For your practice to be successful you need to learn to sense these
variations and work in harmony with them. For instance if you
are having one of those days when you are immediately projected
into the purple space as soon as you close your eyes, there is no
need to waste your time fighting for clear channel releases, since
anyway the vibration can hardly be felt. Rather focus on the
meditation, trying to go into the space as deeply as possible.
Very often, when nothing seems to be happening in your practice
it does not mean that there is no energy but that you are looking
for the energy in the wrong place. Tune in and try to get in touch
with a higher layer, and you might be astonished by what you
find.
10.14 After sattva: tamas. To fight tamas: rajas.
In the Indian tradition, all the developments of the creation are
analysed in terms of three guṇas, or modalities of nature, called
tamas, rajas and sattva.
Tamas is related to inertia, opacity and cloudiness, dullness, lack of
initiative, a feeling of laziness...
Rajas is activity, movement, desire. When rajas is activated inside
you, you start running around, chasing the things you want, very
involved in the pursuits of the world. Too much rajas results in
agitation and restlessness.
Sattva generates pure and transparent states of consciousness,
openness of mind and of perception, receptivity to the light,
higher awareness.
Spiritual development can be understood as a gradual unfoldment
of sattva inside yourself in order to allow it to reflect your
Higher Self.
One of the basic laws of interaction of the three guṇas is that
after a big dose of sattva (clarity), tamas (inertia) gets activated. In
practical terms this means that after an unusually clear experience
of consciousness it is quite normal to feel inert and unclear for a
while. Under these tamasic conditions, it will be quite difficult to
re-enter directly into an inner space of sattva. It will be much
easier to have a rajas transition first and then to look for your
sattva again. Practically speaking this means that if you feel inert
and unreceptive the day after a brilliant awakening, it is better
not to try to meditate for long periods. It is better to keep
moving for a while: go out, walk in the countryside, do some
physical work – and try to remain as aware as possible. Then you