Archive for the ‘Scripture’ Category:
Which Wolf Do You Feed?
Science tells us that our bodies are 99.99999% empty space and energy. Within our cells are atoms and within those atoms is a whole lot of nothing. But that nothing holds the potential for heath or disease.
Our bodies are composed of energy. Now energy can have different qualities. Energy also vibrates at different speeds and densities. As energy vibrates at slower and slower speeds, it becomes more dense and more solid. Take water as an example. Energy and temperature are linked. As particles vibrate faster and faster, they build heat. As particles vibrate slower and slower, they become colder and lose heat. So when water vibrates at a slower speed and loses heat, the temperature decreases, and water eventually freezes to form ice. If we add heat or increase the vibration and speed of the particles of which the ice/water is made, then the ice will melt and once again turn into water. If we further increase the speed of the particles, increasing the heat, then the water will eventually evaporate and become a gas.
The same thing happens within our own bodies. Our bodies are 80% water and 20% matter. And even that 20% matter is not really solid, but it only appears to be solid because it is energy vibrating at a very slow speed.
Yoga scriptures tell us that energy is of three kinds: Sattvic, Rajasic, and Tamasic. Sattvic energy is very light energy. It moves at a very high vibration. It is pure and made up of Light. It has the quality of peace, joy, bliss, and has a calming effect on the human being. Rajasic energy moves at a slower vibration. Yet Rajasic energy is the energy of motion itself. It is activity and has the qualities of passion, materialism, and brings out in human beings the desire to succeed, to make money, to obtain power, and even can begin to produce greed. Tamasic energy is very heavy. It is dark, dense, dull, and stagnant. It holds the quality of inertia. It vibrates at a very low speed. It is a cold energy. It brings out all the negative qualities in the human being: anger, hatred, jealousy, possessiveness, darkness, and evil.
The Yoga scripture, the Bhagavad Gita, tells us that there are only two Lineages: the Lineage of Pure Light and Energy (Prana) and the Lineage of Mind/Ego. Mental energy is made up of mostly Rajas and Tamas. Mind is a very heavy. It is composed of mostly solid, dense, dark energy with just enough motion and passion to stir it up and keep it moving and active in our perception. Matter is just another term for Mind. Mind is that slow vibrating 20% solid energy which makes up our human bodies.
We have a choice. And this is what we have forgotten. We are 99.99999% empty space, which is energy. We choose a certain percentage of that energy to be solid to create this physical reality. But it is all an illusion created by Mind, created by us as individuals. Everything in the world is ruled by these three energies (Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas), called the Gunas. Even the elements fall into combinations of these three energies. And we are nothing but elements. Our bodies are broken down into elements, minerals. We survive on minerals and elemental compounds.
Just like a barbed wire fence is mostly empty space with just a little bit of solid form to hold it all together, we are mostly empty space with just a little bit of solid form holding us together. Yet that solid form is our own choice.
But please remember, with that choice, comes a price. Rajasic and Tamasic energies comprise this solidity. Yet, Rajasic and Tamasic energies will control you, bind you, manipulate you, and bring disease (dis-ease) into your system. Disease and sickness lead to old age and death.
Sattvic energy is light in weight and of a high vibration. It is the quality of pure Light. It moves at a very fast speed energetically. It builds a great amount of heat. By increasing the amount of Sattva within our systems, we increase the amount of life sustaining energy that the ancients called Prana, Chi, Qi, Mana, and Tao. This vital life energy is the very energy that our Soul is composed of. This is not religion. This is science. It is the science of nature, a science we have forgotten.
Food is meant to nourish and sustain our bodies. We SHOULD be eating for this vital life energy. Instead, most of us eat for pleasure and out of desire. We eat for our Minds and Egos. Food is meant to be consumed for replenishing the vital nutrients, the vitamins and minerals that our bodies need in order to maintain proper functioning of our organs and internal life systems.
Food is also energy. Everything is energy. What we consume also falls into the three energetic categories. There are foods that are light and of pure energy. There are foods that are of a more active and passion forming energy. And there are foods that are of a more dark, dense, and inert energy. When we consume foods that are of the passionate and darker energies, we become more passionate and darker/denser as a result. What we eat, we become.
We are composed of atoms. Atoms are made up of electrons, protons, and neutrons. Most of the matter in our bodies is due to the density of the protons and neutrons in the atom. Electrons are of a very light and fast moving energy. Some atoms have more electrons than others. Some atoms have more protons than others. Generally the substances in life that have more electrons also have more oxygen, and the substances that have more protons contain more hydrogen.
Now, atoms converge to form molecules, and molecules converge to form compounds. Molecules can be simple, made up of a few atoms, such as water, or can be very complex combinations, such as our DNA. Yet, our very DNA is just energy. It is a certain combination of atoms that becomes a very map for everything from our physical characteristics to the genetic potential for diseases. From our biological lineages, we have a wonderful possibility and a great burdon all wrapped up into one. Our possibility comes from the fact that we are the only species on the entire planet that have the ability to transmute energy. We can change our physical form. We can change the combinations of atoms in our very body. We can affect our own cells and our own DNA. We do this through changing the combination of energy density within our bodies. We can change the amount of Sattva, Rajas, or Tamas of which we are composed in any given moment. We hold a great burdon because we carry within our DNA our parents energetic blueprints. Thus, we carry within us their energetic Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas combinations as well as atomic combinations and genetic potentials for certain diseases.
Food is just one of the ways we bring energy into our beings. And there are certain elements that our bodies do not naturally produce when our energies are so solid and of a low vibration. Thus, we need to consume elements like zinc, iron, and calcium. Our bodies run on minerals. Minerals feed our Light bodies. They are directly connected to the Sattva energy within us. The very elements that are within stars are within our own bodies. We are literally composed of star dust. So, the idea that we are star children really is not far fetched or inaccurate. Our entire planet is composed of the same elements that are within a star and were there during the formation of a star. We would die without sunlight, and yet the sun itself is one giant, burning star.
Our bodies run on a few specific minerals and elemental compounds: calcium, iron, potassium, magnesium, sodium, sodium bicarbonate, and manganese. Urinary and salivary pH tells us just how much of these minerals our bodies contain. If we are low in these minerals, our bodily fluids become acidic. When these minerals are in a proper balance in our bodies, our bodily fluids are alkaline. pH stands for the potency of hydrogen. The more hydrogen we have in our bodies, the more acidic our bodies become. The more oxygen we have in our bodies the more alkaline we become. If you connect the dots, you will begin to discover what I have discovered. That is, that hydrogen, acidity, lack of minerals, low pH, low/slow vibrational energy, Rajas and Tamas, and Mind/Ego are all interconnected. In the same manner, oxygen, alkalinity, abundance of minerals, normal to high pH, high vibrational energy, Sattva, and Light/Consciousness are all interconnected.
Yoga is the process of turning base matter into energy. Food is a critical component of this process. And alkaline food is a part (yet not the whole) of this topic of Food.
Simple deduction will lead you to discover that alkaline food is Sattvic in nature. Alkaline food has the ability to increase our positive, light, pure, life sustaining energy. It has the ability to also bring our minds into a calmer, more peaceful, more loving, positive state. We can literally become primitive animals or conscious energetic beings through what we eat alone.
Minerals increase our pH, making our bodies alkaline by nature. Yet, most of the minerals in our food and water have been stripped and removed due to farming, food processing, and water purification. We are 80% water, and so we need to replinish that water with highly alkaline mineral water. Yet most water in existance today is stripped of all minerals, rendering most water acidic. Pure water, straight from the ground, is alkaline. Yet, because we feel it is safer and necessary to cleanse and purify our water (and due to our low immunity and the acidity of our bodies, it probably is), we remove all the minerals and fail to replenish those minerals in adequate amounts when the purification process if finished. If minerals are added back into the water, usually, if you test the pH of the water, you will discover that not enough minerals have been added to bring the water back up to a pH of 7 which is considered netural (1-6 pH is acidic, 8-14 is alkaline, 7 is neutral). So we flush our bodies with acid water and that 80% of our bodies becomes acid. If we eat 20% acid as food, we all develop latent tissue acidosis, and the process of disease and decay and degeneration begins.
We are composed of billions of cells. Those cells are like fish in a fish tank. If the fish is living in acidic, low pH water, the fish will become starved for oxygen. Bacteria, yeast, fungus, and mold (microforms) will develop in the waters. The fish will die. The same thing happens in our own bodies. Our cells are our fish. If our internal fluids are acidic, then we develop bacteria, yeast, fungus, and mold in our bodily fluids and in our blood. Live Blood Cell Analysis will show you just how acidic you are by showing you just how much of these microforms are in your blood. These microforms are the very agents of the Rajasic and Tamasic energies within our own bodies. These microforms crave the very foods that will prolong their existance: pasta, white flour, sugar, rice, yeast, beer, fermentation, meat, bread, cheese, mushrooms… anything made from or with bacteria, yeast, fungus, and mold. Try to cut these out of your diet and not eat any of these for a solid month and tell me that you do not crave any one of these things. It is not YOU that is craving these things. It is the microforms that are craving these things. Rajas and Tamas are not just on a physical elemental level. They are energies, so they are on a mental, emotional, and spiritual level as well. We are dimensional beings. Our very thoughts and emotions can make us acidic or alkaline.
Our billions of cells are all like individual fish. Each cell is an individual life form. We think we are this one main conscious entity. Yet within our bodies are billions of living, breathing (yes, cells breathe through cellular respiration), reproducing life forms. Each cell has an individual task it performs. And cells are grouped by their function. Our cells consume food and excrete waste just like we do. Our cells have little body parts. And according to function, cells are divided into little nations within us. There are cells that make up the blood. There are cells that make up the heart that pumps the blood. There are liver cells, lung cells, immune system cells, and skin cells, just to name a few. And all of these cells work individually and yet also in perfect harmony with eachother in order to create the universe of YOU. Your apparenly solid form is only due to the billions of individual life forms within you working diligently 24/7.
Take care of your body. Take care of not just the external body. It is more important to take care of the internal body. Take care of your cells and they will take care of you.
Cells live and die. But before they die, they make a 100% exact carbon copy of themselves to carry on their work when they die. Now, if a cell is attacked and damaged due to an acidic and low energy internal environment, that cell will become wounded and will not reproduce properly. Thus the celluar copy will be different, imperfect, and flawed. Ageing, diseases, and cancer are all caused due to cellular malfunction. This damages our DNA. It changes our DNA. And thus our genetic code changes over lifetimes and is passed down over lifetimes.
Can you imagine the genetic possibilities if we only change the way we eat? How it will affect our DNA? The future of our race and our children and their children? There is a DNA molecule within each cell.
Flawed, damaged cells within the heart cause corinary problems. Damaged cells within the endocrine system cause endocrine and hormonal imbalances and malfunctions. Flaws within the skin cells cause wrinkles. Liver cells become overworked due to having to filter out acidic and toxic fluids. Joint cells can become undernourished and overused leading to arthritis.
Diet can reverse disease, sickness, cancer, ageing, and even death.
Medicine needs to evolve in order for us to evolve. Nutrition and medicine needs to begin even before the cellular level. It needs to begin at an energetic level, for we are energetic beings. We are 99.9999% space and energy.
Choose well.
There is a Cherokee tale about two wolves. A grandfather is having a conversation with his grandson. It goes as follows:
“A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy. “It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, self-doubt, and ego. The other is good – he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. This same fight is going on inside you – and inside every other person, too.”
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, “Which wolf will win?”
The old chief simply replied, “The one you feed.”
So, again, choose well. Which energy do you want that 99.99999% of your empty space to be composed of? Which direction do you want your life to take? What do you want your thoughts to be composed of? Your emotions? Your spirit? Which Lineage do you want to belong to? The choice is yours. We all have free will. Choose well.
Until next time.
In Love and Highest Light,
Jennifer Jacobsen (Urja)
Learning the Science of Spiritual Evolution
Jai Bhagwan.
A lot of people ask me … what is Lakulish Yoga? Who or what is Lakulish?
Lakulish is a Sanskrit name, and like most Sanskrit names and terms, Lakulish is a process. Lakulish is the very process by which Yoga happens. Lord Lakulish represents the very Energy into which all matter transforms through this amazing gift we call Yoga.
Yoga is very presicous and very sacred. It has been around since the beginning of time. Yoga is a lifetime commitment to certain eternal Truths.
We presently live in an age of darkness. The great texts of Sanatana Dharma (the Eternal Law that is Yoga) call this the age of Kali (Kali Yuga). This is the age of ignorance, for we have forgotten who we are. We have separated from God. We are hurtful to our own selves, our own systems, our friends, companions, neighbors, and our environment. We lie. We cheat. We steal. We possess. We covet. We exist with sickness, disease, and with rajasic (passionate, greedy, power-seeking, materialistic) and tamasic (dark, heavy, lazy, dull) negative imprints in our minds.
It is this negative mindset that causes the separation. It is the mind that makes us sick and diseased. It is the mind that hurts, that lies, that cheats, steals, possesses, and covets. What we are on the inside, we will project into our outside environment. Our world is on the verge of destruction because we are destroying ourselves inside our very beings.
What is worse than this, is that in this age, Yoga, the very means by which we undo this individual and global sickness, has been reduced to a fad. “False prophets” abound, and it seems there are gurus on every corner professing to teach spiritual enlightenment or transfer some kind of spiritual energy that will instantly “awaken” anyone. But I caution you: be very keen and careful. If anyone is going to sell anything having to do with Yoga, they should sell God 100% of the time. I encourage you to pay attention to any spiritual teacher’s actions, not just his or her fancy, charming words, spiritual powers, or supposed energetic state.
Sadly, in this day and age, Yoga has become “en vogue” and a cliche. Everywhere I turn, I am faced with this reality (or should I say illusion). We are so far into ignorance, that we have even forgotten what Yoga is. We have forgotten that Yoga is about Union with the energy of God (Consciousness, Source, Energy, Chi, Kundalini, Creator, etc). Yoga is about removing the negative imprints of the mind so that our vital life energy (Prana) will grow and build and take over our bodies.
Right now, our most negative mental tendencies control us. And look what has happened to us and to our world. We like to think we are decent people. Civilized. But the truth is we are all very uncivilized, barbaric people attempting to show some degree of outward decency. But we do not like to think of ourselves this way. We like living with our delusions and hallucinations.
The truth is, when we separate from God and we think we (our minds) can control the body God created and run it effectively and efficiently … we fail. We all get old, sick, diseased, frail, our bodies rot, and we eventually slowly decompose and die. But the truth is we do not have to. We don’t. It all depends on who is in control.
When we step foot on the path of Yoga and we awaken our vital life energy (Prana) to the point where it becomes stronger than our mental energy, God decends into the body. The body becomes a Temple. We become Living beings infused with Light. The mind becomes a friend. It becomes clear and sharp and slices away the negative energies that once ruled us. The mind becomes clear as crystal, and we become reflections of that inner Light, and we reflect that Light to the world.
Change happens one individual at a time, one Soul at a time. Right now we are experiencing an Energy crisis. We have strayed so far from our Maker that we have forgotten who we are. But we are never lost.
There is a science, a very precious science, that has been passed down from a Soul who has walked the path of Yoga successfully to a Soul who deeply desires to do so. That science is the path of Yoga itself. That science is Lakulish.
Yoga is not a religion. As a science, Yoga deals with the elements: fire, water, earth, air, and space/ether. It deals with physics and chemistry. It is the very science of learning how to convert matter into light. And this very science will bring you to the footsteps of God, should that be a place you wish to travel. If nothing else, Yoga will allow you to live a very happy, joyful, long and fulfilling life. God does not want us to be unhappy. God does not wish for us to live in a cave. God does not want us to suffer. God wants us to enjoy this life we have been given. Yoga enables us to enjoy life fully. When we live under the governance of our minds, we are not allowed to live fully and peacefully.
Yoga cannot be put into a box. It cannot be canned. It cannot be labeled. It most certainly is not exercise or mere postures and breath work and most certainly does not belong to anyone! While it may relieve stress and make a person feel peaceful, its purpose far exceeds these effects.
I am writing this to you because it is time. The way Yoga is depicted in this age is inaccurate and incomplete. The purpose of Lakulish Yoga is to bring change, individual change.
Yoga is a part of an Eight-Fold system:
1. Yamas
2. Niyamas
3. Asana
4. Pranyama
5. Pratyahara
6. Dharana
7. Dhyana
8. Samadhi
Yoga is meant to unfold systematically, in this exact sequence. If you practice Yoga, or think you are practicing Yoga, and you practice out of this order, you cannot practice and have what you are practicing still be called Yoga. Yet Yoga centers all around the globe do this every day.
This is a very important and key statement. The first two steps of Yoga are called “The Law”. It is the Dharma. It is the Code of Conduct, God’s Code of Conduct. The Law of building and maintaining Energy. A Niyama can only happen when a Yama has successfully happened. And an Asana can only happen when a Yama and a Niyama have successfully happened. Thus, the only way a Pranayama can occur is when the other 3 prerequesites have happened successfully (there is a Yama in Pranayama and a Yama in Niyama). All of these words may sound very foreign to you, and that is okay. The purpose of my classes is to help you understand and practice this Yoga system, to develop your own individual practice.
Meditation is 7th on the list. And we think we know what meditation is. Meditation happens to us. We cannot just sit down and meditate. Yet meditation has become a fad and is taught everywhere. We can practice and hope that one day meditation will happen to us. But that practice requires a lot of work.
Union is WORK. Yoga is WORK. It requires daily practice. It requires a constant, unwavering committment to certain Codes of Conduct, called the Yamas and Niyamas.
The Yamas and Niyamas are at the core of the Lakulish Yoga teachings because Yoga cannot even begin without them. They are not philosophies to be glanced over while we push ourselves through vinyasas and twist ourselves into pretzels in Yoga class. The very first phrase in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras begins with the word “atha”.
1.1 Atha Yoga Anusasanam
1.1 Now we begin Yoga
Atha implies that Yamas and Niyamas have successfully been implimented. Then Asana happens. Then Pranayama can happen. Then God appears in the body. Yoga postures are a gift to mankind. They are the very means by which the bodily energy channels and organs are cleansed of impurities in order for the body to become a Temple and for us to become Living beings of Light.
I teach Yamas and Niyamas in my Private Yoga classes. I also teach nutrition and diet, Yoga practices, scriptures, mantra, and postures. I tailor each class to my individual student’s needs. Each person is different. Each person is in a different place on his or her spiritual journey. I have been blessed with an amazing, out of this world teacher, Swami Sri Ashutosh Muniji (I call him “Bapuji”). He is the current lineage holder in the Muni Mundal Yoga line. Muni Mundal is an order has been around for a very long time. Lord Lakulish was a member of Muni Mundal. And so was Patanjali Muni.
Lakulish Yoga teachings thus rely heavily on teachings from Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras and from the Bhagavad Gita, as these texts are very dear to our Yoga Lineage.
If you are interested in learning Yoga as it was traditionally taught and should be taught, please contact me at (904) 392-6588 to set up a private session. If you have questions, I will be more than happy to sit down with you and discuss any concerns you may have.
I certainly do not have all the answers. And I do not profess to be a teacher nor a guru. God is the only Guru. I am a student, and like my Bapuji, I wish to remain a student. I want to walk this path of Yoga, and I aspire every day to do so. But it is time to pay it forward.
It is time for me to share what I have learned from my Bapuji. It is time for humanity to wake up. We have slumbered in ignorance far too long. It is time to reunite with that Energy from which we have strayed so far. It is our birth right. And it is our duty.
Jai Bhagwan. Jai means “victory” and Bhagwan is that Energy. Let us let the Energy of God prevail within our internal nation once more. Let us find our Freedom, our Liberty, and our Justice. Our Founding Fathers understood this Truth when our country was formed. May we too understand this Truth again.
In Love and Highest Light,
Jennifer Jacobsen (Urja)
$20 OFF Private Yoga Classes Through April 30th!
Have you wanted to try Yoga but do not know where to start?
Do you want to try something more one-on-one before moving to a group class?
Are you looking for more advanced, in-depth teachings?
Are you wanting to create a daily schedule and personal home practice for yourself?
Are you wanting to learn more about scriptures, meditation, pranayama or mantra?
IF SO, from now until the end of April, I am offering my PRIVATE YOGA CLASSES for $55!!
That’s a $20 savings!
SPRING INTO ACTION!
Call (904) 392-6588 for more information.
UPCOMING WORKSHOP: What Are Modifications Of Mind?
NEW WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT!
What Are Modifications Of Mind: Exploring The Vritti Cycle
w/ Jennifer Jacobsen of Lakulish Yoga
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2010
1:00pm – 3:30pm
AT CITY YOGA
125-B King St., St. Augustine, FL 32084
Cost is $30 per person. Please register online.
This workshop will explore the vritti cycle as explained by Patanjali in his Yoga Sutras. Students will learn:
* What “modifications of mind” are
* What the Sanskrit word vritti means
* Why the word vritti is THE key to Yoga
* What prana is and how to awaken it
* What the three gunas are and their significance
Please bring a comfertable cushion to sit on. You may also wish to bring a notebook and pen for taking notes. Food is not permitted in the workshop space. Bottled water only is allowed.
REGISTER ONLINE RIGHT NOW!
