Physical Body Used to Attack Subtle Body

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Date:  Posted 5 years before May 09, 2018

MiBeloved 5 years ago

If anything the physical body can be cashed in as the arrow which will hit the bull’s-eye which is the subtle form. This physical body can be the bane of the ascetic, the singular cause of having to take the next body haphazardly based on a whimsical sexual or some other type of attraction, after the physical body is deceased. But this same physical body can be used to target the subtle body and cause the subtle form to be freed of its haranguing need for, its relentless pursuit of a physical form.

How so?

By using the layout of the physical body to target hard-to-realize areas of the subtle form. You may have heard of the base chakra, muladhara. Mula means root or basement. Adharma means position or station. This is the place where the base chakra is positioned and anchored in the subtle body. It is not an easy place to target.

Some say that they target it by chanting mantras. Others say that they can visualize it and activate it in that way.

Okay, so these people are using very subtle methods to attack something which is abstract. These are great people.

For those of us who do not have such subtle control, we need something physical.

Why?

Because we took birth and found ourselves to be a physical body, and that is all we know. We are not into abstraction. For us, the physical body is definite and self-evident. Since the base chakra served as the basis for the base of spine in the physical body, a focus on that area, especially any touching in that area or in the areas which are served through nerves extending from that area, will result in affecting the base chakra in the subtle body. This is a direct no-nonsense, no-speculative, non- imaginative way of reaching that chakra.

Hatha yoga when it means physical processes which affect the subtle body was first perfected by Lord Shiva. Then there were a string of mahayogins who did it. One of these was Matsyendranath who is said to have heard about it from Shiva’s voice when Shiva explained it to Parvati, His spouse.

Then Gorakshnath Mahayogin took lessons from Matsyendranath and demonstrated what it was all about. Basically it is adapted from the idea that since the physical body was manufactured on the basis of the blueprint of the subtle body, one can use that physical form to sabotage the non-spiritual features of the subtle body.

The subtle body can be the cause of liberation from or bondage to the material body. It can reflect either the mundane or divine vibrations which are in existence. Hatha yoga is for changing the subtle body so that it absorbs divine vibrations.

Shiva explained the system of yoga to the Goddess but she was inattentive. Why does she have to listen to this? Why should she have to perform austerities to attain perfection? She is a divine being and no one can undo that. That is a given for her. She does not listen to a word of what Shiva says, but Gorakshnath who was using a fish body at the time, had a mind to remain still in the water and listen to everything. In that way the package of the complete course of Hatha yoga became lodged in his psyche. He later used it when he got to the human form of life. In a fish body, yoga like that is not possible, so he had to wait to carry out the instructions.

Gorakshnath Mahayogin did not think much about dharma or righteous life style and therefore unlike Patanjali who listed 8 parts for yoga, Gorakshnath listed only six leaving out the two which pertained to righteous life style.

His attitude to righteous lifestyle was this:

That is crap. We are yogis what have we to do with righteous lifestyle? What has that got to do with it? Whoever became liberated doing that?

The word Go means cow, and Raksha means protector of cow, so in its ordinary meaning goraksha means a cowherd man.

Yogi Gorakshnath thought that the whole process of righteous lifestyle is a cow dung process. How so?

Consider this, the cow first eats grass. This is compared to the human being doing pious social acts, acts which are not socially hostile to the other human beings in the community. Then the cow digests the grass. This is like a person who has done some socially-beneficial acts is appreciated by the rest of the community and is paid for the service rendered.

The next action of the cow is that it shits out what it does use but it does so with some chemicals from its own body. Cow-shit is not pure grass. It is grass mixed with chemicals and in that compound some of the grass is missing because it was dissolved and was absorbed into the cow’s body. This means that in righteous life style there is some natural pilfering which is happening. I do some nice social act but in the process by necessity I extract something like pleasure, satisfaction or pride, knowledge of how to do a particular thing and marking territory by pissing here and there as bulls and male dogs do.

The cow shits but the dung deteriorates and is used by the grass, which the cow eats in turn. So this is a circular system which Gorakshnath Mahayogin saw. He decided that this was crap.

Here is the sequence in a flash

So guru Gorakshnath thought that this cow dung manufacture process of nature was ritty ratty crap. He did not list it. Patanjali, because he was not as extreme and because of a deep sense of compassion, listed it.

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In the process which I teach, there is no use for visualization, no use for mantras. The mantra is naad. The visualization is put to rest like when a war is over, and the soldier buries his weapons.

You find a physical way to target the chakras in the subtle body, thus using the blueprint access which the subtle body itself created when the physical body was formed. This is real Hatha yoga.

Do the breath infusion in postures which attack the nerves which spread out from the lowest part of the spinal column. Press in on the anus while doing the breathing. Press in on the perineum. Do exercises which target the toes and cause them to tingle and hurt a little. This will directly activate the base chakra in the subtle body. This is definite and non-imaginative.

devaPriya Yogini 5 years ago

this is very relevant to me and specifically my practice this morning where i did a lot of this work.

one of the postures i find imperative is laying on the back, first with the legs straight up inverted, feet about 12 in apart, one hand on the back of each leg for support and start with just rolling the ankles around every which way.

then taking one hand to the inside of each knee and opening the legs up wide. 

this is a position many people avoid because they feel it exposes their 'private area' and they feel vulnerable. 

nonetheless it's important to do every day and i don't let my students get away with not doing it in each class.

anyway in this legs open pose, take the arms straight up so you're looking up at them, hands together (you can clap them a few times) and do breath infusion.  Then take hands to the sex organ pressing inward, then perineum, then anus, doing breath infusion and holding locks drawing upward in between.

to me this is a great way to directly target the energy in this region.

MiBeloved 5 years ago

Sound like a valid practice ----

Each person should discover practices which can target the usually hard to reach, hidden parts of the subtle form.

Hatha yoga is that targeting. It gives rapid results and definite perception of hidden energies.

chris_hall1951 5 years ago

Very informative response, thanks’ for the feedback devaPriya Yogini!