Friends, a person who becomes spiritual during a chronic or long-term illness, it is because his attention remains constantly on the body due to pain, burning or other permanent body sensations. Although it’s not generalization. Many people may feel opposite. It’s all according to one’s personal status at any point of time. Sensations are sensations wheather pleasant or unpleasant. Same law holds behind both. It’s one’s ability to extract benefits from both otherwise majority tend to avoid or suppress one type in favour of second type. But it’s not that both are freely available at the same time so lot of time gets wasted in waiting. That’s why it’s advised to do penance in the spare time. Yoga is also a penance as it provides various bodily and mental sensations. It is said that sins are destroyed by the suffering of penance. I think the same principle is behind this too. The attention remains on the body due to pain, sensations etc. of suffering, which gives an opportunity to all kinds of good and bad thoughts buried in the mind to overflow. In a normal situation of deliberate contemplation, a person suppresses the so-called disgusting or bad-feeling memories or those that have a bad effect on life. Along with this, on the contrary, he keeps remembering the memories that give good experiences forcefully and with attachment. Due to this, they start vanishing. In balance, only bad options remain buried in his subconscious mind. They become dominant and start giving him bad experiences. To balance them, he again becomes inclined towards the activities related to good memories with attachment. Attachment because even while dissolving them, there was attachment in his mind. Attachment to good options is also because he has forcibly suppressed the bad options in his subconscious. If a person is attached to his friend and hates his enemy, then he will definitely take his friend for a walk in the gardens and will lock his enemy in the basement by putting chains on him. If we think about it in a different way, then if a man leaves the slave-like work in the hands of his servant Shyamu and takes his other servant Ramu to bathe in the Ganges, then it will be considered that he has attachment towards Ramu and hatred towards Shyamu. In this way, this cycle continues and the so-called bad resolutions buried in the subconscious keep fuelling the life of attachment. But if his mind is stable on any object of meditation like body, breath, rosary, meditation picture etc. through meditation, then he does not have any biased control over his subconscious mind. Then according to time, situation, condition etc., all kinds of resolutions buried in the subconscious mind keep emerging. Because the box of the subconscious mind keeps getting emptied of all kinds of resolutions, that is why he does not have a biased experience of any particular resolution. Due to this, he does not conduct his worldly life with partiality or attachment to make new resolutions, but conducts his life according to what is necessary according to the time, situation, and condition. Due to this, he himself remains protected from bad deeds because bad deeds are often done due to attachment. It is like if equal quantity of potatoes, onions, tomatoes, oranges, bananas are finished in a person’s basket, then he will make equal efforts to get all of them, rather than going after just one thing. By having complete focus on one thing, he may get attached to it and do bad things to get it. But when his focus is equally divided to get all the things, then he will not get attached to any thing. Due to this, he will also be protected from bad deeds to get them. Attachment to something is created only by continuous thinking about it.
Although in Kundalini Dhyan Yoga also, one Dhyan Chitra is continuously thought about, but attachment is not created by it. The reason for this is that the contemplation is done with pranayama and yogasana or by staying in the good company of a yogi. Due to this, the contemplation is connected with the breath and the body and it feels like a part of oneself, due to which attachment towards it does not arise. Along with this, many knowledgeable people have already inculcated this notion in their mind that the image of meditation is not to be achieved physically, but it has to be awakened in the mind. Due to this, the deepening power of contemplation also makes other suppressed thoughts come to the fore and dissolve in the soul. In ordinary material contemplation, a person actually attains the thing of concern in physical form much earlier in the long contemplation process. This destroys the contemplation because what kind of contemplation is there about oneself or one’s nearest object or the thing that one has attained. Ordinary people are not yogis who contemplate forcefully on the image connected with their soul. Anyway, long lasting contemplation can only be done on those who are far from material attainment. Due to this, this contemplation is not able to go very deep, due to which even the more suppressed thoughts are not able to come out from the depth. Attachment can only be developed towards something that has a physical existence or that is useful to oneself. Meditation images like gods, sages etc. do not have a physical existence, so how can one be attached to them? Gurus are also like non-existence, because they are non-dual. The non-dual form is of God, and God is also the form of the absolute void. One’s other favorite meditation image can also be something that has no physical significance for him. Like a mountain, river, sky etc. or anything. How can one be attached to that? In normal worldliness, when a person gets the thing he is worried about, he stops thinking about it. Then he starts thinking about some other unobtained thing so that he can get it. This cycle continues, but the contemplation does not reach spiritual depth or Kundalini awakening. Of course, he gets physical benefits from that contemplation, like happiness and material prosperity. He gets happiness because that contemplation lightens the load of his subconscious mind to some extent. This is Maya, this is worldliness, whose cycle continues uninterrupted.
Demystifying Kundalini 