Yoga Journey
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The being that is depicted here rising out of the ethereal waters is called in Tibetan Lhu གླུ. In Sanskrit, the word is Naga नाग. Naga means serpent. Lhu or Naga is a type of being that is not human, and that does not generally appear in the physical world, although they can. They are elemental spirits, primordial intelligences of nature that protect a vast amount of knowledge and energy. Any shaman works with lhu, the forces of nature.
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This image shows a yogi who was a student of Guru Rinpoche, Padmasambhava. This yogi’s name is Jnanakumara, which means “king of Gnosis.” Jnanakumara is shown in a pose that reflects his mythology; he is depicted hiding himself in a cave for many years sustaining himself with one thing, which is water that he took from the rock. He is gathering the water with the top part of a human skull. This is not literal, it is symbolic, but what does it mean? It means that Jnanakumara, this Master of Gnosis, was transmuting his sexual waters up into his head; he was taking the waters from the rock. What is the rock? It is the foundation stone, Yesod on the Tree of Life; it is “the foundation of the temple, the stone that the builders disallowed, the stone that the builders rejected.” Fuel for Spiritual Experience
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This image shows a yogi in meditation. At the level of his head we see waters flowing from heaven. Those are the waters above, from the superior worlds at the level of his head.
Those waters are שמים Shamayim. The Hebrew word Shamayim means “the fiery waters,” but it is usually translated as Heaven. Shamayim is Mayim plus the letter ש Shin. The letter Shin means fire, so the fire is in the waters. The first Mem is the waters above, the brain. The Iod is the fire of the heart, the Atom Nous. The last Mem is the waters below, the sexual energy.
The symbol in his heart represents his prayer. That symbol is the Tibetan letter A ཨ. Below it is the lotus of the heart which requires our prayer to be sincere.
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This next image shows the waters of sex being transformed and raised through the three channels through the middle of the body: the central column of the spine and the two columns, two forms of energy on either side. The transformed energy flows up into the brain. Again we see the letter A ཨ in his heart, but what is that around his head? It is a window: the window of the pineal gland. When we transmute the waters and bring them into the head, those sexual waters—through which all life is created—the power in that water resuscitates, rejuvenates, regenerates the pineal gland; all that energy, all that force goes into the pineal gland, which is the source of clairvoyance, which is where we imagine, which is our window to the Divine.
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This image shows a yogi in meditation with the three channels on the spinal column, and above his head is a fire; that fire is the same as the Hebrew letter ש Shin. Next to his mouth is the Tibetan letter Ha ཧ. Above his head is a flame, and above that flame, the letter A ཨ, and from that letter A ཨ we see a splendorous radiation and then an image of heaven or nirvana.
This image is related to a tradition called Tummo, which is a particular type of technique that is taught in a variety of schools of Buddhism. In the Gnostic tradition we call it Pranayama. There are many varieties of Pranayama exercises. The Sanskrit word Pranayama means “to harness the winds.” It is not referring to physical wind, but ethereal wind—in other words, what we call ethers. To harness the winds is to harness energies. Those energies is shown here in this path that leads to this temple in the internal worlds. The yogi is using mantras; these letters are A and Ha but you see, they did not paint the whole mantra. Can anybody see what the whole mantra is? Yes, Ham-Sah. Do you know the sound that fire makes? Sssssssssaaaaahhhhh.
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