The three layers of energy
Alright...Now, from all that we have discussed, you have understood that comparison and jealousy are non-entities and don't have any actual relevance to you at all. Now, let me try to explain some more on the three energy layers in us.
We have three layers of energy in us. The first layer of energy is from our mind and it is this that we use for our day-to-day activities from morning till night. Once this energy expends, we start feeling tired and irritated if we are given more work to do.
The second layer energy is the emergency layer. It is the energy that arises from our emotions. At the time of emergency, this energy opens out. Let us say you are really tired and walking back from work to your home. You feel you have enough energy only to enter your house and crash on your bed. At that time, suddenly if a dog starts chasing you, what do you do? You start running much faster than you have ever run before. Even if you are dead tired, even if you were earlier unable to move even a limb, suddenly you run with a different kind of energy! This is the emergency energy that arises out of emotion.
The third layer of energy is the being level energy. This is an infinite source of energy within you, which you don't use at all. This energy layer can be opened and experienced by deep meditation. Whether you accept it or not, you are in connection with all these three layers of energies.
Let me narrate to you an incident that actually happened during my days of wandering:
In a beautiful place called Almora in the Himalayas, there is a small ashram with a few huts for those who wish to meditate.
The place is known to be frequented by tigers at night!
I was there for a short while during my days of wandering. I used to meditate for long hours there.
They had a system wherein, when the head of the ashram senses the tigers coming, he would ring a bell and all the sannyasis would get into their respective huts and close the doors, until such time they were asked to come out.
On one occasion, at night time, while we were meditating, the bell rang and all of us got into their respective huts.
The next day, the head of the ashram came around to see if we were all alright.
He found that one of the huts was closed and the sannyasi inside was shouting through the window to open the door.
We all ran to the hut and tried opening the door but couldn't open it.
Finally, a few of us got in through the window and entered the hut.
To our surprise, we found that he had placed a big grinding stone against the door so that the tiger would not be able to push its way through.
We jointly moved the stone away to open the door.
It suddenly struck us how the man might have moved the stone single-handedly against the door in the first place! We asked him how he had moved it.
He replied, 'Moved it? I simply lifted it and placed it!'
When he heard the call of the tiger, he simply lifted the stone to place it against the door, that's all!
This is exactly what I mean by the emergency layer energy. Under normal circumstances, the same man would not have been able to lift that stone. Do you understand? Even after the incident, once the emergency was over, he himself was not able to lift it away from the door in the story!
Out of fear or greed, the second level energy opens. For Out of fear or greed, the second level energy opens. example, if there is an important meeting, do you feel tired? No! You will be alive and fresh. The desire or greed to attend the meeting will keep you in an energized condition.
It is like this: In all harbors, there is a place called a boat jetty where the boats are kept. It is commonly said that if the boat is kept in the jetty for long without sailing, it forgets that it can sail in the water!
In the same way, because you have not used the third layer of energy for a long time, you forget that you belong to it or it belongs to you. Meditation can open out this third level energy for you.
If you understand this one emotion, you can scale great heights in the outer world and great depths in the inner world. When you harbour jealousy, you start having low self-esteem, which is a passive manifestation of jealousy. With low self-esteem, you feel you are no good and resign yourself to it. In jealousy, you are unable to bear it and start reacting; that is the difference.
Understand that any self-esteem that you have that indicates to you that you are less than God is low self-esteem, because you ARE God. That is why I say there is no scope to compare yourself with anyone else.
When you start competing with others, you forget your own self. You forget to strengthen your own being, which is your actual untapped source of energy. If you have physical strength and intellectual strength without the strength of the soul, it is of no use. It is only when you discover the strength of your soul, that you have touched your life source and energy.