Edgar Cayce and the Yoga Sutras. Istvan Fazekas

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СКАЧАТЬ implemented in any order:

      1. Keep your mind on holy, spiritualized thoughts and ideas. Focus on sacred passages in any of the revered religious texts.

      2. Engage yourself in creative projects: writing, painting, music, or any creative endeavor that can be a productive channel for redirecting the energies.

      3. Perform physical exercise while keeping your mind on some spiritually beneficial idea.

      4. Hold to a vegetarian diet. Meats and many dairy foods (except ghee) are thought to contain animal vibrations that energetically influence you toward animal (lower vibrational) behaviors. Even if you practice vegetarianism for a limited time, it can be helpful.

      5. Enjoy the frequent company of spiritual-minded associates and teachers.

      6. Avoid all entertainment that exploits sexual ideas (music, movies, TV, Internet, books, etc.). If you have it in your dwelling, discard it.

      7. Volunteer in a service capacity. Helping keep others healthy, sheltered, and well fed gets you out of that little egoistic drama. It is a wonderful experience to feel the freedom of service, and an effective activity to help unfetter the ego from neuroses.

      The key point to remember with regard to brahmacharya is that it is not forced celibacy. Instead, it is seeing the Divine in the other, treating sex as a sacrament, knowing how and when to practice restraint, and not abusing the physical act through depravity or excess.

      To express an impulse gives relief, but to control it gives strength.

       Hazrat Inayat Khan

      If we cannot control our physical urges, no matter what they are, we are not putting enough commitment into living the spiritual precepts. We are spiritual beings endowed with infinite creative power—we are not mere biological machines.

      Since many teachers and systems have contributed to the yogic systems, there are multiple formulas that have been recommended throughout the centuries. Another ancient formula for adhering to brahmacharya can be shown in this five-point format:

      1. Avoid all lusts (not just sexual ones).

      2. Discipline your mind (tapas).

      3. Keep to a pure, moderate diet and avoid all intoxicants (shauca).

      4. Do not oversleep, as it dulls the mind and acts as a type of mental intoxicant.

      5. Meditate daily and increase the depth of your attunement.

      The following are some excerpts from the readings. Many people came to Mr. Cayce with relationship troubles of various kinds. The readings’ source often gave advice similar to the Eastern masters, or at least in accord with the spirit of the yamas and niyamas.

      (Q) How should love and the sexual life properly function?

      (A) [T]he material things (or those in a three-dimensional world) are the shadow or the reflection of those in the spiritual life. Then, as God or the Creative Influence is the source of all things, the second law in spiritual life, in mental life, in material life, is preservation of self and the continuation . . . or propagation [of the species], in sexual intercourse or life.

      Hence in their very basic forces, [sexual relations] should be the outcome—not the purpose of . . . the answering of soul to soul in their associations and relations. And the [sexual] act . . . should be the result.

      Hence these questions should be often weighed well, remembering that God, or Love (for it is One), [looks] on the heart rather than the outward appearances. And that morality, virtue, understanding, truth, love, are those influences that make for [proper] judgments of . . . the material life . . . according to those rules that govern such relationships, then it behooves—and becomes necessary—that there be the adherence to such [moral] regulations, that thy good be not [evilly] spoken of . . .

      [K]now that Love and God are One; that relations in the sexual life are the manifestations [of the creative power of mind].

      For, unless [sexual] associations become [regulated by love and physical moderation], they become vile in the experience of those that join in such relations.

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      The readings implied on a few occasions that sexual activity between two people, if engaged in for purely carnal reasons and without a true heart connection, could produce offspring with physical and emotional problems:

      For, to be sure, relationships in the sex are the exercising of the highest emotions in which a physical body may indulge. And only in man is there found that such are used as that of destruction to the body-offspring!

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      The readings’ source counseled numerous couples that sex is not just for the act of creating a child but is the physical expression of spiritual and emotional bonds:

      Do not look upon sex as merely a physical expression! There is a physical expression that is beauty within itself, if it is considered from that angle; but when the mental and the spiritual are guiding, then the outlet for beauty becomes a normal expression of a normal, healthy body.

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      (Q) So much has been written about sexual relationships between husband and wife. Is it the correct understanding that this activity should be used only and when companions seek to build a body for an incoming entity?

      (A) Not necessarily. These depend, of course, to be sure, on the individual concept of relationships and their activities . . . [I]f the activities are used in creative, spiritual form, there is the less desire for carnal relationship; or, if there is the lack of use of constructive energies, then there is the desire for more of the carnal, physical reaction.

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      The masters teach that we are here on earth not merely to pursue pleasure but to gain wisdom. The sages gain perfect control over their appetites, severing the carnal bonds that perpetuate reincarnation. If we learn how to transform sexual impulses into spiritual fuel, we can ascend in consciousness sooner rather than later.

      Man may not live by bread alone. Man may not live by the gratifying of appetites in the material world. For man is not made for this world alone. There is a longing for those experiences which the soul . . . has experienced. And without spirituality the earth is indeed a hell, an individual soul do what it will or may. Such longing may not be gratified from without [externally] or in the . . . experiences that pertain to, the forces and influences without [outside of] self. For the body is indeed the temple of the living God. Act like it! Keep it clean. Don’t desecrate it ever, but keep it such that it may be the place where you would meet [your] own better self, [your] own God-self. As [you] do this, there may be brought harmony, peace, joy. As in everything else, if [you] would have joy [you] must make others happy! Bring joy to others. If [you] would have love, [you] must show [yourself] lovely! If [you] would have friends, show [yourself] friendly! If [you] would know God, search for Him, for He is within [your] own self! And as [you] express Him in the fruits of spirit; love, grace, mercy, peace, longsuffering, patience, kindness, gentleness; [you] will find such within [yourself] . . . This is the source of life, the source of love, the source of peace, the source of СКАЧАТЬ