Yogi who killed and ate the Crayfish
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 5 years before May 21, 2017
MiBeloved 5 years ago
The Tibetan yoga teacher was with me again this morning during breath infusion practice. This practice lasted an hour, which is a long time for kundalini practice. One might wonder what is the necessity for such a long period of such a forceful practice, as breath-of-fire bhastrika pranayama. There are legends about yogis from antiquity where they did pranayama practice continuously for months, having left aside even eating any type of solid or liquid food.
These are not myths. The Tibetan teacher returned to give me some encouragement and to inform me that I would need to get to all those hard to reach areas of the subtle body. Those areas must be meticulously assaulted until all dense astral energy is removed, being replaced with higher subtle force.
A great example in this effort, is a female celebrity who is very particular not to leave her penthouse until every last bit of makeup is applied, every hair on her head is set perfectly, all blemishes in her complexion are covered with the desired skin tone, every lump of inordinate fat is squeezed into submission with spandex and everything immodest in her behavior is banished for the time being so that the most critical Pope sees it fit to write her a recommendation for entry into heaven.
A yogi can learn how to be particular from such a celebrity, to be tedious, specific and downright fanatical about cleansing every part of the subtle body, to bring it into the status of a yoga siddha form.
The Tibetan teacher spoke of the difficulty in getting the shoulders, the armpits, the arms, the forearms and hands of the subtle body into a purified state. During the session, he was in one of my memories, the one from the earlier part of this life. He reached an event which happened around 1965. He pulled it out and threw it off into the environment. It came out like a scab on the skin which was peeled off. He looked at me to find out the circumstances under which that act was committed. He said, "Never mind. It belongs to the parents. So let us get it out of here.”
The incidence was one where I was using a body which was 14 years of age. The father of the body arranged for me to visit him in Trinidad in an area near to Port of Spain which is called San Juan. I used to wander around the area. There were little ravines where crayfish used to be in the water. Once I caught three crayfish, took them home, killed them, cleaned off their shells and cooked them. These crayfish are actually a large shrimp species.
The interesting thing is that the name of the place, San Juan, is a name I have not said in years. It is not a name that I have recalled in years. The whole experience of it was fresh in my mind, after the Tibetan Guruji tore the scab out of my memory. Even the stage of the body I was using at 14 years of age, came back to me vividly. A body at 14 is totally different to a body at 60. In fact even the manifestation of personality is different. There is a small core which is the same but otherwise the character is completely different.
When the Tibetan Guruji whom I call Tibeti because he did not give me his name, showed me the experience, he looked deep into me to see if it was my tendency. Once he was sure that it was not he threw it away but he said,
“This is not yours. It is your parents’’ tendency. However these aspects even though they belong to others must be removed from the psyche. Once you take a body, you invariably carry undesirable tendencies from the relatives of the body. Locate these aspects. Remove these from the psyche. These will prohibit the development of a siddha body. My duty is to bring this to your attention, since small as this may seem, it could be the cause of your not attaining the siddha form. Remove these undesirable parental affiliations.”
