Exercise to Cleanse the Elements

The symbols must be drawn every day afresh   and then used to cleanse the elements.

1) Draw the symbol of air (on a small piece of paper) and release   it into the air.

(2) Then breathe out seven times (Sir demonstrated by blowing on the palm of his hand seven times) with every breath that you breathe out, decide upon seven noble, cleansing energy-filled virtues, that you wish to release into the air. These must remain constant every day.

3) Then draw the symbol of water.

4) Place this paper into a bowl of water.

5) Then fill that bowl with seven drops of water. With each drop, release into the water element, that which you desire. They may remain the same as air or they may differ.

But what you release into each element must remain constant for the whole month.

6) Then draw the symbol for fire.

7) Burn this paper with the help of an open flame.

8) Then light seven tiny open flames. With each lighting, release into the fire element that which you desire.

9) Then draw the symbol for earth.

10) Have a pot of earth (an earthen pot),    it need not be large. Every day bury the paper into this pot. Then gently pour out seven times a little pinch of earth into this pot. With every pouring out, seven times, release seven wondrous virtues  into the mother earth.

What you will be doing will remain only a ritual, meaningless, if these virtues are not within you and released by you.

Water controls   Emotions.

 Earth controls Home, Wealth, Stability, Security.

Fire controls Illumination/Wiping out of disease/Creation/True passion

 Air controls Intuition, Communication with our world, Spiritual growth, Evolution

And in all, all elements, there is love and light.

What you release will be personal to each one of you, but let what you release be appropriate to that element.

 Questions:

Time of day:   Sunrise or sunset and if that is not possible, then on the hour of 3, 6, 9, or 12 or 1 or 7.  When you decide on a time, please maintain that time. If it is not possible on one particular day, you may change the time on that day.

Sohrab: Why are we doing these exercises to cleanse the elements?

These symbols when drawn in their correct sequence and direction create waves, which collectively become a   living force.  The external is just a manifestation but serves one purpose. To train your mind to follow the pattern of virtues you wish to imbibe and that is why you release those into that element.

Sohrab: Thank you. That makes sense.

These virtues are not just picked up from a book. They will always be those which you wish, either consciously or not, to imbibe within you. And so you release it into that element so that the element can give it back to you.

FOR WATER:  Let the pieces of paper remain in the bowl.  At the end of the month, pour it out into a larger body of water, like the sea, or else into your own garden.

Sohrab: One more question on that Sir. The one that we release into the air, do we just gather them up for the month, because they will fall on the floor……

Sir indicated they should be blown out of the window.

Yezad: But in our case we are on the ground floor Sir.

You just pick it up and release it outside whenever you get a chance to go. But it must be released.

Make it a small piece of paper so that it is carried away by the wind.

To Yezad: And you my son. If this child is going to do the exercise at home, you must try to do this at your place of work. So that wherever you go, the elements are with you. And this must be remembered by all.  If you have two places which you frequent daily, this exercise can be done by you or by another, in both these areas. You will be filled with this energy throughout.

Syrus: Sir may I ask a question Sir? The earth which we have to have in a pot, should it be fresh every day?

Fill it once and keep it for the month.  And then give back to the Earth what she lent to you for that month.  But what you release into that pot will be fresh.  Even a small sprinkling of it taken from a pot in which a plant is growing healthily, is all you need.

Sohrab: Sir one more question on this – is there some specific - there are many qualities I can think of, but I wouldn’t know whether to release them into the air or earth or fire – would that make a difference?

It makes a difference to you not the element.