Pulled out of Samadhi
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 3 years before Mar 30, 2016
MiBeloved 3 years ago
Breath Infusion practice this morning was a direct continuation of what happened yesterday, like reading a book, putting it down and then continuing to read on the following day, begin at the last sentence read the day before.
I worked on the first part which is to infuse breath energy into the torso of the subtle body. This takes a while to fill up and to draw out all the stale air energy in the system. Once I sense that part of the system is filled up. I then shifted to the neck. There is usually a constriction at the neck which prevents energy from passing freely.
I work on shattering that constriction energy. Due to the infusion it appears to be like scattered light of various colors but not as rays of light. It is like light which is in the form of tiny crystals all packed tightly together.
As one infuses more and more into the neck area, eventually it shatters and the compacted energy moves out of it. Some moves into the head. Some moves into the chest and shoulders.
I then infused into the neck until I was sure that all resistance and dark energy there was removed. After this I focused on breathing into the head of the subtle body from the forehead backwards to the base of the brain.
All the while little kundalinis as well as dispersed-energy kundalinis fired off here and there in the psyche, mostly in the neck and in the chest and shoulders.
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When I sat to meditate immediately after, there was the naad sound on the left side near the left ear. I linked into it (dharana). This progressed into dhyana and then into the beginning of a samadhi. Then about 3 minutes after I found myself out of naad sound but staring at a thought package which was just about to open. I instinctively withdrew my perception from the package and it disappeared.
This instinct is a cultivated one, meaning that I developed it over time in meditation practice by effort but now it happens impulsively which is in my interest.
After withdrawing my attention from the thought package, I resituated myself into the naad sound. I remained there in a samadhi for about 7 minutes and then I found myself again looking at the thought package which was just about to open. This time the package was larger than before but I knew it was the same package of thought energy, only with some more information put into it.
I immediately withdrew myself from where it was being displayed in the frontal part of the head and I turned about and went back into naad sound.
These thought packages disappear if one takes an action like this but they are not destroyed. They simple remain on a lower plane of existence and as soon as the student yogi again resumes focus in the lower plane, he has to deal with them. These thought packages will unleash their full karmic power on a lower plane and then the yogi has to act accordingly.
A question arises as to why a yogi who enters samadhi is pulled out of it without even knowing that this happened and then he or she finds the observing self to be involved in some mental display which has nothing to do with the samadhi.
One answer is that the subtle body and the kundalini are the culprits. These psychic adjuncts have their own authority. Thus they pull the observing self out of samadhi when they so desire. They resume their normal activities by taking control of the psyche and disregarding the wishes of the core-self. They enforce their habits irrespective of the spiritual interest of the core-self.
Alfredo 3 years ago
Michael Wrote: [Then about 3 minutes after I found myself out of naad sound but staring at a thought package which was just about to open. I instinctively withdrew my perception from the package and it disappeared.]
Alfredo’s Reply:
Maharastrian Yogi Vishnu Bhaskar Lele instructed Sri Aurobindo thus. He told him: "Seat in meditation, thoughts come from the outside, see them coming and stop them".
