I would like to continue on expounding on SRF exercises. I wrote about it briefly in the past. However, to understand it fully, one has to have a clear understanding on prana. Yesterdays blog and elsewhere in my blogs there is a more precise explanation of the prana.
As we talked about, the only way to go into Samadhi, is by reversing the flow of prana from the body and have it ascend via the Brahmanadi into Agna chakra or higher. This reversal of flow has to occur from the gross physical body. When one performs the energizing exercises, it is in essence training the body to contract and relax at will. The contraction and the relaxation of the body, whether we realiz it or not, occurs through the will of the person which then acts through the prana.
Like we talked about yesterday, the breathing exercises are very crucial. So, it helps a lot to do the breathing exercises in synchrony with the energizing exercises. This way, there are two things helping to reverse the flow. The exercise and the breath process.
Having said that, still most people are not able to reverse the flow because
1) The mind wanders in the body and elsewhere in a world of imagination
2) They have not had the blessings of a living guru who has opened the mouth of chitra and vajra and the brahmanadi.
3) They have not practiced the breathing exercise with the energizing exercise with patience, faith and it has to be practiced for years to make the ascent.
Initially, with the reversal of the flow of prana, it tends to go up through the chitra and vajra. That is because we remain very intellectual and emotional. Once, the intellectuality and emotionalism is overcome, then it an ascend in the brahmanadi.
All of the wonderful scriptures of Yoga, call the true beginning of Yoga when prana goes through Brahmanadi. This is where the lotuses lie. A living Guru is a must for this.
Like Aurobindo described and based on my experience. the ascent occurs in three passes. The first pass is through sushumna. This was bypassed for all of Gurudevs disciple. The second ascent is through chitra and vajra. Most of Gurudev’s disciples experience this.
The third and final ascent is through the causal body or brahmanadi. From the current living disciples of Gurudev, I believe there are only 3 disciples who have can do this. One of them is Dineshbhai Bhatt.
Last night, I had the fortune of seeing Gurudev again. He blessed me for an extended time, placing his hand on my head. He asked me what I wanted. All I asked was when it is time for me to leave the body, to merge my consciousness into his. I did not ask for siddhis or any wordly happiness. He was very pleased with this answer.
Bhavin