Swami Hariharananda’s Complaints
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 5 years before Mar 05, 2018
MiBeloved 5 years ago
This morning with one of his students, Swami Hariharananda complained about the condition of the psyche of the Western students of kriya yoga, regarding how they want to focus on the brow chakra even though their base muladhara chakras are dense as dark matter and are black as coal.
He struck an astral match which he materialized in thin air and said that the base chakra must first be lit and then when it burst through the subtle body and reaches into the head, then the students should focus on higher chakras.
Otherwise, he said, the whole kriya practice is simply an imagined bit of nonsense.
I had a feeling to ask the Swami if he taught this when he used a physical body and if he left any written statements about this but I could see that he did not, so I did not press the issue.
The eating habits in the West, the late eating, the addiction to visual media, the sitting around on soft cushions and behind desks in offices, the focus on physical sports and physical fitness for beauty and fitness, all contribute to the denseness of the base chakra. But for the purposes of kriya yoga, this needs to be reversed.
The advent of electricity, the recent production of digital technology have had their beneficial effects but they also had devastating effects in other areas, such as us staying up at night and eating during the night, bombarding our senses with visual images which have no spiritual value. The list of disadvantages is a long one but we are complacent about it and trivialize the negative aspects.
Alfredo 5 years ago
MiBeloved wrote:
[I had a feeling to ask the Swami if he taught this when he used a physical body and if he left any written statements about this but I could see that he did not so I did not press the issue.]
Alfredo's reply:
There you go...why complain if you did not do an effort to be part of the solution? Complain is always the easy part. If you taught that most everything goes and that you can have a feeble practice and get "liberation" (whatever that is), then complain, I call that hypocrisy, and I have no use for that.
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MiBeloved wrote:
[The eating habits in the West, the late eating, the addiction to visual media, the sitting around on soft cushions and behind desks in offices, the focus of physical sports and physical fitness for beauty and fitness, all contribute to the denseness of the base chakra. But for the purposes of kriya yoga, this needs to be reversed.
The advent of electricity, the recent production of digital technology have had their beneficial effects but they also had devastating effects in other areas, such as us staying up at night and eating during the night, bombarding our senses with visual images which have no spiritual value. The list of disadvantages is a long one but we are complacent about it and trivialize the negative aspects.]
Alfredo's reply:
You are totally right. I wish everyone reading this would take heed, as I have. And I don't care or concentrate on how late it is for me, for, using again that old Cuban proverb: "with these mules I have to plough". I only look ahead, and try to better myself daily.
