Tantrik Yoga: Online Satsang - Being in reality

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November 20th 2022

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Subject: Being with Reality

NOTES

In this session you will learn about Tattva bhāvanā meditation. There is a lesson about what is meant by 'being in reality' followed by a chance to practice the meditation.

This is a fundamental practice for anyone interested in Tantrik yoga.

TERMS

Tattva
Reality or 'that-ness'

Bhāvanā
Sentiment, feeling, emotion or meditation

Tattva-bhāvanā
Being with reality, or, feeling into reality

Suṣumnā nāḍi
Main central channel of the energy body

Śiva
In the context it is being used here, Śiva is consciousness

Śakti
In the context it is being used here, Śakti is the contents of consciousness

Kula
A community coming together, or family

REFERENCES

Trika Tattva-bhāvanā Meditation by Hareesh

Music: Sunta Hai Guru Gyaani by Kumar Gandharva

POEM

The magnificent ocean,

contracting and expanding

with endless emotions.

In any moment,

when the circumstances are just so,

a single wave can crash,

bringing about devastation,

devouring that which was only ever created to be destroyed anyway.

Another wave, made of the very same substance, can whisper a soothing lullaby whilst holding you in a motherly embrace.

To wish for one is to deny the other,

this is what we call lost at sea.

You can only be lost if you believe there is somewhere to be.

You desire to control the waves because you have failed to realise the whole ocean.

You feel abandoned in the unpredictable sea of change.

There is no escaping.

God knows you’ve tried.

You’ve surfed the waves.

Swam to the depths,

Only to resurface once again,

gasping for your next breath.

Now, too many waves,

dragging you back under,

you struggle harder,

you pray for salvation

and for one final time,

you deny the inevitable.

The taste of fear consumes you in totality until there is nothing to do but surrender.

Then it is done.

With that surrender,

it is clear, without a doubt, what lies behind, beneath and beyond

On the ocean floor, YOU wave the sea.

Behind each breath,

Beneath each wave,

Beyond all experience,

the ever still ground of contentment,

effortlessly holding the entire ocean, for all time.

There when the waters are clear,

there when you were lost at sea.

Always holding you. Always, behind, beneath and beyond.

Words by Yogi Andi (read by his teacher, Hareesh)

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Hari Om Tat Sat
हरि ॐ तत्सत्

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