Thanks Ravi. I was very fortunate to have had that experience.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ravi Yogi" <raviyogi@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks Jim, I loved the description of the East in reference to Bhakti.
> You were one of the few lone heart centered lotuses I encountered in the
> muddy intellectual ponds of FFL & Batgap, and I can clearly see the
> impact of your childhood in the East.
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" <whynotnow7@>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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.Â
> > > > Cheers
> > > > Bill Â
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
