Swami Sivananda & Arthur Avalon on K

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from Arthur Avalon, Sir John Woodruffe

from 'The Serpent Power'

 

Jnana (knowledge) bypasses the lower

chakras. Sahaj Marg people use the

higher heart center and completely

bypass the lower kundalini chakras

also.

 

Advanced yoga does not touch kundalini

and does not therefore require

chastity. Ramana's Amrit nadi heart-

cave this is from a Yogananda sudetn

Advanced yoga brings the energy down.

 

Kundalini takes the lower energies

up. Yogananda's kundalini yoga uses

the exact initiation as sant mat. You

cannot bring enegy down by

concentating at Tirsa Til. You must

use the higher heart chakra.

 

If Yogananda's group uses the exact

sant mat initiation as kundalini

yoga..

 

This shabda initiation has been

known as kundalini for hundreds of

years.

 

 

"satkartar5" <sat_karta@h...> wrote:

> Kundalini is the serpent power of

> sleeping Sakti, that has 3 1/2 coils

> with face downwards, in the

> Muladhara Chakra, at the base of

> the spine. No Samadhi is possible

> without its being awakened. The

> practice of Kumbhaka is Pranayama

> produces heat and there-by Kundalini

> is awakened and passes upwards along the Sushumna Nadi.

>

> The yogic practitioner experiences

> various visions. Then the Kundalini

> passes along the Six Chakras and

> eventually gets united with Lord

> Siva, seated on the Sahasrara or thousand-petalled lotus, at the

> crown of the head. Nirvikalpa Samadhi

> ensues now and the Yogi gets

> liberation and all the divine

> Aishvaryas.

>

> One should practice control of

> breath with concentration of mind.

> The awakened Kundalini that is

> taken up to Manipura Chakra may

> drop down again to Muladhara, It

> has to be raised again with effort.

>

> One should become perfectly

> desireless and should be full of

> Vairagya before he attempts to

> awaken Kundalini.

>  

> Kundalini si like a thread and is resplendent. When it is awakened it

> hisses like a serpent beaten with

> a stick and enter the hole of

> Sushumna.

>

> When it travels from Chakra to

> Chakra, layer after layer of the

> mind become open and the Yogi,

> acquires various Siddhis (psychic

> powers).

>  

> The Science of Pranayama by

> Swami Sivananda

>

>

> lk