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Prana: Sadhguru Maps a Person's Energy System - Ep. 2 (of 5 on Prana)
19 minutes - 1998
Transcript
If you read the basic map of one's prana, you know their past, present and future. Everything about that person because in a way, your life is just a manifestation of your energies, how they function. So with the yogic system, what you're trying to do is to change how it functions from an unconscious repetition of things, or it is right now being heavily manipulated by the memory bank that one has or the karmic structure that one has - accordingly the energy...energy is moving according to the...[pause]
See in your intelligence today, as you understand intelligence, without memory your intelligence would be nothing, isn't it? Yes? See, you walk into this village, let's say one 8 year old smart kid from city comes, from a good family, in a good school and he comes here, a 8 year old kid in this tribal village will gape at him, not because he's any less intelligent, simply because he doesn't have the memory that that (other) boy has, and suddenly he looks like a fool because his intelligence is crippled without necessary memory.
So that is one level. Socially it is true, your memory seems to make you look better than others, but existentially it is your memory which is crippling you. This is why somebody said, "Those who stand first here will be last there. Those who stand last here will stand first there" because what seems to be smart on the social level is working against an individual human being, which he never understands.
So your social smartness, your success in the world, you handle it with a certain distance. It is needed for us to live, but we don't have to make that our qualification. Today how famous I am, how much money we have, what are we - this should not determine who I am. These things are there, these things will allow us to work better in the world, and that's all - that should not determine. But unfortunately for most human beings, that's all. That determines who they are within themselves. Who you are in the world is determined by these things, that's okay, that is the way of the world. But who you are within yourself should not be determined by this, because this is what is called as karma. The memory that you have restrains and directs your energy in the way it functions.
So right now I don't want to go into an individual's life, but I thought if I show you a comparison....
[Sadhguru looks to a huge projector screen hooked up to his Tablet that shows an outline that maps of a basic, major energy flows. The map is as follows: At the bottom is an enormous Infinity Loop connected to 2 upward lines at the Loop's center and the lines - are topped off by a big X. Between the 2 upward lines are X's at certain intervals.]
Sadhguru asks for a volunteer from the audience. An athletic looking young woman in yoga pants gets up and comes forward and he asks her to hold her hands outward like DaVinci's famous drawing. Sadhguru, with his hands about an inch away - hovers his hand down then up along her spine and then makes a few additional sketches on his tablet drawing and assigns some number tags to some of the X's along the upward column. The woman bows to him then sits back down and Sadhguru does praying hands and inclines slightly to her in turn.]
Sadhguru continues:
One reason is out of sheer ignorance, another reason why people have usually been talking only of 7 chakras, not 114 is, one reason is because the popular books could not think beyond 7; (Sadhguru shakes his head no) leave that part. But another reason why they only spoke about seven, not the others is...
If you look at the southern mysticism, the Siddhas of the south (southern India) will only talk about 5, they won't talk about 7. When they're teaching people anything, they talk only about 5, because Mooladhara is the source. The source is infinite, that's why the symbolism. (He's referring to his Tablet drawing demonstration showing the human energy body base symbolized with the figure 8 Infinity Loop.)
When you sit naturally, it's - the easiest way to depict you is like this (makes Infinity Loop figure 8 with his hands). If you wear these new yoga clothes, you very much look like that you know (audience laughs and Sadhguru grins). Because this is the source. The Mooladhara does not only mean a foundation for this life, it is connection with the source. So that which is connected with the source is infinite. And the uppermost one is this (he refers to the huge X in his demo drawing that tops the 2 primary energy lines), because if the road is closed, this is the symbol, isn't it (makes X in the air with his hands)? Because it's not yet ready, it's not there. The Sahasrar (Crown Chakra) doesn't exist for most people; it is yet to manifest.
It was manifest to some extent when you were just born. When you were just born, there was a soft spot on top of your head. You know, you've handled little infants (Sadhguru points to the top of his own head). You will see there is not bone formation here, just the skin. Actually it'll be palpitating if you watch a little baby, tup, tup, tup, tup it'll be going like this, because this (Sahasrar) is open. But now it is closed because keeping that open and trying to live will be dangerous.
All the things that physical activity that one does and keeping the Sahasrar open will be dangerous. So once it opens up again, not physically but energy-wise when it opens up, you will see sages either dreadlock their hair or tie it up or use something else to hold it because life becomes a little fragile.
It becomes immensely capable but physical life becomes fragile. To hold the physicality with you, to hold the physical body with you when the top end is open, it needs a certain skill and a certain amount of support, otherwise one will leave. So usually with 90% or more the moment of enlightenment and moment of leaving the body is same, because once it opens up, they don't have the necessary skill to hold it, and that is where Hatha Yoga becomes all important. If one has not established his body in a proper way, what is a great blessing (ascension) also ends his life. The greatest blessing will become the end of who you are. Nothing wrong with it, it is just that if you stay around you could be useful.
As far as that life is concerned, if it leaves there's really no problem, it's wonderful to leave. But if it reaches that point and stays, it could be very useful for every other life (here).
[Sadhguru looks again at the projection of his drawing of the volunteer's energy system.]
Now, among these 7, we are only looking at the 6 here, because 7 is absent, 7 is not there yet. 7 needs to be worked at. If these 6 are sufficiently enhanced, then it'll touch the 7th. You should not touch the Sahasrar simply, because if such a thing happens you will not be able to be stable in your body. So establishing and stabilizing the physical body is very important.
Simply people are talking about 7 chakras - the 7th one is not for people who want to live. If you go there you cross the borders of physicality. So if you want to cross the border and still be here, you must have diplomatic immunity. (Audience laughs and Sadhguru grins) Yes?
Otherwise they won't send you back. If you want to go there and again come back, you need a certain immunity, otherwise you will leave.
So Hatha Yoga is largely concerned with the 5 in the center. The Mooladhara we are only trying to close it. Close it means we are trying to stabilize and close it, we are not trying to enhance it. We are trying to enhance only the 5 because it's these 5 which sustain life. Right now in the making of this building, the foundation need not do anything; it has to just stay there, that's all. So Mooladhara has to just stay there, it need not do anything. If it connects you with outside life, then your life will become very topsy-turvy.
People who go into occult practices, they want their Mooladhara to be open and they want to connect with life so that the base powers will become very strong in them. This is a sure way of ensuring no spiritual process will ever happen to you. Once you open up your Mooladhara and connect to life from the downward trend of the body, then you cannot connect with the upper moving forces of your life-structure.
So we just want to seal the foundation and we don't want to hit the top, we want to just stabilize the 5 in such a way when some day we hit the top, our body is so stable it can hold it (open Sahasrar) and experience it, not fuse out.
So Hatha Yoga is essentially concerned with these 5 chakras. These 5 chakras are associated with the 108 of the remaining chakras. These 5 handle all of the 108. So it is these 108 that we can work with. It is only these 108 that we can enhance and transform. The base one, there is nothing to do; we just have to hold it stable. And the top one, it's not yet time to touch. Till we have sufficient mastery over this, we should not touch that.
[Sadhguru looks at his Tablet drawing of the volunteer again]
Now, if we look at this, let's forget whose image this is, ok, this is like an energy x-ray for immediate purposes. We can make a much elaborate one, but that would take much more involvement. This is for immediate.
Somebody comes and sits in front of me, now they will say, "Sadhguru, I want to become a brahmachari!" (Sadhguru pretends to be intense, demanding ascetic-disciple-wanna-be and audience laughs).
I say, "Close your eyes and sit" and they sit, then I say, "Let's get you married in 6 months." (Sadhguru acts again like boisterous, demanding ascetic-disciple-wanna-be)."No Sadhguru! I want to be brahmachari!" (Audience laughs)
I say, "It's alright, you get married, after that we will see when your wife doesn't want you. (Audience bursts out with loud laughter and Sadhguru laughs) You can become a brahmachari."
"She will make a brahmachari out of you, not me." (Audience laughs again).
Because your energies are in a certain way, either you must do phenomenal sadhana to correct that or you better go that way. So if there is phenomenal will in a person, Or there is devotion - sense of surrender, then whichever way you are it can be fixed.
But you don't see that will, that commitment, that devotion and that sense of surrender, it's better go by the patterns of your life. It's like - if you want to fly, you know if the winds are...today winds are nice and quiet, but 3 days ago you saw the winds were blowing at 35-40 knots, now you don't try to fly, you don't try to take off in that wind if you have a weak machine. But you have a very powerful machine. You have a very powerful machine, you don't care what's the wind, you anyway take off. But if you don't have a very powerful machine, you don't try to take off in that kind of weather. In that kind of weather you better go with the wind, that's safer for you. But you are very powerful, then it doesn't matter wind is like this, but you go like this (ie.takeoff).
So similarly, if a person is of extraordinary will or he's willing to give up his will, he's becoming willing means he has no will of his own. If he has an extraordinary will we can take him where he wants to go. Or he has no will, then we can easily take him where he wants to go. He's half, then the trends are important, then we have to observe the trend where he should go and where he should not go. He should not attempt something that he cannot do and break himself up.
[Sadhguru again looks at his Tablet drawing of the volunteer]
So this aspect of...(pauses for a moment)
If you look at these simple numbers that I've put there, [Sadhguru assigned different numbers to different x's between the lines representing Ida and Pingala] they're not really numbers like that, it is, I've just arrived at my own numbers. They are numbers only for guidance; they're not numbers as numbers. It is not that if I say 8, there are 8 megawatts or something, (audience laughs) it's not like that. If you want to judge something 1 to 10, 0 to 10, ok this is 1, this is 2, this is 10, you know, in that context it is numbers. It is not numbers per se, it is only a guideline of numbers.
So now if you look at this map, what you see is Mooladhara is slightly imbalanced, needs a little more work. Swadhistana, not very strong but ok. Manipurika is good. Anahata, confused. You know what these are? You know which is which? Anahata is confused and a little bit of like that (makes wavy motion with hand). Visuddhi, nothing much has happened; as you were born, it is. Agna, ok, stable, nothing phenomenal, but there is potential.
When I say there is potential, that means it is not that others do not have potential, that means there aren't too many obstacles. With a little work, it'll happen. When we say there is not potential, it does not mean it is not possible. It is still possible but it'll take much more work to do it.
[Looks again back at the Tablet drawing of the volunteer's energy patterns]
I think because of a certain continuous emotional pattern, the system has become slightly skewed, which must be corrected. Hatha Yoga is the right thing to do. If you do proper hatha yoga, this slightly skewed positions that your energy system has taken will naturally get corrected. We can do something drastic and fix it, but sadhana is the best way of fixing it because it happens slowly.
See, you've gotten used to walking like this, (Sadhguru leans sideways) - suddenly tomorrow morning I fixed you up like this (sits straight), you will start thinking something is wrong with you. Yes, people even ask you, supposed you stopped drinking and you went among your drinking friends, they say, "What's wrong with you? What happened to you?" Yes? You were smoking all your life, one day you suddenly gave (it) up, you went with your smoking friends and they say, "What happened? What's wrong? What's the matter with you?" So even if correction happens too dramatically or suddenly, people will get disturbed by that. So it is best that the correction happens slowly, unless they're in a state of surrender.
If they're in a state of surrender, you can just correct them quickly, but otherwise if people have their own thought process attached to everything that happens to them, it is better correction happens in degrees.
Prana: Sadhguru Maps a Person's Energy System - Ep. 2 (of 5 on Prana)
19 minutes - 1998
Transcript
If you read the basic map of one's prana, you know their past, present and future. Everything about that person because in a way, your life is just a manifestation of your energies, how they function. So with the yogic system, what you're trying to do is to change how it functions from an unconscious repetition of things, or it is right now being heavily manipulated by the memory bank that one has or the karmic structure that one has - accordingly the energy...energy is moving according to the...[pause]
See in your intelligence today, as you understand intelligence, without memory your intelligence would be nothing, isn't it? Yes? See, you walk into this village, let's say one 8 year old smart kid from city comes, from a good family, in a good school and he comes here, a 8 year old kid in this tribal village will gape at him, not because he's any less intelligent, simply because he doesn't have the memory that that (other) boy has, and suddenly he looks like a fool because his intelligence is crippled without necessary memory.
So that is one level. Socially it is true, your memory seems to make you look better than others, but existentially it is your memory which is crippling you. This is why somebody said, "Those who stand first here will be last there. Those who stand last here will stand first there" because what seems to be smart on the social level is working against an individual human being, which he never understands.
So your social smartness, your success in the world, you handle it with a certain distance. It is needed for us to live, but we don't have to make that our qualification. Today how famous I am, how much money we have, what are we - this should not determine who I am. These things are there, these things will allow us to work better in the world, and that's all - that should not determine. But unfortunately for most human beings, that's all. That determines who they are within themselves. Who you are in the world is determined by these things, that's okay, that is the way of the world. But who you are within yourself should not be determined by this, because this is what is called as karma. The memory that you have restrains and directs your energy in the way it functions.
So right now I don't want to go into an individual's life, but I thought if I show you a comparison....
[Sadhguru looks to a huge projector screen hooked up to his Tablet that shows an outline that maps of a basic, major energy flows. The map is as follows: At the bottom is an enormous Infinity Loop connected to 2 upward lines at the Loop's center and the lines - are topped off by a big X. Between the 2 upward lines are X's at certain intervals.]
Sadhguru asks for a volunteer from the audience. An athletic looking young woman in yoga pants gets up and comes forward and he asks her to hold her hands outward like DaVinci's famous drawing. Sadhguru, with his hands about an inch away - hovers his hand down then up along her spine and then makes a few additional sketches on his tablet drawing and assigns some number tags to some of the X's along the upward column. The woman bows to him then sits back down and Sadhguru does praying hands and inclines slightly to her in turn.]
Sadhguru continues:
One reason is out of sheer ignorance, another reason why people have usually been talking only of 7 chakras, not 114 is, one reason is because the popular books could not think beyond 7; (Sadhguru shakes his head no) leave that part. But another reason why they only spoke about seven, not the others is...
If you look at the southern mysticism, the Siddhas of the south (southern India) will only talk about 5, they won't talk about 7. When they're teaching people anything, they talk only about 5, because Mooladhara is the source. The source is infinite, that's why the symbolism. (He's referring to his Tablet drawing demonstration showing the human energy body base symbolized with the figure 8 Infinity Loop.)
When you sit naturally, it's - the easiest way to depict you is like this (makes Infinity Loop figure 8 with his hands). If you wear these new yoga clothes, you very much look like that you know (audience laughs and Sadhguru grins). Because this is the source. The Mooladhara does not only mean a foundation for this life, it is connection with the source. So that which is connected with the source is infinite. And the uppermost one is this (he refers to the huge X in his demo drawing that tops the 2 primary energy lines), because if the road is closed, this is the symbol, isn't it (makes X in the air with his hands)? Because it's not yet ready, it's not there. The Sahasrar (Crown Chakra) doesn't exist for most people; it is yet to manifest.
It was manifest to some extent when you were just born. When you were just born, there was a soft spot on top of your head. You know, you've handled little infants (Sadhguru points to the top of his own head). You will see there is not bone formation here, just the skin. Actually it'll be palpitating if you watch a little baby, tup, tup, tup, tup it'll be going like this, because this (Sahasrar) is open. But now it is closed because keeping that open and trying to live will be dangerous.
All the things that physical activity that one does and keeping the Sahasrar open will be dangerous. So once it opens up again, not physically but energy-wise when it opens up, you will see sages either dreadlock their hair or tie it up or use something else to hold it because life becomes a little fragile.
It becomes immensely capable but physical life becomes fragile. To hold the physicality with you, to hold the physical body with you when the top end is open, it needs a certain skill and a certain amount of support, otherwise one will leave. So usually with 90% or more the moment of enlightenment and moment of leaving the body is same, because once it opens up, they don't have the necessary skill to hold it, and that is where Hatha Yoga becomes all important. If one has not established his body in a proper way, what is a great blessing (ascension) also ends his life. The greatest blessing will become the end of who you are. Nothing wrong with it, it is just that if you stay around you could be useful.
As far as that life is concerned, if it leaves there's really no problem, it's wonderful to leave. But if it reaches that point and stays, it could be very useful for every other life (here).
[Sadhguru looks again at the projection of his drawing of the volunteer's energy system.]
Now, among these 7, we are only looking at the 6 here, because 7 is absent, 7 is not there yet. 7 needs to be worked at. If these 6 are sufficiently enhanced, then it'll touch the 7th. You should not touch the Sahasrar simply, because if such a thing happens you will not be able to be stable in your body. So establishing and stabilizing the physical body is very important.
Simply people are talking about 7 chakras - the 7th one is not for people who want to live. If you go there you cross the borders of physicality. So if you want to cross the border and still be here, you must have diplomatic immunity. (Audience laughs and Sadhguru grins) Yes?
Otherwise they won't send you back. If you want to go there and again come back, you need a certain immunity, otherwise you will leave.
So Hatha Yoga is largely concerned with the 5 in the center. The Mooladhara we are only trying to close it. Close it means we are trying to stabilize and close it, we are not trying to enhance it. We are trying to enhance only the 5 because it's these 5 which sustain life. Right now in the making of this building, the foundation need not do anything; it has to just stay there, that's all. So Mooladhara has to just stay there, it need not do anything. If it connects you with outside life, then your life will become very topsy-turvy.
People who go into occult practices, they want their Mooladhara to be open and they want to connect with life so that the base powers will become very strong in them. This is a sure way of ensuring no spiritual process will ever happen to you. Once you open up your Mooladhara and connect to life from the downward trend of the body, then you cannot connect with the upper moving forces of your life-structure.
So we just want to seal the foundation and we don't want to hit the top, we want to just stabilize the 5 in such a way when some day we hit the top, our body is so stable it can hold it (open Sahasrar) and experience it, not fuse out.
So Hatha Yoga is essentially concerned with these 5 chakras. These 5 chakras are associated with the 108 of the remaining chakras. These 5 handle all of the 108. So it is these 108 that we can work with. It is only these 108 that we can enhance and transform. The base one, there is nothing to do; we just have to hold it stable. And the top one, it's not yet time to touch. Till we have sufficient mastery over this, we should not touch that.
[Sadhguru looks at his Tablet drawing of the volunteer again]
Now, if we look at this, let's forget whose image this is, ok, this is like an energy x-ray for immediate purposes. We can make a much elaborate one, but that would take much more involvement. This is for immediate.
Somebody comes and sits in front of me, now they will say, "Sadhguru, I want to become a brahmachari!" (Sadhguru pretends to be intense, demanding ascetic-disciple-wanna-be and audience laughs).
I say, "Close your eyes and sit" and they sit, then I say, "Let's get you married in 6 months." (Sadhguru acts again like boisterous, demanding ascetic-disciple-wanna-be)."No Sadhguru! I want to be brahmachari!" (Audience laughs)
I say, "It's alright, you get married, after that we will see when your wife doesn't want you. (Audience bursts out with loud laughter and Sadhguru laughs) You can become a brahmachari."
"She will make a brahmachari out of you, not me." (Audience laughs again).
Because your energies are in a certain way, either you must do phenomenal sadhana to correct that or you better go that way. So if there is phenomenal will in a person, Or there is devotion - sense of surrender, then whichever way you are it can be fixed.
But you don't see that will, that commitment, that devotion and that sense of surrender, it's better go by the patterns of your life. It's like - if you want to fly, you know if the winds are...today winds are nice and quiet, but 3 days ago you saw the winds were blowing at 35-40 knots, now you don't try to fly, you don't try to take off in that wind if you have a weak machine. But you have a very powerful machine. You have a very powerful machine, you don't care what's the wind, you anyway take off. But if you don't have a very powerful machine, you don't try to take off in that kind of weather. In that kind of weather you better go with the wind, that's safer for you. But you are very powerful, then it doesn't matter wind is like this, but you go like this (ie.takeoff).
So similarly, if a person is of extraordinary will or he's willing to give up his will, he's becoming willing means he has no will of his own. If he has an extraordinary will we can take him where he wants to go. Or he has no will, then we can easily take him where he wants to go. He's half, then the trends are important, then we have to observe the trend where he should go and where he should not go. He should not attempt something that he cannot do and break himself up.
[Sadhguru again looks at his Tablet drawing of the volunteer]
So this aspect of...(pauses for a moment)
If you look at these simple numbers that I've put there, [Sadhguru assigned different numbers to different x's between the lines representing Ida and Pingala] they're not really numbers like that, it is, I've just arrived at my own numbers. They are numbers only for guidance; they're not numbers as numbers. It is not that if I say 8, there are 8 megawatts or something, (audience laughs) it's not like that. If you want to judge something 1 to 10, 0 to 10, ok this is 1, this is 2, this is 10, you know, in that context it is numbers. It is not numbers per se, it is only a guideline of numbers.
So now if you look at this map, what you see is Mooladhara is slightly imbalanced, needs a little more work. Swadhistana, not very strong but ok. Manipurika is good. Anahata, confused. You know what these are? You know which is which? Anahata is confused and a little bit of like that (makes wavy motion with hand). Visuddhi, nothing much has happened; as you were born, it is. Agna, ok, stable, nothing phenomenal, but there is potential.
When I say there is potential, that means it is not that others do not have potential, that means there aren't too many obstacles. With a little work, it'll happen. When we say there is not potential, it does not mean it is not possible. It is still possible but it'll take much more work to do it.
[Looks again back at the Tablet drawing of the volunteer's energy patterns]
I think because of a certain continuous emotional pattern, the system has become slightly skewed, which must be corrected. Hatha Yoga is the right thing to do. If you do proper hatha yoga, this slightly skewed positions that your energy system has taken will naturally get corrected. We can do something drastic and fix it, but sadhana is the best way of fixing it because it happens slowly.
See, you've gotten used to walking like this, (Sadhguru leans sideways) - suddenly tomorrow morning I fixed you up like this (sits straight), you will start thinking something is wrong with you. Yes, people even ask you, supposed you stopped drinking and you went among your drinking friends, they say, "What's wrong with you? What happened to you?" Yes? You were smoking all your life, one day you suddenly gave (it) up, you went with your smoking friends and they say, "What happened? What's wrong? What's the matter with you?" So even if correction happens too dramatically or suddenly, people will get disturbed by that. So it is best that the correction happens slowly, unless they're in a state of surrender.
If they're in a state of surrender, you can just correct them quickly, but otherwise if people have their own thought process attached to everything that happens to them, it is better correction happens in degrees.
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