My Carpenter Friend in the Astral
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 6 years before Sep 05, 2018
MiBeloved 6 years ago
Last night I found myself with a friend from South America. This person is a carpenter by trade. He was showing me some buildings and a carpentry workshop.
He had this idea that I should be in South America and he would make a house which I could live in with my children. The whole thing was crazy but I could not say anything to the guy because in his case, that is the sum total of his existence.
I no longer have minor children and still in the astral world, he was thinking that I will be with children. Having children around is the high feature of his idea of how a person should live but if we are doing that then these children would never grow up to be adults for their own purposes and life would be stalled with us as the center of existence as parents. This is very crazy.
One gets a material body and then one gets hung up on whatever one does for a living. The subtle body then adapts that as the be-all and end-all of everything irrespective of the fact that such ideas are irrelevant in the long range.
We have to get the subtle body out of this attitude by conscious astral projection and by objective understanding in dreams of the difference between the gross existence and the subtle one.
I did the breath infusion practice just after 4 am. That is the right time to do practice if one can pull that off, usually one is unable to do that because of negative forces which enter the psyche and which dictate that to rise that early is unreasonable. These negatives forces would encourage one to rise early if one has to fly in an aircraft to go to another city to pick up a check for money, but for the purpose of developing psychic perception and disciplining the psyche, these forces are very reluctant and actually force the ascetic to stay put and sleep on through the night.
During breath infusion I realized that Swami Muktananda left an instruction in my psyche. It read:
Eliminate all dark areas. Create little kundalinis in all such areas. Infuse such areas fully. Search everywhere and banish all mists.
One way to understand this is to go back to sexual pleasure experience. Imagine if the human body was created in such a way, that it had the potential for sexual arousal in every part of the body evenly but with the intensity everywhere as it has in the genitals.
We know that sexual arousal happens in all parts of the body but not with the same intensity. In the genitals the intensity is of the greatest.
Kundalini life force has its greatest most impressive expression in the spine and brain of the physical body and the corresponding areas of the subtle body. That is the natural system, which is spontaneous. By directed breath infusion that kundalini system can be invoked in other parts of the body, in psychically-dark and unknown regions like down in the toes, in the knee-cap, in the thighs, in the shoulders, in the fingers and so on.
Just as when we are materialistic we get crazy about the physical body, so an ascetic has to get crazy about the condition of the subtle form so that it is saturated with high-dimension energy and has no area where there is dark astral force.
Many of us maintain jobs just to get health insurance for ourselves and our dependents but what about the health condition of the subtle body. In consideration that is even more important because that body will be with us for the time span of the universe, while the physical form cannot last for more than say about 120 years for the most.
