Practice Report - Alfredo D. - Sunday 9/30/2012
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Date: Posted 5 years before Sep 29, 2017
Alfredo 5 years ago
ॐ नमः शिवाय
AM Practice
Woke up during Brahma-Muhurta (4:00 AM).
Svadhyaya: Review and study of Chapter 20 of Uddhava Gita Explained “The Mixed Mundane Energies”. This chapter covers the different energies affecting a Sadhak in relation to the focus of his/her mind, and the different modes that result, such as clarifying, depressing, impulsive, and retardative. It is important to understand these clearly, so as not to be prey of the negative modes.
Dedication: Short mantra session invocation of Lord Shiva. Practice dedicated to Lord Shiva.
Breath Infusion: Thus are the designs of providence that it finally took me almost a week to return to a practice really worth anything due to a cold and ear infection. 30 minutes of Bhastrika prânâyâma in different asanas, concentrating on infusing the breath in the navel. Breath infusion was challenged due to head congestion. Kundalini was solicited once and rose into the head towards the end and during the kneeling asana, as have now become customary.
Meditation: Consisted of 45 minutes with concentration on the back of the head. Naad sound was audible but low. The struggle to keep the concentration at the back of the head have been decreased as during the whole week I consistently did the meditation with a short breath infusion session, thus periods of concentration (Dharana) elongate without effort (Dhyana) for a few minutes at a time.
Dream recall: Two dreams were recalled. The first one neutral and mundane. The second one was more important, in which my subtle body was doing breath infusion and was given by an entity that was not recognized a spiritual package or injunction that corresponded to a practice that was done before, that I was very familiar and happy with, perhaps from previous lives. This practice lasts one hour and was panacea, for it covered the aspects needed to advance.
MiBeloved 5 years ago
Nice experience reported in the dream recall.
Overall your practice is going good. There is the background regret that you began this practice so late in the life of this body but ease yourself away from such regrets. A limited being has to expect these bumps in the road of its existence. Things will smooth out in time.
I asked previously as to the reason for taking a body in Cuba in this life. Sometime in the future when that is understood, you will see the logical cause of this delay. These things happen.
Alfredo 5 years ago
Thank you very much, your assessment is right on the money, as usual.
I once mentioned I studied Jyotisha, and in analyzing what was coming to me in this period, it wasn't pretty. This is not final, but an approximate, but still.
That background regret is there, as you pointed out, but the past is past. The regret is mostly of the impediments of the present, and on that I can only hope for a respite right now that things are looking a little better. I will ease out of it.
As per the Cuban incarnation, no, I have never forgotten your question, but being in ignorance of that, I have kept it in mind for when that answer comes, I will divulge it right away.
