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practice to ourselves and not make it known to others. This is for the good of humanity, because some people may not be ready to cope with the effects of this powerful practice. In laya yoga only two chakras are involved and we directly move from mooladhara to ajna chakra. Another important thing he mentioned was that we should not underestimate the value of mooladhara. Mooladhara is attached to the material world. It is useful and we should not feel bad about it. This technique slowly detaches from the material world and attaches to the spiritual world. Mooladhara has the characteristics of all the five chakras up to vishuddhi and, in some respects, it is more than ajna chakra. Although ajna is higher, to reach it you have to go through mooladhara just as to get to God you go through guru. This is very similar to the idea of the inverted tree with the roots above and the fruits below. I felt that it was a wonderful practice for the balancing of pranic energies and it also created and increased energy.
My stay in Bihar School of Yoga, Munger for six days was an opportunity for me to be with saintly persons. I was eager to meet Swami Nischalananda who gave yoga classes to me in Bangalore in January 1979. He is an English swami. He served Swamiji for 14 years in India and speaks perfect Hindi. He was in Bangalore from August 1978 till February 1979 and was the first BSY, swami to give classes in South India which paved the way for the establishment of the Bangalore branch of BSY along with Swami Muktananda and Swami Buddhananda. He also participated in the 1982 South Regional Conference of BSY, and gave satsang and I learned my favorite kirtan from him. No doubt I'm very attached to him and when I told him that I remember him every day he replied, "It's not me in this form, it is the divine which is in every body". At that time, in 1979, he asked me to meet Swami Satyananda who was to come to Bangalore in March 1979. He also asked me to participate in Bangalore Ashram activities. When I met him at the convention I was overjoyed to see him again. He immediately inquired. "Are you helping with ashram activities?" I said, "Yes". I felt very, very fortunate that. I had a chance to participate in the homa, which was for world peace. It carried on for three days continuously under a shelter outside the main building.
I really felt that the homa helped to remove negative energies from me and my family. The poornaahuti (culmination) was offered by Swami Niranjan on the third
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