Reverse Lotus Posture

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Date:  Posted 5 years before Sep 27, 2017

MiBeloved 5 years ago

Recently as instructed by Srila Yogesh on the astral side, I am doing what might be termed as reverse lotus posture (padmasana). This was to be done some years ago but somehow I neglected this practice. Now he is stipulating it in a way where I have to begin doing it once and for all. It is a wonder how one might get an instruction either physically or psychically from a yoga guru, a very valid instruction, and for no reason at all, one just does not execute the practice because the energy of it from the guru does not anchor properly in one nature.

It seems like the psyche is downright callous to certain vital yoga instructions which could result to much advancement if complied with.

So what is reverse lotus posture?

This is when one begins the posture with the foot which one used to end the wrap with. In my case, when doing lotus I begin by putting the right foot on the left thigh. As soon as I do this, I make sure that my spine is erect and not crouched under. If it is crouched I correct it so that I am sitting square on, perpendicular to the floor. It is important when sitting in lotus posture that the pelvic cage of bones be square on and not be with a collapse construction.

After properly situating my right foot on the left thigh, I then place the left foot on the right thigh. I support the lower part of the back, make sure that I am against a wall and that is the lotus for me.

This posture I practiced in this body since 1970. When I first began doing this, it was hell because of the strain and pain. Now this is an easy posture because of years of assuming it for meditation. There were periods when I used to do the easy pose which is not as strenuous as the lotus posture.

Reverse lotus means that the student does another lotus where he or she begins with the opposite foot, placing that on the opposite thigh. This is very strenuous if one became habituated to doing the lotus with one foot first repeatedly and never using the other foot first.

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People sometimes question the need for pain while doing yoga, and just yesterday someone was indicating that it was unnecessary, and that one cannot advance spiritually because of pain, and that spiritual life should be joyous and happy.

Okay, the man made his point and he cited Vedic writings to support his argument.

Great! But there is one let-down in the argument which is that to complete the obligation I feel to Srila Yogesh, I have to go through this pain. Life isn’t easy for everyone. If only I had one of those gurus who just give methods of joy and happiness? Too bad for me. Someone in the Sahara starves, while someone in America throws food in the garbage disposal.

So why this pain?

Some questions will never be answered to our satisfaction.

Here is something I do know:

In these difficult postures, hard to reach areas in the subtle body are easily accessed and when doing breath infusion in this posture, I am able to pull dark astral energy out of these hard to reach regions of the subtle body, and put in fresh light-weight pranic energy.  And that is the wonder which I found with the mix of asana postures and pranayama breath infusion techniques.

Asana postures do not do the trick, and breath infusion by itself can only do so much. The combination of both is a winner. The postures disturb and shift the pollutions, while the pranayama targets and pulls those disturbed pollutions out of the subtle body.

If I wanted to clean the physical body, the method is a bath. To clean the heavy astral energy out of the subtle body, the method is pranayama with the assistance of asana postures.

I could have just sat there and used visualization and mantras to do the job for me, except that I have no confidence in those methods. The rapid breathing of bhastrika pranayama works like a champ.

When I did that reverse lotus posture, all of a sudden inside the subtle body there was this tube like area in the hip of that form. It had a hormone storage compartment. I pulled that energy out and diffused it out of the subtle body, thus bringing fresh pranic energy into that area. This is the first time I saw into the left hip in that way.