swargaLoka Debacle
For some months now, Yogeshwarananda asked me to write about the swargaLoka heavenly world attainment. Due to not having the proper vocabulary, up to today, I could not report on it. There is also the problem of having clear subtle perception. However, I will begin a report.
According to the Vedic books, someone may go to an angelic heaven on the basis of that person’s responsible activities and their ritual performance during the life of the physical body. Ritual performance in Vedic ceremonies with the appropriate mantras does not by itself give one the result hereafter. There must be accompanying socially beneficial activities for the family, city, country, and the world.
If done correctly, the person will after losing his/her physical body, at its death, transit instantly to the heaven place which is conducted by the Indra supernatural being, in the dimension which is tagged as the swargaLoka world. There the person will enjoy life with no suffering.
The flaw in that elevation is that it will terminate when the psychic effects of the social acts are exhausted. At that time, the person will discover himself/herself fading away from the heavenly place, but with the understanding that the benefit-energy was exhausted. The person will again surface in the astral world which is near to this physical existence. He or she will be in the vicinity of a family in which there are merits due to one’s membership in that family before one went to the astral heaven.
At that time, there will be a feeling of wanting to be with that family as a physical member of it. This energy will eventually result in a pregnancy in which one will be identified as a child of a mother in the family.
Strictly speaking, a serious yogi is not inclined for this routing from here to that heaven and then from that angelic place back to this physical history. To avoid having to be routed through that process, the yogi must experience the swargaLoka place before the time for being deprived of the physical body at its death.
He or she should know what the attraction to the heavenly place is. Is it the food (amrita) which is eaten there? Is it the pleasure indulgences which the subtle body is capable of there? Is it the good looks of the subtle body when it is integrated into that dimension?
Can a yogi experience that place and become accustomed to its environment and privileges while he uses the physical body before its death?
Yogeshwaranand said that a yogi who experiences the pleasures of that heaven and gets accustomed to it before his body dies, will be resistant to the attraction to that heavenly place.
He gave the example of the smelling sense which is absent in the brahmaLoka place. If a yogi can get used to not using the smelling sense, to not craving aroma, then there is the likelihood that he could stay in brahmaLoka if he is given the opportunity or if he somehow by his massive effort he attains that place.
The pleasures felt in the subtle body when one is in the swargaLoka heavenly realm is such a challenge, that even if a yogi boast that he does not want to go to that place, he may transit there because of not having the resistance to the pleasures felt in the subtle body when one is there.
However, by doing advanced yoga practice using tight breath infusion, with forceful pratyahara sensual energy withdrawal and samyama deep meditation practice, one can cause the subtle body to shift higher while doing the yoga practice with the physical form. For instance, when one does pranayama breath infusion, one may experience kundalini arousal through the spinal chakras or in sectors of the subtle body or in all of it.
When doing kundalini yoga, when the energy of the breath accumulates and then fires within the subtle and physical forms, one feels a bliss energy. That is also experienced in the swarga world. Hence experiencing it now while using the physical form, prepares the yogi and acclimatizes him to the swargaloka bliss experience.
