Mystic Mantra: Are you a jigsaw puzzle?

If you feel disintegrated, scattered, lack of enthusiasm, no flow of creativity, confused know for sure that you have become a jigsaw puzzle: A collection of fragments with no centre, no wholeness. You may be aware of it or not, but the centre of your life is missing, the centre that binds and guides your energy. The centre is the point around which your life moves, your life energy springs from your centre.  Without a centre, you can go on doing routine things in your life, but you can never be creative. You will live at the minimum. Only by centring does one live at the maximum, at the zenith, at the climax, and that is the only living, a real life.

Where is this magical centre then? One would ask. Can we find it or develop it so that it can guide us and integrate our energies? This centre is located near the navel and is called Hara in Japanese. Everyone is born with it, but nobody pays attention to it because they have not been educated about it. Osho has given tremendous importance to Hara as it is the source of life energy. Just by being aware of the Hara, concentrating on that point you will find a discipline arising in you. It comes naturally, it has not to be forced.  The more you are aware of the Hara, the less you will become afraid of life and death because that is the centre of life and death. Once you become attuned to the Hara centre, you can live courageously. Courage arises out of it: less thinking, more silence, less uncontrolled moments, natural discipline and rootedness, a groundedness.

That is the centre from where one enters life, and that is the centre from where one dies and goes out of life. So that is the contact centre between the body and the soul.   Osho suggests a short meditation to develop the Hara centre. It can be done in the night when you go to sleep and also the first thing in the morning. Lie down on the bed and put both your hands two inches below the navel and press a little. Start breathing deeply. You will feel this centre coming up and down with the breathing. Feel your whole energy there as if you are shrinking and you just exist there as a small centre, as a concentrated energy. Fall asleep doing it. That will be helpful. Then the whole night the process of centring persists. Again and again, the unconscious goes and centres there. So the entire night without your knowing, you will be coming in many ways in deep contact with the centre. In the morning, the moment you feel that you are coming out of sleep, wait, don’t open your eyes first. Again put your hands there, push a little, start breathing; feel the Hara. Do this for five to 10 minutes and then get up.