There are ways of overcoming these disturbing influences, and these are called the Mudrā-Śaktis. The attainments that you get by controlling these influences are called the Attainments, or the Siddhis.
The first Mudrā-Śakti is Sarva Saṃkṣobhiṇī. This means agitation.
You are agitated, but you transfer your agitation onto everything else. You interact with everyone. Saṃkṣobha actually means interaction; intercourse also.
Limited interaction within a small circle is possible for any ego-bound structure. But can you expand it to include the whole cosmos? How can you be in love with a cockroach? A bird? A swan? A flea? A star? A thermonuclear fusion? A hydrogen bomb?
When you have the notion that you love everything, this overcomes your limitations. You realize that the notion of love does not mean trying to possess the thing you want to hold onto, but letting go of the very thing.
Love is not imposing our will on others. It is trying to find out what others want and trying to give it to them to the best of your ability.
Sarva Saṃkṣobhiṇī Mudrā moves you from initial feelings of lust to love. This Mudrā is the act of expressing love.
Love takes different forms according to the object of your love. It is not the same mode in every case.
You love fire by not touching it.
Embracing a friend is an expression of love.
Both are expressions of love.
Because I love my child, I do not want to give the child too many chocolates, because I know it is bad for the stomach. Chocolates taste nice, but too much is bad. I know this, but the child does not know. So the parent’s expression of love includes sometimes denying what the child wants, knowing that it is not good for the child.
Love does not just mean sex alone. It means all types of interactions where you are trying to give your best to others — where giving is giving what the partner needs, not what you want to give; where letting go is letting go of the fruits of your action.
Sometimes your giving may yield your expected result; sometimes not. Love means detachment from expectation and result, not detachment from action.
Let me tell you a story.
Suppose there is a man-eating tiger roaming around in a village. A woman hears the roar of the tiger and tries to protect herself by running into closed doors, and somehow finds a little door where she can enter to hide.
The next day she is carrying her child and the same tiger comes along. All the doors are closed. There is no way she can escape.
What does she do?
She keeps the child somewhere else and goes and offers herself as prey to the tiger.
This is an expression of her love toward her child. Love overcomes the fear of death. She makes the supreme sacrifice to protect her child.
Love has the power to overcome fear.
Fear is the worst possible enemy you have. Your worst enemies are all inside you, not outside.
The enemies of any country are not other countries, but the fears that governments have about them.
If people could understand that our enemies are inside ourselves, we would not need all these weapons, guns, and shootings. Sometimes the words we speak to each other are worse than guns.
Thus, the Śrī Cakra is an expression of the cosmos, of yourself, and it is also a means of connecting these two. It represents a ladder by which you can come out of your limitations.
The four gates are the four basic types of knowledge:
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Ṛg Veda
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Yajur Veda
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Sāma Veda
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Atharvaṇa Veda
Veda is called Śruti.
What you hear in your meditation, in that deep state of tranquillity, is called Śruti.
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