Mystics Musings Series – Body’s Plight – Shakthi Chalana Kriya

 Seeker: Sadhguru, in the past you have talked about how Shakthi Chalana Kriya helps with death. Would you please explain this further?

Sadhguru: The Shakthi Chalana Kriya that you are doing is a way to transform your life energies from just manufacturing a mass of flesh to manufacturing something so much subtler and so much more enduring than flesh. I’m sure you have no illusions about this, that the nature of life is such, this body is on loan for you from the earth. Mother Earth has loaned it to you, isn’t it? She doesn’t charge interest, but the loan is one hundred percent recovered. Not a cell or atom you can take with you; it’s one hundred percent recovery.

Now when you have this body, you can manufacture something else, which the earth cannot reclaim. So the whole spiritual process is just that, trying to earn yourself something that the earth cannot reclaim from you. Whether you do Shakthi Chalana Kriya, meditation or something else, all you’re trying to do is to earn something that the earth cannot reclaim. If you do not earn that, then when the loan collection comes, the earth will take everything and will not leave anything with you. Then, you know, the next part of the journey will not be good. If you have cash in your pocket you travel more comfortably, yes? Otherwise, you’ll be in trouble.

You are preparing for the journey of your life with qualifications, with money, with clothes, with homes, with families, with relationships, fully knowing that all this has only a brief existence. It’s needed, right? It is fine, but it need not be made into such a big issue. It should not be a life-consuming issue. A certain part of your energy you can dedicate to take care of your well-being, your physical and mental well-being, your comforts and your things, whatever you need. You are capable of that. You have the necessary intelligence and energy to do it. It’s only because your life is all messed up that it does not produce what it has to produce. If you streamline yourself, you will see, earning your living and living well is very much possible without twenty-four hours of dedication; but you know very well that you have to drop all this. If you sit here for a moment with eyes closed, you can see that you seem to be something a little more than this body. You may not know what it is, but you can feel that you are something a little more than this body, isn’t it?

If anybody just closes his eyes for two minutes and looks, he can see that what he calls as ‘himself’ is something more than the body. When the body is reclaimed, if you do not have anything with you for the next part of the journey, it won’t be good. This is not only about the next part of the journey, but right now, this part of the journey also won’t be very good. You may have many valuable things, you may have many people with you, you may have everything, but you, as a person, will never know one moment of peace if your energies are not good. So both for this journey and whatever may be beyond it, it is important that you begin to manufacture subtler dimensions of energy around you. The Shakthi Chalana Kriya that we teach you here is for this. This morning and evening Shakthi Chalana Kriya, if you keep on doing it, slowly you will find every breath becomes a source of manufacturing subtler forces around you. Pranayama does not only mean breath. This must be understood. Shakthi Chalana Kriya means to control the vital energies. Control of vital energies need not necessarily mean using the breath.

Even if I move my fingers like this, I can have total control over my energy. I can shift my energy wherever I want it. Not just in the body, anywhere, literally anywhere in the world. Whenever you wish, you can have your energy anywhere once you have certain mastery over your energies. Initially, you are using breath as a means. Breath is only a tool, but it’s not about the breath. Even without the breath it can be done. It has nothing to do with the breath really. The breath is just used as an initial tool, but once a with families, with relationships, fully knowing that all this has only a brief existence. It’s needed, right? It is fine, but it need not be made into such a big issue. It should not be a life-consuming issue. A certain part of your energy you can dedicate to take care of your well-being, your physical and mental well-being, your comforts and your things, whatever you need. You are capable of that. You have the necessary intelligence and energy to do it. It’s only because your life is all messed up that it does not produce what it has to produce. If you streamline yourself, you will see, earning your living and living well is very much possible without twenty-four hours of dedication; but you know very well that you have to drop all this. If you sit here for a moment with eyes closed, you can see that you seem to be something a little more than this body. You may not know what it is, but you can feel that you are something a little more than this body, isn’t it?

If anybody just closes his eyes for two minutes and looks, he can see that what he calls as ‘himself’ is something more than the body. When the body is reclaimed, if you do not have anything with you for the next part of the journey, it won’t be good. This is not only about the next part of the journey, but right now, this part of the journey also won’t be very good. You may have many valuable things, you may have many people with you, you may have everything, but you, as a person, will never know one moment of peace if your energies are not good. So both for this journey and whatever may be beyond it, it is important that you begin to manufacture subtler dimensions of energy around you. The Shakthi Chalana Kriya that we teach you here is for this. This morning and evening Shakthi Chalana Kriya, if you keep on doing it, slowly you will find every breath becomes a source of manufacturing subtler forces around you. Pranayama does not only mean breath. This must be understood. Shakthi Chalana Kriya means to control the vital energies. Control of vital energies need not necessarily mean using the breath.

Even if I move my fingers like this, I can have total control over my energy. I can shift my energy wherever I want it. Not just in the body, anywhere, literally anywhere in the world. Whenever you wish, you can have your energy anywhere once you have certain mastery over your energies. Initially, you are using breath as a means. Breath is only a tool, but it’s not about the breath. Even without the breath it can be done. It has nothing to do with the breath really. The breath is just used as an initial tool, but once a certain amount of mastery is there, it just does not matter. So Shakthi Chalana Kriya is not just about morning and evening. As you keep the practice going, you will see that the very quality of your breath throughout the day is different. Do you feel this? The very way it is, is different. In a way, yes, Shakthi Chalana Kriya is a way of preparing for the last breath and beyond.

Shakthi Chalana Kriya is higher level program in Isha. Shakthi Chalana Kriya is set of powerful practices, which is taught along with Shoonya meditation initiation.  Click here for more