At this level, you will just be collecting the data, processing it and delivering it; you will be nothing more than a computer. You dont make wrong decisions out of restlessness and overloading of your unconscious zone; you make decisions in a logical and conscious way. When you are at the intellect level, you are not tired but you are not energetic either. You are in a break-even state. At this level, you are still not using your potential to the maximum the extent to which it can be used. The next level where you can actualize your entire potential is the intuition level. If you can infuse a deep silence and awareness into the unconscious zone and replace your engraved memories or files with silence and awareness, you can be at the intuition level.

When you can be free from your memories, and be empty and blissful in this unconscious zone, if you can be alive and fresh every moment without the burden of your past, without the burden of these engrams, the energy of your being will express itself in its purest form. When this happens, we can say that your intelligence is at its peak, because energy IS Intelligence. When this happens, you make decisions out of an energy called intuition, where you simply know with tremendous clarity. When you are at the intuitive level, you will make decisions from the energy of your intuition, from deep awareness and peace, from bliss! This concept needs a deep understanding. You need to go deeply into the whole science; only then will you be able to understand what I mean by the word, intuition.

Intuition is something which happens in you beyond your intellect. The power of intuition What is intuition? Let me explain. Suddenly you know for sure that something is the right thing and you feel that you have enough energy also to do it, but you dont know the steps involved in doing it. You dont know the steps that led you to the conclusion but you know for sure that your conclusion or decision is right. This is intuition. This energy of intuition is needed whenever you are faced with a situation where there is no precedent. When you are stuck with minimum data and you need to make decisions, or you have many choices and you are not able to decide what you are supposed to do in such situations, the energy of intuition helps you.

Not only in such situationsif you can be in this plane of your being continuously, you will be totally present in every moment and you will give birth to future moments also in the same fashion. If you try to assimilate what I am telling you now, if you can just spend a few minutes sitting with yourself and feel how your stored engrams are causing havoc in you and burdening you, if you can just see the truth in what I am saying, you will slowly know the knack of how to get out of this cycle and move to a higher plane of your being. One more thing with intuition: it gives you the energy not only to make the decision but also to execute what you have decided.

When I say this to people, they ask me, 'swamiji how do I find out whether I am having an intuition or I am just being intellectual. They tell me, 'swamiji, I am confused about whether it is intellect or intuition. I tell them, Be very clear: if you are confused, it is only intellect. The very confusion shows that it is only intellect. When you have intuition, you will be so confident and brimming with energy that there will be no room for confusion. With intuition, the potential power which is inside your being is simply unleashed. You open up and just like that, you start expressing it, executing it. If you read about scientists and CEOs who have been involved in major breakthroughs in their fields, again and again you will find them attributing their success to something beyond their intellect, which gave them the energy or the guts to make those decisions.

Each and every one of you has the power of intuition in you. Let me ask you; how many of you have experienced at least once in your lives, that when you are thinking of a particular person, the phone rings and that person is on the line; or you enter a place and you feel you have been to the place before; or similar intuitive things? (More than 80% of the people raise their hands.) You see, these are the moments of intuition that you have experienced accidentally in your lives. During these moments, you are accidentally in a meditative state. Through these things, your being tries to relate with you. But what do you do? You brush these things aside as coincidence and ignore your being.

You completely ignore the higher dimensions of your being. How can something that has happened to 80% of you be a coincidence? Be very clear: these moments of intuition are clear signs of the latent power in you. If you recognize and encourage it, you can express the higher dimensions of your being. The other day I had an opportunity to have a meal with Dr Charles Townes, Nobel laureate in the field of LASER and MASER. I asked him How did it happen? How were you able to do this? He answered in a beautiful way. He said, I was just sitting in a park in Washington DC and suddenly something happened in me. The conclusion was there in me. Suddenly the conclusion was revealed to me.

I immediately wrote down what I got. I then realized that I had a difficulty. I had the conclusion but not the steps! I was not able to present it to anybody else because I knew only the conclusion; I did not know the steps. Then when I sat down, I was able to get the logical steps. Not only with Charles Townes, even Einstein says, Whatever new happened to me, it came through intuition, not through intellect. He says beautifully, The Intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. Whether we believe it or not or accept it or not, there is something called intuition in us.

Of course, even Einstein calls this a gift because he didnt know whether it could be consistently had. He was not sure when it would happen and whether it would happen or not. But yogis, the great mystics, again and again say that you can very well work for it and you can be sure about having it all the time. You dont have to think that intuition is a gift. You can work for it. It can become a part of your life. When intuition happens beyond your intellect, your whole being is integrated. You are at your peak. When you are at your peak, something opens. You may call it a revelation or an intuition or anything else. Yogis have again and again said that it is a science.

If you can tune yourself to this intuition or this energy, which is continuously available in your being, you can use this in your regular life. Intuition is the energy of your being. When this pure energy starts flowing out from the unconscious level, it also heals you physically, mentally and emotionally. Apart from healing, it reduces stress and helps you to make decisions spontaneously. Spontaneity has nothing to do with data that you collect; it is something to do with the way in which you process the data. The same data, the same information, can be processed in many ways. Intuition is all about how you process data and how you come to conclusions beyond your intellect. We can prepare ourselves; we can tune ourselves to this energy of intuition through techniques and methods.

These techniques are what we call meditation. In the East, we use the word meditation to tune ourselves with the higher energy which is in our being, and which continuously invites us to experience it. Whenever you find time, just sit with yourself and observe. We are always ready to give an appointment to others, but never to ourselves! If you just sit with yourself, you can always see that some part of your being wants to express, wants to do something more; but we never give the chance or time to that part, to that portion of our being. We are so caught up with our intellect. We think that our intellect is the ultimate, but again and again Yogis have proven that something more than intellect is possible.

About this program This meditation camp is all about how the mind works, how to unload the deeply engraved memories in our unconscious, how to prevent further loading and how we can awaken the latent power of our being to move from instinct, to intellect to intuition, so that we may live like a Master and not a slave. This program will bring light into all your emotions and help you see the play of your mind. It will show you how you create the emotions for yourself and land up being a slave to them. It will show you how your emotions directly affect your well-being at the physical and mental levels. (Swamiji points to a chart.) Just take a look at this chart here.

Here you are able to see a human form with seven markings on it. Are all of you able to see? Yes. These seven markings on this human form are called chakras. The chakras are the subtle energy centers of our body. They are seven wheels of energy in our body. We dont have only one body, as we think. We have seven bodies energy bodies. I will explain the first three bodies now. The first body the one in which you have come here, in which you are moving, talking and writing this is called the jagrat shareera - the physical or waking body. The next body is the sukshma shareera - the dream body, the one that you use in your dream state. It is the body you use to travel from place to place in your dreams! In your dreams, you The chakra diagram Sahasrara Ajna Vishuddhi Anahata Manipuraka Swadhishtana Muladhara see yourself in various places, do you not? Sometimes you see yourself in places which you have not even been to in the waking state.

The third body is the kaarana shareera - the causal body, which you use when you are in deep sleep. This body does not move. Now, the latter two bodies meet the physical body at seven points along the length of the physical body. These seven points are known as the chakras. There are seven major chakras in our body. There are also a number of minor chakras, but these seven are the major ones that are responsible for our physical and mental well-being. These chakras were discovered a long time ago during the Vedic age. In fact, in many of the spiritual chants, you will find reference to the names of these chakras very often. Today science has proved that there is a gland located near each of these chakras that is related to that particular chakra.

These seven chakras supply energy to the glands. These seven major chakras deeply influence our physical, emotional and mental activities. They have great power. They are energy centers and if they are kept in a cleansed and energized condition, they can cause us to live an ecstatic and healthy life. Dis-ease is only an imbalance in any one of these chakras, because our body and mind are rooted in our inner consciousness. Keeping these chakras in a healthy state, we can see a transformation happening in us at the mental and physical levels. Let me tell you a small story. After World War I, a biplane was abandoned near a remote tribal settlement in Asia. The tribal people had never seen an aircraft in all their lives.

There was a lot of excitement and commotion about it and a big crowd gathered around it. They wondered what it might be and each one started giving some suggestion about it. They finally concluded that since it had wheels, it must be a bullock cart! News spread in the village about the new bullock cart. There was a lot of celebration in the village and the biplane was taken around the settlement yoked to bullocks, and it served as a bullock cart. Some weeks later, a young tribal boy who had returned from the city where he was studying, saw the biplane. He got into it and looked around. He saw all the gears and mechanisms in it. He fiddled with the switches and levers one by one.

Suddenly, the engine came to life. He managed to taxi the plane around on the ground for a short distance and the villagers were shocked at what they saw. The boy had seen tractors being used and declared to the people that the biplane was not a bullock cart but some kind of tractor. There was great celebration once again and the biplane started being used as a tractor! Six months passed by and a retired army officer came to the village. He saw the biplane being used as a tractor and was shocked! He told the villagers that it was not a tractor and that the plane could actually fly. They refused to believe him because the only things they had ever seen flying were birds! The army officer got into the aircraft, flew it for a short while and landed.

The villagers were wonderstruck. Then they understood it's true potential. You see: man is a wonderful mechanism that is meant to fly. But we dont know our true potentiality. We have a very limited view of ourselves. Most of us operate only as a bullock cart, at the instinct level, surrendering to our emotions. Those of us who associate ourselves with mostly external things like a home, a car, a profession, and other basic amenities, and dont look any further than that, use our bodies as a bullock cart. We just operate at the instinct level and remain with an overloaded unconscious mind. Those of us who additionally move into art, creativity, philosophy and such things involving not just the mind but the heart also, use our bodies as a tractor.

We will find a certain fulfillment in ourselves. A poet who has given birth to a poem will be happier than a woman who has given birth to a child. In the case of the latter, the womb is centered in the stomach whereas in the former it is centered in the heart, and so the fulfillment. These people will be able to operate at the intellectual level. Finally, the man who enters into spirituality and develops a thirst for true knowledge and realizes that he is the ultimate existential energy in physical form, uses his body as an aircraft. Enlightened Masters use their bodies as an aircraft. They are so ecstatic all the time. They rise beyond all miseries of the bullock cart and tractor and just fly! They operate at the intuitive level.

What should we do to become an aircraft? What was the difference between the villagers and the army officer? The aircraft remained the same. Nothing was added to it or removed from it. No physical changes were made in it. Then what was the difference? Knowledge. The knowledge of the mechanism of the aircraft. The villagers did not know that the device had such a mechanism that could be operated in a way that it could fly, whereas the army officer knew about it, that's all. The technique with which they handled the aircraft made it first a bullock cart, then a tractor and then finally an aircraft. Just like this, there are mechanisms or gears inside us, called the chakras, which are boundless energy centers, and which, when handled properly, can make us into an aircraft.

A man who has no knowledge of these chakras continues to walk on the ground, whereas a Master who knows how to operate them, simply flies! When we understand the science behind these chakras, we can become aware of our present deep unconscious state. Once we understand this, we can free ourselves from the load of the unconscious and start moving to the higher dimensions of our being. These chakras are not physical entities in our body. They are metaphysical representations because they belong to the auric body and not the physical body. Kirlian photography has enabled us to capture these chakras and prove their existence on the metaphysical plane. It has been proven that when a person is locked with a particular negative emotion, the chakra associated with that emotion shrinks to the size of a coat button.

It becomes that small. But when the same person experiences the associated positive emotion, the chakra expands to the size of a cartwheel! This is the effect that our emotions have on these energy centers, our chakras. Our energy flow in these chakras is blocked by our negative emotions and we are totally unaware of it. Understand: man has not been designed to be a worm that crawls on the ground; he has been designed to fly in the air. The science of flying is nothing but the science of learning how to handle the chakras, how to handle your emotions. If you learn how to use the seven chakras in the body, it is enough.