It is said that all are welcome to Lord Shiv’s abode — bhoot, pret, pisaach, yaksh, kinnar, dev, daanav, manav. When you approach Shiv, your first encounter is with prets. They are the ganas of Shiv. They think “Shiv is ours”. They lure you and distract you, threaten you and poison you, so that you head back. That is the limitation of pret buddhi.
Those of you who are sadhaks, must have heard from people around you that one should not practice dhyan. The path of yoga is the path of few — the few who want to access reality. All those who prevent you from walking this path are akin to prets. After leaving the body, they will be found in pret yoni.
Whenever you face resistance in yoga, you can be sure that you are walking the right path. When I started practising yoga, neighbours alike played music or started banging the doors whenever I sat in dhyan. At social gatherings, they would make fun of me and try to dissuade me from following my chosen path. I bore such distractions for over 10 years, but I continued undeterred. My path was clear. I had been through a higher experience, and after that experience I could not disrespect the shaktis by changing my path.
Yogi Ashwini, the guiding light of Dhyan Foundation, is an authority on yoga, tantra and the Vedic sciences. His recent book is Sanatan Kriya, The Ageless Dimension. dhyan@dhyanfoundation.com
