Response to message 2 of [kundaliniheat] Digest Number 656

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Response to message 2 of [kundaliniheat] Digest Number 656

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Message: 2

Sun, 8 Jul 2001 16:25:15 EDT

jalow

Re: Pieter's response to Message 2 [yogapsychology] Digest Nu...

 

Pieter,

 

Once a person's body has undergone such a complete transformation as you

write about...say in a full Spontaneous K manner... is it necessarily

"easier" for such a person to again experience such a process over and over

again? Does or should such a person need or get any kind of training or

guidance to do so again?

 

Jack

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Response:

 

Dear Jack,

 

Thanks for the question.

 

As one practices KY, controls one's diet and reads the non-dual scriptures

and related devotional stories of the Saints and Saviors, the various

centers in the body field begin to carry a charge.

 

In the practice of KY sets, which include postures and movements combined

with various effective and powerful breathing, certain locks, as well as

mantra, these centers are put under some contracting or expanding or

vibrational pressure that coupled with the breathing brings about a

saturation of the capillaries and nerves with aerated and highly charged

blood. The result of this is that glands and organs that were functioning

in some restricted and reduced manner begin to function in a balanced manner

and in a greater chemical electric communication and balance with all the

other centers of the body field. At the same time, nerve plexuses related

to the glands and organs, where some nerves fires only partially or not at

all, are caused to completely fire and in the process open. While all the

glands participate in the vitalization of the blood, the sex glands in

particular produce a substance that when secreted in the blood stream

circulates to the nerves of the body where there is a vital charge that

allows those areas to continue to carry the charge. This means that as one

continues ones daily practice, gradually the entire pranic system becomes

charged. Bindhu, as a substance involved in procreation, is converted to

Ojas, a substance involved in transformation of the body field from the

mundane consciousness to Universal Consciousness.

 

This electric charge begins to accumulate, such that you begin to feel an

etheric balance and pervasive and powerful stillness that draws your mind

inwards, which is to say, away from attention and interest in arising

objects and images.

 

At a certain point, as you continue the daily practice, the demand for

greater chemical electric energy in the brain and in the Heart [which comes

about through a combination of the charging of the centers the permeation of

the blood stream with the sexual fluids, the devotion to God from reading

about the lives of the Saints and Saviors, and the longing to hear (to

become one with) the Wisdom that they bring], the pranas are drawn to the

Kandal which triggers the release of an energy force (Kundalini Shakti) that

opens the base of the sushumna and causes a drop of the sexual fluid to

enter directly.

 

The centers that were previously charged through the blood stream and now

charged inwardly and directly as this Shakti moves thru the spinal cord to

the brain centers.

 

Now regarding your question, various practices and events in ones life may

cause this to happen and there may be some experience. Many of those that

practice Kundalini Yoga and have this experience talk about the difficulty

in keeping this pathway open. But if the purpose of ones practice is due to

devotion and longing for the Truth, Wisdom and self Knowledge, which are

realized and awakened to in these higher centers, then this Pathway will

tend to always stay open. The life of Ramakrishna is an example of this,

where he would even seek to curtail the effect from time to time, just to

continue the Teaching of the Truth that was overwhelming him as he would

speak of It, by constantly drawing the Kundalini Energy up.

 

"The purpose of yoga is to isolate the seer." (Yoga Sutras of Patenjali)

 

This is to say that as one continues to practice, the practice begins to

become more inward, drawn into an electromagnetic force that polarizes the

body field, as a powerful dynamo builds in the heart area.

 

Suddenly, without any warning everything that was before dissolves entirely.

The sense of a doer and seer, a subject and object, the use of the mechanism

of the mind to focus and concentrate attention, evaporates like the morning

mist. All concepts, all ones ideas and impressions about the world simply

vanish, like a mirage. The body field is noticed to have a flame coming

from the base of the spine through the crown, the Hrdayam is radiant as it

the atma nadi. With the sundering of the Hrday Granthi (knot that binds the

sense of "I" to the thoughts and images of the mind with the notion of their

identity) the use of the mind's mechanism to focus is altogether

relinquished, like the use of seeing by the light of the moon, appearing in

the sky after the sun has risen. Subtle and gross appear as

undifferentiated, nor is there a near or far.

 

With the return to body field consciousness, one feels the gravitational

pulling in all the nerves of the sense of "I" dissolving from the previous

idea of identity with thoughts and images. At the same time, it is as

though between and through the atoms of the body an ever increasing sense of

Live Light pervades, giving the sensation of the body and world fading to

white even as one is looking at it.

 

You find yourself abiding in and as the Singularity of the Heart (Hrdayam),

within which is the experience of space-like All-Pervasive Being

Consciousness.

 

Once the mind comes into the vortex of this Singularity one experiences the

constant pulsation of the "I" without a "mine," and the Sahasrara (Crown)

radiates light in which images cannot survive.

 

This experience deepens and becomes more pervasive until the sundering

becomes complete. On the one side there is this tremendous still enquiry

into the source of the pulsation and light from the Hrdayam, and on the

other side there is this sense of aiding, as uncaused, unconditioned,

without time - timeless, without space - space-like, as relinquishment

itself. On the one side there is this sense of being totally absorbed, and

on the other all-pervasive. On the one side one abides as the Ground of

Being, and on the other one is the Ocean of Consciousness. And yet

activities continue, even as the sense of being the doer dematerializes.

 

Once caught it this vortex, there is neither a return nor a desire to

return, as the former idea of an identity has become like the vanishing

mirage, like the person in the distance, who is discovered upon scrutiny to

be only a post, such that the idea of the person has vanished altogether.

All that remains is the continued Transfiguration.

 

Some say that the Hrdayam opens as the Kundalini passes the Heart, but the

Hrdayam is the Self and the substratum of Being and the Light of

Consciousness, and is always unconditioned and uncaused, and may open, as

with Ramana Maharshi, without any previous spiritual experience at all, by

the simple reminder that God is True and that others have awakened to this

prevailing Truth.

 

Thus, to answer your question, regardless of the power of ones spiritual

experiences, until the final dissolution of the sense of "I" in the Hrdayam,

one continues to practice, or to paraphrase Christ in the parable of the

maidens in the need to always keep vigilant with their lamp bright, one

remains vigilant until the Bridegroom comes, which is the Christ

Consciousness where "I and my Father are One." where "This Atman is That

Brahman." where

 

"He's the only one who hears

the only one who sees

the only one who speaks and thinks.

Me and God, God ad Me are One."

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