More regarding the Hrdayam and One Star Spirituality

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In other postings the subject of the Hrdayam, located 2 digits to the right of

sternum - the pacemaker or synod of the physical heart, not the anahata chakra,

from which rises the amrita (atma / para) nadi to the crown (right major vagus

nerve) - was covered, as the basis for One Star Spirituality.

 

In the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is mentioned that the 2 approved areas in the

body to meditate are the crown (sahasrara) and self-effulgent light (samvit) in

the heart (the Hrdayam - not the anahata chakra, which is one of the 7 lenses of

consciousness through which the all pervasive light passes) - the One Star.

 

"In the depth of my Heart, the Harimander (Temple of God) lives..." Yogi Bhajan

(from Adorned with Honor 1968)

 

The meditation mentioned here actually begins once the mind comes to rest, at

which point the mind is in a null point or equilibrium from which begins a

turning of the senses from outgoing to inward turning. When the mind is still

the fluctuations of the mind - the thinking principle, cease. This means that

the mechanism of attention to movement within the mind attaching the sense of

"I" from one object within consciousness to the next is suspended, and the

sensing awareness is drawn in to and by the seat of consciousness Itself, which

lights the body and mind like a Sun, behind which is the infinite light of

all-pervasive Being.

 

Meditation on the Heart actually means abiding in the Heart.

 

What happens with the light of "I" consciousness is that with each rising

thought, sensation, impression, the mechanism of attention goes out and binds

the thought and codifies it into the predominant sense of identity. This sense

of identity classifies the images appearing to and within the mind according to

past impressions ("takes"), so that we project a world of our own making, much

like the world we project in dreams, which is to say that in reality there is no

difference between the waking world we project and the dream world we also

project. This mechanism of attention is called judgment or opinion. In the

faith-mind by Sengtsan, "when thought is in bondage, the truth is hidden..."

 

But when the mind becomes still, the seer ("I" consciousness) in the Heart is

reflected purely in the mind, and a subtle inward pulling sensation is felt in

the Heart and the right vagus nerve that pulses with the impalpable sensation of

"I as I" - a reverberation that strikes a soundless cord within all the nerves

of the body, as the mind comes into a complete abeyance, almost like being

transfixed, by the radiance piercing from within and through the body

penetrating outwards without limit. No thoughts, nor a thinker, all concepts of

a doer of actions dissolving completely.

 

In ageless Kundalini Yoga practice as taught by Yogi Bhajan, this process and

transformation to transfiguration is brought about like a rising crescendo.

 

On the one hand there are the practices and meditations of applied awareness

that bring the mind to a minute and singular attention, as though one was

listening in the silence of night for the sound of a pin to drop (the experience

of pratyahar), while on the other hand practice and meditations converge to fill

every cell of the body with an electromagnetic resonant radiance above and

beyond the frequency of thoughts and impressions, like turning up the light in a

projector, such that images fade from the binding power of attention altogether

(the experience of Laya). The combination brings about the sudden impact of the

"I" consciousness or wakeful state, with what we have always called the

unconscious, which is the totality of being ever awake and aware to the

Universal infinite consciousness, which is also that Light which lights each of

us. We no longer project or superimpose an imagined world of impressions, we

abide in the "City of Brahman" (City of God), the "I am, I am" referred to by

Yogi Bhajan and the scriptures of all religions, without consideration to

projecting notions of "I am this and that" in the infinite field/light of

consciousness.

 

This "sudden impact" of the true identity (Sat Nam) is experienced like a

recollection of one's Self from a protracted amnesia. The idea of a subject "I"

to see a separate object, is relinquished altogether and meaningless and useless

to see and know.

 

The body fills with the light of single pervasive unconditioned, uncaused

awareness. This filling is called Kundalini, where the body responds like a

barometer to atmospheric pressure, like a thermometer to atmospheric heat, and

energy consciousness fills in from every quadrant of mind, body, soul and

beyond, until "Inside outside, everything is whole..." Yogi Bhajan (from Adorned

with Honor 1968) The apparent triple body becomes like a salt doll dropped into

the infinite ocean from which a thought may rise from Its depths: "I am the

Truth" - "Sat Nam."

 

Here below is an exposition on the subject taken from another list that focuses

on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, wherein the meaning of the Heart (Hrdaya) is

mentioned and compared with the similar text from the ancient Siva Sutra.

 

Pieter

 

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Thursday, June 26, 2003 9:11 PM

[Yoga Sutras of Patanjali] Digest Number 125

Thu, 26 Jun 2003 02:38:48 -0000

 

"capanellius" <capanellius

YS III.34 -- When the Heart Blossoms

 

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A few notes on Patanjali's YS (III.34) - comments welcome.

 

Everyone is familiar with the first sutra in Patanjali which some manuals

translate as:

 

(I.1) Now the instruction in "union" begins.

 

- where by the term "union" is meant "Yoga." When translated in this way, this

sutra has a natural conceptual connection with Siva Sutra (I.15) which reads:

 

"By fixing the mind in the heart, 'unification' results [i.e., of the individual

mind with Universal consciousness]."

 

In an exposition of this sutra, the scholar M. Dyczkowski quotes an earlier

Hindu work which says in part: "[The heart] is depicted as an inverted lotus

which turns upwards and blooms when the light of consciousness shines upon it,

is found in the City of Brahman. The Self (purusa) resides there . . ."

 

This Siva Sutra in turn is related back to another Patanjali Sutra which takes

up fixing the mind on the heart (hrdaya):

 

Yoga Sutra (III.34):

By practicing samyama on the heart [hrdaya], knowledge of the mind is acquired.

 

Bhasya of Vyasa: In the lotus like cavity [of the heart], being the temple City

of Brahman, is the seat of knowledge. By performing samyama in reference to

that, comes the power of knowing the mind (chitta).

 

The preceding two sutras can be interpreted to mean that by samyama on the

heart, the experience of unification results; meaning that in Patanjali this

relationship between the individual "chitta" to the universal "cit" might be

indirectly implied. In this sense, the "heart" stands for the innermost center

of the Self, not the physical location of the organ, nor the associated with

chakra

(anahata) normally connected to this organ. That there is a difference is

indicated by Vijnana Bhiksu in another place, when he makes the distinction

between a word, its meaning, and the concept as it is normally understood in

particular contexts.

 

But what is not clear is what level of samadhi (unification) the practitioner

has achieved by coming to the City of Brahman / Siva (perhaps more on that at a

later time) and brings us next to a sutra that is in the form of a question in

the Pararisika-Vivarana of Abhinavagupta:

 

Trika Sutra (2):

"O Lord of the gods (i.e. Siva-Sambhu) tell me about kauliki sakti who resides

in the heart (i.e. consciousness), the Sakti who is the source of all

manifestation .."

 

Further readings:

 

1992 Mark S. G. Dyczkowski, The Aphorisms of Siva, SUNY Press.

 

1989 Paul E. Muller-Ortega, The Triadic Heart of Siva, SUNY Press.

 

1988 Jaideva Singh, Paratrisika-Vivarana of Abhinavagupta, Motilal Banarsidass

Publishers.

 

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Forwarded Message

"Pieter" <pietersa

advaitin

Fervent practice of one's given Path of yoga leads to purity of

body/mind/spirit.

Thu, 26 Jun 2003 01:20:35 +0800

 

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Fervent practice of one's given Path of yoga leads to purity of

body/mind/spirit.

 

Shakti fills the body densely with resonant radiance, dissolving the storehouse

of impressions superimposed on the mind. Suddenly the waking "I" consciousness

impacts the unconscious (jagrat-sushupti). The mind transforms to flows of

bhakti, and deepens into Gyan (jnana), by itself. Suddenly, there is a

"hearing" - a sense of recollection, as though coming out of an amnesia - The

mind's attention and identity to images is relinquished, and you abide as

single, pervasive, unconditioned being/consciousness, in which the world appears

within - without a seer, neither near, nor far.

 

Leaving aside discussion and conjecture, simple daily practice (sadhana) leads

to Purity in Heart (prabupati). The non-dual scriptures all begin with this

simple phase, that those that are pure will be fit to "hear" the message in the

scriptures and realize their non-dual Self and abide as That.

 

Even Christ repeats, "The pure in Heart shall see God" (Heart and God both mean

"I AM") - for "... those that have ears to hear..."

 

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Forwarded Message

"Pieter" <pietersa

Kundaliniyoga

CC: anneso

feeling a bit strange

Tue, 1 Jul 2003 02:11:17 +0800

 

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Dear Anne-Sophie,

 

Regarding the experience of nausea and headache, when you practice kundalini

yoga, as taught by Yogi Bhajan, you should drink a lot of liquids (water, Yogi

Tea, carrot juice, etc). The breathing causes some dehydration. Nausea is

experienced sometimes, as impurities released from the areas of the body that

came under pressure in particular kundalini yoga exercises where energy (air

saturated blood) was drawn in. The energy (life force) is readily taken in by

the cells of the body in these areas, displacing impurities in the body. This

will all pass.

 

The aching in the muscles is similar to any type of training, only the side

effect here is that the cells of the areas exercised and related internal

systems begin to carry an electromagnetic charge. Once you become used to doing

the long deep breathing and breath of fire and related variations correctly and

easily, you will begin to experience a sensation of resonance and radiance, at

first in some areas of the body, then throughout the body field and then even in

the aura. It may be hard to imagine that you can actually feel your aura (as

your Radiant Body expands), but in the not too distant future, as you continue

to go to classes and develop your own daily sadhana, participate in workshops,

as they become available, you will feel this.

 

Your mind will become balanced and neutral, not swaying towards either negative

or positive impulses, but centered in something single, still and clear,

intuitive and innately intelligent - your own innate Self.

 

Shakti (energy generated from Kundalini Yoga exercises, kriyas and meditations)

gives way to Bhakti (a sense of yearning to abide in purity and stillness) which

gives way to gyan (jnana - where the body, mind and soul come into complete

balance and harmony through which a sense of True Being, single pervasiveness

penetrates).

 

Each Kundalini Yoga exercise is a meditation in applied awareness itself. You

should view the exercises as having 2 aspects, active and passive, dynamic and

static, not active and a separate rest period, which can be avoided or not. In

the rest / passive / static period, the area of the body put under an expanding

or contracting pressure begins to decontract and in the process completes the

absorption of the purified and electrically charged blood (from the breathing).

This brings about an inner healing process, while chemically balancing the area

within all the body's systems, a process that takes 1 to 3 to 5 minutes,

depending on the duration of the active / dynamic part of the exercise. From

decontraction, you will begin to feel a sense of release of energy from the area

throughout the body and then a sense of wholeness and clarity in the mind. As

you continue to practice over weeks and months, you will begin to feel a growing

sense of etheric radiance and pervasive stillness penetrating in and through

every part of the body filling the mind with a sense of radiant light and

clarity that will extend out further and further from the body.

 

You can read more about long deep breathing and breath of fire in the website

related to this list, as learning the breath properly, until the natural

intuition of the breathing takes hold, is a key to easy advancement and

developing a sense of ease of practice regardless of how strenuous a Kundalini

Yoga exercise or kriya may seem now, because the breath empowers the nerves,

which transform the posture and movement from a muscular effort to one sustained

by the electromagnetic force fields of the body. This is also why angles and

mudras are important areas of consideration to proper effective practice.

 

In any case persevere. There are stages you will pass through, natural to any

development of mastery. And along there way, there will be glimpses of Truth

about your Self, intuitions. the less you try to hold and examine what they

mean and simply continue to practice without conjecture, the more you will

discover - new aspects of the wholeness of who you are that will simply emerge

within your consciousness, even as you proceed in what is a natural progression

of development as a human being, what Yogi Bhajan calls the "mind of light"

(human) "in the here and now" (being), the full meaning of which that you will

begin to realize.

 

Yoga, the experience of yoga depends on being pure in heart. In the Kundalini

yoga, as taught by Yogi Bhajan, with concerted practice, the bondage to habitual

thought and imbedded impressions dissolves, as you move through the stages of

self mastery to mastery of Self (pradupati):

 

At first you are attentive to the basics, later you begin to feel the energy

flows and the postures, movements and breathing become second nature, while the

focus is on the resulting expanding experience. Then you begin to feel, know

and understand the process. This is just the threshold of the practice. You

feel that you have really discovered something entirely new. The mind has a

tendency at this stage to want to stop and examine and build a new sense of

identity around this newly emerging sense of self. If you can overcome this

stage, in which you might feel a new sense of empowerment and life force, if you

can leave behind the sense newness and strength in your identity, you begin to

feel a sense of deeper Self emerging within your consciousness, something

single, quiet, inward drawing, deep and still, grounding, until something

entirely different happens, a radical discovery regarding the Truth of your own

being that make you One and Whole. Yogi Bhajan calls the emergence of this

state, Sat Pad, the state of abiding in your True Identity.

 

The watch word of 3ho Kundalini Yoga is what? "Keep-Up!" - This simply means

perseverance regardless of circumstances and situations, the vagaries and doubts

and uncertainties of the mind, that will all in time pass, leaving you on a new

threshold to experience the "Possible Human."

 

Don't worry about feeling strange, etc. All this will pass, as the nervous and

glandular systems acclimate to and begin to support the higher voltage and

sensory experience generated in the body field, as you continue to take

Kundalini yoga classes. Just keep up for another 40 days and see what

happens... But don't put a time element on your practice. What else is life

about but to realize your essential and True Being. We read about the

possibility in scriptures of all religions. Within 40 days, you will discover

that this realization can be practically experienced. Shift attention from

time, practice, become pure and you will recollect who and what you really are.

 

Pieter

 

 

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Mon, 30 Jun 2003 01:45:19 -0000 Kundalini Yoga Digest Number 1586

"anneso_james" <anneso

Just took my first Kundalini Yoga class

 

Hello everyone,

 

I just took my first Kundalini Yoga and Meditation class this evening and I am

feeling a bit strange. It was a two-hour class and it was quite intense. I

usually take Vinyasa and other Yoga types, but had never before tried

Kundalini... I have never done the Breath of Fire much before and doing it for 2

hours was rough... The teacher mentioned we were doing a lymphatic system

cleansing series (anyone know where I might find info on what we did?).

 

In any case, my body is very sore, and I am not feeling much like myself right

now. I assume it's to be expected... I am also a bit nauseous and headachy, so I

was hoping someone might have some good advice...

 

Cheers,

 

Anne-Sophie