumna as is commonly
stated in the West.8

Hamsa
Swami Muktananda - although teaching the traditional So on
inhalation and ham on exhalation as a letter from 1968 to
Franklin Jones reveals[56] - later published a book[57] teaching
Ham on inhalation and sa on exhalation. This practice is
described in several later books all referring to Muktananda.

The teaching of Ham on inhalation and sa on exhalation is

allegedly alluded to in a text of Kamir aivism, the Vijnana
Bhairava:

Air is exhaled with the sound SA and inhaled with the sound HAM.
Then reciting of the mantra HAMSA is continuous[63]

Vijnana Bhairava, 155a

However, this verse 155a is not found in the Vijnana Bhairava

first published in 1918 in the Kashmir Series of Text and
Studies[64] but is quoted from a commentary by the Abhinavagupta
disciple Kemarja[65] in his Shiva Sutra Vimarshini (commentary
on the Shiva Sutras)[64] in later editions of Vijnana Bhairava.

9. What is the path of inquiry for understanding the nature of

the mind? That which rises as I in this body is the mind. If
one inquires as to where in the body the thought I rises
first, one would discover that it rises in the heart. That is
the place of the minds origin. Even if one thinks constantly
I I, one will be led to that place. Of all the thoughts that
arise in the mind, the I thought is the first. It is only
after the rise of this that the other thoughts arise. It is
after the appearance of the first personal pronoun that the
second and third personal pronouns appear; without the first
personal pronoun there will not be the second and third.
10. How will the mind become quiescent? By the inquiry Who am
I?. The thought who am I? will destroy all other thoughts,
and like the stick used for stirring the burning pyre, it will
itself in the end get destroyed. Then, there will arise Self-
realization.

Spiritual heart
While explaining a stanza of his own Sri Bhagavan observed: The
sun illumines the universe, whereas the Sun of Arunachala is so
dazzling that the universe is obscured and an unbroken
brilliance remains. But it is not realised in the present state
and can be realised only if the lotus of the heart blossoms. The
ordinary lotus blossoms in the light of the visible sun, whereas
the subtle Heart blossoms only before the Sun of Suns. May
Arunachala make my heart blossom so that His unbroken brilliance
may shine all alone! Further on, Sri Bhagavan continued: The
mirror reflects objects; yet they are not real because they
cannot remain apart from the mirror. Similarly, the world is
said to be a reflection in the mind as it does not remain in the
absence of mind. The question arises: if the universe is a
reflection, there must be a real object known as the universe in
order that it might be reflected in the mind. This amounts to an
admission of the existence of an objective universe. Truly
speaking, it is not so. Therefore the dream illustration is set
forth. The dream world has no objective existence. How then is
it created? Some mental impressions should be admitted. They are
called vasanas. How were the vasanas in the mind? The answer is:
they were subtle. Just as a whole tree is contained potentially
in a seed, so the world is in the mind. Then it is asked: A seed
is the product of the tree which must have existed once in order
that it may be reproduced. So the world also must have been
there some time. The answer is, No! There must have been several
incarnations to gather the impressions which are re-manifested
in the present form. I must have existed before as I do now. The
straight way to find an answer will be to see if the world is
there. Admitting the existence of the world I must admit a seer
who is no other than myself. Let me find myself so that I may
know the relation between the world and the seer. When I seek
the Self and abide as the Self there is no world to be seen.
What is the Reality then? The seer only and certainly not the
world. Such being the truth the man continues to argue on the
basis of the reality of the world. Whoever asked him to accept a
brief for the world? Yoga Vasishta clearly defines Liberation as
the abandonment of the false and remaining as Being.

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The Golden Light Meditation
THIS is a simple method of transforming your energy and leading
it upwards. The process is to be done at least twice a day. The
best time is early in the morning, just before you get up from
your bed. The moment you feel you are alert, awake, do it for
twenty minutes. Do it then and there, immediately, because when
you are coming out of sleep you are very, very delicate,
receptive. When you are coming out of sleep you are very fresh
and the impact will go very deep. When you are just coming out
of sleep you are less in the mind than ever, hence some gaps are
there through which the method will penetrate into your
innermost core. And early in the morning when you are awakening
and when the whole earth is awakening, there is a great tide of
awakening energy all over the world use that tide, _____
Meditation is a medicine. It is the only medicine. So forget
about your problems, just move into meditation. dont miss that
opportunity. All ancient religions used to pray early in the
morning when the sun rose, because the rising of the sun is the
rising of all the energies in existence. In that moment you can
simply ride on the rising energy wave; it will be easier. By the
evening it will be difficult, energies will be falling back;
then you will be fighting against the current. In the morning
you will be going with the current. You simply lie down as you
are lying down in your bed, on your back. Keep your eyes closed.
When you breathe in, just visualize great light entering through
your head into your body, as if a sun has risen just close to
your head. You are just hollow, and the golden light is pouring
into your head, and going, going, deep, deep, and going out
through your toes. When you breathe in, do it with this
visualization. That golden light will help. It will cleanse your
whole body and will make it absolutely full of creativity. This
is male energy. And when you breathe out visualize another
thing: darkness entering through your toes, a great dark river
entering through your toes, coming up and going out from the
head. Do slow, deep breathing so you can visualize. This is
feminine energy. It will soothe you, it will make you receptive,
it will calm you, it will give you rest. Go very slowly, and
just out of sleep you can have very deep and slow breaths,
because the body is rested, relaxed. The second best time is
when you are going back to sleep, in the night. Lie down on the
bed, relax for a few minutes. When you start feeling that now
you are wavering between sleep and waking, just in that middle,
start the process again. Do it for twenty minutes. If you fall
asleep doing it, it is the best, because the impact will remain
in the subconscious and will go on working, If you do this
simple method for three months, you will be surprised there is
no need to repress, transformation has started happening.

Praise for the rising sun

GET up at five oclock before the sunrise and for half an hour
just sing, hum, moan, groan. These sounds need not be
meaningful; they have to be existential, not meaningful. You
should enjoy them, thats all that is the meaning. You should
sway. Let it be a praise for the rising sun and stop only when
the sun has risen. That will keep a certain rhythm in you the
whole day. You will be attuned from the very morning and you
will see that the day has a different quality; you are more
loving, more caring, more compassionate, more friendly less
violent, less angry, less ambitious, less egoistic.

Waiting for the sunrise

JUST fifteen minutes before the sun rises, when the sky is
becoming a little lighter, just wait and watch as one waits for
a beloved: so tense, so deeply awaiting, so hopeful and excited
and yet silent. And just let the sun rise and go on watching.
No need to stare; you can blink your eyes. Have the feeling that
simultaneously inside something is also rising. When the sun
comes on the horizon, start feeling that it is just near the
navel. It comes up over there; and here, inside the navel, it
comes up, comes up, slowly. The sun is rising there, and here an
inner point of light is rising. Just ten minutes will do. Then
close your eyes. When you first see the sun with open eyes it
creates a negative, so when you close your eyes, you can see the
sun dazzling inside. And this is going to change you
tremendously.

kevala kumbhaka
In the morning, the early morning, a sun ray has come.... It has travelled ninety-
three million miles...

and a small violet flower opens to receive that ray. Ninety-three million miles to
open this violet? The ray has travelled very far, and these ninety-three million
miles are just an empty darkness... just in search of this violet flower? And this
violet flower waiting for this ray? Waiting tremendously in trust.

The ray will come and the flower will open and receive it, and will be joyous and
will dance... will have its being, and will have its moment of life. With tremendous
trust this flower was waiting for something which is so far away. Unbelievable
that it will ever reach!

This miracle is happening all around - every single moment. Watch for these
miracles, and feel for these miracles. This is the temple of god - this ray coming
from the sun... this violet flower opening.

This is the temple of god. A far away star reflecting in a small pool in your
garden.... Look at that shimmering light! It is so incredible!

Death Meditation
[A sannyasin, who is leaving, says: Would you say something
about dying? I'm very much engaged with that. I awoke last night
and suddenly I saw how absolute it was. I've never seen it
before like that - I could hardly get any air.

In response to Osho's query she says she likes Kundalini

meditation best.]

So continue Kundalini in the morning, and in the night before

going to sleep, start a death meditation.

Just lie down, put the light off, and start feeling that you are
dying. Relax the body and feel that you are dying, so you cannot
even move the body - even if you want to move the hand, you
cannot. Just go on feeling that you are dying - a four or five-
minute feeling that you are dying, dying, and that the body is
dead.

And through this five-minute experience of dying you will feel a

totally different quality of life. The body is almost dead - it
is a corpse - but you are more alive than ever!
And when the body is dead, the mind by and by stops thinking -
because all thinking is associated with life. When you are
dying, the mind starts dropping. After two or three months you
will be able to die within five minutes. The body will be dead
and you will have just a pure awareness, a luminous awareness.
Just something like a blue light, that's all. You will feel a
blue light just near the third-eye centre, just a small blue
flame. That is the purest form of life. And when that blue flame
starts being felt there, just fall asleep.

So your whole night will be transformed into a death meditation,

and in the morning you will feel so alive, more than you have
ever felt - so young, so fresh, and so full of juice that you
can give to the whole world. You will feel so blessed that you
can bless the whole world.

And this death meditation will make you aware that death is an
illusion. It does not really happen - nobody has ever died and
nobody can really die. Because we are too much attached to the
body, it seems like death; because we think the body is our
life, we think it is terrible.

And this is one of the greatest preparations for death. One day
death will come: before it comes, you will be ready, you will be
ready to die!

When buddha was dying, he asked permission from his disciples.

He said, 'Now I am ready to die.

Within a few minutes I will disappear into myself. If you have

to ask something, you can ask it.'

They had nothing to ask, because for the whole life he had been
talking to them. And this was no time to ask anything - even if
they had many questions, this was no time to ask them. They
started crying and weeping. He said, 'Don't cry and weep -
because my whole message for the whole of my life has been this,
that nothing dies. I'm simply going home... I am turning in.'

Then he sat in his posture, closed his eyes, and it is said that
people could see that his body started dying. They could see
that the body was becoming a corpse - and he was alive! The body
turns into a corpse: that is the first phase, buddhists say, of
death.
In the second phase, his thoughts started disappearing. Those
who were very very aware, those disciples who were real
meditators, could see his thoughts disappearing, falling from
his head just like old leaves falling from a tree. They could
see that the thoughts had been renounced: the second stage was
fulfilled.

Then the third stage: his heart, his feelings, started

disappearing. They could see the smoke arising and the cloud
arising, and everything was gone.

And then the fourth stage: he disappeared into the unknown.

Those who were enlightened amongst his disciples could see even
that, that his drop had fallen into the ocean.

These four stages: first start a simple meditation of five

minutes of dying. Then just watching for the blue light to
appear at the third eye. Then go to sleep. By and by, you will
be able to see all these four stages. Slowly, slowly, you will
become aware - and that will be the greatest preparation. And
then you can really die!

TOUCHING EYEBALLS AS A FEATHER,

LIGHTNESS BETWEEN THEM OPENS INTO HEART
AND THERE PERMEATES THE COSMOS.

KIND DEVI,
ENTER ETHERIC PRESENCE
PERVADING FAR ABOVE AND BELOW YOUR FORM.
TOUCHING EYEBALLS AS A FEATHER, LIGHTNESS BETWEEN THEM OPENS
INTO HEART AND THERE PERMEATES THE COSMOS.

TOUCHING EYEBALLS AS A FEATHER... Use both your palms, put them

on your eyes, and allow the palms to touch the eyeballs - but
just like a feather, with no pressure. If you press you miss the
point, you miss the whole technique. Don't press; just touch
like a feather. You will have to adjust, because in the
beginning you will be pressing. Put less and less pressure until
you are just touching with no pressure at all - just your palms
touch the eyeballs. Just a touch, just a meeting with no
pressure, because if the pressure is there, then the technique
will not function. So - LIKE A FEATHER.

Why? Because a needle can do something which a sword cannot do.

If you press, the quality has changed - you are aggressive. And
the energy that is flowing through the eyes is very subtle: a
small pressure and it starts fighting and a resistance is
created. If you press, then the energy that is flowing through
the eyes will start a resistance, a fight; a struggle will
ensue. So don't press; even a slight pressure is enough for the
eye-energy to judge.

It is very subtle, it is very delicate. Don't press - like a

feather, just your palm is touching, as if not touching.
Touching as if not touching, no pressure; just a touch, a slight
feeling that the palm is touching the eyeball, that's all.

What will happen? When you simply touch without any pressure,
the energy starts moving within.

If you press, it starts fighting with the hand, with the palm,
and moves out. Just a touch and the energy starts moving within.
The door is closed; simply the door is closed and the energy
falls back.

The moment energy falls back, you will feel a lightness coming
all over your face, your head. This energy moving back makes you
light.

And just between these two eyes is the third eye, the wisdom-
eye, the PRAJNA-CHAKSHU. Just between these two eyes is the
third eye. The energy falling back from the eyes hits the third
eye.

That's why one feels light, levitating, as if there is no

gravitation. And from the third eye the energy falls on the
heart. It is a physical process: just drip, drip, it drops, and
you will feel a very light feeling entering in your heart. The
heartbeats will slow down, the breathing will slow down. Your
whole body will feel relaxed.
Even if you are not entering deep meditation, this will help you
physically. Any time in the day, relax on a chair - or if you
don't have any chair, when just sitting in a train - close your
eyes, feel a relaxed being in the whole of your body, and then
put both your palms on your eyes. But don't press - that's the
very significant thing. Just touch like a feather.

When you touch and don't press, your thoughts will stop
immediately. In a relaxed mind thoughts cannot move; they get
frozen. They need frenzy and fever, they need tension to move.
They live through tension. When the eyes are silent, relaxed,
and the energy is moving backwards, thoughts will stop. You will
feel a certain quality of euphoria, and that will deepen daily.

So do it many times in the day. Even for a single moment,

touching will be good. Whenever your eyes feel exhausted, dry of
energy, exploited - after reading, seeing a film, or watching TV
- whenever you feel it, just close the eyes and touch.
Immediately there will be the effect. But if you want to make it
a meditation, then do it for at least forty minutes. And the
whole thing is not to press. Because it is easy for a single
moment to have a feather-like touch; it is difficult for forty
minutes. Many times you will forget and you will start pressing.

Don't press. For forty minutes, just remain aware that your
hands have no weight; they are just touching. Go on being aware
that you are not pressing, only touching. This will become a
deep awareness, just like breathing. As Buddha says to breathe
with full awareness, the same will happen with touching, because
you have to be constantly mindful that you are not pressing.
Your hand should just be a feather, a weightless thing, simply
touching.

Your mind will be totally there, alert, near the eyes, and the
energy will be flowing constantly. In the beginning it will be
just dropping in drops. Within months you will feel it has
become a river-like thing, and within a year you will feel it
has become a flood. And when it happens - TOUCHING EYEBALLS AS A
FEATHER, LIGHTNESS BETWEEN THEM - when you touch you will feel
lightness. You can feel it right now. Immediately, the moment
you touch, a lightness comes. And that LIGHTNESS BETWEEN THEM
OPENS INTO THE HEART; that lightness penetrates, opens into the
heart. In the heart, only lightness can enter; nothing heavy can
enter. Only very light things can happen to the heart.

This lightness between the two eyes will start dropping into the
heart, and the heart will open to receive it - AND THERE
PERMEATES THE COSMOS. And as the falling energy becomes a stream
and then a river and then a flood, you will be washed
completely, washed away. You will not feel that you are. You
will feel simply the cosmos is. Breathing in, breathing out, you
will feel you have become the cosmos. The cosmos comes in and
the cosmos goes out. The entity that you have always been, the
ego, will not be there.

This technique is very simple, without any danger, so you can

experiment with it as you like. But because it is so easy, you
may not be able to do it. The whole thing depends on touch
without pressure, so you will have to learn it. Try it. Within a
week it will happen. Suddenly some day when you are just
touching with no pressure, immediately you will feel what I am
saying - a lightness and an opening in the heart, and something
dropping from the head into the heart.

The second technique:

KIND DEVI, ENTER ETHERIC PRESENCE PERVADING FAR ABOVE AND BELOW
YOUR FORM.

KIND DEVI, ENTER ETHERIC PRESENCE PERVADING FAR ABOVE AND BELOW
YOUR FORM.

The second can be done only if you have done the first. It can
be done separately also, but then it will be very difficult. But
if you do the first, then it is good to do the second and very
easy.

Whenever this happens - that you feel light, levitating, as if

you can fly - suddenly you will become aware that around your
body form there is a bluish light. But that you can see only
when you feel that you can levitate, that your body can fly,
that it has become light, completely free of any burden,
completely free of any gravitation towards the earth.

Not that you can fly; that is not the point. Sometimes it
happens. Sometimes it happens that it comes to such a balancing
point that your body goes up. But that is not the goal, and
don't think about it at all. This much will do: if you feel with
closed eyes that your body has gone up. When you open your eyes
you will see you are just sitting on the ground, so don't become
worried about it. If with closed eyes you feel as if your body
has gone up and you feel there is no weight to it, this is
enough.

For meditation this is enough. But if you are trying to learn

levitation, then it is not enough. But I am not interested in
that, and I will not tell you anything about it. This much is
enough - that you feel that your body has no weight, it has
become weightless.

Whenever you feel this weightlessness, just with closed eyes

become aware of the form of your body. Just with closed eyes,
feel your toes and their form, and the legs and their form, and
then the form of the whole body. If you are sitting in
siddhasana, just like a Buddha, then feel the form while sitting
like a Buddha. Just inside try to feel the form of your body. It
will become apparent, it will appear before you, and you will
simultaneously become aware that just around the form there is a
bluish light.

Do it with closed eyes in the beginning. And when this light

goes on spreading and you feel an aura, a bluish aura, all
around the form, then sometimes while doing it in the night with
no light in a dark room, open your eyes and you will see it
exactly around your body - a bluish form, just light, blue
light, all around your body. If you want to see it actually, not
with closed eyes but with open eyes, do it in a dark room with
no light at all.

This bluish form, this bluish light, is the presence of the

etheric body. You have many bodies. This technique is concerned
with the etheric body, and through the etheric body you can
enter into the highest ecstasy. There are seven bodies, and
every body can be used to enter into the divine; every body is
just a door.

This technique uses the etheric body, and the etheric body is
the easiest to realize. The deeper the body, the more difficult;
but the etheric body is just near you, just near the physical.
It is just near.

The second form is of the etheric - just around you, just around
your body. It penetrates your body and it is also around your
body just like a hazy light, a blue light, hanging all around
like a loose robe.

KIND DEVI, ENTER ETHERIC PRESENCE PERVADING FAR ABOVE AND BELOW
YOUR FORM.

Far above, below - everywhere around your form. If you can see
that blue light around you, thinking will stop immediately,
because for the etheric body, no thinking is needed. And the
blue light is so calming, so soothing, so relaxing. Even
ordinarily blue light is so soothing. Why? - because it is the
light of your etheric body. The blue sky is so soothing. Why? -
because it is the color of your etheric body. And the etheric
body is very soothing.

because in deep sex enjoyment, the aura becomes blue; you are
surrounded by a blue light. When you really move into deep
sexuality and it becomes meditative, your body becomes luminous,
and a blue aura surrounds you. Even photographs have been taken,
and they show a blue aura. So they started using a blue robe.

Yesterday a friend asked why I selected red ochre coloured

clothes for sannyas. There is a reason for it. As the mind goes
on becoming quiet, the light within the heart begins to expand.
It is of a red ochre colour. The red ochre coloured clothes
continue to excite the colour within, this is the purpose of
selecting this colour. While rising, putting on clothes,
sitting, sleeping etc. the sannyasi sees the colour, so it is
likely that the dormant colour within him may get excited and he
may experience a new sunrise in his meditation. It is like the
spreading of reddishness as soon as the sun rises.

The whole eastern side becomes reddish though the sun has not
yet come up. Birds have begun to sing songs the morning cool
breeze begins to blow on all sides. Such a phenomenon takes
place within him in meditation at a certain fortunate moment.
Seeing that colour within, somebody had selected this colour for
sannyasis for life outside. Other colours are also selected,
they are those seen within. They are selected for certain
reasons. The Musalman Fakirs selected green colour because that
colour is also seen within. The Buddhists had selected yellow
colour. That colour is also seen within. Once the Theosophical
Society searched for a shade of indigo which Colonel Alcot saw
while he was meditating, to find out that colour he sent out
agents to various markets of the world, because Colonel Alcot
wanted that colour for the use of Sadhakas. Many shades of
indigo were available but Alcot rejected them all. At last,
after two Or three years of further attempts they got one colour
from a market in Italy which was approved by Alcot.

On seeing that colour, which Alcot had seen, vibrations of

excitement can be produced within another's heart also. The red
ochre is the colour of sunrise and that colour spreads within
when life within is awukened. On the upward journey we have even
to select the right colour, sound, smell, taste, touch etc.

Hridaya kuhara madhye

Ganapati Muni informed Bhagavan that while he was at Mandasa,
Ramanatha
Brahmachari had showed him a sloka

Hridaya kuhara madhye written by the Maharshi .

The sloka means:

In the interior of the Heart-cave Brahman alone shines in the form

of the Atman with direct immediacy as I, I. Enter into the Heart
with questing mind or by diving deep within or through control of
breath and abide in the Atman.*