Query:
Is Shavasana pose of yoga... best method of meditation yoga?
Vijay Kumar:
Your
next query relates to Shavasana pose of yoga! For achieving God... for realizing
God... for realizing self... for gaining enlightenment (kaivalya jnana)... Shavasana
pose of yoga is the best form of yoga meditation! Lying in the death pose... we
simply need to concentrate on who breathes... who is it that requires fresh air
devoid of which it becomes inert (not dead)!
Once
the soul atman manifests the human form... it requires air for breathing... to
keep the body live! In absence of pure air... the body would simply die and decay!
Our soul atman is immortal in nature... it just cannot die! It is indestructible
by nature. The moment it manifests a body... it requires fresh air to breathe
to keep going!
In
the Shavasana pose of yoga when we concentrate on God Almighty... we would sooner
or later realize that it is not our bodily self that inhales pure air. It is the
vital soul atman manifesting the body residing within our heart that requires
pure air for the heart to keep pumping! In absence of fresh air... all hearts
would just collapse!
Neti
(not this, not this) the sure shot method for obtaining God... the method preached
and advocated by Maharishi Ramana is best practiced in the Shavasana pose of yoga.
Whenever I had time in the morning hours, during office working hours... any time
of the day... I would simply lie on the sofa or on reclining chair and practice
the path of Neti in Shavasana pose of yoga!
Negating
everything else in the Cosmos other than God Almighty is the surest path of reaching
God at the earliest. In Neti we negate the presence of everything that we consider
is not God Almighty. Lastly what remains is God Almighty himself. Other than the
path of Neti... one need not indulge in any other form of meditation.
Every
form of yoga meditation leads one towards purity of self. The first and foremost
of all is traveling the path of absolute truthfulness in all affairs of life.
This is the most difficult part as public dealings sometimes are not built on
faith and truthfulness. Some element of untruthfulness is necessitated in business
dealings.
The
prime reason why serious seekers of spirituality always fail in business! For
practicing truthfulness... no form of yoga meditation is necessary. We simply
need to maintain our calm and remain truthful to god all the time. Praying to
God to give us absolute purity of thought is the sacred mantra... the same mantra
for which sages in earlier times charged Rs. one lakh (almost $1 million of today).
Practicing
truthfulness is not easy as said. In all affairs of life I found following the
path of truthfulness being the most difficult ever. In dealings with our wife,
a child... truthfulness plays a vital role as many members of the family may not
consider it wise to remain truthful all the time. Public dealings are never made
on the scales of truthfulness alone.
The best part
of yoga meditation is... it can be conducted any moment of time and at any place.
There were instances when conducting business even if I got five minutes of time...
I would simply rest on the reclining chair in the Shavasana pose of yoga thinking
of god all the time. Praying to God in sincerity and asking for his forgiveness
for bad deeds committed unknowingly or unknowingly is the second sacred mantra
which is essentially required to be chanted.
In
whatever stage of life we may be... the depletion of our stored resources on the
spiritual pursuit of life occur only when we indulge in sexual relationships and
bad thinking... the negative thinking! Maintaining a sexual relationship retards
our awakening of the Kundalini as we are not able to practice celibacy voluntarily.
The
quota of energy... the vital cosmic energy given to every man and woman month
by month requires storing. More the sexual indulgences... faster the depletion
of the stored spiritual energy. If we are on a karmic scale of 66 then excess
sexual indulgences may lead us to number 65. What if we desire scaling number
67!
We definitely
need to store the vital sexual energy by transmuting the sexual energy through
more creative channels. The transmutation of sexual energy is the foremost of
all vital acts in the spiritual pursuit of life. Most human beings never indulge
in preserving this vital quota of energy given to human beings month after month.
An
indulgence in sex for the sake of pleasure is absolutely prohibited on the spiritual
scale. One or two sexual indulgences at the most in a month are permissible! One
sexual indulgence per month is recommended. We must make sure that full satisfaction
in the lone act is received so that inhibition for more stops at its roots.
Furthermore
indulgence in negative thinking retards our spiritual journey! More the accumulation
of negative thoughts... more the impurity within the body! The ultimate purpose
of yoga meditation is reducing the impurities dross within... not increasing it!
Every single negative thought increases the impurities within every human being...
why indulge and retard the spiritual journey of life!
Untruthfulness
results in our gaining negative points on the karmic scale. Untruthfulness increases
impurities within the body. Maintaining purity on the spiritual path is of utmost
importance! We simply need invoke positive thoughts all the time. However demeaning
the circumstance is... We have to maintain our cool at all times!
All
types of bestial thoughts... thoughts of negative nature result in delay of our
spiritual pursuit! Extra martial thinking mars all prospects of spiritual pursuit!
We simply cannot indulge in unrestricted sex! Sex was primarily meant for progeny...
reproduction of the species and not for open enjoyment! Open indulgence in sex
reduces us to the level of animals.
Those
who truly decipher the gist of life as expressed in the various sacred scriptures
of all religions of the world realize the ultimate truth... it is not sex alone
that is most pleasurable form of enjoyment... enjoying the warmth of the sun,
the seaside sunny beaches, uninhabited trails of the forest, the breezy moonlight,
the beautiful landscapes and mountainside... the uninhibited orgasms of the unknown...
how deeply mankind has truly ventured into the domains of God!
Life
is not lived in the trivialities of life... always remember we have one life to
live... live it at its best under the present circumstances! How many times I
had to eat hell for breakfast... how many contemplations of suicide... I have
simply lost account. I continued my journey... my spiritual pursuit undauntedly
come whatever may!
Life
under no circumstances is easy-going. The road to the house of God is full of
sufferings all along. That is how one prepares self for the kingdom of God (aka
Baikuntha in Hinduism)... a point of no return! No sooner an enlightened one takes
salvation (moksha)... we gain entry into the kingdom of God... the abode of God
(not kingdom of heaven)!
The
principle of suffering is best understood by the following example... if we need
prepare a rod of metal... initially the blacksmith beats it... then heats it and
finally immerses the half shaped rod into a bucket of water. Again he picks the
rod... beats it... heats it and again immerses into a bucket of cold water...
slowly the rod shapes up!
In
the world of human beings... it is sufferings that pave way for human beings to
travel the path of enlightenment. Purity can never be gained without sufferings.
The period when the rod is beaten and heated it is the time for sufferings...
the moment the shaped rod is immersed in cold water... it is time for experiencing
happiness!
This
process of suffering and happiness must always be explained in detail to our near
and dear ones. This is how the journey of life was willed by God Almighty. If
there were only sufferings in the world... in absence of happiness none would
have complained! If there was only happiness in the world... life would have become
absolutely dull... what value living a monotonous life!
The
value of life... the happiness in life means something only when we encounter
sufferings in life. Similarly sufferings mean anything only when we desire happiness
in life. Both sufferings and happiness are two sides of the same coin. In a nutshell...
following the Shavasana pose of yoga one directly reaches the kingdom of God!
We only need the bulldog determination of Winston Churchill to succeed.
May
God bless all!
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Full text of query:
If there is a break between practicing meditation, 1 or 2 days or even longer
didn't meditate. Is that going to affect our progress?
3. During our daily
life, I believe our cosmic energy may also be leaking or depleting. How can we
do to prevent this? And during our sleep, is it possible to continue with our
meditation? Shavasana pose of yoga to sleep? Is our cosmic energy being release
or somehow remove during sleeping?
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