Grounding and Transcendence

On the spiritual path, it's important that the initiate be well grounded to balance the transcendence of spiritual exercises. The more deeply rooted a tree is, the higher it can grow. Thus, hatha yoga must be done along with meditation, and wholesome food eaten along with periodic fasting. The sungazer must connect with Mother Earth with their bare feet and base chakra as their eyes and pineal gland connect with Father Sun.

There is a flow of heavenly energy from above and a current of earthly energy that rises from below. The currents spiral around the spine and intersect in each chakra. If one of the currents is blocked, the chakra will be weak and not spin much. So, it’s important to connect with Mother Earth by going outside your artificial environment with insulated walls and floors and all sorts of electronic lights and immerse yourself in the currents of nature. Find a place away from buildings and sidewalks, preferably surrounded by trees, and just walk and feel, preferably with your bare feet, the body of Mother Nature, Pachamama. Allow her to embrace you with her energy and love. She can heal your body. Meditation retreats are often conducted in nature to avoid an imbalance of too much heavenly energy and practitioners becoming spaced out.

If the heavenly currents are blocked, people will become focused only on material pleasures, as their souls hunger for the bliss that can only come from transcendence. They become grounded to matter in a negative way, more like stuck in the mud of sense addictions. To get unstuck, they need to fast from food, speaking, hearing, seeing, and other senses and meditate. In this way, they will reconnect with the extra senses of intuition, clairvoyance, and clairaudience and hear the voice of their Higher Self. But balance must be maintained through hatha yoga and other grounding exercises such as connecting the Dan Tien center in the belly to the center of the Earth.

Why do enlightened master keep themselves insulated from Earth energies by sitting on animal skins and wearing silk? So that they can better be able to be channels of pure divine wisdom from above. They have been weaned from the nourishing milk of Mother Earth and can assimilate the stronger meat from heaven. They will not become spaced out by too much meditation, for they are one with space along with the other four elements. They are one with the Father and the Mother. So can you be. But on the way to this state, balance the energies of grounding and transcendence.