UNDERSTANDING IS THE NAME OF THE GAME
What is actually happening when we untye the hridaya knot?
Guruji: By untying the knot you’re developing your own consciousness. More awareness with more consciousness – and you begin to understand.
It’s connected with our going down to muladhar?
Guruji: You already came down when you were taking birth: you just need to understand the path, how you came down. We’re already down (laughing).
Q: Going down to nabhi after hridaya: what happens then?
Guruji: When you understand your nabhi – the knowledge will begin, how creation happens. And you’re also understanding that nabhi is in a different place and chakra is in a different place. Even though it’s a path of descend of the five elements – the genetic foreword is standing in the distance. When you finally reach Rudra granthi – then the ascend will begin. The take off.
You’re understanding the basic structure of Nada and how it came to be condensed.
It requires the numerous experiences of Samadhi?
Guruji: oh, many! Understanding develops much later.
Only when we understand the all types of Nada you can reach paravani state?
Guruji: When you realize the source of the Nada – only then you can go beyond it. Paravani is also the state that human ears cannot hear – it comes from the spirit: that is inside you. It is already there: what we are doing – we’re just trying to understand it. Understanding is the name of the game.
When we discussed Kundalini – You said that you just trigger the point and then it goes its own way, we don’t need to force it?
Guruji: For this – somehow you need to descend to the point where it is sleeping, then – stir it up, then it wake up
that is the point: so we must take our concentration, attention, and prana from one point to another?
Guruji: No, you already know the path. Those who are trying to go that way – they never reach anywhere.
Does it stop between two elements? For example we knew the fire element – then before knowing the water element it may need some time or no?
Guruji: What is the water element? Just cold fire. Fire is the essence of every element. You just need to go deeper in that.
So could it be that you know the air element – but don’t still know the fire element?
Guruji: Impossible. No air – no fire.
In the story, where Gorakhnath liberates Matsyendranath from the prison…
Guruji: not the prison! He asked him enter the land of the ladies. And who are ladies? Siddhis are ladies. and Hanuman Ji is guiding them and guarding them. Only he can allow someone to enter the kingdom of Siddhis. Only Matsyendranath has visited them.
Here they were talking about smashan?
Guruji: You need to read it very carefully. Sushumna and smashan are one in the same, read Hatha Yoga Pradipika.
Fire in the stomach represents the fire element?
Guruji: Fire is fire. It expresses itself in a different ways. Fire is in your eyes also – read Ayurveda. There are different expressions in the body, but fire is fire.
How can we see – for example, vyana, – in nature?
Guruji: Earth is carrying vyana. It is expressed in whole nature.
How is udana expressed in nature?
Guruji: It is hanging in space – like the power of udana. In the core of every atom there is udana, it’s somehow connected with the fire. Vyana is vayu mandala: because of the vayu mandala we’re able to breathe – vyana is everywhere.
What is apana then in outer space?
Guruji: Uttarayana and dakshinayana – prana and apana.