Totally! new member

[Guest guest]

hi everybody ,

 

I am Paramesvaran . I am intrigued by K and decided to learn more about

it.

I have checked thru some websites and I hope K members can assist in any

of the Q's below.

 

i)Is it necessary for me to follow the guidance of a guru to awaken the K

?

ii)Can a guru's blessing expedite the awakening of K ?

iii)How will I know whether I am ready for the awakening or is it just my

curiosity driving me?

iv) Will it affect my work , I am stuck full time 8am-6 pm 5 days a week

..

v) Can the K awakening override our bad Karma (malefic effect of grahas

which is believed by Hindus to dictate our life)

 

Thank you.

Paramesvaran

Malaysia.

[Guest guest]

Sat Nam Paramesvaran,

 

In answer to your questions....

 

i) In order to awaken the kundalini energy in a healthy, balanced

way....follow kundalini yoga "as taught by Yogi Bhajan". All the

kriyas and meditations are designed to prepare the physical body and

otherwise, for the awakening of that energy.

 

ii)What do you mean by a guru's blessing? Do you mean, is the

process expediated under the tutelage of a teacher? We self

iniate, in KY, by gaining experience through practice.

 

As soon as we use the Adi mantra to tune in, we link with the

consciousness of the Golden Chain of Teachers who have come before

us...and we are guided and protected through this link.

 

With that said...it helps to have a physical teacher who is

constantly pushing you past what you percieve as your limitations.

The teachers job is to carve the student...until they reach their

full potential. It is a blessing to be carved by a teacher.

 

iii)It is everybody's birth right to be happy, healthy and holy.

These are the gifts that practicing KY brings....they are with held

from no one. You have to begin where you are at. All yoga's work

to raise the kundalini....as we move into the Aquarian Age,

Kundalini yoga becomes the "yoga for the times".....as in, it's the

yoga practice that best suits the "times" we are currently in...it

will take us the distance we need to go, in the time that is

provided. So dive in! (You can follow Gururattan's online course

at yogatech.com)

 

iv)What it will affect is your consciousness. Your awareness will

grow and with that comes change. I always tell people if you don't

want your life to change...don't practice KY! ha ha! Your in

luck...KY is called the yoga of the householder! (for people with

jobs and lives!)

 

Every experience in your life, work or otherwise will be affected.

We can't separate work from our spiritual practice. Living life

consciously, is a spiritual practice. All of life becomes a dharma.

 

v)As we create heat (tapas) with each exercise/meditation...it helps

to burn the seeds of karma that have yet to manifest, in order to

lessen the impact of it (for example, if we were meant to have a

debilitating accident, we may get off with just a fender bender!).

As we grow in our awareness, we begin to live Dharmically...in other

words we stop creating more karma for ourselves.

 

So yes. What's that saying? "Fight karma with dharma?"

 

KY is a dharmic practice.

 

On the topic of karma....we encounter what my teacher calls "karmic

intersections" in life. It's those situations that come to us due

to past events delivered to us now as karma....and rather than

recognize the moment for what it is...we get "hooked" by it once

again, and we go down that path once more, making the same decisions

we have in the past and create the same karma for ourselves.

 

So with the developement of awareness...you begin to recognize these

intersections when they occur and choose differently...thus creating

a more positive outcome karmically...or if you are very conscious,

no karma at all.

 

And that's my two cents on karma!

 

Hope this is helpful.

 

Sat Sangeet Kaur