In-div-i-dual Mind to Univeral Mind

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Sat Nam Everyone,

 

Here's something for everyone. These concepts were'nt taught to

me in the beginning, I just picked them up from being around class,

going to WT and workshops. But I wished someone had taken the time

read this or describe it to me early on. These are good techniques

to use after a yoga kriya especially since the mind is slowed, its

easier to 'watch' yourself.

 

"There are two main ways to connect the individual mind to the

universal mind and build the supermind. The first method is

pratyahar. In this method you inject the universal mind into the

individual mind by a contraction process. You watch each thought

pattern that enters the mind. You substitute a positive thought for

each negative one so you become neutral or at least p ositive. If

you have desires in the individual mind that require action, use the

will to act only on those that are universal. Once this choice

becomes automatic you are practicing pratyahar. Everything will lead

you to connect and draw energy from the universal mind to the

individual mind.

The second method is Laya. The word itself means devotion,

aabsorption and levitation. The process suspends the self directly

in a sense of the infinite rather than by finding the infinite

starting with finite things. In Laya yoga techniques, you recognize

nothing in yourself except the infinite. These techniques always

involve the use of mantra with a special breathing rhythm. The

breathing allows the mind to release particular emotional and

intuitive energies that power the consciousness to expand . In this

technique you go from the individual mind to the universal mind."

 

This was also from KY Guidelines for Sadhana

 

Blessings

 

Brad