Welcome to another mystical perspective.
We go through the different spiritual mind power affirmations from Dr.
Paul Leon Master's latest book and the process is I take just one chapter which is one page and I study it for a week and then I write down what comes to me during meditation.
I found this to be a very very powerful way of absorbing these powerful seed thoughts that are the affirmations from this book and today we'll be talking about yoga of the Christ mind kind.
Now this is a very interesting subject because so many people are doing yoga.
I do yoga every day.
I've done yoga for 40 years but what's happened is we have westernized yoga.
We've made yoga a physical workout,
Very strenuous workout,
A way to get in shape and I think we've totally lost the real creation of yoga's purpose and we're going to go over these affirmations which bring you back to the original purpose.
We'll go to Pantanjali's teachings which kicked this all off so long ago at 400 AD and then bring it up to date where how this started coming to the West and we'll look into it but let's we start with the affirmations always.
So let's start with the affirmations.
I read them twice.
I read it first and then I repeat it.
The first affirmation on the subject is Raja Yoga.
Here's the affirmation.
I work successfully with the inner energy matter of my mind guided intuitively by God's presence to find and awaken to God's universal mind spirit.
Now how many times do they ever tell you that in yoga class?
I don't think ever.
I'm gonna repeat this and you can repeat after me if you wish.
I work successfully with the inner energy matter of my mind guided intuitively by God's presence to find and awaken to God's universal mind spirit.
Now we're going to be going quite a bit into this because this goes to the root of what yoga originally was meant to be and it is very very rarely found.
I do think that people with Self-Realization Fellowship,
Paramahansa Yoga group have maintained that but very very few yoga classes maintain this.
The next affirmations on meditation.
Through my daily practice of meditation I achieve the relaxation and concentration necessary to make my mind one-pointed to work with the inner energies of consciousness within me.
I'll repeat through my daily practice of meditation.
I achieve the relaxation and concentration necessary to make my mind one-pointed to work with the inner energies of consciousness within me.
Now we talk a lot about meditation on these weekly talks and this one's a little different because it talks more about being one-pointed to work with the inner energies and consciousness within ourselves and it talks more about concentration which of course is important and that's a part of the yoga process.
The next one which I'll have a chance to go into deeply after we're through with the affirmations is Vrittis.
Through God's presence within me I am intuitively guided in working with the inner energies,
Vrittis,
Of my mind that the color frequencies may be reabsorbed into light,
Parenthesis,
Christ consciousness of universal mind slash spirit or God.
This is a very deep subject and it goes to that point we always talk about when you begin meditation.
Seeing those and the colors in your inner eye and what you do with them.
So this is a rather deep one.
Let's repeat through God's presence within me I am intuitively guided in working with the inner energies,
Vrittis,
Of my mind that the color frequencies may be reabsorbed into light,
Christ consciousness in parenthesis,
Or universal mind slash spirit or God.
You're tying in God's within yourself to be guided to work with these inner energies and all of those color frequencies which are thoughts in color to take them back to the light of Christ consciousness or of the universal mind or the spirit of God.
This is an amazingly powerful meditation that you can do as well.
The next affirmations on Chita,
C-H-I-T-T-A,
Chita.
Through God's presence within me I am intuitively guided in working with the mind stuff,
Chita,
To turn mind forms into energy and energies to color frequencies that may be reabsorbed into light,
Parenthesis,
Christ consciousness of universal mind spirit of God.
Now you notice that's very similar to the affirmation above,
But the difference is you're taking the mind forms of energies and then those energies to color frequencies that are then reabsorbed into light.
Repeating that through God's presence within me,
I am intuitively guided in working with the mind stuff,
Chita,
To turn mind forms into energies and energies to color frequencies that may be reabsorbed into light,
Christ consciousness of universal mind spirit or God.
This is again very,
Very,
Very deep.
This is what you do when you understand the true power of going within and actually working with light and working with your mind and working with your thoughts and changing those energies to be reabsorbed into the light.
This is an amazing transformation and clearing process.
The next one is working with.
Through deep meditational relaxation,
The inner energies,
In parenthesis,
Fritas,
Of my mind are slowed and stilled to the point where the color frequencies may be reabsorbed into light,
Christ consciousness of universal mind spirit or God.
Again,
This ties in with the last two.
This is the working with that.
Repeating,
Through deep meditational relaxation,
The inner energies,
Fritas,
Of my mind are slowed and stilled to the point where the color frequencies may be reabsorbed into light,
Christ consciousness of universal mind spirit or God.
Now,
We know a lot since this was first written about the different waves,
The theta waves,
The beta waves,
And there's many even pieces of music that work with these very things.
This has been a practice that has been around in the yoga tradition for almost 2,
000 years.
The next affirmation is third eye.
Through God's presence,
Intuitively guiding me,
I work to still energy frequencies appearing as colors,
Shapes,
And forms before my third eye or inner sight of my forehead or the whole entire interior of my head.
And again,
The third eye is,
You know,
Where that is between your two eyes right there and you look at it and I'm looking right now as I'm talking,
Seeing purple,
White,
Some almost like mandala energy,
Hmm,
Shades of summer red.
Now,
If you take that and do focused on that,
You'll find that it changes as you go into meditation.
Let's repeat the third eye.
Through God's presence,
Intuitively guiding me,
I work to still energy frequencies appearing as colors,
Shapes,
And forms before my third eye or inner sight of my forehead or the whole interior of my head.
And again,
This is always done when you go into meditation.
Again,
It's rather advanced.
Some people see lots of colors.
Some people see ultraviolet light like a soul dot of energy.
Some people only see darkness and don't see anything.
It depends on your point of consciousness.
Next one is light.
In meditation,
I work to enlarge any light appearing in my third eye area by holding it steady in an inner gaze.
Repeating in meditation,
I work to enlarge any light appearing in my third eye area by holding it steady in an inner gaze.
Now again,
That's the use of concentrated focus energy.
There's a lot of people who just do guided meditations,
But when you're doing guided meditations,
You're bringing in more color,
More changing shapes and forms,
And you're changing your focus to what you're hearing rather than what you're seeing.
There's an audio attention rather than a visual intention.
So it's a different experience.
It's not that it can't be used,
But it's a very different experience than what we're talking about here and seeing light.
And the last affirmation is Christ mind.
I am one with the Christ mind light or the God's presence.
And I am intuitively led to achieve oneness with the Christ light,
The doorway of consciousness to God's presence.
Repeating and again,
This ties into the Christ mind kind of yoga that we're talking about.
I am one with the Christ mind light of God's presence,
And I am intuitively led to achieve oneness with the Christ light,
The doorway of consciousness of God's presence.
We'll be talking more about that.
I just have to say that I really hope and pray that more people think of doing yoga as a way to develop union with God,
Which was its original purpose and meaning.
It's not meant to just be physical exercise.
Now I know a lot of people say you do the physical exercise and that gets you ready to go into a state of meditation.
But then you might do three minutes,
Five minutes of savasana at the end.
That isn't near what it was meant to be about.
There should be at least an equal time in meditation as in the physical movements.
But ideally your movements in yoga are in every moment tying you to that God energy within,
That Christ light.
God's presence should be present in every moment.
I'll read some of what I was talking where this came from in 400 AD.
One of the first teachers of yoga was Patanjali.
He talks about asanas,
Which is really pretty much all we see in a lot of yoga classes now.
But he says that they are motionless.
The asanas are motionless and agreeable form of staying in a yoga posture.
How many yoga teachers practicing do motionless asanas?
Maybe for a breath or two.
You might get some teachers who stay there five breaths,
But they're constantly telling you to perfect your position so then you're moving even as you're in those breaths.
The asana is a posture that one can hold for a period of time,
Staying relaxed and steady and comfortable and motionless.
Patanjali does not list any specific asana except in saying posture one can hold with comfort and motionlessness.
The Yoga Sutra says asanas are perfected over time by relaxation of effort with meditation on the infinite.
So this is something you really need to practice when you're doing yoga.
And it might really mean that you have to do your own yoga in the morning and take only a couple of postures so you're able to bring that into all the postures you know.
So I'm now of course not taking that yoga class anymore.
And I'm encouraging some yoga teachers I know to really start incorporating more of this union with God,
This connecting with God,
This holding of the asanas so that you can be connected with that energy.
In the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali there are 196 Indian sutras.
It's a great book to get if you really are doing any yoga.
Whether you do yoga or not,
It's a valuable book.
But it's an organized knowledge about yoga from the older traditions of the start.
And it was the most translated ancient Indian text in the medieval times.
Can you believe that?
I mean here they were doing this as in Italy and places around the country.
There was the art revolution and other things going on.
In India they were doing the yoga.
And it's been translated into 40 Indian languages and two non-Indian languages of course.
And you can get it easily on Amazon.
But it was brought back into,
It kind of slipped out of awareness for about 700 years.
And then in the 19th century due to the efforts of Swami Vivekananda and the Theosophical Society and a few others,
It gained a comeback and it became classic again.
And Swami Vivekananda translates the sutra as,
Yoga is restraining the mind stuff.
This is exactly what Dr.
Masters was talking about.
Restraining the sitas,
Taking from various forms,
The vrittis.
Yoga essentially consists of meditative practices culminating in attaining a state of consciousness free from all modes of active or discursive thought.
And eventually attaining a state where consciousness is unaware of any object external to itself.
That is only aware of its own nature as consciousness unmixed with any other object.
Now this definition hinges on the meaning of three Sanskrit terms.
Yoga is the inhibition of the modifications,
V-r-i-t-t-i vritti,
Of the mind,
C-i-t-t-a definition.
What does sita vritti mean?
Sita vritti is a term that refers to the thoughts that clutter the mind.
Now this has been called in mindful awareness practices of meditation,
The monkey mind.
And the Sanskrit term c-i-t-t-a means consciousness or memory.
And vritti,
V-r-i-t-t-i means waves.
And that's kind of equal to what means mind chatter,
Which we hear so much about.
One of the goals of yoga is to take control of the citta vritti by quieting the mind,
Thereby reducing stress and increasing self-awareness.
How important is that in today's world?
I mean that is so key.
So when you become aware of this and you do yoga practice,
This is something that really should be incorporated into your yoga.
This is an amazing thing.
I would recommend getting Swami Vivekananda's teachings.
He has a book on bhakta yogi,
Raja.
You know we talked in the book about that.
Raja yogi is what was first mentioned.
Raja yoga was the first affirmation we had here.
Bhakta yoga is the love aspect of yoga.
There was a book actually that Vivekananda did in 1896.
It came out,
Raja Yoga.
And it was a big success back then.
And it was very influential in the Western understanding of yoga.
Of course in Patanjali,
There's the aspect of pranayama.
We know that means prana,
Breath,
And yama,
Restraining,
Extending,
Stretching.
Now anyone that practices meditation knows how important understanding breath is.
Of course kundalini yoga,
All practices of yoga do some kind of forms of,
And often do,
Ways of regulating and inhaling and suspending exhalation.
And that of course we know also connects with our thoughts.
And the colors we see.
And then there's in Patanjali,
The pratahara is drawing the senses within one's awareness.
Again that relates to meditation.
It's a process of bringing your interior into your awareness and removing the external objects.
It's a step of self-extraction and abstraction.
It empowers you to stop being controlled by the external world.
I guess that means putting your iPhone away or turning it off,
Right?
And pratahara marks the transition of the yoga experience from the first four limbs.
And it brings you to the next one which is dharana,
Means concentration,
Introspective focus in one pointed mind.
Now Dr.
Masters and those affirmations brought up that concentration.
And again in the Indian tradition that was done by mantras,
A way of focusing on one word is also done.
And the seventh one is dhyana,
Meaning contemplation,
Reflection,
Profound abstract meditation.
This is again from 400 AD.
It's the pure thing.
And then the last one and the highest of the eight limbs is samadhi.
Samadhi of course is equal to enlightenment or awakening.
It literally means putting together,
Joining,
Combining with union,
Harmonious whole,
Trance.
Samadhi is oneness with the subject of meditation.
There's no distinction during that eighth limb of samadhi between the actor of meditation,
The act of meditation,
And the subject of meditation.
Object,
Subject all disappear into oneness and that spiritual state where you're so absorbed in what you're contemplating.
I thank you so much for being here today and listening and have a wonderful yoga meditation.
