26  Energy/Prana TC  "26  Energy/Prana" \l 1

Prana could also be called shakti. Shakti means power, and power means force. At the very beginning of creation this force was manifested because it is the nature of the unmanifest to become manifest.

The activating force behind everything is prana. The relationship between prana and the three gunas is that the three gunas would become inert if prana was not there.

In every breath, what do I breathe but Divinity? The Absolute and the relative are inseparable.

When a person reaches the level of primal manifestation he reaches and becomes one with shakti, which is prana, the living force.

If you think He is far apart from you, then what are You? Do not hold the relative apart from the Absolute. Become conscious of that living force—prana.

Prana is all-permeating, prana is omnipresent. That vital force is forever there, was there, and will always be there because the manifestation of Divinity is through this vital force.

When matter becomes very, very fine it can be observed as a form of energy. Energy is the other side of the coin of matter. Matter and energy are the same thing. This being so, we cannot destroy them.

All the energy in the universe is contained within you.

The subtle energy within us is so potent that if we only give it a chance, through meditation, to unfold itself, it will benefit us in every respect. It benefits us in our environment. If we make ourselves better, we exude a certain vibration in the environment, and the environment becomes better, too. If the flower becomes beautiful, naturally it makes the garden beautiful.

There is no such thing as miracles. They are all natural laws, but because you don’t understand them you call them miracles.

The individual soul is like a light that requires power, or electricity. The universal soul is the electricity itself and is not dependent on anything else. It is self-luminous.

What happens in siddhis (supernatural powers) is that you are concentrating a force within you to a certain area, in order to strengthen that area. But when you concentrate thought forces in a particular area you are using forces from another area. It is like a balloon; you put pressure on one end and the other end will swell up. Meanwhile one end is being deprived. So what you are actually doing by these practices is creating an imbalance within yourself.

In any good deed or bad deed the same energy is used—it is a matter of direction. If a person embarks on a destructive course, we say that Satan has possessed him, and if he goes on a constructive course we say that he is goodly and godly. There’s no goodly-and-godliness here: he did a certain thing based on his own tendencies and patternings. That energy is a neutral energy. Divine energy is neutral, and can be used by the human being because he has a free will.

No doctor can cure your ailment. The organism which we call the human system is equipped with various factors that forever tend to balance themselves so that good health can come. What the doctor does is give you medicine to expedite restoring the balance.

Magnetic force is the emanation that is radiated by every person from the body, mind and the subconscious mind. It’s a continual emanation, and a person can acquire the ability to transmit his personal magnetic force to another person. The danger in this lies in the fact that the magnetic healer, not being a channel, uses his own energies. Now his own energies might be filled with much dirt and dust; he may have an impure mind and impure thoughts. Even if a person has no impure thoughts, his own physical and mental problems are put together and conveyed as a magnetic force.

So one has to be very careful in using the services of a spiritual healer or a magnetic healer because the magnetic healer can remove your headache, but it could result later in a toe-ache.

When there is a greater harmony within us we are bringing the three gunas into a greater state of balance, and this is done by prana. We are regressing back into the primal, fine, subtle state which is within us. As it becomes so refined, the entire ego achieves maximum expansion.