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CHAPTER 10. THE ETERNAL SPRING
Then close your eyes. The tongue should touch the roof of the mouth, which should be completely
closed. Now you have to use the tongue and lips no more.
The next step is to repeat ’Om’ inside, in your mind. Until now the room was outside, surrounding
you on all four sides; now the body surrounds you on all four sides; now the body is the room. Let
the mantra reverberate within the body for the next ten minutes. You are not to use the lips or tongue
or throat at all. The mind should repeat ’Om... Om... Om...’ but you must keep it the same rapid
rate, the same speed. As you filled the room with omkar, so you fill the body, leaving it trembling
with vibrations from head to toe. Allow no gap between two oms, so that the mind has no chance to
intrude. The mind cannot think two thoughts at the same time.
If your repetition is so fast and intense that there is no gap between two repetitions, no thoughts
will come in between. If you relax your peace is the slightest, thoughts will creep in. So, repetition
without any gaps! Do not worry about overlapping of the repetitions. Let them pile up on top of one
another like railway cars in an accident. Remember, you are not to use the body any more; therefore
now the eyes have to be closed. The body must now be very still. The ’Om’ vibrations should hit
the walls of the body from within and fall on the mind, just as in the beginning they hit the walls
of the room and were then reflected back to the body, which purified the body, just as the internal
vibrations cleanse the mind. As the vibrations deepen you will find that the mind is beginning to
fade. You begin to experience a deep silence that you never before tasted.
Keep this up for then minutes; then drop your head until the chin touches the chest. For a few days
you might feel a strain in the neck, but pay no attention to it, and soon it will disappear. So in the third
step you drop your chin on to your chest, as if the neck is cut off, lifeless. Now, no more repetitions
– not even in the mind. Now just listen, as if the ’Omkar’ is reverberating within and you are only the
listener, not the doer. You can only step completely out of the mind when you abandon all sense of
the doer. Become only the witness. Put all your effort into this. Let you head hang down all the way
to your chest, and try to listen to the ’Om’ resonate within.
There is a famous verse by Galib:
THE BELOVED PICTURE IS ON THE MIRROR OF THE HEART.
WHENEVER I CHOOSE, I MERELY BOW MY HEAD TO SEE IT.
This bowing of the head is necessary. No sooner does the neck band than the picture of the beloved
appears before the eyes. But alas, you do not yet know how to band your head. You take pains to
cultivate a stiff neck. When the question of bowing your head arises, you become even more stiff.
If you failed until now to attain God the only reason is that you are not prepared to bow your head;
you are not prepared to surrender.
Bowing the head is merely a symbol. Hang your head down as if it is severed from the body; this
is only so that you may bow down. No sooner does the head bow down, then it becomes easier to
see; no sooner dies the neck bend, then thinking becomes difficult.
Now just try to listen. Until now you were repeating the mantra, first with the body, then with the
mind. Now you try to become a witness to the mantra. You will be surprised; there is a very subtle
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