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Sadhguru: If you activate this dimension of energy, 
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other dimensions of life will open up.
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One thing is,
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are you ready for those dimensions?
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Kundalini Yoga,
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in its essence, 
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is the most dangerous form of yoga.
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I'm saying dangerous, 
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because it's the most potent also.
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If you have to jump into an abyss,
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you should be insane or you should have enormous trust in somebody.
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So what is Kundalini?
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Right now,
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I'm speaking,
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this is Kundalini.
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You are alert and listening.
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If you are alert and listening,
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that is Kundalini
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A flower is blossoming, 
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that is Kundalini.
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A dog is barking,
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that is also Kundalini,
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or in other words,
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the fundamental life force in the existence,
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we call it Kundalini.
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Now,
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within the system,
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within the human system,
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if you look at this as a kind of a life package,
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it's a piece of life.
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This piece of life is packed in a certain way,
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with layers of this energy.
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One dimension of energy comes alive immediately,
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because that is necessary for your survival process.
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The other dimensions of energy will not come alive unless you do something about it.
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Unless you're aware of it and activate it in a certain way,
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they do not come into existence.
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They remain dormant.
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The dormant energy is way bigger than the energy that is in use right now.
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To take care of your survival process,
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to live a physical life completely,
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to live a complete physical and intellectual life,
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you need to activate only about twenty-one of your chakras.
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Out of this one hundred and fourteen,
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if about twenty-one of them are on,
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you will live a complete life,
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you will not feel any inadequacy.
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You will live a complete physical life.
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There'll be no problem with your life,
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you will think you're a great success,
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but you're only twenty-one,
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that is less than twenty-one percent out of one hundred and fourteen,
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less than twenty percent.
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At let… less than twenty percent, 
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you will feel like a complete life without any inadequacies.
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The remaining percentage of life,
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what is it about?
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It is not even needed if your intention is just to live well.
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If you activate this dimension of energy,
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other dimensions of life will open up.
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One thing is,
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“Are you ready for those dimensions?”
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The question is not about whether it's good or bad.
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The question is just about,
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“Are you ready for it?”
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Because even if the best things in life come to your life,
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when you are not ready for it,
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it will not be a good thing for you.
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In your experience it will not be a good thing
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if something came to you when you're not ready for it,
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isn't it so?
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Even if it's a greatest thing, 
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it may be the greatest thing,
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but it came to you when you are not ready for it.
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Then it is not a good thing,
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isn't it?
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So are you ready for it,
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is the first question.
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If you're ready for it,
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what can we do for it?
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What can we do to activate it?
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The various ways of doing this,
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many,
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many ways,
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but the Kundalini Yoga…
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are people familiar with Kundalini Yoga practicing or…?
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Okay.
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Kundalini Yoga.
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I…I'm not making a comment about anybody,
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okay?
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Kundalini Yoga,
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in its essence is the most dangerous form of yoga.
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I'm saying dangerous,
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because it's the most potent also.
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What is most potent is always the most dangerous if improperly handled.
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There are various kinds of energy in the world right now,
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even the electricity is being manufactured in… I mean,
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produced in so many different ways.
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One of the ways that we do it is through nuclear reactions,
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nuclear reactors rather..
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It is the most efficient way of producing energy that we know right now,
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but it is also the most dangerous way, 
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isn't it?
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When things go wrong,
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they go seriously wrong.
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When they're going right,
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it is the easiest and the best way to produce energy on the planet is nuclear energy actually.
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But when it goes bad, 
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it goes bad,
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really bad,
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like in ways that you can't fix it.
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So,
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similarly with Kundalini Yoga,
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it is the most potent and it is the most dangerous.
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Without the necessary preparation and guidance, 
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without expert guidance,
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constant guidance and observation,
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nobody should ever attempt it.
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But the problem is,
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books have been written about it and everybody wants to do the highest yoga.
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Nobody wants to start with A,
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everybody wants to start the alphabet with Z.
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This attitude itself is dangerous.
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What can be a life-transforming force can become a life-destructive force
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simply because without the necessary commitment and dedication and focus and understanding
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it is being handled.
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Anyway,
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about raising the Kundalini,
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if the Kundalini rises,
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the dimensions of your life will change so rapidly that you must be willing
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to make the outside admin…  adjustments equally,
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quick.
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Otherwise,
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things will fall apart in a big way.
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In the classical yogic traditions,
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there is a certain type of yoga we teach for people who live in family situations.
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There is a certain other type of yoga we teach for ascetics.
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In Isha,
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we have both the forms,
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we have ascetic yoga and we have the general yoga.
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We will never teach you the ascetic form.
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That is the most pos… potent way to do it.
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But it will demand a certain dimension of discipline and focus,
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which your regular lives will not allow.
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If you do that kind of yoga,
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it will dismantle your outside life instantly.
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Now this Yoga is not designed to dismantle your life,
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this Yoga is designed to make your life happen better.
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When life happens better,
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when things happen better,
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you make more money, 
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your business is going better,
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your profession is happening better.
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You're generally unfortunately,
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you are longing to seek the higher becomes slower.
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Yes.
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So in the real sense,
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it is not the good way to do it.
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But it's the only way it works in today's world.
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And it's the only way it works for majority of the people.
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For a small number of people, 
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we can do it other ways.
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We can bypass all these things and just do very powerful ways of doing things.
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But it will dismantle all social structures around them,
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which is not good for everybody to do.
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So these are different dimensions.
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Kundalini Yoga,
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if it has to be practiced,
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you must be in a certain kind of atmosphere.
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You cannot live in social situations and do Kundalini Yoga
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Otherwise,
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in the name of Kundalini Yoga,
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you're doing something simplistic.
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Otherwise,
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Kundalini yoga can transform the way you are within days.
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Suddenly you find you're a stranger in your own home within two days of practice,
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because it will change everything about you.
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So,
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can we raise the Kundalini?
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Yes,
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we can.
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One way is to create a conducive atmosphere so that slowly it rises.
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The other way is to provoke it in such a way that it rises quickly.
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If it rises quickly,
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then everything changes dramatically.
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If it rises slowly over a period of time,
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changes will happen slowly, 
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you will be capable of handling these changes over a period of time.
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But if it happens very quick,
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then you will not be able to handle the changes,
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things will look like things are falling apart.
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So there are different ways of doing this.
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How many ways?
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There are too many ways,
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I will not go into how many ways.
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There are so many ways of doing it.
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Essentially,
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there are one hundred and twelve ways of doing it.
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There are hundred and twelve ways in which you can take this up,
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from the base to…
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Oh!
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for this you have to know the structure,
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otherwise it will become very elaborate.
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Hmm,
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out of this one hundred and fourteen chakras,
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there are seven which we recognize as seven dimensions.
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Out of this,
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six are within the body,
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one just outside the physical body.
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So,
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if you employ this one hundred and twelve methods,
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you will handle the six chakras,
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the seventh one you cannot handle.
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There are hundred and twelve ways in which you can at… attain to a chakra
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which we refer to as Agna, 
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but from Agna to Sahasrara,
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there is no way.
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There is no way to do it,
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you just have to jump into an abyss.
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If you have to jump into an abyss,
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you should be insane or you should have enormous trust in somebody.
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Somebody says jump and you are jumping because
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you have such a deep trust in somebody that when he says jump,
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it has to be good for you.
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You simply jump into a bottomless pit.
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So,
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the journey from the Mooladhara to Agna there are one hundred and twelve ways to get there.
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But from there to there,
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there is no way.
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It is just one jump,
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that can happen in trust,
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in devotion or in madness.
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Choice is yours.