Jagriti – Abhishekam Kriya (Nada)

We will do a new technique.

We will use the sound of OM like a ball of force,

To strike at the perineum,

And then to rise upwards.

Follow the sound,

Striking, then rising upwards,

All the way to the head and above.

So the sound of OM like a ball of force;

You send it downwards to the base of your spine,

And then allow it to rebound from the base, the seat upward,

Rising through all the centres:

Genitalia, navel/belly region, the chest, the throat region,

The head, top of the head and above.

And you follow the process.

Your body is like a sound-box,

Empty except for this sound, this force,

Moving down and then rising upwards,

Like an echo rebounding.

And you have to follow it all the way through,

As it moves down and then up.

And for a while as you follow the sound rising upwards –

When you reach above the head,

Stay there for a moment or two,

Expand,

Then repeat once again,

The sound directed down,

And to rise upwards again.

It will take a while before you manage to get it,

But keep yourself there.

Your body is like an empty box,

In which the sound is created,

Sent downwards,

And then rebounds upwards.

To rise higher and higher,

As you follow it into the head and above.

And then for a moment or two just stay above,

Before you begin the next round.

You are connecting the low to the high and the high to the low.

And through it you are surrendering yourself to meditation.

Let the sound inspire you;

Vibrating in the whole of your body,

As it moves down and then upwards.

And do this for ten minutes before we stop in silence again.

Remaining in silent meditation for a while before we start again.

In this way you are surrendering the lower to the higher,

And allowing the higher to descend down,

Connecting the lower with the higher,

Linking the higher with the lower.

Feel yourself being lifted as the sound rises upwards,

Lifted in your being –

The whole of your being lifted upwards.

Let the sound inspire you;

Feel the sound as it descends downwards,

And then rising upwards, lifting you.

With each movement of the sound,

You are surrendering yourself to the higher

Remain in silence for a while now.

Just be with the emptiness within you.

(10 minutes)

We will have another spell of sounding.

(10 minutes)

Back to silence.

Arya Vihar

8 August 1996