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« on: Dec 22, 2009 06:15 am »

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« Reply #1 on: Apr 04, 2016 02:13 am »

In lesson 72 Paramahansa Yogananda talks about the importance of relaxation in meditation and the spiritual life. But he goes beyond just physical relaxation which he gives exercises for and  also includes mental and energy relaxation. He includes methods for tensing and relaxing various body parts to withdraw energy from those body parts so that you can experience total relaxation.

Muscular relaxation means withdrawing energy and consciousness from the wave of muscular motions. It 'is extremely important for spiritual development.'
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« Reply #2 on: Apr 06, 2016 01:56 am »

Lesson 71

Paramahansa Yogananda speaks of transmuting the creative energy into spiritual energy. i have gone thru various times in my life where i have been celibate but the mind has a tricky way of leading us back into the forces that keep this creation and maya going. i certainly am not going to tell you that i have control of all my biological functions including sex. But i have been taking various routes to control these desires since i have found that they have led to a lot of energy in the satisfaction of such desire and perhaps a lot of dissipated energy that could have been used more constructively. This energy can also create strong attachment to people that may not be good for us in one way or another.

What i have found is that it is very difficult to control such desires when we keep our attention constantly at the satisfaction of these desires and the people who can satisfy them. It seems to me that it is not such a good thing to be in the constant company of something or someone that you are attracted to that is not attracted to you in a physical sense. Perhaps you can still be friends but physical proximity becomes very difficult in these situations. If someone finds someone that is attracted to them in the same way then both of them can share love thru this attraction but it still can be very tricky. This is because sex is not an end in itself but rather a means to an end. That end being love. There is always something compulsive about sex without love and i do not admire actors, celebrities, musicians etc. who have a real active sexual life. i believe they are living so much on the physical plain that they are not able to experience little if anything of a spiritual nature.

Paramahansa Yogananda said this: "Until man frees himself from the compulsions of this sex force he cannot liberate his soul from the revolving wheel of reincarnation and plunge it into its Infinite Life." He gives various exercises in this lesson to help transmute the sex energy when it overcomes us.

i must say that i personally think that sex has taught me much about people and has helped me be much more understanding of this biological force and how it affects human relationships. In that sense i see it as a learning experience. Because the manifestation of attraction and sexual desire leads one to consider the causes and brings people closer which they may not have been otherwise. The challenge from a spiritual point of view is to get beyond the sensory experience. Constant attention to this instinct makes us restless and it is very hard to withdraw the life force into the spiritual spine and from sensory perception to have spiritual experience. Many of us are trying to find a balance while slowly overcoming all of our physical attachments and desires that bind us to this earth plain.
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« Reply #3 on: Apr 06, 2016 06:55 am »

Lesson 71

Paramahansa Yogananda speaks of transmuting the creative energy into spiritual energy. i have gone thru various times in my life where i have been celibate but the mind has a tricky way of leading us back into the forces that keep this creation and maya going. i certainly am not going to tell you that i have control of all my biological functions including sex. But i have been taking various routes to control these desires since i have found that they have led to a lot of energy in the satisfaction of such desire and perhaps a lot of dissipated energy that could have been used more constructively. This energy can also create strong attachment to people that may not be good for us in one way or another.

What i have found is that it is very difficult to control such desires when we keep our attention constantly at the satisfaction of these desires and the people who can satisfy them. It seems to me that it is not such a good thing to be in the constant company of something or someone that you are attracted to that is not attracted to you in a physical sense. Perhaps you can still be friends but physical proximity becomes very difficult in these situations. If someone finds someone that is attracted to them in the same way then both of them can share love thru this attraction but it still can be very tricky. This is because sex is not an end in itself but rather a means to an end. That end being love. There is always something compulsive about sex without love and i do not admire actors, celebrities, musicians etc. who have a real active sexual life. i believe they are living so much on the physical plain that they are able to experience little if anything of a spiritual nature.

Paramahansa Yogananda said this: "Until man frees himself from the compulsions of this sex force he cannot liberate his soul from the revolving wheel of reincarnation and plunge it into its Infinite Life." He gives various exercises in this lesson to help transmute the sex energy when it overcomes us.

i must say that i personally think that sex has taught me much about people and has helped me be much more understanding of this biological force and how it affects human relationships. In that sense i see it as a learning experience. Because the manifestation of attraction and sexual desire leads one to consider the causes and brings people closer which they may not have been otherwise. The challenge from a spiritual point of view is to get beyond the sensory experience. Constant attention to this instinct makes us restless and it is very hard to withdraw the life force into the spiritual spine and from sensory perception to have spiritual experience. Many of us are trying to find a balance while slowly overcoming all of our physical attachments and desires that bind us to this earth plain.

Kriya techniques I think for me can help transmute this energy, after all, it starts in the lowest chakra, move the energy up to the third eye, then use it for your own purpose or transmit to help others. The feeling can sometimes be as good, and cleaner really, since it is not dissipated the wrong way. There are other techniques as well, but takes practice just like anything else.


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« Reply #4 on: Nov 06, 2017 06:31 pm »

Yes SI i agree with you.

The best way to transmute sex impulses is to inhale and exhale deeply during sex excitement until the sex energy is transmuted into oxygen in the lungs. While transmuting this sex consciousness and during inhalation and exhalation, the mind should be kept busy affirming: "I want to transmute sex energy into spiritual energy. I want to turn it Godward to create spiritually."

~Paramahasa Yogananda
SRF lesson #71
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« Reply #5 on: Nov 07, 2017 12:49 am »

Yes SI i agree with you.

The best way to transmute sex impulses is to inhale and exhale deeply during sex excitement until the sex energy is transmuted into oxygen in the lungs. While transmuting this sex consciousness and during inhalation and exhalation, the mind should be kept busy affirming: "I want to transmute sex energy into spiritual energy. I want to turn it Godward to create spiritually."

~Paramahasa Yogananda
SRF lesson #71

Not the only way nor the best way for me, maybe later it might be. It's not as simple as PY says, and I doubt even he could pull it off all the time.


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« Reply #6 on: Apr 14, 2018 04:24 am »

Superconscious dreams are those in which the souls consciousness with its camera of intuition photographs certain future events and drops) them into the subconscious mind and projects them on the screen of dreams. Or such visions may be from the past. A great many dreams are true: for instance,( one that depicts a certain experience of past lives. Superconscious experiences are projected as semi-conscious dreams or visions. You can see a vision with either open or closed eyes, in daylight or at night; it makes no difference. When you meditate for a long time you behold creation as an insubstantial dream projection of the infinite intelligence. ~Paramahansa Yogananda

I have actually had such a vision of a past life episode that qued me into where i had been in the past with a woman i was then seeing. I was standing in a laundromat talking on the phine with her when suddenly before my open eyes i saw a large old nite club with wooden seats and tables and it was closed and i was walking thru it to see her. Her parents owned the place.
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