Want a high? No drinks, no hangover – just you!
Every human experience is backed by a chemical basis. People try to put in chemicals either in the form of drugs or drink or whichever way, to manipulate their chemistry into a pleasant experience. If all you are seeking is a little bit of pleasure, I am not against it. But if you are a pleasure seeker, wouldn’t you be interested if you were given an opportunity to have a much bigger pleasure? If you could learn to be drunk all the time and fully alert, wouldn’t you be interested?
I don’t think there is anything wrong with alcohol, I am ignoring it because it doesn’t have enough kick in it. I am constantly drunk on something else – simply drunk on life. I can get intoxicated on just my inhalation and exhalation. People have fallen for alcohol because that is the biggest thing that they have seen. I am offering them a different drink, a drink which is much more intoxicating than alcohol. Most people who have tasted this with me have given up alcohol, not because they think it is bad, but because they think it is kindergarten stuff. They have grown beyond it.
The question is not about wrong or right. This is not a moral standpoint. It is just that it is very limited. You drink a little bit tonight and tomorrow morning you get a big hangover. But I can be drunk twenty-four hours of the day – no hangover, it doesn’t cost anything, and it’s good for health! Isn’t this a better way to drink? We look at alcohol, drugs and all these things as kindergarten stuff because we can get intoxicated a thousand times over just with our aliveness. Why simply wine? You can get drunk with the di-vine.
When I say “Inner Engineering”, I am talking about a technology where you can create a chemistry of ecstasy all the time, consciously. Right now it is happening accidentally, triggered by somebody. Whatever you can do unconsciously – by looking at the sunset, or by looking at your loved one – you can also do consciously. That is the basis of Inner Engineering.
Within you, you have experienced peace and turmoil, joy and misery, ecstasy and agony. So you are capable of all these things. But right now you are conducting this whole experience and chemistry unconsciously. You can also conduct it consciously. That is the whole effort of all spiritual processes – to see that you create your life consciously instead of blundering through it by creating it unconsciously.
Tripping on Self-made Drugs and Ecstasy
Sharing by Jibu George - Isha Hatha Yoga Teacher in Bangalore, India
In one such Surya Kriya class in Kottayam, two of the many participants were Bennie and Ashwin. Both of them were Mechanical Engineers from a famous engineering college in Pala. These boys were like super-excited electrons in the class and were very keen to learn the practice.
As the class progressed, looking at their consistent involvement and intensity, I was intrigued enough to ask, "How did you catch this fire for Yoga?"
Ashwin then recounted his story:
"We are part of a thick trio, me, Bennie and Christo. In college, we tried many things to get that extra kick of life, just like many other youngsters try new things you know, this is the age. In innocent pursuit of that little extra, we tried Marijuana. It was good but after some time, we needed something stronger, so we graduated to chemical drugs.
Days slipped away without sleep with us three suspended in states of bliss and relaxation, so to say. But, that was in our experience only. Outside, we lay listless - drifted far away from reality. When the effect of the chemicals in the veins weaned off, the only thing we could think of and chase was the next dose of the chemicals of bliss. Nothing else mattered in life.
Disinterested in all aspects of life other than the trip to ecstasy, we would go to different forests and mountains to inject ourselves with these magic drugs because as the scenery changes, the tripping experience also varied each time.
Even after two years of completing our Engineering course, none of us were interested in taking up a job. We were happy tripping into obliquity and oblivion. This took a huge toll on our lives in every way. Be it our education or relationships, everything took a hit. We became sort of rebels in our homes and society.
Any friend or relative or whoever tried to put some sense into us, we would offer our free profound wisdom as a return gift for their unsolicited advice. "It doesn't matter if life is short or cut short, it is best to live it in ecstasy. That is life well lived."
Slowly the three of us ran out of money and yet, we just could not live without that kick of bliss in our lives. We desperately started looking for a replacement for the drugs, something that could give us that same high and yet not cost us that much. Something easy to access and not as pricey.
One day, in one such random search on the Internet, one of our trio mates, Christo stumbled upon a video.
Christo was interested. He watched the video, did some research and got to know about the Inner Engineering Program. He went and attended the program in Kochi and learned the Shambhavi Mahamudra Kriya which is offered in the program. Soon after, Christo started experiencing bliss without injecting any substance into his system. He wanted more of it so he went on to learn Surya Kriya and Yogasanas.
These yoga practices empowered Christo to go tripping without any dependency on any substance. Christo quit drugs, alcohol and smoking. Now, he knew a technology to generate bliss and ecstasy in his own system without using any external substance. He would sit with us, simply tripping and dripping with intoxication without a drop of intoxicant in his system!
Flabbergasted and restless, Bennie and I asked Christo, "What have you found? What do you do to go tripping like this for free?" Christo told us about his tryst with Inner Engineering, Surya Kriya and Yogasanas. Without wasting a moment, we found out about the immediate most Inner Engineering Program in Kochi and enrolled in it.
We travelled 64 kms one way, from Kottayam to Kochi, every day for the Inner Engineering program. And now, here we are with you, attending the Surya Kriya sessions - all in pursuit of this trip to bliss, which we can create from within.
Our relationships with our parents have improved. Christo and myself have gotten jobs and Bennie has started his own business. The need for any external intoxicants simply dropped and our lives got completely transformed.”
So, this was the deal behind the super enthusiastic students from my Surya Kriya Sessions. While external stimulants and intoxicants tingle your nervous system into languidness for a while and then dump you into a low until you get the next dose of that substance, the Yogic Technology of the Inner Sciences empowers you to get intoxicated from within while enhancing your mental clarity, focus, and memory - leaving you brimming with health, energy and vigour. No doubt the best kind of high is the one you generate from within.
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Source: ALIGN magazine, Isha Blog
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