If you
Practise Kaya Kalpa Yoga
YOU CAN
LIVE FOR 100 YEARS
Yogiraj
Vethathiri Maharishi
The
inevitable phenomenon of ageing (growing old) and the infirmities and
disabilities associated with it have been engaging the attention of Medical
Scientists for Centuries; and in a different manner, the attention of
philosophers too.
We have
taken up the subject for today’s talk and the analysis, as usual in our classes, shall be on systematic and scientific lines.
The
Physical body is where the imprint of Ageing is most marked. The functioning
system called the human being actually comprises
(1) the
physical body;
(2) the
mind;
(3) the
life-force and
(4) the
sexual vital fluid.
These
four are interrelated, as I shall proceed to explain.
The
concrete part of the body is made up of millions of cells, all these cells being
held together by polar attraction. The cells are of different categories –there
are flesh–cells, blood–cells, marrow–cells, bone-cells and so on. Every cell is
a laboratory by itself – a complete structure with its own magnetic, electrical
and chemical functions. Each cell draws just what it needs from the running system
and it eliminates what it no longer requires. Every cell could be likened to a
mini-city, with its own infrastructure of service-connections, recycling plants
and effluent-network.
The
cells, as I said, are held together by polar attraction and that is how the
body stays in one piece. If this polar attraction were to disappear, what would
happen? The cells would no longer be held together and so the body would begin
to disintegrate, to fall apart.
It would
now be clear to you all that if this polar attraction is to be maintained, some
force, some power, is necessary. That is the bio-current or the human
magnetism. To find out what is this human magnetism, let us consider the life-force.
Every
particle of the life-force is infinitesimally tiny and it has a selfrotative force.
On account of this self-rotative force, every particle radiates a spreading
wave which is intensified in the whole body.
The
surplus of this wave is released through the skin and the sense-organs-ears,
eyes, nose and tongue after being converted into pressure, sound, light, smell
and taste. The charged wave of the life-force is called the bio-current or the
human magnetism. Only the intensity of the bio-current in the force of its
circulation in the body maintains the polar attraction between cells and
prevents disintegration of the body. It is evident that the strength of this
magnetic force should be adequate, in proportion to the number of the cells in
the body-the weight of the cells. If it becomes less, the bio-current would
also be diminished to that extent and its would not be equal to the task of
maintaining all the functions of the body.
Role of
Bio-current
A major
portion of the bio-current is taken up by the physical body for the purpose of
maintaining the metabolic routine – digestion, elimination of waste –products,
transporting nutrients to where they are needed and transforming food into
juice, juice into blood, blood into flesh, flesh into bone, bone into marrow
and marrow into sexual vital fluid. In this manner, continuous conversion and
manufacture are going on within the body. This is the metabolic routine. All
this cannot be done unless there is sufficient intensity in the bio-current.
This
intensity giving pressure to the bio-current is called the human magnetism. The
pressure in the force of its conversion becomes heat and this is how the
temperature of the body is maintained. Again, it is this pressure that works for
the manufacture of chemicals, amino-acids and so on required for the upkeep of
the body. So much for the metabolic routine. A portion of the spreading wave of
the life-force goes to the brain-cells where those cells condition the wave
into mental frequency. To feel, understand, compare and calculate and imprint
and reflect the experiences and enjoyment –all these are done only by the
mental force, the mental frequency.
To
repeat, one portion of the bio-current which is charged by the life-force intensified
in the body is taken up for the metabolic routine and the remaining portion is
availed of by the brain-cells conditioning the mental frequency.
If, for
some reason, the intensity of the bio-current becomes less, it may just be
adequate for the maintenance of the metabolic routine. The result is short-supply
for mental frequency. Your level of alertness comes down, your eyelids become
heavy and you doze off. During sleep no supply is required for the mental
functions. Metobolic routine routine – breathing, digestion and blood–
circulation – alone is going on and the intensity of the bio-current picks up gradually.
When surplus becomes available for mental functions, there is automatic
reconnection and the mind resumes functioning.
Value of
Sexual Vital Fluid
When the
intensity of the bio-current is diminished to such an extent that it is not
adequate for physical functions even, the inter-cell polar action slows down.
If the short-circuit lasts for only a short time, that experience is pain; and longer
duration means disease. When the bio-current is wholly exhausted that point
signifies death. Now you have come to understand the value of the bio-current.
Needless to say, if the bio-current is to be increased or intensified, the
number or the quantity of the life-force particles should be stepped up. What
is it that retains these life-force particles in the body? It is only the
sexual vital fluid. The sexual vital fluid is in the nature of battery for the
bio-current. What is the quantity and quality of the sexual vital fluid, that
much will be the strength and character of the life-force and the bio-current.
Against
this background consider what will happen if the sexual vital fluid gets
reduced in quantity. The life-force becomes correspondingly less and the bio-current
is also depleted. The cells are not able to get supply and so the machinery
slows down to start with and breaks down in the course. Thus, in order to
maintain the bio-current, adequate life-force particles are necessary; and in
order to hold the life-force, the sexual vital should be sufficient. To sum up,
in order
to maintain the health of the body and the mind, the sexual vital fluid should
be adequate in quantity and also quality. At this point, let me correct a wrong
notion that is quite widespread.
Most
people think that the sexual vital fluid comes into being only after a person attains
maturity. Actually, the sexual vital fluid is present even in a child. The opening
stock has come from its parents and it is being steadily added to. When there
is surplus in stock and this surplus is to be eliminated from the body, then only
the symptoms of maturity become manifest.
Having
understood the origin of the sexual vital fluid and its value for maintaining
the health of our body and the mind, let us now proceed to find out the reasons
for Ageing. Listen diligently, for the science of the subject is being unfolded
in the world for the first time.
Effect
of Earth’s Rotation
This
planet Earth, on which we all happen to live and move and have our being,
rotates on the axis once during every 24 hours; and this rotation makes the Sun
appear to move across the sky from East to West determining day and night for
us.
Because
of this rotation the heavier elements such as the metals are drawn towards the
middle of the Earth. Granite and basalt from the base of continents and
ocean-basins. Water which is lighter stands on top of this solid base. Air which
is lighter than water is outside of this and that is the Earth’s atmosphere
held to the Earth by gravity. Visualize this arrangement, for it is germane
to the theory I am going to develop.
Man is
on the Earth and he is not exempt from the operation of Nature’s laws arising
out of the rotation of the Earth. In our body there are five layers viz.,solid,
liquid, heat, air and energy, each of which is lighter than the previous one.
Blood
(liquid) is lighter than the concrete cells of the solid body, heat is lighter than
blood, air is lighter than heat and energy is the lightest of the five. Because
of the rotation of the Earth all these five layers are also in constant
movement at differing speeds or velocities. Life-force (energy) moves faster
than air, which moves faster than blood.
The
movement of the solid cells is slower than that of blood. The solid cells are
attracted towards the Earth because of gravity while the outermost layer viz.,
life-force is being constantly and continuously drawn away from the body due to
the natural centrifugal force. It is almost like a wedge being driven between
the body and the life-force, the cleavage becoming wider with every
passing day.
All
species on the Earth are operating only under this arrangement. Some decades
back, when I observed vegetation around my ashram after a heavy downpour on the
previous day, I began to wonder why some weeds grow only to a height of a few centimeters
while other plants could grow up to some feet.
Certain
trees rise up to 60 fest even and there is a limit for each species. Then it struck
me that each species is having a velocity of its own countering the pull of gravity,
so to say. A balance or dynamic equilibrium is set at a point and Nature, in
effect says. “Thus far and no further.”
In man
the velocity carries his head up to a height of about six feet from his base.
The potential for this growth is packed or compressed in child and that is why
the child has so much stamina to wave its tiny little hands and feet-an exercised
that would tire a grown-up within minutes! It is because of this velocity that
growth is more during the early years of man when Nature says; “Up up!” By the
age of 30 or 35 the growth grinds to a halt and thereafter the life-force is
only being taken away, much in the manner of soil being eroded by a stream. It
is at this point that Ageing starts.
Ageing
signifies that the stock of your life-force is being reduced because the
secretion of the sexual vital fluid is coming down. The intensity of the
biocurrent which, as we already saw, is only the charged wave of the
life-force, is being reduced as a consequence of the sexual vital fluid going
down. This is the background to the phenomenon of Ageing.
Two
factors are at work here:
(1) The cells
of the body are being drawn or pulled down towards the Earth; and
(2) the life-energy
is being drawn away from the body with every passing day.
Victory
for Mankind
Having
identified the factors that cause Ageing, what should you do to withstand it?
You should find out ways and means (1) to tone up your nerves and reverse their
sagging, and (2) to conserve your sexual vital fluid which is the container for
the life-force.
The KAYA
KALPA YOGA which I was able to perfect about three back is the only means to
withstand the Ageing process. Through a simple exercise we are enabled to tone
up our nerves and recycle the sexual vital fluid.
The
sexual vital fluid actually has its origin in the brain-cells from where it comes
down the spinal column to accumulate in the sexual gland. When there is a surplus
there, gravity draws it towards the Earth and hence the tendency to leakage,
giving rise to the sexual instinct and urge. If this process is to be reversed
the essence or the sublimate of the sexual vital fluid has to be taken back and
stored at the place of origin viz., the brain. When this exercise is mastered,
the outgo of the fluid is gradually reduced and the craving is no longer there.
Potency is preserved and thoughts do not stray in the direction of indulgence. Actually, a primitive weakness that was being
handed down from generation to generation has been overcome. Is this not a
great victory for mankind?
Before I
conclude, let me elucidate another point. Modern Medicine is still not able to
determine the exact moment of death Cessation of breathing, pulse, heart-beat-all
these, it is agreed, are not conclusive proof of death. Then how are we to
certify that life has become extinct in a person? I will tell you: Only when
the sexual vital fluid stands completely excreted does Death come to an
individual.
For then,
there is no container to hold the life-force. The battery having been wrecked, where
is the question of current? Conversely, Death cannot claim a person as long as
he or she is able to conserve the sexual vital fluid. In the normal course,
anyone who adopts the science of KAYA KALPA and so orders one’s life as to be
peaceful and useful to self and others should be able to live up to 100 years
and even 20 years beyond that, depending on how early in life the aspirant has
come to the path of this precious Yoga...
(Lecture in Los Angeles, 1982)
