Yogi and Cultural Aliens

Meditationtime Forum Post

Date:  Posted 5 years before May 30, 2017

MiBeloved 5 years ago

During breath infusion practice this morning, Swami Rama appeared. He was his usual happy-go-lucky, carefree self. He was smiling broadly, his subtle body being filled with diffused light. He began to praise the agnisara yoga practice of stomach pumps with various types of coordinate breathing, saying that for a person who must go through the death of a body, the agnisara practice is the sure cure for easy transition away from the material body. He then said,

“Of all the practices of yoga, I feel that in relation to going through the death of a body, the agnisara practice, if mastered beforehand, would give a definite advantage. At least a student should do it during his yoga session daily for at least ten minutes. People will cry about this. They only want to do one or two churls of the stomach. That is not enough. If your body must die and you do not know under what condition you will be forced out of this present body, then why not do this practice if it will give you the upper hand? Tell me why they cannot practice this for ten minutes per day. It is a sure guarantee to help with the transition because it frees up the binding point which is the navel area. Anyway tell them I recommended this.”

During the session about 20 minutes into it, there was some astral chatter. A friend, who does Brahmakumari method of atmayoga, came there in his astral body with his son. He spoke to me by phone a few days ago. His son’s physical body is nearby in South Florida. His physical body is over two thousand miles away in South America. He wanted my opinion about the marriage of the young man. These people are very involved in the marriage of their children because that is their tradition as Hindus. Do I care about this?

The Western people have turned on the Eastern people and have conquered them culturally which is really worse than political conquest. Use to be that the Africans, Indians and Asians were all up in arms and voices about political conquest of the colonial era but now that is finished more or less. Now they have to deal with cultural dominance which is greatly accelerated by the technology which was developed first by the Western people.

Facebook, Google, Apple and Microsoft, along with Intel and HP are involved in a complete subjugation of these other cultures. It is really frightening the amount of crushing they are doing to these other traditions. It will be that in about 15 years people from these cultures will wake up and find themselves to be aliens to their own ancient traditions. Such is the march of time.

Now these people are coming to the West with intentions of mastering the brutal technologies of the West in the hope of either reversing or at least participating in the digital war of cultural demolition. How will it turn out? Your guess is as good as mine?

I am concerned with the economy of the subtle body, the real estate of astral dimensions, the money that is higher astral energy like sunlight and moon light. I am concerned with the family of the siddhas whose grandfather is Shiva, whose father is Babaji. It is not that I have no cultural interest. It is just that it is a bit different. Why bother me with the effort to re-conquer the Western Conquest of your Indian tradition?

Near the end of the exercise session when I was able to vanish my subtle body from the perception of my friends and his family members, Srila Yogeshwarananda appeared. He was very happy about something. I do not know what it is. He said this, which is something he said before,

“Be sure that you keep doing these kriyas and the breath infusion until the very end of this body. Do not do as the others did which is to leave aside this, and just sit to meditate as if you are some advanced yogi going into samadhi all the time. Do not con people in that way. So long as this body can do these postures, keep doing this practice. I would appreciate your compliance with this.”