More Sensual Energy Withdrawal
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 3 years before Oct 06, 2016
MiBeloved 3 years ago
Pratyahar sensual energy withdrawal continues on and in the meditation practice even in the advanced stages where it takes a different turn or operates on very subtle levels. Then it happens on planes which to beginners are so abstract as to not exist.
Being grossly focused we are blind to the subtle planes of existence. These are the subtle material energy. As far as the spiritual energy is concerned we have no idea of it. It may be argued that since we are aware of ourselves, we are on the spiritual plane. For that matter in one spiritual organization, I was a member of, the whole premise is that by just hearing that we are spiritual entities puts us into the realization of that. But this is a wicked farce. Most of the people who are attracted to such dogma are insecure souls who need to have some philosophy which is touted as the highest dogma to hang on to.
Hearing that you are a spirit does not necessarily make you realize that in fact and this shows by your continued materialistic drive and focus. People cling on to great ideas to offset their insecurity and fear of being put down because they do not have the relevant skills to take charge of human society. In fear of being roughshod by others, as is the name of the game in the material world, people grab some high sounding and totally unrealizable concepts of reality and wave that like the flag which is put on the main building in city which is conquered by a foreign army.
This is not about God. This does not change the fact that God is real or unreal. This does not verify that one man has selected the correct God. This is about self-improvement. This is not about self-esteem. This is about self critique and facing up to the up or down status of the self in this creation.
This is not about proving that the self is oneness or that the self is divine. It is about finding out in fact what the self really is.
My belief or lack of belief in God or in Oneness is not the problem. It is the self itself which is the problem unto itself and which has to solve out its place in this creation, in the social material world, the human society, while it uses itself as a living material body, in the social astral world, the dream habitat while it uses itself as a subtle body.
Being in the dumps, being in the ghetto world of existence is a condition that cannot be remove merely by touting a particular belief or philosophy. The existential upgrade of the self is what needs to be achieved if it can be done. What to do to achieve this is the question.
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Sensually energy withdrawal in the very advanced stages occurs in very deep meditation when the mind is shut down in regards to its scheming, thought construction, drowsiness, memory and imagination operations. Then there is a pull back where one finds that the front part of the subtle head which is usually a busybody place, has a blank quietness like a ghost town which once was a busily city and which was abandoned even by mice and cockroaches. Even they left that place because there was no longer anything there to feed on.
But then one notices that each of the senses are still existing. Particularly the hearing sense is engaged with the naad sound, and joyfully so. The visual sense should be shut down too, where one feels that there is no interest to go to the frontal part of the subtle head to use either the two subtle, two physical or the one third eye or even the imagination facility to perceive anything visually. This is like when after a hurricane the wind stops blowing and everything is quiet after being beaten down by the wind and large rain drops. The wind-swept front of the head seems to become tamed like a battle took place and every combatant were killed, both the good soldiers and the bad ones.
But then there are other senses, because we have only accounted for two of them; the hearing sense which is engaged in naad like a little infant sucking on its mother’s breast, and the visual sense which somehow lost its impetus and shut down.
What about the tasting sense, and there is the touching sense and also the smelling sense.
What are these senses doing? Are they still prancing around? Is the smelling sense still bored with regular air? Is the feeling sense still wanting some stimulation by touching? Is the tasting sense still crazy about flavors?
These senses must also be withdrawn, pratyahared as it was.
Yesterday I was feeling the tasting sense being drawn back. It felt like a turtle pulled back into its shell with every part of it under wraps with no interest in what was in the environment, even in the subtle environment of thinking, dreaming and astral projecting.
When this happened I, as the core-self, was located in the back of the top part of trunk, where the neck fits into the trunk. I was doing a kriya which was taught by Lahiri Mahasaya where he said that was the kriya given to Uddhava by Krishna for mixing the naad sound in the sushumna central passage and the naad sound which penetrates from outside the subtle body.
Krishna described that practice with special description of the mix of naad sounds when this is done. I experienced no mix of those sounds. From within sushumna the sound was blank like missing music during a rehearsal, like a silent orchestra. But the naad sound which penetrates from the outside was a full of sound.
So what to do?
One does what one is told by the yoga guru with full faith. One does not entertain doubts and hack away at progress with expectations. The expectation to maintain is the ability to follow the instructions and to have blind faith in the yoga guru. Here is one place, where blind faith has a fitting and very beneficial application.
