Dealing with the Bliss Aspect

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Date:  Posted 5 years before Oct 28, 2017

MiBeloved 5 years ago

During breath infusion with an inspiration from Srila Yogesh, I was studying the mirror effect of the spiritual body into the subtle body which is used in dreams and other astral adventures.

The astral body is not a spiritual body. During the use of the astral body, the limited atmas, souls, use a spherical form like a speck of starlight but this form is indistinct as far as gross and subtle consciousness is concerned. The result of this is the concept of formlessness which really means a lack of detection of the said spiritual form.

The consequence of that lack of detection is an inevitable attachment to the vision which is yielded in the material world either though a physical system or through the dream-astral casing.

In the spiritual body every part of it is infused with bliss energy to the same absolute degree. No part is better than any other part as in the material body where we find that the loss of a finger is of little consequence as compared to the loss of an eye.

But the physical system is manufactured by the subtle body on the basis of whatever material is available as provided by material nature. In the subtle body there is super-sensitivity in one area and little sensitivity in another. The result of this is the realization of the kundalini which is best felt when it is in either the sushumna central passage or the brain or in the sexual organ/reproduction area.

It will become necessary as one advance in meditation to figure a way to transfer from the subtle body into the spiritual form of the atma-self. Question is:

How to do that?

People avoid this by just thinking that the matter may be simplified by having no body, by being bodiless and mostly by oneness or mergence into ………………….

This morning on an inspiration from Srila Yogesh, I worked on a breath infusion kriya which causes the chit objectively accurate aspect of consciousness to control the ananda bliss aspect of the infused compressed energy.

There are two ways for the bliss aspect to operate. One is the way where it takes over the psyche partially or completely, where the psyche is dominated by the bliss feelings. This might be understood by studying what happens in sexual climax, where the whole system is overtaken by a pleasure aspect and the entire body is invaded by it in a happiness which is beyond compare.

When the bliss aspect takes over the chit objectively accurate consciousness surrenders its control of the psyche, gives in as it were, and is overcome completely by the bliss force, at least until that force subsides, then again the chit objectively accurate consciousness gradually takes control.

In the sexual experience, something similar happens where after the pleasure runs into every part of the psyche and dominates it, gradually over time that pleasure recedes and things get back to normal and the various cells all over the body resume their normal operations but with a depressed feeling.

It is like if a country is overrun by pleasure energy and then the occupying force suddenly retreats and the citizens who were dominated by that pleasure force regain their autonomy. Of course they might do so regretting having lost that pleasure dominance. Normally no one likes to be dominated but if the dominant force is pleasurable, then who is going to object?

Who, even if full to the throat, will refuse one more ladle of ice-cream?

Who, even if tired to the max, will refuse one more exciting sexual intercourse?

To change the subtle body’s kundalini configuration, one has to use the chit objectively accurate consciousness to control the bliss aspect, so that this aspect is equally distributed through the subtle body and is not just in the sushumna nadi or head of the form.  When during breath infusion practice, when kundalini rises, one should take the upper hand and direct it into the dark parts of the subtle body, places where it will not normally go. One should squeeze it down into the extremities where there is heavy astral energy, so that every part of the subtle body is infused equally. Of course one has to gain some detachment from the bliss aspect of chakras before one can sincerely do this.

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From LinkedIn:

Colleen's query:

Language remains a barrier, because I am still learning your vocabulary. But, do you make a distinction between pleasure and joy?

MiBeloved's Response:

Joy is distinguished from pleasure because pleasure has the extra component of passion.

Pleasure if it is hampered uses aggression to secure itself again, while joy is easy-going and won't become aggressive if it is hampered.

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Colleen's query:

Yes, Michael, I agree to a point. I distrust pleasure and only allow myself to enjoy it without compulsion. It is Joy that I seek.

What is this Bliss that you speak of? Is it joy or pleasure?

MiBeloved's Response:

Bliss is not joy, at least not the joy as we agreed above.

Bliss is the emotional content of the divine world. That is it in a nut shell.

To understand this, think of a striptease. Men looking at the striptease usually become very lusty. When exposed to that lust comes out of nowhere and inhabits their psyche. We have to assume that the lust was there all along but it was either suppressed or dormant. In the presence of the striptease, it is suddenly manifested just like that, so that the men become helpless under its influence.  So the emotional content under that influence is sexual lust.

Let us take another example of warfare. In time of war, some people turn against others in a fit of aggression, where we can agree that the emotional content was aggression. Under the influence of the aggression energy, a man might kill several people whom he does not know, people who have not even attacked him, people whom under other circumstances he would love and protect. In war he is overpowered by aggression where his identifying emotions are that.

So in the highest of the astral regions (heavens/celestial worlds) and in the divine world, the energy content of the psyche of the individual is bliss energy.

Imagine if you were always in full sexual climax experience all the time, with no letting down. So being in those higher planes is like that where the body you are has bliss energy as its content.

Technically speaking in Sanskrit this is called sacchidananda vigraha, which means that the form (vigraha) is full of eternal existence (sat), eternal divine perception (chit) and emotion of bliss (ananda).