Practice Reports -Surya D.- 08/01/12 to 08/05/12
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Date: Posted 5 years before Aug 23, 2017
unlimitedsun 5 years ago
Tue 08/01/2012
Yoga practice was attempted but waking up with a keen feeling of sickness (that was there at bed time) made it utterly discouraging to carry on the session beyond the preliminary warm up.
Dream recall was of some immaterial common detail.
MiBeloved 5 years ago
Some ascetics give the impression that health of the body is not important; that one can transcend the body and practice regardless. This is mostly a con statement because the condition of the physical body affects the condition of the subtle form, so long as the two are fused.
When the physical body dies, its condition does not matter but so long as it is alive, the subtle body will have to bear the brunt of any illness.
Therefore a student should do the best to keep the body healthy.
Even though the subtle body is not the physical one, that subtle form can be de-energized through its connection to the physical one. We should always keep this in mind and protect the physical system from illnesses.
Ultimately there will be a final illness through which one will be evicted or blocked out of the physical system forever. And yet one should try to keep the physical system in working order so as to facilitate spiritual practice and simultaneously execute social duties with efficiency.
unlimitedsun 5 years ago
Thu 08/02/2012
I did not practice yoga. I awoke feeling sick and under intense family pressure...
Subtle contact was of a dream where I was back in Africa (visiting), as the mother of this body wants, and the details of my presence and trip there was as in her "dream".
MiBeloved 5 years ago
Don't cry about it.
In the Markandeya Samasya, there is information that this whole universe is actually in somebody's mental field, a mere idea as it were.
But you are way ahead of everyone else if you realize that you were the subject of the schemes of the mind of another. That is a form of self-realization all by itself.
unlimitedsun 5 years ago
Fri 08/03/2012
Practice again did not take place. I was feeling groggy from heavy medications, improper and irresponsible diets, an exhausting trip and late night association.
The conjugated effects of these and different other factors caused lowered psychic potency, general feeling of weakness and increasing lust leading loss of seed induced from the subtle.
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Sat 08/04/2012
Yoga practice was possible. The stretches were challenging, much tightness. Just being able to practice was encouraging. The rest is sure to come with time, again.
Attempt to rise Kundalini did not work.
Subtle involvement was again of my country in Africa. I saw many relatives, for some reason many had babies.
The mother of my body is here living where I am for some months. I am aware that she does her 5 daily Muslim prayers composed of "rakats" and follows them with "wourd" calling on the holly of Allah on beads; and then she typically meditates/ formulates (puts out) incantation energy forms consisting of her concerns and wishes...
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Sun 08/05/2012
I was able to do my yoga routine. But it was only that, going through the routine. Today would have been a typical day of just talking myself into taking a break.
On account of late social/family association and non yogic way of late meal, I awoke very late with no jest for practice.
MiBeloved 5 years ago
Talk about being in the dumps!!!
unlimitedsun 5 years ago
That is it! Pure hell...
A sliding backwards over just a few days caused so much immediate repercussions!
It makes it very difficult to imagine the unique fortune it is to practice over an extended length of time, months and years ..!
Ultimate success on this path is utterly unfathomable to me, nor can I even contemplate it from where I stand.
How is it possible? How can all these requirements be met?
But I stick to it, because I have the great fortune to be directly and personally compelled to accept it as the only plausible alternative/path to the realization of Self.
Not because I was ever coaxed to believe that I would have success (even if any) in it!
