AM Practice Report - Alfredo D. Monday 9/3/2012

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Date: Posted 5 years before Sep 05, 2017

Alfredo 5 years ago

ॐ नमः शिवाय

Svadhyaya: Continued study of Chapter 13 of “Uddhava Gita Explained” “Becoming a Devotee”. In Chapter 12 and 13 also, the conundrums of the householder yogi are entertained in depth. This is very important.

Dedication: Practice was dedicated to Lord Krishna.

Breath Infusion: It took me one hour of continuous Bhastrika prânâyâma to finally spark Kundalini. Concentration was challenged and shallow, and Pratyahar difficult to attain (due to family entanglements the day before, will expand below). You could say I was a desperate man.

Meditation: Consisted of 15-20 minutes of concentration on the back of the head. I conducted Pratyahar on the core-self and retrieved to the back of the head observing the head cavity. It was totally black and in silence. Thoughts drifted by and were taken and resolved. The family distraction was resolved during the meditation.

Dream recall: Two dreams were recalled. First Dream: Michael Beloved (MB) was in it. This is the 2nd time I recall a dream with him. I woke in a bed in a barn-like house. MB was there, the same body and countenance, but white and very blond. I asked him why his pictures showed a black body, and then this, but there was no answer. Second Dream: I was stranded in Paris or other similar European capital, waiting for a flight home. In the meantime I visited places and it was raining. The flying theme was there as I flied through the air from one location to another. Then found myself eating in a cafeteria of sorts, but eating sugary food I don’t touch today, the same with a soft drink. I said to myself: why are you eating this bad food?

Conclusions: Even if one fails to raise Kundalini, breath infusion has many positive results, such as decrease in food intake, and dream recall.

Family entanglement: The day before, my son confessed to having a car accident in the college he attends nearby a week before. Held disclosure for a week for fear of having the car taken away. Cost to family $1,700, at a time when money is scarce. It should not have affected me in theory, but it did in practice. It affected the morning practice. It is my sincere advice to young yogis or aspiring yogis, to really think twice before committing to a marriage and children if they are serious about striving for a yoga like the one described in this site.

MiBeloved 5 years ago

Alfredo wrote:

MiBeloved's Response:

Nice practice. Glad to see that you are putting the techniques indicated in Meditation Pictorial to use.

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Alfredo wrote:

MiBeloved's Response:

The main interest has to be the body you are using, the status of that body, the condition of its energy. So if you are seeing someone in his or her subtle body which has a different configuration than the physical form, what is the subtle body you are using to perceive that person?

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Alfredo wrote:

Conclusions: Even if one fails to raise Kundalini, breath infusion has many positive results, such as decrease in food intake, and dream recall.

MiBeloved's Response:

Confirmed. Breath Infusion does hidden wonders for a yogi. In some cases kundalini does rise but the student fails to realize this because of the expectation of it rising with bliss feelings. Overtime, this will be resolved.

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Alfredo wrote:

MiBeloved's Response:

So why is it that the family has to pay for his screw-up? Who says that the 1700 bucks won’t be taken from his karmic account which is not interlocked in the family account? Who says that nature will not sort it with such exactness that this will not be taken from his account and his account alone?

In this case, the elders of the family are in massive ignorance and have kept the boy hanging on, instead of releasing him to his own life. By doing this they have victimized themselves by trying to control what the boy does so as to push him in a direction which is suitable for what they want as a parent in their next life.

But is this sensible and will nature actually allow confusion in the karmic bank accounts? I doubt that it will.

The money has to come out of the conjoint family account but it will be taken from the boy’s karma which he brought over from his past life. Parents feel the pain of it because of their attachment to controlling the boy. It is like in the old days when all infants had no individual passport. Their passport was part of the parent’s passport but then later they got their own papers after reaching 21 years of age. These parents should release the boy. But can they?

Have they set it up so that they are paying for this and for that of his expenses and thus cannot release him because they are entangled in the whole thing of his becoming an adult?

Pool 5 years ago

Alfredo wrote:

Pool's Reply:

I myself lack social skills, I have a hard time bonding with people around me and I have always felt that I just don't really care, in work I am around people, but that's it.. after that I just need my private time at home, I never had this attraction of going out with people and hanging out at places, even though people always kept pushing me to go out and have fun. Being around people can just be so overwhelming and absorb you're energy to the point of exhaustion, it's just not for me. I need my space and private time so to say.

I can't know what the future holds, but since I don't really have any social experience, it makes it harder to build a friendship, marriage and this whole stereotype expectation that society wants.. which means to get to those places I really have to build myself a strong character with a lot of confidence and fight my way through society and gain all sort of experiences and adjust myself to the outside.

So I am asking myself why should I waste my time and energy on that, while I can use that time in something more in my interest to progress in spiritual achievements?

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Very interesting dreams, I once too had a dream with MB in it, he was sitting in my work's launch room from what I can remember, same appearance as now.

MiBeloved 5 years ago

Ichigo

Take some time to read Bhagavad Gita Explained and the Kriya Yoga Bhagavad Gita in reference to karma yoga.

The sex you! book also explains some of this.

The punch line is that if you borrow, you must pay back. So whatever services you received in acquiring this body, will have to be paid back and that has nothing to do with anything else.

Find a way to pay back family, friends of family, the government, whatever, which contributed to your acquiring this body.

Society might be a drab but nevertheless it was serviceable enough to give you this body.

Alfredo 5 years ago

Ichigo:

Swami Krishnananda of Divine Life Society fame wrote that it was a great fallacy that the main purpose of existence on this physical plane was to have progeny.

http://www.swami-krishnananda.org/.

He added that it was, as you hinted above, to advance spiritually.

Avidya is the perception of the non-existent or the non-perception of the existent.

Because of Avidya, and karma, we often behave as we do.

But if one acquires Vidya (knowledge) of this reality at an early age...what is one to do with it? Can this knowledge and the practice of yoga trump the pulling karmas and rectify a course? I think so.

Then there are the perils one experiences with each new birth.

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