Dead Yogi Complaint
A friend who is deceased came to me in the astral existence to complain that some advice which he received from me was not effective. About six months before his demise, he approached me about a mantra and kriya for using at the time of death, so that his psychic would be transferred to a place where advanced yogis were located in the astral existence.
At the time I told him I had no mantra but there was a kriya I was aware of which is the psychic movement made at an opportune time just before giving up the body. This involved waiting for a window in time and using that to leave the physical system. I explained that it is like when a bird was in a cage for many years. Sometimes it does not fly out of the cage even if the owner accidentally leaves the cage door open for a time. Because the bird was accustomed to the cage for many years, it does not understand the implication of the opened door. It forgot everything about being free of the wire enclosure. There are also birds which were caged from birth. These have no memory of free-ranging. Hence for these birds the idea of flying in the open may not arise in their minds.
It is a regular thing to see people who are recently deceased staying close to their dead material bodies or to the place which those bodies used to occupy, like the physical residence or the bed where those bodies habitually slept. I knew a person who in the astral existence, spent at least four months after death, trying to wake up as the dead body. This happens because of the force of habit of the astral form, which returns nightly to a physical form and rises as that identity.
However one does get portends of one’s upcoming death. When these indications come in the mind, a yogi can use them as a notice for having to vacate his or her place in the social history of the world. The release feeling of finally parting from a physical body is itself a kriya for the yogi. If he perceived it he can use it to go out of the physical system, either to kill it or to leave it as it is being killed by the laws of nature.
The secret to this is to have the psychic sensitivity. If one does not have that then when the release feeling occurs, one will have no awareness of it and cannot apply the kriya of astrally stepping out of the body once for all.
What causes a yogi to be insensitive to this alert?
It is caused by too much focus on physical existence. Just as a person who is habitually constipated no longer senses rectum valve triggers for prompt evacuation, so a person who is habitually focused on material activities, has no awareness of the opportune time to finally leave the physical body and thus cannot do the death action kriya.
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Posted on June 28, 2014
Srila Yogeshwarananda whom I have not seen for some weeks now, appeared today during the afternoon breath infusion session. He wanted to discuss the killing of the body, which is a system of end of life yoga some advanced ascetics use to perform.
He said that because he had so many disciples at the end of his life, he was unable to complete this procedure properly but he wanted me to consider doing it. I told him that I did not think I could do it because of the circumstances of my own life, where I am not able to be in isolation due to cancelation actions of providence which prohibit that I go into isolation, something I tried to do unsuccessful some years ago, which some deities objected to.
He did not accept the argument and said he felt I could do it nevertheless because I won’t be bogged down with a big mission, ashram and an institution to run, due to my resistant towards the same.
Of course that can change overnight as it did in his life where after years of isolation, he was circumstantially established as a lineage guru.
Anyway before I knew it, he began to pour some energy through the top of my head through the brahmarandra chakra, saying that he had to get rid of the energy for killing the body because he did not use it and also because he will not take another body to demonstrate it.
I then told him that under the situation, I will keep the energy but I also may not use it and then later I may pass it to another yogi.
This all happened during the breath infusion practice.
When I sat to meditate, I tried to locate the package of energy which he poured into my head but I could not find it in the head of the subtle body. Then I went down into the trunk of the body and I could not find it there either. Down in the trunk there was this whitish yellowish translucent energy. It was like diving through a light grade viscous oil but I could not find anything in it so I again came up to the head of the subtle body to meditate as I usually do.
At that time, he sent in a message telling me to chant a mantra which he used to chant and to take a certain position in the subtle head while doing the chanting. The mantra was the Savituh gayatri mantra. I began to chant it and I found that it did not affect my usual connection of being embedded in naad sound resonance.
He then said in my head that he wanted me to chant it for him. I said okay. After that he left and went off in the astral dimensions.
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Recently, a kriya student wanted me to explain the killing-of-the-body kriya. I told him I could not give him that method, because it is really not a method. It hinges on fate which in turn hinges on the summary practice of the yogi up the point of when he is to pass from the body.
There are usually two or three escape holes which open for a practicing ascetic. He can use one of these. If he fails to do so, he is held back in the physical body and evicted from it in one way or the other when the body dies and the lifeforce leaves in a panic if it can. Sometimes the life force cannot leave in a panic because the body might be in a coma. In that case the life force leaves in a mist of unconsciousness, and then over time, say for about half hour or for some days after, it finds itself in the astral existence without a body and with a feeling that something went terribly wrong. It feels misted and broken up like when a granite ball falls to a hard surface from the top of a very tall building.
People want some kriya to use but the kriya for yogic passing from the body is a matter of taking one or two of the escapes which are showed to the ascetic just before the body dies.
What happens it that at the time before the body dies, there will be an opening in time, a gap-event in consciousness where the yogi can focus the core-self and escape from the body. If the yogi uses that gap then the body will silently die and the yogi will be gone, being disconnected permanently from the physical form. This departure really means departure of the subtle body out of the physical one from the last time, as compared to the nightly departures during sleep which carry return potential.
The reason why a yogi may not recognize or may not take the opportunity of escape through the gap is his attachment to disciples, or to his institution or mission as a guru. Any type of attachment like that, to anyone, even to one’s family members or to one’s followers will cause a yogi not to take the opportunity.
The person who inquired of me about this is very devoted to his family. He will not be able to take advantage of the gap. He may not see it. That is the first problem. And even if he does see it, he will not have the power to use it.
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An example of this is a bird which was kept in a cage for years. We experience sometimes that such a bird will not fly away when the cage is opened. It will look at the open door of the cage and not realize what that opening means or it may find that opening to be an unwelcomed opportunity.
There was a case which I knew of, where in South America, a man kept a parrot in a cage for some time. After some years, he decided to free the creature. He opened the door of the cage and wired it in the open position so that it would never be closed again. At first the bird did not trust the opening and stayed away from it. But then over time the bird got familiar with it and used to handle the wire around the opening with its beak.
After a time the bird slowly stepped out of the cage but the bird never actually flew away. It stayed in the house of the man and would go into the cage to sleep regularly. I questioned the man about this because I was interested to study how we become conditioned.
Every person will be given hints about death. These are called portents. Like for instance there was a time about a year ago when I got some portents where many people who were deceased whom I knew came to see me astrally and wanted to greet me favorably. This is like when one is to migrate to another country and some person from that other place comes and greets one and begins to support one and give one confidence about the upcoming transition.
However when the body is just to die there will be indications in the body itself both in the physical and in the subtle body. But on the psychological level there will be an opening in time, where one can go outside of the summary energy influence of this particular life, and fly away.
If however one is distracted by association with family or with disciples who are obsessed with their material bodies, one will either not recognize or recognize and not be able to use the opportunity.
There are many people who profess to be spiritual or to be ascetic or to be a yogi. Most of them are phonies. They mean well but they are still phonies. They have no intentions of giving up material existence but they speak as if they are interested in doing that but it is just a way of conversation. If their lifestyles are closely checked we will discover that their interest in yoga is purely superficial or that they intend to use it to support their status in material existence. And this is okay. It has to be okay, because that is the way of the world.
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A yogi has to have the freedom at the end of life to be alone so that he can focus on what fate decrees and take advantage of it. There is a nice rendering of this in the life of the blind king Dhritarashtra. Incidentally his name was the first to be mentioned in the Bhagavad Gita, which begins like this:
धृतराष्ट्र उवाच
धर्मक्षेत्रे कुरुक्षेत्रे
समवेता युयुत्सवः ।
मामकाः पाण्डवाश्चैव
किमकुर्वत संजय ॥१.१॥
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca
dharmakṣetre kurukṣetre
samavetā yuyutsavaḥ
māmakāḥ pāṇḍavāścaiva
kimakurvata saṁjaya (1.1)
dhṛtarāṣṭra — Dhritarashtra; uvāca — said; dharmakṣetre — at the place for settling political affairs; kurukṣetre — at Kurukshetra, a small plain in Punjab, India; samavetā — meeting together; yuyutsavaḥ — being possessed with battle spirit; māmakāḥ — my sons; pāṇḍavāś — the sons of Pandu; caiva — and indeed; kim — what; akurvata — did so; saṁjaya — Sanjaya
Dhṛtarāṣṭra said: O Sanjaya, being possessed with battle spirit and meeting together, what did my sons and the sons of Pandu do at Kurukṣetra, the place for settling political affairs? (1.1)
Near the end of his life, he was encouraged by his half-brother, Vidura, to abandon the comforts of family life and social security and go to a remote place in the forest to pass off silently. Vidura explained that this type of death without burial fanfare is the most wonderful way to depart from the body.
