Mother of all yogas... (Raj Yoga) (Mail Bomb)

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Sat Nam Jiwan Shakti,

Kundalini Yoga, as taught by Yogi Bhajan re-integrates both the Raja

Yoga and the Hatha Yoga. I say it re-integrates because that is the way

it began.

It retains the fullness of the Eight Stems of yoga, although it took

some time before it was codified as having eight stems.

 

Go to this link for more on Raj and the Sutras of Patanjali. The last 4

Stems clearly fall within Raj Yoga

http://www.sivanandadlshq.org/teachings/rajayoga.htm

 

It has to be remembered that Yogi Bhajan came here to teach Hatha for a

short while but he saw the hunger that people were in - that their need

would not be fed properly by going "ala carte". He bowed (Namo) to his

teacher and opened his mouth and the rest is history. It has to be noted

that there were no students at his first class but he taught

anyway.......yep, to an empty room.

The Kundalini aspect is hard to quantify and is best not treated in

this way. A regular Hatha class with a realized being instructing and

leading can be a "Kundalini raising" event.

 

(from the KRI Teacher Training Notebook Q&A with Yogi Bhajan )

 

Question: He doesn't consider himself an expert yogi. He just mentioned

that he heard Kundalini Yoga is a very dangerous type of yoga. Could you

explain a little more? Answer. Ask him why he is practicing all the

Hatha Yoga Postures. What is the purpose of Hatha yoga? The purpose of

Hatha Yoga is to raise the awareness. It is a technology to bring the

apana and prana, the moon and sun powers, together to raise the

consciousness through the central equilibrium line. In other words, its

stated aim is to raise the Kundalini. That is the purpose of Hatha Yoga.

The problem is that it takes about 22 years to raise it that way, even

with perfect practice. That is the long method. The difference from

Kundalini yoga is only a matter of time and rate of progress. The

purpose of the two approaches is the same.

 

Teaching Hatha Yoga and Kundalini Yoga is very different. First of all,

it is difficult to teach Kundalini Yoga. A teacher who does not have a

beam of energy within himself cannot teach it. That is the first

fundamental. You have to be aware within your consciousness. Kundalini

yoga raises awareness, as does Hatha Yoga, but it is direct, quick, and

a perfect practice for the pace, of a modern household. As a teacher of

Kundalini yoga, you should be established at a certain steady level of

consciousness to pull all the people up to that level. If you do not

have that link of consciousness, the golden link, and the spark of

awareness, then you can only instruct in darkness. That is the real

problem.

 

You could come and I could give you a bunch of powerful and elegant

exercises. You would feel good. However, when I then talk about life and

humanity and the total sum of existence and consciousness, you have to

feel that magnetism come out of me. My reality and confirmed

consciousness must be present to act as a guide and compass. If I can't

give you that, there is nothing to pull you to that new level. Kundalini

yoga is the master science of experience and awareness. It is a

transmission of consciousness from person to person. It is a Raj Yoga

that awakens you inside. That is the basic difference between Hatha and

Kundalini yoga.

 

This talk of danger sometimes becomes the biggest danger and a big

problem. The only danger is when you use something external and

artificial, like a drug and force it into you. Think of Kundalini in a

different way. In Reality there is a God. He uncoils himself, opens

himself up. This uncoiling process or manifestation process is known as

Kundalini. What can be dangerous about it? The Kundalini that is going

to be uncoiled in you is already in you and part of you. It is an

unlimited power that is the essence of your consciousness. It is going

to uncoil in you. Your system is already built to contain the energy of

Kundalini. It is a normal capacity that you simply are not utilizing. If

you start utilizing that energy, where is the danger?

 

 

Question: You seem to be unique among the yogis and swamis I have heard

talk Very few say anything openly, without initiation, about Kundalini

and most are very cautious about it. Why do you seem so different?

 

1 - Yama or Eternal Vows:

* Ahimsa (non-violence)

* Satya (truth)

* Asteya (non-stealing)

* Brahmacharya (continence) and

* Aparigraha (non-avariciousness);

 

2 - Niyama or Observances:

* Saucha (purity)

* Santosha (contentment)

* Tapas (austerities)

* Svadhyaya (study) and

* Ishvarapranidhana (surrender to God);

 

3 - Asana (firm, comfortable meditative posture);

4 - Pranayama (the regulation of the Vital Force);

5 - Pratyahara (abstraction of the senses and mind from objects);

6 - Dharana (concentration);

7 - Dhyana (meditation); and

8 - Samadhi (superconscious state or trance)

 

In person wouldn't be a bad thing. See you in the soundbooth.

Dharam

Millis, MA

 

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http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html

Molecular Expressions: Science, Optics and You - Secret Worlds: The

Universe Within - Interactive Java Tutorial

 

wolfsister harmony wrote:

 

> Sat Nam Dharam & Pieter,

> I thank you both for responding to this question that

> I have yet to find the answer to...sigh

> & as I say this (smile) I will also say that I am

> thinking that perhaps its the phrase of the question

> that I am stuck on...

> quote: "Kundalini Yoga is called the mother of all

> Yoga's because it's the original system from which all

> other Yoga's stem."

> while I completely understand that the goal of "all"

> yogas is to raise the Kundalini...am I to understand

> then that what this phrase is refering to is that the

> "kundalini" is the mother, as this is what we go back

> to? The core?

> Ok & what does "from which all other yoga's stem",

> mean???? Please explain....

> perhaps I'm being dense & like I said being stuck on

> the phrasing of this...in my mind I am seeing this as

> something in which we are all reaching

> "towards"...(kundalini rising) not something branching

> out from...which is what I feel that "stemming"

> implies

> "all other yoga's stem" what does that mean?

> (patients please)...smiles

> I really appreciate your helping me work thru this

> one, I want to be clear & I look forward to the moment

> when this all comes together for me & I

> understand...smiles

> PS Dharam, I will be at summer solstice...God willing,

> & I'll come up & talk with you, perhaps this is a

> conversation that is easier to be discussed in

> person...I do thank you both for your time & your

> patience...with many blessings,

> Jiwan Shakti Kaur

> Tampa FL

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