The 'Watcher'

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Dear Avatar Kaur,

 

Your describing an experience of the astral body, which is often more expansive

than the physical body giving the impression that you are sort of outside or

behind watching.

 

The universal consciousness that is the substratum of the entire

multidimensional undifferentiated universe and animates our bodies with the

sense of "I" - the seer and Light - awareness also animates the astral body.

 

What I was describing is simply non-intentional watching, while you enter into

postures and movements, during them and come out of them.

 

The effect of the breathing of done properly, which is another topic, is that

the level energy consciousness rises above that of thinking and images to a

point from which thoughts and images emerge, what can be called an intuitive

state of clear awareness, a field of light.

 

Gradually, by watching this flow of light - prana, you begin o feel yourself as

light, less gripped to the identity of the repetitive thought and behavior

patters that have encoded themselves throughout the nervous system.

 

You are the light of awareness, but because the light is focused in the encoded

images of the mind, we seem gripped. But as you watch the flow of prana, the

watcher, which is the basis for the identity, begins to recognize itself as also

the pranic sheath.

 

Without this Kundalini Yoga practice all sorts of mental games are devised to

overcome the mind through series of satori's or flashes of intuition,

meditations and mantras and concentrated efforts. But our awareness is

meditation itself.

 

I should mention that Kundalini Yoga, as taught by Yogi Bhajan, is much

different from other yogas in the benefits of sets to the body and its energy

systems, to the effect and practice of mantra to meditation.

 

For example, let's say you do a certain KY set and then do a mantra, like Guru

Guru Whahe Guru Guru Ram Das Guru (5 times in one breath) as the CD, or other

similar mantras. The effect of the set is to charge the nerves and energy

systems and cells of the glands and organs resulting in an amplification of the

resonance of sound that, even in stillness that the mind will be held will give

a sensation of weightlessness, loss of inertia, purity and pervasiveness,

transparency.

 

Now you begin the mantra/chant. You will begin to feel the release of the

stored prana from the set, and an amplification of the sound reverberating

throughout the body and through the electro-magnetic field, and aura and beyond.

At some point you may also feel as though there's a sense of electrocution,

which is when you should pause or stop.

 

When you complete any of these Kundalini Yoga Mantras, you should inhale deeply,

hold the breath, bring the shoulders back and pull the root lock, maybe for 30

seconds or more, then slowly exhale. You will feel your body held in a field of

single self illumining light.

 

As you continue to do sets and Laya mantras and related meditations, you will

experience a transformation of self and emergence of the knowledge of your True

Self.

 

All this to say that this Kundalini Yoga practice is unrelated and cannot be

compared in its approach and effect to other practices.

 

Apply awareness and keep practicing and you will see for yourself. Be sure of

it.

 

Pieter

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Sat, 22 Jun 2002 10:12:42 -0500

Avtar Kaur <avtarkaur

Re: Applied Awareness and the Watcher

 

Dear Pieter,

 

I have a question about the 'Watcher'

 

"As the Watcher is the Universal Being/Consciousness (Sat/Chit), for someone

practicing yoga to put aside the mind to watch the posture, movement, breathing

and sound of the Yoga sets,kriyas and meditations is to immediately link True

Seer to the flow of prana generated in the sets, suffuse the affected areas with

the True Light, and draw the limited identity/awareness from the attention to

the sensations of the body and impressions of the mind back into their

substratum."

 

Since I was a very young child I have had experiences, especially when I was

very tired, of 'watching' myself.' I don't think it is out of body

experiences, rather like being disconnected from myself, yet observing myself at

the same time. I remember trying to describe it to my father when I was seven -

he just looked at me! This may be disassociation though to be honest I don't

know enough about it to tell. Is this the

beginnings of what you are describing ?

 

many thanks,

Avtar K.