*Chapter 2 - Energy Centres*
*Day 15*
For a computer to work properly, it needs to stay at the right temperature and be in proper condition. Our body is a super-computer, which is very delicate.
If a man-made computer requires a specific environment, then what do we need? Our bodies also require proper conditions.
That is to say the mind should be alert and aware, and the body should stay fit and active, which requires regular pranayama, exercise and so forth.
When you do pranayama, do it will full awareness and attention. When you work hard, only then can you enjoy rest, and that rest is where shivtattva is.
When you direct your attention to the energy centers, the world gets annihilated. You yourself have to take apart your own world.
Nobody else can do it because
you are responsible for creating your own world. There is a story about a very famous locksmith.
It was said that nobody could make a lock that could be compared with his locks. One night when he was with the king, thieves came, put them in handcuffs and robbed them both.
The king said, "Anyway, since you are with me, there's no problem." In the morning, the locksmith looked at the locks on the handcuffs and started crying.
He told the king, "I made this lock, and I never do a second rate job. So nobody can pick open this lock, and even breaking them open will be hard".
In this world, we wear shackles of our own making. Nobody else has chained you with shackles. You are responsible for it. Wake up. Look at your world - what is there?
Through your work, what great thing are you achieving? We work merely to sustain life, but we feel as though we are doing it for some noble purpose.
This is an illusion. Your whole life you struggle, just to earn a little money, but when it comes to the divine, you say, "It will happen if God wants it."
To achieve something in this world, you wear yourself out and do not let up, even if it leaves you gasping for breath.
But when it comes to inquiring into your self or doing sadhana, you say, "Let it happen as God wishes." Only for that do you need God's blessings?
However, in this world, you receive what is yours only because of prarabdha karma, or results of past actions, not just by your work or efforts.
Your prarabdha karma results in all the conveniences you enjoy in your life - pleasures, facilities, comforts, house and so on, while your own efforts guarantee greater awareness and lead to higher states of consciousness.
Yet we do everything backwards. We are ready to wear ourselves out for some desire in the world, but for meditation, we say, "I will do it when God wishes."
This is the world we create. The whole world is a shakti chakra, an energy center. Look at it from a fresh perspective. What is this world but energy?
What is this body? It is energy. Every atom in the body is energy. Energy is produced every day after we take food, and that energy goes back to the world.
All the elements are energy. The energy cycle keeps going on. The ocean water evaporates and falls as rain, rain water falls into the river, which returns to the sea.
In this way the cycle continues. The body converts the food we eat into human waste, which goes back into to the soil, where it acts as fertiliser for plants, flowers, fruits and nuts,
which we then eat, and the cycle goes on.
The body is also made up of the five elements and when it dies, it turns back to soil again. Even in the body such a cycle is going on. Everything is recycled.
The whole world is like a big recycling machine where everything gets reused. Look at air- the air we breathe out goes to trees and plants, and then the oxygen from them returns to us and the cycle continues.
The whole world has only a fixed amount of air and water circulating, and it is the same story for every other element. Even for soil, this holds true.
The soil has been the same throughout the ages, no new soil is produced. The world cannot have anything new. not even a small sesame seed.
Even scientists say the same in the law of conservation of matter and energy, which explains that matter and energy are inter-convertible and that you matter can be neither destroyed nor recreated.
