Chapter 10
Seven Energy layers of the Body
Coming to the main subject, we have seven energy layers in our body.
The first layer is the physical body which you are carrying, made out of flesh and blood. The second layer is made up of the prana movement inside your body. Prana is actually the life energy which you take in when you breathe. Air is the medium that brings in prana for sustaining your life. There are five stages in the movement of prana in your body. They are prana, apaana, vyaana, udaana, samaana. These five prana, these five movements, constitute what is called prana shareera or breath body.
The next layer is the mana shareera or the mental body. The continuous words or thoughts that rise in you are called inner chatter. The inner chattering which is continuously going on inside of you is the mana shareera or the mental body.
The fourth layer is the emotion layer. I can say that intense inner chattering which does not respond to your logical analysis is what we call 'emotions'. That is the fourth energy layer in us.
The fifth layer is that which you experience in deep sleep. It is called the causal body.
The sixth layer you will experience in a strong meditation technique when you have thoughtless awareness.
And the seventh layer is enlightenment.
And likewise, if the samskaras are taken out of your system, suddenly you will see all of these seven layers fall in tune with each other.
The balancing, reconnecting, reuniting with yourself starts happening. That uniting is what is called Yoga. Beautifully, Patanjali describes, 'Yogaha chitta You have seven different layers in your system. If all the seven different layers fall in tune with each other, suddenly you will see all of the samskaras will leave your system.
vritti nirodhaha,' 'living without samskaras'. Only then the state without thoughts or the state of thoughtless awareness will be there. When the samskaras are taken out, the uniting happens. When the uniting happens, samskaras leave your system.
So, the seven energy layers are the physical, pranic, mental, emotional, deep sleep, joy and bliss, which you enjoy in thoughtless awareness, what J.Krishnamurthi calls 'choiceless awareness', the seventh layer or the ultimate pure enlightened consciousness.
Yesterday somebody wrote me a question: 'Swamiji, this stuff was too strong for me, especially the analysis on the four states of consciousness. It was very shocking when you said that when I come back I see the same world.' Actually the person wrote the question in a very funny way, 'When I come back, I see the same house, same car, same wife. But when I go back to the dream state, I don't see the same thing.' He underlined the words, 'same wife'! The answer for that question was very shocking to him. I think the same person again wrote one more note. During the darshan, I got one more note saying, 'It was too strong. I didn't expect I will have such clarity. I am afraid of the clarity now.'
Understand, many times people are afraid of getting near the Truth. But, unless you have the courage to go near the Truth, the real healing will never happen.
Chapter 11
Self-healing Thoughts
You may have a medically fit body. That does not mean you are healthy. Of course, I can say from my experience of having seen millions of people, 99 per cent of people who do not have the 'self-healing clarity' in their system are never able to maintain even physical health.
In the last five years of my public life, I have initiated around 1.2 million disciples. With that experience, I am sharing with you, not just to boast or be proud. With this authority, with this experience, with this understanding, I tell you, a person who does not have the self-healing clarity and understanding cannot even be physically healthy.
When I say, 'self-healing understanding,' I mean the understanding, the thoughts, the clarity which bring you out of depression when you fall into depression.
Just a year ago, I did a small research. I chose some of the people who had been through some meditation programs and some spiritual studying. I asked them to write whatever comes in their mind without editing for 20 minutes. Then I also asked people who are not exposed to spirituality to write the same thing. When I read those papers, it was a very shocking revelation.
In the case of a person who is not exposed to spirituality, if he had written 100 thoughts, more than 80 were directing him towards more and more depression. Only 20 thoughts were 'self-healing' or bringing him out of depression. But in the case of the people who are exposed to spirituality and meditation, I saw that more than 60 percent of their thoughts were self-healing. Only 40 percent were towards depression.
This is the power of self-healing thoughts, self-healing clarity, the touch of the Truth.
Only a person who has had a touch of the Truth in his life can maintain health. Understand, when I say health, I mean even physical health. Otherwise it is impossible even to maintain physical health, especially in this so-called modern society, with the stress and pressures of daily life.
Understand, you are afraid for your health. Sometimes Truth will be strong. There is no other way. But I tell you, if you just allow the Truth to enter you, it will create so much ecstasy in your inner space and so much energy to expand yourself in the outer space.
Knowledge-weapons to Combat Depression
The knowledge of the Truth is what I call 'knowledge-weapons' or 'shaastra-shastra'. Whenever depression attacks you, suffering attacks you; life brings different scenes in front of you. This shaastra-shastra, knowledge weapon, can be so powerful, that you can just come out of the depression. So, even if the truth is too much, don't bother. Try to digest, assimilate and keep it in the corner of your heart. Let the shaastra-shastras be stored inside you.
The more and more shaastra-shastras you have, naturally the depression will have fear about you! It is just like if you have a huge army, naturally the other country will be afraid of attacking you. You don't even have to attack. The moment you display your power, the other country will think twice before attacking you. In the same way, the more and more you accumulate the self-healing thoughts, the knowledge weapons, shaastra-shastras inside your system, you will see that depression will have fear to come near you.
Even now, the Truths which I am sharing may be little strong. But I tell you, if you want the Truth to do the process of healing in you, it has to be digested and internalized.