--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> --- "BillyG." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > The prana is the vitality of the physical body and
> > the vehicle of the
> > soul (jivatman) which enables it to communicate with
> > the world, it's
> > not the soul per-se but the vehicle of the
> > soul/consciousness.
> >
> > When this vital energy is caught up in the
> > senses/body it is blind to
> > the spiritual worlds, the key to spiritual awareness
> > is the reversal
> > of these vital pranas in the vital/astral body.
> >
> > The vital energies existing in the etheric body are
> > like energies that
> > are in constant motion and their direction is down
> > or towards the
> > senses. Pratyhara is the beginning of the reversal
> > of this direction
> > much like a gradual slowing of a freight train, once
> > the freight train
> > actually *stops* the breath also stops! because the
> > breath is a
> > *bi-product* of prana not the prana itself.
> >
> > Once the pranas start spinning clockwise (hitherto
> > purportedly they
> > are spinning counter-clock wise and outward towards
> > the senses) and
> > *reverse* their direction, awareness in the
> > spiritual worlds commences,
> > not before. Remember the prana is the vehical of
> > soul/consciousness.
> >
> > Like a freight train reversing it's direction, it
> > takes as much
> > 'effort' and dedication to accomplish this task as
> > well. MMY said (in
> > Fuiggi,
> > Italy) it could take a million years to reach CC (or
> > accomplish this
> > task fully) unless you come to these courses .
>
> And this act of reversal from prana moving "out" to
> prana moving "in" will be experienced as poison by the
> mind. It will be boring, dull, blank, etc. The mind
> will do everything in the book to continue the outward
> flow of prana. Bhakti utilizes this outward flow
> moving through tamasic to rajasic to sattvic forms of
> devotion. Finally the sattvic flow allows a
> transcendance into parabhakti; devotion outside of the
> gunas-Self worshipping Self.
>
Interesting....there are so many paths to God, I guess like MMY said
at Humbolt, "All roads lead to Rome". :-)
