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Vipasana with Kundalini

What is vipasana?

Many people on Quora keep asking questions about Vipasana. That is why I thought that this time I should write a beautiful blog-post on Vipasana.

Vipasana/vipashyana (vi-special, pashyana-seeing) means special pashyana means a special type of eyesight. The normal seeing is the extroverted seeing through which all of us see. The special seeing is the introverted seeing, through which one sees the thoughts and emotions present inside his own mind. In the normal seeing, the mind does not behave as a witness, but in the Vipasana, the mind stays as a witness. There is bondage with normal seeing, while liberation is attained with Vipasana. Ordinary seeing does not provide real happiness, while Vipasana gives real happiness. Ordinary seeing does not bring real peace, while Vipasana brings real peace. However, it is important to note that the basis of Vipasana is the general seeing, because from the general seeing, a lot of subtle material is gathered in the mind, towards which we are able to focus Vipasana’s special seeing. Therefore, the general seeing also has its own separate significance. That is why it is said that without science, spirituality is lame, and science without spiritualism is blind. Therefore, there should be a proper mix of science and spirituality in life.

How to get spiritual benefit with Vipasana

When we become detached from the thoughts and feelings of the mind, then it makes sense that what we gain from those thoughts and emotions, we already have that. Apart from our thoughts and feelings, we have our own absolute form / soul. So all the qualities of thoughts and emotions start to be revealed in the soul, such as light, bliss, peace etc. In fact, those qualities are already present in the soul, but are buried due to attachment to the physical and mental world. This purification of the soul is also known by the name of “Shedding of the dark clouds of illusion” or “The removal of the black screen of ignorance” etc.

The removal of the dark cloud of ignorance from the soul

However, it does not seem that the soul is slowly being cleansed, just as the darkness of the night clears slowly with the rise of morning. Although some negligible cleansing of soul may occur (that is not noticeable directly), that results in feeling of peace and non-duality, but that is momentary/temporary. The truth is that light engulfs the darkness in the soul suddenly, as if by switching on the light bulb in a dark room. In reality, it is the mind, not the soul that is cleansed. The soul is always clean. When the mind becomes completely clear, or simply say that the mind becomes devoid of the waste of thoughts, then the black curtain on the soul suddenly disappears. The common man gets discouraged upon seeing that his soul is not getting clean at all. With this, he gives up the effort of meditation.

Another misconception of the common man is that the thoughts of the mind cover the soul, in the expressed form only, not in the unexpressed or the latent form. That is why most people force their thoughts to be shut down and live under the illusion that they are yogis. In fact, thoughts of the mind (with attachment) are very wicked. They cover the soul with darkness even in their sleep state. That is why these buried thoughts have to be destroyed by various meditative practices. This work is most easily done with vipasana. Vipasana can lead to direct enlightenment alone, without any other meditation, as happened to Buddha. It is other thing that it does not appear possible in normal worldly life without the help of Kundalini.

Types of Vipasana and its supporting factors

Vipasana is of two types, active and passive. In the active vipasana, the mental peg (anchor) that is used to tether the mind is made by force. With that, the mind sticks to that peg all the time. Due to this, the mind is not able to pay deep attention to the thoughts and emotions that grow inside it, due to which it keeps witnessing them with detachment towards them. Mantra chanting, Mala-chanting, breathing, kundalini, name chanting, japa-tapa, fasting, and all other spiritual activities work as the pegs.

In Passive Vipasana, a peg for the mind is created itself during daily activities. For example, during driving, the mind is on the road, so during that time there is spontaneous witnessing of thoughts and emotions. Similarly, during other adventure activities, sports, events, arts, other disciplines etc., the more vipasana that accompanies these activities, the higher their quality is considered. The quality of Vipasana along with them is indicative of their quality. This vipasana of the contestant continues to be induced to the people living with him, the audience as well.

Vipasana from Kundalini

Kundalini (a lonely image permanently settled in the mind) is the best peg for Vipasana. This mental peg keeps loosening, so it should be strengthened by daily Kundalini-yoga.

Passive Vipasana most influential with the help of Kundalini

The Tantric Kundalini itself was stuck inside the Premyogi vajra. She was very strong and clear. She was persistent. She was as a charming mental girlfriend (along with the company of tantric Guru). She became one of the most powerful peg for his mind. Due to her attractiveness, she was also working as a mental video player along with as a mental peg. Due to this, the events of his own past life were bursting as colorful images in the mind of Premyogi vajra. All the pictures were becoming dim in front of that charming peg. All images were getting vipasana on its own, due to which they were fast merging into the soul. His soul was being purified very fast with that. Finally, within two years he became zero. In the end, his final thought in the form of above told mental anchor was also uprooted by divine circumstances, giving him a glimpse of momentary enlightenment. This incident is described in detail in his Hindi book “Physiology Philosophy – A Modern Kundalini Tantra (A Yogi’s Love Story)” and in English in the book “Love story of a Yogi- what Patanjali says”.

This proves that it is necessary to have an attractive mental peg, so that it can expose clear images of the thoughts and emotions that are buried in the depths of the mind, and they all begin to fade away. Kundalini (especially Tantric Kundalini) is the most attractive, so Kundalini is the best mental peg for Vipasana. Its attractiveness goes on increasing with continued meditation. When everything becomes void, then that last mental peg has to be discarded as a final leap for enlightenment. Based on this basic psychological principle, millions of books and practices have been created.

Some people choose to focus on their breaths to keep them anchored and not get lost in their thoughts.

What does meditation really mean?

कृपया इस पोस्ट को हिंदी में पढ़ने के लिए इस लिंक पर क्लिक करें (कुण्डलिनी से विपासना या विपश्यना)

कुण्डलिनी से विपासना या विपश्यना

विपश्यना क्या है

क्वोरा पर बहुत से लोग विपासना के बारे में प्रश्न पूछते रहते हैं। इसलिए सोचा कि क्यों न इस बार विपासना पर ही एक एक सुन्दर ब्लॉग-पोस्ट लिख लूं।

विपश्यना का अर्थ है विशेष पश्यना अर्थात एक विशेष प्रकार की नजर। सामान्य नजर तो वही बहिर्मुखी नजर है, जिससे हम-आप सभी लोग देखते हैं। विशेष नजर अंतर्मुखी नजर है, जिससे अपने अन्दर मौजूद विचारों-भावों को देखा जाता है। सामान्य नजर में द्रष्टा का साक्षी भाव नहीं होता, परन्तु विपश्यना में द्रष्टा का साक्षीभाव होता है। सामान्य नजर से बंधन होता है, जबकि विपश्यना से मुक्ति प्राप्त होती है। सामान्य नजर से असली सुख नहीं मिलता, जबकि विपश्यना से असली सुख मिलता है। सामान्य नजर से असली शान्ति नहीं मिलती, जबकि विपश्यना से असली शान्ति मिलती है। यद्यपि यह बात ध्यान रखने योग्य है की विपश्यना का आधार सामान्य नजर ही है, क्योंकि सामान्य नजर से ही मन में वह ढेर सारी सूक्ष्म सामग्री इकट्ठी हो पाती है, जिसके प्रति हम विपश्यना की विशेष नजर को केन्द्रित कर पाते हैं। इसलिए सामान्य नजर का भी अपना अलग महत्त्व है। तभी तो कहा जाता है कि विज्ञान के बिना अध्यात्म लंगड़ा है, तथा अध्यात्म के बिना विज्ञान अंधा है। इसलिए जीवन में विज्ञान व अध्यात्म, दोनों का समुचित मिश्रण होना चाहिए।

विपश्यना से साधना-लाभ कैसे मिलता है

जब हम मन के विचारों-भावों के प्रति अनासक्त हो जाते हैं, तब उससे यह अर्थ निकलता है कि जो कुछ विचारों-भावों से हासिल होता है, वह हमारे अपने पास पहले से ही तो है। अपने विचारों-भावों के इलावा हमारे पास अपना स्वयं का निरपेक्ष रूप/आत्मा ही तो है। अतः विचारों-भावों के सभी गुण आत्मा में उजागर होने लगते हैं, जैसे कि प्रकाश, आनंद, शान्ति आदि। वास्तव में, वे गुण आत्मा में पहले से ही विद्यमान होते हैं, परन्तु भौतिक व मानसिक दुनिया के प्रति आसक्ति के कारण दबे होते हैं। आत्मा के इसी शुद्धीकरण को “भ्रम के काले बादलों का छंटना” या “अज्ञान के काले परदे का हटना” आदि नामों से भी जाना जाता है।

आत्मा के ऊपर से अज्ञान के काले बादल का हटना

हालांकि ऐसा प्रतीत नहीं होता कि आत्मा धीरे-२ साफ हो रही है, जैसे कि रात का अँधेरा सुबह के साथ-२ धीरे-२ साफ होता है। नगण्य मात्रा में आत्मा की सफाई हो भी सकती है (जो प्रत्यक्ष तौर पर नजर नहीं आती), जिससे अद्वैत व शान्ति का अनुभव होता है, पर यह क्षणिक/अस्थायी होती है। सच्चाई यह है कि अचानक ही घुप अन्धकार से भरी आत्मा में प्रकाश छा जाता है, जैसे कि अँधेरे कमरे में प्रकाश बल्ब का स्विच ऑन करने से छा जाता है। वास्तव में सफाई तो मन की होती है, आत्मा की नहीं। आत्मा तो हमेशा साफ है। जब मन पूरी तरह से साफ हो जाता है, या यूं कहो कि मन विचारों के कचरे से रहित हो जाता है, तभी आत्मा के ऊपर पड़ा हुआ काला पर्दा अचानक से हट जाता है। आम आदमी यह देखकर हतोत्साहित हो जाता है कि उसकी आत्मा तो साफ ही नहीं हो रही है। इससे वह साधना के प्रयास को छोड़ देता है।

आम इंसान को एक अन्य गलतफहमी यह होती है कि व्यक्त रूप में ही मन के विचार आत्मा पर पर्दा डालते हैं, अव्यक्त या संस्कार रूप में नहीं। तभी तो अधिकाँश लोग अपने विचारों को बलपूर्वक दबाकर इस भ्रम में रहते हैं कि वे योगी हैं। वास्तव में मन के विचार (आसक्ति के साथ) बड़े दुष्ट होते हैं। ये अपनी सुप्त अवस्था में भी आत्मा को अँधेरे से ढक कर रखते हैं। तभी तो विभिन्न साधनाओं से इन दबे हुए विचारों को उघाड़ कर नष्ट करना पड़ता है। विपासना से यह काम सबसे आसानी से होता है। तभी तो सरल विपासना से सीधे ही, बिना किसी अन्य साधना के आत्मज्ञान हो सकता है, जैसे बुद्ध को हुआ। यह अलग आत है कि आम सांसारिक जीवन में कुण्डलिनी के बिना ऐसा होना संभव प्रतीत नहीं होता।

विपश्यना के प्रकार व उसके लिए सहयोगी कारक

विपश्यना दो प्रकार की है, ऐक्टिव (सक्रिय) और पैसिव (निष्क्रिय)। ऐक्टिव विपश्यना में मन को जिस मानसिक खूंटे (ऐंकर) से बांधा जाता है, वह बलपूर्वक निर्मित किया जाता है। उससे मन हर समय उस खूंटे से चिपका रहता है। उससे मन अपने अन्दर उमड़ने वाले विचारों-भावों की तरफ गहराई से ध्यान नहीं दे पाता, जिससे उसका उनके प्रति अनासक्ति के साथ साक्षीभाव बना रहता है। मन्त्र-जाप, माला-जाप, साँसें, कुण्डलिनी, जप-तप, उपवास, तथा अन्य सभी आध्यात्मिक गतिविधियाँ इसी खूंटे का काम करती हैं।

पैसिव विपश्यना में रोजमर्रा के क्रियाकलापों के दौरान स्वयं ही मन के लिए खूंटा निर्मित होता रहता है। उदाहरण के लिए, ड्राईविंग के दौरान मन सड़क पर लगा होता है, इसलिए उस दौरान उमड़ रहे विचारों-भावों के प्रति स्वयं ही विपश्यना होती रहती है। इसी तरह, अन्य साहसिक गतिविधियों, खेलों, स्पर्धाओं, कलाओं, विद्याओं आदि के दौरान भी होता है। इन गतिविधियों के साथ जितनी अधिक विपश्यना होती है, उतनी ही अधिक उनकी गुणवत्ता मानी जाती है। इनके साथ विपश्यना की मात्रा ही इनकी गुणवत्ता की मात्रा की सूचक हैं। प्रतिभागी की यह विपश्यना साथ रहने वाले लोगों, दर्शकों में भी इंडयूस होती रहती है।

कुण्डलिनी से विपश्यना

कुण्डलिनी (मन में स्थायी रूप से बसने वाली एकाकी छवि) विपश्यना के लिए सर्वोत्तम खूंटा है। यह मानसिक खूंटा ढीला होता रहता है, अतः प्रतिदिन के कुण्डलिनी-योग से इसे मजबूती देते रहना चाहिए।

कुण्डलिनी की सहायता से निष्क्रिय विपश्यना सर्वाधिक प्रभावशाली

प्रेमयोगी वज्र के अन्दर स्वयं ही तांत्रिक कुण्डलिनी चिपक गई थी। वह बहुत मजबूत व स्पष्ट थी। वह लगातार बनी रहती थी। वह एक आकर्षक मानसिक प्रेमिका (तांत्रिक गुरु की संगति में) के रूप में थी। वह मन के लिए एक सर्वाधिक शक्तिशाली खूंटा बनी। अपनी आकर्षकता के कारण, वह मानसिक खूंटे के साथ मानसिक वीडियो प्लेयर का काम भी कर रही थी। उससे प्रेमयोगी वज्र के मन में अपने पिछले जीवन की घटनाएं रंग-बिरंगे चित्रों के रूप में उमड़ रही थीं। सभी चित्र उस आकर्षक खूंटे के सामने फीके पड़ गए थे। सभी के प्रति स्वयं ही विपश्यना हो रही थी, जिससे वे तेजी से आत्मा में विलीन हो रहे थे। उससे उसका आत्मा बहुत तेजी से शुद्ध हो रहा था। अंततः दो साल के भीतर ही वह शून्य जैसा हो गया। अंत में, दिव्य परिस्थितियों के कारण उसका वह अंतिम विचार-रूपी मानसिक खूंटा भी उखड़ गया, जिससे उसे क्षणिक आत्मज्ञान की झलक मिली। इस घटना का विस्तृत वर्णन उसकी हिंदी में पुस्तक “शरीरविज्ञान दर्शन- एक आधुनिक कुण्डलिनी तंत्र (एक योगी की प्रेमकथा)” व अंग्रेजी में पुस्तक “Love story of a Yogi- what Patanjali says” में किया गया है।

इससे सिद्ध होता है कि मानसिक खूंटे का आकर्षक होना भी आवश्यक है, ताकि वह मन की गहराइयों में दबे पड़े विचारों-भावों के स्पष्ट चित्रों को उघाड़ता रहे, और वे सभी उसके आगे फीके पड़ने लगे। कुण्डलिनी (विशेषतः तांत्रिक कुण्डलिनी) सबसे अधिक आकर्षक होती है, इसलिए विपश्यना के लिए कुण्डलिनी एक सर्वोत्तम मानसिक खूंटा है। निरंतर ध्यान के साथ इसका आकर्षण बढ़ता ही जाता है। जब सभी कुछ शून्यप्राय हो जाता है, तब आत्मज्ञान के लिए अंतिम छलांग के रूप में उस अंतिम मानसिक खूंटे को भी त्यागना पड़ता है। इसी मूलभूत मनोवैज्ञानिक सिद्धांत के आधार पर ही लाखों पुस्तकें व साधनाएं बनी हैं।

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Kundalini benefits from antidepressant medication

कृपया इस पोस्ट को हिंदी में पढ़ने के लिए इस लिंक पर क्लिक करें (अवसादरोधक दवा से कुण्डलिनी लाभ)

How antidepressant works

Premyogi vajra was a man entangled in worldliness heavily. His mind had become very disturbed by that. Although he was able to control it with the help of physiological philosophy/shareeravigyan darshan. Still he was not able to control it completely. Once he underwent endoscopy with doubt of severe gastritis. Understanding his mood, the doctor prescribed him a half month’s antidepressant and anti-anger medicine (not remember the name). He was feeling a great reduction in his depression and anger while eating it. He had read on Google that the effect of this drug could be sustained permanently if eaten daily for one month. Therefore, he has been eating the medicine. The drug seemed to be doing the same work that was done by the spiritual book Shavid. Although the work of medicine was too full of non-liveliness, acrimony, lack of memory, and artificiality. The non-duality producing effect of Enlightenment and Kundalini awakening also seemed similar to the non-duality producing effect of antidepressant medicine, although with the difference in purity and level. Eckhart tolle has also made a similar statement that the antidepressant drug has the same effect as the self-awakening, albeit with comparatively very low-grade and ferocity.

He was troubled by a chronic cough

He took a lot of antibiotics, but the cough did not cure. He understood that antibiotics were not working, due to resistance developed by bacteria. Chronic gastritis was actually the cause of his cough. When he took pantoprazole and domperidone medicines for 1 month, his cough disappeared from the root. In today’s stressful life this problem has become huge, about which most people fall prey to misunderstandings

I don’t see it as a road to true and lasting awakening, but it can give people a glimpse of freedom from the prison of their conceptual mind (a worth reading interview with Eckhart tolle)………..

INTERVIEW WITH ECKHART TOLLE

Transformation with mind-altering medicines

Physiology philosophy is a non-dual thinking. This proves that the drug was causing Advaita. Mind Altering Drugs acts as a power brake to control emotions, which can damage the brain’s soft tissue. He felt his memory diminishing. At the time of anger, his brain used to be as breaking, so he could not do anger. With anger, his brain was pressurized, heavy, dull, and dark. Even physically, he began to remain weak. His functionality decreased considerably. He was surprised to see his sudden change. Therefore, he stopped the medicine after 30-35 days, and dumped the remaining medicine in the garbage. Although his transformation was permanent. He never returned to the previous state.

How does anti-depressant drug produce Anand/bliss and Advaita/non-duality?

This makes a person not think deeply about anything, nor analyze or judge in a manner. This creates self-witnessing towards all objects-ideas. Pleasure arises from this. Together, due to lack of analysis and judgment, the gap between all objects-ideas starts to disappear, which makes everything seem the same. This is Advaita. It is like this, if a light doze of alcohol is drunk. In tantra too, consumption of wine is advised with cautionary measures for kundalini benefit. Simply mean that meditation produces non-duality by promoting intellectuality, while brain-altering medicines reduce intellectual power for the same purpose. Yet these medicines still give a glimpse of spiritual awakening. Following that glimpse, a person can get real self-awareness too.

How does meditation get help from brain-altering medicines?

Suddenly slowing down of his mental activity made Premyogi vajra surprised along with some grief. He started thinking of ways to achieve his undone mentality. That mindset was linked to his memory, which was greatly reduced by the effects of the drug. For some time he got the company of a person who regularly practiced yoga. Seeing him, he started doing the same. Gradually, he got practiced. He also started taking help of internet and books. The mental power inside him was as abundant as before, but it was not visible anywhere. The reason for this was that he had forgotten the previous things and events due to the effect of the drug, to which his mental strength was bound. Due to the erosion of his previous world due to medicine, his immense mental strength had become free from clutches of that. That is why he was not feeling his abundant mentality any more. With the help of yoga, his hidden mental strength was targeted to his Kundalini itself. This made his kundalini awakened over time.

The manifestation of worldliness as Kundalini-mentality

He got his lost old mentality with Kundalini Yoga. Although that was not as non-dual worldliness as before, but that was as an alone Kundalini. He became aware of his entire mental strength in the form of his Kundalini that caused her awakening soon.

The attainment of strong mentality is possible only with non-duality

It is worth noting that a strong, continuous and stable mindset is possible only through non-dual worldliness. With dual behavior, the mentality starts to weaken before reaching near the peak. This proves that even the non-dual behavior (karmayoga as per Geeta) of Premyogi vajra became helpful in his Kundalini-awakening.