[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
., Uddiyana Bandha and the Jalandhara Bandha, also play the most significant part.After giving detailed knowledge of the techniques of the Bandhas, the Yoga-KundaliniUpanishad explains the number of obstacles the Yogic students encounter.It also gives the methodsof overcoming these obstacles.The causes of the diseases in the body are seven.1.Sleeping during the daytime.2.Latevigils overnight.3.Excess of sexual intercourse.4.Moving amidst crowds.5.The effect ofunwholesome food.6.Checking of the discharge of urine and faeces.7.Laborious mentaloperations with the Prana.The mistake that the Yogic student commits is that when diseases attack him, heerroneously attributes the diseases to his practice of Yoga.This is the first obstacle in Yoga.The Yogic student begins to doubt as to the efficacy of the Yoga Sadhana.This is the secondobstacle.Carelessness or a state of confusion is the third obstacle.Indifference or laziness is thefourth obstacle.Sleep is the fifth obstacle and the sixth is the attachment to sense-objects.Theseventh obstacle is erroneous perception or delusion.The eighth is concern with worldly affairs.The ninth is want of faith.The tenth obstacle to Yoga practice is want of the necessary aptitude forgrasping the Yoga truths.Earnest spiritual aspirants should avoid all these obstacles by means of a close investigationand great deliberation.Further on, the Upanishads describe the process and the manner by whichthe Kundalini is roused and taken to the Sahasrara by piercing through the Granthis.When the awakened Kundalini moves upwards, the shower of nectar flows copiously.TheYogi enjoys this which keeps him away from all sensual pleasures.The Yogi takes his stand upon104 YOGA-KUNDALINI UPANISHADthe Inner Reality, the Atman.He enjoys the highest state of spiritual experience.He attains peaceand is devoted only to the Atman.By the whole process of the Kundalini Yoga Sadhana, the body of the Yogi attains verysubtle state of the spiritual Consciousness.The Yogi who has attained to Samadhi experienceseverything as Consciousness.The Yogi realises the oneness of the macrocosm and the microcosm.Because, the Kundalini Shakti has reached the Sahasrara Kamala or the thousand-petalled lotus andhas become united with Siva, the Yogi enjoys the highest Avastha.This is the final beatitude.The Chakras are centres of Shakti as vital force.These are the centres of Prana Shaktimanifested by Pranavayu in the living body.Those aspirants who aspire to arouse the Kundalini Shakti to enjoy the Bliss of Union ofSiva and Shakti, through awakened Kundalini, and to gain the accompanying Powers or Siddhis,should practise Kundalini Yoga.To them, this Yoga-Kundalini Upanishad is of great importance.Itequips them with a comprehensive knowledge of the methods and processes of the Kundalini Yogain which the Khechari Mudra stands prominent.The Kundalini Yogi seeks to obtain both Bhukti and Mukti.He attains liberation in andthrough the world.Jnana Yoga is the path of asceticism and liberation.Kundalini Yoga is the pathof enjoyment and liberation.The Hatha Yogi seeks a body which shall be as strong as steel, healthy, free from sufferingand therefore, long-lived.Master of the body, the Yogi is the Master of life and death.His shiningform enjoys the vitality of youth.He lives as long as he has the will to live and enjoys in the world offorms.His death is the death at will (Ichha-Mrityu).The Yogi should seek the guidance of an expertand skilled Guru.The Serpent Power is the power which is the static support or Adhara of the whole body andall its moving Pranic forces.The polarity as it exists in, and as, the body is destroyed by Yoga whichdisturbs the equilibrium of bodily consciousness, which consciousness is the result of themaintenance of these two poles.In the human body the potential pole of Energy which is the Supreme Power is stirred toaction.The Shakti is moved upward to unite with the Siva, the quiescent Consciousness in theSahasrara.By Pranayama and other Yogic processes the static Shakti is affected and becomesdynamic.When completely dynamic, when Kundalini unites with Siva in the Sahasrara, thepolarisation of the body gives way.The two poles are united in one and there is the state ofconsciousness called Samadhi.The polarisation takes place in the Consciousness.The bodyactually continues to exist as an object of observation to others.When the Kundalini ascends, the body of the Yogi is maintained by the nectar which flow,from the union of Siva and Shakti in Sahasrara
[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]