The Lady is Disgusted
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 3 years before Oct 12, 2016
MiBeloved 3 years ago
Last night in the astral world, I met a married woman. This is someone who is married to a friend of mine who is a part time yogi, part time meditator. His wife said this,
“I want out. I do not want to be married to him anymore. Get me out. Take me back. Do what you want with me. Getting married to these weak men who cannot make it in the material world and who cannot make it in the spiritual disciplines, is very frustrating. I tried this over and over. It is too frustrating for me to continue in this.
“I will do whatever you say. I am no longer thinking that I can make out with some materialistic man, a half yogi, a fake spiritualist. Give me some shelter, please.”
So then I looked at her and then she went back to her home.
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This is a case of a person who gets disgusted with the married life, with the aspirations for material status. The person gets disgusted and then remembers someone, in this case myself, who previously had explained how the material life wound end in frustration any which way for everyone.
But this does not mean that this person can actually step away from the material world, because the material world also has to release its grip on a person if that person is to really step way.
A hint about this is given in the Bhagavad Gita English in this way:
A person who, in all circumstances, is without crippling affections, who, when meeting enjoyable or disturbing factors, does not get excited nor distressed, his reality-piercing consciousness is established. (2.57)
When such a person pulls fully out of moods, he or she may be compared to the tortoise with its limbs retracted. The senses are withdrawn from the attractive things in the case of a person whose reality-piercing vision is established. (2.58)
The temptations themselves turn away from the disciplinary attitude of an ascetic, but the memory of previous indulgences remain with him. When he experiences higher stages, those memories leave him. (2.59)
Unless one reaches a stage in evolution where material nature itself turns away from one, one cannot escape. Material nature itself has to release one, and even Patanjali speaks of this, about the time when for the individual ascetic, the experiences afforded by material nature ceases, while it continues in full force for others:
Meditation Expertise Chapter 4 Verse 32
ततः कृतार्थानां परिणामक्रमसमाप्तिर्गुणानाम्॥३२॥
tataḥ kṛtārthānāṁ pariṇāmakrama samāptir guṇānām
tataḥ – thus; kṛtārthānāṁ – having done their purpose; pariṇāma – changes, alteration; krama – a step, succession, progression, process of development; samāptir = samāptiḥ – end conclusions; guṇānām – of the influence of the subtle material nature.
Thus, the subtle material nature, having fulfilled its purpose, its progressive alterations end.
