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Namah Open to the Power of SSakti

and we are talking of power of SSakti. SSakti of the entire process. If you don’t experience
is a Sanskrit word, very badly translated pain, the entire process doesn’t start. It’s not
in English to the word, ‘energy’. SSakti and like reading books you open. So that want,
S
energy are hugely different. Sakti and power I want to get out of the pain, that want has
are hugely different. SSakti is something to be there.
beyond, something vast. So we will just keep
SSakti as SSakti, we will not translate it. And Facing pain and opening to SSakti
the power of Consciousness is the power of
SSakti. Consciousness in Sanskrit is Cit-SSakti. Let us classify that pain a little bit. The first
Consciousness is Consciousness-Force. And pain is a sense of weakness and fear; the pain
we have to open ourselves to that Force. of weakness, the pain of fear. Fear is the word.
Fear gives pain and I fight with that pain. I
How do I open? How do I know that I am have to face what makes me afraid. I have
open? I can take an indicator, and if that to stop running away. That famous story of
indicator is on, then I can say that I am open. Swami Vivekananda. He was in Benares and
And if the indicator is off, I say that I am was being chased by monkeys and he started
closed. I open the door, open the window, running. Suddenly a monk appeared and
and once I open the window or the door, said, “Hey, turn around and face the brutes!”
what happens? You perceive something with Something happened deep within Swami
your senses. If I open the window, I see the Vivekananda. Face what you are running away
sky, with my eyes, I feel the gush of wind, from. Somebody is scolding you; it is painful
with my tactile/touch sensation. I can smell, but don’t run away, listen to him, listen to
bad or good, whatever comes. Once I open the words that are hurting you, don’t close
to something, whatever is there on the other your ears; because you want to open to the
side, I will be able to perceive it. If I am not power of SSakti. Whatever hurts you, face it,
perceiving, I am not open. If I am not feeling go and face it. Why are you not facing it?
anything, I have not opened the window. I Why are you running away? Because it hurts.
am not smelling anything, I have not opened Exactly, that is the process, whatever hurts
the window. If I am not touching anything, you, just face it, get hurt. Dare to get hurt, face
not hearing anything, I have not opened it. Say, come on, hit me. That is the process by
the window. The senses are so simple The which you open, not by meditation and not
indicator of opening is perception. I perceive; by prayer. Life itself opens you. Meditation
what do I perceive? I perceive SSakti. If I am happens there. Prayer happens there. Go
open, I experience. If I am not experiencing, through that pain and going through that
I am not opening, I am closed. pain, you pray. Ask God, why this pain? And
if this pain is there, give me that power to bear
So, the question is: how do I open? The this pain. Give me the power to overcome this
answer is: I have to enter the process. Why pain. Go through it, face that pain, face that
should I open to the power of SSakti? I want to person, face that situation, face that event.
heal myself. Why should I heal? Because there That is the first part you open of yourself. To
is injury. What is the proof that there is injury? whom? To the first brute power, the power
There is pain. So, pain is the starting-point of Shakti, what we call Mahakali. You open

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