*Chapter 2 - Energy Centres*
*Day 7*
Go to the root of knowledge, silence. Carefully observe and distinguish the different ideas, thoughts or worries that arise in your mind.
Then observe one thought, then one sentence and then one word. Then separate that one word into letters and look at each letter carefully.
When you do this, your worries will disappear. Practice this for one week and you will understand that when we hold onto the silence that is in between words, then worries vanish.
Where there is no sound or words, there are no worries because words are the root cause of worry. To transcend them is to reach silence.
Move from knowledge to the highest knowledge. A mantra, a sacred sound, is defined as a mantra is that which, when repeated constantly, clears your mind from worries and protects you.
Knowledge is bondage, and it is impossible to gain knowledge without words. We need the help of language to understand what we are worrying or not worrying about.
When we separate the words, we will be free from worry. One gets worried by holding onto sentences. Suppose your mind is worried that "My son is unemployed."
Now sit down and break up each of the words in the sentence, like this : M-y-s-o-n-i-s-u-n-e-m-p-l-o-y-e-d.
The intensity of the worry becomes less, and if you reduce its intensity, then the mind, which is entangled in a sentence, drops the worry and becomes contemplative.
If you meditate and attempt to drive away the worry, it may not work. So take hold of the worry and go for its root by taking apart its words and meaning.
When you put in full effort then you experience completeness.
"Udyamo" means effort. Give your 100% in action, speech and thought, and the energy that is generated by the union of these three will raise you up to a higher level.
Udyamo is what supports us. In life, we do so little. We do not give our full effort anywhere and even worry half-heartedly, here and there.
If you want to worry, then sit down and worry 100%. Are you worried that you may drown or fall sick? You may die, and that is all. If you die, then there will be nothing to worry about.
Anyway, evervone has to die. What is worry? Worry means not applying your efforts 100%. You may be worrying about today, tomorrow or even the coming decade.
If you are going to worry, then worry big. Worry about how the world will be after 100 or 5000 years. There is so much pollution already in the world today.
What will happen after another 15 or 20 years? If you are going to worry, then do it in a big way. Drown yourself in worry. Otherwise, we live as though we are dead or dying at every moment.
In Hindi, it is said, "A dying person dies only once, whereas a person afraid of death dies every moment."
