“Now let us enter into the meditation technique to work on throat center.”

Now let us enter into the meditation technique to work on throat center. This is a highly powerful technique. After this technique I will give you some more tips to use the throat center energy because this throat center energy can be used continuously wherever you are, whenever you want. If you are supposed to attend a interview or exam or a meeting, you feel drained. At those times, you can awaken this throat center which will tremendously help you to decide or to do your exam or to do your day-to-day activities. So all those tips I will give you after the meditation. Yes?

(Devotee asks a question. Question not audible)

Swamiji: It is a worst conspiracy done to the kids. According to Me, it is the worst conspiracy done to the kids. No, in better humanity at least we will hope that kids will not be given the pressure or stress to compete with each other. The very root of competition, the very idea of competition is the basic instinct which creates violence in all of us. Violence is nothing but the byproduct of competition. The root of the violence, terrorism is already implanted in you in school. Schools are the reasons for all terrorism because there, already the violence is implanted. She has asked a right question. Of course, I have no answer. I have no answer.

Q: The best answer for the children it could we You just answered just about ten minutes back. Every person is unique, You excel….

Swamiji: But you know in schools we don't teach that. We actually rank. You see, kids should be given a rank card comparing their own progress. Last time if they made ten marks, this time if they make twelve marks, then rank. Rank should be given comparing to their results, not comparing to others results.

Q: Actually some schools, they removed the rank system.

Swamiji: Of course, in our system also wherever we have influence, wherever our devotees are running school, we removed the rank system. Not only that, I am seriously working to remove the exam system. There should be no exams.

Devotee: The other side of it is, it is a cycle based on competition. We can ideally say there would be no competition but the way the world exists right now….

Swamiji: You see, but it is not that we should not start working towards better society. We can start working towards a better society. I tell you, if the stress of the competition is reduced, we will excel something more, more, more. We will excel something far, far, far away. Each one will bring out his own creativity. We will have more things to enjoy in the world. We will have better humanity. We will have more beautiful people. We will have more alive Consciousness but now, as on now, 90% of our energy is wasted just in competing and pulling the others legs. You do not know how much of food is destroyed just to keep the food rate in the international market. Ships and ships, tons and tons of butter is destroyed every year by these so-called top level countries just to keep the rate of the food or to keep the market. Do you know all these things? Of course? Not only the food is destroyed, there are so many things are destroyed just to keep the market, just to keep the market rate. They put it in the ocean. The other side, lakhs, millions and millions of people are dying out of poverty. This side, just to keep their economy we are ready to do any criminal activity and we blame he is violent, he is terrorist, he is terrorist, he is violent. We blame the whole world but what are we doing? Again same violence in a different way. Hope you all understand.

Devotee: If there is no competition, we will become more lazy.

Swamiji: No, you will become more creative. You will become more creative. You will be creative even in your laziness. You will know how to be lazy more nicely. So even in your laziness you will be creative. Laziness is nothing but the rest which you need after you created enough. It is like a low curve of creativity. We always have an anti idea about laziness. Creativity is the expression of laziness and laziness is the experience of creativity. It should be such a smooth curve, it should be able to go into the laziness also deeply and come out of the, come out to the creativity also beautifully. The peak and the valley, both should be totally complement to each other.

It is not that laziness and creativities are contradicting each other. They both are complement to each other. A man who can be totally lazy, only he can be totally creative. Man who can be totally celebrative only he can be totally meditative. Meditation and celebration, creativity and laziness, they are all complement to each other but we always think they are contradictory to each other…. I have seen many people. When they see Me dancing in the first day night, they just run away. Next day they never appear. I have seen many serious guys, “What type of Swami He is? Whirling so much!” Of course, when you listen to My discourses from morning till evening, you cannot imagine even in your dream that I will dance. Such a serious things I Am talking. Such a high philosophy and so much of knowledge, wisdom or intellect is pouring. You cannot imagine a person who is intellectual can be so simple, can be so innocent. You always think both are contradicting. Meditation and celebration are contradictory but I tell you, they both complement each other. A total meditator always celebrates totally. I have always seen, a man who meditates totally will always dance totally but we guys, in everything half, half. Anybody who has not danced yesterday or who has not participated, you will see that you will be tired. If you have danced yesterday night, you will not be tired today morning. You will be fresh, alive. You will be active. Am I right?

What happened?

Devotee: I lost my voice.

Swamiji: I think traveling in the night rain going from here to there. That is why, in Bharat, we don't let the people move out. We make them stay there itself in one place. The Mughal kings who never…. I call the people who don't dance as mughal kings. Mughal kings, they don't dance. They just sit and watch.

Devotee: That is against their religion I think. Muslims they don’t dance.

Swamiji: Why then they watch dancing others? Why do they watch dancing others? You see, you can watch and you can't dance. What type of idea? You see, watching others dancing is ugly, sexual. You dancing is more alive, active, spiritual. You see, both have a got deep meaning Ma. Watching others is cerebral.

Devotee: No, that court dance is simply you know, for pleasure.

Swamiji: You see, watching others is ugly. When you participate, it has got beauty, innocence and joy. You are expressing but just watching others is ugly. It is a cunningness. So be very clear, if you look little deeply into this phenomenon, you will understand, watching others is just cerebral. You are enjoying cerebrally. So I don't think....

Devotee: Music and dance, they don’t have any rule in Islam.

Swamiji: Is it so? I don’t think. No, Sufism is full of dance and music. Not only that, Tansen, Akbar’s musician, court musician. Fundamentalist. In fundamentalism... Any religion fundamentalism means foolishness. In any religion, not only Islam, in any religion, fundamentalism means foolishness, that's all. Sadists are fundamentalists. All fundamentalists, when I say all, I mean capital letter A L L. All fundamentalists are sadists, torturing others, getting joy by torturing others. That is what I call sadism.

Devotee: Swamiji, for this Vishuddhi Chakra as you had explained from muladhara it is going upward. Can we practice these meditations in any order?

Swamiji: Yes, any order. They are all totally individual, independent from other chakras. Don't think all the seven chakras are separate compartments. They are all interrelated, interconnected. If you work on one chakra deeply, that will awaken even all other chakras, you understand? All are interconnected. If you work on one chakra deeply, then you will see all the seven chakras get awakened. It is like a door to same hall, seven doors. Let us enter into the meditation, vishuddhi chakra. Then your throat will become alright now…. Strange thing. I never hear any people telling Me that they are tired next day morning first time. Tired?

Devotee: We have energy. It is just we have lost our voice.

Swamiji: Mental attitude that if you don't sleep you will be tired. That attitude, nothing else you see that training, nothing else.

Devotee: I was actually going to ask You about sleep. I believe that sleep is so very important like mentally I feel like, “oh my God! I am not sleeping. It is time to sleep.” How much should we sleep?

Swamiji: Maximum two hours is more than enough for normal human beings. What do you mean two hours? Every two hours or what? You see, one man came to Me and asked for the solution for obesity. I told him, “Have two Idlis morning, one roti in the noon time, one square meal in the night time.” He asked Me, “All these things before food or after food?” Like this, in twenty four hours, two hours sleep is more than enough.

Devotee: Our yoga teacher says that. He says he sleeps only one and half to two hours every night.

Swamiji: Practically you will see that in My life because twenty two hours I am out. You can see Me twenty two hours. Around morning 5:30 till night 2:30, everyday you can see Me out. I will be in the public. So it is verily possible. Only thing, there is a small technique. A particular two hours of your sleep time, your body temperature falls two degree. If you can make somebody to find out once in two hours they should check. You see, just three days. Three days everyday, once in two hours somebody should check your body temperature and in three days you can find out which two hours your body temperature falls by two degree. That two hours if you sleep, that is more than enough. That is the technique to find out what is the time for your body to rest.

For somebody it will be Chandramana. For somebody it will be Souramana. Souramana means early morning when the sun rises, they will be more active. That time they won't get sleep. Chandramana means when the moon rises, that time they want to sleep. That time they will be more active. That time they cannot sleep. The man who is Chandramaana will be active with the moon. The man who is Souramaani will be active with the sun. If you are a Chandramaani you should sleep early morning. If you are Souramaani, you should sleep late night, in the evening itself.

Devotee: You say early morning Swami, what is that early morning mean?

Swami: Early morning?

Devotee: Yeah, what is early morning? Time?

Swamiji: Around some four to six.

Devotee: Ok

Swamiji: Somebody came and told Me, “Swamiji, I get sleep both the time. What to do? What Maani I am? I told, “You are avamaani. Some are chandramani. Some are souramani. Some are avamaani. If you get sleep both the time, you are avamaani.

Devotee: I frequently fall sleepy during or after lunch

Swamiji: No, no, no, no, no. That is avamaana only. No way the daytime sleep should be accepted. Day time sleep is simple

Devotee: laziness?

Swamiji: No, no, no. Laziness is a beautiful word. Don't use that word. It is abusing that word. What to say, abusing your body, abusing your time, abusing your energy. Day time sleep is nothing but abusing your energy. Laziness is not abusing your energy. Even in laziness there is a beauty. You relax. You let your body to go into itself. You have your own aloneness. You have your own space. Having your own space can be laziness, nothing wrong but abusing your time and abusing your energy. Noon time sleep and all you can see, you will never feel fresh. You will feel only guilt that you wasted your time. Rolling on the bed, only dreaming, not even sleeping. If the quantity of your sleep is more, the quality of the sleep will not be there. If you reduce the quantity, time, the quality will become more. The depth will become more. You will not have more dreams.

Devotee: If we have no dream, do we have sleep?

Swamiji: Yes the quantity will not be necessary too much. You are really intelligent guy. People who don't get much sleep, much dream, they will be more intelligent because they will not have daydreams. Daydream and night dream are very closely related. If you don't have daydream, you will not have night dreams. Ok, let us enter into the meditation.

Devotee: Where is theThroat chakra?

Swamiji: Throat area. This area. Not the front or back, this is the area. Actually for some people it will be even outer the body. This is the area you are supposed to concentrate. That much if you understand that is enough.