Yoga Practice Demolished
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 5 years before Mar 30, 2017
MiBeloved 5 years ago
Sometimes a yogi is overcome by a negative energy which completely cancels out the desire to do practice on a particular day. This type of energy is a dulling force which stops a yogi dead in his spiritual tracks and causes him to just neglect practice and to forget all about practice for a time. It may last for a day, for a week, for a month, for a year and in some cases for a lifetime or two.
What exactly is that dulling force? Well according to the Bhagavad Gita it is one of the three energy levels of material nature, the lowest one which is tagged as tamo guna. But wait a minute, that is not going to help just getting such information. Knowing that you are being gassed with a nerve numbing agent does not prevent your death. Some people feel that simply knowing the information given by Krishna and others, they are safe from all danger. That is a nice sense of confidence but nothing else.
Last night I had an astral encounter with a lady who now lives in South America. She came astrally with her teenage daughter. Subsequently because of that association, my early morning session was destroyed completely. In other words, the energy for the session suddenly disappeared and left me hanging on a high ledge with no way down, not even a fire escape. Imagine if you are left on a ledge of a high building with no way into the building and no way down from the building. It is too high to jump down, so what should you do.
Well in cases like this when the motivation and energy for practice is dissipated by someone’s or a group of persons, one should simply not be bothered but should just wait it out for a rescue. A yogi must be confident that bad weather will pass. It may take some time, and one might be battered as if in a hurricane but still it will pass.
The usual time for practice is supposed to be around 4 am for the latest 6 am, but at that time there was no energy for practice, no motivation, nothing. But at about 8 o’clock all of a sudden, I felt that the energy was lifted. The storm moved out and it was like daylight again. I immediately went to practice.
It appears that not only did I have a dose of bad association with that lady and her teen daughter, but I also had a dose of bad pranic energy in the air. When that energy lifted, all of a sudden the energy for motivation for practice returned.
Students have inquired previously about why they feel dull and why they have no motivation for practice at certain times. Actually it is not so important to know why as it is to be ready to get on the bandwagon as soon as the bad energy lifts.
We are not going to control this universe. We are not going to carve up reality to perfectly match what we want. Therefore we have to agree to just sit it out on some occasions and wait for providence to flip in the direction desired, to give us the energy lift desired.
Association with people who do not have a yoga practice habit even if they are religious people, even if they meditate regularly, even if they are moral people of worth, will result in a down time for yoga practice. We have to accept that and just move on with the impediments and obstructions. But there is no excuse for not jumping in as soon as the negative energy disappears.
