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CHAPTER 10. THE ETERNAL SPRING
the taste within, you will find it more and more difficult to focus the mind outward. first it was difficult
to draw it in; now it is difficult to draw it out.
Sariputra, Buddha’s disciple, attained the taste for ’Omkar’. He attained the highest state of the
mantra; he heard the supreme manta within.
When this happened Buddha ordered him to go out and preach to the people.
He told Buddha, ”Now I have no desire to go out.”
Buddha replied, ”That is exactly why I want you to go. First you were caught by the outside; that was
one form of bondage. Now don’t let the ’within’ bind you.”
The perfect, enlightened soul is one who has no difficulty either way. He goes in and out like a gust
of wind. Now the in is no longer in, and the out is no longer out; they have become one. Just as you
go easily in and out of your house, life is like your house; you should have no difficulty going in and
out of it. There are people who are attached to the world and there are people who are attached to
the soul; both are in bondage. They have yet not reached the ultimate salvation. The knowing one
has no ties-neither inside nor outside. He flows naturally in and out!
You should try to maintain this third stage of the mantra for as long as possible. The first stage is
to sit silently. The prelude it is to shake up the body by dancing, jumping, wriggling, for about ten
minutes, so as to get rid of all the body’s restlessness. The body is filled with restlessness; that is
simply a scientific fact.
If you want to slap someone your body energy immediately flows into your hand. That is why
someone who is quite weak can give you a hard blow; his hand does not remain in the ordinary
state but is filled with energy. suppose for someone reason you cannot slap this person. There may
be many reasons; life is very complex. Perhaps you are indebted to him, or maybe you want to use
him to get something, so you restrain yourself; but the energy that has accumulated in your hand is
blocked and has no way to go back.
Recent scientific research reports that there are ways to discharge the energy from the body, but
there is no way to draw the energy back into the body; so if you so not hit somebody or something,
the energy will remain in the hand. It does not matter whom you slap; even if you hit empty space,
you will discharge that energy; but there are no channels to draw that energy back to the center. In
this way energy gets blocked in various parts of the body. In any twenty-four hour period energy will
be blocked in many different parts of the body, and that blocked energy is bound to hinder you. It
is responsible for the feeling of numbness in your feet, or the feeling of ants crawling on your legs,
or you back beginning to hurt, or suddenly feeling itchy. These things are not your imagination; they
are really happening, but you have perhaps never noticed them before because your energy was
always occupied and you never sat doing nothing before. Now that you sit doing nothing, wherever
energy has been blocked causes restlessness.
Tell any little child to sit quietly for five minutes and you sense how cruel you are being to him, how
difficult it is for him to sit quietly. Sometimes he lifts a foot, sometimes he presses his hands together,
or he moves his lips or twitches his eyes; he will do anything in order to move. The energy flows
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