Diet ~ Yogic Challenge
One pressing concern for yogis is the curbing of diet. From the time a yogi falls into a would-be family’s influence when he is in the hereafter, being drawn into the social influence for getting an embryo, his dietary situation is dictated to him. It may continue even beyond the death of the body he got from those new parents.
It does not begin with the mother, though people regard a visible pregnancy as the first indication that an infant will appear. It does not begin with the father, even though people tag a certain man as the sexual aggressor. It begins with a social influence which attracts the departed yogi.
He is drawn to a certain family influence. Then he is directed to take shelter of certain seniors in the family who may accept him directly or refer him to another family member. Once he is accepted by them, he feels an attraction to the mother and/or father to-be.
If he is attracted to the father, he remains with that elder but he also takes the form of an emotion for liking or disliking females whom the father becomes attracted to. In the father’s body he becomes a sperm or stated precisely his consciousness serves as the life force of a sperm particle. This material is manufactured from what the father eats.
If the father is a fish eater, then his sperm body is made of fish nutrients. If his father is a vegetarian, it is made from vegetable substance. That is where his dietary preferences begin with his not making any choice in the matter.
Once he is transferred into the mother’s body, her diet is assumed by him, but he may express objections which the mother experiences as disinclinations to eat certain foods. Then later when he is delivered and his body must eat and breathe directly, he eats from the mother’s breast. He accepts foods which the mother prepares and spoons into his mouth.
As a toddler and juvenile, he is under dietary influences at home and at school. His understanding of diet does not come until he reaches the adult stage, and that is only if he is a discerning personality and has the will to analyses and decide for himself what is best for diet.
The power of the birth environment usually dictates diet for the course of a material body, such that even yogis eat foods which they were influenced to take as children even though they know that such diet is not conducive to the aims of yoga.
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My body is sixty-four (64) years of age. After practicing yoga asana postures and pranayama breath-infusion for over forty (40) years, and systematically hacking away at mental and emotional pressures from the family I took this body from as well as from acquaintances who used contrary diet, I can finally say that I broke completely from the bad influences. It took that long, forty plus (40+) years.
Looking back, I can say that without doing yoga asanas and especially bhastrika pranayama breath infusion, I could not have achieved this break-away.
The value of it is what it means in the subtle body, because after all the physical form will soon be done, since material nature has every intention of killing it as soon as She can.
Breath infusion allows the yogi to shatter the lump of the stomach-intestine-reproduction complex of energies, which form a dense mass of subtle force which bogs down the astral form and causes it to remain on the lower astral planes which are adjacent to this physical existence.
