Subtle Body Disapproves of Physical One

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Date:  Posted 3 years before Oct 18, 2016

MiBeloved 3 years ago

After breath infusion this morning, I entered a samadhi state. When I again became aware of the material body, it was bent over, the spine was curved forward like a bow. The neck drooped. The head was hanging.

At first when I became aware of it, it was like I was looking at beggar man sleeping on a street corner. I then woke up the body. It was like waking up someone else who had fallen asleep on a park bench. Myself as the subtle body felt apart from that sleeping physical form and looked at it as if its behavior was unbecoming.

The subtle body thought that the physical body should have held itself up in the tight lotus posture with a straight back. In the subtle body, as one of the composite parts of it, I, as the core-self, observed this attitude of the subtle body and marveled at it.

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What happened during the samadhi?

This was a very abstract condition of consciousness, where I could not objectify what happened. When I returned to objective consciousness however I remember vaguely that just before the samadhi trance condition there was a dimming of all interest in the material world, like when a light is set with a rheostat, where at a certain time the current pausing through the filament is decreased gradually until there is no show of even a glow in the filament.

After this there was a blank area of consciousness, like when one is going north and then one reaches the tundra where trees no longer grow. The landscape is completely barren, not one plant is seen.

Then there was a timeless zone. Then I became conscious of the physical body being in a drooped condition which the subtle body did not approve of. If it were expressed verbally, the subtle body would have said to the physical one:

“What is the matter with you? Can you not hold yourself up? Sit up. Look presentable. You are not a street bum. What will people think if they see you sitting like this? How will they have a high opinion of you as a yogi? Please behave yourself. Live up to the required standard. Do not disgrace me.”