I like reading your stuff Ravi - Bhakti Yoga. In SE Asia I grew up on it. It was always in the air. Literally. What I remember was the air always smelled like life, kind of fruity, with rot and diesel and tobacco and dust mixed in. It HAD a smell. Life seems closer, less abstract there. Fruit bats filling the evening sky between the corrugated roofs, near the Presidential Palace in Bogor, Indonesia, on Java.
The beating sun searing above the horizon at seven, then during the monsoon season, watching walls of rain sweeping down the street. In the tropics, Nature envelops you. Seed of Bhakti Yoga. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ravi Yogi" <raviyogi@...> wrote: > > Bill - Thank you. > > "If I understand you correctly, it seems as if you had too much energy. > And later you crashed". > > I would characterize it as a rise and coast. It's only an apparent > crash, not crash landing or crashing down to earth. Using the analogy of > an airplane the crash from rise to coast is only apparent or temporary, > we have already gained elevation. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, William Parkinson <ameradian2@> > wrote: > > > > Thank you so much Ravi!! You have a very interesting story. And I > can now see your inability to sleep for those periods is something quite > different than what might happen in TM. If I understand you correctly, > it seems as if you had too much energy. And later you crashed. It has > some associative points of contact with manic-depressive states. I am > just knowledgeable enough to know that kundalini-style yoga seems to > emphasize moving energy around the various chakras. The problem in TM > seems to be that the recognition within oneself of this silent > innerlayer never leaves even during sleep. Your state was high energy, > the TM state during sleep might be compared to a dimly lit candle-- but > one nevertheless never goes out even during sleep. I am go thankful that > you nshard this with me. I have a great awareness now of what happened > to you and maybe it is also a cautionary tale against using this > type of yoga in some cases. > > Cheers > > Bill  > > >
