Teaching Breath Infusion / Astral Students
Teaching Breath Infusion / Astral Students
I have some astral students. These are persons who do not have a physical body but who have the interest based on doing some aspects of yoga in the recent past life or being interested in the same and not having the opportunity to do it while using the last body.
Some did not do it because of taking the last body in a social environment where yoga was not taught because the ethnic situation did not accommodate it.
About those who did it in the last body, the two main students are Sir Paul Castagna and Arthur Beverford, who was my first formal yoga teacher in this current life but who is deceased at present. H was tutored in hatha yoga basics by Rishi Singh Gherwal but he did not learn kapalabhati/bhastrika pranayama breath infusion from Rishi because that was taught by Rishi only in the most advanced states of hatha yoga.
Beverford endeavored to take another embryo but since he did breath infusion which he learnt from me, he changed his mind and feels that he is not interested in taking another physical body and is also losing interest in martial arts practice.
It is not that I am his teacher. Rishi Singh Gherwal is still the teacher, but I am simply showing him how to do it the way a co-student would show another. inSelf Yoga™ is not involved in the guru-disciple cult system. It is more a teacher-student system like in academic learning. It does not prohibit a guru-disciple relationship but it does not stress or focus on that and does not demand honor for the teacher.
Beverford became convinced about the breath infusion due to what it does to his subtle body. He said this: “Since I did breath infusion as you show it, I find that the subtle body regained its youthful appearance. I realized that the reason I wanted a physical form was to again be youthful, even though I know that youth in a physical system does not and will not last. Eventually the physical body sheds the youthfulness. The elderly years set it. Getting the subtle body to be youthful removes the need or urge for youthfulness. Hence I am a devotee of breath infusion from now onwards.”
After doing the breath infusion in which I showed him some locks within the subtle body, locks which are mostly unknown because they are different to the conventional anus, sex, abdomen, neck and mind locks, we did some breath infusion which cause cell and zonal kundalini to be aroused. Then we sat to meditate.
Beverford wanted to know what to do and asked if he should do what Rishi Singh taught years ago where there is embrocation oil (mint-camphor) rubbed at the place between the eyebrows, followed by meditation with focus between the eyebrows. I explained to him that even though that was taught, the stage before that which one has to be established in was naad sound emergence or absorption. One has to be absorbed in naad for about a period of three years at least in meditation. When that is firmly established where one developed a relationship with naad, one can focus between the eyebrows.
At the time also one should determine or get an instruction as to where exactly one should focus, if it is at the place where the root of the nose begins or a little hither which is between the eyebrows.
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Michael wrote: Beverford endeavored to take another embryo but since he did breath infusion which he learnt from me, he changed his mind and feels that he is not interested in taking another physical body and is also losing interest in martial arts practice.
Beverford became convinced about the breath infusion due to what it does to his subtle body. He said this: “Since I did breath infusion as you show it, I find that the subtle body regained its youthful appearance. I realized that the reason I wanted a physical form was to again be youthful, even though I know that youth in a physical system does not and will not last. Eventually the physical body sheds the youthfulness. The elderly years set it. Getting the subtle body to be youthful removes the need or urge for youthfulness. Hence I am a devotee of breath infusion from now onwards.”
Dean’s Question: We know that Nature is not concern with any of our endeavors to take or not take another embryo. So is it still possible for a yogis such as Paul and Beverford to bypass taking another embryo by continuing the practice in the astral even though they didn’t proficiently practice while they inhabited a physical bodies? And if so, which is the most proficient way to ensure you don’t become another embryo? While you have the physical body or after its deceased?
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It hinges on association. Hang with the siddhas or the near siddhas. Otherwise being with others who are physical body prone, will result in immediate rebirth under dubious conditions.
Someone who is resistant to rebirth can help one who is not so resistant, if the association between those persons is reliable.
Whatever experience one is attracted to in physical existence which may pull one into a rebirth should be known by careful introspective meditation. Then one can find a way to neutralize such rebirth desires.
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"Getting the subtle body to be youthful removes the need or urge for youthfulness. Hence I am a devotee of breath infusion from now onwards.”
The above paragraph is quoted from the original post, and below is my reaction:
It is hopeful that yogins take a closer look at the disposition of their motivation as time progresses,
and they realize the inconvenience of a subjected self to the vicissitudes of the environments and corroborating circumstances or whatever short of anything intangible.
But it also denotes the patience, benevolence, and compassion of the teacher.
The path is long, and may he be successful!
