So drop comparison and return to your being and discover eternal bliss or nithyananda. Now let us enter into a meditation technique called the Shakti Sagar Meditation. It will make you understand experientially how you can harness the tremendous energy source that is available to you through your vishuddhi chakra. The Shakti Sagar Meditation (Total duration: 30 minutes) The Shakti Sagar meditation is taken from Zen Buddhism. The key to this meditation is to keep the mind fixed on the vishuddhi while the body moves. Stand with your eyes closed and focus on your vishuddhi chakra. Stand behind a chair or some support and hold it and start walking slowly, very slowly in the same spot where you are standing. Now start increasing your pace very gradually.

Keep walking faster and faster in the same spot. Push your limits only to the extent that you can, with no discomfort. Dont over exert yourself at any time. At all times focus on the vishuddhi. You will be able to feel the energy coming from it. The important thing is never to slow down at any point in time. Stop after 20 minutes. For the next 10 minutes, just sit down quietly wherever you are. Keep your eyes closed and focus on the vishuddhi. You will absorb the energy that is generated during the movement. When you do this, the cosmic energy enters through the vishuddhi chakra and becomes a tremendous source of energy to you. While doing this meditation, you may wear your mala around your neck.

It will serve to store the energy that you create during the meditation. (At the end of the meditation, Swamiji chantsOm Shanti Shanti Shanti hi) Slowly, very slowly, open your eyes. We will meet for the next session. Thank you. T he next chakra is the ajna chakra which is located between the eyebrows. In Sanskrit, ajna means will or order. The ajna chakra is known as the master chakra. This chakra is locked by seriousness and ego and it can be made to flower by innocence, simplicity and intelligence, and by shedding all forms of ego. (Meditation Technique: Divya Netra Meditation - a Zoroastrian meditation technique.) The ajna chakra is known as the Chakra Raj the master of all the chakras. This is such a significant chakra that there is no religion that has not worked on activating it.

When the ajna opens, the whole being enters into a different realm. A whole layer of faculties opens up. That is why all the oriental gods are represented with a third eye in their forehead. The third eye is a symbol for the awakened ajna. There is an old saying, that if you die in Varanasi, a sacred city in India, you will automatically get liberated. Varanasi is not just the city as we know it. It is also the region where the vaarana, that is the eyebrows, meet the naasi, that is the nose, which is the exact location of the ajna chakra. It symbolically represents the death of ego in the liberated or enlightened state.