Words from the Master

Let us now move to the next chakra - the Manipuraka chakra which is located in the navel region.

In Sanskrit, Manipuraka means ‘The City of Jewels’.

This chakra is locked when you constantly worry and it flowers when you stop worrying about your worries!

Meditation Technique:
Manipuraka Shuddhi Kriya – a technique from Christianity.
Let us analyze what ‘worry’ is.

Can anyone tell me what worry is?
(a lady answers...) Swamiji, we get worried when we think of our business problems or our children or our health...

What you are saying are the reasons for worry. I am not asking you the reasons for worry. I am asking you ‘what IS worry’? If I ask you the reasons for worry, this session will never end! Each of you will be ready with a long list –
Swamiji, my business is down...
Swamiji, I have no peace of mind at home!
Swamiji, I have so many problems that you can’t even imagine…!
I don’t have children, that is my worry!
Swamiji, my children are my worry!

(Loud laughter from the group!)

We all have so many worries all the time. And if we can’t find any worries, we will start worrying about not having any worries! We start feeling insecure and so we start thinking about what we can worry about! I tell you, it is a fact! Some elderly retired people come and tell me, “Swamiji, we don’t know what to do. Our children are married and settled in their own houses. They don’t ask us for anything; we don’t know what to do; there is nothing to think about. There’s no point in living anymore Swamiji. We want to die peacefully.”

They don’t know what to do because they don’t have any worries! They try their best to think of something that might keep their minds occupied, but there’s nothing coming up to keep it occupied! And this is new to them because they have all along been occupied with some worry or the other, with some thought or the other.

Before defining worry, I just want you to understand that whatever be our culture, financial status, age or anything else, we all have one thing in common - and that is worry!

If I ask you why you worry, you will list out so many reasons. You always think that worry is caused by external matters. You always blame the outside world, the people around you, accusing them of causing worry in you.

Just think: If the cause for worry was external, there should be at least one person who has beaten all these causes and free from worries? Yes? But is that the case? Anyone you meet has got some worry or the other. Whether they are rich or poor, married or unmarried, with children or without children, working or having their own business – everyone seems to have worries.

This is because, although we think that the cause for worry is external, actually, the cause for worry lies deep within ourselves. This is the truth. This is the reason why everyone has some worry or the other all the time.

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.