Hamsa Chakra puja (excerpts- first part)

13.09.1992 - Vancouver, Canada

... this centre of Hamsa..Now this chakra is - it is, you know, placed between the two eyebrows and
two eyes represent the left and the right side. So this centre is very much guided by our eyes, by our
ears, by our nose, tongue, teeth, throat. It's a very important centre because the Vishuddhi, which has
to look after sixteen petals, which sixteen petals which look after all these ear, nose, throat, different,
different organs within us, also it has to communicate with the Virat. So it has to pass through this
centre of Hamsa Chakra.
Hamsa Chakra is the very pivotal centre, which expresses auspiciousness in our awareness. That
means if this centre is alert and awakened, then we immediately know what is auspicious and what is
not auspicious. Or we can call it - we get the Divine Discretion.
I think it is a part of the genetics that people have discretion between good and bad, destructive
and constructive. It is basically, has to be there, but we can easily spoil it by all these organs which are
collective, the conditionings and the ego from outside. That's why this centre is very vulnerable. Other
centres are not so much connected outside as this centre is connected and receives all the information
from all these organs. For example, the eyes - eyes are very important because they say it is of the
window of the spirit and you have seen that when Kundalini rises and spirit starts shining there is a
dilatation of the pupils and you look like an innocent child and there's a twinkle in your eyes. But the
way that we play with our eyes all the time, the way we use it indiscreetly, with our lust and greed we
can spoil this centre very badly.
Once we start taking to destructive things in our life, we immediately start accepting whatever is
wrong, whatever is destructive very easily. I feel this is some sort of a genetic defect because in certain
people they will not accept anything that is stupid.. or destructive. But in certain people they're very
prone and very easily can be taken to things, which are absurd, which are stupid and which are
definitely destructive.
This can become a very collective acceptance also. Once it becomes a collective acceptance, it
starts penetrating throughout. It does not only have the effect of absorption, but also it has an effect of
affecting other things. Say a person whose eyes are what we call flirtish or roving eyes, such a person,
if he goes to one group of people who do not know what flirting is, do not know what roving eyes is,
very steady eyes, he can influence those people and can make some of them of the same kind.
So what happens, really, is this - that this is a very good door for all kinds of bhoots to enter into
your spirit. And when you start projecting it back, the same bhoots can pass into another person and
can create the same kind of vacuum or same kind of vulnerability in the Hamsa Chakra of other
people. So that's why eyes have to be very, very clean, innocent.
Another you can see is what you hear. Some people if they hear something nonsensical, they'll just
put their hands to their ears. They don't want to hear it. But there are some people who like it and go
on enjoying it. Ultimately, it becomes servile or, you can say, conditioned that they like all these
horrible things that normally a human being won't like.
Now, also you must have seen that people who... they have no discretion of smell.. Anybody in
their company can smell it. .. You can just smell it. But they have lost the power. In the same way, in
our country we have a caste called sweepers who do all the cleaning of dirty things with their hands.
They have no sense of smell. They have lost the sense of smell. The nose has lost that smell sense.
They cannot smell anything dirty. That's how they can do their work.
So if you start also not being alert to fragrance - I've seen also there are certain things people use
made of tobacco. They are supposed to be very good, very famous brands of perfumes.. Apart from
that, first you smell is alcohol, is a spirit, but they don't mind because they see in that a very congenial
type of a pleasure. But these pleasures, ultimately, can kill all the sense of the nose and afterwards one
may even lose the sense of the smell.
One of the joy-giving organs is the sense of smell. When the Kundalini rises in many people they
get a fragrance of many things. Some people ... sometimes they get a fragrance of sandalwood or
something, which is a very natural essence of flowers or maybe of some woods. ...

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 Then same with the throat. If the throat is using bad languages and is being used for abusing
people, showing temper on people or anything of aggression or sometimes people take things which
can also spoil the throat by their destructive qualities, like alcohol - specially the smoking. If you
smoke then the throat gets vulnerable and the sweetness of your voice is lost. Then they speak with a
hoarse voice. But this is all external. It starts becoming external. Mouth smells with that and also the
teeth react to all such things, which we take without discretion about it. Because that's the fashion,
because it is marketing well, because it is advertised, that means we have not got our own wisdom, our
own personality. But when this centre is awakened, then what you develop is discretion.
I was telling them yesterday how the word Hamsa has come for this centre. Because there's a
Sanskrit, very beautiful couplet which says that a swan is white and a crane is a white bird. What is the
difference between the swan and a crane? The answer is that when you mix milk with water, the swan
will just suck in the milk while the crane has no discretion..(cannot separate the water from the milk)
This discretionary power, once we start loosing, we start becoming just like robots, I would say,
because we have no personality. Anybody can brainwash us and the more they tell us about our
discretion we listen to them. ... Why thousands of people have taken to drugs? It is unbelievable,
incredible why people have taken to all these things, are destroying their life. They see a man going
into the pub, coming out and falling down on the ground with all his purse being emptied. But they go
with the purse, see that they have sufficient money to go inside the pub, again come out to fall down
on the street.
.... One pays money to destroy oneself, go out of the way. It is so unnatural for anyone. I mean
even a dog or a cat or any animal knows where is the danger is. They can smell the danger and they
run away because they have to preserve their lives. They think their lives are precious and they must
live and live well. But this ordinary, common sense starts missing and they will say, "What's wrong?
What's wrong in this? What's wrong in that?" That means the genetics of the Hamsa are missing.
Now you should see there is no Deity on the Hamsa Chakra, but it is the formless energy of so
many organs which are looked after by Buddha, Mahavira, Christ, Shri Krishna - four of them
managed by Shri Ganesha. So these genetics are put by Shri Ganesha because He is the source of the
Wisdom.
So first, once they spoil their Mooladhara, the wisdom is finished. This is the fundamentals are
finished. That's why immoral life is very detrimental to our life because we lose our discretion. The
discretion is lost. Then if you can awaken Shri Ganesha in the Hamsa Chakra, then suddenly you
belong to .. Sahaja Yogis.
It's surprising. I've seen people overnight give up their drugs, very immoral people become
extremely moral because of this chakra being suddenly awakened and the light of the spirit is best
expressed through this chakra in everyday life, in the collective life also.
So all these things that we have gathered from our previous life, even after our second birth we
carried it. But, like the egg becomes a bird, but still lots of things of the egg are hanging on to it's
body, so you have to cleanse it.
So, at this point, when you have got your realization, the first discretion should be, "How am I
going to achieve that state of spirit, the pure spirit ?“. Instead of that, also people get lost because they
have no discretion. With this enlightenment, first thing that happens I've seen with people, their eyes
are fixed. They don't rove their eyes much now. They have very innocent eyes... It's like the light
coming in the room. It is so spontaneous that you start seeing things clearly. "No, no. This is not."
Before in the garden, you would go and collect all the thorns and put them in your body. That was
the situation. Never looked at the flowers. And suddenly, after realization, you would be amazed,
you'll just see flowers and don't bother about thorns, or if you find you take them out.
There is joy even before realization and after realization, but there is no capacity to enjoy. That
capacity comes to you after realization and the main thing that happens to you is the discretion. Then,
like the swan, you just take the milk of everything. At everything your attitude become very different,
start seeing things in a different angle. There is joy, but you cannot feel the joy because the power, that
subtle power of divine discretion is not there. Once that comes in, you start enjoying everything. It's
just the same. Life is just the same. Nothing has changed. Same house, same family, same city, same
environment, but you start enjoying because the sensitivity of your Hamsa Chakra is now only for
divine discretion and you immediately know and then you don't want to do anything with the thorns,
only want to gather flowers and you know how to gather flowers and you are in joy..... (first part)