Kundalini Yoga - The Saviors' Science of Sacred Sound and Living Light

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The universe as a macrocosm and body (causal, subtle, gross) as a microcosm are

made of light and sound. This light and sound appears on the infinite self

effulgent screen of Being Consciousness, a force of pure energy intelligence we

call God, Brahman, Nirvana, Parbrahm-akal, unstruck sound, Kundalini, and so on.

We denote the universe by the word existence and we denote the body by the word

"I," but these 2 are one, undifferentiated, unconditioned, beyond time and

space, prior to and the substratum of all images and sounds.

 

Words have 2 aspects: The vibratory sound and intelligence or meaning.

 

The purpose of yoga is to isolate the seer, to bring the sense of awareness of

our identity to a stage that it recognizes that the since of "I" in the body

alone is the True Self - the Atman, and in recognizing or "hearing" this Truth,

recollects and abides singly as That.

 

This recollection, manifests in the body as a Singularity in the heart that

pulsates "I as I" in the heart, a nerve (atma nadi, para nadi, amrita nadi)

between the heart (Hrdayam) and brain (Sahasrara) and outshines the body and

universe entirely. It is an experience that can be felt with extremely solid

clarity as the Truth (SAT) of ones identity (NAM).

 

But while this Truth as an archetypal force manifesting in the body draws us to

seek and understand God, to build Temples and Churches, to listen to over and

over in many ways the words of Saints, Sages and Saviors, it is not heard.

 

Nevertheless, the power within the words of these Saints and Saviors is so great

that if heard the force of the Singularity manifests and we abide as Truth.

 

The inherent tendencies we are born with give us a predisposition to interpret

the images appearing in the mind, so that we begin to make "takes" or

impressions that store themselves in the brain and throughout the nerve pathways

of the body, the organs, glands and cells, like a chemical-electric / atomic

encoding that becomes encrypted in the groupings of nerves, glands and organs,

which then emit a vibratory frequency that acts like a lens through which we

both interpret, judge and imagine the world (exterior/interior) to be, and,

therefore, project a vision of this imagined reality on the undifferentiated

screen of existence. This encoding of images and impressions becomes what we

call "I" our self.

 

The science of Kundalini Yoga has developed a technology of asanas (postures),

movements, mudras (gestures) and bhandas (energy locks) that combined with

pranayama (specialized breathing techniques) and mantra (sacred sound), bring

about a greater flow of prana (intelligent energy / light) into all the nerves,

glands and organs, such that the firing of energy along certain encoded nerve

pathways and within the cells begins to fill and envelop all the nerves and

cells of the chakras (lenses). As one practices these various types of Kundalini

Yoga sets, the sense of awareness of ones identity begins to shift from the

previous encoding to a more complete, balanced and pervasive vision of self as

being a consciousness. With the dawning of the recognition of one's identity as

a consciousness, it becomes possible to finally begin to "hear" the Truth and

singly abide as That.

 

The actual evolution of this yoga science and technology to effect this

expansion of the awareness of one's identity is actually more of an involution.

Certain people, we call Saviors or Sat Gurus have been asked from time to time

to provide methods to purify the body (gross, subtle and causal) so that the

power of their word can be heard.

 

In our own minds we can hear the encoding of our identity by a kind of a

backdrop of "self-talk" or continuous stream of thoughts and related emotional

triggers firing throughout the body that relate to our sense of identity - a

continuous flow of a kind of positive and negative reinforcement. To counter

this, as the Sat Gurus began to teach the methods and techniques, naturally,

they used their sacred words as a new backdrop of repetitive sounds filled with

for intelligent force of Truth to assist in the dissolution of the body's

encoding of images and impressions, so that these begin to give way to a new

encoding that is pervasive and directly linked to the unstruck sound of the

pulsation of the "I as I" that is the substratum of all light and sound.

 

Over the millennium, the Saviors have brought forth again and again their

science of the soul we call yoga, those techniques and methods through which the

individual "I" can recollect its truth and dwell as the Single All-Pervasive

Self, as Light Itself. But again and again, due to cataclysms of the planet,

disease and pestilence, war and destruction, circumstances or the time and

personal, these methods become disbursed and scattered with certain aspects

retained by one and another student, and even then the their meaning ad specific

technique that can bring about the right effect is lost.

 

The technology of Kundalini Yoga, as taught by Yogi Bhajan, was brought about by

a systematic effort to gather up the teachings from many sources and recompile

them as a whole that instead of being retaught in secret, has now been taught

openly ad available to everyone. Where formerly the secret teachings were

imparted to those worthy by birth or by passing ardent tests, the only test

given now is that anyone that starts along the path simply keeps up.

 

The transformative effect of the practice is felt very rapidly, and the change

in consciousness and yoking or linking of the sense of awareness of one's

identity (ones "I") to the substratum of being and light that pervades the

universe is so clear that for some time one can hardly believe one's luck at

having groped ones way in the dark and fallen over and discovered a means to

come to Light.

 

The technology or yoga techniques are very specific in their effect, when

practiced properly. One can make a comparison to the formulas that were

intuited by great mathematicians of the past in algebra and calculus, that we

can all simply reapply at any time to come to the right answer without any

intuition at all. So to the Sat Guru senses the flow of prana and intuits those

postures, movements, gestures, breathing and appropriate sound vibration that

bring about the spontaneous purification of the body's lenses (chakras). And as

we begin to practice the sets of Kundalini Yoga exercises, we discover that we

also begin to awaken to the pranic intuition of the yoga exercises as we feel

their pervasive pranic effects and related intuitive force of intelligence

behind them.

 

While there is effect to the sound of the Guru's word, once the body systems are

tuned up, which is to say pranicly charged, the sound and its meaning

reverberate throughout the body and in the process cause a disengagement of the

old sounds that had imbedded themselves in the nervous system, limiting our

sense of identity. The encoding of these new sounds and their inherent deep

meaning begin to take hold and one begins to feel, experience and hear the Truth

of one's identity, embedded in the words of the Sat Gurus (Saviors), from

whichever religion.

 

The practice of Kundalini Yoga, as taught by Yogi Bhajan, is simply a means

through which the body/mind can be brought systematically to a level of purity

that the conscious light of our being begins to outshine the previous encoding,

like turning up the light in a projector as it passes through the film moving

from reel to reel frame by frame onto the screen of our existence, until we

suddenly recognize that our inner light is the same as the screen of Life, and

we abide as That timeless self essence.

 

Hope to see you in more classes.