Q2. Dear Swamiji, will the program also acquaint us with meditation techniques like the awakening of the Kundalini?
Of course, the program we are going to conduct in the next two2 days is the awakening of the Kundalini shakti in a very safe and practical manner.
To get the best out of life, to have a joyful life, blissful life, to have a spiritual life, the real life, two things are necessary. One is maturity, the understanding about the being and existence. The second is meditation. Understanding clears your conscious mind. Meditation cleanses your unconscious mind. There are lots of things that cannot be followed by understanding. Everybody understands that smoking is bad for health. In all the hoardings of cigarette advertisements, they include a statutory warning. What are the words they use? 'Cigarette smoking is injurious to health.' We know it. But people suffer. We cannot control this. Why? Just an intellectual understanding will not be sufficient in some places. So we need to channel energy into the unconscious zone.
The conscious zone can be cleared by the intellectual clarity, maturity. Of course at least 50% of the problems can be cleared just by intellectual clarity. We cannot deny the role of intellectual clarity in our joyful life. It has got its own place and importance. But it is not sufficient, it is not the ultimate. If you have intellectual clarity, it means you have an understanding about each and every chakra, the way in which the chakras work, what is the way in which the energy centers can be opened. For example: Why is depression very closely related to Manipura chakra, the navel center? Whenever you hear some news that you can't bear, that you can't tolerate, immediately the first blow will be to the stomach only. You will either have a stomach upset or diarrhoea. Have any of you have experienced this? We always say, 'I can't digest it'. Not only in English, in all languages this expression exists. In all languages, we have an expression, whenever you receive some news that you can't tolerate, you say, 'I can't digest it. I can't stomach it'.
Anahata is related to love. Love and heart, these two words are synonyms in all languages. It's not that all the languages were created at one time, as if God has created CD packages and put one package in each country. No. Tamil in South Bharat, Hindi in North Bharat, English in England - every language has evolved in a different place, at a different time. But in all languages you see love and heart are used as synonyms. It means some deeper connection exists between your emotion and your being. Anahata chakra, the heart center is closely related to the love energy.
If you know how to handle that emotion, the maturity, understanding to handle the emotion solves 50% of your problem. The energy to awaken that chakra solves another 50%. The maturity creates energy. The energy creates maturity. The ball rolls and you end up experiencing the ultimate, the bliss.
Soon we will have the class, we will have the session on each and every chakra, and how to have a better understanding about the chakra.
Maturity clears the conscious portion of the mind, meditation clears the unconscious portion. When both are cleared you will see a tremendous transformation of being, a tremendous flowering of the being happens to you.
That is why I call this program Ananda Spurana. Spurana means flowering. The flowering of bliss is happening in our being continuously. Only, we don't look into it. We don't see what is happening. Just look inward, and you will find it - this Ananda Spurana, this flowering of bliss.