“The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali” and AAB

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Hello dear Chris,

 

Thank you for your comments, greatly appreciated. I understand what

you mean and I agree, however in order not to leave a " doubtful "

taste of Alice Bailey's works I would like to share the following:

 

Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul and " The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali "

 

" Let the fire rage, the flames devour; let all the dross be burnt;

and let me enter through that Gate, and tread the Way of Fire. "

 

" The breath of God is felt as the cleansing breeze also and is the

response of the soul to the aspiration of the disciple. The soul

then " inspires " the lower man.

The secondary meaning has of course direct reference to the work of

the kundalini or serpent fire at the base of the spine as it responds

to the soul vibration (felt in the head, in the region of the pineal

gland, and called " the light in the head " ). Mounting upward, it burns

out all obstructions in the spinal etheric channel and vitalizes or

electrifies the five centers up the spine and the two in the head.

The vital airs within the ventricles of the head are also swept into

activity and produce a cleansing, or rather eliminating effect

therein. With this the student has as yet nothing to do, beyond

seeing to it that as far as in him lies, the aspiration of his heart

is of the needed " fiery " character, and that the steady purification

of his physical, emotional and mental [210] nature, proceeds as

desired. When this is the case, the response of the soul will be

effective and the consequent reactions within the etheric centers

will take place safely, under law, and normally. "

 

[The second quote is from AAB comments on the statement from the

Sutras]

 

To me all it says is about the safe and guided awakening nothing much.

When someone steps on the Kundalini path he will face the warnings in

any case so I am very happy this topic was brought up by Alex and

yourself. Thank you!

Even though I would rather read the original text of the Sutras as

all information presented by someone is filtered through his (hers in

that case) perception.

 

Namaste

A.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

, chrism

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Table of Contents A Treatise on Cosmic Fire - Section One -

Division D - Kundalini and the Spine II. The Arousing of

Kundalini How this fire at the base of the spine can be aroused,

the form its progression should take (dependent upon the Ray), the

blending of the fire with pranic fire and their subsequent united

progression, are things of the past with many, and fortunately for

the race, the work was achieved without conscious effort. The second

blending with the fire of manas has to be effected. Scarcely as yet

have men succeeded in directing the fire up more than one channel of

the threefold column; hence two-thirds of its effect in the majority

is yet confined to the stimulation of the organs of race propagation.

Only when the fire has circled unimpeded up another channel is the

complete merging with the fire of manas effected, and only when it

progresses geometrically up all the three -

> with simultaneous action and at uniform vibration - is the true

kundalini fire fully aroused, and therefore able to perform its work

of cleansing through the burning of the confining web and of the

separating particles. When this is accomplished the threefold channel

becomes one channel. Hence the danger.

>

> No more can be imparted concerning this subject.

>

> He who directs his efforts to the control of the fires of matter,

is (with a dangerous certainty) playing with a fire that may

literally destroy him. He should not cast his eyes backwards, but

should lift them to the plane where dwells his immortal Spirit, and

then by self-discipline, mind-control and a definite refining of his

material bodies, whether subtle or physical, fit himself to be a

vehicle for the divine birth, and participate in the first

Initiation. When the Christ-child (as the Christian so beautifully

expresses it) has been born in the cave of the heart, then that

divine guest can consciously control the lower material bodies by

means of consecrated mind. Only when buddhi has assumed an ever-

increasing control [140] of the personality, via the mental plane

(hence the need of building the antahkarana), will the personality

respond to that which is above, and the lower fires mount and blend

with the two higher.

>

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> This is the wall I was referring to. But perhaps it is only my

limited awareness that fails to take much from these statements and

so I will leave the elucidation of this to others. - chrism

>

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Thank you Angel -

 

sarceto <sarceto wrote: Hello dear Chris,

 

Thank you for your comments, greatly appreciated. I understand what

you mean and I agree, however in order not to leave a " doubtful "

taste of Alice Bailey's works I would like to share the following:

 

Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul and " The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali "

 

" Let the fire rage, the flames devour; let all the dross be burnt;

and let me enter through that Gate, and tread the Way of Fire. "

 

" The breath of God is felt as the cleansing breeze also and is the

response of the soul to the aspiration of the disciple. The soul

then " inspires " the lower man.

The secondary meaning has of course direct reference to the work of

the kundalini or serpent fire at the base of the spine as it responds

to the soul vibration (felt in the head, in the region of the pineal

gland, and called " the light in the head " ). Mounting upward, it burns

out all obstructions in the spinal etheric channel and vitalizes or

electrifies the five centers up the spine and the two in the head.

The vital airs within the ventricles of the head are also swept into

activity and produce a cleansing, or rather eliminating effect

therein. With this the student has as yet nothing to do, beyond

seeing to it that as far as in him lies, the aspiration of his heart

is of the needed " fiery " character, and that the steady purification

of his physical, emotional and mental [210] nature, proceeds as

desired. When this is the case, the response of the soul will be

effective and the consequent reactions within the etheric centers

will take place safely, under law, and normally. "

 

[The second quote is from AAB comments on the statement from the

Sutras]

 

To me all it says is about the safe and guided awakening nothing much.

When someone steps on the Kundalini path he will face the warnings in

any case so I am very happy this topic was brought up by Alex and

yourself. Thank you!

Even though I would rather read the original text of the Sutras as

all information presented by someone is filtered through his (hers in

that case) perception.

 

Namaste

A.

 

, chrism

<> wrote:

>

> To Netnews Homepage Previous Next Index

Table of Contents A Treatise on Cosmic Fire - Section One -

Division D - Kundalini and the Spine II. The Arousing of

Kundalini How this fire at the base of the spine can be aroused,

the form its progression should take (dependent upon the Ray), the

blending of the fire with pranic fire and their subsequent united

progression, are things of the past with many, and fortunately for

the race, the work was achieved without conscious effort. The second

blending with the fire of manas has to be effected. Scarcely as yet

have men succeeded in directing the fire up more than one channel of

the threefold column; hence two-thirds of its effect in the majority

is yet confined to the stimulation of the organs of race propagation.

Only when the fire has circled unimpeded up another channel is the

complete merging with the fire of manas effected, and only when it

progresses geometrically up all the three -

> with simultaneous action and at uniform vibration - is the true

kundalini fire fully aroused, and therefore able to perform its work

of cleansing through the burning of the confining web and of the

separating particles. When this is accomplished the threefold channel

becomes one channel. Hence the danger.

>

> No more can be imparted concerning this subject.

>

> He who directs his efforts to the control of the fires of matter,

is (with a dangerous certainty) playing with a fire that may

literally destroy him. He should not cast his eyes backwards, but

should lift them to the plane where dwells his immortal Spirit, and

then by self-discipline, mind-control and a definite refining of his

material bodies, whether subtle or physical, fit himself to be a

vehicle for the divine birth, and participate in the first

Initiation. When the Christ-child (as the Christian so beautifully

expresses it) has been born in the cave of the heart, then that

divine guest can consciously control the lower material bodies by

means of consecrated mind. Only when buddhi has assumed an ever-

increasing control [140] of the personality, via the mental plane

(hence the need of building the antahkarana), will the personality

respond to that which is above, and the lower fires mount and blend

with the two higher.

>

>

> This is the wall I was referring to. But perhaps it is only my

limited awareness that fails to take much from these statements and

so I will leave the elucidation of this to others. - chrism

>

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