Body Use by Yoga Teacher
On June 20, 2020, Yogeshwarananda said that he would use my body to complete some yoga techniques physically. These are some processes which because of the pressing demand on his time for instructing, training and imparting energy to students, he did not complete in his last physical form.
He alerted that time is so scarce that if one does not conserve it for practice, if one becomes a jagadguru or world teacher, it is likely that one will leave the physical body without completing some austerities which are required in yoga.
Previously there was no facility for a yogaguru to become famous and to have access to a global audience as one can today with media like radio, television, broadcast technology, and internet. Hence many advanced yogis spent more time practicing and very little time teaching. This permitted them the edge where they could practice to completion before giving up a body.
Even the health of the physical body deteriorates more rapidly when one takes the roll as a world teacher because then one neglects the upkeep of the form. Yogesh said that he would use my body. During some session of exercises, I was to expect that on occasion I will find that he takes over my body and does procedures which pertain to his practice rather than to my own.
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Would you be able to benefit from these procedures whenever he takes control? Or does this just neglect your practice overall during those periods?
My underlying interest stems from wanting to understand how this works and it’s effects on the person with the physical body.
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It is similar to if someone uses a room in your house. Suppose a wealthy friend asked to use a room in your building, would that imply that you will automatically get some money from him?
It depends, does it not?
However, whatever is to be done by the yogi for his perfection must be done by him and by no one else. The way another person would have that particular experience from the same practice will not suit exactly the way that the student should know it.
Using the same body to do a practice, where a yogi and then another advanced yogi, uses the same body, is similar to children who use the mother's body for getting embryos. Each child uses the mother's body while the mother herself uses the body but does that imply a benefit to the mother?
While a child uses the mother's body during the formation of its baby form, the mother uses the same body for other purposes and each process is kept separate even though the mother does on occasion experience the activity of the child, like its kicking in the womb. And the child also may experience activities of the mother like if she has to do something strenuous or exciting.
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