Energy surges-Kundalini-Prana.

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Eggers <eggersj@g...> wrote:

> Hello Tony and all,

>

> Funny thing about mantra is it does, in fact, possess power whether

> one is 'believing' in it or repeating with only the attention and

> cognition of a big parrot. The power of mantra and relation of sound

> to matter remains such a mysterious experience to me.

>

> I had a 20 year daily practice of mantra meditation before the

> awakening of kundalini. After the kundalini became active, the mantra

> I had used in meditation began to repeat itself within me

> automatically, day and night, much of the time, for several years.

 

 

 

 

yes, me too: automatically, day and night

 

I got a mantra of 5, the last of it

was: Sat Nam*, but this was given to

me before my initiation by Yogy Bhajan

before my initiation into the Om,

the Naam: the primal sound of creation

 

*truth is my name (identity)

> Sometimes this would abate for a while. The mantras changed, too, over

> time. Sometimes a new seed mantra appears and repeats itself during

> part of each day, or during certain times, for a few months or more.

> Sometimes it is a longer, more complicated sanskrit mantra or song that

> appears. It's such a mystery. I suppose the mantra needed by the

> system shows up and does its work, then moves on. For about the first

> 4 years of kundalini, the mantra OM roared in the head hundreds of

> times a day. I remember when this started, being on an elevator at

> work, thinking, 'what the hell?', (or something gentler and more

> profound, to that effect ), as I listened to this world of mantra

> roaring along with the complex actions of kriyas that went on each day.

 

 

yes, movements..

 

> After a while, it became quieter and less frequent. but still remains

> a daily occurrence.

>

> After a while I figured out that the mantra OM was manifesting when

> there was a clearing or cleansing

 

 

 

> YES! the OM: the Word in the Bible,

[in the beginning there was the *"Word"

and the Word was God...]

 

--it is ever cleansing: it is the ONLY

cleansing pure primal energy

 

* word

 

 

in the system of some sort, or an

> opening of spirit in or out of matter in some way--in me, or around me.

> That is, I noticed that OM manifests when something moves and clears

> within the body/mind, and that OM manifests at the birth or death of

> any creature. I take care of a lot of hurt birds, and once I heard the

> inner subtle OM sound when a robin I was holding died. Shortly after

> that, I noticed it with a crow that died. Despite many years of

> meditation practice, part of me had always thought the mantra was a

> symbol sound, and meaning sound, until my experience showed me that it

> has integrity and power regardless of the understanding of the hearer

> or repeater of the sound. What an amazing thing that was, to begin to

> understand the embedded world of mantra within the manifest world.

>

> Jill

>

 

namaste, Era

 

>

> On Oct 2, 2004, at 4:53 PM, Tony OClery wrote:

> > Namaste,

> >

> > Doing Japa isn't just a rote rosary, as many people do. Each single

> > mantra repeated has to have a definate feeling of the mantra.

> > Otherwise one is just a 150 lb parrot.

> >

> > If Kundalini-Prana is manifesting then it is the Universal Mind, we

> > hardly know better than She. As I said spiritual seekers have big

> > egos, bigger than ordinary folk. Partly due to paying attention to

> > the 'Thief in the Palace'.

> >

> > I cannot believe that turning within properly can have a deleterious

> > effect with kundalini-prana. If it does then IMO this is just one of

> > the five pranas randomly acting in the system of nadis and not

> > Kundalini-Prana. This is a common mistake amongst people who

> > essentially are not sadhakas........ONS...Tony.