TANTRIC-QUEST-Encounter-with-Absolute-Love

11The following night, I did not sleep in my hut as I had hoped.Devi told me to rest during the afternoon. Come evening, aftersupper, she took me to the edge of the cliff."This is where you're going to meditate. Standing, yourfeet on the edge of this rock. Don't look at the river. Keepyour eyes opened, fixed right in front of you, looking intospace. When you can't stand up anymore, take the crossleggedposture and continue to meditate. When fatiguemakes you slump, stretch your back and do the relaxationexercise that we call the rest of the sarangi. When the musicianputs away his instrument, he slackens the stringsone by one. Thus, imagine that your muscles are strings,that the pegs of the instrument are driven into each joint.Beginning with the feet, relax the muscles one by one, lettingthem bow toward the earth. Proceed in this way movingup to the knees, hips, sides, collarbone, wrists, elbows,shoulders, temples, and then to the top of the skull. When98