DE-TOX, DE-STRESS: When you work for more than five hours your eyes need circulation. Do you know the size of your thumb and the space under your eyebrow is the same? You simply have to scoop your finger under your eyes and rub it gently three-four times. Put your index finger on top of your eyebrow and with a little pressure stretch the muscles underneath once or twice. I work 20 hours in a day. Do I look tired? I’m not saying you should work for 20 hours, not at all. Have six hours of sleep. And take a few deep breaths on and off when you are working.

SPIRITUALITY: The problem among the youth today is attention deficiency and retention problem. Our spirit is made up of enthusiasm, love, honesty, integrity, sharpness of intellect. If all these qualities start blossoming inside us that is what I call spirituality.

MEDITATION: Gyanagni—or knowledge fire—it always goes up. When you are in love you forget everything, become gumsum (lost.) But knowledge is awareness. Our Vigyan Bhairav—book of Kashmiri Shaivism—says be alert whatever you are doing. If you are 100 per cent alert that is also meditation. But that shouldn’t become an excuse not to meditate. Meditation brings deep relaxation, and that brings creativity.

WHAT DOES MEDITATION ACHIEVE: Violence-free environment, disease-free body, quiver-free breath, confusion-free mind, inhibition-free intellect, trauma-free memory, and sorrow-free soul: that is what meditation achieves. It is conscious relaxation. Sleep doesn’t give sufficient rest to the body. Concentration and meditation are two opposite things. When you do any work you need concentration. When you meditate, you don’t need concentration. You de-concentrate, in fact. You can’t learn meditation through books. You need an instructor. Afterwards you can do it yourself.

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