Pradupati and Crystalization through hearing, rememberance and perfect abiding

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Yogi Bhajan speaks of Sadhana as a means to purification of the body and mind,

through Aradhana, the process of "distillation" of the impurities, to arrive at

the always pure Spirit. When this happens you have Pradupati, which is

crystallization. Crystallization is where the Soul or individual unit of

consciousness, the Atman, abides in its True State. Then, Yogi Bhajan talks

about different stages of Crystallization.

 

Now all these are terms of the ancient Kundalini Yoga Masters of which Yogi

Bhajan is their proponent and living voice, but they are not different from what

you see are the main elements of all religions, which ask that you listen to and

practice their teachings, and that at some point you will "hear" the Truth,

"reflect on the Truth, and "abide in the Truth."

 

These words "hearing,reflecting" (also "remembrance") and "abiding" (in

perfect love), are the same in all religions. These are the key words in the

refrains of Christ, also in the teachings of Guru Nanak, they appear over and

over, and Ramana Maharshi often pointed out that the non-dual Gitas and related

spiritual texts taught the same, with the words "sravana,manana,"

"nididyasana."

 

When you practice Kundalini Yoga and then you read the various Gitas, the

non-dual Vedanta texts, words of Christ, Buddha and others, at some point,

suddenly there will be a sensation that you feel all through the body and

pervasively, which you might say is the subject ("I") relinquishing attachment

(attention) to objects. The sense of "I" is bound to the idea of body and mind

identity through the mechanism of "attention" in the formation of "identity."

Now the "I" sense, in "hearing" the True Word, the words of a realized being's

experience of the Self, suddenly recollects who and what It really is, and

disengages the mechanism of "attention" and you feel this like a sudden

decontraction of the whole body that is more thorough and complete than all the

practices of Kriyas and Meditations, and more radiant then the radiance you had

ever felt from these practices, and far deeper than the depth of stillness you

had ever reached through the distillation effect of Sadhana. You become the Sun

in the Heart, at once the "Light of the World" and like a graviton that sucks in

everything, and no longer allows thoughts to arise in relation to the sense of

"I." This seamless practice and resulting experience in Kundalini Yoga practice

is called "One Star Spirituality."

 

The Yogi's mantra is like this

Blessed am I

In Freedom am I

I am the infinite

in my Soul

I can find no beginning

no end

All is my Self

all is my Self.

As you read this, can you feel what I'm writing about? If so, that sensation is

called "hearing." As Christ would say, "Those who have ears to hear, let them

hear what the Spirit has to say...."

 

Also, "The eye (the subject "I" - the seer) is the light of the body. When

thine eye is single (abiding in it's own nature), the whole bdy will be filled

with light (Enlightenment of the Whole Body)." Lk 11:34

 

In the Sikh Dharma, the terms are "sunia" (hearing), "mania" and "Mamu kita

bhau" (abiding in perfect love).

 

More on this:

http://www.kundalini-matashakti.com/worddocuments/Pieters_Articles/SadhanaAradha\

naPradhupati8Nov04.doc

 

Pieter