Sleeping / Head North or South?
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 6 years before Oct 04, 2018
MiBeloved 6 years ago
My question refers to sleeping direction.
In which direction should one sleep on this side of the world? The west? Mississippi?
What are the effects of each direction?
MiBeloved’s Response:
Previously in India among Yogis and people who followed the brahmin culture, one was supposed to sleep with one’s head to the south. There was an opinion that one should not face the south. For instance while doing funeral rites for ancestors, one is told by the priest to face the south. This is because there was this idea that the god of death comes from the south. In order to greet him when doing funeral rites for ancestors, one has to face the south.
However if one faced the south during the other religious ceremonies, even accidentally it was understood that it was a bad portend. People had this idea, that taking birth in the south, meaning south of the equator was taboo.
It is said that only Agastya Muni Mahayogin was able to face the South and conquer it. He went south in India and after him others went considering him to be a sorcerer who banished whatever was bad in the South. Agastya Muni is an expansion of Lord Shiva, so they feel that he can do whatever he likes and get away with it. He is supposed to have that power.
Even the Pandavas, Arjuna and his brothers, went to the North after they realized that time was closing in on their bodies. The idea is that if you head to the north and keep doing that never looking back, then you might get to go to higher planets. Why? Because there is an up and down in outer space. Our planet has a north and South Pole, so that people who live south of the equator are actually living under the planet. A person at the North Pole is actually above the planet. These are real directions as astronomers with delicate instruments inform us today.
If you want to go to the higher planets after leaving the body, then you have to head in the northerly directly to upwards. The idea is that the lower dimensions are readily accessible in the Southern part of the planet, the so called Southern Hemisphere. It is interesting that people who live in Australia sometimes describe their situation as being down under.
Even Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita suggested that one should try to get away from the moon’s influence and should head for the sun planet, if one’s subtle body can get to that place. Bhishma, a great yogin and warrior from the Mahabharata, kept his physical body alive, even though it was very painful to do so, because he wanted to take help from the sun energy to reach the heavenly worlds.
Now for sleeping the idea is that you should have your head to the South and feet to the north. Why because when you rise, you will naturally look to the north which is the auspicious direction. If you sleep with the head to the north, then when you rise, you will be looking downwards and will see the south because your body is designed with eyes which see downward normally.
Personally I am not a very superstitious person, which means that I use my intuition. That means that on occasion you might see me sleeping with my head in a contrary direction. As for the god of death, I have a friendship with him, so looking in his direction is not a bad portend for me.
The directions of up and down, with up being the north and down being the south is for real. I have many times found that while travelling in a northerly direction, I feel as if I am climbing upward and when going south, I feel as if I am going downwards. But I am psychic, and that might be why I feel this way.
There is a lecture by a pretty honest Guruji from India which is at this Video link:
Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJOjRIijxwk
Video Title: You should not put your head to the North and sleep. Sadhguru by Isha Foundation.
Jettins 6 years ago
MiBeloved wrote:
If you want to go to the higher planets after leaving the body, then you have to head in the northerly directly to upwards. The idea is that the lower dimensions are readily accessible in the Southern part of the planet, the so called Southern Hemisphere. It is interesting that people who life in Australia something describe their situation as being down under.
Jettins query:
I was wondering, would going up to the sky be the equivalent of traveling north after leaving the body? In a recent experience I was told to “fly up to the sky”. After leaving the body and if I fly away from the house, I will almost always fly to the left. It turns out that it’s a Northerly direction unplanned. Is this one of the things that someone needs to believe in, in order for it to function as a compass for finding higher dimensions? Or would you say it’s more of a general rule?
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MiBeloved wrote:
That means that on occasion you might see me sleeping with my head in a contrary direction. As for the god of death, I have a friendship with him, so looking in his direction is not a bad portend for me.
Jettins query:
This sounds fascinating to me. Can you tell us about the god of death encounters that you have had? Thanks.
MiBeloved 6 years ago
An instruction to fly to the sky may be just an instruction to get you to realize the abilities of the subtle bodies even more. This also may make you realize that your astral form is earth bound, meaning that it can only rise so high in the sky and then it is unable to go any further. You might compare this to a rocket. If the rocket has an inefficient propulsion system and if the fuel is not very concentrated, then the rocket may go up but only so high and then gravity will govern its fall.
In astral projection, people sometimes think that they can go wherever they desire in this universe which is governed by our local sun or in any other. But for most of us that it totally untrue. By trying to leave the planet one will quickly find out if one is an earth bound soul or not.
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Flying upwards means going north in the northern part of the northern hemisphere. The instruction in the Vedic literature about yogis going north, persons like Bhishma and Yudhishthira, has to do with the sun planet. Going south has to do with moon energy influence. It is more about the influence of those heavenly bodies than it is about the cardinal points of the compass.
I used to be able to go to the sun planet that was before I became a family man. So now that has changed and my subtle body is unable to do that. I am doing practice to regain the ability.
It is not a belief system. It depends on the condition of the subtle body at the time of death. Belief is great if your subtle body is supportive of it, otherwise it is not worth anything.
Bhishma in the Mahabharata is an example of a person who went to the north based on his consumption of the sun’s energy at the time of his physical body’s death. But Bhishma, according to the story was a fallen deva, who was going back to the existential situation which was native to him. If one is not a fallen god, then it will not be easy to use the system he used.
It hinges on the condition of the subtle body.
Jettins 6 years ago
MiBeloved wrote:
"Belief is great if your subtle body is supportive of it, otherwise it is not worth anything."
Jettins reply:
Oh, thanks for the in depth answer, I love that. Interesting, to me this implies that the conditions will be supportive if it's part of what you’re supposed to do be doing.
In experience #192 from April, 4 2011 a women and a man followed me home after a false awakening, the man made a comment to the women after watching me leave my body, "he comes from a lineage where he can do that".
It was interesting to me because I recognized the women during the experience, but not after waking up. At the time I took it to be wishful thinking in my part, but I am starting to think maybe there is something to it. Could be the reason why astral projection feels so natural for me, and my life being perfect for it? It's one of those things that has me thinking about which came first, the chicken or the egg.
MiBeloved 6 years ago
The best thing is to just accept yourself as a weirdo!
Stop trying to fit in and realize that you are an oddball!
Jettins 6 years ago
haha, that put a smile on my face! I really say that to myself and I love it!
