Resentment and the Yogi
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 3 years before Jan 13, 2017
MiBeloved 3 years ago
It is very important as a yogi to avoid being with people who are habituated to holding resentment energies in their psyches. If a yogi fails to do this, then his spiritual progress will be nil because the resentment energy he absorbs from others will use up his practice potency, the way a dry sponge uses up liquids or the way a herd of elephants draw water from a shallow pond.
Even some student yogis are resentful of others, especially of others who are more proficient than themselves and also of others who are well-to-do and who are not yogis but who hold positions of authority in society. These types of students should be regarded as superficial friends only, because their actual interest is to find something in their friends to resent and compare.
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I took a day nap today in which I made contact with the subtle bodies of four persons who live in Guyana. These persons were awake on the physical side but thoughts about me flashed through their minds. They were thinking that I had something to do with some causes of irritation and frustration in their lives. It is not that they considered me to be the cause of the frustration but they felt that I had the power to relieve some of the frustration and I did not do so.
Actually this view of there is incorrect because I do not have the power but nevertheless their mistaken notions about me does nothing to stop the buildup of the resentment energies and the register in their minds of my association in relation to it.
As soon as I was near these persons astrally, their subtle bodies began to release out a toxic subtle energy which was the pent-up resentments. It was so dangerous that I began to smile and give them some relief energy so as to cause them to relax as the toxic energy was released. Some of the energy entered my psyche and some of it was released in the atmosphere because that part of the energy was directed to others, some of whom are deceased and some of whom still use live physical bodies.
Even though I did this, my advice to student yogis, is that they should not do this. In other words, if you can avoid such persons and make no contact with their toxic energies, it is in your interest to do so.
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When at last you leave this body one more time, for good, and cannot get back into it even if you feel you should, then be sure at that time to avoid contact with such persons in the astral domains. That would be in your interest to avoid these personalities.
alan byron 3 years ago
I can't say I am comfortable with this advice. Sounds like passing by on the other side' - the Good Samaritan parable. If you don't address the anguish, pain and suffering of those struggling on the path how can you call yourself a compassionate person? I would not classify myself so superior a person to be known as a 'yogi' but I do resonate with the pain, distress and emotional upset of others willy nilly. I merely link in, accept and embrace the mutual pain with love and it siphons effortlessly into the cosmic sea of bliss causing effortless healing, for which I take no credit. If you avoid 'These personalities' who is left? There is no 'self', there are no 'others' - nothing to avoid.
Alfredo 3 years ago
Alan:
I am sorry, but I respectfully disagree.
I see more facts than advices.
Avoiding people with negative energy is a must to advance in yoga. As per students of yoga resenting each others, visit any ashram, or just stick around this website for a while.
And why do you want to call yourself a compassionate person? Are you really? If you are my hat goes off to you. However, compassion, like the word love, is a rag that has been reused so many times.
So...let me ask you, who is more compassionate, the teacher that tells the student to avoid the pitfalls of yoga, or that teacher that now goes to the negative person and tries to fix him? I call the latter a shrink, that's not what yoga is about.
There are no others? Usually until you want to get your hands in my wallet.
MiBeloved 3 years ago
Alan,
I get your point. It is a good one but I am sure you agree that a lung physician needs a limit of compassion, so that he does not ingest the diseases of his patients.
Compassion needs to have a practical and protective side if it is to be non-risky to the physician, otherwise then compassion converts into ignorance, naivety and foolishness, which complicates matters and helps neither the patron nor subject of it.
chris_hall1951 3 years ago
Jai Alfredo Yogi., I like the ring of your words, they are so supportive of the genuine and not it's opposite.
Your are a scientific yogi-philosopher type, and not an emotional so-called realist, who oft times is too weak to tell the student's what they really need to hear.
I applaud you for the position you have taken.
Obeisances to you and the rest of the genuine individuals, whose presence on the Site are a constant benediction to the rest of the Members.
