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Verses 3.38 through 3.40

The yogi making the reversed tongue upfacing who remains stable, even for half a moment, is immune from poison, disease, old age, and death. For that yogi who knows the moving- in-space energy seal, there is no disease, nor is there death, drowsiness, sleep, hunger, thirst, or transfixion. He is not afflicted by disease, tainted by action, or affected by time/death.

The first step of the accomplishment of moving-in-space is the cutting asunder of the tubule vessel bundle. The second step is the moving and milking of the tongue, and the third step is its [the tongue's] entrance into the Absolute opening. Even after these three steps are taken, the systematic practice of the moving-in-space energy seal is not completed. This is because it has two other distinct steps. The earlier of these steps is the dominance of the [united] uptending and down-tending life energy and their stability in the Absolute opening. The later step is for the tongue to be stable in the Absolute opening for a long time and for the gaze to remain established in the center of the eyebrows for a long time. This last level is very powerful. At that time, the upheld sexual seed of the yogi becomes very stable, he receives the splendid opportunity of drinking the nectar of immortality, he gradually becomes free from ailments,

[and] his physical body continually undergoes changes, with the result that his old age is gradually taken away; he looks, in the beginning, like a man between thirty and fifty years of age, in the middle, like a young man, and, in the end, like a youth. When the body of the yogi becomes divine by means of the fire of yoga, it is not affected even by deadly poison.

'If we were to receive knowledge of the scientific basis for the attainment of this divine body, we would be highly contented.' [This is the student's request, responded to by the following.]

It is well-known to us that progeny are born due to the conjunction [of the female and male chromosomes] of a woman and a man; this progeny is called 'born of the female organ of

generation'. But the yogi or yogini acquires the divine body that comes from yoga; its genesis is through one's own body. The old body, gradually fading away, is destroyed, and in its place, a second, new, body is generated. This body is called 'not born of the female organ of generation'. This [creation of a new body without female-male conjunction] is not an astonishing

occurrence.

An amoeba is a minute organism. Its living body is formed of only one unit, it is one- sheathed – unicellular. Despite having no organs, it can perform all functions as if it had organs. Not only that, it also reproduces by itself. When it becomes fully grown, the nucleus splits into two parts – its living essence is distributed into two parts. Thus the beginning of the action of procreation is from the nucleus, or the repository.

This is natural (of nature).

The second characteristic [of the formation of the divine body] is that in it, the new, young body is obtained without death. The old body, gradually fading away, disappears, and,

simultaneously, a new body, gradually developing, appears. Death comes to stand in the middle, but it cannot affect the yogi or yogini; having gone above it, they move in the direction of immortality.

In The Holy Bhagavad Gita there is only a brief discourse on this subject, yet it is quite clear. In it this is revealed: the yogi, gradually letting go of the old body without [the occurrence of] death, acquires a new divine body. The ninth verse of the eighth chapter mentions the meditation of the Highest God that is like the rising sun, and the tenth verse mentions the attainment of the Ultimate Soul (the Whole Soul, the Universal Soul). Just as sugar merged in milk comes to be milk, the yogi immersed in the divine Ultimate Soul becomes of one form (of one nature) [with the Ultimate Soul]; therefore his body also becomes divine. It [the divine body] substantiates the divine vision of the rising sun. Only through conjunction with divinity can divinity be attained. In the verse, it says, 'This devotion-filled yogi, at the time of setting out (death), makes the life energy stable in the center of the eyebrows through the power of yoga; after that, having meditated with unmoving mind, he obtains the Ultimate Divine Person (ultimate divine human being [divine body]).' In the verse, the phrase 'the time of setting out' has been used; this is the setting out of meditation. Its meaning is: going, departure, journey, etcetera. It includes death, because it [death] is the great setting-out; from illusion to the Ultimate Soul, from untruth to truth, from false knowledge to knowledge and from death to immortality. The cause of death is the separation of the uptending life energy and the

downtending life energy, and the cause of immortality is the conjunction of the uptending life energy and the downtending life energy. The center-of-the-eyebrows door is the door of death; he who goes above it is a yogi.

Great-Seer Sage Gheranda, in his book The Gheranda Samhita, indicating familiarity with the divine body, says, 'This divine body cannot be burned by fire, nor dried by air, nor wetted by water, nor can a serpent bite it.'

Upheld sexual seed is of two kinds: one, the white kind, is called the white sexual seed, and the other, the blood-colored kind, is called the great red sexual seed. Like liquid vermilion, the red sexual seed is in the place-of-the-sun navel center [the lower three energy centers], and the white sexual seed is in the place-of-the-moon throat region [the throat-and-sky energy center]; uniting these two is extremely difficult. The white sexual seed is Kind Dissolver and the red

sexual seed is Divine Power. Through their union, the ultimate realm is attained. The uptending life energy and the Ultimate Soul are called the moon, and the downtending life energy and the living soul are called the sun. Their union is sun-moon yoga. [There are three Sanskrit words, shukra, virya, and raja, that refer to sexual seed, the first two primarily to male sexual seed and the last to female sexual seed. Shukra is translated as 'white sexual seed', or where gender is immaterial, as 'sexual seed', and virya is translated as 'semen' or 'sperm', or when gender is immaterial, as 'seed'. Raja is translated as 'red sexual seed' when contrasted with

shukra, and as 'menstrual blood' or 'ovum' (ova) when contrasted with virya.]

Through the correct continued practice of the root-lock energy seal, the flying-up-lock energy seal, the water-holder-lock energy seal, the divine-power-moving energy seal, and various other energy seals, the downtending life energy becomes upgoing. These are pumps making the downtending life energy upgoing. Until a boy and girl have entered puberty, their white sexual seed and red sexual seed do not become discharged through their sex organs (penis, vagina). This means that until then their gonads are inward-flowing, and the new arrangements [the crossing over between homologous chromosomes that produces evolved DNA] of their bodies continue. Through them [the new arrangements], gracefulness, power, genius and other bodily and mental flowerings take place. After that, their gonads become outward-flowing – the white sexual seed and the red sexual seed begin to be discharged.

Through the sun-moon continued practice, the downtending life energy becomes upgoing, but this presents no obstacle to the emission of urine and excrement because the yogi is more involved with the seed-bearing tube. The urine tube and the seed-bearing tube are [initially] separate from one another, but in the middle their paths become one, so when the downtending life energy has been drawn upward, the downtending life energy of the urine tube is also

stabilized there; therefore, the urine comes out haltingly [in spurts]. This is not disease; this is a special sign of the accomplishment of yoga. It lasts from six months to a year; after that, there is no longer any checking of the urine. But even then, the downtending life energy is not hasty when urinating. In the end, when the uptending life energy and the downtending life energy become stable in the command energy center, the sexual-seed-bearing tube once again becomes inward-flowing and the beginning work of the formation of the divine body occurs. Y[The seed- bearing tube consists, in the male, of the urethra, ductus deferens, ductus epididymis, and the seminiferous tubules of the testes, and in the female, of the vagina, uterus and uterine tubes, mesovarium tubules (epoophoron), and the ovaries. The sexual seed can be held and absorbed into the blood at any level above the urethra and vagina.]

Although boys and girls normally have elevated sexual seed, their rectitude has a limit. When they become adolescents, sexual desire associated with mental impressions begins to disturb their bodies and minds, and on one day or another their divine power falls down. Once this lower door is opened, it is never shut again. The yogi and yogini also have elevated sexual seed, but there is a world of difference between them and prepubescent boys and girls. The body of the yogi or yogini is divine. In their 'not-born-of-the-female-genital' divine body, the eight accomplishments – becoming like the smallest particle, extending, increasing mass, becoming lightweight, getting, doing, ruling, and authority – always dwell. They are called sovereignty; 'sovereignty' means 'Godhood' or 'omnipotence', so the yogi is considered to be the incarnation of God; that fire-of-yoga divine body does not appear for one or two days and leave, but stays among the people for years. Great-Seer Sage Kapila, Great-Seer Sage Patañjali,

Great-Seer Sage Yajñavalkya, Great-Seer Sage Vasishtha, Great Seer Lakulisha, Beloved Saint Jñaneshvara, and countless other divine-bodied great yogis lived in society for years. It is true that sometimes an individual in the waking state, due to his meditation, has a divine vision of (experiences the presence of) his cherished great person, but it is conjured in an emotional vision of internal devotion. It is not connected with the body of the great person, and that [great person's] body does not become divine because he [the devotee] has a divine vision. The

divinity of a body is associated with yogic worship, and the divine vision of a body is associated with the feelings of the devotee.

One who does the continued practice of the moving-in-space energy seal is not associated with action or with wrong action, therefore for him there is no purity, impurity, ethical action, unethical action, etcetera. In all states, he is always untainted.

'Why?'

He is a worshipper of non-action. The devotional yogi calls this non-action 'taking-shelter yoga' or 'surrender-of-action yoga', the knowledge yogi calls it 'renunciation-of-action yoga' or 'natural yoga', and the action yogi calls it 'eight-limbed yoga' or 'purifying action yoga'.

The word 'disease' occurred in the second [3.39] and third [3.40] verses and the word 'death' appeared in the first [3.38] verse, so these two words have occurred repeatedly. King Among Yogis has been quoting these verses from some other yogic scriptures. Just as darkness does not continue with the advent of light, so disease does not continue with the advent of health. The end of disease is the first step of yoga. Through the continued practice of the moving-in-space energy seal, the dark condition of the yogi departs; therefore, his drowsiness and sleep also depart.

Having just read this, this uncertainty arises: 'We accept the reference to drowsiness, but how can we accept the reference to sleep? Can the yogi go on without sleep? Does he not sleep during the night? Humans become insane due to continued lack of sleep. Sleep is a very

necessary part of human life!'

The yogi does sleep during the night, but in his sleep there is no inhaling or exhaling. That is, his sleep is not called 'sleep', but 'equanimity'. Nor is he in a state of transfixion, because the arena of transfixion is only up to the pure speech energy center, not in the arena above it. In it [in transfixion] there is inhaling and exhaling, but in the body of the yogi, after the

accomplishment of the moving-in-space energy seal, there is no exhaling or inhaling. Putting it in scientific terms, it can be said that the yogi is the highest continuous practicer of 'nothing-but- hold'. During the period of concentration, he does only one filling and, after two hours,

expelling; and in meditation, he does only one filling and, after twenty-four hours, expelling; but in equanimity, there is complete cessation for him. How can hunger and thirst arise in the state of one whose meditation continues for twenty-four hours? Here, it should be remembered that when the continued practice of the moving-in-space energy seal is going on, the aspirant does not experience much hunger, because the location of the moving-in-space energy seal is in the pure speech energy center. One aphorism of The Yoga Darshana says, 'By making the mental faculty stable in the throat cavity, hunger and thirst are taken away.' The region of the throat is included in the pure speech [and sky] energy center. When the continued practice of the

moving-in-space energy seal is going on, the meditation of the cavity of the throat is natural; therefore, the food intake of the aspirant is reduced and his thirst also decreases. Similarly, when the continued practice of the root lock, the great energy seal, the reversal-causing energy seal, the dorsal-upward posture, the flying-up lock, or the abdominal churning are going on, the aspirant's digestive fire is ignited. Be he a devotional yogi, a knowledge yogi or an action yogi – there is only one royal path for all. He who journeys on this path is not tainted by action. Doership is bondage and non-doership is liberation. The devotional yogi thinks: I do not do any action by my will (out of my desire); my Master urges this action, I do it; therefore I am not the doer of actions. The knowledge yogi thinks: I am the soul, not the body. I am actionless (independent of purifying action); action is done by nature, therefore I am not the doer of it. The action yogi thinks: I do not do action; action is an activity of the life energy; I am a non- doer. Thus these three yogis, each according to his point of view, arrive at non-doership. The abandoning of doership is the way to be free from the bondage of action. The yogi is also called the defeater of time/death. The yogi in equanimity is not in a temporal mental state, and he can abandon his body by his will [according to the choice of his true self]; even death is helpless.