Brahmachari Upgrade
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 5 years before Oct 27, 2017
MiBeloved 5 years ago
In this statement, brahmachari means decreasing interest in sexual union with a corresponding increasing interest in whatever is spiritual whatever is brahman. This is an open ended approach to brahman, rather than the hard and fast opposing concepts of brahman as Oneness or brahman as a Supreme Person.
The two groups are fighting it out; the Advaita Vedantists and the Dvaita Advocates. One claims that the Supreme is One (Advaita). The other says that the Supreme is a Person Deity. For this statement we have to leave these two groups aside and forge ahead on our own. What is brahman? We will meet it if we forge ahead and then we will have to accept it as such, regardless of our belief. Hence we decided to leave the contenders to fight it out where they are.
The main attraction down on the level of material existence is sexual union. The whole thing is reduced to that inevitably. In fact nature is so designed that there is no choice in this matter, as many of the sannyasis sex-renunciants of both the Advaitists and Dvaitists have proven with their deviations and disgraces. Since this is a fact, we begin this quest by moving away from sexual union. I have nothing against it but to go in the direction of the spiritual energy, to move away from the material energy, that course is required.
This does not mean that there is no spiritual energy in sexual union. In fact there is but it is the kind of spiritual energy which causes one to end up back in the material world repeatedly. So that is the undesirable feature of it.
The earth had gravity and if you want to go away from it into outer space, you have no choice but to make a rocket which gives an antigravity effect. It is not a matter of liking the earth or not liking it. If you want to go into space and you are using a material body, then you must make a rocket which has enough thrust to overcome gravity.
If I want to complete this research into brahma (athato brahma jijnasa) then it is necessary to travel away from the direction of sexual union. Just recently a parachutist made a new record of how high a human being can fall to the earth from a spacecraft. So he went up there pretty high but it was not enough to defeat gravity. When he fell out of the aircraft he did not float away into space. He came rapidly back to the earth and even broke the speed of sound, according to the scientific reports.
The attraction between him and the earth was so powerful that he accelerated in that pull to beyond the speed of sound. Wonder if that is our situation with sexual union.
Sometimes this happens to an ascetic where when he tries to get away from sexual union, the reverse takes place where he comes to it with a greater impetus, such that his renunciant vows, his reputation as a spiritual leader, everything is destroyed in one flash descent back to sexual union. Sex union is so natural that it is laughable when someone says that he is a sannyasi. People grin behind his back, thinking,
“What an egghead. The guy is an arrogant fool. We will all have a good laugh when somebody discovers him with some hanky panky. I cannot wait for the laughs and ridicules. Who does he think he is?”
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The method we are going to use here is not the sannyasi ceremonial renunciation vow but rather studying the psyche as it is and trying to find if there is a way to redesign it. Psyche in this usage means the subtle body, which means an existential container which has for its contents the psychological energies and components which make up what we call the person.
We begin with research as to the life force in that container since that is the one component which wields the most control over what the subtle does. This life force, we discovered by internal searching, has its default location at the base of the spinal column, the sacrum-coccyx area. This set up is nature’s way but it is unacceptable because it favors the self being tied to material existence forever.
However this realization does nothing at all to shake the design. It remains in place even if one realizes that it actually works against one’s ultimate interest. One finds that even after years of yoga practice, years of meditation practice, still the psyche retains its creature concerns which oppose travel in the direction of brahman exclusive spiritual existence. There still remains that attraction to sexual union even after years of practice. Why is it that the system cannot be redesigned?
The first thing one has to do is to focus on the psychic system which operates the sexual attraction. This is the kundalini system. Is it possible to redesign or even to eliminate this system? At least one has to change the tendencies of this system if anything is going to give. Otherwise what is the use of yoga, meditation or whatever spiritual practice one does?
This morning based on an energy which was left in my psyche by Srila Yogesh, I was seeing something rather strange which was that the kundalini can be made to abandon muladhara chakra as its base. It can come above the small of the back and establish that as its base.
Are you kidding?
Do you know what that means, if that actually happens, where kundalini will no longer use the base as its home base and will instead take a position above the small of the back?
The small of the back is the place on the spine right behind the navel if one bends backward the back will curve the most at that place. This is the place which acts as a constriction point to hold energy in the lower trunk of the body and to stop energy from going any higher.
To have kundalini jump up permanent and to abandon its primeval cove is a fantastic accomplishment for any student yogi. It would mean that kundalini’s attitude changes completely. It would mean that the strong attraction to sexual union would disappear from the individual’s psyche. This is possible after years and years of practice, raising kundalini at least once per day, guiding kundalini through the spine into the head away from its base hang-out. But wait! Be sure that kundalini does this new configuration permanently since there is every chance it can return to its old habits. If it did it before, it can do it again. Don’t be overconfident.
