Spiritual Awakening Explained Through Tantra
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In this episode, Chandresh shares a step-by-step guide to awakening and self-healing through the tantra principles. Many people in the past have asked how to cultivate a disciplined and advanced meditation practice using tantra.
This episode is an answer to that as Chandresh shares very specific details starting from lifestyle changes to help kickstart an advanced sadhana practice. He addresses how to channel and work with anger and sexual energy, how to go deeper into your awareness using silence, how breathing can be a powerful medium toward healing, and more.
Chandresh also shares what chakra to focus on, what meditation to cultivate to go deeper, what intentions, and what deity from tantra could be helpful. These fine elements are ones that are powerful and abundantly available to you. You just need to learn them and channel them by following the step to step guide offered in this episode.
We hope this advanced guide toward your self-healing and spiritual awakening through the tantra principles helps support you and resonate with you as you cultivate your own disciplined meditation practice.
Have any questions or curiosities about your spiritual journey? Email Chandresh at askcb@leelagurukul.com.
Episode Transcript
Awareness is beautiful. Awareness is healing. And in this moment, awareness is fully available in its complete abundance. And yet, we are not able to connect to it in every moment. We are scattered. We feel lost. We are here, there, and everywhere in our thoughts. Many times, we are not even aware of what we are thinking. We become a little aware about our thoughts only after we speak, only after we write them on a text. And once it's done, we regret. "Why did I write this? Why did I speak this? Why did I make false promises in love when I was not feeling them?" And how sad it is that we don't become aware of our thoughts before we put them out in the world. There is so much unconscious energy of thoughts out there.
When we start to make this commitment to be a little reflective, to be a little more aware, then we start to pay attention about our thoughts before we put out there. And still, it's not enough, not enough to take us beyond the noise of the world, not enough to take us beyond this scattered, fractured system that's being cultivated on a daily basis around us. This episode is a step-to-step guide to how you can cultivate your solitude, your healing, and create a system of your own where the awareness is fully available when you make a choice to access it. I am Chandresh Bhardwaj, and this is Leela Gurukul.
Namaste everyone. I hope you're doing well. I hope you are feeling safe, happy, grounded wherever you are. Once again, my gratitude for accepting this transition from Break the Norms Podcast to Leela Gurukul Podcast. To me, to our team, it felt just organic. And I hope you also feel as organic as we are. And what I'm going to share in this episode is really one of the foundation systems of the Conscious Meditation Program in Leela Gurukul. As we were creating the Conscious Meditation Program, I started to visualize a certain way of diving deeper, a certain way of cultivating a solid system of accessing that spiritual strength, accessing that eternal bliss and peace. And what you're going to hear is sort of essence, fragrance of the Conscious Meditation program. And if you feel resonated with it, do apply for the waitlist, because if you are in the waitlist, you and I will get to chat on the Zoom call and discuss Conscious Meditation Program in person.
Now, let's talk about how I visualize this entire system of what I'm going to share. I highly recommend that you become very honest with it as you practice it, which means if you are going to give your attention to it, then give complete attention, complete focus, strength, dedication to it. Because if you half-heartedly do it, you will not get the result. And if you don't get the result, you might feel bored or you might feel the system is not working. But this is not my system or Leela's system. This is the tested and proven teachings of the yogis, the gurus, the tantrics from thousands of years. It works, but it needs your attention, your focus, your promise basically.
For those who have been meditating for a good amount of time, I can tell you this will feel really solid next step. And for those who have never meditated, even for those this will feel powerful. But for those who have been meditating on and off, you might have a little trouble getting back to it because the consistency is missing, right? When consistency is missing, things will be scattered. So you could be meditating two minutes a day. That's much better than meditating one hour a week on a particular day. So I don't recommend you meditate one hour on a Sunday morning. But if you meditate five minutes every day, that's much better. It's like eating normal food in moderation everyday compared to just bingeing eating on a weekend. That's not healthy. So pay attention to the flow because I'm going to start from a certain timing of your day and then the lifestyle as the day progresses. Hopefully, it will all make sense when you listen to it and make notes.
One powerful instrument that you are going to use in this entire step-to-step guide is you're breathing. I'm not going to make mantra or divine feminine consciousness or any deity in tantra mandatory, but breathing is only one aspect of it that I highly recommend you use. Because without breathing, this entire system fails. Without breathing, nothing you do in meditation will bloom. The beautiful thing about breathing is it's happening 24/7, right? There's nothing else that you're doing 24/7. You're not meditating and sitting 24/7. You are not running or working out 24/7. You're not laughing 24/7, not dancing 24/7, not writing poems 24/7. You are breathing 24/7.
And I'm so glad it's happening even without your effort, because if it was happening based on our effort, we could stop breathing, I don't know, seven minutes after being born, right? Because we are just lazy beings. If it was up to us, we would have New York Bestseller books, courses, memberships, telling us how to remind yourself to breathe. Even now we have plenty of courses teaching us how to breathe. Don't take the breathing for granted. It's such a powerful gift. When you start to use it, you have control over an entire journey of your life. So breathing, we will be showing up in all steps here.
Now, I'm going to start from the first minute you wake up. Some of you might experience this. When you wake up in the morning, there is a minute or two when you are still coming back to this physical awareness. It's almost like you were somewhere else, and you're slowly stepping into your body. The surroundings are slowly making sense. And it's not because you haven't had your coffee yet. It's simply because it's the shift in your awareness. It's coming back to the physical body, right? And some of you often tell me that you wake up without any alarm at a very odd hour. And sometimes it's 3:00, 4:00 in the morning. Randomly. 5:00 in the morning.
I want to tell you that the moment you wake up, even before you're opening your eyes, the moment you realize, "Okay, I'm not sleeping anymore. I'm up," in that moment itself, start to build a conscious breathing. You're still on bed. Start to become aware of your legs, your arms, your navel center, your heart, your third eye. Just be aware of them. Be aware that the legs exist. Be aware there is a sensation in your hands. Be aware the navel energy is there. And without any effort at all, just breathe.
When I say conscious breathing, I'm telling you to breathe in a certain way. Inhaling the breath, holding it for a moment and gently exhaling it. And you're doing this the moment you wake up. It could be one of those 4:00 AM random... but not so random waking up hour, or it could be your usual waking up hour. Start your morning with this. Just effortless breathing. That's all. And continue this throughout the day.
When you're eating, try to take gentle breathing. When you're walking, take some deep breathing. When you get a text and email, when you're on Zoom calls, when you are meeting new people, even if you're on date, even if you are speaking to your boss, anyone, just take deep breaths. And I know as the holiday season will start to show up in a few months, I mean, holidays come every month. One of those, the whole December, January time, you'll be meeting your family. Those moments often bring triggers, challenges. If you build this practice of effortless breathing, by the time you arrive at holiday season, you'll be in much more control of your anxiety. But this is number one promise you have to make to yourself, that I will consciously breathe throughout the day. And if you set this system early morning before when you open your eyes, you are simply breathing in, holding the breath and breathing out, you will notice this will help you to regulate this conscious breathing throughout the day.
Now, I'm going to mention few elements that we all go through. This breathing will transfer there, okay? Number 1, food. The relationship with food is very interesting, right? I feel everything else shows up later in our life, but the food, it shows up from the day 1 of our conceiving. We need food to survive. And as we grew up, the culture, the energy around us, the family, everything influences what we eat, how we eat, and how our relationship with food will develop. Whenever I have gone through any physical illness, any allergy or anything severe to my physical body, most of the times I've been able to solve it by simply shifting the food.
I don't think I shared this with you before, but few months ago, I had a severe food poisoning. And in all honesty here, there's a restaurant here. It's called Tantra. So I ordered garlic naan there. Then naan was great, but I think there was something in the naan or the chickpeas I had with the naan. Anyway, next day I knew there was some food poisoning. They usually make good food. I'm not giving them bad reviews there, but something must have gone wrong, so I had severe food poisoning. And I was traveling. When I spoke to doctor, they were recommending, "Why don't you do this test?" Because it wasn't going away. And in two, three days, I'd realize this pain is not going to go away. I don't want to go through the whole testing, the whole heaviness of that, treating this problem, because everyone was very busy in treating the symptom.
But thankfully, I have access to doctors who are very successful doctors, but they don't prescribe the drug, the medicine right away. They recommended maybe trying out more water, more ginger and stuff. So I started implementing those along with conscious breathing. And the whole pain, the poisoning effect, it was gone. It faded away in few days and fully gone completely. But that's the power of how our relationship with food starts to shift when you really pay attention to it.
And I'm telling you, food is less connected with our hunger. It's much more connected with our habit. The habits drive our food decisions. Like, it could be 7:00 PM and you start to crave a certain kind of food. You could be going to a particular place, a city, a town, or even a certain part of your town, right? And you will start to crave something that they make good there. It's such interesting psychology that happens with food. Food is deeply connected with how we understand our psychology and behavior. If you wish to dive deeper in your spiritual Sadhana, start to understand your relationship with food.
There's a mantra in Eastern traditions, which says Annan Brahman, which means there is divinity in food, there is a godliness in food. It's such important profound teaching, because what we put in the body, it has direct effect on us. In few days, Navratri is coming, which is a very sacred tantra ritual. For nine days, we honor the divine feminine. Any traditional Hindu Indian may not eat any meat for those nine days, or certain traditional people may not eat any food for those nine days. They fast. They may eat only fruits or maybe have food once a day. I don't subscribe to it personally because I feel I could not be eating something for nine days, but what about the rest of the year? Because all the people I know who fast during a certain religious or spiritual ritual they overindulge in other days, or they overindulge when there is no restriction.
What I recommend is we stick to the food in a balanced way. And I'm telling you with 100% honesty, I'm not able to do that all the time. But a remembrance, a promise to yourself goes a long way, because our relationship with food is not just built in the last five years. It's built even before you were born. Your ancestors, your DNA, your genes, I mean, they all contribute to what you eat, how you eat, how you handle your food habits. But if you start to shift that relationship, it will impact strongly in your meditation. So balanced eating. If you know a certain food is not helping, stop eating that, or indulge in that food occasionally.
One little sacrifice I would recommend, before you meditate, at least don't eat for two hours. At least for two, three hours, don't put anything in the stomach. Let your stomach be light, because so much of the tantra meditations are around the navel. The belly has to be relaxed. But if such heavy food goes into the belly, I mean, then complete energy goes to digest it. It made me let go of my love for Boba tea. If you love Boba tea, we can be friends. I'm so glad I haven't had one in a good amount of time, because it became a daily habit at one point. It wasn't good. I had to let go of that love because I would drink it in the evening, during my jogging. How terrible was that? I would drink it during my jogging because there was this amazing Boba place on the way to jog. And we became friends, the Boba owner and I. Sometimes he would give me large size and I'm asking only for the small. But yeah, that's a story for another day.
So I realized each time I'm drinking it, it's affecting my meditation. When I'm drinking it in maybe afternoon, it's not affecting me so much. But I really had to rebuild my relationship with that. And I recommend whatever is your Boba, whatever is your go-to dessert or go-to delicious, yum food, you can have it, just have it in balance. Moderation, balanced eating for the sake of your spiritual growth. That is my deeper reason of understanding my relationship with food, because I do not want an impulsive or tempting addiction to food affect the meditation. So, very important friends; conscious breathing blended with the food.
Now, another element that we go through often is the sexual energy. Just like the food, this is also a habit. Our family narrative, our religion, the narrative around us in society affects how we handle the sexual energy. Now, there is plenty of content in this podcast where I keep suggesting to transcend lust, to transcend the sexual energy. That's the ultimate tantra teaching; to transcend it, not to suppress it, not to fix it, not to heal it, but transcend it. You can transcend sexual energy by not reacting to it.
What is happening now is blind unconscious reaction. There is no such thing as sexual energy in the body. All we have is energy, but when we are unconscious about it especially when you start to meditate, the energy starts to build up. And if we are not aware of that build up of energy, it will fall down like following the law of gravitation. And when it falls down, it will touch the lower centers. It will touch the root chakra, below the belly. And as a result of that, we indulge in the sexual experience. It could be a physical act of sex. It could be masturbation. It could be porn. It could be just a random impulsive behavior, right? But if you start to pay awareness in that moment, it will rewire your entire awareness. It will rewire how you respond to life and energy, because what you're calling sexual energy was actually life energy. It was prana, which was not handled well.
The whole narrative about making you more sexual through certain meditations, do not buy into that, because if you are still chasing a certain peak of sexual energy even after 40, 50 or a certain age, then it simply means you're playing with the same toy that you used to play when you were 10 year old. I know when we were 15, that energy had its own impact. When we were 25, it started changing. When you were 35, it started changing. But the problem is, we still react to it as we would react to it when you were 18. Don't you think this is not natural, not normal? Our relationship with this energy has to shift. If you do not shift your relationship with your sexual energy, then it's going to be a huge disaster. Because the more you meditate, the more this energy will build up. The more this energy builds up, the more impulse, the more urge, the more unconscious pattern might show up. But if you have not done your work, you will be in trouble. But if you've done the work, you will create a very conscious, powerful outlet to this energy.
And that's tantra. Tantra helps you to transcend this buildup of energy. Do not judge this. Do not go against it. Enjoy when the sexual energy builds up, but also know when to move it forward. And if you are into the conscious breathing, how you handle the food, the sexual energy will be super easy. A quick exercise to do this, as the moment it starts to build up in you, go through conscious breathing and ask yourself, "What's a creative conscious outlet I can give to this energy right now?" If you are meeting someone or speaking to someone that you feel really attracted toward, instead of indulging in lust with them, ask yourself, "How about today I transcend lust?" Go through mindful breathing and connect to this human in a different way. Maybe in a more emotional way, maybe just being in silence, maybe just sitting together and gazing at the clouds. Do something different. Shock your system in a great way. And you'll know sexual energy will stop influencing you, because you will start influencing it.
The third layer is the layer of anger. Food, sex, anger, I mean, these are interesting elements that keep us busy all day. So when the anger shows up, what do you do? If you tell yourself anger is bad, that is a bad way to handle the anger because anger in itself is not a problem. Anger is a reminder. It's reminding you of something. It's either reminding you of something that happened 50 years ago, or even in the past lifetime. So when the anger shows up, don't react. Don't jump into it right away. But first understand what it might be reminding you of, what center it might be hitting.
Many of us live in the false center of our consciousness. There is an episode I recorded a long time ago. It was about finding the center of your consciousness. If you browse to a bunch of last episodes, not in the last 20 or 30, it's probably in the mid 20s or 30s, you'll notice this episode Center of Consciousness. Many of us are not connected to our center of consciousness. And we start taking things too personally. We start reacting to everything that's around us, because the truth is, no one around us is saying anything about us. Whatever people are writing or reacting, it reveals so much about themselves than it barely reveals anything about us. But when we are not connected to our conscious center, we become very fragile because we are clinging to wrong centers of our awareness. And that wrong center is always depending on the external. It's always depending on the outside.
Whenever anything from the outside has effect on us, we will be angry because we are not here. And that anger is telling you that, "I am showing up because you are not home. You are far away from home. Come back to home and I'll stop coming." Anger is a beautiful reminder that you are not in your home. Come back to the home. That's what it's trying to tell you.
Again, the conscious breathing will be tremendously powerful. Each time the anger shows up, breathe in, hold the breath, and release. I can keep going on the anger because I have spoken so much on anger in the YouTube videos, in the podcast. The truth is, there are so many tricks, so many things you can do with your anger to just move away from it. Some quick examples, POP; pause, observe, and then proceed. 24-hour mantra; do not respond to an angry text or anything anxious for at least 24 hours. Another reminder, don't choose the battles unconsciously, because there is no battle that's worth jumping into. And if there is, that would be 1 in a 100. And when you choose it, it's not even out of anger. It's out of a much bigger, larger than life reason. But instead of hating the anger, instead of bypassing it, start to become friends with it. Start to understand the roots of the anger and what it's trying to tell you.
If you have developed conscious breathing, all these elements; the element of eating, the element of sexual energy, the element of anger will be beautiful to handle. In fact, it will become such a playful experience because these elements you will come across every day. And if the conscious breathing is happening in an amazing way, then you're going to really handle it all smartly, wisely. When you should do conscious breathing? As I said, start from the moment you wake up, even for one minute as you are doing other things; taking shower, walking, listening to someone, responding to someone, reading something. Connect conscious breathing with everything. When you're sitting in meditation, make it a point that for the first five, seven minutes, you will indulge in that conscious breathing.
Now, another important aspect of deepening your Sadhana, your awakening, is silence. You have no idea how much of your energy is lost when we talk, how much of energy is just gone, wasted, because we are impulsively talking. This is the reason even though I love the app Clubhouse, I'm not able to spend a lot of time on it because it's very energy consuming. And silence is super fondly beautiful.
I will not be talking too much about silence because I have spoken for one hour in Break the Norms podcast, Episode number 108. Okay? Episode 108, for 57 minutes, you will hear how to cultivate self-realization through practice of silence. It's one of the most important and popular episodes in the podcast. Go for it. Invite the teaching of silence in your journey, because when you embrace silence, everything else will become so much more powerful. Everyone else will lose their control on you, because suddenly you are connected to a much more higher power, and you will not be influenced by any external compliment or criticism because the solitude becomes your home.
These teachings, these lessons until now were to build something 24/7 on a daily basis. Because what I'm going to share with you is going to be useless if you don't practice. These aspects of conscious breathing, the aspect of going deeper into silence, transcending the lust, the anger, all of these are extremely important points. And what I'm going to share now is a step-by-step meditation, technique, method, process, whatever you want to call it. Hopefully, this will help you to really crack open the code.
Number 1 step, sit relaxed, keep your spine straight. I recommend sitting on a cushion or even on a chair. Unless you have a physical condition where you cannot sit with your spine straight, you can lie down. But in all other situations, sit straight. Keep your palms open because your fingertips are your energy receptors. That's where the energy is generated. On top of your head is the crown center, or it's known as the crown center. That's where we receive energy. Do not touch that. Do not do anything with it. Crown center or crown chakra is something that's affected nicely, automatically, as a consequence of all the spiritual work you are doing, all the meditations you are doing.
So if I'm saying don't touch it, the truth is even if you want to, you cannot touch it. But what happens, people in an attempt to do things with crown chakra or feeling that power over crown chakra, they end up messing things. And people who have experimented with crown chakra, many of them go into serious mental health problems. Many of them go into serious psychological disorders, because it is highly sensitive space to touch. The gurus, the masters for whom the crown chakra is opened, they are instantly in a childlike energy. So they renounce everything in a blink of a moment. It's that powerful. In case you are playing with it, in case you are a coach, teacher, healer playing with the crown chakra with your students, don't do it for yourself and for them.
We don't touch the crown chakra. That's the welcoming space that through the crown chakra space, energy enters into us, and it leaves the body through the feet. So it's recommended when you meditate, do not wear a shoe, do not wear socks. Just keep the bare feet. The only element in between the crown center and the feet is your hands. That's in your power. So keep the palms open. When you feel the warmth in the hands during meditation, just relax the palms. The more you relax it, the better it becomes. The more stronger and receptive your palms become.
Many people may think of this entire process as a way to accomplish or manifest something. Do not fall into that trap, because all the powerful, beautiful, magical things in life are purposeless. They're priceless. Love doesn't have a purpose. Laughter doesn't have a purpose. I'm looking at a tree or a bunch of trees right now through my window. None of them have a purpose. They're simply blooming. And while blooming, they're serving plenty of purposes, but there's no purpose in itself. Just like life does not have a purpose. Life in itself is a purpose. So let go of this obsession with the law of attraction and manifestations. Because when you are meditating and diving deeper into this process, things will start to manifest effortlessly. Things will bloom the way it's destined to bloom in your journey.
So, important step, number 1, sit straight, keep the palms open. Just be mindful of this energy movement and spend the next few moments in just witnessing what's coming in, what's going out. Any sound, any silence, watch it as they are coming and going. You're not going to try to concentrate, so it doesn't matter if there's a lot of noise, sound, or nothing, because you're not going to fix that. You cannot fix that. Your job is to simply show up as a witness.
And as you're witnessing, understand there's a body sitting, but there's also something beyond the body in you. There's also something beyond this physical identity, the social identity that's meditating. What's beyond that is your conscious awareness. You can call it Atma, Chetna, solitude, stillness, mindfulness, they all are labels. I don't really care what label we end up choosing as long as you are able to witness that awareness. Be aware of that conscious awareness. Be gentle with it. Be possessed with it, which means don't interfere. As this awareness starts to expand within you and around you, just be available to it fully.
Very gently, very consciously, invite this awareness around your navel center. The navel center is the center of our consciousness. That's where the magic happens. You can even touch the navel if you want. Welcome this awareness around the navel as if it's a beautiful guest that you have been awaiting. This awareness is a beautiful companion that you have been waiting for. Invite this awareness around the navel. Take few moments to gently expand it little above the navel and below the navel. And at your pace, start the conscious breathing. Inhaling, holding, and exhaling of the breath. Inhale through the nostrils, hold it, and gently exhale through the nostrils. Start with five to six minutes. And as your meditation expands, you can keep on adding more minutes into this conscious breathing step.
And after that, a little advanced step of working with your senses will show. I've released a video on YouTube this week, which talks about working with your senses. I'm sharing a few mudras, and that mudra means posture. Two mudras are very important here. One is Mayur Pankh Mudra, which means feathers of peacock. In Mayur Pankh Mudra, we place our palms very softly on our eyes. As I said, the hands, the palms are the energy receptors. So when you place your palms on your eyes, they're blocking the sense of seeing. And in that particular moment, entire energy shows up on your third eye, which then sends the energy to rest of the energy centers. Even if you do just this one step for two to five minutes a day, it starts to bring huge amount of energy.
I recommend you do not exceed two minutes for a good few weeks. After maybe two months, you can shift from two to five minutes. And if you have been doing it for one year, just reach out to me, and we'll talk how much the duration could be, because it is a highly sensitive, highly powerful step. And how you can do it, I've explained in the video. There's a certain way you have to gently keep your palms on your eyes. When you watch the video, you would know.
The Mayur Pankh Mudra is very powerful to reabsorb, redirect the energy back into your consciousness. When you keep on doing it, your presence becomes your most powerful prayer. When you walk into a room, people feel the love, the compassion you carry within. And if you have been doing the Mayur Pankh Mudra for a few years, the next step would be the Yoni Mudra or the Shakti Mudra. This one is complicated to explain through the podcast, but when you watch that YouTube video, you will know. The link would be in the show notes.
This particular mudra called the Shakti Mudra, this involves blocking the sense of your eyes; seeing, hearing; the ears, smelling; the nostrils, and then below the mouth. So you block all these senses. And as a result, the prana, the consciousness really starts to multiply and expands in each cell, in every layer of your body, every layer of your awareness. It's powerful. It's healing. It's probably the top most mudra in tantra to practice. If you do it on a daily basis, this will start to create your most powerful version. You could be a healer, an accountant, a lawyer, a writer. You could be in any profession. It will create the most polished, refined version of you in that process.
For those who are even more interested in working with the senses, I would recommend take a day or few hours in a day to simply block one sense. You could completely stop talking, which I have explained in the silence episode. Maun, silence, that's one way to indulge in this work with the senses. You could also put a cover around your ears and just don't listen to anything for one day or for a few hours. Or you could even put a blindfold on your eyes and just be in your own universe, in your own zone.
There's a tantra practice where you can turn off the light in the room and sit with your eyes open. It's a meditation with your eyes open, but there is so much darkness in the room that you don't see anything. And with your eyes open, you practice conscious breathing. Any feeling, any vibration happening in the body, you continue to be the watcher of that experience. You could also close your eyes after in that deep darkness and continue to take that within you.
There are many ways of working with the senses. If you are part of Leela already, we would be diving deeper into it. Right now, we are indulging with just the element of emotions, anger, the way these feelings are showing up. But this is such a deep work. It's meant to evolve throughout the life freely.
Once your work with senses start to become comfortable, then work with intentions. Invite the gentle, mindful intentions. Intention is the fuel of your awareness. There's plenty of content on this episode. Not in this episode, in this podcast, where I've spoken about intentions. I highly recommend you listen to intentions episodes and maximize the information through it. It's also something we write on Instagram of Leela Gurukul a lot.
Finally, once the intentions are planted and you have been consistently practicing all of the above points, the final step is starting to invite a particular deity or energy. Because I'm a tantra student, I come from tantra lineage, I'm going to suggest a tantra deity could be Shiva, could be goddess Kali, other deities in tantra. But you don't have to limit yourself to that. You could invite any deity. But before you invite that element, be extremely aware about the nature, the vibe of that element.
For example, you can work with a particular mountain or a river. But it shouldn't be just your imagination. You should have some connection, some relationship, because that will make the journey easier. It's like, let's say I want to make a movie. Maybe I know five people who are good actors, but my imagination says, "I want to cast Bradley Cooper and Will Smith in this movie." I don't know both of them. I have mutual connections so I can reach out to connections, get to know what their taste is. But it will take time, right? And once I know where they both are in their creativity, it might work out. It might take two years, but it might work out. And that would be perfect if I really want these two in my movie.
But if I just want to make a movie, I want to tell a story, and these five people I know are good actors, really good actors, then I should not be jumping into a space where I don't know that person, right? So same way works with the deities. If you have no connection, like no connection through a teacher, no connection through family, no connection through the books or the study you have done on them, it will just take a long time, and your imagination might start to just call the shots. You might start to imagine them, and that's not fun because that just takes you backward. So if you are interested in a particular deity, invest time, invest your energy. Get to know them. Get to understand who they are. Because once you invite them, you become your deities. You start to radiate they're elements.
This podcast is going beyond the expected duration, so I'm going to end, but I did share all the points that I wanted to share. I hope this was a good insight into how you can really deepen your awakening and expand it in all beautiful, organic ways. And to support the Leela Gurukul Podcast, do share this, do write your reviews on iTunes. That helps a lot. It supports the channel. It encourages us at Leela Gurukul. Thank you for listening. I'll speak with you next week.
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