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Self-enquiry meditation is to know thyself. But before that, you should know how you are, not what you are, but how you are. Analyze thyself—Svādhyāya. Svādhyāya means study; study your inner chapters of life. How many chapters have you begun in your life, and how many chapters did you close unfinished? Sit comfortably; adjust yourself in such a way that you will not feel discomfort during the meditation. Try to keep your body straight but relaxed and comfortable. Those who have a Gurū Mantra, with or without a Mālā, repeat your mantra mentally. Whatever you want to see in this room, do it now. After closing your eyes, it would be better that you don't open them again, and be sure nothing will be new in this room. Close your eyes. Take a deep breath in and out. Withdraw yourself from the external world. Be aware of your being here in this hall. We will chant Oṃ one time. While chanting Oṃ, concentrate first on the navel, the Maṇipūra Chakra, the seat of the sound. While chanting Oṃ, feel the resonance ascending and descending, vibrating through the spine, tilaka, and Sahasrāra Chakra. From the vocal cords, the sound is manifested. It touches your Bindu Chakra, and from there the sound changes in two directions: one into the space, Ākāśa. Second, through the Suṣumnā Nāḍī and Sūrya Nāḍī, the Piṅgalā, enters into the heart, the Hṛdaya Ākāśa, seat of the sound, where it begins awakening, is navel, manifesting in the vocal cords, the Viśuddhi, enters in the Bindu Chakra, where the Hindus have the Śikhā, the hair. These two vibrations, as the nāda goes in the space and in the heart... Take a few deep inhales and exhales. Deep inhale and exhale; inhale first in the stomach, then in the chest, expand your diaphragm. Exhale from the chest, then from the... This time, after deep inhaling, we all will chant Oṃ together only once, and after that, you continue to listen to the resonance of the Oṃ and wait till my next instructions. Eyes should remain closed. Deep inhale; relax the whole body. And relax your whole body from the toes till the tip of the head, and from the top of the head till the toes. Say to yourself mentally, "Relax, my friend, just relax; let me be one with myself." The normal breath, no tensions at all, either physically or mentally. No expectations, no imaginations, just the reality. Feel your whole body from the toes to the top of the head, from the top of the head till the toes. I am comfortable and relaxed. Become aware of the space where you are sitting; it's a divine atmosphere. Feel the presence of the divine; feel comfortable and free from anxiety, sorrows, and tensions. Peace, śānti, śānti, śānti. Without movements of any limbs of the body, bring your awareness to the motionlessness of the body. And I would ask you kindly, don't make any photos, sit down, no photography, no movements. Feel the motionlessness of the body; the body is relaxed and comfortable. Nothing is moving except the expansion and contraction of the trunk of the body, the natural and normal breath. Motionlessness of the body, so that you can feel the prāṇa body, the energy body, even a half meter or one meter far from your physical body. Motionlessness, Ar Urad. Now bring your attention towards the natural and normal breath, Pūrak and Rechak, Ar Urad. I know that I'm inhaling, and I know that I'm exhaling. At the time of the inhalation, the body is expanding; at the time of the exhalation, the body is contracting. The expansion and contraction takes place not only in the physical body but in your subtle body too, the prāṇa body too. Do not change the rhythm of the breath. Let it flow as natural as it is. Just be aware. I know that I am inhaling. I know that I am exhaling. Body and mind, no movements. Relax. Now bring your awareness with the breath. While inhaling, your consciousness is driving to the Maṇipūra Chakra, the navel, and while exhaling, from the Maṇipūra to the Ājñā Chakra. Repeat half part of your mantra while inhaling, and half part of your mantra while exhaling. Your mantra has become for you the Ajapā. Therefore, you don't need any extra concentration. It goes by itself. Just draw your attention with the breath in and out. Now try to relax inwardly. Relax. The inner relaxation means do not concentrate on a particular thought or any particular feelings. Let it come and let it go. Be the observer. Transfer the feelings from the Maṇipūra to the Anāhata Chakra, the center of the chest, from inside. Feel the fine touch of the ingoing and outgoing breath. It is very gentle, but that opens all the psychic blocks, opens the petals of Anāhata, which opens in your heart the door to the fountain of joy, the ocean of bliss. Relax and feel the touch of the breath at the very center of the chest, inside, this ocean of bliss, and very far in origin, the rising of the dawn. Imagine the visions in the Ājñā Chakra filling in the Anāhata. Bhakti and Jñāna together, the most beautiful dawn which you have ever seen in your life. This journey takes you to that part of your life which was the happiest, divine, blissful. Be the observer; be aware of your being at the front of the ocean of bliss, but your feelings are fluttering on the waves of that fountain of joy, the ocean of bliss. The light within you is immortality, the resonance Oṃ, the nectar which is dripping from the Bindu Chakra. Let yourself expand to the endless origin with the divine resonance of the Oṃ, three times. Deep inhale and hug the entire universe. O body, become extrovert, the sound of the civilization, your body. Feel your physical breath. Slowly move your fingers; close and open the palms; fold the palms together and rub your palms, and place the palms on the face, warm your face muscles, rub your eyelids, open your hands, eyes, and you open.