Suryananda - Practice Report - 09/16/2017

The question has been asked before as to how does one make sure to reach areas that are as difficult to attain as the extremities. This morning being a weekend am, I was aware of the fact that there wouldn’t be early rising of the family getting ready for school and work. I made sure to write down my expectations and plans for the day so that there wouldn’t be a need to project into the immediate or near future during my session.

About halfway into the prana infusion session that neared 45 minutes, I recall that the feet were rubbed vigorously, and the legs had been much stretched but also twisted in the necessary direction as to infuse into locations such as the junction at the hip socket or the under knee region, and the heels, instep, and the ball of the feet. I was practicing with abandon; I didn’t want to think about time since I didn’t have to.

The energy could be felt whirling around and throughout in the psyche, or the psyche was felt for being penetrated. Other preliminaries had been met as it pertains to cleansing various zones. Initially, the session seemed challenging to start off, but that resistance or barrier was successfully overcome upon careful warm-up and gradually pulling into the venting of the subtle body. There was opening into the subtle dimension as expressed in a feeling of encouraging and inspiring energy to keep attached to the attention. 

So at that point previous point where I was, I didn’t want to raise the life force in any dramatic way or classic posture. I charged the bodies sufficiently and then applied internal psychic locks in the trunk. The energy arose in that unconventional psycho-physicality. My attention wasn’t deviating, so I condensed the life force and prevented it from penetrating the head psychic zone. The only way to face the energy in me then was to be closely and repeatedly attentive.

I could sense the energy nervous but psychically grabbed at it, pressurized and coalesced it right there. I maintained observation of the patterns within, and before I knew, perhaps a split second, it went out in an illuminating bang causing intense release the individual cell energy in the extremities, particularly the feet but more so about the toes, and somehow I specifically recall the crease at the junction of the toes and the foot. The release also was intense in the hands as well as the chest area.

It would be the first time that I am not able to recollect at which point exactly or what pose I was into as the event of kundalini rising took place. I was simply within and giving my-self to it. Then nebulous clouds of orange hue were quickly bubbling up. It wasn’t the previously intense radiant pranically perceived energy, still, because the intellect was engaged within, and the detonation took place at the cell level where my I-attention was, I deduce that the observation of prana vision.

As I effected further constrictions within, the clouds intensified. Throughout the practice session, I made centering pauses connecting with naad, which was audible anyways. But during this event, it was the presence of prana that pulled the attention at the required locations, and that wasn’t in the head, even though the view seemed there for being in the psyche.

As I recap, I recall that in 2012, as RishiDeva was in my neck of the woods in Maryland, I had come for dawn practice and a friend videotaped the session. Somehow he never got it together, and the session could not be revisited in its passive format. Eventually, Rishi advised to let it be. But I was the one with the anxiety; I was astonished by the many subtle constrictions, and shakings, and rubbings, etc. So it is very encouraging that with time, persistence and opportunity to practice it all comes together. And, of course, the mercy of Shri Guru and Prana, an indispensable ally to the inSelf Yogins.

Jay Aum Shri Gurudeva!

Jay Aum Pranavayve Namah!

This was a satisfactory practice in terms of infusing the bodies. Yet, the ensued meditation could be better considering my current position. From my observing self, there is an obvious irregularity as well as lack of application of Gurus’ instructions. I must continue to address that somehow. Yet may glories be to the opportunity of laying down the all-important infused, clarified and relatively stable dimensional platform for psyche introspection.

Immediately upon taking sit for meditation, naad was simply there, and so there was barely a need to connect. The entire body was felt as being light or not there. It seemed that naad was emanating all around, and I was present. There was only one thing to do, which was to tune in. However, I also noticed my breathing and was wondering why. I had recalled that the first thing to do is to check within the body. It was contrasting with the stability within the psyche, but it eventually slowed consideration. The near 45-minute session was relatively intense.

As I listened, naad presented at the lower right side of the ear with tiny crystal bells ringing meticulously as they in turn wrapped around the harder solid core. The core was a continuous sharper and finer tone. The global effect appeared to exist all around me, like a large ball of misty air.

However, to the left and further down closer into the neck, was another naad manifestation. I decided to send a partitioned amount of investigative energy and noticed that it lacked a core. So, I concluded that it could be an echo of a sort. Its quality was also different with its tone fuller and almost more comforting to me, it sounded different to the two others above. But there was a time or two when it became loud enough to drag me to it, and still, it had no core. At another time, the core at the right was noticed to slightly change in tone after an extremely brief interruption.

After about half an hour of meditation, I recalled that I was supposed to empty my bladder and drink some water after the session and then meditate. I now remember that I had forgotten, and evidently, I was coming down into the body, with feeling the limbs, etc. I decided to persist a few more minutes and resolved to re-penetrate at the core of the sound vibration.  And, it was possible to resume naad absorption to the extent again of pulling into it, and feeling of going out of the body, at my most extreme point of brief self-suctioning into, or towards it.