Beverford: Rebirth Resistance

An astral encounter with Arthur Beverford (my first yoga teacher) on September 30, 2015 was of special interest because he was interested in not taking a new body, something which he was thinking of doing before. Why the change?

That is not easy to figure out. But one thing you can know for sure, is that after being deceased for many years, the astral body gets used to living in the astral world and not using a physical form to procure its fulfilments. At that time most of the persons who are deceased feel that maybe they do not need to take another physical form. But this does not mean that they are done with physical existence. It does mean however that the mood of the astral body at that time is that it can go on as is without the physical register which it enjoys when it has a physical form.

Beverford was in a happy mood and was of the feeling that it was not necessary to come back in the physical world because in the astral world a parallel history transpired from which one could get fulfilments for association with others in myriad ways just as in the physical world. His view was verbalized like this:

“If in the astral existence you can do everything which you did physically, what is the need for the physical especially considering the limited durability of the physical, its susceptibility to diseases, its frailty and so on? It really makes no sense that we long for or even desire physical life.”

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Beverford was also appreciating the effects of bhastrika breath infusion on the subtle body. During his last body he did not practice it because Rishi Singh Gherwal did not teach at the time when Beverford learnt from the yogi. By studying how I did it from the perspective of what happened in my subtle form, Beverford quickly mastered the process and was intrigued that it was a kind of internal martial arts between the core-self and its adjuncts. He thought it was wonderful regarding how to cause the self to manhandle the kundalini and flush the chakras of heavy blocking energies.

It may be questioned as to why Beverford did not consult with Rishi Singh Gherwal in the astral regions at this time. The answer is that some yogis, Rishi for example, make themselves inaccessible even to their principal disciples. For one reason or the other, a yogi may not be reached. And there are many such reasons. Thus it is better not to second guess why a yogi would make himself unreachable.

A student should never think that for sure he or she will see the teacher hereafter. That might not happen. And why? Who knows? The key issue is practice. The student should keep practicing. That is the way to guarantee that sooner or later one will get a teaching association which causes on to advance further.

It is method which is the key. If the method can be procured from some other person, even from someone who is not as advanced as the teacher, then one should take the method from the agent who can demonstrate it. Sometimes a teacher in the astral world cannot leave the association of a yet higher teacher who instructs him. Sometimes the teacher cannot leave an isolated place in an isolated dimension because of instructions from higher people.

Sometimes a teacher has left the material existence or is in a portion of the psychic material existence which is cordoned off from the lower astral places. In which event, he cannot meet with any former student who is in a lower dimension. However methods of practice will always be available if one is submissive and is willing and able to submit oneself for learning.