Yogi Put Up a White Flag
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 5 years before Apr 26, 2017
MiBeloved 5 years ago
For the afternoon session I had a visitor, Swami Muktananda. As it turns out, the sudden urge to do an afternoon session is coming more or less from him. He deposited some energy in my psyche which nullifies some other energy which blocks that afternoon practice. This might be considered a case of having to take help from a yoga guru to make further progress.
If one is unable to transcend negative influences, one might take some energy from a yoga guru who is resistant to such forces and that might just be enough to cause one to overcome the retardative force.
Swami Muktananda wanted me to record something he said. Here it is:
“Eventually one comes to realize that one is fighting a losing battle against kundalini which is present in one’s body as the life force. In a losing battle even if one is courageous, one will only go on fighting if one does not understand the odds. Once the fighter sees that the odds are against him and that there is nothing he can do to tip it in his direction, he becomes discouraged from fighting and puts up a white flag.
In yoga there is no such thing as committing suicide to avoid capture by the enemy because the yogi is confronted with the fact that he will survive the body. Killing the body is no way out because even then material nature will be present on the subtle side of existence and then again the yogi will have to face the enemy. Hence the only thing left to do is to put up a white flag.
The yogi calls a bluff with the white flag because a hero cannot really surrender to the enemy. Therefore the yogi surrenders but in the back of his mind, he is thinking of another way. He is captured by the enemy after putting up that white flag but still he thinks of a way out.
And what is that way out?
It is the realization that to escape capture one has to go into another dimension where material nature has no influence. So that place is called the chit akash.
The psyche of the yogi should be altered in such a way that it is no longer responsive to the sensation which it once craved in material existence. A thorough overhaul is required. And who should do it for you? Should it be God? Should it be a yoga guru? Who will do the work for you?”
Dean 5 years ago
Michael Wrote: The psyche of the yogi should be altered in such a way that it is no longer responsive to the sensation which it once craved in material existence. A thorough overhaul is required. And who should do it for you? Should it be God? Should it be a yoga guru? Who will do the work for you?”
Dean's response: I know these are rhetorical questions but I will give an answer nonetheless. Only you can do the work, waiting on others to come save you will leave you dead on arrival.
