Practice Report - Alfredo D _ Thursday 10/11/2012
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Date: Posted 5 years before Oct 15, 2017
Alfredo 5 years ago
ॐ नमः शिवाय
AM Practice
Woke up for practice at 5:00 AM (Brahma-muhurta). Quality of practice was good. It consisted of 85 minutes in a motel room with the air conditioning off and the window open. Emphasis was on dream recall.
Svadhyaya: Continued study of 2nd Chapter of “Bhagavad Gita Explained” named “Divine State”.
Dedication: Practice dedicated to Lord Shiva after mantra (Om Namah Shivaya) and incantation.
Breath Infusion: 50 minutes of Bhastrika prânâyâma infusing breath on the navel in different asanas. Kundalini arose twice towards the end of the practice.
Meditation: 35 minutes meditation on the back of the head in shavasana (cadaver position = reclining). Most of the meditation consisted of concentration on the area of the back of the head. Naad sound was heard all along. The concentration is brought back and elongated carefully and painstakingly, for the goal of long-lasting relaxed Dhyana. The investigation started into the nature of Kundalini when it enters the head continues.
Dream recall: 3 dreams recalled. 2 of them distinctly, were also lucid (I knew I was dreaming).
The first one occurred in Costa Rica, a country I have visited often. There I was in a vessel during a river exploration in the jungle. This was no common river, as dangerous creatures, snakes with powerful teeth, lurked under the surface of the darkish water and were clearly visible.
The second lucid dream was with the Acharya Michael Beloved. This is the 3rd dream (all lucid) that I recall having with the Acharya (the first one months ago we met in a bus on our way to a vegetarian restaurant; the second one later one when I woke up next to him in a bed in a barn-like house, and his body was golden and blond), this 3rd one occurred in Cuba, in the surroundings of the house I was born in Havana. This time the Acharya was wearing his typical loincloth with the Brahmin thread, the Yajñopavītam, and was his normal color and self. He assumed a father-like role and imparted several injunctions in the realm of Yamas and Niyamas, from which I have been deviating.
MiBeloved 5 years ago
Breaching yama and niyama is like when you have a tank of water. If there are holes in the tank the water will simply leak out.
Patanjali guruji has also said that there is the great vow and he insisted that it should not be breached under any circumstances. Other yogis said that one does not have to worry about these yamas and niyamas, just meditate.
Actually Patanjali is correct.
As one advances one finds more and more the necessity to return to fix these breaches because they weaken one’s practice.
However it is not easy. You won’t conquer it in one lick. It will take time.
Here is Patanjali guruji’s requirement:
जातिदेशकालसमयानवच्छिन्नाः सार्वभौमा महाव्रतम्॥३१॥
jāti deśa kāla samaya anavacchinnāḥ
sārvabhaumāḥ mahāvratam
Those moral restraints are not to be adjusted by the status, location, time or condition. They, being the great commitment, are related to all stages of yoga. (Yoga Sutra 2.31)
