Among the 109 different centres, 7 centres are very important

First is base of the spine

The sacrum, that is where the energy starts in your body

If you talk to an Oesteopath,a chiropractor, they will all say, sacrum very important

The craniosacral fluid, it says cranium is your brain and then the brain fluids flows all along the spine

and to the sacrum

So sacrum is the first point and then

the second centre is behind the genital

The third centre is in the naval region, near the solar plexes

If you do meditation, you solar plexes becomes better, bigger

This is also called the mid brain

Half of the work of the brain, this does. What? The solar plexes does

So for yogis, solar plexes is bigger, others it is smaller

If you meditate this is expanding

When this expands, there is stability, there is joy, there is confidence, there is comfort, all those thing come

And then fourth is,just heart chakra

Here from mooladhara, from the base of the spine twelve inches comes navel

This is more important

Of course sex centre is also important

But it is important only in the middle age

From teen age to middle age only, afterwards it loses its significance

children sex centre is not so important and also not in the aged person

But navel centre is important throughout, from the birth to death, right?

From there 12 inches here heart, from there 12 inches throat, from here 12 inches in between the eyebrow, from here 12 inches

So these are 7 points

Now, Shiva says, attention, taking your attention, from one to another chakra, you will start feeling the energy shooting from one to another

In this movement of energy, you experience inner space

And you experience the bliss of the inner space

When we take our attention to any one point, one chakra, first you don't see anything

you don't feel anything, you just feel the blankness

As you continue in the blankness, you will start feeling sensations

Some vibrations, sensations

So three stages here

First is just blankness, Second is some vibrations, sensations

And the third stage is light or energy, full manifestation

That is little advanced stage

Right now just take your attention there and do nothing, just relax

Some thoughts may come, some experiences may come, whatever come, you just let them come

Shiva says you have 109 chakras in you

108 in the body, one above the body

Our subtle body ends at the 12th inch

Our body is like a wick of the candle and the glow is all around

See 20 years back or 15-25 years back, if you had spoken about biometrics, people would say it is a non-sense

Today you know about biometrics, right?

Only your thump can open your ipad, only your touch can open your cell phone, right?

That means each one of you have unique energy, unique stream of energy

And our mind is nothing but energy ,our mind is all around us

When the mind shrinks, that is when we feel sad, depressed, unhappy

What is the sensation that is associated with happiness?

When you see someone very close to you, what happens to you?

Something expands, right?

And you are blamed, you are insulted, what happens to you?

Something in you shrinks

What is that something in you that shrinks, that expands?

That is your consciousness. That is worth knowing

You know why people commit suicide?

Because the subtle body, the mind is shrinking

They do not know how to expand it

And you put tablets, all these anti-depressant, body swells but mind keeps shrinking

Appear to help for some time but then…..

Suppose your jacket is too tight, what do you want to do?

You just want to take it out. Get out of that jacket. Right?

This is exactly what happens in depression and suicidal tendency, the mind is shrinking and you just don’t want to have this body

You want to get out of the body. The body is too tight

But through pranayama, breathing, Sudarshan Kriya, meditation what happens

Mind expands

When the mind expands, when it reaches the 12th inch you feel normal

If it is bigger than that, you feel happier

And it goes even bigger, you are blissful

So, all these strengthens our bio-energy

Every night when you sleep, what is happening, your subtle body is expanding

It is in touch with your causal body which is even bigger

So when you come out from there, you feel very energetic, because your mind has found its expansion

So if you are highly stressed, your mind does not know how to relax, even how to sleep, to get into the higher self

So in ancient days people knew this

That is why the 12th inch is very important

to the kings who put a crown there

All the priests they put this. Why? 12th inch

All gods, goddesses, they have this also

So the 12 inch above our head is called the dwadashanta

The 12th inch, end of the 12th inch

And most of the chakra is at the gap of 12 inches

There is 12 inches from the throat to in between eyebrows

from there to top of head it is again 12 inches

From here to chest it is 12 inches

From here to navel is 12 inches

So if someone is sleeping, you don’t have to shake them to wake them up

Below 12 inches, you do something like this, they will wake up

Wind, string or percussion, any of these instruments, when you pay attention to it fully, at the end of it, the mind dissolves

But we don’t know how to listen to music, I tell you

When somebody is playing the music, we keep talking

We are not listening to music like, in a meditative space

We are not listening to music to create a space within

We are listening to music to occupy our mind

And music without words would be even better

Words keep your brain engaged, Your left brain engaged, activated

But string instrument or flute instrument , very meditative

Even piano do for that matter

Listen to it for few minutes and then shut it down

This is also a technique that says you through the music and then you create the inner space and just enjoy the space within

It should not be too many instrument, too many things at one time, then it keeps us active. It keeps the brain active

It has to be one small thing

Even different sound has different impact on different parts of the body

You know why some people like some hard rock

It activates the first chakra, the base chakra

Hard rocks, big drums

So if you are dull, it does not allow you to be dull. It just pushes you up

Then you come to the navel centre then it is the string instrument

Guitar, something much lighter

String instruments have an impact on the naval chakra

And then you go further up in the heart, it is the flute instrument, subtler

You go higher up, you get even more subtler and subtler and subtler instruments

And in the head, bell. Little jingle bell

You know when a child wants to go to bed, you put a rock music a child cannot sleep

In the temple in India, you will see how these instruments are organized

There used to be 7 gates in the temple

Outermost they will have this beat drums

And then as you go inside,inside there is a gong

And then you go deep inside, there is the bell and the counch

And if you enjoy silence, even small noise looks heavy for us

So but to enjoy silence, these are all the ways

First the base ones just wakes you up

And then big horns and big instruments, then you go further further, the string instruments, flute and then finally bells

So for someone who is meditating, who is very sensitive, the rock, big sound is very jarring

But people who are restless and depressed, they find little happy, joyful because it just pushes them out of it

It has a purpose. So more refined you are, you like piano music

Piano is almost like the bell or the counch and the subtle ones, subtle ones, subtle ones

And move from the sound, to the inner space of infinity , meditation happens to you