Thursday, May 15, 2008

The Epic Book on Kundalini Yoga

It is by chance that I came across Gopikrishna , a Kundalini Yogi expert who contributed to one of the most powerful Yoga Techniques called Kundalini Yoga . I will never recommend anyone to try the same at home unless you have a guided expert and also please make suer you read GopiKrishnas book well before indulging in Kundalini Yoga . The reason is that it is a very powerful technique and it needs guidance to be properly trained as far as I know . Gopi Krishna was an office worker and spiritual seeker from Kashmir who was born in 1903, and wrote autobiographical accounts of his spiritual experiences. One famous one is Kundalini: Path to Higher Consciousness. Two unlikely events led him to the practice of yoga. First, his father renounced the world to lead a religious life leaving his twenty-eight year old mother with the responsibility of raising him and his two sisters. His mother as a result pinned all her hopes for success on her only son. Second, he disappointed his mother by failing a college house examination which prevented him from attending the university. He attributed this failure to his lack of mental discipline, as he had spent his time at college pursuing enjoyable subjects and ignoring those that would be required for the examination.Over a period of years, he developed the ability to sit for a period of hours in concentration without any discomfort.

The following account which took place in 1937 describes his first Kundalini experience which occurred while he was visualizing "an imaginary Lotus in full bloom, radiating light" at the crown of his head.
Suddenly, with a roar like that of a waterfall, I felt a stream of liquid light entering my brain through the spinal cord.
Entirely unprepared for such a development, I was completely taken by surprise; but regaining my self-control, keeping my mind on the point of concentration. The illumination grew brighter and brighter, 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 the point of consciousness that was myself growing wider surrounded by waves of light. It grew wider and wider, spreading outward 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 corporeal appendage, without any feeling or sensation coming from the senses, immersed in a sea of light simultaneously conscious and aware at every point, spread out, as it were, in all directions without any barrier or material obstruction. I was no longer myself, or to be more accurate, no longer as I knew myself to be, a small point of awareness confined to a body, but instead was a vast circle of consciousness in which the body was but a point, bathed in light and in a state of exultation and happiness impossible to describe. Krishna, Pandit Gopi, Kundalini: Path to Higher Consciousness (New Delhi: Orient Paperbacks, 1992), pps. 6-7 ...

You can download Kundalini book here - Picture of another book ... http://www.esnips.com/doc/f07a7a4d-1ec0-404a-a8df-19810bc95a9f/Kundalini-the-evolutionary-energy-in-man

You can download Autobiography of a Yogi here -
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/7452

1 comment: