Sleep Vritti Elimination Details

The sleep vritti is the most difficult one to quell to the satisfaction of the requirements of the Yoga Sutras

I came to the conclusion that it is not possible to wrench it unless one absorbed the reproduction energy. This is because the sleep virtti is protected by that energy. In doing kundalini yoga, just raising kundalini through the sushumna spinal passage into the brain, is preliminary but at first it is a huge accomplishment. A student should strive to master it by any which means. We offer breath infusion as a method of doing so but if one has some other way then we have no qualms about it.

The whole system of raising kundalini through the spine depends on the manipulation of the reproduction energy in the subtle body. This process is technically known as Hatha Yoga by Gorakshnath Mahayogi who pioneered the process of getting kundalini reformed and controlled.

Even if kundalini rises into the brain and stays there for short or long periods, even then the muladhara base chakra will retain its function of collecting sleep energy and hurling that at the adjuncts and core-self in the head of the subtle body. The effect of this on the self is a feeling of drowsiness, lack of alertness, lack of mental vigilance, giving in to ideas generated by the buddhi analytical orb, sleep and coma.

It can be that the physical body is asleep and the core-self is using the astral body, but in cases where the astral body is affected, then the core-self also may experience a shutdown of objectivity which for all practical purposes is a suspension of observational capacity and sense of personality.

The elimination of the sleep vritti is important in higher yoga. Recently in the year of 2015, Srila Yogeshwarananda was insisting that I locate and target the muladhara base chakra, flush out the sleep vritti by attacking it with breath energy.

It does not matter who he (she) is. It does not matter if he is known as a great yogin. If he does not eliminate sleep vritti, then it is doubtful if he will have siddha status. One should never think that a yogi is a farce or that a yogi is a success in fact but should rather leave the mind open in the opinion because unless one can see into the subtle body of the yogi, one cannot really know his level of advancement.

Here I submit a related diagram: