I bought this book because I wanted to read something by someone who was taught traditionally about Kundalini. There are a lot of misguiding and just plain odd interpretations on Kundalini out there.
I wanted to hear what the actual Hindu tradition had to say about Kundalini...not the western interpretation. I cannot recommend this book enough! At first, I was a little discouraged because it started off with the Mythical story of Shiva and Sati...the origin of Kundalini. Each myth, as always, is a symbolic telling of a concept. Om Swami could not have started this book any other way. He then relates his story of being a successful business man that gave all of that up to become a monk. He relates his experience with waking his Kundalini and touches upon a variety of subjects. In the third part of the book he goes through each of the 7 chakras. He describes them based on depictions of the Devi's associated with the chakras. This was a fascinating alternative description to what I'd read previously but completely in alignment with what I've already read and shared. The most interesting thing, however, is that he prescribed food for working on each of the chakras. I have 21 markers in a 172 page book...which is a lot considering the last third of the book was information I already knew and didn't feel a need to mark as exceptional. I won't share all 21 passages with you but here is a small sample of the wisdom this book contains.... "When it awakens, you realize how immensely powerful you already are. You experience how there is a whole universe within you. It is your feminine energy if you are a man and your masculine energy if you are a woman. It is your passage, your path to eternal fulfillment within you." pg 39 "All said and done, Kundalini is not a physical reality. Any association of the kundalini with the physical body is ignorant at best and absurd at the wort. At the rise of the kundalini, there is no snake crawling up your spinal cord. The chakras are not physically there on your body. At the most, they are psychoneurotic plexuses. They are strategically placed wherever there is a concentration of nerves. This does not make the kundalini a mythical concept though. It is your reality, it may not be physical but it is perceptible. The soul cannot be proved, even consciousness for that matter has no physical existence, yet without consciousness we cannot even do the most basic of chores. Similarly, the awakening of the kundalini or piercing of the chakras is as real as the sun, moon and stars." pg 42 "The real transformation upon the awakening of kundalini is that you shed your old tendencies and negativity like a snake sheds its old skin. You no longer feel angry or flustered over trivial matters unlike the earlier times. Your emotions and thoughts don't overpower and trample all over you anymore. You beginto gain control of yourself. 'Supernormal' streams of creativity and energy gush forth at the awakening, surprising even you with talents you never thought you had." pg 43 "Our negative views about ourselves, our emotions and attachments have twisted our passage of kundalini. It stands wrung. Just like if you scold a small child, he might just curl up in fear and lie in his bed, kundalini too is culred up and lying down in your root chakra...It is so because we are almost conditioned to be afraid of ourselves.We are afraid of making mistakes or making decisions. We are even afraid of doing things right and we want someone else to validate what we have done. In fear, you never sleep with your legs stretched out, you always curl up a bit." pg 44 "On the path of awakening all knots must be untied. The umbilical cord must be cut if you want to discover an identity of your own. We wouldn't know how deeply we are attached to something until we distance ourselves from it." pg 50 "As a sadhak progresses and rises above his sexual thoughts and thoughts of creation, a kind of stillness starts to brew in his mind, undercurrents of restlessness subside and a sense of gratitude arises naturally, "Truly, I have everything," like a fully bloomed flower attracts bees naturally, a mind that has gone beyond creation and procreation attracts thoughts of a different nature. Tangled in the second knot now, different desires sprout in the mind." pg 59 "No matter how hard or how badly entangled is a knot, you cannot lose it by pulling on it. Frustration or intolerance has no role or room in Kundalini meditation...Some examination, a bit of observation, a lot of patience and a great deal of effort to untie is required. No knot is hard enough then. If you walk the path and not give up, you will get the results exactly as expected." pg 63 "Mind becomes eternal when it becomes still," the rishi continued, "No change is possible without movement. Truth is still, and that's why it's eternal." pg 74 "The latent energy of kundalini is present in all of us like fire in wood. Our fears and conditioning hold us back. They plunge our creative energy to the bottom most chakra and we end up using it for petty things for the most part of our lives. And through the years we spend living, majority of the the time is spent in either battling with ourselves or with others." pg 76 "Each one of us has two minds, you know. Our positive mind is like the beautiful musk deer. It runs through the jungle of emotions and thoughts spreading fragrance. It is swift, agile, and confident and it doesn't collide. It carves its own path. So is our negative mind, unfortunately, which is like an ugly cockroach with two irritating antennas of self-doubt and negativity. It walks through our delicious food of hope, our clean home of dreams. It breeds rapidly. It reminds you constantly that you don't have it in you or that you don't deserve it." pg 86 "In fact, good concentration leads to good meditation. Concentration is the act of building focus and meditation is the art of retaining it without losing awareness. Success in piercing of chakras depends on the quality of your meditation. The better the quality of your one pointed concentration, the quicker and longer-lasting are the results." pg 96 "With each step you make on the path of the kundalini sadhana, you unlock a new level of your consciousness. The clarity of your thoughts begins to improve noticeably. Your memory improves and an inexplicable stillness arises in the body. You feel more grounded, you find it had to react to others criticism, and you begin to maintain an awareness without being affected about what is going on around you. You start to see that your thoughts have started manifesting in real life, they begin to materialize." pg 102
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This YouTube video was a bit difficult to make. The project was riddled with tiny flaws from the start. If course the series of somewhat annoying misadvetures started off with a technical difficulty with my hardware. I am so glad this is done and I hope everyone enjoys the video!
I have been meaning to create this video for awhile. Doubt plagued me a lot on this one because I wasn't really sure about doing one. There are so many really good professional meditations out there. I might not be perfect or have soft music in the background (which I could have added but would have delayed the video further) but I think it speaks for itself. Besides, I don't want this to be too good. I don't want you to use this all of the time. I want you to do this a few times with me guiding you. That you will get the method and then start to do it on your own. The dreams you can have after this meditation tend tobe more clear and more meaningful. Here are some meanings for how and why you might meet resistance when opening the flowers. Those flowers are the chakras and if they are not opening they are blocked: Crown Chakra - Blockages in this area lead to being unable to meditate or quiet the mind. They also lead to a sense of hopelessness and depression. Third Eye/Brow Chakra: Lack of vision. Nightmares. Manifests as poor intuition. Throat Chakra - Lies/Not Speking your Truth. Usually manifets as a person being unable to express themselves or their feelings. Heart Chakra- Grief. Manifests as Lack of empathy or fearful of close relationships. Solar Plexus Chakra- Shame. Usually manifests itself as Low Self-Esteem or Lack of Willpower Sacral Chakra- Guilt. Usually manifests itself as a low sexual drive and lack of creativity. Root Chakra- Fear. Blockages here usually leaves people feeling spacey and unable to really focus on the present moment. This is just a quick and easy littel refrenge guid. There is a lot more information out there on this topic. I rely on Brenda Davies book for my information. I've found working with clearing the chakras is a tremendously positive experience. I will be covering each chakra in depth in the upcoming Map of the Psyche that involves that subject in an upcoming video. As far as what I mean by a Kundalini Awakening...it appears that there is a dormant energy that sleeps at the root chakra. With this practice that energy awakens and travels up the spine and it can cause some people to have what Maslow Calls a Peak Experience. For people with blockages it can get a bit wonky and it can cause imabalances that become very noticable. By starting off with the energy and love of your family in spirit...(and it doesn't matter if you know someone who crosses over or not, all of your ancestors are there)...it helps prevent the negative consequences. Also, by working on and not pushing the final four chakras it can bring specific areas that you need to heal to your mind. If you start having flashbacks to childhood, there might be trauma there that needs to be healed. To heal it you can recongnize what happened. See yourself as a wise knowing person now and send energy to the version of yourself that experienced the trauma. Write in a journal all of the things that you would have said to that child if you had the chance in a journal. Revisit the situation and then try to look at it from different perspective. Try to forgive anyone who may have been involved in that memory. There are dozens of ways that this can manifest. I hope that you find this helpful and have a wonderul week! |
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