LayaYoga :

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Interesting subject, and maybe Lars can give me another book review:

 

Layayoga: The Definitive Guide to the Chakras and Kundalini, by Shyam Sundar

Godwami.

 

First of all, I was reading this book last night and just from reading the

book, my solar plexus chakra started to tingle with the most happy vibration,

very strong, and I felt overcome with the feeling of "to giggle" and I really am

please with the amount of information in this book:

 

Here is what it says on the back of the book:

 

"Tantra -- a spiritual tradition centered on the use of teh body to find

enlightenment -- has become extremely popular in the West, but at the heart of

Tantra is the little-known practice of Layayoga. Layayoga focuses on the

Tantric

process of transforming the ordinary human body into a divine body in which

every cell is awakened with consciousness."

and

"In Layayoga the adept learns not only to raise kundalini power from

the base of the spine up through each chakra to the crown of the head, but also

to then sillfully guide this power back to its home at the base of the

spine."

 

To me, this is the completion. I admit it. I am a westerner, and I have

this thing in me that not only the spirit is to be transformed, but the body as

well.

 

For instance, when Jesus was crucified, died, and buried, he resurrected wtih

a REAL BODY which was transformed into a Divine Body, so I really believe

this, and no amount of anybody disagreeing on any line of reasoning is going to

change how I feel about this.

 

The body is not bad, and only to be transcended. Sure we must learn to raise

our consciousness and become Conscious in our bodies, so that we are not

Ruled by crude matter. Rather, we are called to enlighten not only our minds,

but

our bodies as well.

 

The point of God/dess putting people on earth as spirits in bodies, was NOT

so we could learn to dispise the body as a form of punishement and exile from

spirit and Sattva, but so that we could learn how to live as spiritually

enlightened beings IN our bodies, and thus Spiritualize Matter.

 

When we see that matter and teh body are only something to be transcended,

they become like the used wrapper we throw away and we lose a regard for the

sacredness of Mother Earth and our own Bodies.

 

Our jobs as spirits inhabiting bodies is to fulfill the scripture that our

bodies are a Temple to the Divine.

 

Ok, Ok, so EVENTUALLY we transcend also the body and the need to bring Light

Into Physical matter, thus spiritualizing matter. Everyone ascends. One way

or another we all ascend. The body doesn't need to be the enemy in this

process.

 

My two cents,

Peace,

CAthie

 

 

 

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SophiasHeaven wrote:

> Interesting subject, and maybe Lars can give me another book review:

 

 

Sorry, I haven't read this one. I haven't read that many books about yoga.

 

Regards

 

Lars