Ash is made in different ways. A yogi always uses ash from a cremation ground. For householders, people who are holding on to their houses – for householders we made other kind of ash. We made it from, the next best thing that we did was, cow dung. We burnt it and made ash. This is also good, it does certain things. It opens up your receptivity in a certain way. So we said don’t apply it all over your body, just in certain points. If that is also difficult, then we did rice bran. Otherwise we did sesame seed ash. Like this we produce more and more benign things. But when Adiyogi used, he used cremation ground ashes. Even today many yogis use only that. But you should not do that unless you’re properly initiated into the process, and you know what to do with it. And if certain things happen, you know what to do with it.
For you the simple ash, either made out of cow dung or rice bran. When you apply – if you go into a space which is energetically charged in some way, if you apply it between your eyebrows. There is a spot – you must know this exact spot – there is a spot behind your ears, if you apply on those two sides. And the pit of your throat. And where the rib cage meets, just beneath that.
The idea is you want the higher aspects of who you are to become receptive
The idea is you want the higher aspects of who you are to become receptive. See right now, to put the example very basic – I want you to understand this, don’t react to these things. Now let us say you are a man. A woman came in front of you. It is not just the eyes, the whole body responds, okay. It depends who it is, what it is. Now, if you look at her in a certain way, you may think she’s your mother. If you look at her in another way, you may be drawn to her sexually. If you look at her in another way, you may be repelled because it reminds you of something. Reminder need not be necessarily in the mind, it’s all over the body.
So now you’re walking on the street, you don’t want to get entangled in all these things. If you see anything, you want to receive this in the highest possible way. So you apply vibhuti to make those spots more sensitive. So that your receptivity is in the higher dimension of life, not on the lower dimension of life. When I say lower, I am not talking in terms of hierarchy – high and low. I’m talking geographically lower in your body, okay. It is not a question of morality. It is not a question of right and wrong. It is a question of entanglement. If you receive from higher dimensions within you, there is no entanglement. If you receive the same thing from lower dimensions, the same thing will become entangling in the process.
