Moral Breach of a Yogi-guru

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Date:  Posted 5 years before Aug 13, 2017

MiBeloved 5 years ago

Agnisara Flushway

During breath infusion this morning, kundalini-charged forces were flashing here and there in the trunk of the subtle body below the neck, and also through the neck and also up into the face at the cheek bones. I had a flash from Swami Rama who directed me to infuse energy through the agnisara flushway. This is a gap place which begins in the chest of the subtle body and ends in the pubic area. This flush way is sometimes like rectangular-shaped metal tubing or it may be like cylindrical metal tubing.

When one sees this tube it appears to be hollow and the inner walls of it appear as grey-white. As one infuses breath using bhastrika or kapala bhati, the passages gets filled with the infused energy and it feels like the exhaust from a jet engine.

One interesting feature about this is that Swami Rama was accused by several of his female students of sexual misconduct or abuse. So how is it that if that is true he is still able to give these kriyas to anyone.

The answer to that question is that whatever he achieved as a yogi, through yoga process, remains his achievement and whatever he did which was out of the moral scope, is his handicap in that way. The two accounts are actually separate, just as if a man has worked honestly for a certain wage, he will get that from the employer. But if simultaneously he performed criminal acts either on the business premise or somewhere else, he is also accountable for that.

One can get techniques from a fallen teacher, provided the teacher did master those skills.

Is the teacher affected by his moral lapses?

Yes, he is.

Does his moral breach put a damper on his spiritual advancement?

Yes it does.

He has to do penance and perform compensatory actions according to the demands of the Universal Form of Sri Krishna. See chapter 11 of Bhagavad Gita.