The Yoga of Consciousness: 25 Direct Practices to Enlightenment. Revealing the Missing Keys to Self-Realization. (Real Yoga Book 4) by SantataGamana

Author:SantataGamana [SantataGamana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Real Yoga
Published: 2018-05-20T16:00:00+00:00

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The Power of Conscious Witnessing

Everyone starts meditating with a meditation object. Some esoteric traditions begin by fixing the gaze on a candle, or by visualizing simple letters or complex images. Others use a mantra, the breath sensations, prana, and so on. Every single one of these traditions starts with grosser objects, and then as the practice deepens and the aspirant’s ability to sustain attention increases, proceeds to subtler and subtler objects of perception.

There’s a high chance you’ve already practiced some form of energetic object-based practice, like Kriya Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, Buddhism or whatever it is. If you have read my previous books, there’s also a chance you’ve been reposing in the “Self-Awareness,” “just Being” or “I Am-ness” state. This is also called Parvastha in Kriya Yoga, and refers to the after-practice absorption state.

If you’ve already been doing that, it’s amazing, and you are well ahead of most aspirants. If not, now it’s the perfect time to start.

Yet, the rest of your time must be filled with conscious awareness, with presence. This can be called The Power of Conscious Witnessing.

Uniting the time spent meditating on-cushion, with consciously witnessing the ego off-cushion (and catching it whenever it tries to take control of your awareness), will accelerate your spiritual progress a million times.

Not only does The Power of Conscious Witnessing create space between you and what you used to identify with, but it helps to awaken discrimination between the subject and the object, or as it is written in many ancient scriptures, between the seer and the seen.

“To overcome the outward-turning power of the mind is hard to accomplish without completely eliminating the veiling effect, but the covering over one’s inner Self can be removed by discriminating between seer and objects.”

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