What scent does your meditation have?

​Dear All,

What scent does your meditation have? How can scent give you a deeper meditation?

Some sahaja yogis have mentioned that when they first had the experience of their kundalini awakening, it was accompanied by either a scent of roses or of sandalwood. When they looked around to see where the scent was coming from, there was nothing there and they realised that the scent seemed to be coming from within themselves.

It turns out that those most likely to get this experience have a very good mooladhara chakra because it's the mooladhara chakra that relates to scent. Even if you don't recall this experience with scent, a touch of diluted sandalwood or rose oil applied to the center of the crown of the head can add a subtle and pleasant extra feeling to your meditation.

The photo above was taken in 1994 in Tunis, the capital of Tunisia in Arab north Africa when Shri Mataji gave presents of vials of natural perfume (alcohol-free) or Ittar, to a group of arabic ladies who came to see her.

Interestingly, the region of the world most associated with the development of perfume is Arabia. And even today, if you get a chance to wander through the old souks of Bahrain, Dubai or any of the Arabic Gulf states, what is most likely to attract your attention is the waft of the scent of oud .

If you can get some arabic fragrance then these tend to be the best as an aid to meditation. Also if you tend to do a lot of concentrated work at the computer screen, which can affect the agnya chakra at forehead, then applying an invisible dab of sandalwood oil on the center of the forehead before you leave the house can soothe down the agnya.

Today's 6-minute video clip is about the mechanism of the Kundalini within you: 'Sacred Technology'.

See you at group meditation on Tuesday.

Regards

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