Personal Narrative-Water In Space

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In one of the apartments in Pune city, I asked Swamiji about why we put our head down in navi Kriya.

He said “I don’t know, so innocently, and childlike.” And then he said, “Maybe having the head down increases the ability to focus on the 3rd chakra. And then perhaps putting the head back helps to raise that energy.”

I often heard him say, “I don’t know” and then tell the answer. It was his way of getting the ego out of the way, and letting a higher consciousness come in to him, and speak.

He then asked me a question. “Where do you think the average person’s consciousness is centered?”

I was a little taken aback, because I felt like I was the student, and he was the teacher. He was supposed to have the answers, and to make matters worse, there was a group of people around, and I was nervous that I might answer incorrectly. I ventured a guess, “In the medulla?”

“Correct,” he said. And then he asked, “Where do you think a Master’s consciousness is centered?”

“At the spiritual eye?”

Swamiji replied, “Correct.”

The interchange sounds trivial, but somehow during this brief conversation, it became deeply embedded that I must strive …show more content…

I had been living in India for a few years, and hadn’t really heard American music for some time. We decided we would listen to a few worldly songs on his ipod during the trip, and it seemed like no big deal. I dropped him at the airport, and then I thought, well a few more songs on the radio can’t do any harm, as I drove further into Sacramento, for some shopping. On the way back to the village, I was driving 80 mph on the freeway, listening to classic rock and roll, mentally complaining that traffic was too much, and too slow. I could feel the average consciousness of Sacramento flowing through me. I didn’t think much of it, until I arrived at a meeting with Swamiji. It was in the crystal hermitage, with the rest of the solar project

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