Do not imagine, do not think about it, do not make any intellectual effort to understand beforehand. You may feel energy rising up, but let the feeling come first. You may begin to feel a chakra working, but let the feeling come first.
You may come to feel something only then, ask. If you stumble upon them, then it is good. That is why it is good to proceed in meditation completely unaware of kundalini, of chakras. The mind has a faculty – a very powerful faculty – to dream, to create illusions, to project. The more knowledge gained, the less the possibility of feeling the real, the authentic, things.Īll that is within is not necessarily real or true, because imagination is also within, dreams are also within. In fact, knowledge has been very destructive as far as the inner world is concerned. Only when you feel your chakras, and your kundalini and its passage, is it helpful otherwise, it is not helpful. You have to feel you have to send feelers inside yourself.
One has to feel the chakras, not know about them. You begin to visualize things to be the way you have been taught, but they may not correspond to your individual situation. When you have some theoretical knowledge, you begin to impose it on yourself. Everything changes, but the eyes remain the same. For instance, in your body your face is the most individual part, and in the face the eyes are even more individual. The more you go in, the more individual you are. The root of kundalini, the passage through which kundalini passes, is also different with each individual. Buddhists talk of nine chakras, Hindus talk of seven, Tibetans talk of four and they are all right! That is the reason why so many different traditions have developed. One may have seven, one may have nine one may have more, one may have less. There are chakras, but the number differs with each individual. You need not feel it you are one with it.Q: Is it helpful to visualize and know what is happening during meditation – for example, the movement of kundalini and the opening of the chakras? Really, your body is more alive when you are healthy, but you do not feel it. If you are completely healthy, you do not feel it: you just have it. You do not even feel your body unless some disease has crept in, unless you are ill. You feel your breathing only when something new, or wrong, has happened to you otherwise you do not feel it. You will notice it, but will not feel it any more than you feel your breathing. It will go on expanding and you will become one with it. Now you will not see it as something happening to you you will become the happening. There is a gap between you and it, but the gap will gradually drop and you will become one with it. It is something penetrating into you, or you are penetrating into it. It is unknown to you and you are unacquainted with it. When the flowering of the sahasrar comes for the first time, it is something other than you. And the moment will come when there will be no feeling there will be no sense of “otherness,” so the feeling will not be there. It will go on intensifying more and more, but the feeling will be there less and less. If it becomes one with you and you have known it, you won’t feel it, but that doesn’t mean that it will not be there. You feel that which is strange you do not feel that which is not strange. Then a moment comes – and it must come – when you will not feel it at all.įeeling is always of the new.
The more you become one with it, the more it will lose its acuteness. The feeling will be acute in the beginning – when you feel it for the first time it will be very acute – but the more you know it, the less acute it will become. QUESTION: HOW DOES ONE FEEL AFTER THE SAHASRAR BEGINS TO OPEN?Īfter the sahasrar opens, there should be no feeling but inner silence and void.