The journey to the divine is really a journey into insecurity. But the flowers of life and beauty bloom only in insecurity. So I should tell you a few important things about this journey, and a few not so important.
     In meditation you will...have to stake your utmost. The moment you touch the point where your entire energy is pressed into action, you will find that you are connected with some other energy, that some hidden energy within you has started waking up.
     Many things will happen when that energy is rising upward. Please don't withhold yourself at any point when the energy is moving upward. Let go of yourself completely, as a man leaves himself in the hands of the river and just floats with its current. In short, "let go" is the key.
     Now the second thing. Let go of yourself; just float as one floats on the surface of the water. Just floating, you should be ready to go wherever the current of the river takes you. It is true that to a certain extent we have to provoke it, but when the energy is awakened we have just to leave ourselves in its hands; we have to let go of ourselves. Higher forces have taken over; we need not worry anymore. We have to just float.
     And third, with the upward rise of this energy many things will happen. Please see that you don't get scared when they happen, because new experiences are frightening.

     The experience of the awakening of the kundalini, the primordial energy, is a new experience, greater than the child's, because while the childbirth happens only at the level of the body, the awakening of the kundalini happens at the level of the soul. So it is a totally new birth. Apart from the trauma of insecurity you will also have to go through the pains of childbirth as the mother does, because here you are the mother and the child combined in one. You are born, but there is no separate mother and there is no separate child. You are taking birth, and you are also giving birth; your birth is happening through you. So the pains can be very severe and intense.
     Whatever happens should be allowed to happen freely. Let go of it; don't suppress it. Any kinds of experiences are possible. Someone may feel that he is levitating, and another may feel that he is expanding, and yet another may feel that he is shrinking. Diverse kinds of new experiences are possible; I need not enumerate them. Many things can happen; anything new can happen, and each one's experience will be different. So one need not worry and get scared.

     It is not necessary that what happens to one should happen to others too. And if you share your experiences with someone who did not have the same experiences he will laugh and say that you are crazy. Every man is his own measure; that is why everyone thinks that he is right and others are wrong. Even if the other person does not laugh at you, he will tell you distrustfully that he did not experience anything like it.
     This experience is so personal and subjective that it is better not to discuss it with any other person. One should not confide even in one's wife or husband, because no two people are very close and intimate in this respect. In this respect no one can understand the other easily; understanding is so difficult, in this case. Anyone can say that you are crazy. So it is necessary that you don't discuss it with others.
     Moreover, as soon as you speak to anyone, he is not going to have the wisdom to keep quiet; he will immediately say something. And this "something" can come in the way of your experience itself. His remarks can work as suggestions and they can be an obstacle in the way of your new experience.

     Before you come for meditation [in the] morning, you can take some liquids like tea and milk, but no solid food. Don't eat your breakfast. Tea, milk or any liquid can do. If one can do without tea and milk also it would be better; it will make the work on meditation easier.
     Also remember that you come in loose clothes and properly bathed. No one should come without bathing; bathing is a must. The clothes should be as loose as possible, should not be tight at all, not even at the waistline. Along with the rest of the body, the waistline too, should have loose fittings. And while sitting for meditation keep your whole body loose and relaxed.
     Another important thing to remember is that you should go into silence a half-hour before meditation will begin....If you cannot go completely silent, then see that you speak as little as possible. Use as few words as possible, as you do in telegraphic messages. The more rest you let your senses have, the better. The more rest you have the more energy you conserve, which can be used in meditation; otherwise you will exhaust yourselves.
     Meditation will need much energy. So if you don't conserve it, you will soon get tired and exhausted. Some people tell me that they tire after an hour's meditation. But it is not meditation that is responsible for it. The real reason is that you have squandered all your energy and that you live on the point of exhaustion. Whatever we do, it costs energy. In the night, however, we save some energy, because other activities are suspend...although a little energy is spent even in dreaming. But this is a different thing. A little energy is saved in the night however, and that is how we feel fresh in the morning….

Osho In Search of the Miraculous

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