Lesson 190 - Q&A – Sambhavi during meditation?

From: Yogani
Date: Mon May 17, 2004 0:36pm

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Q: I know you do not instruct developing sambhavi during meditation.
I have got it pretty well developed in spinal breathing, and now it
is happening in meditation without any effort. Is this okay?

A: Yes, this is how it should happen. Meditation is a much more
delicate process than spinal breathing, so we use our spinal
breathing sessions to do our development work with mudras and
bandhas. We make a habit of sambhavi during spinal breathing, so we
don't even have to think about it. With the habit in place, as soon
as we sit and close our eyes, they go toward the point between the
eyebrows. Then we begin our spinal breathing with attention going up
and down in the spinal nerve and the eyes automatically continue to
favor that direction toward our slightly furrowed brow. When ecstatic
conductivity comes up, then we have great pleasure coursing through
the whole nervous system as a direct result of sambhavi, and it
becomes a habit of ecstasy we do very naturally.

In meditation, the process of favoring the mantra is easy but
delicate, and so we are stingy with our attention, not volunteering
it for developing or doing other practices while we are meditating.
While we are meditating, we just meditate. Even so, if we have
developed good yoga habits during spinal breathing, things will occur
during meditation without our attention being used to sustain them,
and we can let them be there.

Siddhasana is a good example of this. Once we have the habit of
siddhasana, it takes no attention or effort to sit in it, even as it
is naturally energizing whatever practice we may be doing while we
are sitting in it, including meditation.

Sambhavi becomes like that too. In fact, once sambhavi becomes a
habit, tied in with the pleasure of ecstatic conductivity between the
third eye and the root, then it becomes a natural part of all our
practices, including meditation. Let's not fool ourselves on this
though. If we find ourselves favoring the development of
the "sambhavi habit" with our attention during meditation, then we
should easily come back to the mantra. That is always the procedure.
When we notice our attention has gone off to anything else during
meditation, then we easily come back to the mantra. This does not
preclude automatic habits developed in our spinal breathing sessions
from naturally arising in meditation. In this way, over time, we find
non-distracting habits of siddhasana, mulabandha, sambhavi, kechari
and other mudras and bandhas occurring naturally during meditation.
This is how it happens. Always follow the procedure of meditation,
easily favoring the mantra over whatever else that draws the
attention, and the rest will happen naturally.

This is how our inner silence and rising ecstatic energies come to
blend in the dance of divine lovemaking. The persistent nudging of
our nervous system in these ways through yoga leads to a
transformation of our experience of life to unending ecstatic bliss.

Enjoy!

The guru is in you.

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