The Inner Guru and the Outer Guru

Here, ‘Me’ refers to the supreme witnessing consciousness, the Kṛṣṇa consciousness; it is not the six-feet Kṛṣṇa frame.

I always tell people, the outer Guru, the Master is needed only to awaken the inner Guru. Once the inner Guru, the consciousness is awakened, the outer Guru needs to be dropped. Just like after burning the dead body, the very stick that is used to stoke the wood is dropped into the same pyre — so also the outer Guru needs to be dropped.

The Technique: Elevating from Fear and Greed to the Ājñā Cakra

For the first time, Kṛṣṇa gives a beautiful technique to move your energy from fear and greed to divine consciousness, eternal consciousness. Your fear is rooted in the svādiṣṭhāna cakra, the energy center situated two inches below the navel. Your greed is rooted in the mūlādhāra cakra, the energy center at the root of your spinal cord.

Kṛṣṇa gives us the technique to elevate ourselves from these two cakras to the eternal consciousness, the ājñā cakra at the brow center, where the eternal consciousness resides. When we have elevated our self to the ājñā, we go beyond our ego or mind. We are all caught in the mūlādhāra and svādiṣṭhāna — fear and greed.

That is why, continuously, we can watch and see that we carry a sort of tensed feeling within. We will be continuously holding our mūlādhāra and svādiṣṭhāna tightly. Now, just feel yourself in your mūlādhāra area. You will see that you are tightly holding yourself in tension.

Kṛṣṇa explains how to relax that area, how to stop the fuel coming from greed and fear, and how to receive the amṛta-dhāra — the flow of nectar — from the eternal consciousness.

The Verse — Bhagavad Gītā 5.27–5.29

Shutting out all external sense objects, keeping the eyes and vision concentrated between the two eyebrows, suspending the inward and outward breaths within the nostrils and thus controlling the mind, senses and intelligence, the transcendental who is aiming at liberation, becomes free from desire, fear, and the byproduct of desire, fear and anger — all three. One who is always in this state is certainly liberated.

First, He gives the technique to enter that state. Then He says: if you can stay in that state, you are liberated. Now, at least let us try to have a glimpse of this state that Kṛṣṇa explains in this verse. I will guide you step by step through this meditation. Please try to enter that state.

Guided Meditation

Please sit straight and close your eyes. Let your head, neck and backbone be in a straight line. Intensely pray to that ultimate energy, Parabrahma Kṛṣṇa, to give us the experience of this meditation.

First, visualize all your senses completely shut; your eyes are completely closed. Do not allow any visualization to happen inside your being. You should close the eyes too, because we continue to see things from behind our eyelids even though we shut them. Visualize that your eyeballs have become completely dark. You are seeing only darkness in front of you.

Visualize your ears are shut. Visualize your sense of touch is shut. Visualize your smelling capacity is shut. Visualize your face to be shut. Feel deeply that all the five senses have been shut down. Inhale and exhale as slowly as possible. Slowly, let your nostrils carry the air. Let your consciousness reside between the two eyebrows. In a very relaxed way, be aware of the space between your two eyebrows. Do not concentrate; do not tense yourself. Just be very relaxed and have a deeply relaxed awareness.

Let your mūlādhāra cakra, located at the base of your spine, be relaxed. Let your svādiṣṭhāna cakra, located just below the navel center, be relaxed. Let your whole consciousness come up to the ājñā cakra, which is between the eyebrows.

Concentrate on the space between the eyebrows.

Visualize cool, soothing light in the ājñā cakra, in the space between the eyebrows. Relax in the ājñā cakra. Forget all other parts of your body. Forget about the body, mind and the world; remember only the ājñā cakra, the space between the two eyebrows.

Go deeply into the ājñā cakra, into the space between the two eyebrows. Visualize a beautiful, cooling, soothing light in the ājñā cakra. Let you experience beautiful, blissful light in the ājñā cakra. Do not tense yourself; let your awareness be in the ājñā cakra in a very relaxed way. Let your consciousness rest in the space between the two eyebrows.

Relax in the same space of eternal consciousness. Let you be beyond the body and mind. May your intelligence be awakened. Let you work from your eternal consciousness. Let you have the pleasant awareness of the ājñā cakra. Let you all have the grace of the divine consciousness. Let you be established in the eternal consciousness. Let you all be in, with and radiate eternal bliss — nityānanda.

Om śānti, śānti, śāntihi…
Om tat sat.

Relax. Slowly, very slowly, you can open your eyes.

Try to remain in this mood at least for the next ten days.

Key Teaching — Driven by Fear, or Driven by the Divine?

Understand: do not concentrate by force. Have a pleasant awareness. When you keep the pleasant awareness around your ājñā cakra, your whole energy will be directed towards the Eternal Consciousness. You will receive energy from Eternal Consciousness, from immortality — amṛtatva. You will be driven from above by the Eternal Consciousness. If you are driven from below by fear or greed, you are man. If you are driven from above, you are God.

Let you learn the science of how to connect yourself with the Divine energy, how to be driven by the Divine Consciousness. Let you live all your possibilities. Let you function through the Eternal Consciousness.

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Thus ends the fifth chapter named Sannyāsa Yogaḥ, ‘The Yoga of Renunciation,’ of the Bhagavad Gītā Upaniṣad, Brahmavidyā Yogaśāstra, the scripture of yoga dealing with the science of the Absolute in the form of Śrī Kṛṣṇārjuna saṃvād, dialogue between Śrī Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna.