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Stop Pushing In Meditation - Yogi Explains

Summary

, 17 min

Why effort and pushing stall at the spiritual eye, told through an ashram-era teaching dream of climbing ladders through stacked elevator rooms to a pipe too narrow to pass. The lesson is surrender: letting go of the doing left brain, then 'being' by soaking in the four proofs and three essentials like a holy potato.

In this video

Teaches
Struggle in meditationSurrenderHoly Potato
Mentions
Divine MotherKriya YogaYoni MudraChakrasMitranandaLow-Idle-StateHRV ResonanceSitting Very Still (SVS)OM Japa in the ChakrasThree Essentials

Key moments

00:00A deep yogi's insight: pushing does not work in meditation01:17Seeing the spiritual eye in the ashram through Yoni Mudra01:54Manic practice every 15 to 30 minutes03:10Stuck before the spiritual eye like a sphinx, praying for three years04:13Divine Mother's teaching dream and how sleep gets you out of the way05:29Climbing ladders through five stacked elevator rooms06:38A three-quarter-inch PVC pipe in the ceiling07:15The meaning: push through the chakras, let go at the spiritual eye09:14The spiritual eye as a gauntlet of truth09:47With Mitrananda: "Master's way" can't pass through either10:54The doing left brain and the expansive right brain12:02Do then be: setting up with HRV, the four proofs and OM Japa12:58How to be: soak in the four proofs like a potato in a pot14:02Soaking in the three essentials15:23Surrender as enjoying the soak, being the holy potato15:53Carrying the soaking into a softer day