Surya Practice Report 06/05/12
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Date: Posted 5 years before Jul 08, 2017
unlimitedsun 5 years ago
YOGA:
Yoga practice this AM allowed for significantly more than my usual air intake. Michael had pointed out to me that my breathing was not sufficient about a year ago. So I have been deliberately trying to accommodate more air during practice. And, this morning I personally felt like at least on the physical side my breathing was deep and intense. I had ease taking air, there was no resistance, and it felt smooth and good. I breathed so intensely that I could feel my stomach muscles burn and my core venting hard.
Only after practice when I was gathering my yoga mat did kundalini hit me; sneaked up on me.
MEDITATION:
Challenging. Naad loud and clear in the background, however social concerns disturb the frontal region.
A lot of tingling sensation felt in the hands. Recently this has been happening and it is intensifying. The sensations continue beyond the time I sit and meditate. However, in the course of meditation I am not sure if I should focus on them in addition to listening to naad and keeping awareness of the visual apparatus.
I still need to reread and study first chapter of meditation pictorial, as prescribed by the author. Distractions and preoccupations are predominant.
SUBTLE CONTACT:
Dreams recalls have not been much of anything to write home about. Mostly social links concerns.
MiBeloved 5 years ago
unlimitedsun wrote:
Dreams recalls have not been much of anything to write home about. Mostly social links concerns.
MiBeloved's Response:
Social links in dreams are important because this informs you of what you are being controlled by. A yogi should always take note of these dream/astral influences and try to gage their power over his or her life.
Just today I was thinking about this and wanted to write something about it but then I changed my mind, saying to myself, that people perhaps won’t care to hear about it.
I noticed recently again how the influences penetrate and before you know it you are under a social spell and you are running down the road doing something which adds up to zero in your spiritual bank account
Right now I am under a spell due to an obligation which formed in this life during its childhood. I used to go to a kindergarten school and there was a single teacher, a lady. She was a very good teacher. Subsequently she gave her students the basic in ABC and I, 2, 3. Now I am doing some service to that lady and I am under a spell doing it, the spell called the fly back reactions. This is nicely explained in the Anu Gita Explained. Don’t cheat yourself by not reading that book. It is a small book but it is potent and is the clearest explanation of how karma operates, that I have seen in all the Sanskrit literature I have perused.
It is essential to see these influences and to understand how they operate. This does not mean that you can get out of them or avoid them altogether. Arjuna, even in the presence of the Person God, of Krishna, could not get out from under social obligations, even ugly ones. But at least if you understand them you can better negotiate them, pay them off and then go on with your spiritual practice.
The questions are:
Why do I have to serve this person(s)?
Why am I compelled to be with these folks?
What is the force which holds me under this spell?
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unlimitedsun wrote:
I breathed so intensely that I could feel my stomach muscles burn.
MiBeloved's Response:
Burning of stomach muscles or even of the navel regions during breath infusion practice is a boon for a student yogi. I always recall when I went through that with excitement and great appreciation for that stage. Those were the days when I was working intensely to change this body, to change the genetic tendencies this body derived from the parents.
The burning sensation is gold and diamonds to the student yogi, because it means that the prana is accumulating just above the navel and that it can be pushed down. This is not just a physical pushing down but also a psychic pressure applied mentally by the yogi. This causes the knot or bandhas at the navel to burst and so the energy then passes the navel and heads for the groin area, which is another holding place for it which the yogi has to conquer.
When people who have never done pranayama practice, speak about doing things with their chakras, I usually wonder what they are talking about. Because if the navel is not penetrated like this, all such practice is a child’s play. Kundalini could care less about their practice if they have not conquered the navel by destroying the blockage or bandhas which are there and which keep the fresh breath energy above the navel always.
This does not mean that there is no breath below the navel but it means that there is no fresh breath energy below the navel. It is not permitted to go there because the navel chakra in the front of the body (not the one on the spine) stands guard to protect kundalini so that it does not have to do whatever the self needs to do for spiritual elevation.
