Pyramid of Self-Realization

Recharging the Body With Cosmic Energy

Notes from a talk at 2007 Convocation by Brother Keshabananda

How does energization work?

• Even though we seem solid, we are all energy. The body is made of atoms with lots of empty space. These atoms have been to all kinds of places before they became our bodies: other planets, stars, other forms, etc. When we die, these atoms are no longer held together and go elsewhere. Any one of us may have one billion atoms that were Shakespeare, Buddha, Einstein, maybe even Elvis!

• Our master reasoned that if we are energy, we must have a way to recharge with energy. He invented energization, which is based on the principle that we can constantly and instantly recharge from an unlimited supply of cosmic energy.

• We have 27,000 billion cells in our body. Each cell is like a battery that gets energy from two sources:

1. oxygen, sun, and food
2. cosmic energy

• Cosmic energy has tremendous intelligence. It knows how to run the cells, convert food to energy, and many other functions. In the futvure, it will be our food. We are seemingly unable to access this energy. But our guru shows us how.

• God’s energy is flowing into our body at all times. An infinite dynamo constantly infuses our body with peace, energy, and happiness.

Would you like to increase your energy today?

• Then remember this:

The greater your will, the greater your energy.

Getting more energy is primarily a matter of will.

• This apparently solid body is made of whirling atoms and smaller particles, semi-intelligent sparks of God’s consciousness. So why don’t we feel it when we wake up in the morning? Ancient yogis show us that we can through pranayama or life force control.

• We can do it right now.

1. Grab your forearm with your opposite hand and rub it up and down fast and hard. Then raise that forearm and slowly lower it.

2. Rotate your hands around each other as we do when we do the healing prayer for others. Feel the energy flow in from the medulla. Then hold your arms up and slowly lower them.

• Food and oxygen create electricity in the body. Energization exercises electrify your body. We can vitally recharge every cell in the body through Kriya yoga and energization.

• We have a tremendous amount of energy in our bodies. One gram of flesh can light the city of Chicago for 2 days. We have the equivalent of 30 hydrogen bombs in our body if we could liberate it and if we really wanted to make a statement!

• If you unite your energy with God’s energy, you could literally move mountains. We can accomplish anything with the realized power of faith. Faith creates vibrations so potent it can literally uproot a mountain and cast it into the sea.

• Yogis don’t age if they chose not to. I met a 110 year old Himalayan yogi sitting in a cold mountain cave in a loin cloth. I asked the yogi if he is doing this to get closer to God. He said, "No. We are here to show you your potential."

Concentration and Will Power

• Energization is first and foremost about using will. Concentrate, use your will, and visualize energy coming from the outer cosmic source through the medulla oblongata to any body part.

Awaken to the source of energy through will power.

• Love is key. Under the influence of love, will can do almost anything. So do these exercises with devotion.

• These exercises cultivate health, calmness, and control of the life force.

• Do each exercise with deepest concentration and will power.

• The more will, the more the medulla opens up, the more energy goes in.

• Visualize energy going into the medulla and send it to the body part.

• Though twice a day is recommended, you can do these exercises more than that if you wish.

• You can do more than the prescribed number of repetitions if you wish.

• If you have a weak or diseased body part or body, you can visualize yourself doing the exercises as though you are doing them. Picture the energy coming into the medulla and going to the body part.

• This is pranayama, an exercise involving interiorization. We are directing consciousness and energy within.