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thoughts which I don't want, I am breathing out. They are leaving my consciousness. I remain with myself, pure unpolluted loving energy.
The fourth step he followed was to lift his energy from the base of the spine to the top of the head. This was particularly important for Munishree who was suffering intermittently from melancholy and depression. He discovered through observing himself that when the energy was locked up at the base of the spine, there also sorrow and depression were locked up.
I have to unlock this lock and awaken the dormant energy for my health and well-being. Otherwise, instead of mastering my lower self, I will be dominated by it.
Every morning before sitting for forty-eight minutes in meditation, Munishree followed the proper procedure for raising the energy with the Hrim mantra. Hrfm means "Cosmic Energy” or “Universal Consciousness." The seat of this cosmic awareness is located at the top of the head. It was that precious energy which he had felt just before the moment of initiation. It indicated that momentarily he had risen above his petty self and had experienced a taste of expansion into the Higher Self.
What is possible for a few minutes, why should it not be possible for longer? In this way, he encouraged himself.
He repeated the mantra about five times before moving into a silent meditation for the rest of the hour. In between each Hrim he paused to give himself space to feel the level of his energy and to enjoy the experience of peace pervading his whole body.
The company of monks arrived at Pālitānā in time to celebrate the installation of the Agamamandir with the Master. Within a few months of his dikshā, the Master told him, “You are here to have an intensifying time. You are not here for temporary peace or occasional 'high' meditations. You are meditating to transform your whole consciousness and penetrate the deepest part of life. Small things of mind take away your energy. Here you have the company of so many monks. They are with you for twenty-four hours a day. If you constantly talk with them, you will postpone your inward journey and dilute
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