Our Pleasure Needs
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 6 years before Mar 06, 2017
MiBeloved 6 years ago
Kundalini rose this morning evenly on the right and left side after doing rapid breathing in the bow pose and then stretching to the left and to the right in turn. The energy was a compressed cooling force, like pressed tiny pearl droplets of bliss globules.
In sex experience one gets focused on the pleasure of it and this is why most mammals (humans included) do not understand kundalini even though they experience kundalini during sex experience.
The same kind of lack of proper focus can occur when doing yoga, except that in yoga usually one has more objectivity and the bliss expression of kundalini during yoga, allows for a more detailed observation. It is really the clearing action of the aroused kundalini that is to be noticed and not the bliss aspect of it.
It does happen though that when a person begins to do yoga, that person might be hunting for the bliss aspect as a replacement for the sex pleasure aspect. In other words, if one was into sex before doing yoga, and then one begins yoga, one will want to find some similar type of pleasure in yoga and as such when kundalini rises, if it does, then one will be looking to see if one can get a pleasure from it that is similar or comparable to sex pleasure.
A living being is pleasure crazy. That just happens to be our usual situation. It takes years of practice to wean the self away from pleasure. Let us consider a simple dietary aspect like sugar. How many of us can voluntarily give it up? So if something that simple and basic controls us and keep us harnessed, then what to speak of sex pleasure.
Some people even though they might lose all teeth, even though they might be under pain in the nerves of the teeth, even if they are afflicted with diabetes, will not give up sugar and for that matter they will divorce a spouse, and do whatever else is necessary to keep the sugar habit. So that happens to be our present condition in relationship to various types of pleasure.
This is a big hang-up for those who come to do yoga practice since they suddenly become reluctant to continue the practice if they sense that it will cause curtailment of their pleasure needs. That is the situation of being a mammal in this material nature.
