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« on: Aug 10, 2019 04:55 am »

II:24

"...No matter how much one has been meditating, if he still becomes overwhelmed with bodily suffering or is afraid of disease or death, he has advanced little and has realized little. The aspirant must meditate deeper and deeper until he can attain ecstatic communion with God and thus forget the limitations of the body. During meditation he must not only think, but realize, that he is formless, omnipresent, omniscient, far above all bodily changes!
Every advanced devotee during ecstasy realizes omnipresence, omniscience, and ever new joy of Spirit. After coming out of ecstasy, he should try to retain in the conscious mind those experiences of Spirit. Human consciousness thus becomes expanded into Cosmic Consciousness."

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« Reply #1 on: Mar 27, 2020 07:09 am »

II:58

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"Eventually, undesirable sense lures lose all power of attraction.
   For example: During excitement of the sex impulse in the nerves it is almost impossible to control the mind and its desire. That is why people in general succumb to sex temptation. The impulse results from identification of the mind with the physiological sex nerves. The yogi knows the art of withdrawing the mind and energy from the procreative nerves so completely that no unwanted sexual arousal in the body nor any outside object of sexual temptation can overcome him. By this mastery of mind and life force, he wholly releases himself from both physiological and mental temptation.
   When the mind is identified with any sense sensation, it finds itself unable to understand the difference between its own happiness and the pleasures of the senses. When the yogi learns how to withdraw his mind and energy from the senses, his mind concentrates on its own real joy found in the soul contact and interiorization; the pleasures of the senses by comparison then seem foreign and repugnant.

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   In order to control the heart one must control the body, lessen the carbon in the blood by following a non-toxin-creating diet (which includes a bounty of fresh fruits), and learn the yoga art of burning the carbon in the venous blood so that the heart will not have to pump dark blood into the lungs for purification. By deep stillness the heart is released form constant work and is then automatically free to withdraw the life force from the five senses. No sensations then reach the brain to harass the mind.
   In the bodily house there are actually two sets of telephones- the motor nerves and the sensory receptors. Through the motor nerves man works his muscles and limbs and internal organs. Through his sensory telephones his brain receives sensations from the outside world of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. A yogi at will can both still all voluntary and involuntary movements of his body, and also switch off his mind and life force from sensory perceptions.
   The ordinary person can disconnect his mind from the senses, and partially from the body, only in the unconscious state of sleep. The yogi learns that the true way of happiness lies in the art of controlling mind and life force at will, consciously. The ordinary person cannot disengage his mind from the senses when they are tempted; but the yogi, like the tortoise, can securely withdraw his limbs of mind and life force from any sensory attack.

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   Bhagavan Krishna thus tells the yogi to follow the art of scientific control of the senses. An adept yogi can withdraw his mind from all sensations of the material world and can unite his mind and energy with the intoxicating joy of inner ecstasy or samadhi. In a high state of yoga perception and deep interiorization of the mind, the yogi feels retirement of the senses of smell, taste, sound, touch, and sight into the cosmic sound Aum, which ultimately melts into Cosmic Consciousness. This experience is one that can be understood only by those who have gone into a deep state of meditation."
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« Reply #2 on: Mar 27, 2020 07:41 am »

"Samadhi *
*Christ issues a similar commandment to his disciples: 'But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet (the silence within), and when thou hast shut thy door (withdrawn the mind from the senses), pray to thy Father which is in secret (in the inner transcendent divine consciousness); and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly (shall bless you with ever new Bliss of His Being)' Matthew 6:6"

"+Reference to the technique of withdrawing life and consciousness upward through the spinal centers, dissolving the grosser into the successively finer manifestations of the holy creative vibration of Aum, and Aum into Spirit.  I:15-18 and II:39
+ I:15-18
   The yogi, peering with closed eyes into the dark invisibility within, finally finds there six subtle astral booths- the coccygeal, sacral, lumbar, dorsal, cervical, and the combined medullary and Christ centers, situated in the spinal column, and at the base of the brain and the point between the eyebrows. He sees that true-to-life picture of his body is produced by an earth current in the coccyx, a water vibration in the sacral, a fire vibration in the lumbar, an air vibration in the dorsal, an ether vibration in the cervical, and a consciousness-and-life-force vibration in the medulla and Christ centers.
   Just as the beam of electric light thrown on a screen makes a peculiar noise at its source, which is caused by electrical vibration, so the astral spinal centers emanate different 'musical' sounds as they send out their various pranic, life-force, currents that produce the technicolor picture of the physical body, with its true-to-sight, true-to-touch, true-to-hearing, true-to-smell, true-to-taste perceptions. By centering on the six centers, the meditating devotee hears successively the music of the bumblebee, the flute, the harp, the gong bell, the sea roar, and then the symphony of all the astral sounds. These emanations form the six centers are the vibrations of the five elements or tattvas in nature, macrocosmically present in the universe, and microcosmically operative in the body of man.

+ II:39
   By ascent of consciousness through the subtle centers of life and spiritual awakening in the spine, the yogi learns the inner science of changing the consciousness of gross matter into the consciousness of its primordial principles. He resolves the five vibratory elements along with their manifestation of the five senses, five organs of action, and five life forces from grosser to finer principles: the consciousness of vibratory earth into the consciousness of vibratory water; the consciousness of water into that of vibratory fire; the consciousness of fire into that of vibratory air; the consciousness of ether into that of mind (sense consciousness or manas); the consciousness of mind into that of discrimination (buddhi); the consciousness of discrimination into that of ego (ahamkara); the consciousness of ego into that of feeling (chitta). By thus dissolving the twenty-four principles successively into one another, the yogi then merges the consciousness of feeling into that of the primordial cosmic vibratory force(Aum), and the consciousness of Aum into Spirit. He thereby reaches the Ultimate Unity- the One from whom has sprung the many.
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   A poet or philosopher may imagine this comos to be only mind. But that imagination cannot help him overcome death and attain immorality. The yogi, on the other hand, wins an unshakable knowledge that all matter is Spirit by daily employing a technique that uproots from his mind all the delusions implanted in it by maya, the cosmic delusive force. He thus beholds the universe as a dream of God- a dream from which one awakens only when he is conscious of the omnipresent Spirit.

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   The devotee who knows the art of yoga, experiencing the pure joy of meditation, does not further involve himself in new desires and new karma. And by yoga techniques the cosmic energy 'cauterizes' the brain-cell grooves in which past tendencies are hidden.
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   The ordinary man eclipses his free will with dark shadows of the past. The spiritual man, ever watchful for freedom, safeguards it by meditation. When the will is free, it vibrates in harmony with the Infinite. Man's will is then God's will.
   Blind renunciation of material objects does not insure freedom; it is by enjoying the bliss of the Spirit in meditation and by comparing it with the lesser joy of the senses that the devotee becomes eager to follow the spiritual path."

 
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« Reply #3 on: Mar 30, 2020 06:44 am »

What I find in your friendship is a constant reminder of our purpose here on earth. It is as though God speaks clearly thru a friend. We cannot say that about many people but it sure leaves us recognizing what we want to be for others.
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« Reply #4 on: Mar 30, 2020 01:34 pm »

Eric where did you get these quotes from? A book? A guru? Teachings?

Recently for myself this quote has held much significance.

   “The ordinary man eclipses his free will with dark shadows of the past. The spiritual man, ever watchful for freedom, safeguards it by meditation. When the will is free, it vibrates in harmony with the Infinite. Man's will is then God's will.
   Blind renunciation of material objects does not insure freedom; it is by enjoying the bliss of the Spirit in meditation and by comparing it with the lesser joy of the senses that the devotee becomes eager to follow the spiritual path."

Once we have enjoyed the bliss of spirit we will never forget it and we will compare it to the changeable and ephemeral experiences of the senses. I have witnessed many people in my life still living under the shadow of the past. I think we can also recognize this happening in the consciousness of most our world leaders. When we can actually see it manifesting in our own life it takes on a different significance.
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« Reply #5 on: Mar 30, 2020 10:59 pm »

steve these are directly from god talks with arjuna, expanded commentary by yogananda himself. I've left chapters and verses atop for your reference
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