Muladhar Chakra Interference

Of the five vrittis or mento-emotional operations which Patanjali listed as the bane of yoga, the sleep impulse is the most elusive. It is the hardest to pin down.

How is it identified?

Where is it located?

How can it be eliminated during meditation sessions?

The other four unwanted operations are correct analysis, incorrect analysis, imagination and memory. These should be suspended during a meditation session. During the meditation one should assault these and bring their agitation to an end.

The sleep operation cannot be eliminated entirely. That is the first fact which a yogi must come to terms with. Patanjali’s proposal that it be eliminated means that it should be absent during the meditation session. However the question is:

How does one know if the sleep impulse is inoperative during meditation?

Is it simply a matter of not being drowsy?

Is it the elimination of the mind’s drifting tendency, its movement from the desired focus to something else, as for example when it shifts from the desired absorption to illustrate a memory or carry out a calculation about something which is relevant or irrelevant to meditation?

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What I can say is this:

To handle the sleep impulse directly, one must first recognize its operations during meditation. One must trace its whereabouts, to see how it appears, how it increases influence, how it hypnotizes the coreSelf, how it subsides with its influence.

To attack it directly, I use bhastrika pranayama breath infusion where I infuse breath energy into the lower part of the trunk of the subtle body, such that this energy is pushed into the sleep impulse which appears to be a capsule at the base chakra.

The sleep energy in the capsule is surcharged with fresh subtle energy so that its stupor subtle gas is pressured out of the capsule as that is replaced by the fresh subtle energy which is infused.

When all or most of that stupor energy is removed, the meditation which follows the breath infusion session is riddled with apparitions of the realities in higher dimensions and also in hidden lower ones. Then the three higher stages of yoga which Patanjali gives as samyama or transcendence focus is achieved either for inSelf research or focus into higher dimensions.