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Author's Foreword
one can appreciate and enjoy something of primary importance.
Consider a cube of sugar, for example. In order for the sugar to impart its true sweetness, to fulfill its real potential, it must first lose its temporary rigid form. It must dissolve. Therefore, when we place a cube of sugar in a cup of warm milk, it naturally gives up its shape, releasing its sweet flavor. If, however, that sugar were able to identify with being a cube and cling to its cube-nature, it would not dissolve and would not realize its hidden sweetness, its true sugar-nature.
We are not so different from this sugar cube. We must first give up our small ego-our self-imposed limitations, our fears, our feelings of inadequacy and impotence, and our identification with temporary gains and losses. When we have dissolved these, all that will remain is the sweet essence of our Real Self. Only then will our lives be fully illumined by our invisible soul. In this sense, losing is our gain, our real and permanent gain.
It is easy to talk about meditation on the seven centers, but difficult to practice. It takes years. The results of meditation depend not upon my descriptions, but upon your sincere and consistent practice.
CHITRABHANU
New York, 1978
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