“Let us work on the Svadhishtana Chakra.”

Let us work on the Svadhishtana Chakra. Now we are going to work on the spleen chakra, spleen center - Svadishtana. Just below the Manipuraga above the Muladhara is the (..) exactly two inch below the navel, just two, three inch above the Muladhara, this chakra is situated. Svadishtana means where your being is established. “Swa” means “Self”, “adishta” means “established”. This is the region where your being, your Self is established. How to prove? What is the proof? She was asking me: “Is it the sex center?” No, it's the life center, it is the place where your energy is installed, where your being is installed.

Female delegate: “Some books say it like that, so I was curious.”

Swamiji: If you want to get confused in your life, read books on these chakras.

Female delegate: “In your own book, in your own book probably is something mixed up.”

Swamiji: No, actually that, that page is not by me. Somehow when we print, gave it for printing, that guy added. (Swamiji laughing)

Female delegate: \<\<inaudible\<\<

Swamiji: That guy, when he thought, ahh, when he saw the chakras, he thought: “Let me have my message.” (Swamiji laughing) That is why we have not reprinted that book, that old edition.

Anyhow, how to prove this a life center? In Zen Samurais, have you heard of Samurais, Zen fighters in Zen Buddhism, Sumo warriors, when they are defeated, they commit suicide, actually. If they are defeated. The way in which they commit suicide is a very unique way. They take a small needle and just insert it on the Svadishtana, that's all. If you exactly insert it on the spot Svadishtana, your life leaves you without pain. Just by a small needle. Of course, I won't teach you that. (Swamiji laughing) This proves that your life energy is centered in Svadishtana and it is called “Hara Kriya”.

Just by a small needle, without having any pain you can leave the body. This is the center for death. Here the Self is established, your being is established. How this chakra gets locked and how it can be opened? By fear this chakra gets locked. If you know how to face the fear, if you enter into the fear, this chakra gets opened. This is the master key. Let us understand the fear stroke, then you will understand fear, because as on now we cannot understand really what is fear. It is too much complicated subject. Let us understand fear stroke. It's a new term maybe for newcomers. Have you heard of this word fear stroke? Come along.

Delegate: “Fear stroke \<\<inaudible\<\<”

Swamiji: For example (..)

Female delegate: “Is it when you’re not sure about something the hairs on the back of your neck standing up?”

Swamiji: Yes, yes, yes exactly. I told you, you have some special intuition. (Swamiji smiling) Nice. Exactly she defined.

Delegates: \<\< inaudible\<\<

Swamiji: Let me explain. (Swamiji laughing) If you are walking in the night time in your house garden, suddenly you see a coiled rope. What happens?

Delegates: \<\< inaudible\<\<

Swamiji: At the moment you think it's a snake - totally you are shocked. Your hair stands and sometimes (showing up with the fingers and laughing) - one or two, if it is too much, one or two ... happens.

Swamiji: A serious shock. (Swamiji laughing) Why she’s laughing \<\<inaudible\<\< ? I think she missed the joke.

(All laughing)

Swamiji: It will be a little time for her to catch the joke.

Male delegate: “I think it's hard to understand the one and two for a westerner.”

Swamiji: Oh, in west there is no one and two idea?

(All laughing)

Now I cannot give definition for that. It takes too long time to give definition. (All laughing) All right, all westerns are requested to ask the eastern guys about one and two. (All laughing) After the class please take \<\<inaudible\<\< What is meant by the word “one”? What is meant by the word “two”? If they ask for some Guru Dakshina, give and take. (All laughing) It’s a very important lesson.

Anyhow, the moment... for one moment... you are shaken totally. Whole being is shaken, it's almost like a shock. That shock only I call it as a fear stroke. Of course, next moment you come back. You understand “no it is not a snake, it's a rope”, which you yourself thrown… ah… today morning. You understand everything. Then you get settled, that is different. I'm speaking about the experience. The shock... that shock only is called as a fear stroke. So are so many instances (..) Start mentioning some more. Let us give time for the newcomers.

Male delegate: “When you think you lost your keys or your wallet.”

Swamiji: Ha, yes! The moment you search and you don't find, that moment you get a fear stroke. And especially in the McDonald's, after eating. (Swamiji laughing) Here also the same system? They pay after eating?

Female Delegate: “No, here not. Before eating.”

Swamiji: Before eating. Oh, ok. In Bharat they pay after eating. Then, any other example?

Female delegate: “Swamiji, when you have a crazy cab driver to the airport \<\<inaudible\<\<

Swamiji: That is not fear stroke, fear itself. Then?

Female delegate: “Um, when I’m start to fall asleep driving and then all of a sudden you wake up and you're going off the road or something.”

Swamiji: Yes, yes. Sleeping on the wheels. That is not fear stroke for you, for others.

\<\<Delegates laughing\<\<

Swamiji: That’s fear stroke for others.

Female delegate: “Is it a cop coming behind you..”

Swamiji: Aaaa, cop, cop, cop

\<\<Delegates laughing\<\<

Swamiji: Cop is the right reason for fear stroke in America.

Delegates: “Yeah, yes \<\<inaudible\<\<

Female delegate: When you fall asleep late in the afternoon and you look at the clock and it says 8 o'clock and you don't know if it's morning or night.

Swamiji: Ah, yes! You don't know whether it's morning or night, right. \<\<All laughing\<\<

Swamiji: And one thing you all, all of you have forgotten; You get the fear stroke in dreams also. Not only in the day time, in the dreams also you get fear stroke. Any fear stroke in the dream?

Female delegate: “Swamiji, in your dreams like a, you see the presence of somebody being there and you are like in a state (..) You're seeing yourself that you're half awake, half asleep and you want to scream or say and nothing comes out. You know, you are just in moment...yes \<\<inaudible\<\<”

Swamiji: Yes, yes, yes. Actually, it's the shifting of consciousness, it's like a shifting the gear, shifting of consciousness.

It will be stuck in Sva (..), you will be entering into Svadisthana, but you will not be able to possess the whole body. Just you're half half, that is the space you are talking. Now if you want to delay any process, hurry up. If you want to delay any work, hurry up. Because when you hurry up, you will not commit small mistakes. You will be so careful not to commit small mistakes, you will do big blunters. Because your conscience will become dull.

Swamiji: So any more instances about the fear stroke?

Male delegate: “A diagnose is given by a doctor.”

Swamiji: Ah yes, hm, yes, yes, yes, yes . She's asking a right, nice question: “Have you had any fear stroke?” Before Enlightenment I had. I... I was staying in Omkareshwar, Madhya Pradesh, Central Bharat. It was the evening, ahh, maybe around seven o'clock. It's a deep forest, 30 kilometers away from the nearest village. Nearest village also don't have electricity. To get roti you have to go to the nearest village, 30 kilometers away. Once in a week I used to go and get five rotis - that is the food for whole week. So, I... I was staying in a sort of a cave, a beautiful cave. I was sitting on the rock actually. On the rock I was sitting and just enjoying the evening breeze. It's a beautiful life.

I don't have to take ASP. (Swamiji laughing) I don't have to heal from morning to evening... and I was just enjoying the evening breeze. Suddenly I saw one elderly man, black, tall elderly man. Black, short elderly man walking towards me. I know for sure that next 30 kilometers there is no village surrounding. And why this guy has come in this time here? Whether he missed the way or not, what happened to him? Let me at least go and invite him, let him come and stay in the cave. Tomorrow morning he can find his way.

I just jumped down from my rock, I was seeing some five, six feet high rock. I jumped down and went near him. When I went just four, five feet near him, only I discovered it's a bear ... walking with two legs. I had a total fear stroke. And not only that I thought I will give him dinner, but I decided that I am going to be dinner. (Swamiji laughing) I just stood. Somehow I don't know why I did not shout or move out. I had a fear stroke, that much I am sure. It's not that I did not have fear, because at that time I was not enlightened. I did not. It is not that I did not have fear. I had a fear stroke, but I did not move anything, just I was standing and gazing at him. I just looked at his eyes. I don't know what has happened, he looked at my eyes, just turned this way and that way, put his left hands down and walked out, went away.

Male delegate: “He was not hungry.” (All laughing)

Swamiji: No, bear don't eat, bear don't eat. Maybe my looking into his eyes has frightened him or not, I don't know.

Delegate: \<\<inaudible\<\<

Swamiji: Why, I don't know. And he just put his hands down and went away. That's one incident I had fear stroke and then something had \<\<inaudible\<\< me. No, that's the one incident I had fear stroke.

Female delegate: “Swamiji, just out of curiosity, let, let's say you're in a situation where, now, some terrorists come and attack or (..) What would your reaction be? Because you are now enlightened \<\<inaudible\<\<

Swamiji: No, as far as now my experience goes, fear stroke never happens. And there are so many instances, people who live around me, if you ask them they will tell you. (Swamiji laughing)

Swamiji: In Oklahoma (..)

Male delegate: “Fire is true, fire is true...”

Swamiji: Suddenly a small fire accident happened, everybody started shouting and moving here and there, jumping except doing an intelligent thing, they will start doing everything else. And they pour water on the fire, these, that, nothing. It was just spreading, spreading, spreading.

Delegates: \<\<inaudible\<\<

Swamiji: Calling, fire, everything was happening. I was the only guy who was very cool, just took one mug of water and pour just outside the fire, so that it did not spread. Very cool way things have been done. Finally whole thing is got settled. Except me, everybody was rolling on the ground. And nobody did even a single intelligent thing.

Whenever you get a fear stroke, you lose your logic. So as on now, after Enlightenment I never even have... had a single fear stroke. It's not that I'm not facing incidents. There are so many instances, so many incidences. A big cobra was just one or two feet in front of me, in the ashram. Cheetah, facing the cheetah and so many instances I can say, I did not have fear stroke... after the Enlightenment. Maybe.. even in the ... today in the… when the lift stopped I started laughing: “Hey nice, we can stay here, let us, let us delay the class.” (Swamiji laughing)

Swamiji: Anyhow, now I don't get the fear stroke - as on now. But I do not know what is the thing, but according to the scripture, enlightened man never gets a fear stroke. Then, any other question?

1. Female delegate: “How about when we get bad news?”

2. Female delegate: “Nothing affects him”.

1. Female delegate: “No, no, not you, fear stroke

Swamiji: A, of course that’s a fear stroke. Even if I get the bad news, I immediately decide what is the way to do the next thing, not the (..) fear stroke.

Female delegate: “Isn’t fear a good thing though in many cases, for example if a mother is aa, it's kind of a natural response. The mother is fearful of protecting the children, she, she is afraid, you know that

Swamiji: But when the fear stroke happens you lose your intelligence, you don't work properly. Your whole efficiency is not expressed. You actually only mess up the whole thing