TALK: Centres and Consciousness (Introduction to Jagriti Meditation)

We will do a kriya, a meditation called ‘Jagriti’. Before we begin I will tell you a little about centres and consciousness. Our consciousness is one consciousness, but it has many planes, centres – centres of our being. And you can say they have a physical location in our physical body. There are seven centres; they each have a name. And this is a science, the science of Yoga, science of the consciousness and being – science of the mystics; it is a truth, it is a truth about yourself which is ordinarily not available to people. They do not know about themselves, about their consciousness, about their being. Seven centres. If one were to dissect the body you will not find them; it is through meditation that you become aware of these centres. And they can open out – there is a powerful f...