Sadhguru answers a question on aura cleansing, and explains why it could be necessary in certain situations. To watch this video ...
Sadhguru: Aura is the subtle
manifestation of everything that you are. If you look at one’s aura,
you clearly know his physical health, his mental health, his karmic structure. In a way, his past and present. If he is stupid, even his future. Yes. Only if you are stupid we can tell your future, otherwise we can only tell your past. Yes. So, aura is... a certain manifestation of yourself, a subtler manifestation in the physical body. Keeping it clean is good. Is keeping your body clean good? Even if you don’t understand, somebody sitting next to you understands [Laughter] that it's good. [Laughs] It's good to keep your body clean,
it's good to keep your mind clean. It's good to keep everything that is you clean, because... I'm not trying to teach you
sanitation, what I'm saying is, if we want to do something with
anything, first thing is, we purify. If you want to take anything to a higher
possibility, first thing is to purify. Without purification, you cannot do anything better
than the way it is right now. So, purifying your body and your mind, for this we have taught you many methods, practices, food, this, that, so many aspects, to keep your body and mind clean. Aura is a manifestation, it's not a presence by itself. But, if you’re doing sadhana,
and if you’re improving your system, what you manifested yesterday,
or what you manifested 10 years ago, may be still hanging around you and not allowing you to become what you want to be. So, that can be cleansed. Have you noticed that... when you have a shower, or a bath, as we say in India, which is not a dip, but pouring of water over your body. When you let water go over you,
you’re not just cleaning the physical self. That is, you are not just cleaning the
skin, something else also gets cleaned. Let's say you’re feeling very angry, agitated, and all kinds of things happening within you; you just go have a shower
and come out, you feel aaah... all the nonsense kind of washed off. So, a shower is not just about
cleaning the skin of your body, you can cleanse the aura to some
extent, because what you call as body is a manifestation, or a play, of 5 elements. So, you can give yourself a water bath. You can similarly give yourself
a wind bath – you must see this. Suppose there is a gentle breeze flowing, you just went and stood like this... [Gestures] suppose you wear thin clothes and simply stand like this, after some time you feel hooooo...
[Gestures] Have you noticed that? Have you noticed this? You feel so clean, and you want to... feel like transparent, and you want to fly away. Wind can do that – it should be just at the right... velocity, and feel, and temperature, and everything. If it's right, you will see, wind just cleanses you. Wind bath! We can also give you a mud bath. [Laughs] You know, if you go to the rejuvenation
center, they’re giving you a mud bath. Similarly, we can give you a fire bath. So, what's being done in the temple is a fire bath, because you know, she's Bhairavi. You just give yourself a fire bath – of
course you can't pour it over your body – you just touch the aura of your body in a certain way. There are certain patterns running in your aura, along the tracks you run the fire, you will see, suddenly you will feel bright and clear. You know this – people from Indian origin,
you clearly know this in your homes – your grandmothers were taking off Drishti for you. Aura cleansing. Maybe some of your grandmothers
knew how exactly to do it. Some of them didn’t know – with
ignorance, they did simply something. If it's properly done, it will work wonderfully well. If it's simply done somehow, still works, partially. Any number of times people
might have noticed, children are sick, if they just do a little fire bath, suddenly they are fine. Have you noticed this? Because it's just a fire bath,
and it does things to the system. So, what is being... given in the temple as Klesha Nashana Kriya, that means, a process which destroys impurities, is in English aura cleansing, is to take away the impurities from the aura, so that the body breathes better, and feels better, in terms of health, well-being, mental balance, everything. The neem – they used only the leaf on you? I think they should have used the stick. [Chuckles] The neem stick is good, you know, it awakens lots of people. In India, if you are acting little funny and possessed, they can beat the devil out of
you with the neem stick. [Laughs] Neem is a very cleansing thing. If you’re eating the morning ball,
you know your stomach will be clean. If you...if you have any kind
of infection stuff in this country, they would always put you on a bed of neem leaf, because it’s a great cleanser of
the system, and a great energizer. So, the leaf has tremendous medicinal properties, and very strong pranic reverberations that... and it's bitter enough to get the devil out of you. [Laughs]