Mystic Mantra: The healing meditation

Our body and our being function with an energy which moves like a bioelectric current within us. When everything within functions perfectly, we can hear a hum arise out of our being — the sound of health. Energy, electricity, sounds — this is the play of the trinity in our being.

Listen to a madman and you feel you’re going crazy too, because the madman’s body electricity is in chaos, which you imbibe. Sit with an enlightened person and suddenly everything within you falls into a rhythm.

To connect with our inner and outer cosmos, Osho has given a very powerful method of meditation, Nadabrahma. It lasts for an hour and has three stages:

• Stage I (30 minutes): Sit in a relaxed stance, eyes and lips closed. Hum loudly, so others can hear you. Visualise a hollow tube or empty vessel, filled only with vibrations of humming. A point will come when the humming continues by itself and you become the listener. There is no special or move your body smoothly if you want.
• Stage II (15 minutes, two sections): For the first half, move your hands, palms facing up, in an outward circular motion. Starting at the navel, both hands move forward and apart to make two large arcs, left and right. The movement should be so slow that at times there appears to be no movement at all. It’s like you’re giving energy to the universe. In the second half, turn the palms down and move them in the reverse direction. Let the hands come together towards the navel, as if you’re taking energy in.
• Stage III (15 minutes): Sit or lie down, absolutely quiet and very still. This method of meditation gives deep peace and nourishes our being with the universal energy. Modern researchers observe that the psychodynamics of the mind as an electromagnetic structure establishes the nature and reality of consciousness as an inter-dimensional energy process. It is an electrical process of cause and effect.

Swami Chaitanya Keerti, editor of Osho World, is the author of Osho Fragrance