DevaPriya Practice Report

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Date: Posted 5 years before May 23, 2018

devaPriya Yogini 5 years ago

Great praise and thanks to

Swami Sivananda~Swami Vishnu-devananda~Yogi Madhvacharya~

Sri Yogeshwarananda

Interesting and very productive practice this morning due to the presence of three Yogis.

I got to bed quite late so I am surprised that I was as vital as I was.

First of all, during asana with breath infusion I have a bad habit of silently counting breaths.

Guruji Michael has discouraged me from this distracting habit and I try to stop it every time I find myself doing it.

This morning it happened that when I found myself counting, as usual I would switch to focus solely on subtle body awareness but all of a sudden today I would hear myself silently repeating the syllables Ha-Tha, (hah-tah) as in Hatha, as in Sun, Moon, which brought me into direct focus on the solar and lunar balance within the subtle body and two hemispheres of the physical. Noticed a back and forth clearing effect especially within nasal passageways leading down each, opposite side of body.

After having kundalini rise over the weekend at the end of doing a slow breath infused sun salutation that put me down on my back in a sparkley black out, I enjoyed more subtle rises this morning and was diligent about applying strong locks on the way up from the last forward bend when the major rises occur.

I spent much of my asana and breath practice this morning trying to work out accumulated tension energy in my upper back and neck that has been bothersome to me.

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Meditation was one of the best I've had in terms of what happened with my subtle body and the assistance from some blessed Yogis.

I was sitting there still plagued by this excessive energy in the upper back that I had just spent an hour trying to get rid of and that disrupted my sleep last night. I asked (begged) for help from any loving Yogi to remove this energy from me. I felt the presence of Swami Sivananda who when close by, naad sound increased in volume. Yogi Madhvacharya was also present looking on and surprisingly, for the first time, at least to my awareness, was Sri Yogeshwarananda who I have been including in my prayers especially since Bernard posted portions of his book on this site that I found fascinating and I ordered his book Science of Soul which is (slowly) on its way to me from India.

Anyway, I asked them to please please remove this pain from my subtle/physical body.

Sri Yogeshwarananda took the lead and informed me that the origin of my pain was my jaw!!

I felt him enter my psyche and begin draining tension from both sides of my jaw. He reminded me that this accumulation of tension has been in the works since I was a little child and would grind my teeth when I slept due to anxiety. This is true. My parents say that I would do this so loud it would wake them up. I also have a form of TMJ because of this habit and my jaw pops every time I open my mouth to a certain place because due to the grinding, cartilage is bunched up in the right side of my jaw causing an uneven movement.

Yogeshwarananda drained massive amounts of energy from both sides and over about 30 mins, the pain left my back and neck completely. I haven't felt such relaxation in my jaw, head or back ever. The muscles there felt so relieved and empty.

I always make sure to relax it and to also tell my students to drain the excessive energy from the jaw joints as well because the muscles working the jaw are so fibrous, they act like magnets for tension to gather and for excessive energy to find a hiding place. But the Yogi showed me that I wasn't going nearly deep enough to get it out and subtly showed me how it all happens to contribute to other problems.

So great thanks to Sri Yogeshwarananda for this help and relief because now I know the cause of the problem.

Jaw tension can cause back/neck pain.

Great thanks to my Guruji Michael too because im sure that it was his presence that brought along Yogeshwarananda.

Meditation on Naad after this instruction was wonderful and I continue taking refuge in its presence even right now.

Off now to class and then to soak in the ocean weather permitting.

Blessed day to all you Yogis and Yoginis.

Jai Shri Radhe

MiBeloved 5 years ago

devaPriya Yogini wrote:

First of all, during asana with breath infusion I have a bad habit of silently counting breaths.

MiBeloved's Response:

Question is:

What percentage of your attention is involved in counting the breaths?

Where is the breath counting taking place? At what location in the psyche?

Is your attention split in two parts, one part counting breath and one part focusing on -----------?

You can answer this for yourself.

Effective breath infusion is all about focus, but where is the focus placed? You can go on practicing for millions of years with partial focus and you will never reach the culmination of practice in that way.

It is the same thing with chanting mantras either silently or verbally in meditation. The question arises as to where is your attention? Do you just chant mindlessly or do you first chant with focus on making a sound and then hear with focus on hearing what you are chanting?

Where is the focus or shift of focus?

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devaPriya Yogini wrote:

MiBeloved's Response:

Students who learn to utilize the small rises, the subtler ones, will in a short time get kundalini under control. But the key again is focus only on what the infused energy is doing. Release the interest from everything else, just let everything else go and focus on what the infused energy is doing. That is the most rapid way of progressing with this practice.

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Jaw problem also has a psychological origin which is your interest in certain people and in certain situations and your automatic attraction to certain problem areas of human existence (social situations). Guruji’s assistance is a matter of mercy to you in terms of your affiliation with yoga practice, your enthusiasm and natural interest in it and the fact that you can help many others by that. However the problem will build up again because of an inborn tendency which you need to confront and deal with in the privacy of your mind.

This creation is God’s creation; a bigger mind has caused this to be. Whatever or whoever that is, is responsible for this.

Therefore having an interest in this creation which is an independent enterprise is just a cause for trouble. If we have some interest, it should be taken out of the enterprise of the universal form of Krishna which is described to a greater extent in chapter 11 of Bhagavad Gita.

If you are on the battle field of Kurushetra and you have to key in to the universal form and abandon your interest in disciplining people on the battlefield. What is it to you if I am the greatest crook there ever was? Has God hired you to deal with me? Cause if he has not then it is none of your business what I do?

And if God hired you, are you doing it in a way which God wants it done? Look at Arjuna! At first he had these moral arguments in chapter one of the Gita. These were solid moral arguments and Krishna ripped everyone to shreds. So it does not matter what you think or how you feel about someone. What matters is how Krishna thinks and if Krishna has appointed you to help him bring whatever it is to order.

Knowing what Krishna thinks does not give anyone the authority to act on it. You have to know what he thinks and also know that he commissioned you to act. If you know what he thinks and you act without commission that will bring you trouble.

Why disapprove of this or that if you are not commissioned by the universal form to disapprove.

Arjuna was commissioned to disapprove and to pass down judgments and punishment but he was self-righteous and instead of doing what he was commissioned to do by Krishna, he has all these justifications for supporting his own ideas about what was approved and what should be the punishment, as if his existence had that value.

What I am saying here is that your tension in the jaw arises from an independent interest in God’s creation where you separate yourself out as a judgment agent who acts on occasion without being commissioned. You want to fix this and you want to fix that, but you have no commission from the God, and so that causes you to be in tension.

The policeman has a gun which he checks out when his duty begins and which he deposits to the officials when his duty ends for the day. He should not take the gun home. He should not be concerned with arrests when he is off duty. But you used to try to arrest people on your own. That is why you used to have the tension build up in the jaw.

If you were doing it during your childhood years, that means you carried the tendency over from your past life where you were preoccupied with this and that but with no support for you to do that as duty by the Universal Form.

When you are working for the Universal Form, you do not have tension, because whatever you do is the Universal Form’s problem not your own. You are covered with a sort of diplomatic immunity. You shoot someone after you are told by the police commission to take him down. You have no personal interest in the man as if he is really a criminal or not. You just do as you are told. You do not judge the man, and even though you might know why the state is after him, still you do not allow that to cloud your vision.

So what is my advice in a nutshell?

Study chapter 11 of Bhagavad Gita in detail and worship the VishvaRupa Universal Form of Krishna and learn directly from Him how to serve under his shelter and then all your nights will be free of jaw grinding.

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It is God’s world, so if he wants it to go to hell, then let it.

Don’t harbor some separate interest as if it is your creation and as if you are responsible for it.

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Here is Terri Stokes rendition of the Universal Form:

Universal Form of Krishna

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