Namaste Stella

I am curious , did you realize this change in conciousness after the point of orgasm , at the point of orgasm or all through
the whole process of intercourse.
I have been trying to find a balance in my family life and my yogic life, probably ...this is the link.

Om

Namaste Dr.

Eastern or western philosphy or modern or classical philosophy are just concepts of the human mind separated by positions on the globe and time. Does it matter much when you pan a million miles away from Earth and all you see is just a minuscule insignificant spot ?

Every philosophy I have come across, I tend to absorb and form my understanding of the universe . The internet as I see it, is the collective consciousness of the millions of human beings accessing it and contributing to it. If the universe wants me to learn something, it will teach me through life , and at every instance of life. Every line I write here , is what the universe has taught me till now. If I am wrong then the universe will correct me.


The "I" in the above paragraph is the ego. Its my current concept of who "I" am .

EGO
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The ego may be a modern concept, but its been ever since as a baby we entered the 3rd month and developed our personality, our idea of good and bad dictated by our senses ( tastes good, then its good, fire burns hand , then its bad, but shines bright so its good ).
The ego, protects us socially, so that we remain safe physically and intellectually . as e.g. If someone calls you Fat or skinny, your ego gets hurt and you start working to regain your lost respect. If someone says " You are the best" the ego feels rewarded and works even harder to stay the best. But the ego is a great friend to have till you have desire to be part of society to give and take . But what happens when you are at age 90 with all organs giving way, years of denial telling yourself that you are still young can dance can do stuff that others can. The ego feels threatened , it doesnt want to cease existing. It wants to live and be happy. The nostaliga is a way of the ego to go back in time, way away from the suffering of the present.
Here death is subjective, it could be a boxer getting a parkinson's disease, a stock broker betting on the wrong stock and losing "everything in life" ( as per his ego) .

Our sufferings in life , can take us either way, either spiritually or materialistically based on at what level are we spiritually.
When we are spiritually not mature, suffering may reduce our self image, we tend to move away from suffering ( ego tells us suffering gives pain...its bad ). When we are grownups ( well not in age but spiritually) , we see suffering as a part of life. The ego shouts...but who is listening ?? The soul tells the ego that its okay ...the suffering is to the body, its to self image , to the respect from other egos but not to the untainted soul.

When the ego listens to the soul and becomes smaller and stronger , it withdraws from the universe. My country, My religion, My language, My Planet, My people, My wife, My child , My father, My mother .......My body, My thoughts, My feelings, My needs , My hunger, My existence...Me..... and finally ..emptiness.
This is the instance in time, where times ceases to exist, for the mind is not moving between past and future, its totally in the present.
There are no thoughts, for they have no importance for the ego. At this time, what is Karma (Deed) ?.....its nothing but the past which is non-existant. Its like a serial which played for a long time on TV, but now the TV is swiched off, the remote is thrown out.
Whats Good , Whats bad...for none of them exist any more . Where there is no Karma, there are none of these bells and whistles which come with it.

With the ego sleeping peacefully Awake..., The soul ( the spiritual force of life, the Atman ) is the only attribute of your personality. The instincts are gone for the need for survival has vanished . The conciousness which was so closely bound to the body
its thoughts and survival is now free of the bounds of ego or Maya. It merges into the consciousness of the universe. When I am the Universe, everything is me , everything is Om , everything is one.
This is Union, The union of our consciousness into the consciousness of the universe. Where "I" am the universe, "I" am that.

I guess that's what the Arhats or saints mean by Nirvana or Zen says Satori or the Kingdom of Alpha and Omega...I dont know , for I am not them as yet. so I can only deduce intellectually. But I will Know for sure when I realize .

Sadhu
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A man with a beard and long hair wearing nothing but ashes looks like a Sadhu. But if he starts preaching before he realizes , he is not a Yogi. His need to preach stems from his ego, his love for his philosophy or humanity. He may be a good man, he may be a good Samaritan. But he is not one with the universe. he is just like me. I am talking about all the beautiful ways of the universe, but have not experienced it fully. He cannot be a Guru , nor can I . For people like us, the universe at some point of time, will show us the futility of our actions. It will make us realize that we need to focus more on the inside, continue the good work of quelling the ego .

Duality
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Is the universe bright or dark ? Isnt the brightness is the presence of light, darkness is the absence of it. So isnt duality
an existance of light ? What is light ? isnt it a wave of electro magnetic radiation which our "Sense of sight" can feel ?
What is bright and dark for a blind man. What is light for a living being whoes eyes can see a million times more frequencies than the human eyes ?
Even the existance of light is nothing but a concept of our sense. In this case a sense of sight.
When the senses cease to exist, there is no sense, there is no light, there no absence of it and hence no darkness, and hence no duality.

The duality in human beings or other species is hormone driven, even the desire to have sexual intercourse is driven by reproduction of the physical being. When sexual desire vanishes, does it matter if you are man or women ? A yogi who has risen above the mooldhara
chakra has no desire for sex. How does it matter if Yogi is a male or female. The duality even here is non existent when you realize that and is pertinent only if there is desire.


Bliss
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I have found it very easy to distinguish between happiness, pleasure and bliss.
Happiness, comes in small ways in life, its a way of the Ego to stay on the right path.
Pleasure is an aspect of the nervous system. The nerves in our body send a feeling of
goodness to the brain and spinal cord. Eating, Sexual intercourse, massage, Meditation can all give us bodily pleasure.
Bliss is permanent, it comes after the realization that "I " am the universe, there is no reason to be sad or happy for ego no longer exists.
Only Bliss of permanent existence.

Om

Namaste Dr.
I apologize for the delay in replying, I have been caught up with family stuff :D. I have read a book called the Dnyaneshwari ( english version)
www.geocities.com/vshirvaik...ndex.html.
From what I understood, it meant , Birth and Death to the Body , Mind and Emotions are seen in a cycle of birth and death. This happens when the consciousness of the living being during the physical birth is attached to the body , mind and emotions. This I call as Ego.
Throughout the physical life, the living being gets infinite opportunity to learn, where the intellect understands that attachment is shortlived, death is only to the body, the soul is without emotions and is never hurt or ecstatic. Its steady and connected to the universe, for it is always the universe ( and everything in it) .
When the consciousness rises above the bodily attachment, depending on the level to which it has risen, the Ego's need vanishes .
The Moodhara chakra is the lowest chakra and is related to the lowest Ego needs, like food, sex, sleep. When the ego rises above this, the "person" ceases to have a desire of any of the desires related to this Chakra.

The vanishing of all desires needs us to rise above all the Chakras and into the sahasra ( or the junctions of Ida/Pingala and Sushama).
At this point, the ego has no desires left and is completely satiated. There are absolutely no thoughts and the intellect is completely sleeping. This is the state of samadhi.

This emptiness pushes the conciousness to open the final door, that of super conciousness, this is when the personality vanishes completely and the soul becomes one with the universal soul, Trees and stones, Suns and Blackholes, the good the bad, the animals and the in-animate is all me. I am that .

This is nirvana. In this case, the body remains breathless and does not rot for 40 days. If the universe decides, the soul returns back into the body , but consciousness, stays in 3 upper level chakras ( I dont remember their names) but I guess they are Lalan, Golan, Golata.
The person as seen by people can take up any personality , sometimes speaking like a child, sometimes like a old man, but it is ever connected to the universe and hence is never drawn towards material needs. The only reason for rebirth is dictated by the universe.
Lord Shiva ( the initiator of Kundalini Yoga) , Gautama Buddha, Tao, Many Saints like Sai baba, Shankar Maharaj,Swami Samartha have achieved this. They return again and again to guide people, to help people above their materialistic needs and into spiritual needs,
. I think even Moses, Jesus Christ and Mohammad would have achieved this, since there is always a mention of spending 40 days in the mountains in many literature, before coming back from meeting God.

The key to the saraswati nadi is an empty thoughtless mind, you can read any literature, follow any religion, or philosophy, but finally, this is what it comes to. Finally life is short ..and there is always a next life ;-D

Om
sachin