Tibetan Secret Kriya

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Date:  Posted 6 years before Feb 26, 2017

MiBeloved 6 years ago

During exercises, the Tibetan Yogi Rimpoche began to explain that while in the India system of the chakras, there is much focus on the sushumna nadi spinal passage, in some of the Tibetan traditions, especially the one which came through Marpa, Naropa and Milarepa, the stress is simply on one chakra which is the navel center in the front of the body.. This is not even the navel chakra because that chakra is on the spine.

This system is concerned with the spread chakra which emanates from the spinal center. Guruji Rimpoche said this, “The spinal chakras are more like the prime minister and other officials of a government. These people have some intelligence charisma and managing power but they cannot do anything by themselves. Can you imagine what the prime minister would be if there were no other persons surrounding him, carrying out his wishes? He would be nothing. In some cases the prime minister of a country cannot even defend himself properly if he were challenged to a fist fight. But if his bodyguards are nearby, no one dares to attack him.

So we discover that the spinal chakras are merely hollow authorities without their accessory expansive influences. Rishi Singh, your Guruji from India, asked me to talk to you since he said that you would write all these things down and then others can use this information in the future even after you leave your body. When will that be? Better write this down right away, because that may be tomorrow.

It is good that you have such a clear clairvoyant and clairaudient ability. That is rare nowadays with so much trash-chatter in the minds of human beings. From our view point and we are perhaps the most advanced yogis in terms of flushing out the subtle body, the main issue here in this material body and in the adjacent subtle body, is the frontal navel chakra. Destroy him and you are free. What did Patanjali say about that chakra? I heard he said something to the effect that when that center is shattered, then the yogi gets intimate knowledge about the layout of his psyche.

We looked at your translation. Ha! You did a good job of it. There were hardly any mistakes in your work, even though you are not an advanced yogi. Anyway you said the word kaaya means body. Well I don’t know what dictionary or intuition you used but it means psyche not body. What does body mean? To some it means just the material body, to others it means the material and the subtle body combined. So what does it mean?

Let us use your words except for that one word. Translate it like this:

nābhicakre kāyavyūhajñānam

nābhi – navel; cakre – on the energy gyrating center; kāya – psyche-body; vyūha – arrangement, lay out; jñānam – knowledge.

By complete restraint of the mento-emotional energy in relation to the focusing on the navel energy-gyrating center, the yogi gets knowledge about the layout of his psyche. (Yoga Sutra 3.30)

*see Special Note below

So our lineage lays down this claim that if you were to change the construction of the navel area, so that the energy ingested does not coalesce there, and instead goes straight to muladhara without having interest in the sex-reproduction apparatus, then your spiritual struggle is over.

Produce these two drawings to show what I mean:

* Special Note: (The Sanskrit word for the complete restraint of the mento-emotional energy is samyama and it appears in verse 3.16, and applies to many verses which occur after verse 16. Please see Yoga Sutras before verse 16 in chapter 3 to get some understanding of the term samyama. It directly means the highest three stages of yoga combined as one practice.)