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Verses 3.111 through 3.120

Seizing the sleeping, downfacing, female snake, Evolutionary Force, by the tail, one should awaken (arouse) her. As a result of this vigorous assault, abandoning her sleep, she becomes upfacing. Every day, in the early morning and early evening, having filled through the fiery flow energy channel, one should seize the downfacing evolutionary force using an enclosed technique (wrapped around [as by a garment]), and one should continually move her for half a watch of the day [for an hour and a half]. Above the root place, the bulb has been said to be like a supple, white wrapping-cloth that is one span – twelve fingers' breadths – long and four fingers' breadths wide [about 22.8 cm. by 7.6 cm.]. Seated in the hard weapon posture, the aspirant should seize both feet with the two hands and powerfully press (squeeze, trouble, cause to ache) the bulb located next to the heels. The yogi seated in the hard weapon posture should agitate the evolutionary force, then do the little bellows suspension of the life energy – thus (in this way) he should quickly awaken her. The aspirant should first do the contraction (turning back) of the sun, and after that, the agitation of divine-power moving. Although he goes thus into the mouth of death, where for him is the fear of time/death? Due to [his]

fearless performance of the continued practice of divine-power moving for two muhurta (two 48

minute periods) – four ghari (four 24 minute periods), or ninety-six minutes – she enters the

very kind flow channel and is also drawn upward a little. Through this, the evolutionary force abandons the door of the very kind flow and, consequently, the life energy enters this very kind flow of its own accord. For this purpose, the aspirant should agitate the peacefully sleeping evolutionary force. By agitating her, the yogi becomes free from disease. The yogi who has done divine-power moving is a suitably qualified recipient of accomplishment. In this connection what more can be said? He can defeat time/death playfully.

This evolutionary force is the primary element of yoga. From this very place, yoga begins. We can also say that however many elements of yoga there may be, if the element of this evolutionary force alone were extracted, yoga would be found to be no longer yoga. The evolutionary force is the seed of yoga; without the evolutionary force, yoga cannot exist. The evolutionary force is such a large jewel that all worldly people can involuntarily come across her, but unfortunately none of them recognizes her and they all neglect (are indifferent to,

contemptuous of) her, considering her to be a worthless glass crystal. This is justifiable because the evolutionary force is a lioness. She is very terrible. Only a liberation-seeking aspirant of a high class can have the spirit to approach her. Awakening her is not some childish exploit. Indeed, in

that process one enters the mouth of death every day and every moment – not just for one or two years but for many years. Between pleasure and yoga there is only a small amount of difference – pleasure is the downward journey and yoga is the upward journey.

Why is the evolutionary force asleep?

– because there are no extremely brave (virile) yogis awakening her; all are worldly people acting for pleasure.

Why is she downfacing?

– because the flow of the downtending life energy is downward. This downfacing

evolutionary force is said to be asleep, and the upfacing evolutionary force is said to be awake. In her awake state, the downtending life energy is upgoing.

Why is she called a female snake?

– because she really is a female snake. The one who awakens her, she bites – bewilders through sexual desire associated with mental impressions.

In the verse it says, 'Seizing her by the tail, one should awaken her.' What is her tail?

A hundred thousand questions will not reveal a trace of her tail. How can a trail be tracked only by questions? Surely the trail of the tail can only be tracked if the evolutionary force is a visible reality. But in order to make her a visible reality, one must receive yogic initiation from a truth teacher who has reached the far shore of yoga and after that do correct systematic practice of yoga, and . . . when one does see her terrible (hideous, dreadful) form, then forgetting all talk of tail-seizing, one will not even be able to muster the courage to go near her. Her tail will indeed be revealed to one!

'If the evolutionary force is indeed a biting female snake, then to seize her tail to awaken her is a foolish act. Surely, just as a venomous snake is seized with a large pair of pincers, one should seize the evolutionary force by some stratagem.'

This remark is fitting from a practical point of view, but from a yogic point of view it is unfitting. An extremely valiant person wrestles a lion with his bare hands; he does not use a weapon. This is because in the presence of a body, a body is needed, not the discriminating faculty. There is deceit (strategy) in it [the discriminating faculty]. The yogi is very brave; he does not take defensive action like a coward. The evolutionary force bites him, not once or twice, but hundreds of thousands of times, yet, laughing (smiling), he remains standing on his spot. Not only that, despite being defeated hundreds of thousands of times, he does not give up hope of victory. He has come to terms with death; what is dying to one who is already dead? The war between the two has one remarkable feature: every day the evolutionary force is victorious and every day the yogi is defeated, yet the evolutionary force, in spite of winning, loses a little every day and the yogi, in spite of losing, gains a little every day. From a subtle point of view, the apparent victory of the evolutionary force is a hidden defeat, and the apparent defeat of the yogi is a hidden victory. The evolutionary force is victorious twice, in the beginning and in the middle, and the yogi is victorious only once, in the end. Only the aspirant who can carry on an unwavering war of this kind can awaken the evolutionary force, only he can attain liberation, and only he can become the Absolute itself. In this war there is no room for any other kind of war; seize the evolutionary force by the tail and awaken her: this is the set order of battle.

The evolutionary force is awakened through the continued practice of posture, the suspension of the life energy, energy seal, and other systematic practices of yoga. But here it should be

remembered that this awakening is not considered to be the real awakening, because in it she remains downfacing. As long as she continues to be downfacing, yogis do not call her awake or the upfacing evolutionary force; they call her the downfacing evolutionary force. Thus the evolutionary force remains downfacing, not for one or two years, but for many years. When finally the downtending life energy, having surpassed the lower energy centers, becomes stable in the command energy center, she becomes upfacing. Every day, one should perform her continued practice at these two times: early morning and evening. Although yoga begins as a result of the arousal of the life energy, there is no real entrance into yoga until the life energy enters the root- base energy center. Divine-power moving is a profound secret of yoga. If the grace of God or the

grace of the teacher is not present, attaining it [divine-power moving] is impossible. From the merest acquaintance with it, the aspirant becomes very restless and disturbed. In this state, even though yoga is very dear to him, he does not find the courage to go further in his continued practice of yoga. Here the guidance of the truth teacher is indispensable. In the above verse there is the instruction to seize the downfacing evolutionary force by an enclosed technique, because this is the most secret energy seal. Its continued practice is always done in a hidden way. 'Pleasure conjunction' is between a man and a woman; 'yogic conjunction' is between the living soul and Kind Dissolver. The necessary rule of pleasure conjunction and yogic conjunction is seclusion (privacy); this is the enclosed technique.

Divine-power moving is a pump. Through it, the downtending life energy becomes upgoing. Its continued practice is done every day in the early morning and evening for about an hour and a half. The distance between the area just below the navel and the female-receptacle place – the joining place (the perineum) – is a span; this is the extent of the bulb. The first part of the bulb is the area just below the navel, the middle of the bulb is the area of the sex organ, and the end of the bulb is the area of the joining place [pressing the perineum presses the prostatic utricle or the cervix, therefore 'the joining place' may sometimes refer to the entire bulb]. In the beginning then, the joining place is to be pressed with either heel. This is an unfailing way to make the

downtending life energy upgoing. The more the continued practice of the accomplishment posture is prolonged, the more upgoing the downtending life energy becomes. Finally, the joining place is pressed by one heel while the anus is pressed by the other heel; this is called the hard weapon posture, the root-lock posture, or the accomplishment posture.

In the term 'divine-power moving' there are two words: 'divine-power' and 'moving'. 'Divine power' means 'white sexual seed or red sexual seed', and 'moving' means 'to cause to move' (to agitate, to set in motion) – to make upgoing. 'To make the white sexual seed or red sexual seed upgoing', this is divine-power moving. But it is not easy to make the divine power upgoing, because at that time the lower door is open, therefore the white sexual seed or red sexual seed moves in that direction; to stop it is very hard. As long as the downtending life energy continues to go in the direction of the lower door, the divine power cannot become upgoing. When the white sexual seed gland or the red sexual seed gland flows inward, the downtending life energy,

abandoning the ventral central path, becomes a traveler on the dorsal central path. In pleasure conjunction between a man and woman, the little bellows suspension of the life energy is natural, and in the same way, the little bellows suspension of the life energy is natural in the 'yogic

conjunction' of the living soul and Kind Dissolver, but there is a difference between the two: through the pleasure-conjunction little bellows suspension of the life energy, the downgoing downtending life energy makes the upgoing uptending life energy downgoing, and through the yogic-conjunction little bellows suspension of the life energy, the upgoing uptending life energy makes the downgoing downtending life energy upgoing. So the yogic scriptures have commanded, 'After divine-power moving, one should do the little bellows suspension of the life energy'.

Through this, the evolutionary force becomes upfacing.

Beloved Teacher says, 'The aspirant should first do the contraction (turning back) of the sun, and after that, do the agitation of divine-power moving.' In this stage, the contraction of the sun is possible through the root-lock energy seal, the hard-weapon-burning energy seal, the flying-up-lock energy seal, and the dorsal-upward posture. This procedure would seem to be very frightening because in it death is always there (impending); nevertheless, the aspirant who knows the technique of yoga does the continued practice of it fearlessly for up to one and a half hours. By means of this continued practice, the evolutionary divine power enters the very kind flow energy channel and is drawn upward a little. When she abandons [moves away from] the Absolute door, the life energy enters the very kind flow of its own accord. In the beginning and middle of divine- power moving, countless diseases occur, but in the end all those diseases disappear. Without divine-power moving, the yogi cannot become qualified for liberation; for him, liberation itself is the highest accomplishment. He does not have a desire for other powers because ultimate

detachment is always there at his service. He attains the divine body and he defeats time/death playfully.

What is this 'play'?

'Play' means 'sport', 'amorous dalliance', or 'sensual pleasure', but this sport is not pleasure- seeking sport, pleasure-seeking amorous dalliance, or pleasure-seeking sensual pleasure; it is yogic sport, yogic amorous dalliance, or yogic sensual pleasure. Seeking pleasure is the path of return (recurrence) – birth, old age and death – and yoga is the path of no return – youth and immortality. [The Sanskrit word samyoga is translated as 'conjunction', except where it is contrasted with

sambhoga, in which case it is translated as 'yogic conjunction' and sambhoga is translated as

'pleasure conjunction'. On one level, pleasure conjunction may refer to the lining up of the woman's and man's chromosomes in the mitosis metaphase of fertilization, and yogic conjunction to the extended crossing over between the maternal and paternal homologous chromosomes in the first metaphase of meiosis that produces evolved DNA. The DNA thus evolved may be distributed into haploid cells and ejected from the body, or it may be distributed into haploid cells but held in the circular female receptacle or higher, or, rather than being distributed into haploid cells, it may be taken by the bloodstream to the nuclei of all the cells of the body, where it replaces the old DNA and thus evolves the body. On one level, the red sexual seed and the white sexual seed may represent the maternal and paternal homologous

chromosomes.]