Meditation Exercise

"Early in the morning breathe in consciously seven times, and while you breathe in, try to feel that you are actually breathing in through your heart and not through your nose. Try to feel your breath is entering you through your heart centre. And while you are breathing out, try to feel that your breath is going up, up to the top of your head, and out through the 'thousand petalled lotus,' the crown centre at the top of your head. If you can feel, and not just imagine, that you are breathing through your heart, immediately purity will enter and start revolving and functioning in you.

"When you breathe in, you have to feel you are breathing in nothing but purity. It is not your mental imagination; it is the actual feeling that the air you are breathing is nothing but purity. When purity enters, it is like a current gong from the soles of the feet to the crown of the head. Everything inside is being purified by this current.

"When purity starts performing its role, impurity from the navel and lower centres travels up and is released into something beyond the mind. Do this early in the morning and in the evening also, if possible. Then your system is bound to be purified."

Quotes from The Divine Hero by Sri Chinmoy