Understanding Spiritual Vibrations

Vibration or Universal Life Energy is simply a method to describe your overall state of wellbeing. Everything in the universe is made up of energy vibrating at different frequencies. The vibration is caused by “porous breathing” of the entire body. You are simply opening up your channels and allowing the intake of energy from around you. The spinal feeling is what we call the opening of the back channel. It’s simply the movement of bodily energy.

The first time I felt vibrations was during my first meditation camp in February 2009 — on the day of awakening Swamiji says — some of you will feel cold vibrations on the palms of your hands — the moment he said that there were two eddies of ice-cold energy whirling on both the palms and I was wondering what kind of magic is this. Then Swamiji goes on to say those who felt cold vibrations are in a good spiritual state. After that, with regular meditation — both morning and evening as I got pulled into spirituality and started enjoying these vibrations — I also started getting floral fragrances — sometimes rose, jasmine, sometimes sandalwood, and that of havan.

All these fragrances start coming from within you as your chakras start getting cleared. When you get these fragrances during meditation, enjoy them, don’t doubt them and start looking everywhere to see if someone has put on perfume or something! The moment you doubt the fragrance, it will be a long time before you get it again. Faith and acceptance are two key words we need to adopt in our life, if we want to progress spiritually.

Energy and vibrations are something that you start receiving as you make spiritual progress one step at a time. Some people feel the vibrations pretty early — that is because they probably have been born with a bank of spiritual savings from the previous birth and this birth is a continuance of that journey. The vibrations could start from the crown chakra — circulating around the crown for some time, before starting to move downwards — I have always gone into meditation the moment the vibrations went below the throat chakra — the cool vibrations are so soothing as to put you almost immediately into a drowsy meditative state, after which you are lost to the world.