Non-sensational Kundalini Burst

During breath infusion, students should be on the lookout for non-sensational, even tiny miniscule, kundalini bursts which might occur anywhere in the psyche, not just in the spine and head of the subtle body, not just at chakra vortexes. It may burst anywhere or everywhere with a small charge of energy, non-sensational, even with neutral bliss energy which the mind would normally not have an interest in.

If there is slow progress when doing breath infusion practice, the cause might be traceable to inattentiveness. This is complicated because there are so many aspects which the student could focus on. He or she may not know which one to target. In addition the student’s attention might be scattered or in an unfocused state during practice. The student may go through the motions of various exercises in a spaced-out condition, while waiting for a big event, a big blast of kundalini up through the subtle spine (sushumna) into the head of the subtle body.

Many students are trapped in the phase of being inattentive during practice. There are many reasons for this. Some are:

·       Being naturally spaced-out

·       Being hypnotized by the mind’s shenanigans

·       Being conceited within the mind where there is a need to enjoy the creative ability of the intellect and the emotions

·       Having the wrong motive for practice

·       Underestimating the level of an accomplished yoga-guru

·       Knowing deep inside that he or she can figure it all out

·       Being a smart aleck with the yoga-guru

·       Being a gruff astral Neanderthal who somehow got a modern human body

·       Indulging in self-dishonest which is suicidal

Being naturally spaced-out

One who is naturally space-out cannot complete this practice, no matter how hard he or she may endeavor for it. This is because the mind will always inefficiently do the practice which will not allow the benefits to accrue fully. The solution is to learn pratyahar sensual energy withdrawal meditations and do these for some months or years, until the mind’s natural behavior changed. Some students are not destined to be successful in the present life. These may keep practicing but their efforts will pay off in some future life. It is still better for these persons if they continue the feeble attempts at practice.

Being hypnotized by the mind’s shenanigans

This happens even to advanced students where on occasion the mind produced images and ideas which run-on in the mind and which the yogi finds that he or she just cannot shut down, because the impressions effectively resist the yogi’s mental commands.

However the advanced students experience this once in a while and can trace of cause of this mental resistance. Others, the beginners and the spaced-out low-quality yogis deal with this in every session of practice with little hope of ever being able to fully shut it down.

Being conceited within the mind where there is a need to enjoy the creative ability of the intellect and emotions

Many students who are serious about yoga, who endeavor to practice regularly and who are proud of themselves and their teachers as being experts in yoga, get trapped in self-conceit, which is the flaw of always secretly feeling as if no one else is as advanced as oneself or that there is no other teacher anywhere who is advanced as one’s teacher. This introspective behavior is anathema for a yogi (yogini).

Even if the teacher is Lord Shiva, or if the student is the best of the yogis on the earth, still the maintenance of such an attitude subtracts from the yoga process because the energy used to support this type of thinking should be used to consolidate more progress by being more attentive to practice.

The mind has a creative ability which is operated as its intellect and as emotional feelings. An occupation with this during yoga practice, or at other times, undermines the yoga efforts. Most of all, it breaches the requirement of Patanjali for the cessation of the mento-emotional operations which he lists as right analysis, wrong analysis, imagination, sleep and memory.

There are many detrimental attitudes within the mind. The yogi (yogini) should be busy discovering, suppressing and eliminating these. This is called inSelf Yoga or the Yoga that concerns the self of the practitioner.

Having the wrong motive for doing practice

Many students begin with the wrong motive for doing practice. Nevertheless it is not how a person begins but rather what happens thereafter. Starting with the wrong motive is not a problem. The problem is continuing with that bad push or changing to something that is just as or even more problematic.

Someone may do yoga because of envying an accomplished yogi. Someone may do it because of wanting reputation. Someone may begin because he or she was marginalized in human society and wants to kick the people who ridiculed and insulted him. Someone may begin because of feeling down in the material world and thinking that yoga will increase self-esteem. Someone may do yoga just to be in a group to identify the self as being a known yogi.

There are so many nonsense reasons for doing yoga. With their corrosive supports one cannot consolidate the practice, hence one should get a supportive impetus from a proficient yoga-guru.

Underestimating the level of an accomplished yoga-guru

Some students begin yoga but feel that the yoga-guru is not much of anything. Their idea is to learn as much as they can from him or her and then branch off in some more advanced direction. One should know however that to estimate the level of a yoga-guru one has to have mystic insight. It is not the physical performance of the teacher which should be rated but his inner demeanor.

There are many unaccomplished yoga teachers. These people can give one a start and that is all they can do. One should appreciate whatever these persons share. However there are some persons who appear to know very little but who know much even though these persons remain hidden and do not press their techniques upon the student.

Knowing deep inside that he or she can figure it all out

Some students know deep down insight that they figure it all out, even though in fact, there is no way such a student can make substantial progress without being directed by a proficient teacher. When one feels deep down that one is a know-it-all, one should check to be sure that this not a shallow feeling. There is in the human psyche a feeling of confidence which is quite independent of reality, where a person can be self-assured about things which can never be. One should recognize this tendency for what it is and not allow it to dominate the psyche.

Being a smart aleck with the yoga-guru

Some students remain quiet for a time, then they lash out at the yoga-guru. These smart alecks make little progress in real terms, usually such student act as teachers even though the yoga-guru never commissioned them teach one single person. The desire to teach others is one of the banes of yoga. It may rupture the learning process and causes stagnation and unwarranted arrogance.

When a teacher notices that a student is a smart aleck, the teacher may discipline or intimidate the student. In some cases, the student is not corrected and so he or she continues on the wrong track and loses whatever little progress he or she made.

Being a gruff Neanderthal who somehow got a modern human body

Having an attractive body does not necessarily mean that one has a balanced character. In fact even if one has a balance character and an attractive body, that does not mean that one is not a total idiot.

We are in such a predicament that anyone of us may be a psychological cave man even though using a modern body which does not look like one used by the primitive humans.

Anyone may come to a yoga class and continue the practice but if one is not on the evolutionary level, it may be impossible to consolidate the practice. This will show by repeated failure to be of a high culture and also going back to a base animal level of thinking, feeling and acting. Due to the lack of advancement from the psychology of a primitive human to that of a modern human, even yoga practice could not accelerate the evolution of the person.

Indulging in self-dishonest which is suicidal

Some student are stuck with self-dishonesty. This is due to not being able to get a grip on the mind and its rapid operations.

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A yogi must be attentive during breath infusion practice. That is the most rapid method of advancing. The minute changes in the psyche should be noted. Any neutral bliss energy should be absorbed. The intellect should be applied to the compressed or expressed energy so that it absorbs and even enjoys the spread of the aroused subtle feelings.