Gist of Yoga

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Date:  Posted 6 years before Feb 23, 2017

MiBeloved 6 years ago

Yogi Rishi Singh instructed this morning that I should mention right out that meditation on the brow chakra really means meditation on the analytical orb. It does not mean meditation on the brow chakra. In real terms in higher yoga the concern is as described by Patanjali which is the shutting down the random habitual (vrittis) activities of the mind. These activities are done by one psychic organ which is the analytical orb.

Rishi said this,

“The reason why the focus is said to be on the third eye is this. The brow chakra is there. The analytical orb usually focuses through that chakra to express its intentions. However the real problem is not the chakra but the orb itself and this is evidence if you do a carefully study of Patanjali. His second sutra means one thing and one thing only and that is the silencing and removal of independence of the analytical orb which constructs mental and emotional ideas.

“Somehow or the other a yogi has to get this orb roped in so that its independence is nil. That is the whole gist of yoga. It is compressed into the second sutra of Patanjali.

“How to achieve that?

“Can it be done by drinking a glass of water?

“Then okay do that

“Can it be done by urinating instead?

“Then okay do that.

“I hope you get my point.”

Dean 6 years ago

I understand the point to be.....Do what you have to do daily to silence this psychic organ from independent operation then you can begin to try and get a handle on what problems you are truly facing as a yogi.

MiBeloved 6 years ago

Only in very advanced meditation levels when one can see psychic organs, will one be able to understand objectively that it is an organ but in the meantime, one can recognize it as the intellect which has the five functions or vrittis which are listed by Patanjali in Chapter 1 of his sutras.

So to curtail something that is invisible to you, just curtail its manifest operations. That is the only way beginners will be able to take up the process described by Patanjali.

It is not just a matter of blind faith, because the operations are real. They are manifest to you as those five psychological operations which you experience mentally and emotionally.