Physical Body as Corporate Business
Physical Body as Corporate Business
From the angle of ancestors and their investment in the present material body of any of their descendants, the physical form is corporate business, joint venture with many people involved as shareholders in the company of transmigration within a particular family line.
It may be that you prefer it be regarded as a community, so that we take into account the affection between family members, but it is a fact that on occasion this affection converts radically into resentment and liability for some of the members who are due to pay out for favors rendered to them once they acquired the body. Once a person loses a physical body and requires a new one, it becomes a purely business arrangement where that deceased someone thinks of being repaid for services rendered by relatives who are living and who it is felt, should return favors in the way of providing a new body, a baby form, so that the deceased one can begin all over again as an infant in an upgraded lifestyle.
A student recently was concerned about his yoga practice being decimated by association with another person who would involve him in a majority sensual life instead of a majority austerity life in yoga. Yoga involves pratyahar which is sensual energy restraints, not just external retraction of interest in the various sensual access outside the body, but internal retraction of interest in anything internal which prompts and supports the sensual access outside the physical and subtle body.
People speak about meditation, especially people in the developed countries but meditation according to Patanjali is samyama, the complete restraint. It is preceded by pratyahar sensual energy restraint which the fifth stage of yoga with meditation being the sequential practice of the three highest stages, the sixth, seventh and eight stages of dharana, dhyana and samadhi.
Sitting to meditate without achieving the first stage of pratyahar is phony yoga but is popular in the developed countries where every Tom, Dick and Mary makes up their definition for yoga with many new descriptions being published online daily.
This person, the student, was concerned that there would be an increase in sensuality which is ahara meaning more sensual consumption outside and inside the physical and subtle body, which is not yoga, at least not yoga as defined by Patanjali who put his foot down on sensual access by stipulating in the second of his Sutras that the mental and emotional energies be effectively squelched.
See if you can make head or tail of this verse (my English translation):
योगश्चित्तवृत्तिनिरोधः॥२॥
yogaḥcittavṛtti nirodhaḥ
yogaḥ – the skill of yoga; cittavṛtti = citta – mento-emotional energy + vṛtti – vibrational mode; nirodhaḥ – cessation, restraint, non-operation.
The skill of yoga is demonstrated by the conscious non-operation of the vibrational modes of the mento-emotional energy.
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How does that apply to Walking Yoga, Swimming Yoga, Eating Yoga, Happiness Yoga, Bliss Yoga,My Yoga, Your Yoga, Anything Any-How Yoga………….
But really, that ugly question must be considered again as to who owns the body?
Does the individual who is the primal user of the body the exclusive owner of it?
Do the parents of the body own it?
Does the president of the country own the political circumstance of the body?
Does the school teacher own the way the body will be educated?
Does the spiritual teacher or priest own the religious inclination of the body?
Why does the person have to operate the body in a social way which is acceptable to most people?
Do the ancestors who are dead and gone, have subtle power to make the body beget baby forms for them?
Do they influence what one will do with the body in the world of the living?
Can they enjoy what sensual pleasure the body is involved in?
Is the body a joint enterprise, where the person using it, must share it with others and do fulfilment with it which is pleasing to living or dead relatives and even others who are not related?
