Physical symptoms of energy of lust
Rajas is the energy of lust which shows as restlessness and tamas is the energy of fear which shows as lethargy. Sattva is the energy of intelligence which is the middle path. I was experimenting on how to tell exactly what rajas is; how can you find out whether your rajas is working or tamas is working. I saw pure rajas gets activated in roller coaster when your body goes through very wild, unexpected and unmanageable movements. In Bharat we do the ceremony of fire walking. Even during that time, rajas gets awakened. Here I can't ask you to go through fire walking. Try the roller coaster. That can give you an idea.
But before sitting, be completely relaxed and observe. Put your awareness near the navel center and see throughout the ride, what is happening inside your system during that sixty or ninety seconds. When you get down, don't start talking immediately. Don't start doing anything. Sit in one corner and observe what is happening. What all parts in your body are restless or how your mind is feeling. Just observe. That energy is rajas. Once we understand internally what rajas is, we are safe because whenever that feeling repeats we know this is the time we have to balance ourselves. This is the time we have to get back to the middle path, madhyapanta. Coming to the center or middle path means to watch your breath. This is not the time for us to answer any question to friends or family or relatives.
Understand many of us repent doing one small mistake and losing very big relationships, very big business deals, very close friends, very big people in our life. Before taking that kind of decision, before meeting that kind of persons, before talking to that kind of persons, just see if you are in madhyapanta; you will have the right word.
See, whatever you wanted to say, the same thing can be expressed in a beautiful way if you are in madhyapanta. You will have the right word. All you need to do is internally you should know. You should have the understanding whether your rajas is awakened or tamas is awakened. All you need to do is getting that glimpse or catching that glimpse of how your rajas or tamas operates. One more important thing, whenever rajas operates there is always one line of tamas; when tamas operates, there is always one line of rajas. If you understand even one of the energies, that's enough. If you get the knack of finding out whether you are having rajas or tamas that is enough because you know you need to balance and come to the center.
If it is rajas or tamas, you don't need that. We need to come to the center. If you have the idea how to diagnose or how to find out whether you are caught in rajas, that is more than enough; you don't need to bother about tamas.
Whenever you notice the symptoms of greed energy flooding you upwards from your navel, immediately bring the awareness to your breath. The breath is in the center of your being and the intelligence flows from the center. When you immediately bring your awareness to not get lost in the greed the whole intelligence is awakened. All you need to do is to bring ourselves back to your breath. Your intelligence simply opens up and shows you how to relate with every moment, how to relate with every relationship. Your intelligence will be completely available to you. I promise, when you are centered on breath, you can never do a mistake because the pure energy which flows in you is Sattva.
The Sattva energy is so intelligent that it knows exactly how to relate to the world, how to relate to any situation. It is the innate intelligence. If a strong visualization happens in you whenever you come back to the center, then that is vision or creativity. If a strong joyful mood happens in you, that is Ananda. When we un-clutch from this attitude of greed, it transforms to 'what can I contribute to this person, what can I add, how can I help to make him realize his goal to create space for him to grow, what does he need.'
Stop day dreaming
I tell you when I say I really mean, you can live without your day dreaming. You may ask, then how will I plan for my tomorrow. Usually you are not planning, you are worrying.
Even by your planning, you are only reproducing your past into the future. You are recreating your past, limiting your growth by planning, because you do not have courage to live with spontaneity. You would need courage to live with spontaneous visions happening and to live with the spontaneous revelations happening. Constantly you are struggling with your day to day planning and your life. People who had courage to trust their vision and their spontaneity, only became geniuses. Please understand a little courage, a little courage to enter into the life without day dreaming can revolutionize your life. This is what I call psychological revolution. Just try for 10 days, without fear that your life will not fall apart in 10 days. If in 10 days if it can fall apart, then it is not worth having. Let it be taken away. Just try living for 10 days, life without day dreaming.
Allow visualization, instead of imagination
Suddenly you will see the quality of your spontaneity. Every single one of you is a visionary. Because of your planning and day dreaming, the quality of having visions is suppressed. If you just remove the day dreaming, if you remove the day dreaming and have little courage towards that quality of creating visions in you. Quality of living with spontaneity, suddenly you will see the visionary in you is awakened. The immense power of visualization which is the power of intuition will start flowing. It will have the power and intelligence. Right now all of us have only freedom without intelligence. That is the reason we are holding on to the day dreams and expecting to see it manifest.
People who live with super conscious never fail and miss in their decisions, because the depth of dilemma, oscillation, mood swings will be very less, very limited. When we drop these images there is no need for the mind to oscillate and so much of energy is saved and decision making becomes so sharp and straight without dilemma. Dilemma is suffering because intelligence is not there.