High-end Pratyahar Sensual Energy Withdrawal Practice

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Date:  Posted 3 years before Jan 06, 2017

MiBeloved 3 years ago

Preliminary pratyahar means withdrawing the energy which pours out the face of the subtle body in search of fulfillment in the subtle and gross material world. This energy appears to be pouring out of the core-self directly, even though that is not possible at that stage of practice.

Initially one has to act to oneself within as if one is pulling that energy back into the core-self but it is not possible to do this, because the subtle material energy cannot make direct contact with the core-self no more than a white-hot piece of metal can be grasped by the bare hand of a human being.

That simply cannot occur because the heat of the metal will prohibit the material of the human hand from directly making contact with the metal.

Initially one must act as if the sensual energy pours directly out of the core-self. This practice does work to stop so much sensual energy from pouring out of the face of the subtle body into the subtle and gross material world, but that is only the beginning stage. And yet for a student that might be a major achievement.

What is next after one did this initial practice?

The next stage is to settle down and be the core-self as one experience the most inner composite of the psyche. One has to meditate like this for weeks, months or years and reach a place where components of consciousness begin to be segregated. It is one thing to sit in the driver’s seat in a beautiful or ugly car, and drive it here and there. It is another matter to realize that the machine comprises not one something but a composite something of parts.

Is your body beautiful like Cleopatra’s or Nefertiti’s?

Is it ugly like that of a chimpanzee?

Is it cheaply made like Hitler’s gift to the poor, the early Volkswagen?

Is it precision-manufactured like the Queen Elizabeth’s Rolls Royce?

Did nature insult you by giving you a dumpy looking body, with a big nose, awfully shaped teeth and crude hairy limbs?

Or did nature live up to your expectations by giving you a handsome frame which is irresistible and causes other humanoids to rave about your attractiveness?

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What are the parts of a body?

What are the components of a mind?

What happens when the one you are discovered to be, is a set of parts put together in a haphazard and dysfunctional way?

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Pratyahar, the 5th stage of yoga has a place in its practice, where the student begins to perceive the various components of consciousness.

Is that frightening? To discover that you are a set of parts? That what you thought you were all along and what you were accepted to be functionally, was a composite of various energies and special components?

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This morning by the grace of one yoga-guru, I was introduced to another aspect of pratyahar practice which is done during the last stages of emptying out all old used energy of the subtle body and then emptying out all energy from lower astral environments and replacing that with energy from the highest astral planes and beyond.

The special explanation given was this:

To feed the greedy needs of the face of the subtle body, the entire psyche has to contribute energy which is used to scan the material world for desired objects of sensual consumption. It is not the core-self alone which is involved in this contribution of energy. All parts of the psyche are involved, and since the other parts have an existence all by themselves, efforts must be made by the yogi to retract and then reinstall the energy which was continually being confiscated from those parts.

This cannot be done on the lower levels of consciousness because it is not perceptible there. It did not occur there initially. Initially when one was a subtle something in this existence, there were no gross materials anywhere in the universe. Thus one has to reach that level of awareness before one can perceive the flow of energy out of the various parts of the psyche into the face of it for sensual exploitation of the world.

When the energy is retracted it will go back into the matching part from which it emanated in the first place. This may be a place in a toe of the form or in the finger of a form and not in the core-self, or not even in the kundalini, or not even in the buddhi analytical orb. Wherever the energy originated, that is where it will be retracted to automatically when one reaches that advance stage of practice.

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One way to know when one is doing this practice, is that the energy retracted will cause a narrow spiral of energy to go from the location to which it was retracted to through the top of the head into outer space.