(continuing in the model of mergence of Purusha and Prakriti through the various dimensions or "bodies")
...So when viewed from the inside, while these processes are going on, it can get more than a little confusing. For example, we can say (broadly) that the first real awareness of the chakras, prana, AND bliss arises (or can arise) during the sense-refinement of G.C., as Purusha moves down into the Bliss-kosha of the throat, and Prakriti moves up into the Sex chakra of the sense-organs. But from the point of view of one in G.C., there IS no more; the entire body is sometimes being (or can be) ecstatically overwhelmed with mass "avalanches" of kundalini or shakti, and the various chakras illuminate themselves; the consciousness passes up through the crown and recognizes itself as an entity independent of the physical body and space-time, and so on. (Individual results may vary.) The attention or primary focus on all this passes when we move to U.C., and a whole new vista gradually (or suddenly) arises. Patanjali beautifully illuminates this latter rise into Unity with the sutra, "when the translucent intellect becomes as clear as the Self, enlightenment arises" (or something like that). Here he is describing Purusha -- the Self -- now moving down into our heart, or buddhi, or vijnanamaya kosha: the translucent intellect (while Prakriti moves up into our manas, or navel, or lower mind), and its (our) recognition of and fusion with our Solar angel, the causal body, recognizing the Sol/Soul/ Light of Lights as our own Self. Literally, enlightenment. The first half of the journey is now done; Purusha and Prakriti have now met at our cosmic center. (What remains is the journey of their overlap and complete mergence.) In earlier posts I have pointed out the nine lokas as being subtle, middle and dense forms of Spirit, Soul, and Body, respectively. We can see these multiplicities as being the play of Sat, Chit, and Ananda, or Being (Truth), Consciousness, and Bliss, but which I more often call Love, Light, and Laughter. Roughly, the Spirit is Love, the Soul is Light, and the Body is Laughter, and this subdivides to form Love's Love (Purusha; crown; subtle spirit; spirit of the spirit), Love's Light (Avyakta; third eye; middle spirit; soul of the spirit), and Love's Laughter (Mahat-Atman; throat; dense spirit; body of the spirit); Light's Love (Buddhi; heart; subtle soul; Vijnanamayakosha); Light's Light (Ahamkara; Solar Plexus; middle soul; soul of the soul), and so on. Since Purusha and Prakriti eventually overlap the Causal Angel, "extinguishing" it (felt subjectively as the Dark Night of the Soul, when our "last" subtle attachments are stripped away), and then go on to reactivate the various chakras in reverse order, some outward confusion may arise as to "where" on this path someone actually is. (Again, this is even assuming that these all unfold precisely in the "proper" order in the first place -- something I am not at all sure happens with everyone.) Someone describing ecstatic (bliss, ananda, laughter) kundalini and prana-flows and god-forms and sensory enrichment may be experiencing their first enlivenment as G.C. (when Purusha comes down into cosmic throat's Anandamayakosha and Prakriti comes up into the cosmic sex Indriyas of Prana), OR their second re-enlivenment as Krishna Consciousness, when Prakriti has now reached as far UP as cosmic throat's Anandamayakosha and Purusha has now descended as far DOWN as the cosmic sex and Indriyas and Pranamayakosha: Hence the effectiveness of the knowledge that "Brahman is Prana" or "I am Prana" to help move one past the initial shock of Brahman via rebirthing or attention on breath. At the same time, pranayama would have been equally useful in moving one from C.C. to G.C. -- just not yet identical to the Self, as the Ahamkara or Solar Angel was still serving as (visible or invisible) the intermediary Higher Self, and would do so until Brahman. So this second (K.C.) enlivenment of the cosmic Throat and Sex may appear outwardly to be identical to the first (G.C.), but inwardly it is indeed different: In K.C. one knows THAT ALONE IS (Brahman), and knows further that THAT can actually collapse itself into "I" bliss-points! THAT AM I. Literally, now, "I" (any I) contain it all. The holographic nature of oneself, first hinted at in G.C. when the angels may show themselves to consist of multitudes of smaller angels in choirs of group consciousness, is now completely understood as all being one's Self. One can now go inside oneself as an Avatar to one's various "children" or component I-selves, and in so doing, be the larger Self around and enlivening so-called Reality. Both dimensions simultaneously. All of this notwithstanding, one may still be arguing with one's wife, looking for the missing car-keys, and so on. *lol* LLL, Rory To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
