When to use root lock

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Dear Avatar Kaur,

 

It depends on the meditation. But in this meditation {in the Master's

Touch, page 66, Ashtang Agni Kriya (Eightfold Fold Kriya of Kundalini Yoga),

I should have mentioned that at the end, you inhale deeply hold the breath

and press your arms and shoulders back as far as possible, hands open and

stretched, pressing the chest forwards, feeling the suspension of the air in

the lungs pushing against the diaphragm, pull the root lock, and let the

light pour from the heart, atma nadi and crown chakra. Hold for 30 seconds,

then exhale forcefully and inhale 3 times and again hold as before.

 

As mentioned in the previous e-mail, you will feel electric and you will

feel the lumination of the heart crown chakra the vagus nerve between and

actually a brightening that pierces the body within and without.

 

(If you're saving that last e-mail, you might want to add the above text to

the appropriate location.)

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Regarding the use of the root lock, the purpose is to draw up the expanding

energy in the body that has a tendency to flow downward, when we inhale at

the end of a set (due to the nerves firing in the lungs, diaphragm, the area

the kundalini yoga exercise puts pressure on, and due to the secretion of

glands), so that it comes up into the Kandal area, between the 4th vertebra

and navel. This area has a much higher natural voltage than the nerves in

the body. When the prana is drawn to the Kandal, it comes down to the base

of the spine then rises through the sushumna (the central cord of the

spine). It does this even though you may not feel it. But, as you continue

to practice, you will begin to feel the flow of prana in the ida (moon

channel - to the left of the spine), pingala (sun channel - to the right of

the spine) and through the sushumna. As this begins to happen, you will

also feel a lightless in the body and a brightness, and a deepening and

stilling of the mind. When before, the mind would draw you out and back to

thought and action activities, you will begin to find that you are drawn

more and more and longer and longer to abide in the deepening still point.

 

Just keep on doing sets and meditations with chants, every morning, and

occasionally, when you can, at kundalini yoga classes and workshops, and all

this will unfold for you, and you will abide in the nameless Truth (we call

Sat Nam).

 

Pieter

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Thursday, December 26, 2002 7:19 PM

Digest Number 1377

 

 

Message: 3

Thu, 26 Dec 2002 00:36:36 -0600

Avtar Kaur <avtarkaur

Re: Monday night's set in Bangkok

 

Pieter,

 

When doing meditations, do you use the rootlock at the end ? Or is that

only to be used with pranayams and sets ?

 

Avtar