RE: Tantra Yoga and Meditation

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There are two ways in developing a higher consciousness:

 

1. Developing and practicing techniques, of which meditation is one of them

when it is not focused on the Highest available in nature. We call this the

left hand path, the path of cultivating the little personality self; the

path on which the aspirant attempts to break through the barrier of

attaining God consciousness by developing the little egoself in

consciousness. In other words to develop the Kundalini virtues in order to

benefit to the little personality self. In this way the Atman will never

resurrect

 

2. Searching for the route to Know one's True SELF, the Atman and to help

resurrect its place back in one's microcosm. This path leads to embrace

divinity. One's Atman can at a certain moment be connected to the Monad

while negating the little personality self, since one begins to understand

to know the illusion of the little personality self. This is key, since it

necessitates one's purifying. This Path is the Path of the Avatar or the

right hand path.

 

 

 

Any Yoga way which cultivates the little ego by considering the physical and

energy bodies " to become the fundamental tool in the spiritual journey " (or

in other words to consider the physical and energy bodies to become the

aspirant's fundamental point of focus in meditation and spiritual journey,

is doomed to follow the left path, which is Lucifer's path. It is a dead-end

street.

 

The aspirant will never ever find True Samadhi and Salvation of his spirit.

 

johan

 

 

Van:

Namens divinesprt

Verzonden: maandag 1 juni 2009 5:27

Aan:

Onderwerp: Tantra Yoga and Meditation

 

Real life experience shows that there never was any advanced Tantra

practitioner that did not practice the yoga meditation as well. You cannot

do Tantra and not do meditation. But what is this so called MEDITATION and

what is it good for ?

 

In sanskrit meditation is called dhyana. It is defined as a constant flow of

mind towards an object. Meditation is also a union of the mind with one and

only one single object of concentration and avoiding any secondary objects

and thoughts. It is a discipline of the mind.

 

Many people practice prayer, but they might not know that prayer is very

close to the yoga meditation; a prayer is focusing the mind and the emotions

of a person to a specific point exactly like the meditation. We can say that

meditation is a prayer without words; meditation is listening to God, beyond

words.

 

The yoga system prescribes many stages that precede the actual state of

meditation. First of all there are the basic rules of moral and ethics and

self discipline (yama and niyama). Then, the discipline of the body (asana)

and the rythmation of the breath (pranayama). After that there is the so

called retraction of one's senses (pratyahara), in fact a separation from

any kind of distraction. After this stage we continue by focusing the mind

to a single point - the object of your meditation. When all these

preparatory stages are completed, you enter into meditation. When meditation

is perfect, there is no distinction between the subject (you) and the

object. This is called SAMADHI, the yogi ecstasy.

 

Another description of the same process, based on notions of energy and

resonance and attention : first of all, attain an upright position (sitting

or standing) and close your eyes. Be sure to keep your spine perfectly

straight and vertical and relax your muscles. Forget all your other concerns

and daily problems and focus your mind on the object of your meditation, for

example the state of unconditional love. You will begin to perceive it and

identify with it, you will feel the correspondent energy of the object of

your meditation and concentrate on this energy. By focusing your attention

you create a process of resonance between you and the energies of the object

of your meditation.

 

Gradually, you begin to amplify the energy by RESONANCE, attracting it from

the universe (MACROCOSM), until you create a huge sphere of energy around

yourself. This energy will help you stay focused on the object of your

meditation and will stop all your other thoughts. Gradually you become

IDENTIFIED with the object of your meditation thanks to the intense field of

energy that surrounds and pervades you. The state of perfect unity with the

object of your meditation, when the thought process is stopped, is called

SAMADHI.

 

Meditation is a state of mind, it is a state of consciousness. When

meditating you open your consciousness to energy and with this energy you

expand the limits of your perceptions. Every person in this world perceives

the subtle energies of his aura. You don't need to have a special birth gift

to be able to have subtle perceptions and to meditate with the energies of

your body.

 

Futhermore, you must know that the human being contains seven energy centers

called CHAKRAS. These seven centers correspond analogically to seven plans

of energy in the universe. Each of this types of energy has it's own

function inside the human body and outside, in the universe. The difference

between interior and exterior is just a matter or quantity, not of quality.

An old yogi maxim says " What is below is also above. " Everything that is in

the human being (MICROCOSM) is also in the MACROCOSM (Universe). Nothing

that does not exist in the MICROCOSM (interior) exists in the MACROCOSM

(exterior). Of course this correspondence functions on a proportional scale.

So, we argue that by perfectly understanding the subtle energies of your

body you get to know the whole universe.

 

Tantra sees the human body as an extraordinary tool. The body is surrounded

by many subtle energies and these energies are gateways towards any aspect

of the universe. By being aware of these subtle energies of the human body

the Tantra adept can gradually discard all the human limitations and achieve

the supreme spiritual liberation.

 

Many spiritual traditions reject the physical body in order to achieve the

union with the spirit. They think that matter is an obstacle in their

pursuit for the spirit, but Tantra has a different approach. In Tantra we do

not repel the body, we do not mortify it, we do not condemn it in any way,

we do not even ignore the body but instead we use it in such a way that it

becomes the fundamental tool for us in the spiritual journey.

 

As we explained before, the meditation is the key to your subtle energy

body. When you meditate, you do for the " subtle " body (i.e. your aura) the

same thing you do to your physical body when practicing body building ...

you increase the benefic energies, you expand the limits of your

consciousness. But unlike the physical body which is limited in size, the

energy body is not limited at all - you can make it expand until it is

infinite.

 

Consciousness is closely related to the subtle energies of the body. The

consciousness will expand when your aura expands and it will contract itself

when your aura contracts. The consciousness will become more and more

elevated and subtle as your aura (energy body) becomes more and more

elevated and the vice versa is also true.

 

Meditation is a divine tool, it can be your best friend. You can enjoy

subtle energies (which correspond to different feelings, emotions, sexual

impulses, vitality, and other functions of your body) and you can control

the energies like you do when practicing sexual continence. You can project

benefic energy to heal someone or you can use spiritual energy to identify

with God experiencing the state of absolute transcendence, beyond any mental

concept.

 

TantraMag will publish a lot more about meditation. This practice will be

the basis of our Tantra yoga training lessons as we will present them to

you. You will be able to develop powers and abilities you never thought

possible. This practice was a secret science transmitted for many millennia

from master to disciple, but now it is available for everyone.