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Sadhguru: This whole process was for the two people actively involved in consecrating the Dhyanalinga. During the process, it was found that there were certain karmic bondages, certain barriers, which were not allowing them to go beyond a certain point. That was why we went on this trip, to many places of past life significance like Orissa and Cuddapah, to name a few. We had never been to these places or seen them before in this life; you must understand this. I would just say there’s a place like this – certain temples, old homes – describe them and tell these two people, “Let’s go there.” This is what happened in Raigarh in Madhya Pradesh. Until the last moment, I didn’t know the name of the town. As we were driving down, I said, “The place we’re looking for must be in Raigarh.” Then we located Raigarh on the map and went there. When we went there, within minutes we were in this place that I had described earlier. It was such a powerful experience. These two people went through a fast forward of life, in a quick progression; so many events of their past life just happened. These events had happened three hundred and seventy years ago. Now, you go and make an enquiry; many facts we had already talked about to most of our meditators were confirmed by the people living there. We had never been there before in this life, but we knew. All those other places like Cudappah, Sambalpur, were like that. We knew exactly where to go, because once we started approaching that place, the vibrations were such that the past connection just pulled us there. In six days, we drove five thousand, two hundred kilometers. I would describe the place exactly before we would enter the town, so that doubts didn’t arise in the minds of even these two people. They shouldn’t think that they’re only imagining those things. I would tell them how the vibrations would be, which chakra would get activated when you walk into the place, everything I would tell them, and it would be exactly the same in their experience; it couldn’t be any different.

As I said the other day, I only wish everybody could have participated in a process like this. Every time, when we finished, we always felt this, “If only we could involve all the bhramhacharis, how fantastic it would be,” but it would be difficult to bring so many people to that level of involvement and understanding. It’s not easy. Things were going like that and once we went for this karma yatra, it became a living experience for both of them. Wherever we went, actually those places were past lives only for one of them, not the other, but we chose those places because they were spiritually significant. We could have chosen so many other places where both their pasts were involved or where their pasts were separately involved, but we wanted to go to those places which were of spiritual significance. When we went there, the spiritual dimension became a living experience for both of them. So when they went through these kinds of processes, all the structures which were holding them were shaken loose. The consecration became very easy. Even before that, the urge to break the karmic bondage was there; sadhana was there towards that, but this acted like an extra boost.