DevaPriya Practice Report - 3-29-13

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Date:  Posted 5 years before Apr 05, 2018

devaPriya Yogini 5 years ago

Being attentive to Sri Sri Lakshmi-Narayan!

Recognizing Sri Krishna’s Personality Axis Supreme!

Appreciating Yogi Madhvacharya

Practice Report 3-29-13

Subtly awakened by the sound of my teacher’s voice saying it was time to practice, Kundalini yoga began at 3:50am and lasted 45 mins.

I again followed the video of Michael Beloved doing his personal practice.

Michael Beloved Kundalini Yoga Practice

I added some forms that as a female I was instructed to focus on daily.

Meditation lasted over an hour.  Once I finally committed to listening only to naad without interference, my thoughts receded and left me in a very large chamber where eventually there was no sound, no naad, no time, no sense of anything but the vastness of the dark chamber.  I was soft and unreactive to myself. I rested there for the duration until I was suddenly moved back into the relative smallness of my own mind chamber which almost immediately transferred me to my normal waking state.

I will try to add a second report after my afternoon practice since my meditations are more successful and involved later in the day. 

Last evening I held a Full Moon Meditation at Siesta Key beach, as I do every month.

For those that showed up and braved the windy, cool beach air, received a lesson in locating and listening to the naad to benefit their meditation experience. 

Between listening to the trance enhancing, hypnotic sounds of the ocean waves and the soft sound of a couple of harmonic singing bowls, they seemed to be transported into an effective inner awareness for at least a little bit. It was receptive and gracious group.

Sri Sri Krishna-Balaram

MiBeloved 5 years ago

inSelf Yoga (Kriya Yoga) may use external sounds and other external means but only to reach the internal plane not as an objective unto itself.

Ocean waves are particularly useful for persons who are involved in worldly life and whose minds are filled with such vibrations which even when they are internally focused, they are actually externally intended and whatever is in the mind has an external objective which they will pursue at a later date. All of the meditation the average person does is converted into worldly intent and worldly accomplishment at a later day.

Only those who are trained for internal satisfactions which end internally, can really do inSelf Yoga. This does not mean that only such persons should become students but it means that the teacher should recognize the distinctions between students and carefully instruct both collectively and individuality with this understanding.

Ocean waves can help to wash out some of the worldly impression from the mind. The constant barrage of wave noise can be like a washing out detergent which enters the mind and neutralizes many unwanted impressions. When this is completed there will be emptiness and the sound of the waves will seem questionable like when one goes to an airport to catch a flight and finds that all the planes are parked with no engines running. No attendants are at the counters. All gates are locked. The entire airport is devoid of any human beings. The humbug security personnel are missing.

This will bring on an emptiness which one will dislike.

It is at this point that meditation really begins but most meditators will then run away mentally from this and hunt in their minds for something to think of or they will externalize, turn on some music, begin chanting mantras in the mind or visualize according to preconceived notions which they discovered before or were introduced to.

inSelf Yoga is not an easy discipline and it has little use for external media. Initially inSelf Yoga is drab but in the long haul it is rich with supernatural and spiritual energy.