It is hard to give instructions about the mystical seated posture. Generally, this posture starts with a mental posture, but not necessarily so. The mystical seated Posture, in contrast to previous postures, is not assumed through a conscious effort of the individual will, but it is a consequence of deep introspection, which make you forget the presence of your body and leads to full physical insensibility.
Here you shall find in detail main postures used in meditation and concentration.
For meditation, you should use the “mental seated posture” described above, but with your arms freely hanging from your shoulders at each side of the body.
Also in lying down posture you can notice the difference between vegetative posture and mental and mystical postures.
Generally, you use the vegetative posture for sleep or physical rest. The bed should not be quite soft and the pillow rather thin.
Postures to find in this teaching and in following teachings are described in detail according to the Sanskrit translation, and belong to Yoga. According to Goroskasatakam there are 840,000 postures in the human body, of which only 84 are the best, and of which only 32, that is, those described in this course as “Ancient Postures”, are named useful and healthy for Humanity.
Posture 11. Lying down, in supine position, your face looking upward. Bend lightly your knees by forming a 150 grade angle. Join your ankles together and keep your soles of the feet and toes in straight angle outward.
Posture 21. Raise on the point of the right foot, and bend your knees; join your leg to the thigh with parallel thighs forward. Press the inner area of the right heel against the inner thigh, and put before it the left heel, in close contact and partially before the right foot.