Release Energy for the Student Yogi
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 3 years before Jul 27, 2016
MiBeloved 3 years ago
For release from social duties a student yogi may have to deal with resentment energies. How should that be done?
Is it all happiness and bliss when a student takes time off from social responsibilities to do yoga practice?
Who is involved in making the decision?
Who loses?
Who gains?
What happens to the resentment energies which arise as soon as the student reduces social participations and exhibits resistance to the materialistic lifestyle?
Those who influence the students to spend more time for meditation and related spiritual disciplines are themselves abandoning social duties and shaving off responsibilities for the materialistic way of life.
How do they do it?
As for the persons who resent the student because he or she spends less time with materialistic lifestyle, do these persons feel the effects of the resentments which arise in their minds and emotions as a result?
colleen 3 years ago
I don't see the conflict. The souls of men are divine beings, and when we are engaged in loving interaction with one another we are also engaged in loving interaction with God. While social interaction can be materialistic and shallow, it certainly doesn't have to be. Much of the relating that we have with each other is uplifting and edifying.
Alfredo 3 years ago
Michael Wrote: What happens to the resentment energies which arise as soon as the student reduces social participations and exhibits resistance to the materialistic lifestyle?
Alfredo’s Response:
These resentment energies manifest right away, as soon as one declines social participation, hides from samsara, and withdraws from the materialistic life. It comes in 2 major negative fronts; on the one hand from family and friends that could resent the withdrawal and suspect that one is getting something good, that one is getting ahead spiritually, in many cases due to a need for envy, for they want to know. The other front comes from the vital world or astral realm, where the spiritual beings or energies that have been feeding upon the negativity, vices, of the student, now see, alarmed, a possible curtailment of that enjoyment, of their psychic food, expect stumblings, accidents, hot-tea spills and worst. This is mostly not understood by those merry-making and the religious people.
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Michael Wrote: Those who influence the students to spend more time for meditation and related spiritual disciplines are themselves abandoning social duties and shaving off responsibilities for the materialistic way of life.
Alfredo’s Response:
The "teacher" here must be careful, for if he influences the student to take up meditation and abandon material life, if the student fails, he will have to pick-up the negativity of the student, for imposing something on providence for which that student was not ready. Likewise, the teacher is successful if the student takes up the necessary austerities to succeed in his sadhana. That's why some advanced yogis are very leery of teaching anyone!
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Michael Wrote: As for the persons who resent the student because he or she spends less time with materialistic lifestyle, do these persons feel the effects of the resentments which arise in their minds and emotions as a result?
Alfredo’s Response:
Definitely they do. Actually the student yogi, especially when starting his meditation, sees the thought packages of these resentments from family members and old friends coming his way in a manner of disturbance. The disturbers, mostly lacking the psychic discernment, will let those resentment fester ad infinitum.
