Back in the ancient days, yogi's said it was good to meditate at the beginning of summer, when it wasn't too hot and when it wasn't too cold. This is the best season for Meditation. Not when the rainy season comes. The Buddha went to a place in India, there were so many mosquitoes. He said “pah we must be strong against these mosquito's. Non attachment, to the body, so they withstood, they didn't kill any mosquitoes. So they just allowed them to come. But the Buddha never went back to that place (laughs).

 
And now if the mosquitoes come into the house, what can we do? We spray Raid on them. We swat them. But perhaps we should leave them outside. We should have mosquito nets at every window. Yea? This is a much better solution to killing everything. We just separate the bad from the good, like a Paramahansa separates the poison from the milk. Even in this world we have bad people. We call these people matatodo, mata – e – torturar -todo - kill and torture everything. Even there was a Jesuit guy in charge of the Inquisition, Torquemada - Tortora y quema todo - Torture and burn everything.

There are people on this planet who murder, rape and kill and they live in every country. And they live in every city. And what are we going to do with these people. Well if we walk down the street at night without a bodyguard they'll come at us with knives and guns. Yea? So what do we do, we stay in our houses. And the mosquitoes stay outside. We have cars, with air conditioning so we don't have to go out in the street. We separate the bad from the good.
 

We only have friends who are good people. Yea? Because we get rid of the bad ones, we never go near them again. We separate. Because, the good energy will only allow the good energies to come. The bad energies will feel uncomfortable in the presence of the good energies. The concentration of the good. Because every human being is made up of the good angel and the bad angel, and they are whispering into the ears and the bad angel is talking and the good angel is talking. Which one do we listen to?

Our friend was saying that while she was meditating this little bad angel was whispering into her ear “This Meditation is a waste of time”. And you know, she knew it was the bad angel. This is very evolved to know that. How to separate the bad angels talking from the good angels talking.

 
It's a process of intellect also. We know that Meditation has been used for five,000 years to increase our evolution. We know that. So when the bad angels whisper into the ear and says “This is a waste of time, this Meditation”. You know that bad angels exist and I'm telling, bad angels exist. We cannot get to the bottom of how many different ways they will try to prevent the process of enlightenment. The ways are infinite. And they will concentrate on your weaknesses. And the really bad ones they will concentrate on breaking your strengths. Always the bad guys focus on those areas where you think you are strong.

 
There was Michael Jackson , he was saying “heal the world”. He was saying, “earth song”. Don't cut down the trees, don't change the environment”. And all the bad guys were saying, it's not good for the people to hear these things. They might start to do something about it! So what was Michael Jackson's strongest point? Helping the children, he had four00 million dollars, a contract with Pepsi Cola. All the people were dying in Africa of starvation and he hired a jumbo jet out of his own money and he sent all the food in this jumbo jet to the children in Africa. And what did the bad guys do? They said Michael Jackson perverts children. And they kept on saying it. And they hired people to take it him to court and they destroyed his reputation. They focussed him on other things. And they stopped Michael Jackson from speaking.

 
Now you are not so famous. I am not so famous. To be famous is very dangerous. (laughs). But I am telling you that the evil blockages that are inside you are already searching out your strong points and they are already searching out your weaknesses, and they will be starting to test you. They will say, how can we stop this lady, getting rid of us. Yea? Cos she is our house, we live in her body, and we've done this for many lifetimes, and in this time we have been successful in perverting this lady into the paths of many addictions. We have distracted her, successfully for thousands of years and because of this she's learnt a little bit. She's learn the first sutra from the Yoga Sutra's of Patanjali, “after all that, here are complete instructions on enlightenment”. Yea we've taken her through all of that. So perhaps now she knows. But I think she doesn't. The blockages are saying, no, we know the ways to pervert her. We still have lots of strength left. She thinks she's so good as a yoga teacher. Helping all the pensioners. She thinks she's soo good. But we know the way to get her.

Now, who is in charge? Who is in charge? Because, the good angel is always talking. And you must listen to the good angel. And if you hear a bad angel, you know it's a blockage. Use the techniques of Energy Enhancement to destroy every blockage which raises it's head. If you don't, they will pervert you and they will stop your progress.
To raise your energy with Kundalini energy, to give you more strength, to destroy blockages and more strength to find even more deep and dangerous blockages. Bien?...okay question

(Student asks question)

Satchidanand: This is the resting state, when you are doing both the air path and the water path at the same time. You can gain a lot of energy from this. But, for getting blockages, you need to do one path carefully at a time.

(cuts to student)

Devi: Shall I translate?

Satchidanand: We need to give her this, and you take that. Can you give her this. Ok, what do you want to say?

Devi's translation of Alexandria: It was easy for her to go down. She felt the fire was filling through her being easy. (inaudible) . And she was dancing in the flame. Sometimes she was going up without wanting to. She was going down. After she made the flame go up, without thinking without desire the flame was going up over the top of her head and going down. She wanted the fire to go down, for the chakra, but didn't go down from the top of her. (inaudible) It was going up to center of her head. She was trying to make the fire go down to the center of the Earth.

Devi: Really good...She was feeling some pain in her shoulder and spine.

Satchidanand: So in the future you need to work on these pains. Bien. Very good. So I want to say something now.

(camera on Satchidanand)

Satchidanand: I have my microphone...well it's almost there...Okay...I think Alexandria had a very good experience and as she well knows herself, this is just the start. We use the energy, we use the excess of light. We use the light that we receive from the center of the earth, like a searchlight. We can see more, because before you can remove a blockage, first you must perceive it. And it works on the physical plane with the pains, works on the emotional pain with the negative emotions. In the end, it works on the level of the mind. On the level of the ego. And the ego, has so many forms.

You know, competition is one of the forms. You might have noticed Dhiren. I started saying a few little things about Dhiren so Dhiren had to prove his superiority by telling us that he knew everything about blockages. Yet, no one of the people who came on this January two00five course has continued with their energy enhancement. They came, they did all two8 Initiations of Energy Enhancement. You will see over the next few days all of their fantastic experiences of removing some of their blockages. They removed many blockages, but in one month, even in such an intense month is not possible to remove all of the ego.

You can have a very good start, you can learn techniques which can remove the deepest of blockage, but unless you continue on a daily basis it's not possible to remove all of the blockages. And as I said, I'm warning you now. Because I have seen so many students have so much success in removing their blockages, and yet, not continue. All of the gurus, for all time, for thousands of years have said the same thing, to everyone of their students. You must continue, Swami Satchidananda said “you have been practising your yoga everyday for years and you have been working working working everyday, and I think some of you must get a little bit sick of this continuous work, but I am here to say to you that in the end, all of the blockages will go, they will be finished. But, you must continue till the end, it is not finished until it is finished.

And I know precisely which blockages remain in every student. Every student that came to me, were stopped, by one particular thing. And I pointed that out to people by email after the course – this is the problem, this is the problem, this is the problem – and yet, the blockages were too strong. They did not do their homework. They did not continue. This is my warning to you. Once you have started on the path of Meditation, it is necessary to continue on a daily basis. I have never heard of anybody becoming Enlightened in less than three years. Normally, if you come to stay with a guru in India you have to serve your guru for 1two years minimum. With Energy Enhancement, it can happen so much more quickly.

But, in the end, the blockages are personal. I am giving you general blockages to remove on the Energy Enhancement course and we move so quickly through these general blockages that sometimes, we miss one or two. It is necessary to do the exercises I give you, many times, to get the juice out of the fruit. The work is simple. It is not rocket science. In the end, all that is needed is perseverance. As the Buddha said, Energy Enhancement is for those people who believe in enlightenment, necessity for enlightenment, and who understand the urgency of the situation because the blockages will procrastinate, they will say next lifetime. I am interested, I am interested in my life, my spiritual life can wait.

 
There was a guru in Celon who was 96 years old, and he said to his congregation of students, every day for 60 years I have been telling you about enlightenment. And you have been listening to me and now I have some great news, today is the day that I die. Today is the day I have my Mahasamadhi. This is the day that I pass on into infinity. This is the day that I go to God. And, I can take one person with me, who wants to come with me? ..silence...

Until one guy put up his hand, “well it's a very nice offer, but I think I have to wait, my daughter is going for her confirmation. And my sons are going to university and I have so many things to do, I cannot take up your offer”.

The ego will say, I have a wonderful business to run and I am enjoying playing this game with my business, making more and more money. Takes a great deal of creativity to do this, I'm really enjoying it. People say I have this job to do, people say that job to do. And all of these jobs, are to do with you. Not, I am doing this work for the benefit of all the people around me, I am enjoying this work. This is the difference. The Enlightened only do their work for a purpose. That purpose is for the benefit of everybody around them. So...take heed of what I am saying.

Continue.. for a long time with constancy and with enthusiasm, words from the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, for a long time, constantly and with enthusiasm. This is necessary. Okay.. I have finished now.

We have been listening and listening to hours and hours of talking, from the video. While I was talking on the video, my main job was to transfer intellectual information, but the more high job, is to transmit the energy of the soul and when this energy goes into the bodies of the students, the rays of the light of the soul allows to see blockages. The energy goes into the body of the student and it releases the blockages that need to be released. So when these blockages come in front of me with a large group I usually say it's time to chant the Heart Sutra, which is a very ancient technique to release blockages to release blockages to get rid of them, and this what we need to do now before the Initiation.

You know...today we will be learning the first Initiation of Energy Enhancement and this is Meditation. Now what is Meditation, don't answer that all at once, it was a rhetorical question (laughs). I'm going to answer it!

Meditation is first the ability to still the mind, to still the mind... I was talking to (inaudible) about that, necessary to get rid of all the negative thoughts of the mind. To be able to stop the mind at will, as Don Juan says to stop the world.

Now in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali he says “yogas chitta vritti nirodhah. You know that Natwarlal don't you? This is Sanskrit, and this is coming from Maharishi Patanjali from five000 years ago. And I'll give you the translation for that,

Yogas, well you know what yoga means don't you? Well yoga comes from the word Yuj, which means yoke, the yoke, you know Krishna's riding in his chariot, and Arjuna is just sitting there very quietly. He's supposed to represent yuj. And he's sitting there quietly without any thoughts in the mind. And Krishna's is there with the reigns in his hand and he is driving everything, just like this guy here (points to Buddha) and what is driving the chariot forwards? Are the horses, and around there necks is the yoke. And the yoke siginifies union.

Union is this connection with the higher self so in reality, yoga five000 years ago meant enlightenment. Now, they do all these strange contortions and they call it yoga (laughs) Oh I'm am doing yoga...OM....But really yoga means enlightenment and the first stage of enlightenment is chitta vritti nirodhah. Chitta is the mind space, vritti is all the bad thoughts, nirodhah means to bring those mind waves down to zero, stop them. - thank you Guillermo.

Guillermo is about 6ft four and he's a Reiki Master. And he's a Tibetan Buddhist and when he was doing his Energy Enhancement back in 1998 – are you translating here Devi? (laughs) When he was doing his course of Energy Enhancement the last time. He was getting all these visions of Jesus Christ coming down to touch him. And he came to see me, and he said “I'm a Tibetan Buddhist and I'm getting this Jesus coming down to touch me and I'm getting Mary as well. I'm a Tibetan Buddhist. What does this mean?

And I said to him. “look who chooses? Does the student choose the Master or does the Master choose the student” He said the Master chooses the student. Personally I think Jesus is a Tibetan Buddhist. I think Jesus is an ascended Master. And that means he contains within him all religions, because these ascended Masters are the source of all religions. And every Master on this planet functions through them.

 
I once heard of a guru, and he said there are many Masters in the high Himalayas and they never speak, all they do is meditate all day long, and they are directing energy to all of humanity and they said personally I wish I was there with them because down here on this planet spreading this energy from the Masters in the Himalayas is a much more difficult job, I feel like I'm a worker in the factory, the guys up there are the managers. But personally I even believe the ascended Masters are much more powerful than those, I think they are the CEO's.

So I was talking about Meditation and Guillermo has had all of this before but he is not here just for intellectual knowledge. Because he's heard all of this before. It's very simple this stuff, what he is here for is to learn how to get rid of his energy blockages. Because when Chitta Vritti Nirodhah when the mind is stopped, then when you get into a psychic state where all of your blockages become apparent. And when you can see them, you can free them.

 Meditation is in three parts, and it has to be because all of these bad thoughts that you have in the mind are symptoms of the energy blockages that live beneath the mind, they come from the levels of the unconscious subconscious, they come from the levels of the physical body of the emotional body.

When I go to India I see many people with beautiful hearts but they are totally thick. They don't have any intellect at all. Because they don't understand their hearts constantly being hit by disappointment, because they have blockages in the mind. And then here in the West, you have people with minds the size of planets, they have such brilliant minds, yet they have no hearts and this is because they have blockages in the heart.

I remember Forest Gump and he's a total idiot, born that way and yet he has the most precious heart. And he knows he's not very intelligent and he thinks of this lacks of intelligence as a sort of infirmity, that he was born that way, he said, I might be very stupid but I can still love. And what he unifies the heart and the mind is purpose.

 
Alice Bailey talks about the 7 rays of the Initiations. The 1st ray which brings everything together, is will or purpose. twond ray is love. threerd ray is intelligence. And you see how the two rays underneath hierarchically are unified by the purpose. If you have no purpose you will never unify the two. Well what is a good purpose? Well, what is a good purpose? Why are we here? We're because.. who is the happiest person, the happiest person is the one who makes everyone around them happy. Now this is a very good purpose. How to make everybody happy?

Well this comes down to the four levels of charity. The first level is food, you can give food to people. And you can make them very happy but then you've got to keep feeding them, everyday. The second level of charity is money, you can give money to people every month, but every month they come back for more. The third level is education, you put people into university, they can go and do a job, and they get all the food and money from the job. But they are not happy. They are not happy. So this comes to the fourth level of charity.

Spiritual teachings, Meditation, yoga, chanting, all of the spiritual techniques, reading the spiritual works, noticing when your mind is not quiet, noticing when your emotions are upset and being humble enough to know when you are 99% perfect but to know from your own observations of yourself that 1% needs to be improved. Just to know that and then to know, I need to do this, in order to improve. Because, if you are intelligent and evolved, then you know the solutions to everybody else's problems, you can point the finger at somebody and say you are not perfect because you've passed that test, but three fingers are pointing back at you. If you see something bad in someone else, the same thing is wrong with you inside.

One of the secrets of enlightenment is to see to be able to see enlightenment in one other person at least. If you see enlightenment in one other person then you have the seeds of that enlightenment yourself.

So what is Meditation, well, I was taught by my Master, Zen Master Hogen from Japan, in one of the most powerful types of Meditation in the world. Because the Zen, they don't do yoga, they don't do anything else except sit. For 1,000 years they have been sitting in Meditation and they have developed the techniques of sitting to the highest point available in this world at the moment.

The yogi's teach everything in India, but there are very few yogi's who teach just Meditation so the technology of Zen Meditation and having investigated many Meditations, this is the most powerful. Zen Master Hogen said, “Meditation is in three parts, like a pyramid, the base of the pyramid is the physical, this is Hatha Yoga, and what does it say is yoga in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, what is asana, remember it's Arse- ana – ass-ana – calls everyone in America this, and in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, asana is defined as a, "steady comfortable sitting position".

Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh said if you can sit for three hours without moving, the chances are you are Enlightened.

This is the base of Zen Meditation. Because where are the blockages, they're in the body, how do you know where the blockages are, what do the blockages produce in the body, they produce pain, if you have a pain in the body, that is where your blockages are. And those blockages don't just act on the physical, they move, they start affecting your emotions making you negative. And then they start coming up from the emotions into the mind and they start producing all sorts of negative thoughts. This is how you know you are not perfect, and what is the process of removing those blockages, well Meditation is just sitting.

No Pain no gain. Oh Swami, Swami, how long should I sit for?...  10,000 years...(laughs)

But, as William Blake said, if you can see heaven in a grain of sand and eternity in an hour...

I was talking about how the process of enlightenment is in two parts now before I met Swami Satchidananda I had been meditating every day for five years. And I have been practising with a Zen Master from Japan for five years. And every time I sat, he used to throw me out of bed every morning at 6 o clock and he used to say sit.. and he was in Japan, he was 10,000 miles away and used to throw me out of bed every morning, and as I was sitting I could feel him polishing my base chakra, I could feel it clearing out all the blockages, and after five years, I was enabled to meet up with Swami Satchidananda, and Swami Satchidananda never taught me nothing but what he did, was he gave me energy and he gave me psychic experience.

Seeing him in light coming to me in Meditation, telepathy, all of the things they talk about in the books, they came with Swami Satchidananda. Everybody who came to Swami Satchidananda used to get his energy, but in order to really feel the energies of Swami Satchidananda was necessary to practise because the more empty you become the more the cup can be filled. If your cup is filled with bad things, it's not possible to fill it with good things, only by removing the negative energies, comes the possibility of Initiation. And Initiation is a fact but only for those people who are prepared to practise.

Introductory Talk Part Two, Energy Blockages five6.twothreemins

http://www.energyenhancement.co.uk/player/Level1/Initiation1Meditation/flv6.html

Satchidanand: Well, sometimes in our lives we need gurus. Some of us go to India to meet gurus, and in my time I have met many gurus. And I started doing yoga when I was 1four. And, when I started to learn Meditation I did it all by myself but after reading about it in books and learning a little bit about what is Meditation I decided I needed to have a guru.

Because you can only so much from books. Really, to learn Meditation correctly, like anything in life you need to go to somebody who knows Meditation. You know, if you want to learn the piano you can learn it from a book but most people choose to go to a piano guru. A guru of piano. But you can't learn everything from a guru of the piano. You come for a lesson for an hour and then you go home and practise every night. And you learn the tune and then you come back and do another hour. And in this way, you gradually become a concert pianist.

Because, is Meditation just this, no, this is not Meditation. This is practising to get into a state of Meditation. Because Meditation is two to four hours a day. You are playing the piano two to four hours a day and you are making sweet music in the world.

Because if you read the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali which is the textbook for 5,000 years of everybody that wanted to learn Meditation, it leads you gently through the stages of practise. It says to become a Master of Meditation you need to start off with sitting and then you need to learn a bit about breathing and pranayama because you need a lot of energy to meditate and on this base of the pyramid of Meditation, sitting, breathing correctly, we have the peak of the pyramid, Meditation.

If the sitting is no good, the Meditation is no good, if the breathing is no good how can you have the energy to meditate correctly. But the peak of the pyramid is Meditation. But, this is only the first book of the Four books of the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali. Patanjali was an Enlightened Master 5,000 years ago in India, and everyone who has learn Meditation since, take note of what this Indian Master, this Tamil Siddar, had to say. And the first book teaches you about Meditation but in book two, book three, book four, he says this is what you use Meditation for. What is the use of Meditation? (Indian accent) Oh...I want to peaceful...Ohh I want to be happy in the world...

Satchidanand: I was talking about computer programs and in some programs, in this computer which is your mind, you are the world's experts. And there are many different programs which I will go into, but why you are here is because your mind is capable of more.

Now what are the problems with computers. What happens if you put too many programs on your computer. You get a lack of memory, and the computer gets stressed. And finally it crashes. Now, I'm saying there's a parallel between the computer and a human being. Where can you get more RAM? How can you stop the computer that you have, how can you reduce the number of programs? Yea? Now you can either have a bigger computer which Meditation will give you or you can reduce the number of programs which Meditation will give you, yea?

You are going to learn how to run you computer at the optimum and you're going to learn how to make your computer become bigger. This is what Meditation is for.

And it's to make the program you want to run, run to it's potential. Now that's the minimum that your computer can do. Because, you have been to school, and you have played in games to make the body good, to breathe correctly, you've got to be able to do that to run a marathon. And you have been to school to learn how to read and write, you've learn Microsoft Word. And you've learnt to read lots of lots of books, and learn ….well how to do what... manage life.. and some of you have been to university and learnt big programs, like the law...or like me like computers, mathematics physics, electronics etc there are many themes that you have to go university for yea?

And you have proved that you can pump all of this information in and you can write it out on examination papers and then you can use it to help people with their problems. But like all good human beings, you know the difficulties with you profession and if you are a good human being, you will try to add to your profession to make it better, and this is where the next level of university comes from. Meditation.

Because Meditation, not only gives you a bigger computer, it not only helps you to run the programs without stress, also Meditation enables you to go beyond the intellect. And this is where I wanted to talk to you about parallel processing computers, what are the fastest computers on this planet? (student points to brain offscreen) I agree I agree But what is the fastest computer on this planet, what is a supercomputer, how do you make a supercomputer?

Well a supercomputer, is one with many processors, yea? You go to IBM big blue, and it's not like this one here with only one chip, the IBM, big blue, not only has a thousand processors, it has many thousands of processors, and it's called a parrallel processing computer.

Because not only does it take one thing into one processor at one time, it takes a thousand things at one time in each processor and thus is a thousand times faster, and not only that computers are hierarchical, they have a base of thousand processors to do the general work, but above that they have 10 chips which manage all that work, and above that one chip to manage the managers. In a way it's like human society. It's a hierarchy, you have Hitler at the top, yea? And he tells everybody to go into the concentration camps and then he has thousands of camp commanders, millions of torturers and all the people underneath are being tortured, it's like a normal society.

But I'm here to tell you, that the intellect, is only the in the middle of the hierarchy, if you want to increase the size of your computer you need to go to the next level which is called intuition which is called goodness. And also, people say above the intellect there is something call love, and above that is another level called the will of God.

And people feel ashamed, and they get stressed out when they cannot follow the will of God. If you can get yourself in alignment with the will of God, of goodness, of love, going through in your life, goodness when you don't need to feel ashamed, then, you'll be working at a higher level, these are the type of people who want to improve their profession, these are the people who want to improve society, these are the people who want to relieve people of all the pain.

Now the profession I have chosen to do this, is Meditation. But Meditation is a tool, which can help every other profession on this planet, and it can also help every human being on this planet, but it does need practise, it doesn't just come by itself. If you want to learn how read and write you have to practise, if you want to learn how to play the piano, you have to practise, if you want to learn Meditation, you have to practise.

Now, all the things I am talking about in Meditation, come to you as symptoms that the Meditation is working.

What happens when you sit and you have pain, well, I want to introduce you to the concept of energy blockages.

Energy blockages stop the computer, they create stress, they are stress and they exist in every part of the body, they exist in every part of your emotions, they exist in every part of your intellect, and they exist higher stopping you having conscience, empathy, and connecting with the higher levels of your computer, as a matter of fact they stop goodness.

Energy blockages are totally bad and the higher levels of Meditation teach you how to remove energy blockages. But that's higher...but I wanted to talk about energy blockages because Maria (inaudible) asked me a very interesting question, she said “Us people in the west..”

You know everybody has energy blockages, as you work with Meditation, you have less. This means that a person of Meditation will live longer, with more energy and less pain, because at the lower level of the computer we have the physical body, yea? And if this physical body has blockages, then eventually you will have a disease and you will have to go to the doctor, to have it cut out, and then you will die.

So really the higher levels of Meditation teach you how to live, yea? Cos you could be an expert in your profession but are you an expert in health. The doctors are an expert in disease. But they never see people who are fit and healthy all the time, all they see is disease. I know many people who have never seen a doctor all their lives. I don't think I've been to the doctor all my life. Why?

If you are well, why do you need to go see a doctor. And it's the same with the psychologists, everybody is mad. Because all they ever see are mad people, and they write books about all these mad people but 99% of the people have never seen a psychologist but this is a profession.

Then there are all the people who have never seen a lawyer, you know the people who never have to go to a profession, these are the lucky people.

But, we rise by striving. Nitendo Surgimus - the Romans had to be good for something.

And I am saying to you that after you have trained the intellect at university, after you have put your intellect at the service of humanity, then it's time to learn to increase the size of the computer. At the bottom of the computer is the body, and what are the symptoms of Meditation is that every pain of the body disappears and you don't need to see a doctor ever again.

So as you meditate all of those pains are going to disappear. And in one year, you are going to be able to sit like this (gets into lotus position) for three hours without moving and if you practise this will happen because it's very scientific. It's been used for 5000 years.

If you go to India and China, and 99% of the people there, if you ask them to sit, they'll be sitting like this (pointing to student in cross legged/kneeling)...or like this or like this... but the few people who are learning Meditation they'll be sitting in the lotus posture, for three hours without moving, and they will never get arthritis, because the start of arthritis is the locked in pain.

Does it make sense? No I am a professional, you can come and practise with any doctor and he will charge you 100 pounds an hour. If you want to talk to a lawyer for free and he will laugh at you.

Now what happens when you go to the weight training place, what happens when you go to the weight training place, what happens when you go weight training, you go to the weight training place and they say that you use our machines and your body will become very strong and it's true, if you go there everyday then you will become very strong and if you want to run the marathon of fifty kilometers and the people say if you run the marathon you'll be very strong and your body will become very powerful and what happens if you have never practised with weights before and you try to lift the biggest weight? Your body will break. And what happens if you are training for the marathon and you have never run before and you go out and run fifty kilometers for the first time? Yea? Meditation is the same as weight training.

Devi: Maria come and came to the class with me with an original blockage, she has a blockage in the knee, and in the class, I helped her to remove the blockage, and she doesn't have anymore pain in the knee.

Satchidanand: Yep. Well you say that in Spanish as well.. (Devi translates)

Satchidanand: Ok where did I get to, where did I get to, I was saying, the bottom level of the computer is the body, yea? And it's possible with training to strengthen the body, yea, this is the purpose with asana and also with breathing properly, it's possible to have more energy and this is the base of Meditation for five thousand years.

Patanjali gave the eight limbs of yoga, Yama, Niyama, they're like the 10 commandments, and the first commandment is ahimsa, ahimsa means don't give any pain to any person by word, by thought, or by deed.

And if you go against the will of God, you will have pain also. So don't give yourself pain, this is the main spiritual commandment. And if you just follow that one, you will be Enlightened. And then he says if you can sit for three hours without moving, having no pain in the body, you know most people move around if they have a pain. There are always moving. You see these people sitting and their legs are moving like that (motions shaking in the leg) because if you move you don't feel the pain but the pain exists as an energy blockage.

And as you sit you will start to feel your energy blockages, more and more because to heal them, you gotta be able to feel them. Yea? Most people don't know where the energy blockages are. And if they know where they are, they distract themselves from the symptoms.

And the Tibetan Masters say if you can enter into an energy blockage with spiritual energy the energy blockage will dissolve. So do not distract yourself but allow the spiritual energy to flow into the energy blockage and this will start to dissolve it.

Yea. By being still, we feel the energy blockages in the body. We dissolve them. We feel the energy blockages in the emotions, negative emotions and we dissolve them. We feel the negative energy blockages in the mind as negative desires, things that if we do them, we will be ashamed, we will be going against the will of God.

Most people have these thoughts and people with a conscience will not follow these desires, these are the first stage of control of desires by the intellect.

But with Meditation we can dissolve these desires. The strongest desires come out first in Meditation as we dissolve them so we can sit for longer. As we quieten the mind, which includes the body, the emotions, the mind, and the higher levels of the hierarchy so the blockages which are hiding appear in front of you. And this is why when you start to meditate you are so disturbed. And the process of releasing all of this madness is the process of Meditation.

The process of just sitting and allowing things to arise. The Chinese have a beautiful symbol of dirty water, yea you can't see through it, it's completely dark. They say if you put that in a glass beaker, and wait, all the heavy particles will go to the bottom first and then the medium particles will go to the bottom but the water will still be dirty, but after many days everything goes to the bottom and the water becomes absolutely pure and at the bottom you have the dirt.

The process is one of separating the bad from the good. Pain in the body, negative emotions, thoughts which will make you ashamed, and pure spiritual energy. Which will give you a direction in life, which will create pure goodness in your profession and on this planet because there are levels above the intellect.

And by allowing the mind to purify, you open it up to these higher levels of the hierarchy of your computer. You remove the blockages to this very high spiritual energy and as you follow that energy, then you become happy against all the problems you encounter because you are not ashamed because you are following your path. Yea, and everybody is an individual, everybody has their path, and if you like your mission on this planet in this lifetime, and as you follow your mission, which is not there in your intellect, it comes from higher...then whether you fail or whether you succeed, you never are 100% successful in whatever you do, but if you only get 50% you will be incredibly happy. And I am saying to you, Meditation is the tool which can help you to do this.

 
So the next thing I want to talk about, a concept which is called Negative Karmic Mass. As you know the lower levels of the computer are more dense. The body is more dense than the emotions. And the emotions are more dense then the mind. And the mind is more dense than the higher levels of the hierarchy.

Now the Negative Karmic Mass, is energy which is very dense and it is caused by trauma. When a person is hurt, when a person is hit, when a person sees something which is against the will of God, then this pain causes them to create within their system something which is called Negative Karmic Mass, it is an energy which can be dissolved by the higher levels of spiritual energy.

If we are talking about energy blockages, every energy blockage, is coated by by something which is called Negative Karmic Mass, it is the result of perversion. It is the result of anything which is against the will of God, it is caused by shame. Wherever you are ashamed, wherever you have done something against the will of God. Whenever something has been done to you which is against the will of God, then this Negative Karmic Mass is the result and it exists in energy blockages in your body and it exists in your aura as a darkness.

Now, also and you don't have to believe me, but I call it karmic. Yea, because if someone in your family does something very bad to you, then within you recorded at that time will be a blockage of Negative Karmic Mass which will cause you to take revenge on that person, on that person when you get the opportunity.

Negative Karmic Mass causes you to want to take revenge. As you dissolve your energy blockages, then you will want to take less revenge. And what causes the blockages to dissolve is a higher spiritual energy called love, and higher than that, is another energy which is called will, but we can just call it spiritual energy.

Now there are many people, there are many movies, there are many books and they are all about revenge. It is a normal condition of the psychopath but the Saints for thousands of years have said, "forgive them Lord, they know not what they do" and, "Forgive us our trespasses".

Yea, now what is the difference between a Saint and a normal person? The amount of Negative Karmic Mass. And what causes the Negative Karmic Mass to disappear? By removing the blockages which stop the love, the spiritual energy, coming into you and dissolving all of your blockages. The blockages stop the light coming in, they are the darkness. And when you have removed all of your blockages then the light streams in.

We can call this light love, will, but you can also call it pardon, forgiveness.

Yea, because human beings are like that, they don't know what they're doing. Every human being has blockages, some human beings have more blockages than others. Some people are worse than others. But no matter who you are, if you are on this planet then you have blockages.

And as you meditate, this energy of forgiveness comes in and dissolves all of your Negative Karmic Mass so you don't want to take so much revenge.

You know, you've got various political movements on this planet, I think Hitler liked fascism, Stalin liked totalitarianism, George Bush likes democracy and Mao Zedong, err, what does he like?

Yea.. but if the people running whichever system it is, if they have blockages, then whatever system it is, will run badly.

If you have Saints, running fascism, it will run perfectly. Any system will work well if it is run by good people, but the people with many energy blockages..., they can be very energetic but they have revenge, they have competitiveness, they want to be at the top.

Genghis Khan said, “it is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail”, that means that if he had any opposition, secretly he used to send secret agents in to make them fail.

Yea, whereas a Saint says everybody is perfect and everybody should be as perfect as me, and they try to help people to make people better and they say we can do this by removing the energy blockages, we can help you by removing the energy blockages in your body, to make you more healthy, we can remove the energy blockages in the emotions, to make you happy, to remove the revenge, to remove the competition, to remove the jealousy, to remove the fear, to remove the sadness, to remove the depression, to remove the anger, yea, all the negative emotions, are caused by energy blockages, which are caused by trauma, and the only solution to this problem is forgiveness.

To allow the energy of God, to act, on your energy blockages, and dissolve them, to forget everything, every bad thing, that ever happened to you, and this is the purpose of Meditation.

At the level of the intellect, all of those things that you want to do that you know will make you ashamed, these blockages also need to go, at the level of the mind you want to take revenge, you want to be competetive with that person, so you say bad things about them, at the level of the mind, with the sex, oh we should all have thousands of men at our beck and call, we should all have thousands of men to do what we want with them, and then same with the men, and they should be naked too...now...it is whatever makes you ashamed, and by removing the blockages, we can enjoy life and not be ashamed.

Because some things are good and some things are bad, and if you do things that cause pain to other people then you should be ashamed.

Heart Sutra, Introductory Talk fivetwo.1three mins

Satchidanand: Now through these very strange and weird psychic powers that I have I can feel that there is a lot of negative energy with all you people, we are all shedding all of our skins, and what do you do when there is lots and lots of negativity, you sing a song. Because with the magical power of music you can get rid of all of this nasty stuff, now what you have in front of you, is the heart sutra. It's a very beautiful chant, and we're going to chant this chant, which takes five minutes to chant your way through, three times (someone's watch or mobile beeps) – who's beeping at me, who dares to beep? Good grief, turn the beeping off.
 

Devi, who is the Argentine president of parliament here who invited us to his house and while we were travelling there in the car?

With all of the very strange and weird energies that Devi and I possess, the car caught fire, it went up in flames, and the poor Guy who was driving us there and we just about got there and we then we had to take it to the garage.

And now what has happened, the poor car has got a flat, while bringing his wife here to learn Meditation.

Yea, and when we got to the house, he gave us an absolutely wonderful meal, and we stayed an hour in the swimming pool in the sunshine, very nice, out in Funes, in the countryside, and we went into the bedroom to change clothes, and when we came away we found ourselves possessed by a very weird and strange dense negative energy, and it was so dense it took me two hours to dissolve it. We have met up with these energies many times, I'm sure you've all got them inside. But, in this case, the house had the negative energy in it, very strange we said to (inaudible) has anyone died in this house while you've been here and he said noo, nobody, and I said then it must have come from before then, and I said anybody who had this energy in the house would be extremely depressed and eventually might come down with some horrible disease it was so bad, terrible, and there it was it jumped into me, and then it jumped into Devi and then she gave it back to me, I always like receiving presents. And then I had to spend two hours dissolving the damn thing, err, icky.

Devi: but you forgot to mention (inaudible) he said the house (inaudible) my wife is losing all the time the brush

Satchidanand: the brushes she uses to paint with

Devi: The energy was the ghost of her little boy who died. We saw knife marks on her wrists while we were there.

Satchidanand: Strange and weird energies my boy. So there you go, you know sometimes, these blockages we have inside just do not want to go. And I'm sure that Honey will vouch for this but sometimes it is very difficult to get here.

Devi: Vouch, what is vouch?

Satchidanand: She will testify to the fact... I think we can get on with chanting the heart sutra and Initiation two and we can give her Initiation 1 another time...solved.

Honey: Just to tell our friends it was true to get here we went through a lot of challenges, to get here, but we got here. Well, you see Iberia Airlines say nothing to do with us, British Airways fault, British airways nobody's there, they said we don't know you speak to Iberia you know, so everybody doesn't know, but then I went to the longest que where there is people, and I said I want to get to Rosario now, I just want three tickets to get us to Rosario,because you know we have nobody to pick us up, so we have to say that, and then somebody because I have to do a big fuss, there it was acting, as Satchidananddanand says sometimes you have to act angry to say you know

Satchidanand: absolutely, yes

Honey: and even their two people recognised me, so it was the wrong time – rah! rah! rah! – Oh hello, yes...you're that dancer aren't you? But then they sorted it out.

Satchidanand: So British airways arranged the car in the exactly same way they arranged the flight, it just didn't happen

Honey: The point is here we just got here after challenges.

Satchidanand: This is a very good time for us all to learn the heart sutra, the sutra of the heart and it was a lecture that was given by the Buddha, thousands of years ago and it contains the essence of enlightenment. If you understand what the Buddha says in this sutra you will become enlightenened. Now on the back of this paper (holds up paper) you have a translation in english, of what it means, and what it means is this, Avoleskitesvara bodhissatva doing deep prajnaparamita clearly saw the mu of the five conditions, now everybody understands that don't they? It's all in english. It's alright, this is total nonsense, it means nothing. Yea, it's such a bad translation, can you understand it Honey? No. Can you understand it Dhiren? No. The translation that they have given was given by an unEnlightened person and all the texts are like this, total nonsense. And you go, oh holy heart sutra take me up to heaven, and you're going Avoleskitesvara bodhissvata – deeply saw – mu – five conditions – and what do you get out of that? Nothing. And as Father Bede Griffiths said to me, it's all in the explanation. So without more a do, I will tell you about Avoleskitesvara Bodhissatva. Now Avoleskitesvara is a buddha, he is a bodhissatva. Guillermo, he knows what bodhissatvas are, what is a bodhissatva, tell us what a bodhissatva is Guillermo...
Guillermo: errr

Satchidanand: (laughs)

Guillermo: (translated by Devi) he is the one who is doing the (inaudible) to save everybody, the world is waiting for the nirvana state for everybody to become Enlightened, and everybody is becoming Enlightened, he will go last.

Satchidanand: so it's all in the explanation (laughs). So it's all in the explanation, so a Bodhissatva is a person who has become Enlightened and instead of going up to heaven through the goodness of his heart he waits here to help every other person on this planet to achieve enligthenment. What a good chap. Bodhissatva who's heart is so big that he wants to help everybody who he comes across. There is a story about the Buddha and the Buddha became Enlightened under a Bodhi tree, Bo, it's a bodhissatva tree, no it's a bodhi tree, in the original (inaudible) it is Bo. And after five years of torturing himself, austerities, tapas, fasting, doing all the hatha yoga he came to the conclusion that this was all totally useless and he sat down beneath the bo tree and magically a beautiful young girl appeared and gave him something to drink and he sat there and he ate down all the beautiful food for the first time in five years and reminds me of my donkey. I was teaching my donkey how to remain without food and he was getting along really well and then all of a sudden he died. So there was this guy and he was living for a long time with no food, very much like the fact Meditation is a fast for the mind so there he is under this bo tree and he is totally relaxed after his food and that night he becomes Enlightened. And they say if you can remain without thoughts then one day your ego will die. One day the thoughts in your mind will die. Just like my donkey, this donkey gets everywhere by the way. I can tell you the story of donkey (inaudible) (laughs). No it's terrible...And the Buddha, thought to himself if I start expanding the truth, nobody will understand me, they will take it the wrong way and it will not do any good at all, anything I say will end up like this translation of the heart sutra, so what's the point of me staying here I might as well go to heaven because I can do no good here but all the Gods and Goddesses saw the buddha's dilemma. And they decided to come down and persuade him to stay. And they said you know there's 1 person in a thousand just on the point of enlightenment and If you say something to that person they will immediately become Enlightened, so that's when the buddha deciced to say, avoleskitesvara bodhissatva, well avoleskitesvara is a very special buddha, I have seen the beautiful tantric paintings of avoleskitesvara and it's a buddha of 1000 arms. And every one of them is there to help all the people in the world, it is the bodhissatva of compassion. Avoleskitesvara bodhissatva was doing deep prajnaparamita. Now, in (inaudible) prajna means the heart, that's why it's called the heart sutra, and he was doing prajnaparamita, paramita means the highest heart, “oh” you say, I thought there was only one heart, and it's here in the center of my chest, but the buddha mysteriously says, the highest heart, now what does he mean, well i'll get round to that, he was doing deep prajnaparamita well an ordinary explanation for this, he was meditating on prajnaparamita, deep, highest heart Meditation, clearly saw the mu, is this a cow? Mooo. Clearly saw the mu of all five conditions, what is this...it's different from the (inaudible) different from my donkey, we've got a moo cow there now. What is this moo? Well, hmm we'll get round to that later as well. It's complicated this you know, it's not easy, I can understand the difficulty this person had in translating. Thus redeeming misfortune and pain. Takes away, misfortune, bad luck. So whatever he was doing, it was really good. And he says oh Sariputra, what is this Sariputra, is it like a puter? No, it's Sariputra. Sariputra, was the closest disciple to the Buddha. So by stating Sariputra's name within this sutra he is saying this lecture only for the highest most evolved people. So you can all go. (laughs). Oh Sariputra form is no other than mu, we've got that cow back again, he's there, he's got back into the story again, he's even more horrible than my buro. Form is no other than mu. And mu is exactly form. So form means mu. Yea? Now you know Shakespeare said, this story is a story full of sound and fury signying nothing. Now this is a story without a heart, now this is the heart sutra, so there is a tremendous sigficance within this story. Now, I didn't know what this translation meant two0 years ago, when I read it for the first time and yet when I read it for the first time, and I got to this point, when form is no other than form, mu is no other than form I started to cry, I started to have little tears, tears coming down from my eyes as I was reading it and I didn't know what it meant, my intellect didn't know what it meant. But something inside said this is siginficant, it's important, it means something, so I had to find out what it meant. My intellect has to be satisfied even though my intuition said this is significant, this has heart, this is going to teach me something of real significance. So, there are chakras above the head, we have 7 chakras inside and we connect to the universe by means of the base chakra and the crown chakra and has connect to these higher levels of energy, we connect with our soul, we connect with our group soul, we connect with the highest energies of the universe. Now what is the higher heart. It's not here, this is the lowest heart. And further more here it says, feeling. thought, discrimination and perception are also like this, they are all mu. Discrimination, perception, they all come from the energy of mu. Form comes from the energy of mu. Oh Sariputra all such things are the form of mu, they come from mu, they are not born, mu is not born and it is not destroyed. It is not stained, mu is not pure and without loss and without gain, so all things are supplied by the energy of mu, but if form and feeling go, mu is not affected by it. Because all things come by mu. So in mu there is no form or feeling. There is no eye, no ear, nose, tongue, body, mind and yet all these things come from mu. And if they disapear mu is not affected. There is no colour, voice, smell, taste, touch or thing, there is no world of sight, there is no world of consciousness, there is no ignorance or end to ignorance, mu exists alone and is not affected by anything on this planet and yet all things on this planet are supplied by the energy of mu. And then comes the important fact, the bodhissatva lives by prajnaparamita. He lives in prajnaparamita. He doesn't live in this body, he doesn't live in his (inaudible), he doesn't live in his donkey, did you ever hear of Saint Francis of Assisi he said one day, my donkey is tired I think I need to get off, and the next day he died. He was saying that your body is a donkey, you are riding on your donkey, and the donkey wants to eat all the pizzas In the world, but who's holding the reigns who's in charge, the donkey likes to make love to all the pretty women, but who's in charge, who's in charge of the donkey. Well, I always like the feeling that Krishna is in charge of my donkey, he is the one holding the reigns, arjuna which is me is just sitting there watching. So the bodhissatva lives in the highest heart and with no hinderance in the mind, remember we were talking about the mind this morning, we were saying enlightenment is the ability to bring all the thoughts in the mind down to zero. So all the hinderances means all of the thoughts in the mind, yea? No thoughts in the mind. It's good that Budda is agreeing with patanjali, but he needs one more thing, because it's not just the thoughts in the mind, he is talking about energy blockages, in the mind, with no hinderances, there is no fear, and in acupuncture they say if you have a blockage on the water meridian you will have fear, so no blockages, no fear. Far beyond mistaken fantasy, at last there is nirvana. Have you ever heard of the zen Masters say, I know nothing. I know nothing. Well, here's the nothing. Nir means nothing. At last there is nirvana, I think there's a cow there as well, it's going moo. (laughs) (Davids speaks off screen)

Devi: He asks why does a Master say (inaudible) objective

Satchidanand: Well Zen Master Hogen, he say (laughs), there is no such thing as a choice, there is no such thing as an objective, but what we have is a choiceless choice, and this means, the mind is not deciding, everything is coming from intuition, everything is coming from the highest heart, everything is coming from nirvana, everything is coming from the cow in the sky, you know the cow jumped over the moon, flying cow, moo, all past present and future buddhas, live in prajnaparamita. They don't live here, they know they exist in the soul. And therefore get the highest and most perfect enlightenment. Once you understand that then you understand the essence of energy enhancement. Because now you understand it, now we're going to do it, because of all of you need to become Enlightened in this lifetime. And with the techniques of energy enhancement it's going to speed up this process, because what we need to do is access the highest heart, and the height of your connection is the height of your evolution so therefore no, that the prajnaparamita sutra, that comes from (inaudible) knowledge, is the great mantra. It's the greatest knowledge, the vidid knowledge, the best knowledge, the incomparable knowledge, it completely clears all pain, this is the truth, it is not a lie. Isn't that a wonderful line, this is the truth, it is not a lie. So, chant, tell people what it means, the great highest heart knowledge, set forth this knowledge and say lets go, lets go, go to the other shore, bodhissatva prajnaparamita sutra. They get really excited about it when they're chanting this sutra. They say lets go, lets go, go to the other shore. I was talking to you last night about the river styx you know the place you pass when you die, the river styx, Charon the boatman, you give him the coins out of your eyes and he takes you to the other shore, and the sufi all say, die before you die. (Devi translates)

Honey: So normally, we believe in our Indian thing as well, but I think what you do you take the coins out to give

Satchidanand: to the boatman

Honey: to the boatman

Satchidanand: to take you across the..So what is the other shore. Yea? What is the highest heart. Well, it is your soul, it is not your mind it is not the intellect, it is something higher than the intellect, and only when your mind can be still can you perceive the intelligence of the soul. This is what you need to do to become Enlightened, you need to become a soul infused human being. You don't have to stay in the mind, you don't have to be sabeteuged by the energy blockages. You need to cross to the other shore, to the other side of the rainbow bridge, you need to climb the antahkarana. You need to die before you die. This is what the sufi say, you need to practise, because this is the same passage that you'll take when you die, and this is the highest heart, you come from there when you are born, and you return there when you die. And we need to practise this, so it's not such a shock when the real thing happens. Good this Buddha eh? My mate, my mate, he's a good chap (points to Buddha head behind him) He knew what he was talking about. Remember, everything on this planet comes from God, moo, everything comes from God and God is not diminished if he takes it back. So keep this in mind, when you chant the heart sutra. But zen Master hogen says, it is zen pranayama, and it's a practise for getting into a state of Meditation, when you chant the heart sutra, you need to remember the rules, the three L's, low – from here (deep voice), you got to practise the lowest possible note you can get, and you need to need to make that note vibrate in your base chakra, from here, ouch, ouch, from here, because the antahkarana, the rainbow bridge, the passage between life and death, starts from kundalini energy in the base chakra and the more low you can go with your voice, the more you practise going low with your voice the more control you have over the higher notes, opera singers chant the heart sutra to improve their voice, it is very good practise for all singers, it clears negative energy and produces enlightenment. Everybody should chant it everyday. Twice, before breakfast and twice before you go to bed at night. It's a superb practise. Low, remember it's gotta vibrate deep down, you got it? Remember, it's not low, no it's not low. Did you know that every voice stretches between heaven and earth. Every note. There is not just one frequency in the note, each note is composed of every frequency. And remember that a note of many frequencies is a shiva lingham which is stretched out between heaven and earth. Within your voice there should be the lowest note and the highest note at the same time. This is a good voice, this is a voice with power. So although we're concentrating on the lower notes we're simply creating a foundation, where we can touch God with every syllabal of the heart sutra, low, loud and long. Remember when you breathe in, you need to breathe in fully, but you're aiming to do it in one syllabal and after that as many syllabal as you can, 10, two0, four0 on one out breath, and when you become Enlightened, you never stop breathing out. That's how you know that you're Enlightened, it's one of the tests of enlightenment. Okay? And what else Devi do I need to say, what have I forgotten, there's always something, ah yes, the other side is one breathe per line, (inaudible) go through the heart sutra three times. And when we go through it once, i'm going to (dings the bowl) and we start at the beginning again, and then on the final time, i'm going to hit it a few times through the chant (two dings) and at the end, one breathe per line. Remember the breathing. Breathe in fully, and as many syllabals as you can on the way out. And it's the heart sutra, so this is the mudra for the heart centre (prayer position) so we're using the heart sutra and the heart mudra to awaken the heart, and i'm gonna chant maka hannya haramita shingyo...and then we're all going to start...Kan-ji zai bo-satsu gyo jin han-nya ha-ra-mi-ta and then we're gonna breathe in, breathe when you want you don't have to breathe with me, it's your own breathing, ok, I've had people religiously copy my breathing patterns , it's terrible, you breathe when you need to mate, an Enlightened person never stops breathing out, ok ready.


The Initiation, Sitting Position fourtwo.two0mins

Satchidanand (whilst physically altering someone's posture): And could you take off your shawls, so sit up straight. Now, what I want to show here, is the neccessity for having a curved spine, so come forwards a little bit, come forward a little bit, a little bit, put your hands on the floor like that, yep come forwards. straighten the back. Now keep the spine in this position. And come up into position with your hands infront of you. Shoulders back. Like that, big chest big chest. See. Come forwards. Put your hands in your lap. Like that. And now keeping in this direction, come back up. Big chest. Shoulders back. Lift up. That's it. Okay. Very good.

Devi: She asks why this curve in the spine in the movement.

Satchidanand: I'll answer that later...Now...there is an energy in the center of the earth called kundalini energy. And it comes up like a snake from the center of the earth And this is why your spine comes in a curve from the base, goes back over the shoulders, goes forward over the neck, goes back over the back of the head, and goes forwards over the top of the head. Yea? This is the way in which the spine in naturally curved. Now you must be aware of trying to open the heart so bring your shoulders back, open the heart center. This is the heart centre. Lift up. Now this is what you're trying to do, is to stretch up from the base of the spine through the heart centre so you're trying to lift up that heart, stretch it upwards towards God. Lift up the chest. And also you're trying to stretch up from the spine, through the back of the head, so we're trying to stretch in both of those directions. We're trying to stretch up through the heart centre, from here, shoulders back, stretching up from this point. Very good. And we're trying to stretch up, through the back of the head. Now there is this energy which is flowing from the center of the earth and it's flowing through your heart centre and it's flowing through the back of the head. And I want you to sway twocm forwards and backwards..and I want to feel that that point where is the energy. Can you feel that? Try it for yourself. Find the point. Stop at the point. And notice how you're breathing strongly when you hit that point. It affects your breathing. As the kundalini comes up through the body it hits all the blockages. And the bad things in your body dont want you to feel the energy. And that's why you need to go back. There, you were too far forwards. Can you feel it? You need to be in the middle of that energy. And you need to start to breathe from your belly. This will control the energy. Lets try again. There are three points. One in the middle, one at the front and one at the back. You need to hit the middle one. There is the maximum energy. And you need to work on staying in that energy field. Let's do it with you. (to cameraman) Okay are you alright there? The main thing is to get the chest, the shoulders and my hands. So sway. You need more here (poking spine). You see more of a curve here. Lifting up the chest more, really stretching up, shoulders back. Lifting up. (physically swaying the lady). Can you feel that? Now slowly. Slowly. There's the back, there's the middle, there's the front. Lift here (chest). Okay sway and find for your self. There you go. More forwards. There. Try and find for yourself. Can you feel the breathing change? Breathe from here. Lifting here. Can you sway and find the point. Feel your breathing change on the point. That's exactly it. A little forwards. There. Breathe from the abdomen.

five0% of the Meditation is from consciousness of this energy which is flowing through the body. And your job is to get closer and closer to the centre of this energy. And this means millimeters, movements of millimeters to get closer to the center. It means stretching up more and more. Through the heart, through the back of the head. Stretchign up from the base of the spine and then swaying a little bit to get closer to the center. Nice. Okay. Breathe into the abdomen. Stretch up from the base of the spine, through the heart center. Through the back of the head. Stretching up getting closer and closer to the center of the energy. Breathing into the abdomen. Feel the change in the breathing getting closer to the center. And exploring the centre of this energy is what Meditation is all about. Because this energy is the energy of love. This energy is the energy of will and high purpose. For the benefit of all human beings. And anything which is getting in the way of this. Any blockage is going to come out infront of you now. As pain in the these. As pains anywhere in the body. As negative emotions. And as painful thoughts in the mind. Painful memories.

Due to a lack of blood, then you should stretch your legs out infront of you like this. (to cameraman) Focus on my legs. Very slowly and dont point them at anybody because all the bad angels come out through the feet, point them at the wall. Don't point them at computers. Because bad angels like to live in computers. They live in silicon, they live in the crystals dont they devi? (laughs) And you allow the blood to flow. Don't move your feet because you will create an oxygen debt. And when the blood is flowing for a little while, your legs have been given the energy of oxygen, then you can walk. And this is good advice because many times during our practise of Meditation your legs will become numb. Parts of the strengthening process of your legs Is to stretch out the legs, allow the blood to flow and then move the legs back again. It's part of strengthening the legs. The legs need to become strong. Focus on my hands. And my knees. So we've got the knees on the ground. We've got the feet in alignement. And then we place we hand and the other hand on top of it. And we put the twond knuckle against the twond knuckle in front of you with your thumbs against the belly. Chest up, shoulders back, elbows wide and just to get used to this. Push together, Feel the muscles in your chest. Lift up and then relax. Okay? Sway...Get into alignement. Sway your head. Get your neck in alignment with the energies of your spine. Remember...(spanish terms)....in alignement of the spine, in alignement with the neck, this is the position of the body, it's like a yoga posture, it's not natural but this posture will strengthen the body. This is the natural position of the body, it's very proud. Most people like to go around like that (hunched) so they dont get noticed, but in Meditation we are training our body into a very young posture. Because what happens when someone gets older (hunch posture). This is a very young posture. You need to have strong muscles. You need to have strong bones, in order to have this natural young position and as you stretch into this position everyday...then your body will become stronger. And it will become more easy and more easy to hold this positition for three hours without moving (laughs). Bien. But...as a beginner, you will need to practise and change your position and strengthen up your body into order to maintain this position. Meditation is like weight training. You go to a weight training gym and you get some weights and you (reps) this is the stretching up, it's a very strong pose. And you need to develop this strong and young body. And what is going to power this development of your body it's the energy in the center of the earth. It's going to energise you. This is the physical body. Your tongue is against the top of your pallett. In position you're looking naturally at a position one meter infront of you. Your eyes are closed. There is no focus in your vision. You are what the martial artists call ten directions vision. So you're not focussing on anythign, your vision is wide, it notices any movement but your eyes are closed..there is no focus.

Meditation – Intitiations – Alternative methods of sitting

Satchidanand: But kneeling, okay if you get up and kneel in this direction as well. (lady alters into kneeling posture). Bien, sitting up, stretching, shoulders back, stretching up through the heart center and through the back of the head, and there are two lines of energy, the sutrama is through the heart and the antahkarana is through the head. So sitting up again. Stretchin up. Stretching up. Close the eyes. Keeping into alignement with the back and the head. Move the head....
And then in the chair..(lady in chair)...go right on the front of the chair. Then stretch up. Sway. (inaudible). Yea you can always do your best. From the hips to the head. Close your eyes. Sway. Lift up your chest. Shoulders back. And what I'd like you to do devi is show them the knees are lower than the hips...and if you could go and touch them with your hands devi, touch them, show the people, see, and the shoulders are back and the chest is high. And then if you want to move back devi out of the way. And what I wanted to show was the swaying of the back. There is perfect. And then the head. Sway the head. Forwards and backwards. Fall back, fall back. Lift up the chin. There. There. More, sway, sway the head. Go back and forwards. Lift up the chin.Where's the center, go down, there. This is perfect. Of course in this position. You don't get the benefit of upsetting the base chakra to remove all of these blockages. It's a lot easier like this. (spanish terms). Gracious. Shall we have a break devi. Cup of tea. A nice cup of tea.

Meditation – Initiation – After Sitting Comes Breathing

Satchidanand: And after that, we're going to train the breathe. In yoga we learn about the three part yogic breath. Breathing into the abdomen, filling up into the center of the chest. Filling up...and then into the top chest. 100% of the big breath, so breathe that in. Have a big chest. In Meditation have a big chest. But then you don't move. In Meditation all you need to breathe into is the abdomen. So you breathine in the abdomen. And you squeeze the abdomen back into the spine. You squeeze your anus and that pumps the energy up the spine. So when you breathe out you squeeze all the muscles of the abdomen and tighten them up. You tense up your anus. And then you breathe in again. And you breathe out. And now i'm going to teach you the twond part of Meditation which is called breathing. Which works on the abdomen. Which is the place in which all the negative emotions reside. As I breathe in I lift my hands as I breathe out i'll be moving my hands down. You dont move your hands you keep them like this. But I want you to get into tune with my respiration. Okay so breathing in and breathing out. It's very good at this point if you can use (inaudible) pranayama. It's like this, take a deep breath in, and when you breath out (demonstrates the breathing in and then out with a HAAA motion)...and that's part, of pranayama, the psychic breath, the one that brings about psychic powers, the real (inaudible) pranayama,is where you close off the back of the throat, as we've been doing, but we breathe out through the nose, so we get a noise a very subtle gentle noise, which is very steady, of constant speed, not a rush at the beginning and nothing at the end it's going very slowly, so when I go like that (palms slowly coming down)...so breathing in (raises palms and slowly down exhaling, up for inhale, slowly down for exhale)...As the thoughts come into your mind..take your mind to the breathing..open on your eyes devi, focus on the translation...focus on the out breath and on the breathing...focus on the noise that you are making on the out breathe. This is a technique to take your mind away from the thoughts. If at this particular moment you dont have a lot of thoughts in the mind you dont need to focus on the breathing. Focus on stretching the body. Getting your spine in alignement. Neck in alignment. This energy as you get closer and closer to the centre is the energy of kundalini which can become samadhi which is an experience of energy, orgasmic energy which can get very strong. But as soon as the negative thoughts get into the mind again, focus on the breathing...if the thoughts become very strong. If they're really upsetting, then you can start to count the breath. Using the pranayama, you need to count the outbreath in your mind. Like this....one....keep that one going all the way out on the out breathe...(inaudible)...two...three...four...five....six...seven...eight...

No thoughts in the mind

Satchidanand: As the thoughts come, let them come dont' push them away. And as the thoughts go let them go...don't hold onto them. And try to retain an image in your mind of a mountain, be like a mountain with your roots deep into the center of the earth...and your head right up into the center of the universe...and as the clouds of the thoughts come into the space of the mountain the mountain is absolutely unmoved and as the clouds of thought are blowing past the face of the mountain, the mountain is completely unmoved. The mountain is absolutely unmoved.


Heart Sutra 1four.fivethree mins

Satchidanand: Okay...(Satchidanand and students do heart sutra – SEE HEART SUTRA TEXT FILE)

Extra Talk on The Secret twofive.four1 mins

Satchidanand: (chants ooo with students)...So last night we were watching the movie called The Secret, and because I put it on as part of the course I thought it would be really nice to comment upon it for your edification and delight and because it's nice to hear a point of view, a different point of view. Now we should always trust traditition, you know when we have the sacred books, you can trust what is written down in the sacred books. So when we're talking about the yoga sutras of patanjali, after all that...says the first sutra of the yoga sutras of patanjali, after all that here are complete instructions on enlightenment. Seems pretty good doesn't, and always in everything you get a current in life which is against the ancient tradititions. You can see this fight which is against the dark side and the light side, in Star Wars for example, and you have the emporer and he's trying to draw Luke Skywalker to the dark side and he says to Luke, feel your power, be angry, use your anger as a power...bad person...and Luke who has been trained by Zen Master yoda, he knows he's meant to be in the moment, he's meant to be pure, be perfect and he knows if he gives into his anger he's moving over onto the dark side. And you know, in the movie, The Secret last night, whatever you put your positive energy towards, you will attract towards you, they say your mind, it's very simply, it can deal with simple images, if you put this simple image, of a woman, of money, of a big house, of a swimming pool, of a rolls royce infront of your mind, and you put your positive energy towards it then you will attract this image toward you, and it is the truth it is not a lie. They say as well as vision and image you can use feeling to bring this image toward you, so for example if you want a car imagine you are sitting in the car, and you are playing with it and having a good time, and the mind is very simple images to focus upon in order to get what you want. But there is a hindu saying, lord have mercy on those who get what you want. In the Bible it says “seek thee first the kingdom of God, and all else will be added unto thee”. And in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali it says “after all that..”well after all that means...after you have tried to be happy after searching after money, after you after you have tried to be happy after searching for a rolls royce, after you have tried to be happy after searching for a man or a woman, after you have tried to be happy by getting a yacht, after you have tried to be happy by going on holiday to india, japan or china to see the great wall, after you have found out that none of these things will give you happiness, here are complete instructions on enlightenment. It's part of what is in the Bible, seek ye first the kingdom of God and all else will be added unto yee, because the strategy to get what you want works whatever you want and if you go searching after money then you'll have to deal with the mafia, and if you go searching after a man you will have to put up with the demon, and if you go searching afer holidays then you find everybody rips you off. You will never be happy going after these low level things, you will never be happy and the lord have mercy those who get what the ego wants, good eh? Because you will always get what you want...how it says seek ye first the kingdom of God and all else will be added unto yee...so if you need to have a rolls royce to do your job if you need to have money to do your job, if you need to have a beautiful wife or husband to do your job to help you then you will get the beautiful wife or husband. It comes naturally, without you having to ask for it. And yet in buddhism in hinduism is says only the ego wants. If you are wanting the kingdom of God is this not a sin, is this not a bad thing to want. Because logically this is correct. And yet the hindu scriptures say that yes it is a bad thing to want the kingdom of God but it is necessary in order to eventually get to that stage of everything just happening naturally and automatically so that you get what you need. It is not what you want, it is what you need to do your job. You know if you want to create a book you will need a computer to write it, it needs to come. It follows the function. So for example you have a cloth and it is dirty now this dirty cloth is you, you are a dirty cloth, you have been used and abused and the white cloth that was you when you were born has absorbed all the dirt of the world, you have got this dirty thing within you, you have got that dirty thing within you, and it is there and it needs to be washed and how do you wash this dirty cloth, well you get another piece of dirt, we can call it (inaudible) or soap and we can put it in the water and mix it in, and we put the cloth in the water, and all the dirt in the cloth well it goes off to play with it's friend in the water, the dirty soap. And when you take the cloth out of the water it is clean you have a clean cloth so you need a little bit of dirt in order to clean the cloth and that bit of dirt Is the want to be Enlightened. And when you are Enlightened you dont have that want...because you are Enlightened, it is the thing that is needed. And you must have this want in order to become Enlightened. So...what is a good image to use as a setup in your Energy Enhancement programme to gain the positivity that you need to wash the cloth further. And when you're sitting there you can have an image of enlightenment. And one of the images that the yoga techniquse give is the guided Meditation of OM. Which is the guided Meditation of enlightenment. And it says OM is composed of three syllabals, aahhh ooo and M.. Because OM is enlightenment. Once it has been activated once the guided Meditation has become normal, it functions automatically without you even thinking about it then you are Enlightened. It says aahh is the base chakra down into the center of the earth, oo is the heart centre, MM is the head chakras all the way up into the center of the universe and as you chant AUM...you create the antahkarana of connection through all the infinity of chakras to God and that is enlightenment and this is a good image to hold and it's a simple image for the mind to understand and so it said use OM as a yoga to get you to enlightenment.
And then they have karma yoga first we have the mantra yoga of OM, and then we have karma yoga and karma yuga is the yoga of work. And in the garden of eden, Adam and Eve were told to take the fruit of the tree of knowledge by the black serpent, and what did God say to adam and eve, dont take the fruit...dont take the fruit of your actions, this is karma yoga, work, know you are working in the right way and whatever happens dont take the fruit of your actions because if you're working toward enlightenment then five0% of the people will like it and they will say “oh you are a very good person” and the ego inside of you will be going “oh I am a very good person and I am sitting here I am doing the good work and five0% of the people are telling me that I am Enlightened and I am a perfect human being and so I must be and I am very happy”very egotistical. five0% of the people no matter what you do will say that is crap, that is a terrible thing, what are you doing doing these terrible things...and so you are sitting there saying oh so I must be a really bad person, I am sitting here and I am doing the things for the work for all the good things and they are telling me I am terrible I will go into my hole and die. (students laugh). And it says karma yoga, dont take the fruit of your actions. Please be certain that whatevery you do is a good thing, then whatever happens know you did it for a good reason. Don't listen to what other people say about you outside, know you are doing it for a good reason, you are a good person and whatever happens, happens. Dont take the fruit of your actions.
You know, what did Satan offer to Jesus Christ on the mountain? He said to Jesus Christ, follow me and I will give you the money. Follow me and I will give you the hundreds of beautiful women, follow me and I will give you the gold and the gold cups the jewels and he even said to jesus christ follow me and I will give you a rolls royce, he was ahead of his time this Satan wasn't he? He said follow me and I will give you the big house with a swimming pool worth four and a half million pounds that I put as an image on my wall, and what did Jesus Christ do, he said all these images that went pop pop pop infront of him, he said get thee behind me satan, seek thee first the kingdom of God, all of those things will be added unto thee, you will just get them as part of the process, because everybody needs these things, why shouldn't everyone have them, there is enough abundance for all of these things but get your mind right first. If you are searching for these things and think they are going to give you happiness think again. Enlightened sages have been proving for thousands of years that they can be happy doing anything, they are sitting there on the mountainside and they have no clothes and they are completely naked and they are sitting out in the thunderstorms with a big smile on their face going OM OM OM...and everybody is coming by saying Look at that guy, he doesn't have any gold, he doesnt have a rolls royce, he doesnt have beautiful women, he doesn't have all of those jewels, how can he be happy? And he's saying But I am Enlightened, I am connected with God. What more do I need. And you get these guys and they're just sitting there, going oh I am so happy, and what they're doing is they are providing an example of happiness to you saying you dont need anything else. Because you know you cannot take it with you. You cannot take the rolls royce with you. You can not take the beautiful women with you. You cannot take the gold, the frankincense and the myhhr with you. But one thing you can take with you is your evolution, nnd your enlightenment, your ability to live through the death process, without losing your consciousness to become an ascended Master. What are you wanting with all this money and things, they are only burdens..They are only problems...Responsibility. And once you are Enlightened and you are sitting you will say “oh I take on that responsibility for the benefit of humanity, I will take on all of this money because I need it to do my job. It is a great burden having to look after all this to pay the taxes, getting involed in society, it's terrible. You get a house the first you've got to do is to maintain it, if you get a swimming pool you've got to the liquids in here and the liquids in there, you need a pool boy then the pool boy rips you off and robs you, everything is a burden, and the enlighened are saying some of them, look at me, I dont have any burdens whatsoever, all you people with your money are in hell, I am happy, if I want the food people give it to me,if I want to be protected against the wind, I have my skin. I am happy. I am sitting here with the happiness. I am connected with God. I am pure, I dont need any of this stuff. I remember Sathya Sai Baba coming to me one day and he stood infront of me, and he said well what can I do for you, and I said well I want to come to the end of my Meditation I want to become Enlightened, and of all a sudden these images appeared infront of me, pop...a rolls royce, pop a million beautiful women, maybe there was a just a hundred there, but they were naked, pop a pile of God, pop a big house four and a half million dollars at least with a swimming pool, and as these things were going pop pop pop, and sai baba was looking at me I put my hands up and I went (moves images down) “oh “ said satha sai baba, I can see what I can do (laughs) and he turned round and walked back (sighs) such is life. It is such a bother having to set up all these microphones, they are such a burden, it's such a bother having to set up all these videos and this and that and the others, such a burden I have computers here and people there and it's all such a burden and the only thing that makes it bearable is enlightenment. The connection with God, working for non egotistical purposes. Because it is in alignment with the will of God...and it is what makes you happy, nothing else. OM an image. And what other images do they give you well you can try the other mantras, coca cola coca cola coca cola and then somebody comes to you with a great big drink full of bubbles and all sorts of shit. So if you have a mantra that is given to you by a guru then you need to have something that Is spiritual with an image of God within it, coca cola will not do, you will need to have something like buddha, and the essence of mantra is that it is in tune with the breath, just like all good hatha yoga, you have to tune with the breath, because hatha yoga is not only asana it is also pranyama so if you bend forwards you breath out, if you bend backwards you breathe in, and you are always conscious of your breathing while you are doing the asanas. And in your asanas you are sitting on your bottom and this is why it's called an arse-ana. So if you have a mantra, it's the same thing, you have a mantra called pra, on the in breath, ma on the outbreath. You usually have..or hari-om tat sat..hari om as you breathe in and tat set as you breathe out...this opens the heart. There are many mantras, they need to have a spiritual meaning behind them, not coca cola, coca cola is no good. You can try money if you want...mon ney...but then you will be in hell..you will get all the bubbles and the crap and all that...breathe in ...gold....beautiful women...(laughs) you will be in hell..no...you need to have something like krish...naaa...braahmm mmaaa....shiv...vvaaa....you need to be involved in the connection between heaven and the earth, you need to be in alignment with the energy of God, anything that brings you into that alignment is good, (inaudible) yoga- knowledge of God, hatha yoga – knowledge of the internal energies of the body – ha - the sun – tha - the moon...eda the moon, pingala the sun, sunshuna the balance between the two that is brought by alternate nostril breathing, (inaudible) low level stuff but very necessary for the balance of the emotions of the body, all of the yogas, giving images,simple images to meditate upon that will bring you to enlightenment, the image of the buddha, a young chap sitting in the lotus posture in gold, well the image is that of enlightenment, the image of jesus christ with his big heart of love, the image of krishna giving you honey and butter, playing his little games and strategies, having fun consciously. You need to use a simple image, and choose it and use it for a time and by the law of attaction that will come to you, and you need to do it with great positivity, that is the secret. Everything else is the dark side of the force. After all that here are complete instructions on enligthenment. Got it? Good.