Guest guest Posted September 6, 2003 Report Share Posted September 6, 2003 What we call Kundalini movements through the various systems (mechanisms) in the body are really more like the movement of mercury in a barometer, or thermometer. It's an indication of an increase in energy pressure due to expanded (deepening) Awareness, not the other way around. This expansion/deepening is not just in the physical body, but also in the other 9 bodies, which is to say, all the chakras, including the aura, the arc-line, the discriminative facility, the astral body and radiant body. The complete awakening begins when an impalpable pulsing of "I as I" - a soundless reverberation, begins in the One Star, i.e., in the synod to the right side of the heart and nerve between this center (seat of consciousness - nor a chakra) and the crown (sahasrara). Then the whole body becomes infused and radiant with light, while a powerful graviton like force withdraws the "I" sense from the images and impressions of the mind. Prior to that, there is a stilling of the mind and infilling of radiance throughout the body that happens simply because of a continuous practice of Sadhana and occasional taking of Kundalini Yoga classes and retreats/workshops or events like the 3ho Summer Solstice. As the mind deepens and stills and the radiance expands, you feel as though the nerve endings throughout the body simply fill, then release and energy expands all around. Gradually, this radiance begins to become the same inside and outside the body, as though the body is dissolving into a sea of light. But you remain ever the seer: single, still, unconditioned, the screen of Awareness upon which the ever expanding and deepening illuminating universe appears, not longer the contracted ego identity to thoughts, impressions, sensations, rather the ever de-contracting abidance as single pervasive Self. When we go to sleep, many think that the energy levels of the body drop, but, in actuality, the energy levels increase to a level far above the frequency of thoughts, images and impressions, to where, with dreaming, the mind itself creates a whole universe of characters and setting and events, still maintaining the illusion of a separate you within it. Then the energy increases even more, to levels beyond the frequency of dream images, and the light withdraws into the ida and pingala (the moon and sun energy channels). From there, the energy withdraws into the central canal of the spine and moves upwards. At the same time various causal images are seen. Eventually, the energy comes to the top of the head and is sucked down into the One Star (also called the Hrdayam). If the mind is very still and one goes to sleep, you will have this experience, which Yogi Bhajan calls "nerve vacuum." The difference between this yoga nidra - the nerve vacuum experience, and the Kundalini experience is that one remains completely in the waking state, so that, as the energy increases throughout the body field, the subconscious storehouse of thought patterns, inherent tendencies, predispositions and impressions, burns up / dissolves, as all the encoding of these patters throughout the body are overcome by a new expanding sense of identity with the experience of radiantly expanding / deepening consciousness. The result of this is that the conscious mind, which is the outward expression of the universal awareness merges with the subconscious, and you awaken to an experience of all that you see being simply one undifferentiated whole, in which your body and mind are realized to be never separate from That Whole. Yogis call it "waking-sleep" (jagrat-sushupti). What we call the unconscious is actually the creative force in the universe from the smallest particle to the vastness of uncountable galaxies, universes and dimensions. The support for this is the all-pervasive, unconditioned, uncaused timeless Self, which within us is called the Atman, and otherwise Brahman (or in Christian terms, the Son and the Father). This Self is simply our own awareness, which we denote by the sound "I," ever shining through us, and then limit It by clinging to rising thought. But, when we abide in this Awareness, singly, It begins to suffuse the body field with light, which emerges as the mind becomes still and deep (as also described by Christ in Luke 11:34). The Conscious mind merges with the unconscious and this single still deeply radiant identity (the satvic mind) impacts with it's source and ground, the Infinite Being and realizes its eternal identity with It, without the slightest trace or interest in thoughts and images or conjecture. You begin to live a life, in which the old mind mechanism - of attention to each rising thought and the "trapping" of thoughts into opinions and judgments around a separate sense of identity - is simply relinquished. You abide in an intuitive state, Yogi Bhajan refers to as the "sensory human" in which everything flows, and happens automatically in utter clarity, a clarity in which the dissolution of the limited mind leaves over one's ever present innate, Self inherent Truth of abiding as the single pervasive screen of non-dual consciousness, in which even the idea of oneness is meaningless. Kundalini Yoga, as taught by Yogi Bhajan, simply provides the means to leverage the God given mechanisms and systems within the body field to realize the inherent unity (yoga) between our individual unit of consciousness and the Infinite Being. "Rain or shine, it's only the mind that lives to add a tear. God and me, me and God, God and me are One He's the only one who sees the only One who hears, the only one who thinks and speaks God and me, me and God, God and me are One" There are a number of mechanisms and systems that activate as this pressure of this energy consciousness / Awareness increases: the mechanism between the Kundal, spinal base, spine, third eye (ajna) and crown (sahasrara), called the silver cord; the ajna to sahasrara mechanism, called the gold cord, which is said to be more radiant than the first; the mechanism from the Hrdayam through the Crown and above; the mechanism that opens the 10th gate at the crown, which allows for the infilling of the pervasive energy, like opening the top of a bottle, floating in the ocean; the mechanism of the solar plexus and others - all just images appearing on the screen of infinite consciousness, all which become activated by steady practice - sadhana, KY classes and workshops. Herbs and related drug derivatives may have some temporary effect of breaking barriers to energy flows that give an expanded experience of one's self, but these are not real kundalini experiences, which have to do with the submerging of one's limited cup of water into the ocean of awareness. Meditation may be useful, but until the mind can become still, radiant and pure, such meditations are limited by the limited capacity of the body to carry the voltage necessary to fully impact the source of their awareness. The body is made up of a number of governors or energy control mechanisms that prevent the flow of the infinite energy screen from disrupting the energy patterns of the body. With the gradual increasing of energy throughout the body field through sadhana-ardhana-pradhupati and KY classes, these governors begin to readjust and release to allow the increasing flow of energy inwards, until the whole body dissolves in light, the ground of being-energy-consciousness. Being practical and putting the matter very simply and straight forward, while these descriptions of the Kundalini experience and the mechanisms it manifests through are interesting, all that Yogi Bhajan is telling us is just this: Practice a daily Sadhana, take some KY classes, come to the retreats and workshops when you can, and all this will just open and energy of its own accord, all summed up by the words "Keep Up!" Many things begin to happen in terms of what the infinite awareness begins to become conscious of, as the Awareness (to use a practical word that really means Kundalini versus esoteric meanings, which, as Yogi Bhajan describes is the energy that creates the atom) expands. You will become aware of the meridians and meridian points throughout the body, as well as the well known yogic energy channels and chakras, and the relates auric fields around the body and head, which dissolve and expand continuously, as the radiance deepens. Distinctions of "I" and "you" dissolve in an experiential practical manner. You will feel and know the influences of the stars and planets. It's like the wind blowing against a field of propellers, that generate electricity, and everything begins to happen on its own, without a doer. We say "I" and "my body" - "my actions" - "my thoughts" and yet in reality we don't know or have the ability to create the energy vibration manifesting a single thought or image in the mind or a single cell of the body. It all just happens, and we say "I" and grasp at it all as "mine." But as one continues one's Kundalini Yoga Sadhana and regular practice, the energy expands, resonates and radiates throughout the body field and deepens in the mind until the barrier of "me" and "mine," as an identity to these patters of thought, impression and sensation simply drops off, and you abide as expansive consciousness, Aware singly of what was formerly the subconscious and what was formerly called the unconscious. You Witness and Live the Creation. You are the Creation. The purpose of Yoga, as the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali begin with, is to "isolate the seer." The seer is the Awareness without attention and clinging or gripping of thoughts and images. This mechanism of attention is a mechanism of the mind that tries to focus on dimly lit and hardly understood objects and images appearing in the mind. It's like trying to see by the light of the waxing and waning moon. But the "seer" once freed of images, because of the expansion of Awareness, is like the sun. Once the sun begins to rise, then even though you can see the full moon in a crystal blue sky, the moon is no longer necessary to see and know, which means in this analogy, that the mechanism of attention is put aside altogether, and you begin to experience yourself as single pervasive being, like the screen upon which a movie is projected, only you now realize that you are not a part of the movie, an actor in it, but rather the support and basis for it, the actor in every part, and the play goes on entirely without a doer. Sort of like the Beatles song, "I am you and you are me and we are all together." - only the notion of "I" and "you" is seen to be nothing more than a mental concept having no meaning to the reality. The collective consciousness of Jung, is realized not to be a grouping of separate consciousnesses under one unconscious whole, but rather that the seemingly separate individuals are realized to be collecting or drawn into their single pervasive source, while always abiding as That Source. The 10 bodies are categories seen by yogis. Each chakra is a dimension or world of its own, even though they seem to act as a synchronized whole. When you practice KY, you begin to feel the arc line, from ear to ear over and around the head, related to the 6th chakra. There arises a sort of a 3 dimensional consciousness or awareness of the field of consciousness in which the body and everything around it appear. You begin to see and to know within this single silent clarity of vision without a separate seer, without a separate object to see. You also begin to feel a sense of a special consciousness which relates to the clear distinction between the "seer" as "I" and objects and images that have been assumed to be part of the "I" sense in the form of an identity, only due to the limited levels of energy in the body. The mind becomes pure, and this Intelligence, that knows Itself, manifests, and your own sense of "I" now single, without an object of attention, begins to pulse like a pulsar, with a force that reverberates through and around the body, as though the body was a tuning fork resonant with a single pulse of soundless sound, dissolving any vestige of identity of the "I" sense to objects and images. No thoughts, nor a thinker.... only single pervasive being, the old mind of conjecture and judgment simply dropping from use, like the moon in the blue sky once the sun of the heart has risen. This means that even though you begin to see the meridians within this ever present sort of 3 dimensional timeless awareness, as well as the meridian point, the energy channels, the chakras and much more, this dawning of Awareness is really happening because That Awareness is disengaging any focus of attention into these now visible phenomenon that accompany the intuitive knowledge about them. As Yogi Bhajan explained, when the Infinite Being awoke in his heart, Its Wisdom came too. In the depth of my heartHarimandir lives! (Temple of God)When I realized Akal Purkh (Infinite Being)The Akal Takht came inside me too. (Eternal Wisdom) Inside . . .Outside. . .Everything is God! The key is the Sadhana, out of which all the mind and the body blossom forth, as effort is relinquished, and we enter into the Stream and flow of Consciousness, from which comes the seed of single pervasive Awareness. Pieter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 7, 2003 Report Share Posted September 7, 2003 , <pietersa@l...> wrote: > What we call Kundalini movements through the various systems (mechanisms) in the body are really more like the movement of mercury in a barometer, or thermometer. It's an indication of an increase in energy pressure due to expanded (deepening) Awareness, not the other way around. > > This expansion/deepening is not just in the physical body, but also in the other 9 bodies, which is to say, all the chakras, including the aura, the arc-line, the discriminative facility, the astral body and radiant body. > > The complete awakening begins when an impalpable pulsing of "I as I" - a soundless reverberation, begins in the One Star, i.e., in the synod to the right side of the heart and nerve between this center (seat of consciousness - nor a chakra) and the crown (sahasrara). Then the whole body becomes infused and radiant with light, while a powerful graviton like force withdraws the "I" sense from the images and impressions of the mind. > > Prior to that, there is a stilling of the mind and infilling of radiance throughout the body that happens simply because of a continuous practice of Sadhana and occasional taking of Kundalini Yoga classes and retreats/workshops or events like the 3ho Summer Solstice. > > As the mind deepens and stills and the radiance expands, you feel as though the nerve endings throughout the body simply fill, then release and energy expands all around. Gradually, this radiance begins to become the same inside and outside the body, as though the body is dissolving into a sea of light. > > But you remain ever the seer: single, still, unconditioned, the screen of Awareness upon which the ever expanding and deepening illuminating universe appears, not longer the contracted ego identity to thoughts, impressions, sensations, rather the ever de- contracting abidance as single pervasive Self. > > When we go to sleep, many think that the energy levels of the body drop, but, in actuality, the energy levels increase to a level far above the frequency of thoughts, images and impressions, to where, with dreaming, the mind itself creates a whole universe of characters and setting and events, still maintaining the illusion of a separate you within it. Then the energy increases even more, to levels beyond the frequency of dream images, and the light withdraws into the ida and pingala (the moon and sun energy channels). From there, the energy withdraws into the central canal of the spine and moves upwards. At the same time various causal images are seen. Eventually, the energy comes to the top of the head and is sucked down into the One Star (also called the Hrdayam). If the mind is very still and one goes to sleep, you will have this experience, which Yogi Bhajan calls "nerve vacuum." > > The difference between this yoga nidra - the nerve vacuum experience, and the Kundalini experience is that one remains completely in the waking state, so that, as the energy increases throughout the body field, the subconscious storehouse of thought patterns, inherent tendencies, predispositions and impressions, burns up / dissolves, as all the encoding of these patters throughout the body are overcome by a new expanding sense of identity with the experience of radiantly expanding / deepening consciousness. The result of this is that the conscious mind, which is the outward expression of the universal awareness merges with the subconscious, and you awaken to an experience of all that you see being simply one undifferentiated whole, in which your body and mind are realized to be never separate from That Whole. Yogis call it "waking-sleep" (jagrat-sushupti). > > What we call the unconscious is actually the creative force in the universe from the smallest particle to the vastness of uncountable galaxies, universes and dimensions. The support for this is the all- pervasive, unconditioned, uncaused timeless Self, which within us is called the Atman, and otherwise Brahman (or in Christian terms, the Son and the Father). This Self is simply our own awareness, which we denote by the sound "I," ever shining through us, and then limit It by clinging to rising thought. But, when we abide in this Awareness, singly, It begins to suffuse the body field with light, which emerges as the mind becomes still and deep (as also described by Christ in Luke 11:34). The Conscious mind merges with the unconscious and this single still deeply radiant identity (the satvic mind) impacts with it's source and ground, the Infinite Being and realizes its eternal identity with It, without the slightest trace or interest in thoughts and images or conjecture. You begin to live a life, in which the old mind mechanism - of attention to each rising thought and the "trapping" of thoughts into opinions and judgments around a separate sense of identity - is simply relinquished. You abide in an intuitive state, Yogi Bhajan refers to as the "sensory human" in which everything flows, and happens automatically in utter clarity, a clarity in which the dissolution of the limited mind leaves over one's ever present innate, Self inherent Truth of abiding as the single pervasive screen of non-dual consciousness, in which even the idea of oneness is meaningless. > > Kundalini Yoga, as taught by Yogi Bhajan, simply provides the means to leverage the God given mechanisms and systems within the body field to realize the inherent unity (yoga) between our individual unit of consciousness and the Infinite Being. > > "Rain or shine, it's only the mind that lives to add a tear. > God and me, me and God, God and me are One > He's the only one who sees the only One who hears, > the only one who thinks and speaks > God and me, me and God, God and me are One" > > There are a number of mechanisms and systems that activate as this pressure of this energy consciousness / Awareness increases: the mechanism between the Kundal, spinal base, spine, third eye (ajna) and crown (sahasrara), called the silver cord; the ajna to sahasrara mechanism, called the gold cord, which is said to be more radiant than the first; the mechanism from the Hrdayam through the Crown and above; the mechanism that opens the 10th gate at the crown, which allows for the infilling of the pervasive energy, like opening the top of a bottle, floating in the ocean; the mechanism of the solar plexus and others - all just images appearing on the screen of infinite consciousness, all which become activated by steady practice - sadhana, KY classes and workshops. > > Herbs and related drug derivatives may have some temporary effect of breaking barriers to energy flows that give an expanded experience of one's self, but these are not real kundalini experiences, which have to do with the submerging of one's limited cup of water into the ocean of awareness. > > Meditation may be useful, but until the mind can become still, radiant and pure, such meditations are limited by the limited capacity of the body to carry the voltage necessary to fully impact the source of their awareness. > > The body is made up of a number of governors or energy control mechanisms that prevent the flow of the infinite energy screen from disrupting the energy patterns of the body. With the gradual increasing of energy throughout the body field through sadhana- ardhana-pradhupati and KY classes, these governors begin to readjust and release to allow the increasing flow of energy inwards, until the whole body dissolves in light, the ground of being-energy- consciousness. > > Being practical and putting the matter very simply and straight forward, while these descriptions of the Kundalini experience and the mechanisms it manifests through are interesting, all that Yogi Bhajan is telling us is just this: Practice a daily Sadhana, take some KY classes, come to the retreats and workshops when you can, and all this will just open and energy of its own accord, all summed up by the words "Keep Up!" > > Many things begin to happen in terms of what the infinite awareness begins to become conscious of, as the Awareness (to use a practical word that really means Kundalini versus esoteric meanings, which, as Yogi Bhajan describes is the energy that creates the atom) expands. You will become aware of the meridians and meridian points throughout the body, as well as the well known yogic energy channels and chakras, and the relates auric fields around the body and head, which dissolve and expand continuously, as the radiance deepens. Distinctions of "I" and "you" dissolve in an experiential practical manner. You will feel and know the influences of the stars and planets. It's like the wind blowing against a field of propellers, that generate electricity, and everything begins to happen on its own, without a doer. > > We say "I" and "my body" - "my actions" - "my thoughts" and yet in reality we don't know or have the ability to create the energy vibration manifesting a single thought or image in the mind or a single cell of the body. It all just happens, and we say "I" and grasp at it all as "mine." > > But as one continues one's Kundalini Yoga Sadhana and regular practice, the energy expands, resonates and radiates throughout the body field and deepens in the mind until the barrier of "me" and "mine," as an identity to these patters of thought, impression and sensation simply drops off, and you abide as expansive consciousness, Aware singly of what was formerly the subconscious and what was formerly called the unconscious. You Witness and Live the Creation. You are the Creation. > > The purpose of Yoga, as the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali begin with, is to "isolate the seer." The seer is the Awareness without attention and clinging or gripping of thoughts and images. This mechanism of attention is a mechanism of the mind that tries to focus on dimly lit and hardly understood objects and images appearing in the mind. It's like trying to see by the light of the waxing and waning moon. But the "seer" once freed of images, because of the expansion of Awareness, is like the sun. Once the sun begins to rise, then even though you can see the full moon in a crystal blue sky, the moon is no longer necessary to see and know, which means in this analogy, that the mechanism of attention is put aside altogether, and you begin to experience yourself as single pervasive being, like the screen upon which a movie is projected, only you now realize that you are not a part of the movie, an actor in it, but rather the support and basis for it, the actor in every part, and the play goes on entirely without a doer. > > Sort of like the Beatles song, "I am you and you are me and we are all together." - only the notion of "I" and "you" is seen to be nothing more than a mental concept having no meaning to the reality. > > The collective consciousness of Jung, is realized not to be a grouping of separate consciousnesses under one unconscious whole, but rather that the seemingly separate individuals are realized to be collecting or drawn into their single pervasive source, while always abiding as That Source. > > The 10 bodies are categories seen by yogis. Each chakra is a dimension or world of its own, even though they seem to act as a synchronized whole. > > When you practice KY, you begin to feel the arc line, from ear to ear over and around the head, related to the 6th chakra. There arises a sort of a 3 dimensional consciousness or awareness of the field of consciousness in which the body and everything around it appear. You begin to see and to know within this single silent clarity of vision without a separate seer, without a separate object to see. > > You also begin to feel a sense of a special consciousness which relates to the clear distinction between the "seer" as "I" and objects and images that have been assumed to be part of the "I" sense in the form of an identity, only due to the limited levels of energy in the body. The mind becomes pure, and this Intelligence, that knows Itself, manifests, and your own sense of "I" now single, without an object of attention, begins to pulse like a pulsar, with a force that reverberates through and around the body, as though the body was a tuning fork resonant with a single pulse of soundless sound, dissolving any vestige of identity of the "I" sense to objects and images. No thoughts, nor a thinker.... only single pervasive being, the old mind of conjecture and judgment simply dropping from use, like the moon in the blue sky once the sun of the heart has risen. > > This means that even though you begin to see the meridians within this ever present sort of 3 dimensional timeless awareness, as well as the meridian point, the energy channels, the chakras and much more, this dawning of Awareness is really happening because That Awareness is disengaging any focus of attention into these now visible phenomenon that accompany the intuitive knowledge about them. > > As Yogi Bhajan explained, when the Infinite Being awoke in his heart, Its Wisdom came too. > In the depth of my heart > Harimandir lives! (Temple of God) > > When I realized Akal Purkh (Infinite Being) > The Akal Takht came inside me too. (Eternal Wisdom) > > Inside . . . > Outside. . . > Everything is God! > > The key is the Sadhana, out of which all the mind and the body blossom forth, as effort is relinquished, and we enter into the Stream and flow of Consciousness, from which comes the seed of single pervasive Awareness. > > Pieter hi Pieter, what are the 9 bodies? I know of 5 corresponding to the 5 planes: physical, astral, mental, causal [supra-causal] god-plane [omipresent Consciousness] Karta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 8, 2003 Report Share Posted September 8, 2003 Hi Pieter Pieter: "the mechanism that opens the 10th gate at the crown, which allows for the infilling of the pervasive energy," & "the mechanism of the solar plexus and others..." Simon: How many gates are there (1-10) and do these gates have a corresponding place/center with the body eg. 10th gate at the crown? If so could you please let me know and what would gate no. would be the solar plexus. I'm interested in this because I studied a tenaga dalam (internal strength or inner dragon) system from my uncle and am curious about the gates. If this post appears twice apologies in advance Metta, Simon L. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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