“SHIVA SUTRA DISCOURSE \# 25: BE TOTAL AND REALIZE”

SHIVA SUTRA DISCOURSE \# 25: BE TOTAL AND REALIZE

Namah Shivaya Gangadhara Namo Hara Namo Jatadharabham Gauri Niranthara Vibho Shivamanaragam Narayana Priyam Anantha Mahapaharam Varanasim Kulapathim Baje Viswanatham Sambo Bhaje Viswanatham

I welcome you all with my love and respects.

Giving introduction to this great book, the Shiva Sutras, is just like giving introduction to the Universe, the Cosmos, because this is the window through which you can straight away experience the Cosmos, the Comic Energy. The only problem is you can be helped to see through the window but you can never be convinced about the greatness of the window. Even if I try my best to use so many words, to express the greatness of the window, it will be defaming because I’ll never be able to be true to this great book. I do not want to defame this great book by my introduction. Straightaway I’ll enter into this book. Let you experience what this great book is, what these great techniques are and let you have your own experience. Let your experience speak for yourself - about this great book, this great technology of inner science.

Today’s topic is ‘Be Total and Realize’. Let us enter into today’s sutra, today’s aphorism:

Roam about until excited and exhausted And then dropping to the ground. In this dropping be Whole

This book is the unabridged dictionary of spiritual philosophies. This book is created to create Masters, not even students. This book is created to create enlightened Masters. To help the students you don’t need such a huge volume or such profound techniques. There also are one hundred twelve. One or two is more than enough to make an individual to get enlightened, to help an individual experience the Truth. Here, one hundred twelve wonderful aphorisms; techniques to experience yourself; techniques to experience the Higher Consciousness.

You may ask, “Why one hundred twelve?”

This book is not just to create or help students. This is to create Masters; great enlightened Beings to help the Planet Earth. Mahadeva, Shiva, He is the first and foremost enlightened Master of the East. He has created this great technology so that forever this technology will guide human beings to achieve the enlightenment, the inner Consciousness. This technique, again, an amazing technique. Zen Buddhists have worked on this technique. Christian mystics experienced this technique. In Sufism this technique has been used. This very same technique is used by so many Masters. In Sufism there is a technique called Dirvish Whirling. That technique is based on this sutra, this aphorism. In Vedanta, there is a technique called Parivrajaka. Parivrajaka means: not staying in one place, wandering. In Zen they will ask you to dig a pit. If you finish it immediately the Master will tell you ‘Do once more’, until you are exhausted. Great Master, George Gurdjieff, he also used this same technique.

In so many ways so many Masters have used this technique. Many may not even know this book is the root or source for the technique. Sometime, without even knowing the source, you get the idea because the greatness of the Truth is that even if the author’s name is not kept alive the Truth still goes on living. The knowledge which can be alive even after the author is no more alive; the knowledge which can help the society even when the author is not alive, even after his name dies – if it can help the society, if it can help the humanity, only then it can be called as Truth. Only then it can be called as technology.

Many times this Truth has traveled all over the world without the name of the author. That is why, in the East, the great book of Truth – the Vedas – that book is called Apporusha; it means ‘authorless’. There is no individual author. The book is not attributed to any single individual being as the author. Many people question, ‘How can a book exist without author?’ Actually it is not that there was no author. They know there is no need to mention about the author because the Truth is independent of the person who expressed it. He has not invented it. Truth cannot be invented. It can only be expressed. He has experienced it and expressed it for everyone, for the world. So the author has no role after the Truth is expressed. There is no need for his name. There is no need for his biography. There is no need to know when he took birth, what he did, when he got married, and when he died. No need. Whether he is married or not, how many years he lived, how he died is immaterial.

We do not believe in personality. We believe in philosophy. We believe in the Truth and experience, not the personality. That is why, whoever becomes enlightened, we call them as Buddha. Buddha is not the name of an individual. It is the name of the status. Whoever achieves that status receives that name. It means to have the title ‘Swami’. Swami means God Himself. God. It is not a name of an individual. Whoever achieves that state will have that title, that’s all. Whoever achieves that state will have that title. It is more a Truth than an individual. It is more an experience than an individual.

This great technique has traveled all over the world. Some may not even know the source. But let you understand this book is the source because this book existed at least - this book exists - at least the last ten thousand years. This book is the compilation of five thousand years of research and development that happened in the inner science, in the field of Consciousness by one million inner scientists, full time dedicated inner scientists, using at least one million inner science laboratories and, above all, the technology is practiced and still practiced by one billion people around the world. This is the essence of that great technology. This book is the essence of that great Wisdom, Knowledge.

Very simple technique - a very simple technique. To practice this technique you don’t need to believe in any particular ideology or philosophy or truth. You do not need to believe in any god. You don’t need to believe in anything. All you need to understand is ‘Are you alive?’ is the first question. If you say ‘Yes’, you are qualified. (Laughter) Nothing more is necessary. All you need to believe is that you are alive. If you have that faith, you are ready, qualified to experience this technology, to work on this technology.

Let’s enter into the sutra: Roam about until exhausted And then dropping to the ground In this dropping be Whole

Before entering into the sutra a few things. First thing you need to understand: You are much more than what you believe as you. That is the first thing. There is a beautiful story by a great eastern mystic. He used to give a beautiful example. A big river is flowing. If a bamboo is floating on the river, based on that bamboo you can say ‘left side of the river and right side of the river’. If the bamboo is lifted, removed, now you can’t say left side of the river or right side of the river, only ‘river’. You can’t say anything. It is there. Same way, as long as you have the identity, your ego, as long as your ego or your identity is there, you can say, ‘you and me’, ‘you and world’, ‘you and universe’. You and universe can be separated only as long as you have that identity, that ‘I’, what you believe as ‘I’. The moment that single stick is lifted - what you believe as ‘I’ - the moment it is lifted it‘s no more. There is no difference. There is no right and left. There is no ‘you and me.’ There is no ‘you and universe’. Only one exists. That is Universe.

This technique is lifting that stick; giving you the experience of ‘you are something more than what you think as you.’ Many times, again and again and again you put restrictions to yourself. Actually, you cannot tolerate your grandness. You cannot digest your glory. To tell you the truth, you speak about your greatness and about your glory to others but you never believe it. We always tend to speak about our glories, about our greatness to others but we never believe it because if you believe, you won’t speak. The moment you begin to speak about your greatness to others, please understand, you do not believe it yourself. If you believe it you will never try to speak about it. By speaking you are not trying to convince the other person, you are trying to convince yourself.

Just if you look a little deep into yourself you will understand. You are again and again trying to speak. You will again and again speak only about which you are not convinced, only about which you are not sure, only about which you are not clear. By speaking you are trying to convince others and convince you. You are trying to convince you much more than trying to convince others. Basic truth, the basic truth is this only: when others are convinced you feel, ‘this must be the truth. There must be some truth in it.’

Small story. One journalist was writing only tabloid things. He was a yellow journalist. When he was on Planet Earth his only work was spreading rumors, writing about celebrities. He died and reached Hell. Where else do you think he would go? He was in the Hell. Somehow he had a deep desire that he should go to Heaven.

He asked the security, “Can you allow me just for one day, 24 hours? Only one day. I’ll just go for a picnic and come back. One day tourist visa.’

It’s ok. After all it’s not too much. This guy is not asking too much. Let him go and come back. After all it’s like marketing. If you allow anybody one day tourist visa naturally you will think to plan to come back to that city again. Because in one day you will not feel bored. After one month you will feel anyway bored. One day will always be exciting.

They thought, ‘Anyhow, it’s good marketing also for Heaven.’ They allowed him inside.

And when he entered inside, the guard, the person who is in the gate, security told him, ‘We have 10 journalists already inside.’

They themselves don’t have any work because in Heaven nothing much happens. Hell is the happening city. So much of singing, jumping, everything is going on. (Laughter) A lot to write about. In Heaven nothing much happens. All the fellows are sitting on a cloud and singing, ‘Halleluiah, Halleluiah, Halleluiah’. (Laughter) Nothing much; the same news from morning until night. Everybody is sitting and singing and that God is sitting and listening. Nothing much. And everything is automated. You don’t need to work also. Hell is the happening place. Heaven you don’t need many journalists and they don’t even reprint again and again the newspaper because it’s the same news. They just change the date and publish.

The security told him, ‘If you can convince any one journalist to leave the Heaven, maybe you’ll get an appointment here itself. We don’t know.’

This guy said, ‘Oh, there is a possibility so let me work on it.’

This guy slowly started spreading the rumor that there is a new newspaper that they’re inaugurating in Hell and job opportunity is waiting; better payment and good facilities. Above all, it has the feeling of job satisfaction because journalists need some news. The office should be very exciting – constantly some news, something; job satisfaction. This guy started spreading the rumor. And you know this guy knows how to spread the rumor. He knows the technology or technique.

After 24 hours of seeing the Heaven and spreading this rumor, this guy came out to go back to Hell.

Security stopped and told him, ‘You can’t go out.’

He asked, ‘Why, why?’

‘All the journalists have escaped from Heaven. There is nobody. Now you are the only person who is available here. We can’t let you go out.’

This guy said, ‘No, no, no. I also want to go out and get a job in that same newspaper!’

Security said, ‘Fool! What are you talking? You are the one who spread the rumor. Now you say you wanted to go and have a job?’

This guy said, ‘Yes, I am the one who started the rumor. But when so many people are believing it, there must be some truth in it. When so many are convinced, there must be some truth in it.’ (Laughter)

Understand - our mind is such that you believe only when so many others start believing. If so many start believing, you start believing that there must be some truth in it. But the truth and the numbers are no way connected. Truth and the numbers are no way connected. Let you be very clear. Truth and the numbers are not directly connected. Many times the Truth cannot be digested by the masses because Truth needs intelligence. To believe something you don’t need intelligence; just ignorant faith is enough. But to analyze and to understand something as Truth, you need intelligence. You need intelligence. That is why I always tell people ‘Truth is not for the masses.’ In one biography I read, the guy writes: ‘a lie told again and again will become truth. Truth expressed first time will look like a lie.’ If a lie is repeated hundreds of times, it will start looking like a truth. If the Truth is expressed for the first time it will look like a lie.

Here Shiva is expressing a great Truth. You are not just what you believe as you. You are something a lot more than what you think as you. You are Cosmic Energy, directly connected to the Cosmos, Universe. You are not ending just where your skin ends. Again and again you tend to believe that you are ending where your skin ends. No. This is not your boundary. Your skin is not your boundary. Shiva is saying, ‘Just jump out of your skin’ Now Shiva is saying, ‘Just jump out of your skin. This is not your boundary. You are a lot more than that. You are much more than that.’

You are directly connected to the Nature. You can fall in tune with it. You can play with it. As of now, because you believe this is your boundary, anything outside your boundary you start thinking that is your enemy. Please understand, anything outside your boundary, whether it is nature, air, fire, water or earth. You start relating with that as if you are living with many enemies. We start talking in the language of ‘conquering the nature’. If you understand you are something more than this body, you will never think or talk in the language of conquering the nature. In the East, always the great Masters say, ‘Falling in tune with the nature, not conquering the nature.’

There is a great book called Yoga Aphorisms, Yoga Sutras - the source book for all the yoga exercises. The author of that book, father of that book, he says, ‘By meditating on the nature, nature reveals and gives the powers, gives the energies to understand itself.’ It gives you new energies, new experiences, new powers. Let me give you one example. He says by meditating on Planet Earth, you understand all the secrets of earth. You receive the messages from Planet Earth.

The other day I was reading an article. There are tribal people, the tribal group who are living in Andaman and Nicobar Islands in Bharat. They received the message about the tsunami three hours ahead and they all moved towards the hilly region. Not a single person died in that tsunami attack. Even army people have died. People with so many instruments, so many gadgets, so many, so much of technology, even they have died. But this tribe, hours ahead of tsunami they received that vibration, they could gather the message, and moved away from the ocean. And not a single person died, especially in those islands. Hundreds and thousands of people have died. Practically in two, three islands, the whole population was washed away. But in this type of islands, these people have escaped and moved to another place, moved to another island and saved themselves.

One big problem is they are not able to teach the technology to others. It’s not that they don’t want to help but it’s because, from the beginning, their lifestyle is designed in such a way that they are able to relate in a very friendly way to the nature. If we also start changing our lifestyle, we may start falling in tune with the nature.

People who realize the truth that you are something more than a body, you are a lot more that what you are, immediately start to relate with nature, relating with the universe in a very friendly way. We won’t talk in the language of conquering. We will talk in the language of falling in tune. Here that is what Shiva is teaching. He is teaching us, ‘You are something far more than what you think as you.’ By this technique, you relax from what you think as ‘you’ and experience the real ‘you.’ The experience of the real you will tremendously increase your confidence on you. Understand, the experience of the real you will tremendously transform your confidence in you.

There is a small story, it is not even a story, it’s an incident that happened in my life. At that time I was living in the Himalayas in Bharat. I was living in the Himalayas. It’s a beautiful incident. I always love to tell this incident because this shows the power all of us have inside our being which we never experience or express.

I was staying in Himalayas. It was a small ashram, monastery; means some few huts, thatched huts. In every hut one swami will be staying. That area is tiger haunted area. That area is called _mayavati(??). It’s a tiger haunted area. Nighttimes, after our dinner, tigers will come there for their dinner, in search of their dinner! (Laughter) It’s a tiger haunted area.

One day as usual, tiger came. The elderly monk, he shouted, ‘Hey, tiger is in the campus! Close your doors!’ Closing your door will not help because if the tiger gives one push, what the door will do? Even the wall will give way. Not just closing the door, you have to support a big stone so that the tiger cannot push the door. Then even if the tiger gives a push, the door will not open.

He shouted, ‘Hey go and get some stone or a rock from outside and support your door!’ All the swamis ran here and there, got some stone and supported their doors.

Anyhow, tiger went away. Next day morning, around ten o’clock, all of us came out. All of us came out to see whether everybody was alive or whether somebody has become dinner for tiger. Everybody came out except one person. One swami is missing. We tried to go near his hut and see what happened. I was trying to open his door to see what happened.

Then that elderly swami shouted, ‘Hey, don’t open the door. There is a possibility that the tiger would have gone inside through the top or by some way, after having the night dinner he may be waiting for the complementary breakfast to be served in the room; to be served in the room, don’t open. First shout. Let’s wait for his response.”

We all shouted his name, ‘Swamiji, Swamiji.’

Then we heard the reply from inside. He shouted back.

He gave the voice, ‘Yes, I am here Swamiji. Open the door and take me out!’

Then we understood he is safe. He is safe but we were surprised. ‘If he’s okay, if he’s all right, then he can open the door and come out. Why he is not able to?’

Somehow we broke the window and entered inside. There we saw a big stone in front of his door, and supported it. All 4 or 5 of us used the crowbar, put our whole effort and slowly moved that stone and opened the door and brought him out.

Surprising thing: We asked him, ‘Swamiji all 5, 6 of us, with help of crow bar, with full effort, only then we were able to move this stone. How did you move this stone last night, alone?” Surely the tiger wouldn’t have helped him. And there was nobody else to help because each one was trying to save himself.

When we asked him he said, ‘Swamiji, what are you talking? I did not push that stone yesterday night. I lifted it and brought that stone to my room.’ He said, ‘the moment I heard that tiger is coming, I was running here and there to get some stone. First thing, I was not able to understand the size and the shape of the stone. It was dark, so naturally I do not know the size and shape of the stone. Because I do not know the size and shape of the stone, the idea of weight did not enter my mind. Second thing, never the idea of weight entered my mind. The third thing: tremendous fear! Survival! (Laughter) It was a question of survival. I did not even push that stone. I just lifted it and brought it to the room and closed the door and supported it with the stone. Today morning when I got up I realized how such a big stone has come inside my room! How such a huge stone has come inside my room!’

Please be very clear, the size of the stone must have to be at least 500 kg. 500 kg. (Approximately 1,100 pounds) I cannot imagine that somebody can lift that weight with bear hands. Of course, we don’t have video recording, otherwise we could have sent that for Guinness record. This single swami can lift.500 kg without any preparation, without any exercise, without any training! At least three hundred feet he has walked with that stone. Not one or two feet but 300 feet he has walked with that stone. After lifting that stone, 300 feet he has walked. I always remember this incident whenever I talk about this idea, ‘You are something more than what you are.’

Tantra insists, again and again, you should do something that you think is impossible. Again and again they insist, doing something that you think is impossible. The Masters, they say, when you do something that you think is impossible, suddenly after doing that, you gain self-respect. You achieve self-confidence, which is totally different.

These so-called self-development programs can never develop your Self. They can only sell ‘feel good’ feeling to you. All self-development programs can only sell ‘feel good’ feeling to you. It can never transform you. Only these great meditation techniques that open the next level energy in you can transform you. I always tell people, these so called self-development programs, they’ll just give you the feel good feeling for two, three days, that’s all. Only the person who has realized his Self, only the great technology to realize your Self can give you the experience of the Self.

You have three layers of energy. The energy that you use in the day-to-day life, which is the first layer. Morning seven o’clock you get up from the bed fresh and around evening eight o’clock you are tired.

You say ‘Bas, enough. I can’t do anything more. Now it is time for me to rest. Now it is time for me to relax.’ After eight o’clock in the evening if somebody asks anything of you, you get irritated. Around nine o’clock, even if your spouse asks for coffee or something, you say, ‘Do whatever you want. Don’t ask anything more. For today I’m done. Enough’

First layer energy is that which you use for your day-to-day life.

Second thing, second layer energy will be awakened when you are caught by fear or greed; whenever you are in the peak of fear or greed. Fear or greed can awaken the second layer energy. That is why these great business people, CEO’s, you can see, they will be constantly working. During the day they will be playing golf, whole night they’ll start working. The level of energy in them will be totally different because they are caught by greed. Greed can fuel energy in you. Fear can awaken energy in you.

The story that I was describing now - that energy, the energy that was awakened in that swami - is the energy of fear. It’s a question of survival. Immediately the fear energy is awakened. He was able to lift that stone. He was able to do something that he never thought he could. It is the second layer of energy. I call this layer as emergency layer. Emergency layer.

If a dog chases you, you know your speed! From where did that energy will come? You may feel sleepy. You may be slowly walking without disturbing your sleepy mood. But if a dog chases, how you will reach your house and how that sleeping mood has disappeared – you can’t imagine! Second layer energy.

There is a third layer energy. Second layer can be awakened by fear and greed. Third layer energy can be awakened only by meditation. Only meditation can awaken the Cosmic Energy. That is what I call the Universal Energy. We never believe or we never understand so much of energy is available in us because we have not used it for a long time. We have not used it for a long time.

It’s like in the harbors, if you see, there will be a small area reserved to keep the boats. That area will be walled. They will have built a wall inside the ocean to reduce the waves to keep the small boats. They call it as boat jetty where the boats are standing. Actually the boat jetty and the ocean are connected. It is not separate. They are one and the same. Sometimes some ships standing in the harbor for a long time, did not travel in the ocean for a long time; because of that, they forget that they can travel in the ocean; that they belong to ocean.

Same way, because we stayed in the boat jetty in the harbor for a long time, we never traveled in the third layer energy for a long time. Maybe from the birth we never traveled in the third layer energy. From the time you started thinking, means from the time the mind is introduced to you, you stopped traveling in the third layer energy. In third layer energy, you start living without mind. If you are living with mind you never travel in the third layer energy. Third layer energy is such, some people have never experienced. Not some, many, have never experienced, after they started thinking. At the most you will experience only the second layer, never the third layer. That is why people get a little frightened, even when they experience second layer. Their mind started telling, mind will start telling them, ‘Oh, I am having this problem, that problem.’ Whenever people experience energy, mind is so cunning it will try to create many difficulties and many different ideas in the body. There is no such thing as ‘over energy.’ There is no such thing as ‘high energy.’ There is no overdose in energy. In energy there is only one. It is good, that’s all. Only one. It is always good. Second layer energy is related to fear and greed. Third layer energy is directly related to Cosmic Energy.

Now Shiva is speaking about this great third layer energy: Roam about until exhausted And then dropping to the ground In this dropping be Whole

He says: Exhaust what you think as first layer and second layer and drop. Then suddenly you will realize the third layer which always exists in you, which always available to you.

In Bharat, last December 31st in ashram, we all had a fire walking. All of our devotees, including me, I was the first one to walk. All our devotees had fire walking. It was a wonderful experience! Please understand – barefoot. Barefoot, all of them walked on fire. Something like twenty-one feet – fire walking. There are many here who walked on the fire. First everyone was shocked when I said, ‘Tomorrow we will have fire walking meditation.’ They thought I would make them sit and visualize as if they are walking on fire. Originally that is what they are thinking and they are all clapping. (Laughter) And next day when I ordered, ‘Hey, start the fire!’ when the bramacharis have started; when the ashramites have started preparing the fire bed, only then these guys understood I mean seriously. Of course, I did not force anybody but I expressed the Truth behind that technique.

We all think system only monitors the function. Means, according to your physical and mental strength, you design and do your activities. But yoga believes function monitors the system. According to the needs and the function, your body and mind gets adjusted and alters itself. Understand? According to the outer science, system monitors the function. According to the inner science, function monitors the system. We do not believe in system monitoring the function.

I have seen people living in the Himalayas – means sleeping on the snow without any cloth. What is the question of seeing! I have lived! I myself lived that kind of life for nine years. Living on the snow without any warm clothing. In the initial level, when I saw people doing it, I was surprised. I was shocked! But when I started living, I saw that the system is much more intelligent than what you think it is. Your system is so powerful, so alive, so intelligent! It is lot more than what you think. Simply, body got adjusted and it started living. I was shocked! I was really shocked how I was able to live.

From 11 countries around 500 people walked on the fire - different age, different cultural backgrounds, different qualifications – male, female - different religious background, different faiths. All walked on the fire. And after the fire walking many devotees came to me.

One person came and told me, one devotee, ‘Swamiji, before walking on the fire, I trusted You. That’s why I walked on the fire. After walking, now I am trusting me. I have the confidence now. I can also do something a lot more than what I always thought. I feel expanded. Now I know my boundary is not just this. There is something more.’

Experiencing that your boundary is something more than your body is what I call Spirituality. Yoga is nothing but experiencing something more than your boundary or what you think as your boundary. That is the essence of yoga.

Shiva is giving us here a beautiful technique. He says roam about, go round and round or walk or do jogging or jump, sing, dance, do something until you feel exhausted; means until you feel ‘I cannot do anything. I cannot go even a single step further.’ Please understand, ‘til you feel,’ not ‘til you think.’ Shiva is not saying ‘til you think you are exhausted. No, ‘til you feel you are exhausted.’ Because with thinking, after two minutes your mind will say, ‘No, no. I am tired. I have this pain. I have that pain. Oh no, no. Enough. These are all not for me.

All young people, they think, ‘Ah meditation and spirituality and all. Only for old people, not for now. Why unnecessarily now?’ All elders they think, ‘Oh, meditation and all those things are actually done in the young age itself. Not now. How can I do now?’ Young people think it is for old age and old people think they should have done it at a young age.

Understand, do not postpone. Do not give reasons. This is for you now! Not when your mind thinks you can’t do any more. Until when your being feels you can’t do anything more, exhaust yourself. It is an amazing, powerful technique. But do not practice by yourself. It has to be done only with the Master’s presence. Only in the presence of one who has mastered this technique it should be done because this technique needs guidance and loving support, a healing space and energy field.

But you can do it today. Then you can feel you are exhausted, and then just relax. Drop the body, like how you drop the flower. Drop the body. Do not fall. Understand? The word ‘fall’ means you identify yourself with the body and fall. Shiva is not saying ‘fall.’ No. He is saying, ‘drop the body’; means you disconnect yourself from the body and drop it. Falling is different; dropping is different. If you still feel you are the body, you will fall. If you feel you are something more than the body, you will drop the body. By dropping the body, be Whole. Let you become Whole. Let you experience the Truth, the Ultimate. When you drop from first layer and second layer; when you completely exhausted the first layer and second layer energy, suddenly the third layer awakens, opens. The third layer energy simply transforms you and it brings you the message of who you are. In the first layer and second layer, you will live with who you think you are. In the third layer, you will receive the message or the Truth, experience of really who you ARE. You will experience your Self, your Higher Self itself.

Now let you have small break. Then we can enter into this great meditation technique and experience your Self, your Higher Truth and your very Nature itself. Let’s gather after the small break. Thank you.

It is time to start the meditation technique, the great technology of Shiva.

Let’s prepare, before entering into the technique. Few things. Now you are going to jog. You are going to jog. We’ll start in a very slow way, and then slowly, slowly, slowly, we’ll increase the speed. Do not believe your mind when it says, ‘I can’t.’ Just go with it. When you really feel you can’t, just relax, lie down and feel; witness whatever is happening inside your body and mind. If you are a heart patient or have any other chronic diseases or if you are taking medication for any illness, do not practice this meditation. If you underwent any surgery in last six months, do not do. Others can do. You will hold a chair so that you will not run away. (Laughter) You will run in one place. You will hold a chair, the backside of a chair, so that you will be in one place. The body should be completely exhausted so that the first and second layer can be opened, can be completely exhausted. When the first and second layers are exhausted, naturally the third layer opens. It’s a very powerful meditation technique. It brings tremendous energy to your body and mind.

I’ll guide you step by step throughout the meditation. Maybe it will continue for twenty to thirty minutes. For some reason if you can’t be here for next thirty minutes or if you don’t want to do the meditation, you are free to sit in the last row. Please go back and sit in the last line and sit. But please close your eyes so that you are not, you will not be disturbing others who are meditating. Now, let’s get ready then I’ll guide you step by step. Please hold the chair.

Yes? (Person asks something; unable to hear) Yes, please sit in the last row and when the meditation is finished, I will give Energy Darshan for all of you. I’ll give Energy Darshan and Healing for all of you. Even if you can’t meditate, please sit in the last row.

Take them to the last row - kids or elders. Make enough space. You can spread all over the hall. You can spread all over the hall. Just have one chair in front of you to hold. Everyone has to hold one chair. Please make enough space. Please make enough space.

Close your eyes. Please close your eyes. Hold the chair. Make enough space. Now itself, make enough space for you to sit down after the meditation. Just sit down and see once. Do not keep any sharp objects around you. Please make all the safety precautions now itself. If you underwent knee surgery or if you have knee pain, do not try this meditation. Just sit.

Close your eyes. Inhale and exhale as slowly as possible, as deeply as possible.

Slowly start moving only your legs. Hold the chair and start moving your legs. Inhale and exhale as slowly as possible, as deeply as possible. (Music starts) (1 minute)

Increase the speed of the breathing. Don’t increase the speed of jogging. Just increase the speed of the breathing- inhaling and exhaling. Increase that speed.

(Taped instructions and continuation of meditation technique)

(After about 5 – 7 minutes) Nithyananda: Let your breathing be regulated. Increase the speed.

(After 10 minutes) Nithyananda: Exhaust yourself

(After 1 minute; quiet music begins) Nithyananda: Relax. Stop. Wherever you are. Let your eyes be closed. Just sit wherever you are. Witness whatever is happening inside your body and mind.

(After 3 minutes) Nithyananda: Just witness the energy in your body and mind.

(After 10 minutes) Nithyananda: OM, Shanti, Shanti, Shantih Relax. You can open your eyes. Let this great teachings and techniques of Mahadeva, Shiva liberate you all and may you all experience the Cosmic Energy. May you be become one with, radiate Eternal Bliss – Nithyananda. Thank you.