~ New Age journal Life Positive chronicles the dangers of awakening the Kundalini in Yoga
Are you having a kundalini experience?
How do you know you are a candidate for kundalini awakening? See
if the list of symptoms listed below match with what you have ever experienced.
• Pranic movement or kriyas. The person may experience intense
involuntary jerking movements of the body including shaking, vibrations, spasm
and contractions.
• Pranic movement or kriyas. The person may experience intense
involuntary jerking movements of the body including shaking, vibrations, spasm
and contractions.
• Spontaneous yogic postures or hand mudras.
• Physiological symptoms: Apparent heart problems, pains in the
head and spine, gastrointestinal disturbances, hyperactivity or lethargy.
• Psychological upheaval: A period of confusion and imbalance.
Feelings of anxiety, guilt and depression as well as compassion, love and joy
with accompanying bouts of uncontrolled weeping.
• ESP experiences: Visions of light, symbols, or review of
past-life experiences. The hearing of voices, music, inner sounds and mantras.
• Psychic phenomena: Precognition, telepathy, psychokinesis,
healing abilities.
• Experiencing the unity of creation.
A useful breathing exercise
Swami Sivananda Saraswati recommended this pranayama in his book, Kundalini Yoga:
Swami Sivananda Saraswati recommended this pranayama in his book, Kundalini Yoga:
When you practise the following, concentrate on the mooladhara
chakra at the base of the spinal column, which is triangular in form and
which is the seat of the kundalini shakti. Close the right nostril with
your right thumb. Inhale through the left nostril till you count three Oms
slowly.
Imagine that you are drawing the prana with the atmospheric air.
Then close the left nostril with your little and ring fingers of the right
hand. Then retain the breath for 12 Oms. Send the current down the spinal
column straight into the triangular lotus, the mooladhara chakra.
Imagine that the nerve-current is striking against the lotus and
awakening the kundalini. Then slowly exhale through the right nostril counting
6 Oms.
Repeat the process beginning with the right nostril as stated
above, using the same units, and having the same imagination and feeling. This pranayama
will awaken the kundalini quickly. Do it thrice in the morning and in
the evening.
Increase the number and frequency gradually and cautiously according
to your strength and capacity. In this pranayama, concentration on the mooladhara
chakra is the important thing. Kundalini will be awakened quickly if
the degree of concentration is intense and if the pranayama is practised
regularly.
Fringe
benefits of kundalini
As the kundalini moves higher into each chakra, the brain would start registering different experiences and one would attain siddhis. However, if one gets caught in these siddhis, the ultimate union would move away from sight, so all gurus guide their students to not get caught up in them.
As the kundalini moves higher into each chakra, the brain would start registering different experiences and one would attain siddhis. However, if one gets caught in these siddhis, the ultimate union would move away from sight, so all gurus guide their students to not get caught up in them.
Patanjali
in his yoga sutras, observes that ‘‘All these psychic manifestations are
obstacles that block the free flow of consciousness towards samadhi.’’
This
is how C.W.
Leadbeater* described the evolution
process of the kundalini: *Theosophist and 33rd degree Freemason
‘‘As
the kundalini moves into the second etheric centre and the ‘petals of
the lotus open’, man might start to remember his astral journeys. In the third
centre, the physical body becomes quite conscious of astral influences, would
properly understand the reasons.”
Leadbeater
adds: “As it moves into the fourth centre, man instinctively becomes aware of
the joys and sorrows of others. The arousing of the fifth enables him to hear
voices, which sometimes make all kinds of suggestions to him. He might also
hear music or other less pleasant sounds. When it is fully working, it makes
the person clairaudient as far as the etheric and the astral planes are
concerned. When the sixth is aroused, man begins to see things, to have various
sorts of waking visions. The full arousing brings clairvoyance. When the
seventh centre is quickened, the man is able by passing through it to leave his
body in full consciousness, and also to return to it without the break.’’
Many people these
days are reporting experiences of kundalini awakening. What is this
mysterious force? What are its manifestations? Must all spiritual aspirants go
through them? Are there ways to consciously make it ascend? How safe is it?
‘During one spell of intense concentration, I suddenly felt a
strange sensation below the base of the spine, at the place touching the seat.
The sensation was extraordinary and pleasing. Suddenly with a roar like that of
a waterfall, I felt a stream of liquid light entering my brain through the
spinal cord.
The illumination grew brighter and the roaring louder. I
experienced a rocking sensation and then felt myself slipping out of my body,
entirely enveloped in a halo of light. It is impossible to describe the
experience accurately. I felt a point of consciousness that was within myself
growing wider, surrounded by waves of light.
It grew wider and wider, spreading outwards while the body,
normally the immediate object of its perception appeared to have receded into
the distance until I became entirely unconscious of it.
I was now all consciousness, without any outline, without any idea
of a corporeal appendage, without any feeling or sensation coming from the
senses, immersed in a sea of light, simultaneously conscious and aware of every
point, spread out in all directions, without any barrier or material
obstruction.
The light I had experienced was internal, an integral part of
enlarged consciousness. It is a surpassing state of pure cognition, free from
the limitations of time and space.’
This is the description of his kundalini experience by
Pandit Gopi Krishna, a government clerk at the time living in Kashmir, India. Kundalini,
the book he wrote, is credited with popularizing the concept in our time. Now
there is a spurt in reports of kundalini awakenings.
Gangaji, a foreigner living in Rishikesh, a religious place in
India has posted her account on the Net: ‘During the time of manifestation, I
felt as if I would spontaneously combust, the heat being so intense… the
nervous system felt as if it was short-circuiting everywhere at once, there
were spontaneous mudras and kriyas that happened, energy moved
through the body uncontrolled; at one time it felt as if ice-cold water were
poured into the heart area-there were dreams of fires and snakes, the mental
modification included extreme depression, followed the feeling of the pain of
the world and the ability to heal pain. People like you and me too are going
though the experience.’
Says Neeta Kapoor, a meditator in Mumbai: ‘After I began regular
meditation, I was lying down one day when I felt a rope lift its head and dance
up my spine. That was the beginning of the kundalini awakening. After a while
my chakras started opening. It took my manipura chakra three
months to open up, and there was a feeling of an engulfing fire in the belly.
Then it went up to my heart where it was stuck for five months.’
‘I used to feel tremendous heat and also cool currents going
through me. It was as if I had my own internal generator and air-conditioner.
But when my heart chakra opened up, a real sense of love and compassion
filled me. My visuddha chakra opened up very quickly and now my
energy is at the ajna chakra. Today the energy flows freely through
every cell 24 hours of the day and there’s a tremendous sense of bliss.’
Seed for spiritual evolution
What is this strange, mysterious force called kundalini that has so many in its thrall? A word that even among seasoned seekers conjures up visions of fear, awe and diffidence in quite the same way that tantra does. It is a word soaked with esoteric connotations, of arcane practices, of the unleashing of a tremendous force, of the acquisition of supernatural powers. It smacks of the occult, even of black magic.
What is this strange, mysterious force called kundalini that has so many in its thrall? A word that even among seasoned seekers conjures up visions of fear, awe and diffidence in quite the same way that tantra does. It is a word soaked with esoteric connotations, of arcane practices, of the unleashing of a tremendous force, of the acquisition of supernatural powers. It smacks of the occult, even of black magic.
Search the Net and you will find 13,000 references to kundalini.
There is even a support group to help people cope with spontaneous kundalini
awakenings. Here in India, we have gurus such as Mata Nirmala Devi, Avdhoot
Baba Shivananda and others who claim to do mass kundalini awakenings.
The Shaktipat school, in which the kundalini is directly
awakened by the touch or look of a realized master, has a well-established
place in the annals of traditional spiritual thought. The siddha yoga
lineage of Baba Nityananda-Swami Muktananda is an illustrious example.
Kundalini is considered to be the basis of evolution
and development of personality. It is believed to be the secret origin of all
occult doctrines, the master key to the unresolved mystery of creation, the
inexhaustible source of philosophy, art and science, and the fountainhead of
all religious faiths, past, present and future. For the seeker of truth, love
and the brotherhood of mankind, kundalini can at first sight seem too
rich a brew.
And yet, whatever yogic path you may be following, and whether you
are aware of it or not, kundalini awakening is part of the process of spiritual
growth.
Says M.L. Dudhat, a retired judge of the Bombay High Court and a
teacher of a meditation practice called Mental Physics: ‘Kundalini is a
barometer that measures a person’s conscious unfolding. As he evolves and goes
beyond the narrow concerns of the self to focus on the happiness of others, the
kundalini will rise to give him a different quality of energy.’
K. Kunhikrishnan, managing trustee of Pranic Healing Foundation, New Delhi (also a school for arhatic
yoga) remarks: ‘There is nobody in whom the kundalini is not
awakened. People might not be aware of it; you can consider this state of
unawareness as an unawakened state. The moment they do something, any sort of
spiritual practice, they can be called awakened. It is simply a difference of
awareness.’
The great sage Swami Vivekananda had noted: ‘Wherever there was
any manifestation of what is ordinarily called supernatural power or wisdom, a
little current of kundalini must have found its way into the sushumna…what
thus man ignorantly worships under various names… the yogi declares to the
world to be the real power coiled up in every being, the mother of eternal
happiness if we but know how to approach her.’
Plainly put, kundalini is the motive energy that keeps us
going. As prana, it courses through our body and takes care not only of our
metabolic functions but fuels our every thought, word and deed. But that is
only an infinitesimal quantity of the energy at its disposal. The rest is
stored as potential, to be used only for the purpose of self-realization. In
its role as a storehouse of cosmic energy, kundalini is identified with
Shakti, the active feminine principle behind the Shiva-Shakti tatva.
According to tantra philosophy, of which kundalini is an
intrinsic part, Brahman, the ultimate source, created the universe by
dividing into two polarities. One is Shiva, which is the masculine and
unmanifest energy that is the source of creation. The other is Shakti, his
dynamic feminine component who manifests and supports creation. These dual
forces are also present in the human body.
Shiva has his abode at the crown of the head, in the sahasrara
chakra. Shakti, the life force, takes her place at the base of the spine,
at the mooladhara chakra, where as Devi Kundali sleeps, curled in
three-and-a-half coils.
Kundalini literally means ‘that which is coiled’ and
she is often likened to a serpent, particularly since the ascent up the spine
can often appear to be like the sinuous movement of a snake. For the human
being to attain union with Brahman, the two polar aspects of Brahman, Shiva and
Shakti, must meet. As long as the two are separate, the psyche cannot be whole
and the unhappiness of the human condition will prevail.
According to Tantra, enlightenment is achieved when the sleeping
goddess awakes and hastens to meet her lord, high up in the crown chakra.
To understand the process of awakening and ascent, it is necessary to know the
network through which kundalini moves. Kundalini and its
components exist at what is known as the etheric or subtle level, which means
that they have no existence at the level of the physical body.
The movement of kundalini is facilitated by a network of
72,000 nerve fibres called nadis, which crisscross the body, bearing
prana to each and every cell. These nadis congregate at certain
spots or plexes, running up the spine, which are known as chakras.
The chakras influence, vitalize and control corresponding
regions of the body. They also determine the quality of consciousness. For
instance, if the swadhisthana is the most active chakra, the
individual will be concerned with sexual pleasures.
The energy points
Though there are many chakras, there are seven principal
ones. The mooladhara (coccyx), the seat of the kundalini, is the
lowest of the chakras and is associated with basic security issues.
Moving up, the swadhisthana (sacral plexus) is associated with sexual
aspects. The third is the manipura (solar plexus) associated with the digestive
systems of the body. These three are the lower chakras which alone
function as long as the individual remains at the level of the mundane.
TThough there are many chakras, there are seven principal
ones. The mooladhara (coccyx), the seat of the kundalini, is the
lowest of the chakras and is associated with basic security issues.
Moving up, the swadhisthana (sacral plexus) is associated with sexual
aspects. The third is the manipura (solar plexus) associated with the digestive
systems of the body. These three are the lower chakras which alone
function as long as the individual remains at the level of the mundane.
For a safe passage
The observation of a strict moral code, such as the one outlined
in the yamas and niyamas of the yoga sutras, is a perfect
framework with which to begin the process of kundalini awakening. The
five niyamas are saucha (cleanliness, internal and external); santosha
(contentment, to be satisfied in whatever situation you are); tapas
(penance); swadhyay (study of scriptures); and ishwarapranidhana
(surrender to the will of God). The five yamas comprise satya
(telling the truth); ahimsa (non-violence); bramacharya
(celibacy); asteya (non-covetousness); aparigraha
(non-acquisition).
Says Sri Shankarachaitanya of the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre in
Delhi: ‘Well, the process is initiated when you start doing the asanas.
However, you should practise the basic asanas for a year before
attempting intensive exercises. Discipline in terms of asanas and pranayama,
specific diet, following the yamas and the niyamas has to become
a part and parcel of your life before you move into intense practices.’
Which brings us to the crucial question: How does one awaken the
kundalini? There are many methods to do so but the time-tested ones are hatha
yoga, tantra and shaktipat. Hatha yoga uses a combination of
advanced asanas, energy locks and seals called mudras and bandhas,
and pranayama. This combination disciplines and tones the body and mind,
and helps redirect the prana from moving outward, connecting the mind with the
senses, to move upward through the chakras.
Almost any form of yoga or breathing exercise has the potential to
awaken the kundalini. For instance, mental physics (or brahma vidya)
is a series of breathing exercises and affirmations which have awakened the kundalini
of many of its practitioners.
However, Justice Dudhat would not advocate the conscious awakening
of the kundalini. ‘If in the course of the exercises the kundalini awakens,
that is all right. But I would not suggest awakening it. The energy should be
the consequence. If you reverse the process, you could continue to remain in
delusion.’
Tantra revolves around the worship of Shakti. While tantra
has sexual connotations (and many practitioners do simulate the union of Shiva
and Shakti at the physical level), it is more often transformed from the
physical level to the sphere of energy and consciousness.
Here Shakti is worshipped through meditation and mantras so that
the aspirant comes into a direct and conscious relation with the Shiva and
Shakti within himself and unites them.
Shaktipat enlists the services of a realised siddha or
master who, through a look, a touch or a gesture, transmits his own power to
the aspirant, directly arousing the sleeping serpent and sending it shooting to
the sahasrara. This is usually a temporary phenomenon, but it can often
leave a transformative effect on the aspirant who has tasted the bliss of union
and will not rest until it is his for keeps.
Swami Muktananda, who started the worldwide Siddha Yoga
movement from Ganeshpuri in Maharashtra, was one of the best-known
practitioners of this form of initiation. The number of people he transmitted shaktipat
to is legion.
Here is an account by a writer named Paul Zweig: ‘With no
transition, I seemed to be seeing my life from a new angle… Great clots seemed
to be floating loose in my mind. Shapes so old that they had come to seem part
of the landscape were breaking up, and through the cracks in their ruin tears
poured, like an imprisoned element set free… Muktananda had done this, but what
had he done and how? We hadn’t talked much and he had hardly looked at me.’
Mata Nirmala Devi, of the sahaja yoga fame, also practises
shaktipat at a mass scale. Her description of kundalini and its
manifestation is vastly different though. According to her, it manifests itself
in cool currents radiating from the crown chakra and the two hands.
Her organisation teaches a form of meditation complete with
affirmations and bandhas that apparently send the kundalini soaring
up the spine each time it is practised. She says that kundalini is an
infinitely benign force, free from all the disturbing elements that others seem
to find in it.
But K. Kunhikrishnan disagrees: ‘In a mass gathering, the energy
levels can become very high. People who participate in such events would have
different energy levels, so it might cause disturbance or injury to some.
Moreover, as they would not know how to handle themselves, the risk involved is
higher.
There is another aspect. Complete faith in the guru is the first
requirement for this practice and that is unlikely to be present in a mass
gathering. Also there would be no check-back facility for people who want to be
guided throughout their process. There might not be anybody available to
correct the proceedings when required.’
Other ways to awaken the kundalini include the use of
mantras, austerities, kriya yoga, raja yoga, meditation, even bhakti
yoga. A few blessed ones may even be born with an awakened kundalini.
When awakened, she unleashes the full quantity of her concentrated prana
upon the system, creating tremendous upheavals.
Even those who have mercifully gentle awakenings such as Santosh
Sachdeva, who wrote a book on her experiences called Conscious Flight Into
the Empyrean, report disconcerting occurrences such as a bowl of fire
rotating within her abdominal region and moving up with an uproarious sound, or
of the energy erasing grooves on her brain and creating fresh ones.
The proper awakening requires control over vital functions and
organs coupled with a strong will and excellent condition of body and mind to
prevent the brain from giving way under the strain. It also requires the
presence of a guru well-versed in kundalini awakening.
Says Sachdeva: ‘Without a guru, there should be no kundalini
awakening.’ Gopi Krishna too faced innumerable problems after the power was
unleashed in him-improperly. He had to face this terror on his own, without the
help of any guide.
Cautions Shankarachaitanya: ‘Imagine there is a river. The
river-bed is full of debris-rocks, dirt. Suddenly, you open up the floodgates,
and water gushes down the river. If the bed is clear, the water would be able
to flow straight through, but when there is debris, the water will flow in all
directions, and flow over the banks.’
He continued, ‘Likewise, when the kundalini force rises
like the river, if the sushumna is not properly opened, it will move in
all directions through different channels. There is absolutely no control on
the energy, and this can result in severe mental, emotional and physical
problems.’
Though the teacher will give you the information, the actual
knowledge will come with practice and experience. But the teacher should always
be there to guide you through. Says Razia Rangwala, a student of mental physics
under Dudhat, who underwent a kundalini awakening in 1999: ‘When the
energy first began to move within me, I used to feel both very sleepy and very
energetic.
The movement was particularly intense at night, when even the bed
used to get hot. When the pain was unbearable I would invoke Guruji, and it
always helped. Although he never said anything directly, he always knew what
was going on within me.’
Her husband, Abdul Ali, also a student of mental physics, even
hears the direct voice of the guru, admonishing him to wake up at 3 a.m. and to
meditate. And if sleep gets the better of him, he is even advised to have a cup
of tea! Delhi-based Avdhoot Swami Shivananda, a practitioner of siddha
kundalini yoga and spiritual healing, says: ‘Nature has its own path and
when you are ready, it will open its door to you, so the moment you are ready,
either the guru will come to you or you will come to the guru.’
The appeal of kundalini
Even knowing that the passage of kundalini is often stormy,
the attractions to awaken it are many. The most important reason, of course, is
the promise of enlightenment. The other tantalizing prizes are the many siddhis
(psychic powers). These include clairvoyance, the ability to communicate with
spirits and to see visions.
These powers can often be a trap to the unwary, for unless the
mind is purified, they can again become a cause for pride, for the exercise of
power over others or to make money. This is why true masters and saints advise
against being tempted to acquire siddhis and to keep the focus
steadfastly on enlightenment instead.
The kundalini, once awakened, carries the limited human
consciousness to transcendental heights, bestowing wisdom, peace and joy.
A noteworthy change by the awakening would be the change in the
individual’s perception: he is capable of grasping that the ‘knower’, the
‘known’ and the ‘whole process of knowing’ are one and the same thing. The
understanding of the Self, the Divine and its omnipresence becomes clear.
In the words of Swami Sivananda Saraswati: ‘Awakening the kundalini
means that your vibratory level has increased, visions appear before the mental
eye of the aspirant, new worlds with indescribable wonders and charms unfold
themselves before the yogi, planes after planes reveal their existence and
grandeur to the practitioner and the yogi gets divine knowledge, power and
bliss, in increasing degrees.’
Avdhoot Baba Shivananda adds: ‘Modern psychologists claim that a
person uses only 6 per cent of the potential of his mind; once the kundalini is
awakened, only 6 per cent remains unutilised.’ Transformation happens,
inevitably.
Reveals Razia Rangwala: ‘My physical problems such as arthritis,
and frequent headaches and sore throats have left me. My perspective has
changed. I no longer feel fragmented. I feel whole. My mind is peaceful and
calm. I can forgive and forget easily. I have great faith in the Almighty.
Today, our financial condition is not good, but I am very detached. Earlier I
used to worry about the future.’
For Abdul Ali, the transformation is even more drastic. A heavy
drinker who spent all his money on material pleasures, he once had an
out-of-body experience in which he saw himself as dead. On being told that it
was not yet his time, he returned transformed. His spiritual search has today
left him a changed man.
Says he: ‘I had problems such as blood pressure, slipped disc and
rheumatism. They have all gone. Earlier, I used to be very lethargic. Today I
can do any amount of work. Mentally I feel so strong that I can plan out my
action meticulously from beginning to end. I had so much fear earlier. All that
has also gone. Today, I feel the higher influence wants my help in helping
humanity. I feel that unbeknownst to me, my energy is being used to create love
and harmony in the world.’
The more the kundalini travels upwards, the yogi advances
towards the goal of spiritual perfection. Once the kundalini is
completely awakened, he becomes liberated, one who is completely aware of the
trans-migratory nature of existence and who can then show others the path
towards such liberation.
If kundalini awakening is a necessary pre-requisite of
enlightenment, do all aspirants, no matter what their path, feel these physical
manifestations? The answer is no. The physical manifestation of kundalini
will occur to those who have chosen a physical route to spirit through yoga and
breathing. The bhakti and jnana yogis approach spirit through the
higher centers of love and discrimination. For them, the awakening is smooth
and imperceptible.
Says Santosh Sachdeva: ‘The jerks and visions arise because of the
impurities that act as hurdles to the free passage of energy. In the case of
the bhakti and jnana yogis, their focus will be on purifying
their mind, their emotions, feelings and thoughts, hence the energy will flow
freely.’
Santosh believes that unlike in the past when the aspirant was
made to severely discipline his body and mind for several years before
attempting any meditation practice, today’s aspirant goes directly into
meditation, for which he may not be internally prepared.
Agrees Swami Rama: ‘I was trained to study body anatomy first and
to have control over the four appetites (food, sleep, sex and
self-preservation). I was told to have a healthy body and to discipline myself
in mind, action and speech.’
Swami
Sivananda Saraswati says: ‘If you want to rouse kundalini shakti, to enjoy the
bliss of union of Shiva and Shakti through her and to gain the accompanying
powers (siddhis), it is obvious that this end can be achieved only by
kundalini yoga. But if liberation is sought without desire for union
through kundalini, then, such yoga is not necessary.’
He continues, ‘Liberation may be obtained by pure jnana
yoga through detachment, the stilling of the mind, without any rousing of the
central bodily power at all. Instead of setting out in and from the world to
unite with Shiva, the jnana yogi, to attain this result, detaches
himself from the world. Samadhi may also be obtained on the path of
devotion (bhakti) as on that of knowledge. Indeed, the highest devotion
(para bhakti) is not different from knowledge. Both are realization.’
Says Acharya Ram Mohan, a teacher of Vedanta: ‘The powers
that come from kundalini are finite. But the jnana yogi is
looking for the infinite, the union with God. Therefore, he does not pay much
attention to kundalini. Even if in the process of meditation he has a kundalini
experience, he is advised not to pay attention to it.’
With the worldwide popularity of yoga and other meditation
exercises, there have been many instances of spontaneous kundalini awakenings
in the West, which lacks the context to handle them and bring the individual
out of the situation safely. Too often, the dramatic visions and experiences
that a person may go through along with the temporary disorientation have been
labeled as psychotic, with the individual condemned to a lifetime of
medication.
In an article called ‘Kundalini: Classical and Clinical‘,
published in the book, Kundalini, Evolution and Enlightenment,
psychologist Lee Sanella observes: ‘We must speak of the many creative people
who are now suffering because of mistakes that we in the (psychiatric)
profession have made in the past. We have a special obligation to make every
effort to correct these mistakes.’
An American web journal called Shared Transformations which
connects people undergoing kundalini experiences as a supportive
measure, has been contacted by 700 people since it first started in 1993.
Psychologist Christian Grof underwent a spiritual awakening when
she gave birth to her son. ‘Powerful and unfamiliar energies were released
unexpectedly and began streaming through my body. I started to shake
uncontrollably.
Enormous electrical tremours coursed from my toes up my legs and
spine to the top of my head. Brilliant mosaics of white light exploded in my
head, and instead of continuing the Lamaze panting, I felt strange involuntary
rhythms taking over. It was as though I had just been hit by some miraculous
but frightening force and I was both excited and terrified.’
Today she spearheads the Spiritual Emergence movement which seeks
to support all those goings through spiritual experiences and to distinguish
their treatment from that given to sufferers of mental illness.
The
beginning of divinity
What happens next? What does this union result in? This is just
the beginning. Divinity having been accessed, now comes the whole enterprise of
establishing oneself in it, deepening it, and living its truths in day-to-day
life.
After Shiva and Shakti meet, they stay like that for a while and
then they descend. Why they do so is not known. At the time of descent Shakti
repossesses the lotuses, which droop and close their petals at her departure,
until she assumes her original dormant state at the base of the spine, bringing
down with her the liberated consciousness and literally returning the spirit to
the body.
Swami Satyananda Saraswati, founder of the Bihar School of Yoga,
says: ‘Shakti rules the matter and Shiva rules the consciousness, and when they
descend to the gross plane, Shakti continues to rule the matter and Shiva,
being consciousness, gives an understanding to the whole world.’
When Shakti descends with Shiva in a self-realized person, the
life the person leads may be normal, but with a transformed
consciousness-liberated, living lightly like the proverbial lotus, waving and
dancing in the wind.
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INTERNET MEDIA ABOUT THE CHURCH POSITION ON YOGA
BRAHMA
KUMARIS WORLD SPIRITUAL UNIVERSITY
CARDINAL
OSWALD GRACIAS ENDORSES YOGA FOR CATHOLICS
CATHOLIC
YOGA HAS ARRIVED
CHURCH MOUTHPIECE THE EXAMINER ACCUSED OF PROMOTING HERESY
DIVINE
RETREAT CENTRE ERRORS-05 YOGA PROMOTED
EXORCISTS
WARN AGAINST USE OF YOGA MANTRAS
FORMER
YOGI REJECTS A CHRISTIAN ALTERNATIVE TO YOGA
FR ADRIAN
MASCARENHAS-YOGA AT ST PATRICK'S CHURCH BANGALORE
FR JOE
PEREIRA-KRIPA FOUNDATION-NEW AGE ENDORSED BY THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOMBAY AND THE
CBCI
FR JOE
PEREIRA-KRIPA FOUNDATION-WORLD COMMUNITY FOR CHRISTIAN MEDITATION
FR JOE
PEREIRA-KRIPA FOUNDATION-WORLD COMMUNITY FOR CHRISTIAN MEDITATION-LETTERS TO
THE BISHOPS AND THEIR RESPONSES
FR JOE
PEREIRA-PLANS YOGA EVENT SPARKS DEBATE
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/FR_JOE_PEREIRA-PLANS_YOGA_EVENT_SPARKS_DEBATE.doc
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/FR_JOE_PEREIRA-PLANS_YOGA_EVENT_SPARKS_DEBATE.doc
FR JOE
PEREIRA SUPPORTED BY HIS BISHOPS CONTINUES TO MOCK AT CATHOLICS
FR JOHN
FERREIRA-YOGA, SURYANAMASKAR AT ST. PETER’S COLLEGE, AGRA
FR JOHN
VALDARIS-NEW AGE CURES FOR CANCER
INTERNATIONAL YOGA DAY
IS BISHOP DABRE FORMER CHAIRMAN DOCTRINAL COMMISSION A
PROPONENT OF YOGA
NARENDRA
MODI SEEKS TO INTRODUCE YOGA IN ALL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
NARENDRA
MODI SEEKS TO INTRODUCE YOGA IN UNIVERSITIES
NEW AGE
GURUS 01-SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR-THE 'ART OF LIVING'
PAPAL
CANDIDATE OSWALD CARDINAL GRACIAS ENDORSES YOGA
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/PAPAL_CANDIDATE_OSWALD_CARDINAL_GRACIAS_ENDORSES_YOGA.doc
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/PAPAL_CANDIDATE_OSWALD_CARDINAL_GRACIAS_ENDORSES_YOGA.doc
SEXUAL
PREDATORS MORE PREVALENT AMONG RABBIS PASTORS YOGIS THAN AMONG PRIESTS http://ephesians-511.net/docs/SEXUAL_PREDATORS_MORE_PREVALENT_AMONG_RABBIS_PASTORS_YOGIS_THAN_AMONG_PRIESTS.doc
U.S. CATHOLIC MAGAZINE ENDORSES NEW AGE-REIKI, YOGA AND ZEN
VISHAL
JAGRITI MAGAZINE PULLS YOGA SERIES OF FR FRANCIS CLOONEY
YOGA AND
THE BRAHMA KUMARIS AT A CATHOLIC COLLEGE IN THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOMBAY http://ephesians-511.net/docs/YOGA_AND_THE_BRAHMA_KUMARIS_AT_A_CATHOLIC_COLLEGE_IN_THE_ARCHDIOCESE_OF_BOMBAY.doc
YOGA CAMP FOR CHILDREN AT OUR LADY
OF GUIDANCE CHURCH
YOGA IN
THE DIOCESE OF MANGALORE
YOGA,
SURYANAMASKAR, GAYATRI MANTRA, PRANAYAMA TO BE MADE COMPULSORY IN EDUCATIONAL
INSTITUTIONS
32 YOGA
ARTICLES/COLLATIONS
AYUSH-THE
NEW AGE DANGERS OF
A CATHOLIC ALTERNATIVE TO YOGA-PIETRA FITNESS
AN INDIAN
CATHOLIC’S PROBLEMS WITH THE CONDEMNATION OF YOGA ARE ADDRESSED
AUM
SHINRIKYO YOGA CULT
AYURVEDA
AND YOGA-DR EDWIN A NOYES
DANGERS OF
AWAKENING THE KUNDALINI IN YOGA-LIFE POSITIVE
DEATH OF
A GURU
MANTRAS
YOGA WCCM CHRISTIAN MEDITATION ETC-EDDIE RUSSELL
PRANAYAMA
REIKI
YOGA AND CENTERING PRAYER
ROME
WARNS CATHOLICS ABOUT YOGA AND ZEN MEDITATION SYSTEMS
TRUTH,
LIES AND YOGA-ERROL FERNANDES
WAS JESUS
A YOGI? SYNCRETISM AND INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE-ERROL FERNANDES
YOGA
YOGA-02
YOGA-03
YOGA-A I
YOGA CAN
BE DANGEROUS FOR YOU
YOGA AND
CHRISTIANITY-ARE THEY COMPATIBLE?
YOGA AND
DELIVERANCE
YOGA IS
SATANIC-EXORCIST FR GABRIELE AMORTH
YOGA-A
PATH TO GOD-FR LOUIS HUGHES
YOGA-BRO IGNATIUS
MARY
YOGA-FR
EZRA SULLIVAN
YOGA-MARTA
ALVES
YOGA-MIKE
SHREVE
YOGA-REV
DR ED HIRD
YOGA-SUMMARY
YOGA-SUSAN
BRINKMANN
YOGA-THE DECEPTION-FR CONRAD SALDANHA
YOGA-WHAT
DOES THE CATHOLIC CATECHISM SAY ABOUT IT
YOGA-WHAT
DOES THE CATHOLIC CHURCH SAY ABOUT IT?
2 YOGA DOCUMENTS
LETTER TO THE BISHOPS OF THE
CATHOLIC CHURCH ON SOME ASPECTS OF CHRISTIAN MEDITATION CDF/CARDINAL JOSEPH RATZINGER OCTOBER 15, 1989
JESUS
CHRIST THE BEARER OF THE WATER OF LIFE, A CHRISTIAN REFLECTION ON THE NEW AGE COMBINED VATICAN DICASTERIES FEBRUARY 3, 2003
26 YOGA TESTIMONIES
TESTIMONY
OF A FORMER YOGI-01 MIKE SHREVE
TESTIMONY
OF A FORMER YOGI-02 TERRY JUSTISON
TESTIMONY
OF A FORMER YOGI-03 KENT SULLIVAN
TESTIMONY
OF A FORMER YOGI-04 MICHAEL GRAHAM
TESTIMONY
OF A FORMER YOGI-05 BRAD SCOTT
TESTIMONY
OF A FORMER YOGI-06 JANICE CLEARY
TESTIMONY
OF A FORMER YOGI-07 CARL FAFORD
TESTIMONY
OF A FORMER YOGI-08 ANONYMOUS
TESTIMONY
OF A FORMER YOGI-09 DEBORAH HOLT
TESTIMONY
OF A FORMER YOGI-10 DANION VASILE
TESTIMONY
OF A FORMER YOGI-11 MICHAEL COUGHLIN
TESTIMONY
OF A FORMER YOGI-12 LAURETTE WILLIS
TESTIMONY
OF A FORMER YOGI-13 KEITH AGAIN
TESTIMONY
OF A FORMER YOGI-14 VIRGO
HANDOJO
TESTIMONY
OF A FORMER YOGI-15 PURVI
TESTIMONY
OF A FORMER YOGI-16 PRISCILLA DE GEORGE
TESTIMONY
OF A FORMER YOGI-17 SARAH
TESTIMONY
OF A FORMER YOGI-18 BRANDY BORDEN SMITH
TESTIMONY
OF A FORMER YOGI-19 CONNIE J. FAIT
TESTIMONY
OF A FORMER YOGI-20 LOSANA BOYD
TESTIMONY
OF A FORMER YOGI-21 FR. PARESH PARMAR
TESTIMONY
OF A FORMER YOGI-22 GINA
TESTIMONY
OF A FORMER YOGI-23 JESSICA SMITH
TESTIMONY
OF A FORMER YOGI-24 MARY GARDEN
TESTIMONY
OF A FORMER YOGI-25 DANIEL SHAW
TESTIMONY
OF A FORMER YOGI-26 REV. DR. ED HIRD
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/TESTIMONY_OF_A_FORMER_YOGI-26.doc
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