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Purpose of Yoga |
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By
Pieter |
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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