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Recieved: 2000/09/23 10:38
Subject: [K-list] Ego, kundalini & the Yeti
From: Mhortling
On 2000/09/23 10:38, Mhortling posted thus to the K-list:
Posted this on Harshsa Satsangh and thought that maybe someone here might
want to read it as well
Dear Linda !
I agree with your agreeing !:))
<IMHO there are simply many people still in a state of kundalini awakening
and <who are still purifying or getting baked. Without the proper surrender
or <discrimination I believe they imagine they have achieved 'it' and make
their <belief known to others. Of course, that is also part of a process but
all too often <people believe these claims.>
I've been in that weird state in which I believed I had "achieved it" - first
I ran around on a cloud, full of shakti, the world was excessively beautiful
and my mind was going : "Wow, I can't believe it, first the Buddha, then
Ramakrishna and now ME ...!! :))) ROTFL !!
It feels very strange when you then realise that you have bills to pay, the
car just broke down, and you find yourself arguing with somebody about
something trivial - after which you start craving a beer... - so much for
enlightenement !!:))
The mind rapidly goes back into some of it's old grooves, the good thing
however seems to be the certitude that the higher - or maybe "less
restricted" is a better expression - state is there within at all times, even
if it's veiled and sealed off temporarily.
I'm actually completely convinced of the fact that this whole
enlightenment-business, the different samadhis and everything, rely on
specific neural circuits in the brain for their manifeststation in this
physical world - so, one needs to get a handle on the switch that flicks on
the Brahmarandra (or gateway to God) within the brain to experience these
things. Otherwise they remain just concepts or ideas.
The kundalini-shakti seems to do just that by itself, surrender means letting
it reach out and travel through the body so that it can press that button.
So, it's really the kundalini that does and achieves, the ego with it's
habits and quirks is just in the way.
I think that it's probably helpful for people observing and interacting with
those claiming to have "experiences" or some sort of spiritual achievement
to know that, if the experience is real, if there's a leap in spiritual
growth, it's all due to the working of kundalini (or God's energy, if you
want) and not something the person can brag about as a personal achievement.
In fact, in order for this to happen, the ego has had to die a little bit :))
Of course people are gullible, it seems as if humans really want to believe
all kinds of strange things - look at all the cults, Scientology, thousands
of spaceships clogging up the skies, just waiting to come and save us from
ourselves - all this kind of stuff.
Hmmmh, I'm not at all saying that there are no spaceships up there, the point
is to not naively believe it to be so, just because some more or less
charismatic person says it's true :)
Nah, I think being sceptical about anything extraordinary and miracolous
until the extraordinary and miracolous comes looking for me and hits me on
the head, is a good way to be - just have to take care to be open to all
possibilities and remember that the whole universe takes place within the
mind !:))
I saw an interesting program on tv recently about a researcher going up into
the Hindukush-mountains in Northern Pakistan to verify claims of
Yeti-sightings. He interviewed a number of high altitude shepherds who had
either heard of the Yeti or claimed personal encounters with it (him ?). The
shepherd that had his herd highest up on the mountain was an old guy that
really couldn't understand what the fuss was all about - a man coming all the
way from Europe just to interview him and everything. "It's just the Yeti
after all" he said, "I've seen him loads of times when he comes here at
night to raid my supplies ..." :))
A nice illustration of how the miraculous becomes ordinary once it becomes
an everyday fact of life.
Well, come to think of it on the other hand, why should the Yeti be
miraculous - just because none of us has seen him ? I advocate never to
trust conventional truth - it's relative and doesn't account for limitless
reality
And, oh yeah a nice little quantum leap within consciousness is, when really
everything reverts back to miraculous...
'Nuff rambled
Take care,
Michael
http://www.kundalini-gateway.org
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