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Date Posted: 11:25:03 08/23/05 Tue
Author: Hairakhan - 7 Jul 2005
Subject: Defeating Kal

From Spiritual Gita (Vol II)
Bhupendranath Sanyal

"It is experienced by the kootasth -- I am the time of death -- engaged in destroying all. 21,600 is the number of times a person breathes in 24 hours. The yogis expand the time of these breaths by making the breath steady in the form of samadhi from the lower rank to the higher one. Then this steady form super-cedes the engulfing time. Engaged in this act are you -- thus none except you will be saved -- out of all warriors." (273)

Kal (or Kala) means death (or time). The lifespan is governed by the number of breaths alloted one in a particular lifetime. For some it is more, for some less. But all who do not reach the lotus feet of the Lord will be devoured by this Kal. In what do worldly people put their hope or faith, knowing that this is their lot?

Further...

"Although time has no boundaries yet when it is embodied it is (timed and) counted...Time is the killer of people. Unless this breath is held in, none can be left out. Only the yogis can attain a position which can hold time by holding the breath. At the time of samadhi by obstructing the flow of common breath, the yogi can conquer time (or the time of death particularly, which is known as kal). At the time of birth all beings get born with a fixed deposit of breath and according to their previous acts, when their credit-account has nil as balance they have to die. (No one knows when this will be) By the practice of pranayam -- this time of life increases, because during samadhi this credit of breath is not used up, so the longer the stage of samadhi the longer the life."

The span of life is commensurate with the number of breaths in a lifetime...predetermined prior to birth by one's actions in lives past. But know without a doubt that even the practice of pranayam helps to lengthen the lifespan. Measure the number of respirations per minute immediatly following pranayam, and you will see that it is much less (than the normal 15 bpm). But samadhi provides the only death of kal.

"Creation, sustenance and absorption are not only an outer affair, they carry on, in our insides also. Unless they are stopped, we cannot get freed...So many incidents take place in the past, present and future, but the witness of all, the 'I' remains unchanged." (273)

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