Q & A about Yoga & Meditation

Why one should bother to practice meditation and yoga?

 

 

The most important thing is that when one practice meditation and develops spiritually, then one continues next life from the same spiritual achievement forward, but physically one can't take anything to next life, and also psychically or intellectually one is not able to continue from same developed stage, although in some case it is helpful what one has reached mentally at past.

 

Psychic people are often also spiritual, but if they would do yoga they would develop their body more suitable for spiritual practices, and spiritual practices would speed up their way for liberation and salvation. Also lack of discipline can make one to waste lots of time for nothing. Ananda Marga emphasizes also service, to uplift other’s conditions. Service mindedness keeps oneself humble and selfless. 

Psychic skills can sometimes be even a burden, because one can take missteps, get involved with dark spirits and get ego from knowing things that others don’t know. Besides many healers take away others karma and has to face consequences themselves. Same concerns alien contactees from most part. Expecting aliens to heal us, to save us and develop us, is keeping ego going.

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How one can get liberation, and not create new karma?

 

One should concentrate on doing most of the time good things and service. The negative things can be eliminated by meditation practices. We have special mantra with inner meaning, which helps to make every action practically a divine act. Of course one can’t remember it constantly, so the rest can be undone by the grace of Divine, Cosmic Consciousness. This grace we experience also in our daily life. 

 
Our service projects makes it easier for us to practice selflessness and avoid karma creation in daily life. Service makes mind soft and grateful, and makes it easier to meditate, which also burns karma faster. When you want to do something negative delay it and you might not remember to do it at all or you may change your mind.

What should be the Goal of Yoga and Meditation?

For most people the goal seems to be only taking care of ones health, which is positive already. For some meeting great yogis, that one will not come across in daily life, which is great. For some deep, mystical experiences during meditation, and becoming a real yogi. Simply the goal should be that all thoughts and deeds to be directed towards reaching oneness with Supreme Consciousness.

It is quite easy to stop eating meat, but is it important to follow satvic diet with all strange restrictions, such as onion, mushrooms and coffee?

Without knowing why one should not eat certain things, it is difficult to understand and follow satvic or sentient diet fully. For example while eating mushrooms, it absorbs your energy as it is a parasitic plant. Eating onion makes the mind restless, and the body has to suffer from explosion kind of effect as it is so intense, although it might kill some bacteria at the same time. In those countries were people eat lots of garlic their mind may be “explosive”, get easily angry.

In our yoga retreats for new people, there are always some people driving in the mornings to cafe place, as we don’t offer coffee and they get headaches. Doesn’t it show already how strong addiction coffee causes, and any addictions are not good for the mind and body. Easiest way indeed is to join our cooking course or yoga retreat and get used to eat only satvic food.

What is your relation to other religions and yoga societies? What is the difference to Hare Krishna?

We are recommended to read other’s religious scriptures also, and learn from them. We are to co-operate in some ways with benevolent organizations and groups, religious, economical and social.  Also the original form of tantra yoga doesn’t include special or collective sexual practices, except normal relations with couples.

Hare Krishna is practicing bhakti yoga, which is part of tantra yoga, that we practice. So tantra yoga is more holistic including karma yoga, raja yoga and social service.

One yoga monk from Hare Krishna told to me once, that you seem to have things better than us in the sense that your monks are living totally separate from nuns, and your monks and nuns, both make celibate promise. 

Indeed our monks and nuns dedicate their whole lives to teaching yoga practices and doing social service, which would not be so easy if we had family. Celibacy for us is not a problem when we know asanas, food and other means to uplift our minds above sexual interest. We have also many other departments for example Neohumanistic education, Microvita science and Prout-socio-economics.

What to think about Hot Yoga?

Hot yoga is not good for the body and mind. Heat increases nervous tension. Also heart beats faster so one can’t really relax. We recommend half bath before asanas; cooling down behind ears, neck, face, hands, feet etc. Body should not though be too cold, and one should avoid draft, because those stiffen the muscles. If you have to meditate in sunshine, turn your back on it.

Why to do Kiirtan?

Isn’t fun and relaxing? While we dance we touch tip of big toe to the ground in order to relax the brain. Zone therapist uses the same spot to relax the person. Dancing and same time singing mantra with thinking of its meaning; love, easily stays also in our daily thoughts while dealing with the worldly objects. Love increases the more you think about it. 

Meditation becomes easier after kiirtan. If one has mental tension or even problems one should do longer time kiirtan than meditation. Personally I have changed mountains of negative worries and anxieties into positive loving feelings, and solved even many problems during kiirtan.

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What is your idea about opening cakras and removing cakras?

We don’t open purposely cakras, or remove them. Thousands and thousands of years Indian yogis have practiced yoga without opening or removing cakras, because cakras become activated naturally when one is advancing in yoga. The explanation removing cakras is that they are manipulated by inimical forces, like experimental programs or ETs in order to control them, but simply you can’t remove even one cakra or you will die. One can easily protect oneself from manipulation by clearly expressing denial to be in those experimental programs, using protective mantras and asking divine help.

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