Advancement by Increments
In yoga practice sometimes there is advancement in increments. In some situations even the blessing of a great guru or a deity even, takes years to solidify in the life of a student.
I am currently checking through two small meditation notebooks which were created during 2005 and 2006 in Guyana. There was an astral encounter with Swami Atmananda and Swami Yogeshwarananda, where they were directing a ship in which I travelled on an astral river. Atmananda was the pilot of the vessel. Yogeshwarananda was the captain.
They gave this instruction:
Non-investigation / Non-response / Non-interference / Leave everything as is
These are instructions for very advanced meditation control which feeds into one’s life style and causes one to become detached from what happens in the material world.
One of the more stubborn tendencies for students is that of always putting to the test and criticizing the ways and means of material nature. It springs from a deep arrogance where one feels that one is put here to analyses and come to terms with the injustices in material existence. However for those students we are serious about becoming liberated, they must leave aside this tendency to constantly find reasons to criticize either material nature or its unfavorable agents who come on the ship of life, with grievous habits.
It is really none of our concern how material terminates or executes any of this; if it is in a bad or good way, if in the end we are carted out in a cheap pine box which the worms in the earth are sure to devour along with the dead contents or if the remains are mummified like that of the Egyptian Pharaohs whose bodies were found recently in a severely dehydrated condition.
At first when one gets the instruction of assuming an attitude of:
Non-investigation / Non-response / Non-interference / Leave everything as is;
One feels that it has to do with the social environment. In trying to apply this, there is a certain tastelessness and a certain bitterness towards the instructor and towards life itself because when one first applies this to the social scene one ceases getting a pleasure because of not reaching the relishable participation of involvement and judgment. But then over time when one gets this under wraps one feels relieved because of the not having to expend so much energy hooking into everything which is disagreeable to one’s intentions. Tons of emotional energy which could be used for meditation advancement, are expended wastefully like this due to not having control over the analyzing and justifying posture of the mind.
In the advanced stage, the student realizes that it has little to do with the social environment. The real issue is the inner landscape where a battle for supremacy is enacted day after day between the core-self and the unruly adjuncts.
The adjuncts relish investigation, responses and interference. They would have nothing to do with ceasing these activities which they hook into at the expense of the core-self.
