Sex Hormone Rise to Throat
During breath infusion practice, there should be a development where the student discovers the sex hormone storage capsule in the groin area of the subtle body. This is called the kanda in Sanskrit. The basis meaning of kanda is a bulb like a small test-tube which may or may not have a spherical end.
For those students who do not have this bulb under control it will have a bulbous fat end which is used by the sex-reproduction system to store sexual hormones. This occurs both in the physical and subtle bodies.
Nature’s intention for this to generate progeny but it is interpreted by the self as a pleasure energy. Functionally it serves also as a progeny-nurturing concern but the perspective of the self in regards to it, is that it is a much desired pleasure energy. This is because of where the core-self is located in reference to the buddhi intellect orb. The core-self cannot by itself without assistance from the buddhi intellect orb assess this as a pleasure potency. That is because the core-self has to use a media to read the sensations which are generated in this subtle or physical hormonal energy.
Those students who reach a very advanced stage would discover that when the core-self directly assesses this energy, it is not experienced as a pleasure force but rather as just an energy generation, like for instance how modern human view electricity as a generated energy. When the sex-reproduction force is viewed using the buddhi intellect orb, then it is seen as a pleasure force but when the core-self jumps over the orb and views the energy directly, then it is regarded as an energy only and not as a pleasure generator.
This might be understood for instance as in the case of a person who functions as a chef in a kitchen. He cannot enjoy the food he cooks. Someone else does that enjoying. Say for instance, the chef of the Queen of England. He prepares meals and assesses the preparation but the tasting and appreciation or condemnation is made by the Queen. If she is pleased, the chef is successful. He is not positioned to enjoy the meal directly. He has to enjoy the favorable opinion of the Queen.
Similarly the core-self cannot directly enjoy the sex pleasure. If it tries to do so then it has to jump over the buddhi organ which always goes before it, and then; it will find that the pleasure is no longer a pleasure. In other words if the chef tries to eat the food which is on the queen’s plate, then that food will cause his head to loped off. But if he waits for the queen to taste the food, he may get a favorable assessment which he can enjoy. His enjoyment of the food is not one of pleasure of the tongue as the queen experiences.
It is not easy to get the student to understand this. What to speak of getting them to actually do this. Most students cannot segregate between themselves and the buddhi intellect orb.
Someone might even think that this literature is too sexually explicit, that there is no need to be so sexually graphic but however I have to do what I do. I do not appreciate this type of criticism, even though I agree that everyone is entitled to their opinion.
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If one practice breath-infusion proficiently, a time will come when the storage capsule is retracted permanently. At first it shrinks so that the bottom of it is not bulbous, is not enlarged or bloated. Then it will begin to shrink upwards.
After much practice, this capsule will begin to rise through the subtle body. It will travel up until it reaches the throat where it will dissolve. When the subtle body has experienced this that is one of the indications that the student is developing a yoga siddha form.
The absorption of this capsule into the throat chakra represents the shutdown of the throat chakra where there will be no need for physical nutrition, where the student upon leaving the physical form will not miss physical foods and will have no desire for physical eating.
The throat chakra is the source of this kanda reservoir. It is the place at which the reservoir could be eliminated. Eating as we know it in the material world is the source of the sexual potency which we became familiar with in the mammal bodies of which the human form is included.
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What I wrote above applies mostly to those using male psyches. There is some difference in the physical and subtle physiology of the female form. One of the reasons why there is so little information for females in the classic yoga books about the austerities of ancient yogis, is that very few females did the yoga to proficiency.
Worse is the fact that there is hardly a book from the ancient Sanskrit literature which was written by a female expert of yoga for female students. We read in the Puranas of Goddess Devi, Lord Shiva’s wife, training female students in yoga but overall there is a dearth of information on the same.
While in the male system there is a kanda, in the female system there is a spherical spread of hormonal energy. If you could see this visually, it would be like a large cotton puff which was spherical and which contained a liquid. It would be white-cream in color. The size of it on average would be about six inches across in fully-mature sexual-active females.
The reduction of the size of this puff and its eventually absorption into the throat chakra would be the objective for females.
The application of the retraction force in males is different to that in females and for the reason of the different psychologies of each gender in their outlook for opportunities in the physical and subtle creation. Each gender has to deal with its need for these avenues of expression in the physical and psychic material worlds.
