DEEP SECRETS OF YOGA & YOGIS or HOW TO BE A DREAM-KILLER
The practice of the ancient science of Yoga is the process of mimicking death itself.
It seems to be a vast extension of the process St. Ignatius of Loyola he termed “make as if”. With yoga, one makes as if one is dying until that ability is finally won in the end. Acquiring the ability of Consciously Caused Death is the ability to Stop Dreaming At Will. This is Enlightenment. All fear of death is lost because one realizes that death is the release from the self-made hell that is the selfishly created dream we call life. Once done, eternal bliss is the result. One exists, whether in life or death, with the consciousness of their Oneness with God, that they are a part of God itself. This is the Great Awakening to TRUTH.
Yogis are dealers in death. They possess the Key to life and death. If they teach, they are teachers of death. The practice of yoga itself seems a repetitive, concentrated, cumulative effort at turning the body into an instrument of death, dealing death to the ego.
It was said by Buddha that “Life is suffering”. Suffering in a psychological sense is linked to stress. All manner of perceived dramas and tragedies in life cause psychological and emotional stress which from a spiritual perspective is suffering, and is caused by the illusion perpetuated by the ego that this thing called life is really “real”.
The practice of yoga meditation slowly and eventually leads the yogi to realize beyond mere theoretical knowledge and intellectual understanding to the ultimate realization that his real existence lies within, in the presence of the Godly Spirit that exists inside all human beings. The yogi accomplishes this by imitating death itself thru a steady application of techniques which gradually become second nature to him. These techniques imitate the mode of death. Slow breathing, slow heartbeat, and slow brainwaves are the first hallmarks of success in yoga. Of course anyone who is experienced with hypnosis will see that hypnosis produces the same result as the beginning stages of yoga.
But the yogi goes further than mere physical effects. He continues his practice, perfecting the slowing of all bodily functions while simultaneously doing the same with his emotions and mind as well. The yogi, after much practice, will achieve a state of stasis of the body that allows him to proceed to also begin the gradual process of quieting the emotions that flare up within his soul during meditation and during daily activities also. This is done primarily by transcendence, which means that the yogi rises above his tendencies to emotional upheaval by focusing on his idea of divinity, from which comes finer and more spiritual emotional feelings. In this way, one can say that the yogi “kills” his tendency to experiencing all emotional reactions. Once the yogi accomplishes success in maintaining a steady emotional state of being both in meditation and in daily life, he moves on to the pure mental realm of ideas.
With the final stage of yogic practice, the yogi begins the process of destroying or killing his mind’s tendency to flare up with thoughts. Again this is accomplished by transcendence of all thoughts that do not come directly from God. The technique is the same as before. The yogi focuses on God and God alone, denying all thoughts and ideas themselves until one day there is no more thought.
When there are no more thoughts erupting in the mind, the inevitable happens.
The Ego, which like a vampire has always had something to feed, suddenly has nothing left to nourish it. If a living thing is not fed, it will pass away. At this stage of the yogi’s progress, there is no choice for the Ego but to die. And this it does, which the yogi experiences in either a symbolic sense or in a real physical death. And then the Ego, along with the yogi, is reborn, resurrected by the indwelling Spirit. The yogi is given the ultimate vision of the True Reality. He possesses the Keys to Life and Death. He is master of his Fate, his Destiny. He is One with God, and realizes such, not merely theoretically, not on an intellectual level, but as a Divinely proven fact, hence the word “real-ize” because he knows his accomplishment is Truly Real. More importantly, he realizes life is just a dream because he has killed his false perception of that dream and has awakened in the Truth that he is One with, and a part of God.
Yogis are not affected by this dream called life, because they have fought for and possess the keys to destruction of the dream of life and the Ego’s false perception of it as real, accompanied with the realization that the visible universe is the equivalent of the physical body of God. Yogis are affected neither by life’s perceived tragedies or joys. What the rest of humanity calls reality cannot affect a yogi who correctly perceives life as nothing more than fantasy arising from the Ego, which is directly opposed to God. They know that the only true reality is inward, is God. Therefore they know that life itself, being a dream, cannot hurt them in any way.
Even if his body is destroyed, so what? What is the body but a dream created by the imagination of the indwelling God? There is no ultimate truth in the body, neither the one we possess, nor the outer body of God. Should one try to find ultimate meaning the slightest aspect of the physical world, they will be disappointed at some point. And there certainly is no ultimate truth to be found in the endless parade of nonsense we call life, except the truth that there is no ultimate truth to be gained from continuing to live life eternally in this hopeless way,…so why cling to life, why stay here being continually disappointed with ordinary life? Why not aspire to the Ultimate Truth? Why not be a Yogi?
What is the ultimate metaphor, or mode of perception one should use? The metaphor of ‘no metaphor’ perhaps? Only in not applying an interpretation that the Ego can grasp onto can one then perceive “reality” as it Truly is. The only way to “live” in this dream without being stuck in it eternally is to just “be here now” with no egotistical, selfish thought or emotions appropriated to any actions one undertakes. One should focus totally on “God’s Will” or stated another way, what one must be doing at any given moment to the next. This is called Karma Yoga, or translated variably as the Yoga of Action or Union with Work.
This is the secret of what in the East is called Liberation, the final freeing of one’s Divine Duty to the dream world, having done the Karma Yoga, or work necessary to “pay back” or equalize all that one owes to the world and its inhabitants. (The great Himalayan Avatar named Babaji said that he offers Liberation only thru work itself.) And one must do this work with no concern or attachment to receiving anything in return for it, which would only generate more karma, keeping the yogi here in the dream eternally. From one perspective, one could say that yogis are “absentminded”. They literally are unattached to, and emotionally and psychologically absent from, the work they are doing even as they do it. These are the actions of a God-incarnated being, meaning that God itself has no personal interests in this dream world even as It performs actions within it.
