VBT – Mediation 3.5
Energy-Filled Centre
Shiva says you are every moment, touching the centre, or if you are not touching you CAN touch it. Take deep, slow breaths. Touch the centre; do not breathe from the chest – that is a trick.
Civilization, education, morality, they have created shallow breathing. It will be good to go deep into the centre, because otherwise you cannot take deep breaths.
Unless humanity becomes non-suppressive toward sex, man cannot breathe really. If the breath goes deep down to the abdomen, it gives energy to the sex centre. It touches the sex center; it massages the sex centre from within. The sex centre becomes more active, more alive. Civilization is afraid of sex. We do not allow our children to touch their sex centres, their sex organs. We say, “Stop! Don’t touch it!”
Look at a child when he first touches his sex centre, and then say “Stop!” and then observe his breathing. When you say “Stop! Don’t touch your sex centre!” the breath will become shallow immediately – because it is not only his hand which is touching the sex center, deep down the breath is touching it. And if the breath goes on touching it, it is difficult to stop the hand. If the hand stops, then basically it is necessary, required, that the breath should not touch, should not go deep.
It must remain shallow.
We are afraid of sex. The lower part of the body is not only lower physically, it has become lower as a value. It is condemned as “lower.” So do not go deep, just remain shallow. It is unfortunate that we can only breathe downwards. If some preachers were allowed, they would change the whole mechanism. They would only allow you to breathe upward into the head. Then you would absolutely not feel sex.
If we are to create a sexless humanity, then we will have to change the breathing system. The breath must go into the head, to the SAHASRARA – the seventh centre in the head – then come back to the mouth. This should be the passage: from the mouth to the sahasrara. It must not go deep down because down is dangerous. The deeper you go, the nearer you reach to the deeper layers of biology. You reach to the centre, and that centre is just near the sex centre – just near. It has to be, because sex is life.
Look at it in this way: breath is life from above downwards; sex is life from just the other corner – from down upwards. Sex energy is flowing and breath energy is flowing. The breath passage is in the upper body and the sex passage is in the lower body. When they meet they create life; when they meet they create biology, bio-energy. So if you are afraid of sex, create a distance between the two, do not allow them to meet. So really, a civilised man is a castrated man; that is why we do not know about breath, and this sutra will be difficult to understand.
Shiva says, WHENEVER IN-BREATH AND OUT-BREATH FUSE, AT THIS INSTANT TOUCH THE ENERGY-LESS, ENERGY-FILLED CENTRE. He uses very contradictory terms: “energy-less, energy-filled.” It is energy-less because your bodies, your minds, cannot give any energy to it. Your body energy is not there, your mind energy is not there, so it is energy-less as far as you know your identity. But it is energy-filled because it has the cosmic source of energy, not because of your body energy.
Your body energy is just fuel energy. It is nothing but petrol. You eat something, you drink something – it creates energy. It is just giving fuel to the body. Stop eating and drinking and your body will fall dead. Not just now, it will take three months at least, because you have reservoirs of petrol.
You have accumulated much energy; it can run for at least three months without going to any petrol station. It can run; it has a reservoir. For an emergency, any emergency, you may need it.
This is “fuel” energy. The centre is not getting any fuel energy. That is why Shiva says it is energy- less. It is not dependent on your eating and drinking. It is connected with the cosmic source; it is cosmic energy. That is why he says ENERGY- LESS, ENERGY-FILLED CENTRE. The moment you can feel the centre from where breath goes out or comes in, the very point where the breaths fuse – that centre – if you become aware of it, then enlightenment.
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