Thank you Baba ! I can't remember the exact reference but a similar question was asked to Lahiri Baba by a disciple : "When will one be free from the sexual instinct ?" and His answer blew my mind away too : "When one will be lying in the grave"...
Thank you so much, dear Forrest ❤ for sharing this 😊 i met Brother D. in 2007 in Hidden Valley… unforgettable for me ❤ what a wonderful Buddha- like Saint ⭐️
I don't understand the necessity to change people's personal names to Indian one's when practicing Yoga. I also do not understand the use of Indic terminology.
Your recent videos seem like reiterations; back in the day, Tony Robbins used to say, "Repetition is the mother of skill." He may have swiped that idea from Kabir, who wrote, "By repeated practice, even a dull mind becomes a knower. By the repeated movement of the rope, even a hard rock gets marked." Very helpful today, Forrest!
Beautiful Walt, absolutely. Sometimes we hear the right thing in just the right way, and it all clicks into place. So I often repeat in slightly different ways to facilitate just that. Blissings brother!
Oh , I remember him from the San Diego SRF chapel .So nice to share ! Thank you . I like when you say Magical Forrest because that best describes . Even though fleeting for me . There is a Beatles song where Paul sings “ But Oh that magic feeling” That reminds me so much of those moments.
Call and Response! This phrasing resonates with my current experience. I regularly fall into the trap of straining for more when I sense even a bit of expansion. Grateful for the reminder that I need to let go in order to reach my goal.
Loved this -- Bro D was so blunt with truth, but it came with deep compassion and not enough time to hem-and-haw. I remember when he talked about the reality of Aliens and what Yogananda had taught/spoke about them!!
Cool trick, Forrest! It is like this Zen phrase, but with an interesting twist! "Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.” Blessings and blissings!
Thank u Forrest ji for ur remainder of this wonderful technique. It's an important thing to remember the wonderful moments of deep meditation as well as it applies in our daily life. It always give u new strength joy and vigour. Count ur blessings remember it.
Wow! Fantastic, you sure hit the nail right square! Thanks, for sharing. What you speak about definitely resonates, Yes, it does work wonderfully as you have stated!
Beautifully and passionately said! Agree! I Second. It works. I teach meditation class now ( in USA) and gave my students pretty much the same steps in the same order, we just call them differently. 🙏We use Sri M’s guidance, videos, books and curriculum that we developed in collaboration with his ashram in Madanapalle, India. ❤️
Hey forrest! Thanks for all your videos. I have been doing various practices for the last 8 or 9 years. But in just one year of finding your channel, I feel as though my understanding of these practices have been totally and completely expanded beyond anything I could have imagined. Particularly, your method of grounding these experiences back into the body and the nervous system. Its incredibly profound. Well anyways, something profound happened today in meditation. I was doing HRV breathing, and I felt a response from what I think is the medulla. It felt as though a spherical magnet was in the foramen magnum area of my head. And it felt like my nervous system/energy was being pulled immediately to this point in one swift motion. It was as if the nervous system of my lower body was immediately pulled upward and inward to this magnetic point. Could this be roll up of consiousness that you talked about? Because I get now why you call it a "roll up" lol, for it was certainly sudden and immediate. Like when a magnet is placed near metal, but instead of metal it was my peripheral nervous system.
Wonderful and very practical teachings. In a book by Lahiri Mahasaya's family lineage, it is mentioned that Lahiri Mahasaya wrote that until one wins over the senses(hindi word indri which yogic texts use to refer to senses and related things) ,the complete self realisation doesn't occur. And he also said that one who wins over senses is the real winner. But many meditators says you can't control all the senses. Its a bit of contradictory teachings/sayings for me.Different yogis say different things.Can you please elaborate a bit more on this to clarify.
You cannot force control, but through the process of yoga meditation you can lower the idle, and enter the freeze response. It is the process of the freeze response which liberates the yogi from the five senses.
hrm. but my last reachable deep state wasnt from meditation - it was from a tranquil trance-like Lightlanguage state. And I still dont know or can explain lightlanguage enough yet. But it feels very very right-brained - although it contains "words" but without direct meaning. So what to do now? start with lightlanguage and deepen with the kriyas?
Thanks a lot 🙏.can we go to deep meditation and soak in it after doing a complete exercise of pranayama ?i usually do pranayama about 40 min in the 3:40 morning and after I meditate,but I am not sure if is is deep meditation or not.
Hi Forrest! Can I please ask for your understanding of six chakras and a padma on top I try to sit with it and it resonates with me yet around my bubble everyone talks about 7chakras and I can’t articulate it yet
Beautiful Mike. Think of it this way, the Padma is for Ascension. So it is totally different from all of the chakras. The chakras are for the function of life day to day.
hey forrest can you PLEASE shed some light on spiritual practices that can boost iq memory power and intuition or just overall intelligence ? like swami Vivekananda had good for exams and promotion or overall navigation through material world for householders
For iq memory power I saw a video on TH-cam why Japanese have a good memory. Search for the abacus soroban Japanese video with the kids in school. Your memory works better when you create a body-mind connection. For intuition, you need to know exactly what you want or where you are going. Intuition is a feeling that tells you the right path to your desired destination. So it's necessary to make the decision first. Then feel your way through the material. An exercise: make one decision and then wait and observe the feelings and thoughts that come. maybe you get that feeling to call friend A to get what you need. Then change your plan to a whole different result and observe again how your thoughts and feelings change. This time you might get the feeling to call friend B and totally forget about friend A. Just try it out
Very often we are nutrient deficient which drives us to overeat. This has nothing to do with self-control because the subconscious will drive you to eat in order to survive because of the low nutrient level. So the first thing to do is get enough vitamins and liquid minerals so that the body gets what it needs to function.
Puré Brahmacraya in thought, word and deed transmutes sex energy into the ojas shakti, spiritual energy. You cannot make new anything. You must take what you have and transform it into something else. It is extremely difficult but absolutely transformative.🙏🙏🙏🕉🕉🕉📿📿📿
Wow, sex must be so different for the testosterone side of Gaia Matrix creations, Gaia Matrix is an amazing chemist, it looks intense from the estrogen side, wow this is so enlightening. 😳
It seems to be more important that you manage well What you fantasize about. I was going to say that it's more important to not watch p**** but that's not exactly it either. It's more along the lines of what you fantasize about and the alignment that has with your reality. At least that's what I've been gathering from the practice. And I'm glad because I would never become celibate by my choice. It makes no sense. I think a big reason why the practice came in as it did, is because the line is unclear so it was easier just to tell men to be celibate then tell them well. Well you can have sex but not every day or whatever. And it all seems to be about the Christos and purity of it from your actions and thoughts. And if you're actions and thoughts are something along the lines of humiliation and brutality with sex and you watch videos with that every day. You're tainting your oil. Just to use that as an easy example. So with all that being said , to me, it makes absolutely no sense at all that you would have to be celibate to become enlightened. That's such a contradiction of everything in existence, I can't explain how but it is lol. Or , I guess, that's how I feel.
Thank you Baba !
I can't remember the exact reference but a similar question was asked to Lahiri Baba by a disciple : "When will one be free from the sexual instinct ?" and His answer blew my mind away too : "When one will be lying in the grave"...
Bahahaha! So perfect! 🤩 🌹🙏🌹
Thank you so much, dear Forrest ❤ for sharing this 😊 i met Brother D. in 2007 in Hidden Valley… unforgettable for me ❤ what a wonderful Buddha- like Saint ⭐️
Twenty years ago I lived at the Hidden Valley Ashram and Dharmananda gave ne the BEST yogic advice I ever heard or received at that point in my life.
Thanks Guruji 🙏 Looking forward to the satsang tomorrow.
I don't understand the necessity to change people's personal names to Indian one's when practicing Yoga. I also do not understand the use of Indic terminology.
What is satsang, is it free for everyone?
I love you Teacher!
Your recent videos seem like reiterations; back in the day, Tony Robbins used to say, "Repetition is the mother of skill." He may have swiped that idea from Kabir, who wrote, "By repeated practice, even a dull mind becomes a knower. By the repeated movement of the rope, even a hard rock gets marked." Very helpful today, Forrest!
Beautiful Walt, absolutely. Sometimes we hear the right thing in just the right way, and it all clicks into place. So I often repeat in slightly different ways to facilitate just that. Blissings brother!
Thank U Thank U Thank U
Atma namaste sir heartfelt gratitude God bless much love 🙏🙏🙏🙏❤
Atma namaste Vimala 🙏 🌹🙏🌹 so great to hear from you!
Oh , I remember him from the San Diego SRF chapel .So nice to share ! Thank you .
I like when you say Magical Forrest because that best describes . Even though fleeting for me .
There is a Beatles song where Paul sings “ But Oh that magic feeling”
That reminds me so much of those moments.
Beautiful Chinga 🤩🙏🌹
As always loved the great small advices that come from you at the right time and your great teacher.🙏🙏
Awe, I love that synchronicity! 🤩🙏
SOAK IT IN!!! Thank you so much Forrestji!!!
Thank you 🤗 🙏 🌟
I ❤ you, Forrest!
Call and Response!
This phrasing resonates with my current experience. I regularly fall into the trap of straining for more when I sense even a bit of expansion. Grateful for the reminder that I need to let go in order to reach my goal.
Perfect 🤩 🙏
Thank you so much, Forrest! 💕
Thank you Kim! 🙏🌹
Om sri gurubhyo namah
Thank you for everything...♥️♥️♥️
Loved this -- Bro D was so blunt with truth, but it came with deep compassion and not enough time to hem-and-haw. I remember when he talked about the reality of Aliens and what Yogananda had taught/spoke about them!!
Haha that's awesome thank you Kevin! 🤩🙏🌹
Can you elaborate, Kevin? Sounds very interesting...
KEV , it would be intresting for me to know wath Dharmananda said about aliens and wath the Master said about them...
Cool trick, Forrest! It is like this Zen phrase, but with an interesting twist! "Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.” Blessings and blissings!
Beautiful brother, that's right. Before and after, it's all right there in the brain. 🧠 🤩🙏🌹
Thank u Forrest ji for ur remainder of this wonderful technique. It's an important thing to remember the wonderful moments of deep meditation as well as it applies in our daily life. It always give u new strength joy and vigour. Count ur blessings remember it.
Wow! Fantastic, you sure hit the nail right square! Thanks, for sharing. What you speak about definitely resonates, Yes, it does work wonderfully as you have stated!
Beautiful explanation... Nice🙏
What an wonderful idea to apply!! You are such an amazing Teacher FK!♥
You're the best Doug! 🤩🙏🌹
I love this thank you!
Excellent 🤩🙏
as usual, Forrest , you are a Spiritual excellence...TANK YOU for sharing your Inner Light and Esperience! HARI OM
Thank you so much 🤩 🙏
I remember it from your wonderful book, old but still very valuable. Are you planning to create a new one?
eloquent!
Beautifully and passionately said! Agree! I Second. It works. I teach meditation class now ( in USA) and gave my students pretty much the same steps in the same order, we just call them differently. 🙏We use Sri M’s guidance, videos, books and curriculum that we developed in collaboration with his ashram in Madanapalle, India. ❤️
You teach kriya yoga?
🙏
So grateful for this advice! Another yogi " modern kria" I think is the TH-cam name mentioned your good work in his recent video
Thank you Sean 🙏
Huh I'm not the only one I guess who imagine my last deep meditation 💯😄💖
Namaste guruji , do you know about yogi sri tavariyaji ?
Hey forrest! Thanks for all your videos. I have been doing various practices for the last 8 or 9 years. But in just one year of finding your channel, I feel as though my understanding of these practices have been totally and completely expanded beyond anything I could have imagined. Particularly, your method of grounding these experiences back into the body and the nervous system. Its incredibly profound.
Well anyways, something profound happened today in meditation. I was doing HRV breathing, and I felt a response from what I think is the medulla. It felt as though a spherical magnet was in the foramen magnum area of my head. And it felt like my nervous system/energy was being pulled immediately to this point in one swift motion. It was as if the nervous system of my lower body was immediately pulled upward and inward to this magnetic point. Could this be roll up of consiousness that you talked about? Because I get now why you call it a "roll up" lol, for it was certainly sudden and immediate. Like when a magnet is placed near metal, but instead of metal it was my peripheral nervous system.
Wonderful and very practical teachings. In a book by Lahiri Mahasaya's family lineage, it is mentioned that Lahiri Mahasaya wrote that until one wins over the senses(hindi word indri which yogic texts use to refer to senses and related things) ,the complete self realisation doesn't occur. And he also said that one who wins over senses is the real winner. But many meditators says you can't control all the senses. Its a bit of contradictory teachings/sayings for me.Different yogis say different things.Can you please elaborate a bit more on this to clarify.
You cannot force control, but through the process of yoga meditation you can lower the idle, and enter the freeze response. It is the process of the freeze response which liberates the yogi from the five senses.
hrm. but my last reachable deep state wasnt from meditation - it was from a tranquil trance-like Lightlanguage state. And I still dont know or can explain lightlanguage enough yet. But it feels very very right-brained - although it contains "words" but without direct meaning. So what to do now? start with lightlanguage and deepen with the kriyas?
Thanks a lot 🙏.can we go to deep meditation and soak in it after doing a complete exercise of pranayama ?i usually do pranayama about 40 min in the 3:40 morning and after I meditate,but I am not sure if is is deep meditation or not.
Hi Forrest! Can I please ask for your understanding of six chakras and a padma on top
I try to sit with it and it resonates with me yet around my bubble everyone talks about 7chakras and I can’t articulate it yet
Beautiful Mike. Think of it this way, the Padma is for Ascension. So it is totally different from all of the chakras. The chakras are for the function of life day to day.
hey forrest can you PLEASE shed some light on spiritual practices that can boost iq memory power and intuition or just overall intelligence ? like swami Vivekananda had good for exams and promotion or overall navigation through material world for householders
For iq memory power I saw a video on TH-cam why Japanese have a good memory. Search for the abacus soroban Japanese video with the kids in school. Your memory works better when you create a body-mind connection. For intuition, you need to know exactly what you want or where you are going. Intuition is a feeling that tells you the right path to your desired destination. So it's necessary to make the decision first. Then feel your way through the material. An exercise: make one decision and then wait and observe the feelings and thoughts that come. maybe you get that feeling to call friend A to get what you need. Then change your plan to a whole different result and observe again how your thoughts and feelings change. This time you might get the feeling to call friend B and totally forget about friend A. Just try it out
Hi Forrest. How do you stop excessive eating?
Very often we are nutrient deficient which drives us to overeat. This has nothing to do with self-control because the subconscious will drive you to eat in order to survive because of the low nutrient level. So the first thing to do is get enough vitamins and liquid minerals so that the body gets what it needs to function.
Puré Brahmacraya in thought, word and deed transmutes sex energy into the ojas shakti, spiritual energy. You cannot make new anything. You must take what you have and transform it into something else. It is extremely difficult but absolutely transformative.🙏🙏🙏🕉🕉🕉📿📿📿
Wow, sex must be so different for the testosterone side of Gaia Matrix creations, Gaia Matrix is an amazing chemist, it looks intense from the estrogen side, wow this is so enlightening. 😳
It seems to be more important that you manage well What you fantasize about. I was going to say that it's more important to not watch p**** but that's not exactly it either. It's more along the lines of what you fantasize about and the alignment that has with your reality. At least that's what I've been gathering from the practice. And I'm glad because I would never become celibate by my choice. It makes no sense. I think a big reason why the practice came in as it did, is because the line is unclear so it was easier just to tell men to be celibate then tell them well. Well you can have sex but not every day or whatever. And it all seems to be about the Christos and purity of it from your actions and thoughts. And if you're actions and thoughts are something along the lines of humiliation and brutality with sex and you watch videos with that every day. You're tainting your oil. Just to use that as an easy example. So with all that being said , to me, it makes absolutely no sense at all that you would have to be celibate to become enlightened. That's such a contradiction of everything in existence, I can't explain how but it is lol. Or , I guess, that's how I feel.