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Recieved: 2001/07/07 12:08
Subject: [K-list] A summary of the mental, physical and spiritual benefits of Kundalini Yoga Practice:
From: Pieter Schoonheim Samara
On 2001/07/07 12:08, Pieter Schoonheim Samara posted thus to the K-list:
A summary of the mental, physical and spiritual benefits of Kundalini Yoga Practice:
The body field has a number of centers (called chakras). Each center involves a group of glands and organs related to a plexus of nerves linked to the spinal cord.
The central nerve of the body field is the sushumna, which has three parts:
The Silver cord: The spinal cord, beginning at the sacral plexus and coming up to the brain, then splitting through the passage to the Crown (Sahasrara) and to the Ajna chakra between the eyebrows.
The Gold cord: The extension between the Ajna and Crown, along which are a number of other centers (chakras of a higher order). The Gold Cord is to the Silver cord what the what light is to a shadow.
The Atma nadi: The sushumna extends further from the Crown down to the Spiritual Heart or Hrdayam, located in the synod or pacemaker of the heart, in the 1/8th portion of the physical heart to the right of the sternum, where we point to when we say "I."
The Spiritual Heart, unrelated to the heart (anahata chakra), is the seat of the Self, where "This Atman is That Brahman," where "I and my Father are One." From this Self-Effulgent Spiritual Heart, the entire body field, the Crown, the nerves and all the centers and planes of consciousness are illumined, like the sun to the moon, with the sense of "I."
Through the practice of Kundalini Yoga, as taught by Yogi Bhajan, founder of the Healthy Happy Holy Organization (www.3ho.com), the body field emerges into a mental, physical and spiritual fitness that results in the clear hearing (atma-sphurana reverberation) and isolation of the sense of "I" as the substratum of all thoughts, sensations and images. There are hundreds of such Kundalini Yoga sets.
A Kundalini Yoga Set is made up of postures (asanas), movements (kriyas), angles, gestures (mudras), mantra / naad / Laya / Shabad (collectively sound), combined with different types of powerful breathing (pranayamas) and locks (bhandas), and various meditations. The practice of these Kundalini Yoga Sets causes a pranic pressure (the saturation of vitalized aerated blood) on the various centers (chakras) and nerves (nadis). The result of a regular practice of Kundalini Yoga is that the centers become completely discharged of all toxins and free of other factors that give one a limited impression of one's Self, as an identity of a successive collection of impressions, and shade one's view of the world. With continued practice over a matter of weeks these centers begin to become bio-electrically charged. As the charge increases in these centers (batteries of energy consciousness) the body field comes into a more and more powerful electro-magnetic balance and the mind becomes clear, bright and etherically pure.
When the body field centers become charged through proper practice, the application of certain locks, taught as part of the Kundalini Yoga Sets, assists the downward flowing prana (apana) and upward flowing prana to be drawn into the Kandal, an area between the navel and 4th spinal vertebra. This mixing of the apana with the prana triggers the release of energy (shakti) from the Kandal downward and the sense of deep pervasive Awareness begins to flow upwards along the spine opening all the charged centers directly from within. As this Kundalini Energy reaches the brain, the centers of the brain also begin to secrete, and one experiences beatitude in the awakening of the Awareness of the undifferentiated Oneness of the body field with the world as these secretions flow downward through the body field.
Suddenly, at any time in the transforming practice of Kundalini Yoga, there is an implosion of the body field, coupled with the clear recollection of one's True and Primordial "I" in the Heart (Hrdayam), which results in the dissolution (hrd - "sucking in") of the "I" association with the body field's identity to a collection of thoughts, images and impressions. Suddenly, one awakens to one's Self as being all pervasive and not, as previously thought, an identity of accumulated images projecting veiled impressions of reality on the undifferentiated world. With the emergence of the True Man, the True Woman, the body field is transfixed in a pillar of Light, and one experiences one's Self as pervading space-like undifferentiated Consciousness, the Ground of Being - the Singularity of the Heart.
The Revelation about our True Self is recorded in every Religion and exemplified in the lives of the Saints and Saviors. It is the basis for the practice of all the yogas, and yet as we read and listen to the sacred teachings that, if heard (sravana), bring about entirely the release of the identity to images and the abidance in the Singularity of our Self (niddidyanasana / mahamudra), somehow time passes and our minds become dull to the Word. We practice the various yogas, traditions and rituals, and instead of hearing and realizing their inherent Truth, many become enmeshed into the practice, the teachers and the community, as their minds begin to collect new images as a basis for the mind's fixation on a new identity, while others conclude or never believe that there is some singular abiding Truth and miss life's opportunity altogether.
Uniquely, with the ardent practice of Kundalini Yoga, the transforming effect of the Kundalini Shakti (energy-consciousness) on the body field comes about so quickly and is so complete, profound, prevailing and pervasive that, with the slightest reminder of the Truth of one's Self, That which is True recollects Itself, and we experience pervasive Being and Light and a True ever deepening and abiding sense of the Creative Intelligence we are all Grounded in that Illumines all planes of consciousness without distinction, as their inherent Reality.
For more information look at: http://www.kundalini-matashakti.com or http://www.3ho.com
http://www.kundalini-gateway.org
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