Do it with all your strength so it starts rising from the very depth, the very bottom of what I call the kunda, the pool, the reservoir of energy. Let the whole atmosphere be suffused and charged with breathing, as if the whole environment is breathing in unison with you. Inhale a deep breath; exhale a deep breath. Let it be deeper and deeper and still deeper. Let your whole being shake like a cyclone, a storm. Breathe in deeply and breathe out deeply. Deep breath, deeper breath, still deeper breath… Deep, deep, deep… And watch within, observe inside. See that a breath is coming in and another is going out.

Don’t spare yourselves; bring your entire energy into it.

Deep vibrations of breathing will begin to awaken some energy within you. Breathe in a deep breath and expel it fully. With your vigorous breathing a sleeping light inside you will flare up. So take a deep breath in and take a deep breath out. Become a vehicle of breathing and nothing else… A breath is going in, another is going out… Do it with all your energy; do it with all your strength. Put all your energy into deep, very deep breathing…

Before you enter into the second stage do it with all of your might… Breathe in deeply, breathe out deeply. Do it to the maximum. Let your whole body shake. Let all your roots shake… Let your entire being shake… Let a state of storm be created… Let only breathing remain… Do it with full vigor… Before going over to the second stage bring your whole energy to deep breathing… Passage and progress into the second stage will only happen when you have reached the peak in this stage…

Make deep efforts… Deep breathing, deep breathing, deep breathing… Do not withhold yourselves; do not withhold even a bit… The energy that is sleeping in you has to be awakened. So exert yourselves completely, absolutely… Deep breathing, deep breathing… Let go of yourselves… To awaken the latent electricity within you it is essential that you breathe in deeply and breathe out deeply… Let every fiber of your body come alive… Let every fiber of your body shake and tremble… Do it with all your strength… Deep breathing, deep breathing, deep breathing, deep breathing, deep breathing.

For two more minutes do it with total strength, and then we enter the second stage. Let the entire environment be filled with electrical waves… Inhale deeply and exhale deeply…deep inhalation, deep exhalation… And bring all your strength to deep breathing… Deep breathing, deep breathing, still deeper breathing…

Now we will go into the second stage. Breathe in and breathe out deeply for one more minute. Take a deep breath in and take a deep breath out… Let breathing be deeper and still deeper… Deep breathing, deep breathing, deep breathing… Don’t look at others, concentrate on yourselves… Deep breathing, deeper breathing, still deeper breathing.

[Second stage: ten minutes’ catharsis.]