The One Star Spirituality, as taught by Yogi Bhajan

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While Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan is not Vichara, daily Sadhana of a

practitioner leads to the distillation of dross elements that results in the

reflection of the Self in the Heart, the sense of recollection of this

reflection as being one's True Self and abiding as That.

 

In Kundalini Yoga, the right Vegas nerve is called the mind nerve, which

originates in the "Ik Tar" or the "One Star," located in the Spiritual heart and

on the right side of the physical heart, slightly to the right of sternum,

through which the sense of Being, Life and Consciousness originates, projects

and fills all the nadis of the body, as well as the mind nerve which carries the

sense of Being Consciousness, i.e., the awareness of "I" to the brain where the

images are projected. In Tibetan Buddhism, the Ik Tar of Kundalini Yoga, the

One Star, is called the Hrdayam ("hrd", literally meaning, That which sucks in

everything, and "ayam" meaning expansion/ projection), and the Vegas nerve, or

"mind nerve" that originates in the center of our being, the Hrdayam, is called

the amritnadi and paranadi. In the Sikh Dharma, the Harimandr in the Heart is

the highest temple.

 

In Kundalini Yoga, the significanse of the term "One Star" is that a star has

both a gravitation that draws the mind inward crushing thoughts at the source,

as well as an expansion of the radiance and blaze of electric transparency,

which comes from behind the thoughts and impressions, like the turning up of the

power of the light in a movie projector.

 

The whole practice of Kundalini Yoga, of this kind, developed and practiced by

the ancient Kings and those in families with a proven spiritual propensity, with

the thousands of sets, kriyas, and meditations that Yogi Bhajan brought over,

taught and recorded fpr his teachers to teach openly, is designed to gradually

and systematically increase the voltage of the nervous system and the glands and

organs, which act like batteries to the body sustaining the voltage increases,

called the conversion of bindu to ojas, until there is a connection or yoking of

the individual unit of consciousness with its source, at which stage there is an

influx of energy consciousness, a bit like a shift from evolution to involution,

like opening up the top on a jar floating in the ocean, so that the water flows

in filling the jar until the inside and outside are whole and single,

undifferentiated Consciousness.

 

Yogi Bhajan spoke about the potential and possibility of this experience when he

first arrived in the US in 1969. He called it the "One Star Spirituality" and

outlined the Kundalini Yoga Sadhana that would lead inexorably to this result.

 

As time would pass and the practice lead to the experience of using the mind

less and less, relinquishing the minds mechanism of attention and remaining as

the pervasive seer, what Yogi Bhajan called the "Sensory Human," he would tell

his student/teachers simply to "Always abide in the Non-Dual."

 

A Vedic astrologer recently described the passing of Yogi Bhajan like this: "I

know for a soul like him death and life are just different experiences of

eternal life."