Kundalini’s Elderly Behavior
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 6 years before Nov 29, 2018
MiBeloved 6 years ago
As the body gets older, especially at 50 years of age and beyond, there is this tendency in the kundalini to monitor the behavior of the form for the sake of puling seniority. This surfaces as not scaling down desires, wanting service to be rendered by others, especially the younger generation and grabbing the means of prestige as leverage over the history of the family, the nation or the world.
Instead of facing up to the fact that one is being slowly but surely rejected by providence, the kundalini inspires an old body to pick up a new arrogance by holding money, property and political control as leverage to extract services from others, to command the so-called young people.
This is done even on the level of poverty, where a poor old man or old woman will wield their experience and knowledge as social power. Such people cannot flash an inheritance on the young people in the family, because they just do not have money, but they can flash their acquired life experience and use that as a bargaining chip to make the younger people act as they desire.
Wealthy people however, look down on this action of the poor. A wealthy old man or woman may use the money and accrued political influence, to make younger ones do as desired. The wealthy elderly persons do not understand that they are doing the same thing as elderly folks who have no money to banter.
For a yogi this whole game of maintaining social prestige belongs to the rodent kingdom, where the older rats pull seniority in the dugout nest. The animal has no idea of reincarnation and rightly so it clings to the precipice of life even when it is dying and the organs in its own body have run their course.
Can a yogi scale down desires and turn in his or her need for being in the history of the world. The first person to speak in the Bhagavad Gita discourse was not Krishna. It was a fellow by the name of Dhritarashtra (Dhri-tuh-rash-tra). Of interest is his name which translated out of Sanskrit means in English, the one who holds (dhrita) the kingdom (rashtra).
Literally, he was holding the kingdom for his brother Pandu. Dhritarashtra had desires for kingship and thus when he was holding the kingdom he found it expedient to keep holding it forever. This formed as the basis for the Kuru civil war which is narrated in the Mahabharata.
Near the end of his material body, Dhritarashtra was pressured by Vidura, his lower-caste half-brother, to leave aside the luxuries of palace life and go to the forest to live like a beggar while doing yoga austerities. Dhritarashtra was aided by fate since he managed to complete the pratyahar sensual interest portion of ashtanga yoga just before his body was burnt in a forest fire.
So why not scale down on desire. Why take Viagra if you can have sex again in the following life in another newer body? Why not shift your interest to the astral world in old age since you know that you will have to transmigrate and you will soon have to move over completely to the afterlife no matter the value of your medical insurance and even if you can get the very best treatment that our medical science can offer?
Why stay on with your wealthy children, while pretending that you are a sadhu who does seva at the temple on Sundays and who gives money in charity at the end of year when you can write it off from your income tax liabilities?
Why play all these games with fate? Why not just scale down on desires, realize that you are done for and just focus on being an historic nobody in this world, while you try to gain some foothold on the astral existence, the place to which you will be transferred no matter what science can do to extend your life for a few hours or days
Life is not over when the physical body is done. The psychological you will continue in a wholesome or psychotic way depending on how it was cultivated during life. Even if you get dementia, the psychology will persist beyond the life of the physical body. Why not tend to that instead of focusing, do or die, on the physical system which is slowly but surely being confiscated by inscrutable time.
It is pathetic when old relatives cling to desires for sex, money, property, social acclaim and such aspects which are awards of material existence but which the same existence have every intention to confiscate.
Why cling on, trusting that by prayers, meditations or mantra, you might beat time at its game, when time will come to you like a selfish cruel snake which does not spare the rat which is hold up in its dug out cave?
Alfredo 6 years ago
Tremendous wisdom contained in these words above, specially for us over 50.
The younger ones should take heed also.
The importance of the 4 ashramas explained in Manu Smriti comes to mind.
