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go of yourself; just float as one floats on the surface of the water. Just floating. You should be ready to go wheresoever the current of the river takes you. It is true that to a certain extent we have to provoke it, but when the energy is awakened, we have just to leave ourselves in its hands, we have to let go of ourselves. Higher forces have taken over, we need not worry anymore. We have to just float.
And third, with the upward rise of this energy many things will happen. Please see that you don't get scared when they happen, because new experiences are frightening. When a child is born, when he comes out of his mother's cozy womb, he gets frightened. Psychologists call it a trauma, a traumatic experience, an experience which a child will never forget, which will haunt him for the whole of his life. The child's fear of the new begins with his birth; because he had lived in complete security in the mother's womb for nine months. He had no worries whatsoever; he did not have to breathe, or eat or cry or do anything for him self; the mother did everything. The child was in a state of absolute rest and comfort. Coming out of the mother's womb he encounters a new and strange world altogether. This is the first shock of life, and it is here, at the very doorstep of life that fear grips him.
That is why everybody fears the new; they cling to the old and fear the new. It is the first experience of our life that the new puts us in great trouble. Mother's womb was a much better place than this world. That is why most of our contrivances that we use in daily living are fashioned after the mother's womb. Our cushions, sofas, cars, living rooms are all modeled after the mother's womb. We try to make them as cozy and comfortable as the womb, but we do not really succeed. So the first experience after coming from mother's womb is one of fear of the new.
The experience of the awakening of the kundalini, the primordial energy, is a new experience greater than the child's, because while the childbirth happens only at the level of the body, the awakening of the kundalini happens at the level of the soul. It is therefore, a totally new birth. It is for this
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