Equinox I (04).pdf

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING
September.
get a sort of Sukshma-Kumbhaka which I cannot reproduce
at will.
Rigidity of body and the fading of all vision are its stigmata.
Curiously this happened on coming out of Mental
Muttering back to audible, or rather at one loud slow Mantra,
i.e. when no Kumbhaka was possible.
26th. 8.50-9.3 Mental Muttering for ten minutes “Aum Shivayavashi.”
a.m. a.m. Results similar to last night’s, somewhat more easily obtained.
5.25-5.57 Mental Muttering of “Aum Shivayavashi.” Results better
p.m. p.m. than usual.
Prânâyâma. Seven minutes after 10 seconds of Kumbhaka.
This seventh time I forgot all about everything and breathed
out of both nostrils. Quite quietly—pure mental abstraction.
8.10-9.30 Mental Muttering of “Aum Shivayavashi,” for seventy-five
p.m. p.m. minutes. Several times lost concentration or consciousness or
something, i.e. either vision or voice or both were interrupted.
(N.B. at one particular rate the third eye throbs violently in
time with the mantra.)
27th. Constant dreams of Dhâranâ.
10.20-10.33 Prânâyâma . Seven minutes 10. 20. 30. Twice forgot my-
a.m. a.m. self in Kumbhaka by exceeding the thirty seconds. I was
trying to kill thoughts entering Ajna. On the first occasion I
was still saying “Shiva” for this purpose; on the second I was
meditating on Devi [a name of Bhâvani].
4.45-4.50 One Grand Prânâyâma. 30. 15. 60.
p.m. p.m. New Prânâyâma of 25. 15. 50; twice.
5.12-5.40 Prânâyâma. Seven minutes 10. 20. 30.
a.m. a.m. Mental Muttering. “Aum Shivayavashi” Fifteen minutes,
at rate when Ajna throbs.
(N.B. of late my many years’ habit of sleeping only on the
right side has vanished. I now sleep always on my left side.)
28th. 7 a.m. Prânâyâma. 10. 20. 30.
4.35-5.16 Prânâyâma. Four minutes: 10. 20. 30.
p.m. p.m. Mantra: “Aum Shivayavashi.” Twenty minutes. I feel on
the brink of something every time—Aid me, Lord Self!
His Holiness the Guru Swami says: “It is not well, O child,
that thou contemplatest the external objects about thee. Let
rather thy Chakkras be on-meditated. Aum!”
10.50 p.m. Dhâranâ on Ajna eighteen minutes muttering “Aum Tat
Sat Aum!”
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