Moon/Sun Pull Alignment
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 5 years before Dec 21, 2017
MiBeloved 5 years ago
In working to get kundalini to change its attitude, one has to work aggressively to cause the formed hormone energy in the body to go upward. So long as kundalini can pull the energy downward, the constant up-hill battle will go on, with the yogi going on a roller-coaster pulling the energy up, then having nature pull it down and then pulling up the energy. This will go on and on as gravity maintains its infallible grip on the energy.
The best thing is to get nature to render assistance with this. If nature does not render assistance then it means that the yogi might stay afloat but only if he can persist day after day, year after year, in his practice to repeat the struggle against the natural way.
This morning during breath infusion practice, I felt a pulling force upward, pulling hormone energy up and up away from the earth. I was blindfolded as I do my breath infusion practice in that way. Even though blindfolded I saw a moon pulling that energy through my psyche upward.
To check to see if the perception was of a subtle reality only, I lifted the blindfold and looked in the direction where I felt the pulling force. I saw the physical body of the moon there.
This verified for me that one has to take assistance from the sun and moon. Then I recalled that water is lifted from the land, the lakes and the oceans by the sun. Water is pulled upwards by the moon.
The sun evaporates water which is converted into clouds in the atmosphere above the earth, while with the moon we notice its influence in the form of rising tides in the ocean.
So what does this have to do with yoga and with urdhva reta state of sexual energy lift?
The yogi should take this help from the sun and moon because otherwise he is fighting an endless battle against the influence of the earth on muladhara chakra.
The term muladhara indicates what is rooted in the earth. Mula means root or anchor. Dhara means foundation or holding influence. Kundalini has its anchor in the earth’s influence. That keeps us time bound to material bodies and the world in which these bodies are manifested.
Just as the earth pulls down the hormones to the lower part of the trunk of the body and these are used there mostly for sexual enjoyment and reproduction, perhaps one can instead align oneself so that the sun and moon pull the energy upwards and keeps kundalini aligned in an upward configuration.
Alfredo 5 years ago
Thus Surya and Chandra must become auspicious to us.
How do we do that?
Do we invoke them, pray to them, do puja for them?
Do they come to the rescue when they see the struggle of the poor yogi?
MiBeloved 5 years ago
As one makes progress specific deities come into focus and render assistance according to the stage of practice.
There is a nice explanation given by the cowherd boy Krishna to his foster-father Nanda. Nanda was about to perform a yearly sacrificial ceremony which farmers were compelled to do in the religious culture of their time. This was the Indra Yajna Farm Harvest religious ceremony. Just as Nanda and his farming friends were preparing for the big festival, Krishna asked Nanda about the ceremony.
Krishna also wanted to know if it was something which they did because of tradition, where one does something because one’s parents did it, or if they did it for a specific purpose.
Nanda explained to Krishna that it was traditional but that it was mandatory because if they did not do it they ran the risk of irritating the supervising deity of rainfall. Without rain, Nanda said, everything for us is finished because we are farmers and animal herders who depend on rain for lush pasture.
Then Krishna told Nanda not to worry about the Indra Yajna ceremony because Krishna said that in any case, the supervising deity can only provide rain if the farmers had lived in a religiously approved way. Krishna said that the deity was not paramount but the approved lifestyle was and since that was the case, there was no need to worship the supervising deity in a special ceremony. Krishna then told Nanda to worship the means of empowerment which was the land and the animals involved, because it was through the land that a farmer gets to live in a religiously approved way by the way the soil is carefully tilled and the animals are properly herded. This brought Nanda to be a tradition of land and dairy animal worship known as Govardhana Puja.
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This means that even if deities are involved in yoga practice, still the main thing for the yogi is not to get involved in formal means of worship but to maintain the yoga practice because one gets the attention of the supervising deities because of practice.
There is nothing wrong with formal worship but if that becomes the focus, nothing will happen, especially if eventually one leaves aside the practice and substitutes in its place only worship of the supervising deities. This has actually happened in India, where people do pujas, artiks, yajna etc. with no kriya practice as the under-basis and so they are ignored by the deities.
