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Jayleno214
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 Posted - Mar 24 2015 : 10:00:19 PM
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In the past the mantra has sounded feminine and its just as true now as it was then, in that it brings with it greater awakening. I get turned on. If I go back to the mantras sound without meaning, is having this feminine verbalization of iam still legitimate practice?
How about if it begins to moan and groan and sound hot and heavy?
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Jayleno214
USA
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Posted - Mar 28 2015 : 01:07:37 AM
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| has this happened to anyone? I can't be the only one! |
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compassion
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Posted - Mar 28 2015 : 07:21:56 AM
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I can't say this has happened to me, but it is normal for various experiences to come up during the course of meditation. The practice is simply to return to the mantra whenever we notice our attention is elsewhere. If we notice a feminine sound, we turn our attention from this thought back to the mantra; if we get aroused, we turn our attention back to the mantra.
It sounds like there is purification of some kind going on, and we do not necessarily need to work out why things happen a certain way, or indeed if others have had the same experience. As a matter of curiosity, it can be interesting to know, and there might be some perceived comfort in knowing others have experienced the same. But as far as the practice is concerned, this knowing is not necessary.
Hope this helps in some way :) |
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AumNaturel
Canada
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Posted - Mar 28 2015 : 08:20:58 AM
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| This does happen to me, although it didn't in the beginning, and I highly doubt this observation is of something rare. Like you, I also ask myself whether this could be a deviation from the simple mantra instructions, especially since the motivation to shift its polarity to (in my case) the opposite sex is not done on purpose but just happens, and so trying to avoid doing so seems like another deviation or extra layer that doesn't need to be there either. Perhaps it is one of many things that can arise over time which runs its course as it should as long as there's no 'extras' to it, such as pushing it away, favoring it, and even noticing it. I tend to call it a polarity, a contrast of opposites, and it is there even in asanas. This makes it dynamic due to its flow, and so by its nature motivating action. If that is applied as in bhakti or devotion then it sounds to be along the same lines as the in lesson descriptions of 'sitting on the log to cut that very log.' |
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Dogboy
USA
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Posted - Mar 28 2015 : 08:22:01 AM
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The advice from Compassion is spot on; it's an interesting phenomenon but scenery none the less and nothing to delve into or manipulate. I believe as we purify and advance our interior identities become more androgynous in many ways. Perhaps this is a quality of that, perhaps not; it is certainly worth a smile  |
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Jayleno214
USA
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Posted - Mar 28 2015 : 6:40:08 PM
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| thanks. its since returned to "my" sound. |
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SeySorciere
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Posted - Mar 29 2015 : 12:33:38 AM
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It sounds like Goddess Shakti playing with you
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mantra sound: Opposite sex's vs my "own"
