More Kundalini Yoga practice (daily Sadhana) leads to purity, with purity comes gyan (jnana). With jnana, nothing remains

12-05-2003, 10:54 AM

Kundalini Yoga practice (daily Sadhana) leads to purity, with purity
comes gyan (jnana). With jnana, nothing remains
Dear Ram Narayan Gupta,

Kundalini Yoga, as taught by Yogi Bhajan, is made up of innumerable
sets and kriyas designed to open the various systems of the body and
mind, to allow the free flow of cosmic energy, i.e., cosmic
consciousness.

When people begin the Kundalini Yoga Sadhana (daily practice), their
systems are operating at very low energy awareness levels.

In effect, the body has a number of governors that restrict the flow
of energy so that people can consciously operate at the levels they
have assumed are normal, which is to say that they remain consciously
unaware of the totality of their being, which is gained with the
hearing, recollection and abiding in their True Self - the Infinite
Being.

There are sets, kriyas and meditations that open and release the
various governors (controllers) of energy flow in the body:

One group works to draw the prana and apana to the Kundal (Nabi
chakra) between the navel and the 4th vertebra, an area you can feel
as you slowly contract all the air from your lungs and you feel it
contracting upwards below the navel, simultaneously feeling the
energy drawing downward from the top of the head through the body,
and upwards from below. When this area opens, which governs the flow
of prana in the body, you feel a downward flow from this area to the
base of the spine and upwards.

Another group works to systematically charge and balance the chakras,
which begin to open like planes, like whole levels of etheric
substance or vibration unique to each one that open and expand
outwards merging in infinity at their vibration. With the lower
centers opening, the body's inertia begins to fade and you begin to
feel a transparency. With the higher centers opening, there is an
inward turning silence and sense of longing for an awakening to an
inward sense of singular Truth. Stories of the lives and teachings
of Saviors and Saints bring the feelings of devotion and Bhakti. As
the crown center opens a force of Intelligence of Self Knowing Wisdom
awakens turning the mind inwards.

Other groups of sets, kriyas and meditations work directly on the
higher centers to open the experience of the electric sound current,
Surat Shabad Yoga of the Shabad Guru, that leads to the soundless
sound in the Heart, while releasing the governor in the hypothalamus
that restricts the flow of infinite energy through the 10th gate
(crown), at which time the pineal gland secretes and the body becomes
transformed to the ability to experience a greater flow of energy
consciousness. With the 10th door opening, an experience of
expanding/deepening electric pressure in the center of the head
releasing, an etheric space is experienced of a causal reality in
which everything becomes transparent and space-like. Far and near
loose their meaning as you feel present everywhere.

Other groups work on the charging and balancing of the sun (pingala)
and moon (ida) channels (nadis) to each side of the spine, up over
the top of the head to the point between the eyebrows. As these
become charged and balanced (at the ajna center), they cause the
central canal of the spine to become purified, which in turn allows
for the upward flow of energy through this central nadi, the
sushumna.

Other groups balance the magnetic field through the heart as a center
that brings about a polarization of the energy flow through the body,
so that eventually you feel the flow of energy coming up from the core
of the planet into the sky and stars.

Other groups work on the secretion of the glandular system, to
revitalize it, in order to provide the continuous electro-chemical
support to the greater energy flows throughout the body field. An
example of this is Sat Kriya, but there are many others, each one
that effect the glands like the charging of a battery by increasing
its chemicals. For example, you can increase the energy flows in the
body through the systematic charging of different parts of the body,
which in turn causes the glands to secrete to support the increased
energy flow, or you can work directly on the glands, and as they
secrete, the body and mind experiences and immediate increase in
voltage.

Another group focuses on the balancing of the mind and the body under
the single "will" of the sense of "I."

Other groups are powerful kriya / meditations that directly effect and
charge the area of the One Star (Hrdayam)and vagus nerve (atma nadi)
to the crown, which creates a deepening sense of expanding radiance
that is imbued with the soundless sound of the pulsing of the "I as
I" that acts like a tuning drone causing all the nadis of the body to
vibrate to the same ineffable frequency experience.

These systems, the Kandal, the Crown, the Ajna/sun-moon, the magnetic
field, the Hrday granthi / One-Star and others represent the
governors that are systematically opened to allow their releasing of
energy barriers that restrict the influx of all pervasive energy and
the experience within the awareness of one's Infinite Being - the
Totality of one's Being.

All these groups of sets, kriyas and meditations work together to
accomplish a holistic experience that transforms the body and mind
from tamasic/rajasic to purely satvic. With the emerging of the
experience of one's self as a satvic being, there emerges as well the
inner awareness of one's True Identity abiding as the Infinite Being -
"True in the beginning, True throughout time, True even now." (Guru
Nanak)

Yogi Bhajan teaches that there are 10 bodies, and as one practices,
you feel these bodies and how they interrelate to make up the whole
of the single self experience functioning at multiple levels
simultaneously.

Regardless of any experience the practice involves a disregard of any
content arising in consciousness, from the thoughts and impressions,
to the energy flows, to the visions to the sound current, always
remaining passive, to just wait and abide in the single "I."

For more information, you can go to my website, which has some
articles and spiritual texts, or the website of ancient healing ways,
which has many Kundalini Yoga Manuals, with practical guides to sets,
kriyas and meditations, of which there are thousands, as well as the
Teacher's Training Manual, which I think even people that are not in
the 3ho/KRI TT Program can buy at a premium, which explains
everything I've written in greater depth, and so many other texts on
so many esoteric subjects taught by Yogi Bhajan over the past 34
years. Then there are the many CDs of mantras, teas, herbs and so
on. All together constituting the beginning of a kind of global
spiritual university, with teachers located everywhere, and easy
access to information.

Many people begin a Kundalini Yoga life style - Sadhana and classes
community, to strengthen their nervous and glandular systems to be
able to endure greater levels of stress in their lives, but over
time, as their systems consolidate and integrate to the greater flows
of energy, they invariably awaken to their essential Truth, and become
linked to That, what Yogi Bhajan calls the Golden Link, or the True
Guru in the Spiritual Heart through which one experiences one's True
Self.

The whole approach is unique. In past times, one would seek a guru
and a guru culture would evolve. In this dharma, the guru is the
True Self, and not a person, even though persons may radiate the
Truth intensely. So, instead of finding a guru and proving oneself
worthy to learn esoteric teachings and truths, all these teachings
are made available, and to the extent that people avail themselves of
these teachings and practices and integrate them into their daily
lives, they progress towards a systematic inward realization of their
Self, a process that continuously accelerates, as one continues to
practice from novice to apprentice to practitioner to expert to
mastery, i.e., abiding in the ever present experience of True Self,
and living as what Yogi Bhajan calls the Sensory Human, someone
through whom the Infinite Consciousness flows unrestricted. You live
as One in undifferentiated consciouness.

This experience is a bit like the images of the experience of the
blinded Neo in the last Matrix, where you sense and see the energy
flows around you, but they are not around but within, as you
experience yourself as pervasive single consciousness, as not 2,
until eventually, the moon of the mind is no longer necessary to see,
as the sun in the heart has risen.

All this to say that Kundalini Yoga is simply a practical approach to
systematically opening and releasing energy barriers, the culmination
of which is that only the True Being remains, no idea of another, and
this progresses whether or not one understands philosophical or
religious truths and teachings, the understanding for which emerges
like subtle flashes of intuition percolating through the purified
subconscious into ones expanding consciousness. The awareness
expands and with the expanding awareness all the does open
themselves, all the lights light themselves. "Everything becomes
empty, clear, self-illuminating, with no exertion of the mind's
power." (3rd Zen Patriarch)

Pieter