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Meditation on the Maṇipūra Cakra

The meditation focuses on the Maṇipūra Cakra. Concentrate on the Maṇipūra cakra, imagining it as a clockwise spiral radiating light. The light moves through the whole body, centered at the navel. The circle expands to about one meter out, neutralizing negative energy. It merges into empty space as blue light. The light purifies joints, muscles, and nerves. Chant the bīja mantra "Rām" to awaken light and sensation. The circle penetrates the entire body, removing negative energy. Prāṇa helps move the cycle; apāna pushes out impurities as smoky light. Impurities include anxiety, fear, sadness, and pain. Mentally imagine standing with legs apart, hands stretched sideways. Let the circle move through the body without physical movement. Then imagine sitting in cidākāśa, observing the astral body. The circle's thickness is ten to fifteen centimeters thicker than the body. Maṇipūra is the center of energy, the sun center, and seat of sound. Chant "Oṃ" to brighten the circle, feeling pure energy. End by rubbing palms and placing them on the face, opening the eyes.

"Imagine the Maṇipūra cakra as a beautiful circle. It is like a spiral moving in the right direction, clockwise, radiating light like sun rays."

"When we repeat this bīja mantra, Rām, it awakens a kind of light and sensation or vibration."

Filming location: Vép, Hungary

Concentrate on your Maṇipūra cakra. Imagine the Maṇipūra cakra as a beautiful circle. It is like a spiral moving in the right direction, clockwise, radiating light like sun rays. This light, like waves of light, is moving through the whole body, passing through the whole body. Its centre is the navel, the Maṇipūra, and imagine it becoming a bigger and bigger circle. You must come to the imagination that the circle is about one metre out from your body. In every direction of the body is this light of the Maṇipūra cakra, like sunlight. The circling of the light of the Maṇipūra is neutralising negative energy. Now, it depends on you—on the quality of your thinking, the quality of your physical energy, and also on which colour this Maṇipūra cakra has. And this circle is a very big wheel, or a circle with one spiral beginning at the centre point. The very middle centre point is the navel. It moves many, many rounds. Finally, it merges into the empty space, and you do not see the end of it. It simply merges, like a beautiful blue light, into the sky light. It goes through your joints. It removes the pain from the joints. It goes through the muscles. It removes the muscle pain. It goes to the nerve systems and purifies the nerves. It goes through the entire body. Very soft, very gentle, light is moving like a disc, clockwise. And we will chant one bīja mantra from the Maṇipūra cakra. When we repeat this bīja mantra, Rām, it awakens a kind of light and sensation or vibration. It passes through the entire spiral. At the end, you see a beautiful, beautiful, bright blue light. We will chant once, a little longer, and then observe the circle, the energy circle. This circle is penetrating through the whole body. It is as if with a needle or something, everything going through the body. So it means it is penetrating through your entire body. Maybe there is one millimetre distance between one wave and other waves, and that is how it takes the negative energy away. Light, beautiful light, very gentle, cycling this circle beginning from Maṇipūra. The prāṇa helps to move and activate the cycle, and the apāna energy helps to move all the vikāras of the body and the mental vikāras. Vikāra means impurity; vikāra means negative thoughts. All the anxiety, or what you call fear, sadness, unhappiness, pain. So the prāṇa, when you inhale, is coming as beautiful light and supports the circle to receive energy. That same power, prāṇa, turns into apāna śakti, and it makes movements and pushes out or rejects from the body all the vikāras, like a smoky light. When you see the candle flame, on the top of the flame, there is a little grey—those are the vikāras in the body. So once we will chant “Rām” long, as we chant “Oṃ”, and place this resonance in this circle, awakening in the middle, the centre of the circle, Maṇipūra, and it is moving and taking all vikāras out. Deep inhale, circle the spiral clockwise. Different kinds of light, changing from time to time. But imagine that this spiral is moving through the whole body. Your body is pierced through and through. In different parts of the body, different light is reflecting, but you feel a process of cleaning. Cleaning is beautiful light and sound. These two together purify all the physical and mental vikāras, impurities. The centre point is manifold. Mentally, in your imagination, in your cidākāśa, imagine that you are standing, legs apart, hands stretched sideways from the body at shoulder height, legs apart, hands stretched and raised to the shoulders. Now the circle is moving through, but you are not. Stand comfortably and let the circle move through the body. Again, with the mantra Rām. This is the bīja mantra of the Maṇipūra cakra. Again, just concentrate in cidākāśa. Listen very finely, as if from a great distance, to the resonance of the bīja mantra, Rāma, and the movement of the circle, beautiful light reflecting from your body. The centre is the navel, Maṇipūra cakra. Sound and light are created by prāṇa śakti and are moved out through the apāna śakti, taking all the negative energies. Imagine yourself sitting at a far distance in the cidākāśa with your astral being, with the ability of your imagination. You see yourself sitting in a beautiful space. It is like a dark space, but the spiral is moving, lightning, and you see yourself very clearly. The light is moving through your body. The circle is moving through the body. The thickness of this spiral or this circle is ten to fifteen centimetres thicker than your body. It means the entire body is within the circle, and you feel the purification. Of course, your own feeling and imagination are very important. It is your mental power that will purify everything. Maṇipūra cakra is the centre of the energy, the beginning point of our life, the sun centre, the light, and the seat of the sound. So, the sound and light is a Svayambhū. It is the centre, exactly the centre of the entire universe. That is your navel. Again, five minutes, Ekākṣarī Mantra, Maṇipūra Mantra, Bīja Mantra, Oṃ. And during the chanting of this Oṃ, imagine that the circle becomes brighter and clearer. You feel energy within you, pure energy. Always gaze on the middle point of the circle. Hari Om. Move your hands slowly, palms together. Rub the palms and place the hands on the face. Warm your face muscles and eyelids, and open the eyes. Hari Om.

This text is transcribed and grammar corrected by AI. If in doubt what was actually said in the recording, use the transcript to double click the desired cue. This will position the recording in most cases just before the sentence is uttered.

The text contains hyperlinks in bold to three authoritative books on yoga, written by humans, to clarify the context of the lecture:

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