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| Patanjani’s Yoga Sutras begin
with the statement that the purpose of yoga is to
isolate the seer, and from there provide a whole
exposition of the 8 limbs of yoga ending in the
chapter “Isolation.” |
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| Isolation of the seer, which is the
subject “I” in the experience of I as
I” accompanied by a radical force of dissolution
of all images and impressions, begins with “hearing.”
Hearing becomes “remembering,” and remembering
becomes perfect “abiding.” |
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| These are the words in the English
language that are used by Christ to describe the
process of becoming “Born Again in the “Spirit
of Truth.” Words having the same meaning are
also seen in all the religions of the world, for
example, sravana, manana, niddidyasana in Vedanta;
sunia, manana and mamu kita bhau in the Sikh dharma,
and Mahamudra in Buddhism. |
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| Coming to this point of “hearing”
is the purpose of Kundalini Yoga practice, a process
that uses light (Prana) and sound (Naad) to purify
the neural pathways and charge the chakras (Batteries
of the body) to the point where the mind becomes
single, electro-magnetically polarized and balanced
pure and inward drawn, capable of reflecting the
All pervasive Consciousness that is the ground and
substratum (Turya) of the three states of waking
dreaming and deep sleep, the Awareness of Being
felt as “I” in every person born in
this world. |
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| At this point, there is a sudden
inward pulling in the “Spiritual Heart”
(Hrdayam), and there is a sensation of the “I”
pulsing as “I” and a radical force emerges
that entirely dissolves the notions of “I
am this and that – a body with thoughts and
impressions related to a separate world.”
Hearing is the True Hearer recollecting Itself as
Truth and putting aside the limited adjunct of the
ego mind. The sun of the Self having risen, the
full moon of the mind appearing in the blue sky
is no longer necessary to see. |
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| Yoga means Union of the individual
unit of consciousness with the Universal Consciousness.
As the Universal Consciousness lights each person
through the Heart, as the awareness of “I.”
From the heart It lights all the nerves of the body
and one major nerve to the brain. When the mind
becomes pure, the individual discovered that he/she
is and has always been only the Universal Consciousness
and the full potential of what it means to be a
human being becomes possible. This is the awakening
or emerging of the True Man and True Woman. |
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| Through the practice of Kundalini
Yoga, as taught by Yogi Bhajan, we mean a scientific
methodology or human technology through which the
individual unit of consciousness can be yoked to
the Universal Consciousness. |
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| The nature of awareness is meditation
itself. When the mind is focused on this practice
with a steady awareness initially of the postures,
movements, breathing and mantras, one begins to
awaken to the flow of prana throughout the body
field, which is above the frequency of thoughts.
The awareness and prana merge and a sense of single
hearing takes hold that tunes all the nerves of
the body to the unstruck sound of the “I”
pulsing as “I” in the Heart. |
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| Kundalini Yoga is an ancient practice
from before the time of the development of separate
yoga practices, which came about as cultures and
civilizations were divided and scattered due to
war, pestilence and planetary changes. In this Yoga,
Shakti (energy consciousness that converts bindu
to ojas) becomes Bhakti (the opening of the higher
centers from the heart to the throat to the brain,
resulting in pure and single devotion for True Being),
and Bhakti becomes Gyan (jnana), as a force of inner
pervasive Intelligence awakens within the individual,
who ever after abides as undifferentiated unconditioned,
uncaused, timeless, space-like Being. |
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| Kundalini, which means Awareness,
is the both the process and the result of this awakening. |
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