yoga and kundalini

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Hello All,

Does doing yoga awaken the Kundalini..what are the symptoms of kundalini awakening?Does it have a bad effect on the person.Does anyone who does yoga can have his/her kundalini awakened?

Thanks

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I had a Kundalini Awakening in 1999 after 3 years of intensive zazen meditation.I had never even heard of the Kundalini phenomenon at the time,as I was a student of Zen Buddism, which emphasises the non-attatchment to conditional states of experience. But I had a build up of intense blissful energy at the base of my spine as a result of the meditation I had been doing that started to rise over a period of a couple of months and as it passed through the chakras I experienced some unbelievable psychic phenomenon,states of extreme bliss, love for all beings-especially as it came into my heart chakra, and great energy and health.Everything became extremely beutiful and even the walls, floors and other "inanimate objects" completely came alive and I could see that they are arising in the One Divine Being as I was.I was in this state even in my sleep night and day for about 3 weeks.I thought I had achieved permanent enlightenment.In the last few days of this time I sat down to meditate and it seemed like time

stood still and all awareness of seperation between me and anything else vanished. I felt like I was just pure spirit without a body.It was a feeling of complete freedom from any kind of suffering.I have no idea how long this experience lasted as there was no sense of time.But after it ended

I couldnt believe what had just happened.After this experience the intense experiences started to fade.After a couple of weeks my energy returned to normal and I realised I was in the same state as previously. But I now had a burning desire to repeat this experience, which took me 2 years of intensive meditation before I realised the search was failing.I realised I needed to find a genuine realiser of the Divine to take me any further.I found him in Adi Da Samraj.www.adidam.org.

Adi Da has since tought me not to value these kinds of experience as they are just distractions and they are just signs of purification.Adidam involves the transcendence of all experience, as it is the Ultimate Non-Dual way of Divine Self-Realisation.

OM SRI ADI DA AVATARA HRIDAYAM

[Guest guest]

did you experience? Did you believe they were real? Why?

 

I believe in this, that's why I'm asking. Did you ever feel intense heat/pressure at the center of your forehead as well?

[Guest guest]

Hi,

What you say seems like a wonderful experience to me.Does Kundalini awakening have any negative effects too?Can you please tell me more about this.

Thanks-

 

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from what I've read, if you don't raise the energy properly it'll play havoc on your system, you'll get nightmarish visions, you'll feel detached from the world, experience a lot of pain and agony. Some people can go crazy if they do not raise the energy properly. That's why generally a guru is needed to help raise the energy just the right amount that you're capable of handling.

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Hello,

I regularly do yoga but have not experienced anything of this sort.But some one who I know has beeen experiencing such phenomenon.I did not even know what this is till that person told me about me.It seemed like a scary feeling and that person was quite scared too.One night she had a feeling that her entire body is extremely huge in size,and it seemed so strange and scary to have that feeling,also other feelings like that of detachment and the sensation at the base of the spine.This person is very religious,and also did yoga regularly but after these scary encounters she has given up yoga

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The scarry experience narrated above is confusing and may not be true. But kundalini yoga has explaination for it. When the chakras through which the kundalini pass by is not clear or the path has obstacles, then such painful incidents can happened.

 

For quickest possible realization of kundalini and feeling its cold breeze, visit http://sahajayoga.ca/Meditation/index.htm

 

Good luck.

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there has been an enormius amount of research done to pin the kundlini experiences on the anatomic nervous system particularly the autonomic nervous system . More over xperimental evidence shows stimulation of certain areas in temporal lobe can evoke religious feelings, de ja vu, exotic smells , apparitions etc etc which aperson may not have experienced before.normally one is unaware of the workings of the autonomic nervous system but practice and focus can lead to an observational mode in human beings where by the traffic of impulses in these system can be observed modulated or coerced.Also release of narcotic substance like chmicals called endorphins are well known in the brain and else where in the body and pain and euphoria or dysphoria which hitherto was considered dependent on natural inpulses and interactions can be modulated. Time is near when one can bathe certain parts of brain by artificially with these to induce prolonged states of experience .Pranayam and other manoevers that change the physiology of body temporarily initially can evoke changes homeostatically through out the nervous system and perhaps cascade on to other organs of the body useful or otherwise. The question remains whether the kundalini experience is just an experience like an experience after a jog that ends with the cessation of evocative manoevers or does it cause permanent changes. It is no wonder that with blanking of nervous system during these states one encounters and transforms to infantlike qualities of trust, happiness and absence of malice and all the adult characteristics because the deep seated cortex harbouring childhood memories and accolades are the last to present themselves in the timely unfolding of the mind and memories.No wonder the so called saints emphasize compassion , love and trust etc and the not the experiential 'mystique' of kundalini.So why bother just coerce yourself gently to be nice

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You should only practice Kundalini youga or Raja Yoga under a true spiritual master and there are few of them around. It can be dangerous if you try it on your own and you could even die.

There are numerous benefits through this practice that may be termed 'supernatural' but it is better not to become attatched to these things as they can act as a distraction to the real goal which should be union with God.

 

I think it was using these techniques that the Rishi's heard the Vedas and devotees obtain vision of Ishwar. Read Patanjali's Yoga-sutra for more information.