Yea, M was also teaching laya yoga all along the way. People just did not
appreciate it. It was where he was going again in the end with his Ved and
Physiology teachings. He was getting to the heart of a matter in that. Laya's
very powerful stuff as finishing the whole subtle nervous system of
spirituality. It is where so much of the mature meditating TM community has
gone on to in experience. Was always there in seed form.. for instance,
http://minet.org/www.trancenet.net/secrets/night.shtml
http://minet.org/www.trancenet.net/secrets/night.shtml
I feel real sorry for the quitters along the way.
-Buck in the Dome
Of course that is Buck talking. Alice A. Bailey however says it more nicely,
“The teachings are intended to be practical; they will emphasize the training
and discipline of the disciple, and, scattered throughout will be found those
hints and esoteric suggestion which, when followed, will lead the aspirant on
to experiment and to experience of truth. Those who are not true aspirants will
fail to recognize the hints and thus will be preserved from danger and
premature
experience.”
Maharishi as a sat guru was in fact careful to be simple in dealing with
people generally and bringing this all to a larger world. What he did is
remarkable.
-Buck
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote:
Richard don't need no stinking jyotishi to tell him. He resonates it.
-Buck
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:
Richard, it makes sense to me that Saraswati is your ishta devata but I am
curious about how you know that. If it's not too private. Did a jyotishi tell
you or did you have an experience? BTW, wonderful knowledge in this post, thank
you. Saraswati was obviously by your side when you wrote it (-:
On Sunday, November 24, 2013 9:07 AM, Richard J. Williams punditster@...
wrote:
It's a reference to the 'Night Technique', once taught by MMY, otherwise known
as 'Laya Yoga' or 'Kundalini Yoga' which is a synthesis of Hatha Yoga, Bhakti
Yoga, and Raja Yoga, first mentioned apparently by Swami Sivananda Saraswati
back in 1935 in his book 'Kundalini Yoga'.
Swami Sivananda Radha wrote that Kundalini yoga is the yoga of awareness, it
aims to cultivate the creative spiritual potential of a human to uphold
values, speak truth, and focus on the compassion and consciousness needed to
serve and heal others.
So, Laya Yoga is similar to MMYs Night Technique, apparently no longer taught,
but which was one of the main components of MMYs series of 'advanced
techniques'. Dream yoga is very popular in Tibetan Buddhism (see my recent post
to this forum concerning lucid dreaming).
The purport of the passage is:
By resting your bija at the navel chakra or at the heart chakra, the subtle
currents from your istadevata will permeate your entire being. For example, my
istadevata is Saraswati, the Goddess of Learning. So, by resting the bija
portion of her name, that is, 'sring', at the navel chakra, my intelligence
will grow by leaps and bounds, right while I'm sleeping. Then, when I awake in
the morning I will feel refreshed and full of knowledge. It's that simple!
Most TMers only repeat the bija portion of their mantra when they are
meditating. However, according to Swami Sivananda Radha, a bija mantra may be
repeated during the first portions of sleep. For example, when I practice MMYs
secret Night Technique I often fall asleep with the bija portion of my mantra
in mind as I fall into asleep. When practicing the Night Technique Satyanand
advised me to be aware of the area just above my abdomen, (heart chakra) and to
put your attention there and let it rest.
My take on this technique is to be aware of my bija mantra at the heart chakra
while in a sitting position and to gently fall into sleep as I assume the
corpse pose at the end of the day. So, all you have to do is be aware of the
chakra of the heart, start the bija just like any other thought, then just
babysit your bija for a few minutes, right on at your heart area. You just set
it, and then forget it. This technique was confirmed to me by Vaj in a posting
to FFL in 2005. It sure beats counting sheep in order to fall asleep!
Notes:
Yogi Bhajan says that Kundalini energy is technically explained as being
sparked during yogic breathing when prana and apana blends at the 3rd chakra
(naval center) at which point it initially drops down to the 1st and 2nd
chakras before traveling up to the spine to the higher centers of the brain to
activate the golden cord - the connection between the pituitary and pineal
glands - and penetrate the 7 chakras. However, this technique was denigrated
by Judy in a somewhat inane post denying that MMY bijas were the nicknames of
the Istadevatas. Go figure.
Works cited:
'Kundalini Yoga for the West'
by Swami Sivananda Radha
(1979; 2nd ed. 1996)
pp. 13, 15
'Kundalini Yoga'
