Yogi with Two Bodies
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 5 years before Apr 23, 2017
MiBeloved 5 years ago
Swami Rama has two bodies, one is the body he used to practice yoga and the other is an astral form which he uses to continue his yoga teacher duties. Because he was a Shankaracharya Lineage Guru, he has to maintain an astral body in respect to that, at least until he is relieved of the position.
In the meantime he is also using another body in another dimension to continue his yoga austerities. Some of his students are unaware of his double life and do think that such a double is not possible anyway.
When the Swami showed me some more details of the Agnisara practice, he transferred my perception into the dimension where he has another body and showed me how the inside of that body is constructed. That form has no spinal kundalini even though it has routes for channeling pranic energy.
Dean 5 years ago
Michael Wrote: Swami Rama has two bodies, one is the body he used to practice yoga and the other is an astral form which he uses to continue his yoga teacher duties. Because he was a Shankaracharya Lineage Guru, he has to maintain an astral body in respect to that, at least until he is relieved of the position.
Dean's Questions: Is this other body, his spiritual body or an altered astral form? Do most advanced yogis and siddhas have this other body? And how does this body differ from the standard astral body?
MiBeloved 5 years ago
It is not a spiritual body. It is an altered siddha yoga body. When a yogi becomes successful in practice, his subtle body changes and is called a siddha form. That is not a spiritual body. It is a precursor to the spiritual body.
Usually yogis just transfer to that siddha form but Swami Rama is keeping that form and his astral form from before.
The different between that siddha body and the standard astral form is this:
The standard astral form has tendencies which lead the individual back into the birth/death cycle repeatedly and it is hell-bent on gaining benefits from cultural activity in the physical world.
The siddha form has no interest in that cultural activity and it has no inclinations for rebirth or participation in human history.
To understand this we can study our condition as helpless infants. Then we have this tendency to suck milk from the mother’s body, but later this sucking tendency disappears in the toddler stage and in the juvenile stage. The body becomes changed and it is no longer interested in sucking the breast, even though it may develop sexual interest in the same organ, it is not the same tendency.
In teenaged years, my body expressed an interest in alcohol and then I used to be with friends who had similar interest but after a time there was a disinterest because I focused on spiritual practice. Now my body has no interest in it.
Many people have stopped alcohol because of religious stipulations and social disapproval but I stopped because of my body losing interest in it.
The siddha form causes a loss of interest in certain aspects of existence. That is its value.
