The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING September 26th. 27th, I 28th. 8.50-9.3 am. a.m. 5.25-5.57 p.m. p.m. 8.10-9.30 p.m. p.m, 0.20-10.33 am. am. 445-4.50 p.m. p.m. 5-12-5.40 p.m. p.m. 7 am. 4:35-5.16 p.m. p.m. 10.50 p.m. get a sort of Sukshma-Kumbhaka which I cannot reproduce at will. Rigidity of body and the fading of all vision are its stig- mata. Curiously this happened on coming out of Mental Muttering back to audible, or rather at one loud slow Mantra, ze. when no Kumbhaka was possible. Mental Muttering for ten minutes “Aum Shivayavashi.” Results similar to last night’s, somewhat more easily obtained. Mental Muttering of “Aum Shivayavashi.” Result better than usual. Pranayama. Seven minutes after 10 seconds of Kumbhaka. This seventh time I forgot all about everything and breathed out of both nostrils. Quite quietly—pure mental abstraction. Mental Muttering of “ Aum Shivayavashi,” for seventy-five minutes. Several times lost concentration or consciousness or something, z.z., either vision or voice or both were interrupted. (N.B. At one particular vaée the third eye throbs violently in time with mantra.) Constant dreams of Dharana. Pranayama. Seven minutes 10. 20. 30. Twice forgot my- self in Kumbhaka by exceeding the thirty seconds. I was trying to kill thoughts entering Ajna. On the first occasion I was still saying “Shiva” for this purpose; on the second I was meditating on Devi [a name of Bhavani]. One Grand Pranayama. 30. 15. 60. New Pranayama of 25. 15. 50; twice. Pranayama, Seven minutes 10. 20. 30. Mental Muttering. “Aum Shivayavashi” Fifteen minutes, at rate when Ajna throbs. (N.B. Of late my many years’ habit of sleeping only on the right side has vanished. I now sleep always on my left side.) Pranayama. 10. 20. 30. Pranayama. Four minutes: 10. 20. 30. Mantra: “ Aum Shivayavashi” Twenty minutes. I feel on the brink of something every time—Aid me, Lord Self! His Holiness the Guru Swami says: “It is not well, O child, that thou contemplatest the external objects about thee. Let rather thy Chakkras be on-meditated. Aum!” Dharana on Ajna eighteen minutes muttering “Aum Tat Sat Aum!” 163