Buddhi Yoga

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Date: Posted 3 years before Jan 08, 2016

Alfredo 3 years ago

Michael!Gita, 2nd part of Chapter 2, extolls the Yoga of the Intelligent Will (Buddhi Yoga).According to Sankhya, this intelligence and will are part of the mechanical energy of Nature (I believe you call this energy Kundalini), thus not properties of the Purusha, but the principles of Buddhi, which is one of the 24 Tattwas. Buddhi is at once both intelligence and will, the part of Kundalini that discriminates and coordinates. Through the ego, Ahankara, Purusha identifies with Prakriti and its actions.

I gather, when you pointed out to me the other day the importance of this instrument, the psychic organ in the head of the subtle body, similar to the brain, that the first goal is the purification here through the agencies of Buddhi Yoga, and that that if what you identified as jnana-dipa or jnana-chaksu.

How would the pranayama you recommended, which I am doing now, Kapalabhati followed by Nadhi Shodana affect jnana-dipa?.

What else is required to advance in this Buddhi Yoga?

MiBeloved 3 years ago

Alfredo’s Query:

Gita, 2nd part of Chapter 2, extolls the Yoga of the Intelligent Will (Buddhi Yoga).

According to Sankhya, this intelligence and will are part of the mechanical energy of Nature (I believe you call this energy Kundalini), thus not properties of the Purusha, but the principles of Buddhi, which is one of the 24 Tattwas. Buddhi is at once both intelligence and will, the part of Kundalini that discriminates and coordinates. Through the ego, Ahankara, Purusha identifies with Prakriti and its actions.

How would the pranayama you recommended, which I am doing now, Kapalabhati followed by Nadhi Shodana affect jnana-dipa?.

What else is required to advance in this Buddhi Yoga?

MiBeloved’s Response:

Sometimes we get into arguments because we do not understand each other even though we speak the same language and use the very same type of analytical psychic instrument which is this buddhi. So let me begin by clearing up the meaning of certain words as I use them, since in your vocabulary there is bound to be differences.

So let us begin with the self. First of all this self as the word is commonly used in the Western countries is not the self in my vocabulary. It is the psyche. So what is this psyche. It is the subtle body or the form used in dreams and astral projections.

This subtle body or psyche is a container which holds several psychic organs and the individual spiritual self (core-self) together as one unity, as a subtle body which transmigrates with these components within it.

So let us begin with my vocabulary with the premise that there is a container which is called a psyche. Since you are somewhat familiar with Sanskrit, perhaps the closest word for this is sukshma sharira. But in some readings the word atma is used for this and in others the word manas is used for this.

Okay the number two thing is the contents of this psyche. What does it contain?

According to the Theosophical society, this psyche has an aura or a set of colorful lights which emanates from it but what is within it. We know for instance that in the human body there are organs, tendons, muscles and so on. Therefore are there psychic organs and psychic energy in the subtle body. The answer is that there is.

Beginning with the head, there is in the head, centralized, the core-self or jiva atma, the individual living entity which is a spiritual principle in excellence but which presently in the material world is foreshadowed by its alliance with the other components in the psyche.

In the head along with this core-self, there is a buddhi intellect which is a psychic organ but there are also sensual orbs and a small flash memory storage organ.

Outside of this subtle head but in the trunk part of the psyche is the kundalini life force and also there is a memory chamber (long ranged storage) and the causal body. Technically speaking this causal body is not the subtle body but from another perspective it is, just as the subtle body is interspaced in the physical body but it lives on a totally different level of reality.

In this enumeration kundalini is not the buddhi. Kundalini is in the base of the trunk of the body, while the buddhi resides usually in the head.

Please see these diagrams below and see the various labels. If after seeing this you have a question then I will answer it but at least this gives the vocabulary which I will be using and in that way you can translate it over to your wording.

This first diagram is on page 113 of the Meditation Expertise book:

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Alfredo’s Query:

How would the pranayama you recommended, which I am doing now, Kapalabhati followed by Nadhi Shodana affect jnana-dipa?.

MiBeloved’s Response:

The buddhi analytical orb is affected by the condition of the kundalini energy. Therefore if one can change the energy which the kundalini absorbs, that will cause kundalini to abandon its vulgar and mundane interest, at least for so long as the infusion is being applied.

Thus when the kundalini is changed then that affects the buddhi which develops supernatural perception.

I think this has to be tested by each student. However how can I test something I cannot identify, something which is invisible and downright elusive? So that is the problem.

You are poking your nose into the intricacies of buddhi yoga which is also called kriya yoga, but this might cause you to become the laughing stock of the world, because it mostly has to do with what is subjective and what is abstract. There are places for people like you, insane asylums, but nowadays they are called sanatoriums.

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Alfredo’s Query:

this intelligence and will are part of the mechanical energy of Nature (I believe you call this energy Kundalini),

MiBeloved’s Response:

I don’t like the word mechanical. I use the word psychic.

However the intelligence is twofold or dual. One is instinctive intelligence and that is the kundalini’s aspect. One is rational intelligence and that is the buddhi analytical orb aspect. These are two distinct and separate systems but they mix in the mind and so one may be confused as the other, or they might both be seen as one reality.

Will or will power arises from the sense of identity (Sanskrit ahamkara) which surrounds the core-self (atma). But that will power seems to be involved in the buddhi because it is expressed through the buddhi. If I say that my fingers typed this message, you will agree but you know that technically the fingers are stooges of the mind. It is the mind which is actually doing the typing. In the same way the intellect seems to be the instrument of will power while in fact it is only a servant of the sense of identity.

Alfredo 3 years ago

Michael Wrote:

[You are poking your nose into the intricacies of buddhi yoga which is also called kriya yoga, but this might cause you to become the laughing stock of the world, because it mostly has to do with what is subjective and what is abstract. There are places for people like you, insane asylums, but nowadays they are called sanatoriums.]

Alfredo’s Reply:

Michael!
Thanks so much. I love that Funny Farm, I have always known that I am not right in the head. Add to that that I pray to Ganesh, worship Vedic heroes, and adhere to the old Varna system, plus follow मनुस्मृति and of course I would not disclose that to any shrink in the world. Good night!

MiBeloved 3 years ago

Manu Smriti is nice.

What about discussing its relevance and also how it worked in its own time and place?Alfredo 3 years ago

OK, I will, in a few days.

Right now I have been busy trying to learn the Buddhi Yoga and Jnana-chaksu thing, etc. plus copying, saving, and classifying everything you have written to me and others (when relevant) as instruction, in separate files, such as personal, pranayama, medical, celibacy, etc, so that I can access them for easy perusal, then reading your books at night. Realize time is also pretty much kind of not on mi side at this point, but that's OK.

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