Yoga and Bhoga
- A Complete Guide / Reference to Kundalini Yoga by Guruji Thapas Yoga C.K.S
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1. Kundalini Yoga
Purposeful Life
Scientific Spiritual Living is an art of making life com- fortable and purposeful.
With the help and practice of Thapas Yoga, which comes only by Initiation into Concentration and Meditation, you can achieve the amazing involvement with the Higher Self leading from the Lower Self. This separation from the Lower Self is so vital to Spiritual change when one will feel the Higher Self in life, its peace and strength, This spiritual advancement is essential for getting well in life and to live many years of an extraordinary fruitful life. This is easy by Kundalini Yoga and you can learn the Tantric way of Bhoga also.
What is Kundalini Yoga ?
Kundalini Yoga is aimed at kindling the Serpent Power coiled at the base of the Spinal Column. This place is called Mooladhara (Root Chakra). It is attached to the pineal and pituitary glands through the web of autonomic nerves through the central thread of a white imperceptible but existing nerves - Ida, Pingala and Sushumna Nadis.
A misconception
There is a misconception that Kundalini Yoga, which is the activ- isation of Mooladhara and the awakening of the Kundalini has harmful effects. This is not very much true. Because in any creative activity, the serpent power is kindled. What takes a matter of many years of endeavor of creative work, to arouse the serpent power could be done in a matter of minutes by the grace of a Guru, who can pass unalloyed pure vibrations of Thapas at the base, and opens the Sushumna in its upward vibration; make the coiled subtle power to come up with perceptible movement through various Chakras to Agna and then on to Sahasrara. Only thing required is the unabiding faith in the Guru and his grace to oblige the seeker. Then Spiritual experiences area a certain- ty.
Kundalini for Spiritual Growth.
This experiment of awakening the Kundalini has been done by Guruji Thapas Yogi of Mahabalipuram for over a thousand persons and no harmful effects have been perceived. He has been himself practicing for over 40 years. The only possibility or may it be said is the certainty that when Kundalini is raised, it sets into motion the Supreme sex-energy and sometimes kindles the sex- craving to a very great degree in the initial stages; sometimes over indulgence in sex may result. But even them, the individual also develops his will power progressively to such an extent that his will power will out-wit his emotional outbursts.
Avoid Evils.
The awakening of the Kundalini has a subtle widening in the grasp of Super-Consciousness. It is invoking powerful vibrations. But, in case, bad thoughts or bad actions are manipulated with the help of these powerful vibrations, then the person turns into an Asura or evil-intentioned giant. You become great in evil and that will destroy your astral body, for, by this you send our vibrations of hatred, jealousy, evil tongue, black-magic and such a person is called in India, Asura or becomes a tool of the personification of the evil force.
Path of Joy
But with the increase in vibration, if you take a path of calm- ness, joy, by helping others in their evolution, you become the source of strength and a moral giant. Then you become in Indian thought a "Sura" of a Divine Angel.
So, always invoke good vibrations when you do Thapas by brooding on the Self in you. Such vibrations will make you live a purpose- ful life and you will have no worry, no troubles. Thapas is the mellowed form of Kundalini Yoga.
Spiritual Ozone
It has been explained in books of authority that the awakening of the "Kundalini" enables the spiritually inclined individual to feel the fragrance of Spiritual Ozone. This increases the subtle breathing tone with more absorption of "Prana" in the inward inhalation, and in the process the outward exhalation becomes more and more subtle. Breath equal in both nostrils.
Not only the gush of breathing becomes slower but also the flow which usually is stronger in one nostril for certain hours and stronger in the other, will be noticed to flow in equal flow with lesser force in both the nostrils.
Bird and its Two Wings - The Breath.
This flow of breath in both the nostrils in equal force is like a bird that has begun to feel the use of its wings. This even flow makes the mind calm, without turmoil but its capacity becomes more enlarged in such a way the person so endowed gets a clarity of vision.
He is able to understand the real from the unreal (Maya), the true from the false, the beautiful from the ugly. This slow awakening is a gift of the Gods. This flow of the divine vibra- tions into one's physical frame, strengthens the astral body, making the physical body more and more healthy by toning up the nerves with Vital Energy.
Kinship with the Divine
Even though there might be a long distance to go towards the flowering and kinship with the divine, it gives the individual the strength to live with a purpose and to endure any outward physical strain.
Enter into the Hereafter.
The person who has awakened his Kundalini strengthens the Sukshma Sarira or Astral Body, so that he enters into the thereafter with success on his onward journey to the eternal.
There are three possibilities when a man dies. First, his mind can just explode, scatter and dissipate and that is the end of him. This is termed death. This is what happens when Kundalini is not awakened.
Second, his mind can hold together through the death trauma and he finds himself in the threshold of a spirit. I guess you know about these two. This is life after death. Spiritually awakened person live thereafter.
The third possibility is this :- His mind breaks during the death trauma but enough to cause dissipation. He is pulled into the threshold of Supra-Mental Consciousness. But the strain has been permanently disabling him. He is insane, and this is how a ghost is born. He is insane and he haunts.
How Ghosts are born ?
Ghosts haunt because they are filled with twisted hatred, anger, fear and pain. They would not go into the hereafter. They want to spend as much time as they can on earth, where their attention is still fixed. They want to frighten people, hurt them and drive them insane. Haunting is the most asocial things they can do. It is their madness. But fortunately they cannot stand the vibra- tions of electric lights and therefore they cannot haunt in places electrified. That is the reason why in this century ghosts are not seen.
Since the begining of mankind, there have been ghosts. But their numbers have always been small. Only a few out of every million people manage to survive death and only a tiny percentage of those survivors went insane during the transition and became ghosts.
There are certain proofs that about one person in a million alone get to the hereafter. The rest just went out like a light when they died, leaving nothing. Death is total disaster. Avoid it.
Awakening of Kundalini
The awakening of the Kundalini is a must for any spiritual growth. The awakening brings in a spirit of adventure and feeling of a purpose in life. That seemingly described as dangers by iconoclasts should be brushed aside with a courage of conviction.
The awakening of the Kundalini is in the nature of Spiritual expansion. A sense of happy stretching of the powers of our imagination to grasp reality, into a joyous ascent takes place into the realms of the divine perception and an expansion of the individual self. The spiritual aspirant feels a sense of purpose. The kindling of the Kundalini enables one to go in for self- exploration and gives a sense of secure and self-knowledge to identify himself with Brahman.
Meaning of Kundalini
Without going unnecessarily into the etymology of the word "Kundalini", suffice it to say, that means "a fire", " a warm force of breath", " a repository", " a coil", " a ring" and " a spiral".
Kundalini is a creative fire - a feminine power - within the womb of every human being and it can be awakened only by the touch of a Master of this Art. Guruji will aid you in your creative force of evolution. Guruji Thapas Yogi of Mahabalipuram is one such Master. Do you not owe a duty to your Self by releasing the imprisoned force to enable you to flower into a full human being to realize the potential in you ?
Kundalini - is there any danger ?
Its awakening is not fraught with any disaster but only in cases of Veneral diseases, that too, when they are destined so. It was so in the previous centuries. Not in the 20th century.
In Kundalini awakening, only if the blood stream or the nerves are contaminated by sexually transmitted diseases, (V.D) then the danger are that such virus, which are in the blood stream, get to attack the brain centres and only in such cases madness is a possibility.
Precautions to be taken.
Therefore, the precautions available to ward off veneral diseases should be taken. Iam so sorry to put such profane things in a profound exposition of Kundalini. This is a guide book on Kundal- ini and therefore the concept that is prevalent that "Kundalini" is dangerous or that madness results in awakening the Kundalini has to be wiped off the minds and such naked truths should be explicitly mentioned; especially when "Nirodh" condom is being advertised so widely. Many inquisitive teenagers also know about it. Hiding certain information is more injurious than explaining the need to protect yourself against sexually transmitted dis- eases, when you have the Kundalini awakened.
Therefore, without fear, earn for the favour of your Guruji to get your Mooladhara awakened and to get Kundalini aroused from its slumber. You will develop your personality and get all the benefits that accrue out of developing your personality.
The dormant forces.
In you is a force lying dormant curled up as in a womb. This can be released by the touch of the Master, who has the key to this sacred knowledge. Guruji will enable you to ascend to heights of your endeavors so that you could be a better person in whatever walk of life you are. This power of the Kundalini will take you to higher reaches in your human evolution and make you more and more divine. Also Guruji's endeavor in this direction is in continuation of traditions of our Sages and Saints, our Rishis and Munis. our Mahatmas and Yogeeswaralus.
How to control Kundalini
It is also easy by a small endeavors, by learning a reverse process to keep the force of ascent under control. This is done by the Guru by passing his thought currents down the spine and opening the Sushumna to function in a downward way. This enables the serpent power to come back to its place of rest, recoil itself and to make its way upward when the occasion demands.
It is well high impossible and surely spiritually unlawful for more explicit indication to be given as to the mode of awakening Kundalini, for, it is the prerogative of reincarnated souls who have the inner command of their deity which give them the seal of authority. This is intuitively felt by the Master - Guruji. You will also evolve as a Master.
2. Fruits of Kundalini Yoga
Interaction of Body and Mind.
Kundalini Yoga makes the mind into a high tension energy web emanating from Mooladhara, modified by the body and vice-versa.
The body and the mind interact and inter-modify. But with the awakening of the Kundalini, the mind starts independently to function and learns at a later stage by evolution, the art of existing independently of the body. The independence of the mind is the next stage of evolution.
The active Hereafter.
The awakening of the Kundalini is by a subtle process in its functioning through the physical, mental and in the subconscious levels. Your soul will become infinitely widened more than your anticipation. This is Spiritual living in the hereafter.
The awakening of the Kundalini increases your powers of intuition and in the long run establishes a rapport between human being and the divine being - to a stage of rapport between the microcosm and macrocosm.
Psychological Studies.
As you develop your Agna Chakra with the release of the Kundali- ni, your consciousness gets closely linked to vibrations from the eternal. The psychological studies in the modern Universities are only poor caricatures compared to the marvelous psychic knowledge gained by the activisation of the powerful divine - vibrations emanating from Kundalini. So the vista of knowledge that now rests with psychological studies both theory and applied as at present existing is only a shadow of the psychic knowledge to come.
The awakening of Kundalini cures certain diseases, that is, so far as it is due to weakening of the Sukshum Sarira (Astral Body( in ordinary individual.
Kundalini Chain.
The Kundalini chain connects the panja-Bhoothams. the five ele- ments (1) Earth, (2) Air, (3) Water, (4) Fir, (5) Akash. The Akash element permeates all. The vibrations of the power and potency of the Kundalini is more in Akash, lesser in fire, etc.
Kundalini Glows
It will be interesting to know that when the (Indrya) sense perception is involved, the Kundalini force is felt a little more. For e.g., when a speaker comes to the platform, a stimula- tion of the Kundalini takes place up and down the spine and a distinct glow in a microscopic extent is also seen. In cases where talks or actions in individuals is done for the good of others, the glow also takes place as in the case of Musicians, Preachers, Purohits, Evangelists and Dancers. Better still will be the glow if special efforts are made to activise the centre at the eye-brow and the line in the middle of the head. This is symbolically represented by the Hindu ladies, with a mark in between the eyebrows.
Narcotics - wrong direction
It is clear that nicotine, alcohols and narcotics cut this rap- port and stirs the force in the wrong direction and towards its downward path creating an intense feeling of lust, and ultimate blocking the passage upwards. The glow of pleasantness is lost.
Places of Worship
The stimulation of Kundalini increases in places of worship when you sit and chant devotional music. Because these places have such harmonious vibrations that act on this repository and makes it quire in unison - the reason for the composure and calmness that ensue in places of worship and in the presence of persons who have increased these vibrations.
Modes of Awakening
There are no dangers of arousing Kundalini. Some self-seekers kept this as a secret for their own purpose and possibly they do not know the procedure for awakening the Kundalini without a shock. Suppose a person is asleep, and you want to wake him. There is a danger in waking him beating a drum, which disturbs him too much. But just a small sound or calling his name softly will wake him up. So also is waking the Kundalini, there are such bizzaire methods as Belly Pranayama, Nowli Mudhra, Oddiyana Mudhra, by creating a conflict between Apana and Prana. These are crude methods to be employed in the case of unenlightened souls.
Force of Universal Spirit
In the case of the educated, prone to spiritual paths and seekers of knowledge, the mighty kundalini may be awakened to respond to vibrations of the thought of the Guruji who awakens them, because the force of kundalini is the fore of the Universal Spirit en- cased in the frail Human Body. By activising Kundalini in a subtle way, sexual activity and vitality are increased but at the same time sublimation of sex-energy also takes place along with the development of one's will power.
Avoid other Chakras
It is possible to bye-pass the other Chakras. It is Hatha Yogis who go through each Chakra and such Hatha Yogis are a rarity. Therefore, a competent Guru, who is above the turmoils of the mundane material world, can send his vibrations of thought through Sushumna of the aspirant and open the channel from Moo- ladhara to Agna (root chakra to the third eye, through Sushumna)
Therefore, the possibility of upsetting the rhythmic equilibrium of the stimulation of the various Psychic Centres or Chakras is avoided.
However, the ardent aspirant should avoid as far as possible, situations that entangle him in physical sexual involvement and get the benefits of the awakening to a higher plane of thinking and help himself towards a higher evolution of his Self.
Gnana Yogi
Once the awakening has been accomplished, the individual will develop towards a never ending process of becoming a Gnana Yogi.
Karma Yogi
At the same time, he will develop the mental peace to involve himself in day to day affairs without emotional or sentimental attachments and will feel that his duty is to function - to do karma - and the end-result of his actions are governed by divine forces and therefore he verily becomes a Karma Yogi.
As he progresses by a few minutes of concentration at the Agna- Chakra, he will feel an involved evolution in his physical body also. In the begining, he will feel the vibrations after initia- tion as though a subtle glow without color at his Agna-Chakra or at the tip of the nose for the tip of the nose is near the eye- brow.
The Pain is Blissful.
The subtle glow will develop into a feel-pleasurable pain like a load which reciprocates in vibrations to good instrumental music in resonance. As Thirukkural, the Book of Yoga aphorisms in the Chapter on Thapas, the first couplet says : -
The Pain of Thapas
Involved Inextricably with you
Bound a part of you
Revel in increasing it
Not will endanger Life
But will indicate
Thapas in you.
Therefore, this seeming pain is the starting point of Blissful awakening. For, tell me a pleasure in which pain is not woven into it. Pain of birth is a built-in-mechanism to give a pleasure of exhilaration and to enhance its enjoyment.
Pain of Birth
This pain is the focal point of invigorating and strengthening the Astral and mental bodies.
By this never ending process of the awakening, the localized concentration of force in the centre of the forehead in between the eye-brows will slowly permeate in distribution over the whole body and will vitalize the astral and mental body.
Virgin of Pure Thought
What was localized will become more spread in vibrations of pleasant sensation throughout the body - the pleasure is more pleasant than what a virgin of pure thought feels at the touch of the beloved and quivers in a pleasure of subdued harmony. That this Anandha is a feeling to be felt, to be longed for, to which each soul yearns in anxious expectations. The denial of this yearning is the reason for sullen feelings of despair and de- spondency in the not-fortunate and their search for canine physi- cal pleasure is an expression in agonythwarted evolution-seeking its outlet in physical over-indulgence and ruin of the astral body not to speak of the physical body.
Tantric method to avoid Sexual Excess
The only poser is what happens to one who has awakened his Kun- dalini. For sometime due to his ignorance, he may slip into a darkness of over-indulgence but that even a slight reflection with the kindling of certain mystical experience will make him wake up and enable him to come back to the path of higher evolu- tion. There is a Tantric method of sex - we will discuss later.
This is borne out of my personal experience for the last thirty years. Slips there will be, but not a fall. Because of slips, the possibility for progress should not be sacrificed.
This is of paramount interest to the evolution of the individual and of the human race itself. This is not a vague expectation. The endeavors of Roscrucians, etc., the people of esoteric prac- tices, the rishies and sages of our land, who all have attained Sex Sublimation by the awakening of Kundalini.
Therefore, it must be admitted that the biological evolution of the human race lies only along this course of utilizing the force of Kundalini.
An International party.
It is visualized that even an international political party is likely to be born with the tenet of increasing the awareness of the Spiritual vibrations amongst people through the awakening of Kundalini. This will carry more conviction and more firmness than the shifting standards of the present political parties. They all have been dismal failures. They were not able to produce a psy- chic awareness of the good in man.
The present trend of the increase in religious involvement, faith healing, yoga asans, esoteric and occult practices will gain new dimensions with more recognition of the sublime force of awaken- ing of Kundalini.
Charm in Participation.
Revealed Kundalini teaching will hold a real and indepth fascination in the near future and will maintain a far stronger grip on the human mind. Today the interest of the youth in wit- nessing such things as Cricket, Dance, Films, etc., where they are more spectators will give place to actual involvement and participation. The tendency to be mere spectators of events, will give place to involvement and participation.
There is more charm in involvement within yourself, so that you become an objective observer of the change that take place in your physiognomy, the eyes becoming sharper, the forehead larger with a penetrating intellect capable of sharp perception in an overall of a body within and without.
All Religious leaders are Yogis.
All religious leaders have been Spiritual savants and in our categorization, Yogis. By Yogis, we definitely mean those who have kindled their Kundalini and known to have cognizance of the super-conscious in them.
Secular to a Spiritual State
Our concept of a Secular State in India will be giving place to a Spiritual State in the near future. Because the concept of a secular state is more a negative concept than the spiritual state which embodies the essence of all religions giving up blind rituals and in its place slowly but inevitably have rational rituals to augment and regulate the flow of Kundalini in the individual to be coordinated to the force of Kundalini form the Sun.
Why a Secrecy ?
The deepest secrecy that was maintained regarding Kundalini in the past was because the seer and the sage had more access to the kings and rulers and tribal chiefs. But now when mass involvement is the sanction behind every endeavors, when news magazines shape the thinking, it is imperative, that Guru who holds the key for activising Kundalini should get more recognition. The advertise- ment of many products and research in the engineering and scien- tific fields should not overshadow the basis of all human aspira- tions.
The methodology, the technical know-how, precautions to be taken and consultations for the spiritual aspirant should have more recognition. Failure of this approach will lead to failure in this fields. The mandate of the divine force awaits a break- through in this field.
Mystical Visions
Let this sink in the mind of any true seeker of any knowledge. Without the active participation of the Kundalini - the Life giving force - all his efforts, his achievement will only produce a sense of despondency, irritation and an under current of non- belief in the active participation of the divine force in his life. Such a person who has not activised his Kundalini will only be tied down by dead habits.
Mystical Vision is the ultimate objective of all our endeavors. Once the glimpses of the vision is perceived, the grip it has over the individual is phenomenal. Read any religious book of your faith. They will contain hints and suggestion only towards this end objective.
Reincarnations
The founders of every faith - Lord the Jesus, Mohammed the Proph- et, Adi Sankara, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, all such savants and seers are God reincarnation to select soul-seeds out of the millions of the devoted followers. If their devotees fail to develop their souls, then how could you think that they have fulfilled their mission in Life.
Eternal Vigilance
The dispute between sects in each religion, and disharmony be- tween one religion and another are engineered by the divine, by a remote sense, because of the ignorance about the true meaning of Religion cast to destroy themselves.
From the smoldering fire of hatred shall arise again and again the eternal truth. The soul development is possible only by the eternal vigilance in which the upward flow of Kundalini is to be guarded.
If the vigilance is not there, the downward flow takes place. Fire burn upwards; fire purifies. Water flows downward and gives nourishment only if the heat element is also present. How glori- ous it is that prana through Sushmna Nadi in its upwards creeping is nourished by the heat emanation at every plexus i.e. Chakras and the ganglion.
Atomic Explosion
But one thing is certain. If humanity fails to recognize this duty of evolving its individual Soul or Atman, the participation of each one of us in the evolution of the human element into a divine element is obstructed. Then the obstruction causes a mighty torrent of divine vibrations. Then the Yuga Pralaya in the form of atomic explosion should come. It is then the soul-seeds which have already been picked by the mighty Kundalini alone will survive, for they alone can reincarnate.
Getting Enlightenment
There is a localized activity of the brain. This activisation is possible by Kundalini only. Properly guided by the increase in the located activity of the brain brings in a genuine illumina- tive state. This state is an indescribable state of Glory with a clarity of the intellect. This is not an altered state of con- sciousness. It is an extended state of consciousness. This state is to be known only by experience. The divine forces have their own ways to uphold such experiences which on and off give a flash of lightening. Such is the case with Lord Buddha, who, in one instant of grace realized that he was enlightened.
The Mystic Life.
So, those who have chosen this path of mystic light should not stop till they reach this state and when he finds himself in this state, he will be astonished. Being astonished, he will be lead into the Kingdom of Heaven in his astral flight where he will rest and continue his endeavor of Thapas Yoga to enlighten the kindered souls, so that the journey through Life and the hereaf- ter will be meaningful.
Uses of Meditation
Many always want to know before meditating, of what use is medi- tation to them. Meditation leads to a feeling of the Brahman is not going to convince one who has no theoretical feeling of the Brahman; to them it can be asserted that -
1. KUNDALINI Meditation gives spiritual Fluidity.
2. Kundalini Meditation increases the desire for intellectual and Psychic understanding.
3. Kundalini Meditation increases the limits or vista of our Comprehension.
4. It increases our intellectual process.
5. Meditation is not possible without the arising of the Kundali- ni Force in us; so when we say meditation, we mean only Kundali- ni Meditation.
The first stage of it is at the 3rd eye. The second stage of it is the 4th eye. The third stage of Meditation is at Sahasrara (or) the thousand lotus petals found symbolically in the Head of Buddha and Mahavira, the enlightened.
6. So, Meditation is a continuing process, birth after birth. So start it in this birth; for many the urge is by nature in them as a continuation of their previous birth and they will mount higher and higher and will put in greater effort in an effortless man- ner. So Mediation has a beginning and no end. To Meditate, the sky even is not the limit.
7. Meditation is a subtle spiritual subject and an experience.
8. Meditation is a subjective practical reality.
9. Meditation is the way for the identification of our SELF.
10. Meditation to us is what a spark plug is to a car.
11. Meditation to us is what a door is to a house.
12. Meditation is not the garb of a beggar; it is the Crown of a King.
13. Meditation is the imperial gown of Life.
14. Meditation slowly lifts us to a higher mental and spiritual awareness.
15. The technique of Meditation has to be at some stage or other by the touch, by the sight and by the thought of the GURUJI only.
16. You Must know from a living GURU how, and where in your body and out of your body you should Meditate.
17. Meditation enables you to discover the secret abiding place of your soul.
18. Meditation is the only way for spiritual growth.
19. Meditation gives decisive knowledge.
20. Meditation makes you both an introvert and an extrovert.
21. Meditation takes you to the source of all Wisdom.
22. By Meditation you will emerge into a New World of wonder from your own Self.
23. Meditation gives you the mastery of Life and Living.
24. Meditation is a process - continuous process of practice - dipping the mind in one thought - thought of the divine.
25. Many want to control their mind. The Control of the mind is a wrong concept. The world has to change it to practice of direct- ing their Mind to a particular one pointed direction more deeply than towards other directions.
3. Drive Unto Truth
Scepter of Self-Knowledge Haunting Humanity
The human brain is so endowed that it can investigate itself. That process is Self-knowledge. It is a guarantee that in the course of a decade there will be a mass hysteria for Self- knowledge. The scepter of Self-knowledge is haunting humanity and every other consideration will be subordinated to this interest. This will be a major factor in the life of each individual.
The awakening of the Kundalini brings into being a state of cheerful, confident, and positive attitude promoting health and happiness. And happiness is a habit of the Mind. As Bible has categorically stated, "The Spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity. The development of the spirit will remove all infirmi- ty; and will bring in a state of super-hypnotic trance when there is no disease or disequilibrium."
Search for Truth
Kundalini Yoga brings about such an impact - a powerful impact on the mind, that he becomes intoxicated with the love of God, an amazing psychological transformation takes place, the intellect becomes highly charged, and we enter into a super-conscious state, with an overwhelming impact on the mind. Kundalini Yoga is the search for truth, born of Truth.
The life energy or elan-vital and its upward movement to the brain-centre activises the psychic centre or the Silent Zones.
Divine Sparks.
By Kundalini Yoga, we feel the divine spark and we enter into the frontier of the Super-Natural states of faith healing and mira- cles, where the astral and mental worlds become perceptible.
Bio-Energy
In every human being when the outlet of Bio-dynamic energy flow is downward, it is accompanied by an unquenchable thirst for sex-expression, leading to a feeling of despair disease and despondency. We have to make this bio-energy to flow upward also.
There is the inner mechanism of a possible flow of Kundalini upward and when this is not accomplished, a feeling of a sense of purposelessness, sense of insufficiency and feeling of emptiness is writ all over the individual.
Change in Consciousness
But with the opening of Sushumna Nadi upward, a potent stream in the form of a warm current creeping inside the spinal cord is felt and creates a change in consciousness. Only such persons enter the hereafter and exist in a subtler body where with the withering of the physical frame, the emerging astral gains suste- nance and strength and continues to send vibrations of super- consciousness, existing to strengthen their mental body or Karna Sarira which emerges out of their astral or emotional body eject- ed out of their physical body.
In case they have not carried the pranic energy by maximum sublimation, they have rebirth again to the physical body under more fortunate environment so that their evolution is more dis- tinct and effective.
This perennial flow is the avowed purpose of our lives, and we have a profitable way of life if we tune ourselves to this con- cept and contribute to our evolution and to the evolution of those who are destined to come in contact with ourselves.
We can see that the human mind is advancing more in this knowledge with clarity of conviction. These do not have any contradictory approach to any other concept propagated by the founders of all religions.
The concept indicated above is the sumum bonum of all religious and spiritual teachings. Instead of seeing any differences, it is to be used to evolve ourselves and march on the road to spiritual growth which is always of advantage to us.
Thapas Yoga
With the practice of Thapas Yoga (as different from Hatha Yoga) the activisation of Mooladhara to Agna, then on to Sahasrara- practicing only for about 10 minutes in the morning and ten minutes in the evening for the last 30 years - by Guruji - has a revealing experience. I find that this should go into the minds of all young men in all Colleges, to all business and industrial men. Youth is a propitious time for setting to work. So also when you practice this Kundalini Yoga while you are young, you gain strength to lead a purposeful life. More than all these, older age group who have retired from active life, should take to this at least at this stage, so that their lives may not go purpose- less.
Method of Flow Back
There are certain conditions which, though I would not call psychic, are the states in which there is feel of light and music. Now these conditions may be ideal conditions. They are due to heavy on-rush of Kundalini breaking the Sushumna Nadi and entering Ida and Pingala and secondly also due to unawareness of a method of flow back by which the excess could be brought back to its place of rest to recuperate. This safety-lock-system will remove all bizarre conditions and make us aware of the knower in us without living in two worlds.
Sex Life and Spiritual Life
Today, the people are highly spiritual or they are deeply in- volved in material and sexual indulgence that they do not find a middle path. Hence there is heavy moral preachings than moral living. The best will be not to leave sex life and discard the spiritual path of evolution and at the same time lead a life of adjustment with the material world by doing one's duty without contradiction or conflict. However, the human needs spectacular results and therefore, even spiritual savants are to do cheap miracles and magic.
But it is hoped that with more maturity resulting from the kin- dling of Kundalini by initiation, the number of spiritual aspir- ants will increase and individuals will, more and more become participants in this great adventure than mere spectators who approach spiritual masters for material benefits than for spirit- ual progress.
Aham Brahmasami - The God
The dormant Atman, or spirit in us has to be brought to a centre- the centre in between the eye-brows by a process in which the five elements, the five indriyas; the elan-vital and the five senses and our mind have to be fused into the living reality, so that reality becomes real and permanent. This will bring the knower and the known in close proximity and the Advaita awareness "Aham Brahmasmi" is slowly evolved both emotionally and intellec- tually - in totality - by a process of personal evolution.
The Real Brahman
From a position of attempts to reach, the divine takes its place of habitation in use. Slowly, we dissolve ourself in Brahman - through the journey in three worlds - the physical, astral and mental to a supra mental or Formless Brahman. This initiation into the mystery is known as Brahma Upadesa and the sacred thread of three strands has a knot called Brahma Knot which is an indi- cation of initiation into Kundalini awakening.
The real Brahmin is one who has practically tied his physical body to the other subtler self in him by a knot at the centre of the forehead which is symbolized by the knot in the sacred thread of the priestly class. But many observe only rituals without coming nearer to reality. We should thank them that they keep the rituals at least which has given us a chance to explain the inner importance.
Gods Incarnate.
After the disappearance of Atlantis, where the one-eyed man lived, we have a spiritual revival roughly 2000 years before in the birth of Christ, the Prophet, Buddha and Mahavira and Adi Sankara, who were Gods Incarnate. They were from the formless divine empire to the form of the human being by sufferance.
None of them in their period of time ever thought that there will be religious wars between their followers. But it has happened because of the deterioration in their disciples who could not evoke the Kundalini in themselves or in their followers.
From Causal World
A century before we had a galaxy of sages who have come from the karana World - the causation world to revive the vital function of Individuals. We had Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Ramana Maharishi, Vallalar Ramalingam Swamigal and Shri Aurobindo who all have spoken of the Agna Chakra or Third-eye in one form or another. They were a success only in their followers to the extent of preaching.
Lesser luminaries like Gopikrishna in North, Theosophical lead- ers, Brahma Kumaries, Bagwan Rajneesh and this self all have come from a nearer layer of more powerful astral world to elevate a larger group such that the ground is prepared so that in the next hundred years the Savants will come again from the Causal World - Karana Sarir. Names of all the Savants might not have been in- cluded. But this is only an indication of the Cycle that is visualized intuitively as a guideline, so that the learned will have matter for discussion and ultimately sucked into the stream of spiritual evolution and will get involved in the phenomenon - the Kundalini awakening - which has been and will be the base of all civilization and culture.
Wherever any human being is involved in the occult world and becomes a mystic, they have gone through some way of activising their Kundalini.
Any amount of study of mystical literature or even Patanjali Yoga Sutra or any of the Upanishads will give you only information. Not even Knowledge. Least of all, the knowledge of the Self has to be acquired by involvement in the activities of the Self in you. The experiment has to be in you - in your own self and mind can only act as a hook to hold the Self.
Self Knowledge is possible by inner involvement. The All knowing super-conscious intelligence is interested in the individual who contacts the source in him. This permeates, procreates, guards and destroys in an abiding interest in the evolution of the human who alone can develop his spirit and produce vibrations that keep the world on its keel. But one could be an must be a recipient of the divine grace when he has developed the capacity to draw to him powers to emanate divine vibrations.
4. Entry into the Subtle Body
Life to be pleasant for us.
Just imagine your doing Thapas - which is releasing the dormant, encased, enshrined, cabined, cribbed and confined Kundalini force by a slow, steady non-motivated vibrations of Pure Thought of Love and Peace - Just imagine lakhs of them doing. But how could you imagine others doing when you have not involved yourself in this. You start involving yourself. Get initiated by the Guruji. Then do Thapas. Then imagine the entire nation doing Thapas even for a few minutes a day. Do you visualize that in that even there will be no famine, there will be no wars, because the radiations of Thapas of Love and sublime resonance will alter the currents of the atmosphere into a smooth flow of Prana, that the divine in all realms will feel a pleasantness and life will pleasant on the earth to all. This knowledge of priceless treasure of the spirit- ual waves will usher in a new vista of human happiness. This involvement will bring a great relief to the individuals from sickness suffering and wants. But then the great wheels of pub- licity have to turn its search light in this direction. But this is sure to happen as more and more individuals go into the Super-Conscious trance and order this nobility of living to happen.
The Psychic
The psychic vibrations of Yogis will accomplish this. Why should you also not contribute to this mighty adventure in addition to indulging in intellectual discussions which carry you nowhere, and ban you from the hereafter for you will flicker and die out like a moth from the hereafter before this all pervading esoteric fire ? Kindle that fire in you and contribute to its cosmic radiation for your welfare and the welfare of humanity.
Pituitary and Pineal Glands
The Agna Chakra is connected with the pituitary gland and the Sahasrara with the pineal gland.
1. Agna - the Third Eye. Responsible for functioning of pituitary gland.
2. Sahasrara - the Fourth Eye. Responsible for functioning of pineal gland.
It is authoritatively to be stated that activising the Mooladhara and bye-passing from the Root Chakra and Spleen Chakra (Which go under one Name of Mooladhara - will lead to the awakening of the force in the Astral - which in its normal state is an almost inner mess with nothing but vaguest consciousness); vitalizes the whole Astral body, enabling you to travel consciously, though with only a vague conception as yet of what you encountered on your journeys.
It is advised to evolve from Mooladhara to Agna without staying or stuck in other Chakras.
It is easy to go, if the Sushumna Nadi is opened by the touch of Guruji. Ofcourse a little energy will flow into all the interme- diate Chakras.
Bypass these Chakras
In Manipuraga - the 3rd Chakra (Naval) - the power of feeling - a sensitiveness to all sorts of influence - a lower astral is felt.
In Anahata - the 4th Chakra - the heart centre - to comprehend other astral bodies - is achieved.
In Visudhi - the throat centre - the 5th Chakra - the power of hearing of the astral in the human ear is achieved.
And Come to Agna
In Agna - the eye-brow centre activisation of the pituitary gland takes place and places you in link with the higher planes of existence.
By the activisation of Mooladhara, the man is enabled to remember his vague astral journey and is often subjected to half remem- brance of a blissful sensation of flying through the air.
With the development of Sahasrara, the man is able to pass through it, leaves his body in full conscious, and if we develop it and at the time of death we will be in conscious move into our astral body. We go to deathless living in other worlds.
The activisation of Agna, brings with it a great intensification of the power of the intellect and if the movement towards Sahas- rara is set into motion and to arrest its movement becomes impos- sible. No alarm need be felt, for, when you prostrate before Guruji, he will draw it out make it flash out through the head and no harm will result.
No danger is connected with the Kundalini with its upward rush but danger was there by its running downwards making you highly susceptible to over indulgence or uncontrollable sex impulses. But this aspect has been dwelt with and the chapter on "How to go for Real Brahmacharya" - Trantric Yoga Method - will enlighten you further.
Every individual should attempt at two things :
1. The clarification of all his ideas with no contradictions, by involvement; and
2. Embodying these ideas in life by practice.
Do not be preoccupied with the abstractions of theoretical science (What is Life) but be more inclined to ask; What is good life.
There are two attitudes within the intellectual community, one oriented towards the sciences and the other oriented towards humanities. But the under-current of the individual should be there and then only the nation makes the real culture.
There arises a new vision of Indian indentity - a collective identity - more spiritual, more feminine, more Yogic, more Indi- an, more emotional, more intuitive, more exuberant certainly better than what is today. There has to be an absolute bond between one man and another. This must find a way into the Indian soul.
Universal Identity
There is an empathy for human suffering which supposes a convic- tion that there is a bond between man and man. There exists a vibration of universal identity. In an esoteric sense, we do each of us bleed when the other is cut.
Man, Nature and God are in harmony with each other. Man could live in harmony only if he has the feeling of the divine in him and Kundalini Yoga alone will be in tune with our tradition.
It exists in our tradition. Man has the rational capacity to solve all his problems and create a decent life for himself and other.
Sex Sublimation
The change outlined above will augur well for the future. At the present time, the cause for much of the current tensions and vigilance is at least in part due to a new material competitive awakening not guided by the yogic traditions of our country.
A complex marriage seems to be taking place between man and machine in which the soul of Man is the worst sufferer and to put the development of the soul as part of human progress is the next step in the right direction by sex sublimation.
Human happiness can be accomplished by Thapas Yoga which will alter your psyche and that of the psyche of your environment.
Acquarian Man
What is needed is a revaluation of values and a redefinition of our needs. Man must find a place from false to true consciousness from their immediate to their real interests, form sex t super- sex, from immoral sex to moral sex, from mere physical sex to super conscious sex. Astrologers are very sanguine about the long terms prospects for Man. We have reached the end of the bitter Piscean Epoch and entering the harmonious Acquarian Epoch. Ac- cording to the dictionary of Mysticism, the sun is entering the constellation Acquarius and it will last for 2000 years. The Acquarian man is born in me and has to be born with you.
In a awakened person, Agna Chakra is the hot place in a man's consciousness, the group of ideas to which he devotes himself and from which he works - the habitual centre of personal energy. This change is focus is sure to occur during the first week of initiation and an indication of a complete cohesion is estab- lished in the twinkling of an eye.
The Twice Born
When a man is initiated, it means in essence, that the religious ideas previously peripheral in his consciousness, now takes a central place and Thapas Yoga forms the habitual centre of his energy and slowly he and his partner will be in Spiritual Medita- tion while in sex.
Immediately on initiation, the initiated in nine cases out of ten experience a sense of perceiving truths not known before, a sense of newness and an ecstasy of happiness.
He discovers to his joy that he has found a new set of Truths, his psychic energies are integrated, and with this initiation in a real sense he is born again and that is the reason, the Brah- min, is on initiating into Upanayanam (the Third Eye) be called thus : THE TWICE BORN.
The two selves - the physical self, ego and the super ego the subconsciousness and the super-consciousneess is blended and made as whole so that the two parts in you -- the Male and the Female become one.
This initiation brings you in to new life of maturity and per- sonal insight resulting in the movement of new psychic energies towards the personal centre at the pineal and the pituitary glands and represents a rational cohesion of the super-conscious state.
This new birth gives a new meaning to your religious ceremonies and produces a new irruption into the individuals life, a person- al diving to spiritual awareness. There is a firmness and a stability in this new birth to appreciate the reason behind the initiation and involvement. The initiated more often than not see masses of truth together and get glimpses of the divine and perceive in their personal experience the remote regions of the supra-mental.
This initiation makes the passage to a richer life of the Mind and the spirit and produces a changed attitude towards life which is constant and permanent because even the gross feeling of vibrations in the place in between the eye-brows and at the centre of the head is permanent and leads ultimately to a more mature perspective. The personality development becomes a contin- uous process it self. Life does not end with death because the individual becomes aware of the life hereafter and prepares for it.
Meaning of Serpent (Power)
The worth of a thing be decided by its origin. The worth of Mooladhara and activisation of Serpent Power has the origin in the spiritual awakening of all the saints and sages of this country who walk as the grand Master in our epics - Ramayana and Mahabharata. It is the origin of the path of Yoga in the life of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and earlier still of Adi Sankara.
As the fronts for life of the state of Thapas Yoga are good, it has been idealized and venerated as hooded serpents over the Gods in Hindu religion - Mahavishnu sleeping in Adisesha - the primor- dial serpent power; of Lord Shiva with snakes as ornaments. Yoga Narasimha, of Yoga Ganapathy and Parasakthi - all having the hooded serpent hovering over their heads. It indicates that the five senses become the divine when sublimated.
Man is not a collection of biological elements only. He is also a product of his culture and each should contribute his own for the culture to find a blossom in his personality and Thapas Yoga's contribution will be phenomenal towards this end.
Appeal to Students
The University is a fulcrum - lever - that can be used in a revolutionary way to radically change the existing society.
One of the causes for students unrest in University, is the lack of opportunity for self-fulfilment and self development. Thapas Yoga consisting of the practice of concentration and meditation is sure to give an opportunity for self-fulfilment and self- development.
University should be re-oriented as an agency of social change. Student population are on the whole more liberal and radical, their activity can be geared to the spiritual inclination of our country.
Spiritual uplifting will give a sense of a rich inner life and will slowly develop an attitude, where there is no need for them to push ahead and hence they will not have the impulse to push anyone down.
But this harmonious tuning to life about them may not endow them with an aggressive ability of power politics, but it is they who will be the salt of the earth without whom no society can endure.
All standards of Judgment of the society and the individual should be related to the Yogic culture and includes a purpose in life merging with the human race which has a destiny to fulfill - an ideal state of existence that all men should strive to attain -- a Kingdom of God to achieve -- a Kingdom to be sought in the present and in the future, on this earth and in the hereafter, both in human happiness and in human achievement, to make this world a comfortable dwelling place to live and a place to strive for progress.
The present extra curricular activities like sports, debating, clubs, have not worked to satisfy their need to assert their early manhood, while a Spiritual movement could produce a new creed of pre-university students, amazingly learned, better informed, more used to do intellectual work, more eager to do it, getting brighter with the passage of time.
Time to enter into Meditation
Those young people who have learnt the art of Kundalini Yoga will be facing a new situation, the like of which existed in our Gurukula System, Nalandha University and the young will feel that they have a future and will be better prepared for responsibility. They will be changing themselves and therefore will be changing their environments. They will be playing the role of adults already during their study-time.
When we understand and experience the process of meditation, we will be on the threshold of intellectual appreciation, rational understanding and applied psychology.
As long as you do not enter into the field of Meditation with the help of a Guru with your personal involvement, it is a case of dismal failure to evolve yourself to higher knowledge of practi- cal realization.
The process of Meditation alone will show the way to your own self. It is in this direction, the peace of the world lies.
Philosophical books may be satisfactory from the academic point of view, but are useless, if not completely false, from the practical aspect.
Need of a Guru
There are countless number of people who are thirsting for prac- tical knowledge of Meditation. Without a proper Guru initiating you into Kundalini Yoga, any method of Meditation is like trying to drive a car which has no spark plug, and trying to enter a house in which all the doors are locked. This view seems to be harsh but it is true.
The art of initiation is the rare possession of divine benevo- lence in the hands of this sober, experienced practioner of over twenty five years.
In this book you will find practice things not clouded by the jargon of the mystics. Most of them had no knowledge of words used in the ordinary methods of communication and will talk only in riddles, because they ride on such abstruse words which have lost their usages.
The initiated will make progress and will gain a deep understand- ing as he gets initiated.
It is difficult to explain the experiences of Meditation for it could only be experienced. But as the student after initiation will find his Master guiding him astrally also through his expe- riences.
Experience of Mediation is Beyond Explanation
All human beings do not have the same spiritual structure and therefore to know what is to be done and also how it is useful and advisable is to avoid bye-paths that are harmful and have a continued contact with Guruji will help the disciple.
All texts like Patanjali Yoga Sutra, Thirumoolar's Thirumandiram, the Vedas, the Upanishads, Abirami Andhadhi, Thirukkural and hundreds of such Yoga texts which this part of the country is familiar with will be found to be surprisingly of little practi- cal use. But to the experienced, it will not only tally with their experiences but will also be a guide.
Knowing the Meaning of Rituals
The people who have been conditioned to their religious beliefs, may initially be sceptic of this spiritual initiation, but as they practice this initiation within the portals of the rituals of their own religions, they will be elated with happiness to note that the rituals are related to this initiation.
The reader of spiritual books must not enter into any practice for, without a teacher, he will find many riddles unsolved for him and may even find himself in grief.
But it should be noted that any spiritual practice should be entered into with a sense of spiritual adventure giving them more thrill in their life than even entering about in an arena of entering a Motor Race.
The rewards in entering the spiritual arena for the psychic phenomena that they experience are the rarest of treasures. Having entered this field of Yogic Meditation, the depth of understanding is beyond human words. The spiritual field is as wide and deep as the Ocean. The one who enters the ocean with courage, will find the ocean only knee deep, and he can walk through the ocean of Yogic experience.
Guruji have known top learned theosophists who are completely perplexed by the practice of Meditation and I have heard a few lectures by some of them speaking on Meditation by referring to notes, unable to answer questions with very shallow or next to nil experience of the various stages of Meditation, while I have also met a few medicants like a living great saint at Thiruvan- namali who calls himself a Beggar but he is a Master of Yoga.
There is no need for a new religion. All religions are born out of the same source of spiritual fountain and the process of finding the source of this spiritual fountain is only through Meditation.
Misconceptions about Meditation
There are three types of people who know about Meditation.
One group who have heard of the word Meditation and mistake even prayer for Meditation.
Secondly, the group, who have read a lot of books on Meditation and even speak about it and write books on it who philosophize about it. The are the philosophers.
Thirdly, the group, who get initiated by a Guruji and practice Meditation, They taste Meditation from their own experience. They are the gifted. Then after a long period of Meditation, they are pushed by the divine forces to teach the seekers. They are those who have experienced the essence of Meditation.
Any amount of writing the word "sugar" any number of times, on a piece of paper, will give no sweetness by licking the paper. Actual sugar alone when tasted will give real sweetness. So also is yoga Meditation. You will have to taste it, to know it.
Meditation is a process of getting in touch with the "Self" in us, the innermost core of our being and therefore with the Super-Conscious "Self" in us.
It is an adventure into a realm and has to be approached only in that spirit. Those who are not adventurous, please stay away from it. You would not jump into a tank for a swim when you do not know how to swim. To learn swimming, you will have to jump into the tank. Likewise to learn Meditation, take a jump into the tank of Meditation, with all the attendant risk of swimming or sink- ing. Whether you swim or sink, to your hearts will flow untold happiness.
But we have to get experience to know how to seek happiness. The road to this discovery is the road to know your true own Self.
Introspection
As we go along the path of Meditation, after making the Kundalini awakened, slowly introspection sets in. We question ourselves - our actions - our thoughts. We process to get at the root of our happiness and unhappiness and slowly a meta-morphisis, a basic change takes place by which we become active without getting our emotions involved. We become Karma Yogis. We do our duty. We are in society. We are a part of it. But we have developed our intel- lectual maturity by the on-flow of Mystic energy in ours.
As we progress in Spiritual meditation, we are serene, sober and inwardly happy, an equanimity sets in us.
5. CONCENTRATION
Concentration means undisturbed attention and penetration into things, processes and causes behind them. With the development of this inner concentration, outer concentration becomes so easy of attainment.
With the opening of the Third eye and your perception of it and as you progress in its development, effortless concentration and limiting the field of attention of the mind becomes an accom- plishment. By this practice, you get the ability to penetrate into the nature of things and could see with more in-depth per- ception.
Hour after hour of practicing this concentration of the mind at the centre of the forehead, in between the eye-brows and at the base of the nose you get the Third-eye positioned. You will develop a desire for depth at the Agna. Your thinking gets the weight due to it. More and more elan-vital is pumped. You will easily go to the step of concentrating even without an effort to concentrate. You become so absorbed in your work that the mind dives deep into the subject in which you are occupied.
Please become a little more interested in improving your psychic powers. Start with 10 minutes of concentration both in the morn- ing and in the evening every day. Now this power of concentration and the feel of concentration becomes true for ever.
The feel of concentration - like a pleasant pain - anandha is there - thereafter for ever. A new organ starts evolving - an organ which you feel without touching, or seeing but felt. It is invisible to others but visibly felt by you, more concrete to your mind.
Our daily life assumes more depth and more logic. We proceed in our journey through life without prejudice. We become a sage in the eyes of others and to our own self.
Then we come to feel that we have learned to think. We develop intuitive thinking and we will be shaping our own life. We ele- vate ourselves to a higher plane of living. Therefore we will be seeing the world with a wiser outlook and rid ourselves of all inhibitions repressed emotions. We will be going through a natu- ral process of growth. We can have a new exercise "To remove all inhibitions and repressions removed" in a later chapter.
This Yogic concentration is the real power and the awakening of our innermost "soul" gives us clarity of thought.
We have to know what lies hidden in this material body, especially when we can feel what happens within. Would it not be silly to ignore the existence of these hidden and subtle organs ?
The infinite possibility is hidden inside, the root - Chakra -- the Mooladhara has be rejuvenated. Only this will bring a new vital religion based on Love, with a spiritual approach.
How could we love others when we are not taught to love the central force in us -- which is the Truth! To know the truth, the search is made vainly in holy books. The holy books are the recording of the experience of Mystics. They can stand only as corroborative evidence to your search. But reading alone is not the search. The search has to be made by you, and within you.
Servant of God
Only the servant of God can be the ruler of nature. "The Servant of God" is the person in whom the cosmic movement of energy upward and outward can take place and with sufficient intensity. Guruji is a servant of God and you can know that when you come in touch with Him.
You can have the power over nature by understanding the power that you have over your energies and you will feel the manifesta- tion of the higher intelligence in you.
This is a search for transformation which is not different from the desire for happiness. They are not different conceptions of what is necessary for the well being -- Peace of Mind and person- al fulfillment. They are towards the same direction towards which human life progresses.
For when you meditate only, you resolve the problem of life as you become aware of the spiritual movement of forces in yourself.
You are urged to become more and more familiar with the inner force of Kundalini, to participate in it, to enter into its imagining mood, to understand, play with, live with, carry and become familiar with it. In this process, you will find your own "soul" -- your inner life. This will stabilize you to prepare the psychic for spiritual experience.
Before the stage called Meditation, we have to pass through the stage of concentration. Concentration of our Self at the place in between our eye-brows, is the means by which we can awaken the response in our soul.
To attain high mystic vision and hear mystic voices it will take a few generations of evolution. When we are near that stage we will know the progress we have made. Let all things in our Life go as it is. But only thing required is thirty minutes in the morning and thirty minutes in the night before going to bed. Delve deep within you - catch the breath and flow your mind through it and catch the thoughts and go along with it to find out the cause of such thoughts. Do it for a period of years. But get on with your day to day activities and thoughts. You will find the Mind and it flows to you and if you search for it or go after it outside yourself - then you are going away from the real to the shadow.
The first step to be taken by anyone is to get initiated by Guruji. He alone knows the methodology to open the Sushmna by passing the thought vibrations of pure, un-alloyed thoughts uncoloured by any objective or subjective emotions. Till you contact GURUJI, a few harmless methods to Kindle the divine power is given in the following chapters.
After obtaining the initiation, the disciple would also be taught the methodology to redirect his vibrations to its original place - Mooladhara.
Thou Art That
We are all objective oriented. We attach value to objective things like money, car, building, scientific experiments, admin- istration etc. We are progressing well along this path.
But his has to coordinated to subjective valuation. We have a mind and a soul, five senses, a physical body, the autonomic nerves, etc. All these have to be coordinated to make us function as a coordinated process. The awakening of the soul spirit, atman in us with our mind is essential to have a poise and growth, and this is the way of the coordinated path.
The soul, the higher Self in us is dormant. We have no means to contact and feel one with that and its development is our devel- opment. Awakening of the Serpent Power in us will awaken the higher Self. It will become more active. Then we know who we are. Then every one will feel "I am that" "Tatva Masi" - THOU ART THAT.
This awakening will create self-confidence and makes us take the path with supreme confidence. Slowly all ignorance disappear. A courageous sense of belonging to the Supreme, ensures in the individual.
Guruji out of immense concern and infinite love towards aspiring souls, will initiate provided the aspirant approaches without a feeling of self-ego. When there is ego that I am so and so, a member of Parliament or a high official with authority or a business man with lot of money; this feeling should be first cleansed and the approach should be as a disciple to a Guru, when alone the dormant self will readily respond to the touch and grace of the Guru.
Lower Self has no identity with Supreme Self. Hence for the Self to grow and evolve, the lower Self should forget its power and position at the time of approach for the benediction from Guruji.
Process of Awakening
First Step
Kundalini Yoga -- the process consists of
1. Awakening of the primordial or basis Prana lying dormant coiled as a serpent at the base of the spine at Mooladhara and Anahata.
2. Opening of the Sushumna Nadi which is guarded by right and left like a creeper intersecting at each centre.
3. The ascent has to be only through the Sushmna and not through Ida and Pingla
4. Reaching the centre of the Forehead -- in-between the eyebrows -- the Nasagraha -- the house of the pituitary.
5. (a) Vibrating the Agna Chakra in tune with the sense of tin- gling bell, (b) pleasant smell, (c) Subtle sweet taste, (d) the vibrations of instrument music and a feeling of resonance and reciprocation which goes on increasing in the feel of the weight being the Cognizances of the seed of the soul sprouting weight.
Second Step
6. When the vibrations are felt as too heavy, or when the face trembles with joy and solace, Guruji will open the Sushmna back so that extra energy flows back without too much coagulation at Agna.
This is a methodology by which the high-power charged at the centre of the eye-brows is cut off like a thermostat or a volt- age-stabilizer. Therefore, the five senses are not charged beyond the capacity to bear. This is the safety valve. Therefore, one can entire the field of Yoga with a feeling of confidence and joy, and attain Anandha -- which is rare, yet within the reach of everyone.
7. As the Sushmna is opened upward by the grace penetration of Guruji's touch with this middle finger known as Serpent finger, you will feel a pleasant electric current passing up and you will feel the serpent creeping, a subtle tickling sensation producing sublime joy.
8. As you get the feel initially of a slight movement of a dot on centre of your forehead, a pleasant feeling of a pulse-beat will be felt by your mind. The pulse-beat, or feeling of an ant creep- ing, an ant biting in the sperm of the elan vital, the soul seed having found its way to the place of command.
9. You yourself will recognize it and to augment its power and potential, you will greet the same with folded hands with great sincerity and this will increase the power.
10. You will slowly click the jaw bone to make more power flow and to break the hymen at the place in-between your eye-brows.
11. Now is the time to establish contact with your Ishta Deivam - the deity of your choice. Repeat "OM" and "Omghara" and get in contact in a subtle way with your Ishta-Deviam and ask for what you want. Picture before your wisdom-eye what should take place. You get what your sub-conscious desires and this is the Law of Nature.
12.(a) The first step in the process of awakening the Kundalini is call Nishtai -- Concentration -- (The first stage of Medita- tion) Dharana according to Patanjali Yoga Sutra. This activises the pituitary and develops the frontal lobe called Atma Dharsan.
(b) The second step in the process is to bring down the mighty Kundalini i.e. Reversal - Ama Nishtai (Adi-Dharna) -- Shanti Prayog, to Mooladhara.
(c) The Third step is the process is reawakening. This can be done by the initiate himself but in the presence of Guruji it is more effective.
The Third Step
The second higher stage of evolution in Meditation or Dhyana or Thapas. This initiation requires Guruji to take two rays of light and shoot by his will power into the two eyes of the recipient - a sort of cold-heat-cold rays of Guruji's eye of benediction and the hot rays of the camphor light and take them out through the fourth eye opening to sublime Sahasrara.
This will be done in case of disciple, whom Guruji feels has evolved and are tuned to his Ishta Deiva.
Guruji will initiate in case he is able to see the Aura in the subject attaining a whitish shade and if it is murkish red or blackish, then the soul has not evolved to warrant the jump to celestial bliss.
The Fourth Step
This is contemplation or Samadhi. This again is for one who has removed from his mind centre of attachment to earthly things -- lust-power and only such souls who have developed that can glide into an ejection of the astral through the fourth eye -- who is fit to go ? Sahasrara - (like the lotus buds on the head of Lord Mahavir or Lord Buddha). Such rare personages only should enter the realm of contemplation or Samadhi or those who have been initiated in their younger ages, can enter this stage after doing Thapas for a number of years. For this state of Thapas is a state where Pineal gland takes over the complete function of the Astral body.
Step (1) of Concentration, the initial stage of meditation will enable the disciple to control his thoughts. He can, by a little practice shut out all thoughts. He can increase his peace of Mind and guide his Mind to a state of Anandha. This is 3rd eye - the eye of Wisdom;
The higher step of Meditation is opening the door to Sahasrara - the blissful state of ever permenance.
There are many experiences which can only be known by intimate contact with Guruji. There are authoritative texts to uphold the view that one who is initiated will not have the evil effect of bad karma of his previous births. It is only those who have come back from the astral will contribute to their evolution and will long for the initiation.
Those who have no longing for Yoga are unfortunate, immature souls that go into oblivion after death with no redemption and lead a life of misery in this life also.
In case you come across the message of Yoga, through books or contacts, be sure that you have a duty to have your spiritual growth obtained and that will be the greatest service you could do to yourself and to your divine evolution.
So said, in Gita, "you are a friend and a foe to your own Self."
This great Truth has to be exclaimed from house-tops. Guruji is being directed by the divine forces with which Guruji is more in contact.
There is no Yoga without involving the release of the energy enshrined in Mooladhara, and no Bhoga without the self enshrined in Agna.
Asanas are mere physical exercises to keep fit till you go along to Nowli and Udyana, through which you go to Nasti and Dasti towards Hatha Yoga. But in the 20th century, you neither have Masters to teach, nor the atmosphere for such hard practices. But the postures you learn in Hatha Yoga, will make your body subtle and will be an aid in Meditation.
As for God, the saying "A Yogi is not a formless Nereeswaravadhi -- one who denies Eswara. A Yogi is Divine oriented. There are Gods in various stages of their evolution till they attain the formless.
We should also progress through these stages - Physical world to Astral world, to Mental world to Supra-Mental or Formless world.
Sages come from one of these worlds to do Thapas and to teach Thapas. To them, this life is a school wherein what they have not learnt in the previous life is learnt here, so that their astral body will be stronger to eject into other worlds.
Acceptance of these as a working hypothesis will help you in your evolution. Then there will be no contradiction or confusion and the path will be clear.
Men who come into the fold of Yoga, do so because they are in- volved due to a predetermined plan of work out their evolution towards the divine order. To them birth is not by chance, but by design.
The men (including women) who involve themselves in Yoga natural- ly work from the divine centre of personal energy. Religious ideas vague in their consciousness now take a central place and in the twinkling of an eye, they start experiencing truths not known before.
A sense of newness is felt by them and an ecstasy of happiness ensures. A new set of truths set in and experiences the world from the Divine angle. Psychic energies are integrated.
With the initiation in a real sense is born, a changed attitude towards life which is fairly constant and permanent, although the feelings fluctuate.
By taking the path, you will be developing new values for living; values that will fill the spiritual emptiness created by material affluence.
The young men and women who are in search for certain values in life are moving towards Yoga and many in the course of this century will be joining in this search, for on its outcome rests not only the future quality of human life but our very survival.
6. BHOGA
(Cosmic sex-consciousness in sex)
Sublimation of Sex-Energy
The purpose of doing Thapas is not only to attain salvation and to swim the sea of births and deaths without being drowned in sex but also to have a divine touch in sex life.
A meditational requirement for spiritual experience is in addi- tion to the sublimation that takes place, each individual has to climb the ladder of evolution by liberating himself from gross sex. Gross sex has to be made a cosmic conscious sex -- Yoga and Bhoga.
Do not Repress Sex
It is wrong also for anyone to completely control sex-urge and lead himself to a psychological state of repression and sex- inhibitions. Be it known that most of our rishies had rishi- patnis which is to impress up on the student that a normal family life is a must till such time, the individual evolves himself to a superior level of intellectual maturity, when promiscuous rela- tionship will not engage his attention. But the other sex will be a joy to see and feel the partnership and the flowers are not to be plucked to enjoy its sweetness. As we proceed, we will talk of spiritual joy in sex.
It is agreed that as the individual slowly awakens his Kundalini his attitudes become sublime.
Divine Approach to Sex
By the vibrations of touch and sight of the Guruji, the world will appear more rosy, girls will be little angels and man will be subtle personalities which you admire and float through out life without getting immersed in the quagmire of beastly sex. Naturally, an attitude of divine approach to sex becomes the order of our evolution.
As a matter of precaution, it is possible to bye-pass the other Chakras. It is Hatha Yogis who go through each Chakra and such Hatha Yogis are a rarity. Therefore, a competent Guru, who is above the turmoils of the mundane material world can send his vibrations of thought through the Sushumna of the aspirant and open the channel from Mooladhara to Agna (root chakra to the third eye, though Sushumna).
Sex is natural but man should endeavor to raise above gross sex. More you repress, the more aggressive it becomes. We should try to raise above physical sex by Brahmacharya.
To be a Brahmachary
Brahmachary is possible. But Brahmacharya or celebacy with re- pressed feelings is worst. Have you ever thought of Meditation in sex. It is possible. It is easy. It is the way to free yourself from sex-craving and sex lust.
No one is proud of this sex-lust except very undeveloped men with a base nature. But then a minutes of thought which often comes to everyone -- a feeling of tiredness, a feeling of guilt, a feeling of distaste -- after sex-indulgence.
Why does this after effect, when sex is an expression of Joy, when it is a basic expression of Love? If it is true Joy; if it is true Love, no distaste should come. A peaceful calmness a thoughtless state of subtle joy should pervade a sex-act.
We have to learn many things about sex. Try this experiment and experience. This is especially for those who have been initiated.
Approach sex with a sublime attitude of Love and Calmness. Do not be hasty to let go your energy. You are not fighting an enemy nor doing a crime when you have sex with one whom you love, when both of you love each other.
The antithesis of Male and female -- the elements of Shiva and Sakthi -- should fuse to give a sense of extreme bliss and not a hasty, pungent, provocative poison to abhor and get out with a moment's feeling of happiness by a biological let go.
Especially, the more divine you want to become, the sex-life should be far between each act.
Sex Consciousness
By awakening Kundalini, we get a growing interest in the widening of consciousness; and the widening of the consciousness takes us to the realm of sex consciousness also. Then we are led to ask ourselves the question.
Is sex something to be abhorred - hated ? or is Sex something to be adored - worshiped ?
By hating sex, do we not have sex always in our Mind, many a time getting out of control at the least opportunity and provocation. By adoring sex are we not getting into sex without a feeling of guilt?
The next question that will arise is how to adore sex? and will not this idea of adoration of sex lead to over indulgence? If the adoration is only at mental level, then it may lead to over- indulgence and over-indulgence will lead to spiritual enervation.
Therefore wed to a reorientation of our ideas of Sex. It is holy and so sex-act has to be made holistic. That is why we say that marriages are made in heaven. We have to find a divine involve- ment in co-habitation.
We develop a feeling of spiritual growth by spiritual meditation and if sex involvement means also an identity with spiritual meditation, are we not taking a step in the right direction? By this we will be reducing the stress of emotional incompatibility but also remove the persistent, hunger for sex involvement. This hunger becomes greater as we become weak in spiritual strength.
Sex life without both the partners immersed in spiritual action in tune to each other is to you only a sex-pervesion; animalistic perversion not far removed from rape. Sex on the physical level alone is a spiritual rape. On the other hand if only you taste a little Joy - a little spiritual Joy of sex while in Meditation, your desire for repeated sex act will get sublimated. It is said that an individual on an average has sex act for 4000 times in his life time. In case you meditate -- both of you Meditate at Agna Chakra while in sex, it is certain that on an average it will not be more then 1000 times in one's life time. Is that not a glorious spiritual way out of this compelling force.
The Tantrik-way
We have the way -- the spiritual way, the Tantrik way, the only way -- of increasing the Joy in Married life. How many marriages are becoming more and more difficult to continue and are dashed on the rocks. To seek incompatibility is the wrong way. The right way will be to increase compatibility between the partners. The way to increase compatibility and to remove the pain of mis- understandings, quarrels is for both of them to get spiritual meditation in sex. No scientific research is necessary, but some case studies can be made. Let us not wait for such researches in this direction. The Tantrik method of sex have already been experimented and many confirmations in architecture and paint- ings. This is a subjective state of two persons involved in each other. It they cannot talk to each other about this, then already a distance has come into their lives. This being a highly suscep- tible subjective state, involving and increasing the sex oriented spiritual joy to lead to spiritually oriented sex joy. Time wasted is time lost.
Spiritual Joy in Sex
Those who have been initiated, especially where both the partners have been initiated into the 3rd eye will get a first hand expe- rience of spiritual Joy in their Union.
To many sex life without spiritual cohesion, there is disgust, lethargy after sex, drowsiness, restlessness and even confusion. Marriage after the wearout of initial attraction becomes some- thing like a prison, sometimes even landing them to many perver- sions, like sadism in sex. Havelok Ellis; Aldous Huxley and others nearly accepted the concept of a Spiritual Joy by widening the doors of perception. The Third Eye is the door of perception to the sub-conscious, the eyes are the windows to the sub- conscious. That explains why in Meditation and in extreme joy of sex we close the windows but we do not open the doors of inward perception.
Men and his wife by their endeavor enter into spiritual arena, learn a way of life, by learning the spiritual technique hitherto unknown to them. They should learn a way of life for enhancing an awareness at the sould level, when they are one in each other.
Should we not find the way of making our sex life erotic life into one of rich esoteric, spiritual experience? After each sex- ual-unity should not both partners feel in a greater measure than each other a sense of poise, a sense of clear mindedness, a feeling of richness in the mental state of new ideas pouring into them. This is a state of Vikalpa Samadhi, if only the Tantric Yoga method, the spiritual Yoga method of sex life is sought after and accomplished, then we become more and more divine in our sex-thoughts and sex feelings. Sex craving will give place to a divine sublimated sex feeling of poise and inward joy.
7. YOGA & BHOGA
Sex for Evolution
Sex is indispensable for evolution and transcendence. Transcend- ing all phenomenal activities should be the end and aim of human beings for only they are bestowed with the power of discrimina- tion. Transcendation of Sex into a higher level of Cosmic Con- sciousness should be made as a purpose in life. i.e. Yoga in Bhoga and Bhoga in Yoga.
Bhoga will not refer to sex act of animals. In animals sex is only a biological release of instinctive tension, while Bhoga concept is to transcend the sex act in physical union through emotional integration, intellectual companionship and spiritual fusion in human beings.
The wise always become wiser after Bhoga. There is no enervation of energy. On the other hand, if there is sex only on the physi- cal level, then psychic disintegration is hastened.
The physical body is just a garment. The spirit or the soul in formless dons this physical body in order that the spirit can experience highly charged spiritual vibrations so that the spirit body becomes more vitalized and you become more divine oriented.
We come to the earth to accomplish this purpose, the purpose of purifying and strengthening our spirit or soul or overself or Atman or whatever you call, the propelling force in human evolu- tion.
So, if we have certain hardships, it is to purify and to strengthen this spirit, which is our Self.
Spiritual awakening and spiritual exercises increase the strength of mental and moral fibre; which in turn strengthens the soul or spirit for which yoga is the only method to sublime any activi- ties to reach higher level of Super-Consciousness like Balayogis- warars of Mummudivaram.
Yoga & Bhoga
Yoga is the union of Jivatma with Paramatma. Whatever transforma- tion that takes place for transcendation above the neck region in the human body is called Yoga and activities that take place below the neck is called Bhoga. Whatever that applies to Yoga is equally applicable to Bhoga and vice-versa. For one to go beyond, Bhoga is as important as Yoga. But there should be no craving for sex. Sex craving is an animalistic attitude whereas Sex sublima- tion is a divine act.
The Tantrik Spiritual Way
There is a yogic know-how to transcend sex which am revealing to you. Because divine pleasure is sex-act between Lord Shiva and Goddess Shakthi in the Sahasrara. This will not come, unless in the sex-act you involve these centres also. The witness to this state is described in Soundaraya Lahiri of ADI SANKARA.
Therefore before you enter the sex-act, bring your elan-vital to the place in between your eye-brows. Both of you or atleast as you go through the love-play, both of you come to think of the Agna.
With no haste, with no fear, remember the sex-act is a spiritual experience too.
The deeper it becomes, as the interval between one sex-act and another is long that you even forget about it, leave the question of craving.
Put your thoughts in Agna Chakra. Then follow the guide line of not bringing ejection as long as possible. Do not physically agitate for ejection. Lie supine and serene below the waist but active in the glory of sex union in thought.
If the sex-ejection can be prolonged, then you have mastered your sex-urge, and this is possible only if there is consistency in marriage; deep rooted marriage in case you are out in few seconds - or in a minute, then your craving to get into sex becomes more urgent and you are pushed into the gross more and more.
Your divinity gets weaker and weaker. Your enjoyment of sex becomes a mere enervating force which you feel like avoiding but drags you in with greater force.
The Yogic sex-life to put it in more plain words will be the loving embrace prolonged resulting in sex-prefluid entering the system for a longer period. I do not mean that post-sex embrace. The act of having the gross contact to be for a longer period by which the greasy mucus pre-sex act lubrication on both sides to be of the longest immersion. The longer the duration of immer- sion, the greater the peace to the mind. The pituitary gland becomes more vital and its vibratory ejaculation becomes longer. Therefore the sex-urge becomes more calm.
Sex for transcendence.
Vikalpa Samadhi
Now to put it in simpler way, we can say that if the sex-act after immersion and before ejaculation is prolonged -- two minutes, your sex-urge will not be there for a fortnight.
Four minutes 60 X 4 = 240 seconds. 4 hrs.
The rough calculation is for every minute of retention - the urge gets postponed for 2 Minutes to the square of "n"; i.e. n^2 in geometrical proportion = 4^2 X 4^2 X 4^2 X 4^2 = 65536 minutes; where "n" is the minute of retention with Mind in Agna.
In case you succeed for being in that state for 5 minutes.
= 5^2 X 5^2 X 5^2 X 5^2 X 5^2 = 9765625 minutes.
Imagine and try to be in the state as long as both of you can, so that the craving, the desire and the thought of sex-urge is postponed for a long period.
But when both of you should have the thought vitalized in between your eye-brows which is possible only after initiation by Guruji.
This knowledge has come from Chitta-Hasa, which means astral intelligence.
Imagine that you are in the state for an hour. Then it is Vikalpa Samadhi, then the thought of sex-intercouse will get to sublimat- ed, that for 37 years, it will free the mind from sex thought.
Chitta-Hasa is the book of Knowledge in the Astral World, which you perceive when you are in Yoga Nidrai -- Sleep in Meditation -- This is the state in which Mahavishnu is perpetually immersed. Yoga Nidrai -- Yoga Trance Sleep.
Yoga Nidrai
As a student of Kundalini Yoga you can go into Yoga Nidhrai - Yoga Sleep state - then your Mind body goes on its volition and as though in a splash, your Mind gathers all knowledge which will help your evolution and by this thought process the information on subjects of your evolution dawns on you. It is very difficult to express them within the ambit of written words. We are in the three dimensional physical world; but then the higher realms which our Mind body enters will be four dimensional world, where the grasp is by the sub-conscious Mind which can get a world of Knowledge only in the field in which you are immersed. This will be the Anthakarma State (i.e. Beyond KARMA - the state of Supreme Knowledge). The perception will be Chitta-Hasa.
By Spiritual experience, a great intellectual perception of Truth is discovered. The intellect seize, express and give conceptual form to reality. Ultimate Truth will come within the grasp of the intellect. The capacity of the Mind to have its attention on itself ensures. There is identity of the Mind and the Self. It will have an inward understanding of what one is talking about or doing.
We will have a relative meaning of Reality and the Divine in Form and in Formless. We will understand both the duality and the unity.
We are pilgrims in this earth world and during this journey we will be making contribution to the general moral evolution so that the collective humanity will show forth its awakened intui- tion as a result of the awakening of the Kundalini force in the individuals.
Purpose of Life.
There is a big purpose in the life of each individual. The pur- pose is Spiritualizing our life. For this purpose, doing yoga is one of the methods tried and found fit for the humans.
But of late, there is a growing dissatisfaction in religious matters. It is a most disquieting aspect of the modern world. There is no sign of faith anywhere. This is not because the individual is growing older, for now the number of people gener- ating psychic warmth is expanding. Yet the fact remains that for some obscure reason something has gone wrong between man and God.
Our indirect task is to lead the community along the path to God. Our evolution has passed from drift to the conscious destiny. We now know that we are responsible for shaping the future. The awakening of the Third Eye is not a drift but a step in the conscious destiny. That seems to be the sole prescription for the human society worthy to survive. This is the starting point for the individual to feel interested in cultivating his mind. Even though I am not interested in quoting from others because that will only land us to continue to dwell in the dry sand of dead habits. However to give us a moral boost to our activating the Third Eye, the following from the book "Psychology And the East" by C.G.JUNG. Commentary on the Secret of the Golden Flower : THE REALIZATION OF THE TAO is to go consciously to the light of Heaven WHICH DWELLS IN BETWEEN THE EYES. Light is the equivalent of consciousness. The Nature of Light is expressed as analogous with consciousness. Introduced with verse : IF THOU WOUDST COM- PLETE THE DIAMOND BODY, without flowing diligently heat the ROOTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND LIGHT KINDLY LIFE IN THE BLESSED COUNTRY, EVER CLOSE AT HAND THERE HIDDEN, LET THY TRUE SELF ALWAYS DWELL.
This verses contains a sort of Alchemical as to the method of producing "THE DIAMOND BODY" HEATING IS NECESSARY. There must be an intensification of consciousness, in order that Light be kin- dled in the dwelling place of the True Self. Not only conscious- ness but life itself must be intensified. The union of these Two produces conscious life.
The ancient sages knew how to bridge the gap between conscious- ness and life, because they cultivated both. In this way the SHELLI -- THE IMMORTAL BODY is melted out and the great TAO is completed.
THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD mentions that central white light. The light dwells in the square inch in the face. That is between the eyes. It is the visualization of the creative point. It is self-knowledge by self brooding. Sanskrit Thapas which unites within one self the TWO SEXES. The central light - The Living Light - enjoining the spectacle of this light "ALL SADNESS AND SORROW VANISH FROM MEMORY"
Know from this, the meaning behind this book YOGA AND BHOGA and the intention behind GURUJI Thapas Yogi's desire to initiate into THAPAS YOGA.
The Awakening of the Kundalini
The awakening of the Kundalini is achieved only by the Guruji. But then the reader of the book who is not able to contact Guruji immediately, need not wait till the divine design and his tuning himself to that divine design to take the decision. In the mean- time there are certain harmless Hatha Yoga postures which will produce very light emanations of Kundalini energy to the Agna.
One of them is Sarvanga Asana. It is the easiest of Asanas. With ordinary normal breathing lie supine on the floor and relax the body slowly from head to foot, by the count of 8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 -- and relax in the order of head, arms, shoulders, chest, abdomen, thighs upper, thighs lower, legs, feet. Then counting 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, activise these parts and raise the legs slowly by bending them at the knee level and then hold the legs in the indicated position by supporting the body. Lightly close the eyes, think of the third eye ( inbetween the eye-brows) and by thought close the anus by a slight pressure of the external sphincter. Then by a little practice, you will feel a slight quiver at the third eye. This is only a light method of activis- ing the Kundalini in you awaiting the real opening by the GURUJI.
Method: 2. To awaken the Kundalini by a few exercises till such time you personally meet the Guruji or his main disciples. Pres- surize the Manipuraka Centre. Sit comfortably. Interlock the fingers so that the fingers face each other and the right palm facing downward and the left faceupward. Pull them against each other. Then exhale and fully exhaling give a hit to the naval centre and at the same time think of the 3rd eye. You will feel a little quiver at the third eye and with meditate on the third eye for 5 minutes. This will also be an additional practice of slight awakening of the Kundalini Energy.
Method: 3. Sit in the ordinary posture. Keep the hands at rest behind the body. Raise the two legs outward and stretch it like this.
Inhale and exhale quickly gyrating the stomach and feel the breath of fire starting from the navel centre up to the third eye, and then lift both hands palms facing towards the sky and bring the legs to rest on the floor stretched and laugh aloud. Repeat this a maximum of seven times only. Then sit quietly with your mind centered at the third eye and observe your thoughts as a witness.
There is also the possibility of contacting Guruji for initiation by Astral contact. For this you send a picture of yourself in a siting position, and if at a fixed hour for seven days you sit and go into Meditation at the third eye, the Kundalini energy can be awakened in the astral projection of your physical body and you can have further instructions in a cassette, recorded to help you to awaken the Kundalini force in you.
8. Esoteric Hindu Deities
( A Pictorial Presentation )
Here you have the Coloured Pictures of
1. Lord The Trinity
2. Lord Ganesha (Ganapathy) (Vinayaka)
3. Lord Shiva
4. Lord Shakthi
5. Lord Vishnu
6. Lord Venkateswara (Balaji) (Srinivasa)
7. Lord Muruga (Subrahmanya)
8. Lord Ayyappa (Hari Hara Puthra)
These pictures will give you a peep into the Esoteric Supreme Soul manifestation in divine forms, very real to the seers.
The physical body of ours cannot remember its past action for man is made to function in his limited expression through the physical body. He only suffers (or) enjoys the effects of his actions.
But soul is an organism of a very fine quality. The real self or soul remembers everything.
Man can by a long training and longer persistent meditation can draw upon the subtle forces in the divine figures represented by the pictures; meditating upon any one of them; refinement of the mind and emotions takes place.
By this refinement the mind becomes the reflector of the soul, and through this alone we can experience the full consciousness and knowledge of the other subtler worlds.
The soul in us is always in a pleasant state. The soul is an ethereal being which is composed of higher qualities. It cannot be otherwise.
The soul -- (the atman) is a part of Paramatman (Nature of God). So, the closer the soul comes to Paramatman (The pure spirit) the higher it becomes.
In each of us, there is a divine discontentment. It is the urge to become something better.
The purpose of the soul is to gain experience. To go forward into the spiritual realm.
The soul in us gains throughout its births by retaining the habits that it receives each time to work towards the spiritual goal. So, make meditation your habit.
There are two masters -- the inner and the innermost. The soul is the inner; we can by meditation establish God as the innermost along with the visible form. Then God gives much better service to the inner soul in us.
Whichever form you choose he comes into the innermost world and acts as a spiritual source of strength and guidance for travel and preparation for travel, through this, to the invisible worlds.
A Guru is initially an outer teacher, While he is in physical, there is this limitation. He can give information, knowledge and the know-how. The GURU can open you for the inner-most teacher to take over.
The inner teacher is your soul. The GURU puts you in contact with that teacher.
GURU also can when requested with great fervor make his appear- ance in your life and stand by for assistance only to make you take the inner most soul -- God.
To enable you to choose the innermost, the pictures are given as a link up for you to go to the source of spiritual power.
9. Symbolic Chakras
Each Chakra has a sound vibration, a colour and a certain power. Vibrating at a subtle frequency indicating the petal Nexus. Those who have not been initiated can canalize their mental energy by thought as these centres and they can feel the powers of vibra- tions emanating at these centres. To enable the aspirant to put his mind at these centres, the word, sound, the colour emanation and vahana concept with petal projections are conceptualized.
So feel the sound by humming at the Chakra, the appropriate word and the form of the Vahana by Mind as indicated in the picture of Chakra and they respond.
But this is so complicated, and they are to activise the Chakras which are really the plexus in resonance.
Therefore, Guruji by initiation activises the Muladhara or Root Chakra at the Coccygeal Ganglion and opens the way along the Sushumna to Agna Chakra and then the Sublimated vital energy, activises all the Chakras on its upward flow in a subtle way unlike the method of Hata Yoga Pradipika.
10. Bala Yogies
Bala Yogi is a divine phenomenon greater then the pyramids. They are Spiritual Pyramids. There are two Bala Yogies.
The senior Bala Yoga, who was born on 23rd October 1933, is seated in Thapas from the year 1946 in perpetual and perennial Yoga, without food, without taking water, in "Yoga Niddirai" -- in Yoga Trance State beyond our conception, but within our per- ception.
The junior Bala Yoga, who was born 11 years later than the Senior Balayoga i.e., on 3-11-1941, also entered into Sleep trans state in 1950. The exact date when he went actually without food, water, sleep or answering calls of nature in 1950 is not clear. This looks like an inexplicable and unintelligible phenomena.
The senior Bala Yoga is in Thapas for the past 37 years and the junior Bala Yoga is in Thapas for the past 23 years. He entered the Trance State on 22-6-1946. Both of them are without food or water and sleep. This is not only a wonder, the wonder of won- ders, but we are now living in this Earth World at a time when they are also in the Earth which is a great fortune to us. And we should have the opportunity of paying our obeisance ("Dharshan") to them.
They can be seen, that will be putting the function of seeing in a sorbid way. The subtle way to say is having Dharshan. Their doors are open on Maha Shiva Rathri Day every year. It falls somewhere in the 1st or 2nd week of February every year. Maha Shivarathri Day means the great night of Lord Shiva, for, on that day it is customary for the Shaivites, who hold "Shiva" near to them, nearer to them than anything else in their life, to keep awake the whole night and repeat Om Shivayanama: Om Namashivaya the Panchakshra mantras throughout the day and night.
But such faith has already lost its way, as it should be, because mere vocal repetition has no vibration of great impact as Rama Krishna Parama Hamsa -- (Great in the Beyond in the Hamsa tech- nique who live 100 years before in Calcutta on the bank of Ganges and you have now Ramakrishna Mission around the globe, propagat- ing the gospel of Ramakrishna) has said repeating a Mantra many thousands of times will only parch your throat. At the same time he said that if you say a Mantra once with depth, by which he means saying it with the whole being in the very being will remove all the sins of your birth.
Knowing the Thapas of Bala Yogies and seeing them when they give Dharshan once a year on the Mahashivarathri day gives us an emotional understanding about the feel of the unknown and a feeling of the harmonious inter connection between ourselves and Bala Yogies and a peep into the definite way of knowledge.
Yoga is an art which reveals many mysteries and leads us to the sphere of the known yielding new knowledge.
Having the Dharshan of Bala Yogies, we have a taste of genuine mysticism, genuine religion, genuine art and genuine science.
Of course, we have difficulty in understanding the phenomenon of Bala Yogies. Because many of us are only at the elementary stage of Thapas Yoga. As we gradually evolve and become refined and more deeper affecting more and more sides of our life, we will understand the ideal form of Bala Yogies portrayed in flesh and blood before our eyes and in our midst.
By doing Thapas ourselve after getting initiated by the opening of the 3rd eye and later the 4th eye to the divine way, the spiritual way of living and thinking, we become certain that the spiritual person is the highest product of human evolution. We become so sure of our spiritual knowledge and the effort we should take in our life in that is the effort to get the door of the spiritual knowledge opened by getting our 3rd eye opened.
Guruji Thapas Yogi, C.K.Shiva Ramakrishna of Mahabalipuram has the key to open this door to this sub-conscious perception in you. Of course those ignorant of the Heritage cannot accept and admit the logical possibility of this idea.
If we accept that the spiritual culture is unique and the high- est, then we will know that spiritual knowledge has meant only book knowledge to many. Bala Yogies are the only foundation of spiritual flowering and not to the founders of religions have risen even approximately to the level of the source of spiritual Sadhana of Bala Yogies (Sadhana means consistent and persistent practice).
Acceptance of Bala Yogies in perpetual Yoga is for too revolutionary, for this would shake the foundations of all reli- gious rituals and would involve a revision of all the spiritual practices of the world.
Bala Yogies presence and the acceptance of their living without food, water, sleep and answering calls of natures for years on end would necessitate the withdrawal from the scene of our mind a whole series of great men of the past, present and the future.
Bala Yogies are the Beacon Light of true Civilization and, if so, you might ask a question, what use or meaning are the Balayogies in Thapas without food or water or any of appetite of life to us, to humanity? Does it give meaning to living? Are they not merely a vegetable? This is an understandable question. What is our life and our relation to living to this earth world in their exist- ence? But do not forget that they create the circumstances that compel us to suppose and to admit the existence of a divine plane.
In understanding the bigger phenomenon of Bala Yoga in Yoga Trance State, it is useful to understand the same in a smaller phenomenon in us. In order to understand and merge with the bigger phenomenon it is necessary and will be wisdom to realize the complexity of the phenomenon of Thapas by ourselves doing Thapas -- Spiritual Meditation which may look small and insignif- icant.
Our Dharshan of Bala Yogi on Maha Sivarathri Day at Mummudivaram, a village about 80 kilometer from the Railhead Rajamundry in Madras-Calcutta line gives a great fillip to our doing Meditation to start with because as human beings we imitate what we actually see.
It is hoped that doing Meditation like making love will become a fashion -- a fashion to be near our real existence. It is in the offing. And those who have had the opportunity or who created the opportunity of seeing Bala Yogis, into them will go the element of imitating him by going into Meditation because it will strike and stir their imagination. Thus doing Meditation will become something that is respectable, something what everybody does.
For to me as a Teacher of Spiritual Meditation, Bala Yogi in perpetual Meditation means the existence of a Spiritual plan.
Bala Yogi in Thapas is an effective simple utilitarianism in this divine plan. Ofcourse his presence amidst us, and he does not talk or see you, and we can only see him is an indication that we are living in a period of great transition. As we pass from the Piscean to the Aquarian age, the entire globe will be transformed into higher levels of mental and spiritual sensitivity. Ofcourse this transition will be clear and marked by A.D.2000.
Now the people who come to this earth-world from higher levels of consciousness and who do not integrate their spiritual evolution will be slipping into mental instability bordering on insanity. And because of the intregnum between the two forces -- the forces of violence and sin as opposed to spiritual esoteric vibrations, there will be a tremendous increase of population and dramatic changes in the climate.
Techniques of Thapas Yoga do exist to pass through this period of physical and psychic changes.
It is not an accident that Guruji Thapas Yogi of Mahabalipuram, the author of this book on Yoga and Bhoga was initiated by his Guru Paranjothi Mahan, a Sufi Master on 22-6-1946, the exact date when Bala Yogi, entered the Yogic Trance State.
To think and evolve as a super-man is one of the hungers in the human mind. This idea lies in the depth of the soul of Man. "Thapas" is the sanskrit word synonymous with spiritual Yoga, and Bala Yogi is in Thapas.
In India and elsewhere it is known that Yogies are in Thapas in the caves of Himalayas. But then we have no opportunity of deny- ing the possibility. We have no the opportunity of accepting with our own eyes, the spectacle of having the dharshan of Bala Yogi revealing a higher principle in our souls.
We will find the ways of doing Yoga within ourselves and we find Bala Yogi a phenomenon outside ourself. Our urge to have dharshan of him outside of ourself happen only when we have begin to look for the self in us.
So, we shall begin to conceive the world in the new spiritual outlook, and we are on a journey to understand the complexity of spiritual awakening in us in order to understand the spiritual Man in us in a new way and we will realize that we are undoubted- ly something different from what we think to be.
As you have Dharshan of Bala Yogies, your world of ideas will be shaken and enthralled by this miracle.
All the human endeavors and all the natural expressions of such endeavors in the form of food or water quenching the thirst and hunger have disappeared of him by an intense effort of Yoga and all hunger assigned to the human being by nature have his intense Yogic Sadhana has gradually been overcome and the greatest pride of the human race is that such a great Yogi exists now amidst us.
On Yoga there are thousands of book. In our country, We have Upanishads, book on Advaita, Puranas and epics where such Yogis have been depicted as going into Trance State living for many hundreds of years without food or water that they were enveloped by ant--hills and finally they have the vision of the divine form by which they obtain what they aimed at. All these give us a glimpse of the immense possibility for human involvement in Spiritual Meditation.
There will be a perpetual turmoil, tension, worries, and troubles of life and they can be set right by placing our consciousness in our self just like placing the voice in singing.
To know one self and the lack of this understanding is the chief cause of all human weakness. That is the message of Bala Yogis' Dharshan.
To day we are happy that there are many organisation that are growing day by day around the world like Ramakrishna Mission, the Scientific Christian Movement, the Roscrucians, the Masonic lodges, The Theosophical Movement, the Yoga Movement of Parama- hamsa Yogananda, the White Brotherhood of Yogi Bachan of Punjab, the Triangle of England, the Tara, who foresee the existence of Christ reborn as Maitriya, Aurobindo Ashramam of Pondicherry, Bramma Kumaris, Vallalar Ramalinga Swamy of Vadalur and the mission in his name sponsored by a great benefactor of all spir- itual effort in Shri. N.Mahalingam of Pollachi. There are tower- ing individual giants who are themselves a movement like Swamy Satchidanandha, the Ananda Ashramam Dr.Gitananda of Pondicherry, the efforts of the inmates of Auroville in Pondicherry, Yogi Ramkuti of Thiruvannamalai, etc. and many hundreds like Guruji, individual Aspirants doing Sadhana to reach higher values in themselves.
Shri.J.Krishnamoorthy denies the need for Gurus and Organiza- tions; but accepts in his Video speeches that there should be mental and spiritual explosion in you. There are books galore and spiritual book shops flowering as in the Silent Valley of Hima- layas, alleged to be the Sahasrara Chakra of the earth. Peru in S.America and Thiruvannamalai are said to be the Agna Chakra of the world.
Guruji has been on pilgrimage to Mummidivaran to have DHARSHAN OF BALAYOGI every year for the last 26 years, with his troop of disciples and Chief among them being Sri. Balachandar who is evolving spiritually and the spiritually motivated Siddique, A Muslim boy.
Dharshan of Balayogi especially after initiation by Guruji Thapas Yogi of Mahabalipuram, 603104, Tamil Nadu, India you will feel the wisdom which crowns your super-conscious feel of the cleft between what is good and what is evil and you will get a rational belief of the divine plan for you. Feel the divine guiding voice and thus you will be established in the divine equilibrium.
Dharshan of Balayogi will make you realize that this is the only man in flesh and blood connecting heaven and earth.
Balayogi is sitting like a replica of Lord Shiva with his hair lock running over 18, feet reminding you of the flow of the mighty Ganges being regulated by the locks of hair of Lord Shiva.
One thing from the life of Balayogi will clench the issue that his Guru was a sufi Master who touched him at the top of the head and Balayogi went into a high level trance state.
Now he is housed in a house and the doors are locked and open once a year for him to appear in deep Meditation on the Mahashi- varathri day giving Dharshan from 4.30 a.m to Midnight and throughout the day and roughly half-a-million people come and receive his Divine Vibrations.
There will be a lurking doubt in the minds of many that such a possibility is not to be taken for granted. Even though such a doubt did not exist in the sub-conscious Mind of Guruji, in the year 1965 when Guruji was taking water at midnight for quenching his thirst after Meditation and (Meditation dries up the throat and the dryness has to be intense when the Nectar may flow from the inner cavity of the mouth) he felt two identical persons standing before him, clad like Balayogi and Guruji asked them where they are from? They replied they are from Tiruvannamali. Guruji asked them what is Balayogi doing by sitting like this, they replied with a smile "You know everything, you are just playing a trick by asking the Question. We came from the Land of Light to pay homage to you". Then touching Guruji's feet they disappeared and yonder and yet near there was a light, showing that Balayogi is the light and hope of the world.
Now, this shows only one thing. Many volumes can be written, as many do just to fill up pages for a non-meditation person to read with such intensity bordering on insanity on crimes, detectives and sex stimulant books.
Now do you desire to be spiritual? Then take a trip to Mummidiva- ram and have Dharshan if possible with Guruji, if not without Guruji and if circumstances stand in your way of the visit, inspite of them. What if you gain the whole world and if you loose your soul? Find the soul-fulfilment by having a dharshan of Balayogi of Mummidivaram, West Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, India near about the first week of February.
The presence of Balayogi and his influence upon this earth-world the study about him from this book is impossible because indica- tion of his life is intelligible only to those who receive direct initiation to understand his relation to all phenomena of this universe on all places and level, penetrating everything and connecting everything into one single whole.
To you, and way, dharshan of Balayogi of Mummudivaram always the utterly calm poise of the Yogi, will drag you to sense the reali- ty of an attainment to which dedication of your life will be made.
Bala Yogi represents the magical point of interaction between this world and the powers of divinity, inspiring harmony and fanning the flames of the spirit in the human frame.
11. Spiritual Probe Into The Prefrontal Lobe
Spiritual and Scientific Probe
Possible of an Alliance
Alluring to Agna and Prefrontal
Purposeful to Posterity
The theoretical book ground in the poems of Thirukkural, and Bhagvat Gita and Ramayana, there are reference about the third- eye called the Nasa-Graha (Agna Chakra) and are mentioned in explicit terms.
There are certain mysterious qualities which lift any individual sky-scrapper high above the rest by activisation of the Kundalini Force.
The lives of saints and sages past and present who have trodden this path of activising the third-eye also mentioned as Agna- Chakra and the base for such activisation is mentioned as Moolad- hara. Activising the third-eye in turn develops the frontal lobes; vibrates the Pituitary and Pineal glands.
By this activisation there occurs an inner psychic explosion and it will lift a person beyond the levels of ordinary achievements. The activisation of the silent areas of the brain centered around the pre-frontal lobes can be the trigger.
Let us try to deal in a language that can bring the spirituality within the ambit of modern technology.
It is possible that spiritual trigger for uplifting the human endeavor and the mind power of the same is lying hidden in the functioning of the pre-frontal lobes.
Having practiced this methodology of activising the third-eye in between the prefrontal lobes for the last 30 years and having initiated over a thousand persons, the ability and willingness to freely communicate this knowledge is of such vital importance to the Society. It can and should be scientifically analyzed and accepted as an opportunity to codify such thoughts and actions and analyze them with reference to scientific research already available on this subject as well as make case studies of the initiated in their various stages of development. This will usher a new outlook on human thinking.
The social relevance is that the individuals should develop an appreciation of the importance of developing their third-eye, their frontal lobes and increase their awareness of the potenti- ality of vibrating their pituitary and pineal glands. The vibra- tions will be felt by them and they feel a purpose in their lives with increasing conviction that not only the soul is permanent, but also should have more relevance in making them understand that they would become a thousand times brighter, wiser and more creative.
In this rapidly changing society where material wealth is the only guiding factor, where moral degradation is gaining ground this approach of activising the third-eye sanctioned by our saints and sages, has to be related to the finding of medical authorities regarding the functions of the silent areas of the frontal lobes -- the research towards this is very much in tune with the requirements of rapidly changing times and assuredly in the centrality of the human being in the individual development process viz. the spiritual growth of the individual in the devel- opment process is to kept in view.
This activising the pre-frontal lobe will present to the individ- ual and the society, certain possibility of the individual to develop his own personality by the development of his self in the broad and integrated line of self-evolution.
Each individual has to work out on the subject of self develop- ment and motivate himself on the road to creative freedom by his capacity for inward reflection. The individual will be getting to know an awareness to subjectively analyze his thoughts and action on himself and to the society of which he is a member.
This awareness is not limited by the religion to which he be- longs, the linguistic group in which he lives and is above the limitations of sex, race and creed.
Guruji is convinced by the sayings of saints and sages of the period of the epics -- rishis like Viswamitra, Vashista and Vyasar where there is particular reference to Mooladhara and Agna Chakra; also the sayings of Kambar and Kalidasa to these in the epics and also in Vysar's Mahabaratha.
The interpretation of Gnana Kural of Avvayar and Thirukkural and Thirumoolar also point towards activising the Agna-Chakra. Agna Chakra is the 3rd eye -- the pre-frontal lobe.
There are also the slokas of Adi-Sankara about activising the place in between the eye-brows.
There are mentions in the Koran and the Bible about the third- eye.
Deeper research by the medical authorities on the functions of the frontal lobes and its function should be more deeper posi- tive.
The functions of the pituitary and pineal has to be coordinated with the stages of meditation of Mooladhara and Agna.
There should be the case study of selected students who have undergone the initiation and map out their brain vibrations in Electro-encephlogram and get their vibrations interpreted in lucid terms by neuro-physicians. And now by the Scanner, will help better interpretation if properly programmed.
By these we will arrive at an objective conclusion of the methods to be employed for activising the frontal lobes; and caution is to be taken in the process and stage by stage development that takes place in the attitude of the individual towards himself and towards society of which he is a member.
There is need for more research to gather materials of the proc- ess of "Thapas" mentioned in Indian Literature and correlate them to the development of the frontal lobes, pituitary and pineal glands. This process sublimates sex and creates higher vibrations to thoughts and the certainty of evolution of the Lower Self to Higher Self.
A research will establish in an objective sense the method -- a harmless way to activise the third-eye -- thus the frontal lobes and at a later stage by a self-process of evolution -- the pitui- tary and pineal glands.
There are practices of Mantra and the sacred marks that devotees of various sects wear on their foreheads. There is a relevance of such marks in activising the frontal lobes in subtle but sure way.
Now various methods of saluting each other and prostrations before deities and saints, also go to activise these centres.
The end objective of our investigation is to create the climate in our minds that the human being in his evolution has been and will be guided by these methods towards perfection.
The slow and steady but willful development of the frontal lobes, develops the powers of concentration, memory power and sublimates sex energy by a moral conviction that to dissipate sex energy brings debility and destruction to the individual.
There is a positive road towards intellectual and spiritual development by activising the frontal lobes by various methods.
The various methods are now existing in society but the relation- ship has to be more firmly established between the religious rituals in society and the objective of spiritual and intellectu- al development.
The Frontal Lobe: The pre-frontal lobe or luble is the most anterior part of the cerebral cortex and has been found to be the highly developed portion of the cerebral outgrowth. Yet for a long time this was called the "Silent Areas of the Brain".
It stands to reason that there cannot be any structure in front of the frontal lobes to merit the term "pre-frontal". Similarly the nomenclature "Silent Area" possibly denotes the silence of knowledge of this generation of scientists regarding the function of this area of importance in the cerebral cortex. To go a step further it was called the silent area because it starts to func- tion when the individual goes into realm of spiritual Meditation.
Experimental evidences adduced by Paviov and Jacobson have helped to elucidate the functional importance of this area of the brain in bringing about the organizational co-ordination is quite well documented at the present time.
Rose and Woolsley: Found that this area extends fully upon the orbital surface and hence called "corbito fronta-cortex". The frontal lobe has extensive sub-cortical and intral cortical connections. It forms a nervous complex with Thalamus and hypo- thalamus.
The frontal lobe functions over the higher forms of intellectual understanding and emotional and social behavior.
Removal of Frontal Lobes: By the removal of the functions of the frontal lobe by lobotomy it was found that there was a loss of esthetic sense, alterations in appreciating music, a lack of interest in surroundings and a dullening of personal relation- ships. In short, a man loses all his social characteristics and becomes vegetative in nature. Initiative and leadership is never taken and therefore planning and purposefulness in life is lost. The frontal lobe is the seat of all the qualities that distin- guishes a man from the rest of the animal kingdom. (Extracts from the Text Book of Physiology by Dr.Sarada Subramaniam).
The frontal lobes are the last part of the human neo-cortex seems to be a special structure for emotional integration. Once called the silent lobes, they now are known to have substantial visceral impulses through autonomic representation, transmitting visceral impulses through several subcortical systems e.g. hypothalamus.
Among lower primates; it has long been known that experimentally produced signs of fear and anxiety disappear with the removal of the frontal lobes. Innovators adopted such findings for the relief of otherwise intractable anxieties and psychotic depres- sion. However lobotomy tend to be transient and difficult to predict. Lobotomy has produced more or less serious psychological damages.
Lobotomy destroys the unity of functions between that which inte- grates the emotional motivation and the widest variety of neural structures. Indeed such a Unity of Function seems to have served the very Survival of Human Species. (Extract from Encyclopedia Britannica - Macrpoedia - Know - Ledge in depth Vol.6 Page 766).
The effects of the removal of the frontal lobe described above should lead us to think of the good results that will ensure by developing the frontal lobe.
The practice in dance performances and in music concerts where the thinking of the timbles (Jalra) and subservient suram by Thambura which the artist is to catch the vibrations at the place in between the eye-brows -- at the centre of the forehead is to make the dancer or the songster to enter into higher realms of music is well-known to reputed teachers of Music.
The development of the frontal lobe by mellowed Raja Yoga (Thapas-Yoga) should increase the aesthetic sense; a deep inter- est in the surroundings and sharpening of personal relationship. The social obligations become more strengthened, Initiative and leadership qualities will improve and therefore, planning and purposefulness in life will get fairly well established.
Development of Frontal Lobes : There have been no scientific research on the effects of development of the frontal lobes. The reason are sociological. The methodology for the development has been the guarded secrets of the mystics; saints and seers.
Secondly, our Indian literature abounds with the methodology but they are couched in a language with technical terms of their own and to relate them to medical terms have not yet been undertaken. For e.g the famous poet Bharathiar speaks of "Achacho! Kuyil, Mailachithadi, Abirami Andhathi, a work of Yogic experience speaks:
"Kuyil irukkum kadamba idai, Kola Iyal mailai irrukum Visumbidai".
The near understanding is that Kuyil refers to Sex-energy at the base of the vertebral column called Muladhara related to sacral plexus and the words Mayil refers to the vibrations that dance in unison with summer showers at the top of the head seen as flower buds in the status of Lord Buddha and Mahavira. This is related to Thuriatheethem, term used by Tamil esoteric poets.
From the above we can deduce the following :
1. The frontal lobes now exist.
2. It is the last part of the non-cortex to develop.
3. It is the seat of emotional motivation and integration.
4. Its unity of function have helped the very survival of human species.
5. One step further is that it is possible to develop the frontal lobes. By its development there will be more integration of the personality, the human being raising in himself a higher sense of values and at the same time will be developing a sense of fear to do unsocial acts. Besides, because of proper emotional integra- tion, psycho-somatic diseases due to emotional inhibitions is likely to decrease. A more-in-depth perception of the functions of the frontal lobes is found in Van Nastrands Scientific Ency- clopedia (Brain Page 351).
It reads as follows:
"The surfaces of the cerebral hemisphere is earmarked by large rounded folds and deep grooves. The cerebrum is divided into four lobes - frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital.
The frontal lobes are concerned with most of the complex abili- ties of the mind. Reason, emotion and judgment have their site here, cells in the posterior region of the frontal lobes which are involved with complex voluntary movements.
The frontal lobes have many connections with the Thalamus as well as with other lobes of the brain. In the frontal lobes feelings and emotions are added to the other associations.
In the book "The Conscious Brain" Steevan Rose says, "At the front behind the forehead is the frontal lobe, and says that in general terms the parital cortex contains those areas which are responsible for the coordination and control of the sensory in- put and motor out-put while the frontal and temporial lobes have much more diffuse, and less understood functions, relating to speech, learning, memory, intelligence and performance and other even more hard to define but nonetheless human attributes!
There are very striking observations.
These observations -- really scientific only indicate that if the frontal lobes are responsible for the functions which have real attributes, then a more-in-depth study by plotting the mind vibrations before and after initiation and plotting the vibra- tions of unsullied minds which practice these methods of increas- ing the vibrations at Agna Chakra, should make a break through in the knowledge that will bring scientific certainty to the possi- bility of increasing memory power, and the powers of concentra- tion. It should be possible to plot these in Electro-encephlogram (E.E.G) and the total scanner.
"THE FRONTAL LOBES AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR" - FULTON JOHN F.
"A MEDICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY" - TILNEY FREDRICK
"A TEXT BOOK OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY" - PATTON, WALTER SCOTT, CRAGG AND FRANCIS WILLIAM.
The Encyclopedia of Psychology edited by H.J.Eysenack Vol.1 speaks of frontal lobes as follows:
"Frontal Lobes are the most complicated parts of the brain to have evolved at a very late stage. In the lower mammals, they are still rudimentary and only in man they account for 25% of the brains bulk."
"The cortex of the frontal lobes cover both the premotor area, which is concerned with the functions of movement and the pre- frontal cortex which carries out the more complex functions and ensures the overall organization within the specific programmes of man's voluntary activities."
The original belief was that they had no special functions and the current belief is that they are the supreme part of the brain.
As they are closely connected with the formatic reticularis, they play a vital role in the regulation of activity and wakefulness of the cerebral cortex by maintaining the requistic tones in expectation of information for activity.
The frontal lobes play a central role in self-regulation of the complicated forms of the conscious psychic activity and they are an important component of that cerebral apparatus called the acceptor of behavior.
The latest research points to differentiation of the functions of the various areas of the frontal lobes, the outer areas being closely associated with control of movement, the medio-basal areas with the control of effective process.
Further literatures :-
1. LURIA.A.R.: Higher Critical Functions of man, New York 1962-1d & Pribrank.K.
2. The Behavioral Psychology of Frontal Lobes - New York 1970 - Warren J.M. & Akest.K (eds)
3. The frontal granular cortex and behavior - New York 1964-1d.
4. Frontal Lobe Syndromes - Vinken.P.J.Bryn.
5. Handbook of Clinical Neurology Vol. 2-1969.
6. Frontal Ideas and Regulation of the Psychological Process - Honskaya - Moscow 1966.
7. Textbook of Neuro - anatomy - Pre-frontal Motor Region by H. Chandler Elliot.
The prefrontal lobe seem, on available evidence, to deal with foresight, planning and accompanying restraint and feeding their decision into the motor area.
The portion of the frontal lobes other than the motor regions are some what designated as pre-frontal lobulae. The more pertinent point of Chandler Elliot is "The highly developed frontal lobe is characteristic of man".
Without the frontal lobe, the human conduct becomes more dis- tinctly ape-like in its capricious irresponsibility.
Another book :
The intellectual Functions of the Frontal Lobes
by Brickner.R.M. New York - Macmillan 1936.
To stress again, it is possible to activise the frontal lobes and secondly activising the Agna Chakra is activising the frontal lobes and we should accelerate, the natural process already at work in the human organism.
The practice of Meditation with the mind fixed on the tip of the nose which is again the place in between the eye-brows can lead to a super-sensory state.
We have literary and scientific evidence to chart out that the person who gets his frontal lobes activised is likely to attain such extraordinary powers of the spirit and mind and can prove of inestimable value in guiding himself and those around him and attain consciousness of a high order exhibited by many prophets and seers of the past and will become in himself a person of lofty mental and spiritual outfit, and this should become the common heritage of the future man.
Possibly the towering heights to which the outstanding personali- ties of the future will attain cannot even be imagined in the present, if the psyche of the Nation accepts the postulate and it will.
It has been established that activisation of the Mooladhara will release the sublimated sex energy running through the four Chak- ras without agitating them through Sushumna to Agna the epi- centre of the pre-fronal lobes.
There can be no denying the fact that human life in its initial stages is generated by this region and from its arises the sexual impulse which has a most powerful effect on the brain. Besides, its normal function of procreation, the still nobler purpose of evolution in conjunction with a specific centre in the brain and a host of nerves is to be employed to extract the elixir of life from all parts of the body for transmission through a narrow duct in the spinal cord.
The Elixir is transmitted into a more powerful nerve current and nerves are involved in this operation, the region of the brain is more affected. There should be the devoted labor of countless savants in times to come for a thorough explanation of one of the most momentous secrets of Nature underlying religion and every form of religious discipline.
If we accept as true even one-hundredth of what our ancient Masters claim for Kundalini Yoga - super consciousness, psychic powers, longevity, radiant health, genius and a host of their gifts and talents, we would be on the road to be a better individual and serve a divine purpose in the evolution of human race to a higher level.
Arthur Avlon is "Serpent Power" definitely refers to this area when he says: "This place is the entrance to the region sprinkled by ambrosia and is called the knot as well as the mouth of Sus- humna. By meditating on this Chakra, a man becomes Lord of Speech and king among men, and an adept in all kinds of learning. He becomes free from all diseases and his inmost spirit becomes full of great gladness. Pure of disposition by his deep and musical words, he serves the foremost of Devas."
"Gayatri", according to Arthur Avoln, is the essence of the Vedas and is Kundalini. The three strands of the sacred thread worn indicate the never energy -- Ida, Pingala and Sushumna and the knot known as Brahma Granthis the difficult to pierce the knot that blocks the passage of Kundalini at the entrance to the Agna Chakra. It is Lonly after this knot is penetrated, that surpris- ing changes occur in the mental condition of the Sadhaka.
He continues to say "It is designed to raise one to the lofty stature of an intellectual prodigy".
Hidden Source of Energy :
This point to a hidden source of energy and strength in the body so marvelous, so potent, and so precious for the peace and happi- ness of mankind and no price paid for it and no sacrifice made to make the secret more widely known would be too great.
In the well-known book "Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain", it is stated, that there are published photographs of beautiful coloured lights flickering on and around the body. It also states that a machine has been devised through which one could view the blue and orange -- electrical flames. These fa- bled, colour filled aura usually visible only to the psyches.
There is a correlation between Agna Chakra, its development and the frontal lobes and its implications and goes to develop the individual towards the sublimation of sex energy.
Established contacts have proved that the development of the frontal lobes is a necessary step in the further evolution of the Homeo-Sapien.
The Author doing Thapas at Mahabalipuram will be happy to estab- lish contacts with the Society of Psychical Research and such other bodies and individuals to find out whether any research on these lines have been made and how far they have succeeded in evolving an inter-link between Agna Chakra and frontal lobes.
Even though we need not again traverse into the already cut grove of Psi as a paranormal function but there should be a connecting link between them and the activisation of Frontal Lobes. This line of thinking is to be oriented with the words (Vaal) Tail in Tamil literature indicating Muladhara along Sushumna to Agna.
Even the confirmed agnostics can tread the path of our ancient saints and sages.
This activisation of the Agna Chakra will establish as one of the greatest achievements of our culture. We should discover this new energy and feel the same circulating on the peripheri of our physical body by this process of activising the prefrontal lobes through the Agna Chakra.
Psychic Healing :
Psychic healing is a reality and our country has accepted the fact of psychic healing and the consciousness of the country (psyche) has firm rooted belief in this. However, the English educated young man are a little averse to this, but then they are the persons to be convinced as they are the vanguard of our civilization.
It is my personal experience that once they feel a certain amount of vibrations in their body by the process of initiation, their acceptance becomes stronger and their conviction becomes unassailable for this it is primarily a question of personal contact and to get that personal contact, a more intensive pub- licity will only give an opportunity.
I am sure that if this concept evolved will be accepted by the temporal powers, it will trigger a forceful media for personal contacts. The publicity through this will bring in a new turn in the psyche of the educated young men.
We have not as yet in our country attempted scientific tests and experiments on Agna Chakra, Mooladhara, the Auro-Bio-Plasmic body. Out of body perceptions, faith-healing process by hand- passes; prefrontal developments -- and those who read this will take more personal interest to enable us to regain the glory of our past and this will be the beginning of a new attitude towards the already existing spiritual wealth.
Some method has to be sought to revive them so that they contrib- ute to the spiritual trend of our ancient practices and traditions and the educated young men should delve deeper in these practices.
The Unconscious Psychic of Our Nation :
It has been well said that unless we work through to a better grasp of the unknown parts of our Nature and not ignore the psychic side of our nature, the deep psyche gets thwarted with no outlet. Then the unconscious psyche of our Nation will destroy all the art and finer instincts in men and catastrophes unprece- dented will come wave after wave in the form of communal trou- bles, violent inclinations, earth-quakes, cyclones, student upraisings, mass sadistic perversions and upheavals leavings in its train demented minds, demoralized controls and doldrum. This is what happens when the psyche of a nation is thwarted.
The havoc has already started in whispering visions of the cata- clysm that is to come. We are seeing the signs of such decrepi- tude already. The existence of such fore-warnings should not be ignored. The cause of such disturbances and disharmony is due only to the thwarted aspirations of the unconscious rumblings of the national psyche.
Of course, a large section of even the educated are religious but they have not yet been geared to the underlying force of their spiritual wealth. If only we could develop an internal sense of seeking to understand their psyche, they can have the new awakening of the potential soul force in them. Then there will be more harmony in the life of the nation.
Yoga occupies a very strong place in the minds of the nations and India is equated with Yoga. But potential Yogies are slowly swept away as beggars and do not occupy even the role of mendicant because of the social conditions. But something has to be done to revive the force and you should be the spark in the new line of thought coordinated to our underlying quest.
Bija Mantra:
Earnest wood in his book on Yoga reflects the sayings of Adi Sankara when he says that in the centre of the Brow Chakra is an inverted triangle and its seed sound (Bija Mantra) is "AUM" and he confirms that this has been accepted as the principal Mantra of all the seats of Hindu religion and in this centre, he says that Shiva resides with the Goddess Shakthi. This evolutionary approach to inquiry, not only considers psychic receptivity but also psychic activity as an integral aspect of the evolutionary forces active in the world and in the individual.
It is this sense of participation that is to be monitored and encouraged together with the whole world in the great order of process called evolution, which makes it possible to learn about the universe by enquiring into our inner world. It is also the basis and justification of creativity issuing from the inner world, of our outgoing nature of the active "yang" in us akin to our concept of Ida which acts in conformity with the passive "yin" aking to Pingala listening to the pulse of evolution in us.
In Bagavat Gita -- Chapter VII -- Sloka 23 -- Chapter VIII
Sloka 10 and Sloka 127 the following reflections are found :
He who meditates on the resplendent, supreme Pursha at the time of death, with a steady mind, with entire Prana IN THE MIDDLE OF THE EYE BROWS that person alone reaches HIM.
All the gates of the body closed, the mind confined within Hrdi (which means the centre of the eye-brow) because it is here alone that we could close all the gates of the body and uttering the one syllable AUM thinking of HIM, departs leaving the body and attains the supreme goal.
The above words seem clearer and simpler and with childish impu- dence it can be said that still there are thousands of kindred souls, though they may have acquainted themselves with the tech- nical terminology of Agna Chakra -- Nasagraha have no practical knowledge in their own selves.
The third eye has been rediscovered by the ancient mystics - Thirumoolar, Thiruvalluvar, Abirami Pattar, Adi Sankarar, Gnana Prakasa Vallalar - My sufi Guru Paranjyothi Mahan -- all unconventional souls, men who were reincarnations of the divine -- men too good to be human and too human to be divine.
Some of the emancipated spirits travel from higher worlds to our earth and forward back to their worlds. But one thing is certain their powers stems from their awakened and strengthened third eye.
THE ETERNAL THIRD-EYE :
Once this third eye is awakened, it never dies. It makes us know more and more of the Reality. We will have no illusions and seldom disappointed, because the third eye trains our mind in the middle path and never gives us any extravagant hopes.
THINK ON THINKING :
This high minded attitude develops with the development of the third eye is cultivated by the reflex thought and a feed back process of thinking on thinking. This attempt is motivated to make this truth about the third eye revibrate with greater force and in great many minds as the heavenly world is in anguish at their creations. The humans are not attempting to become more and more divine. And if this pursuit is not pursued, then the human has to go the way of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki into de-human shapes and to sufferings.
REALISTIC IDEALISTS :
The man who day after day vitalizes his third eye, Bija Mantra duly indicated by an adept will slowly evolve into realistic idealists by which the forces of idealism and realism will blend as the mind becomes more mature with the surcharge from the elan-vital through Sushuman Nadi flowing upwards as sublimated sex energy.
If this is not done on an emergency footing, India will slowly wither and lose its soul. The forewarning is that India has already lost its sense of humor but also it seems to be that individuals are not becoming active participants in any aspect but only are drifting to a state of spectators.
In the animal, the animal knows of course but it does not know it knows. But man takes many things as though he knows but unless actually he participates in the process of knowing that he knows and is capable of standing apart from his thoughts, his ability to think atrophies and his thinking is left to caprice of the mind.
It will be of interest to note that there are ample proofs that the third eye does send out thought rays and Dr.Kajuinsky states that according to the Soviets that pineal gland deep within the brain is generally identified with the third-eye -- the all seeing mystic eye of ancient fame.
If spiritual development and Para-Psychology are almost in the same realm of thought and they rest on the third eye, then deeper probe must be made into the various aspects of the function of the third eye, naturally the interlinked or rather the inter- locked functions of the prefrontal lobes, the Pineal gland and the Pituitary gland can be the centre of all branches of knowl- edge, the juncture of all disciplines and then becomes the study of the nature of man in himself.
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MIND
by W.Clement Stone and Norma Lee Browing
The activisation of the third eye has been accepted in the occult world as one that can influence the personal characteristics of the individual and will open out the secrets of intellectual abilities which is likely to be a new approach in teaching prac- tice. This demands our attention.
Much deeper analysis with the aid of Kirilian photo can be made to catch the colours emanating from the heads of those who are developing their third eye. The Kirilian photography is a real break through in the scientific analysis of occult life, A deeper analysis can be made with Kirilian Photography of the results of the activisation of the third-eye.
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Soul talk is very common in India but an attempt is to be made to interpret the activisation caused by the Agna Chakra.
Erich Jantch in his book "Design for Evolution" observes the Sixth Chakra which in the Hindu scheme of Seven Chakras or levels of consciousness stands for wisdom and is represented by the third-eye.
We must widen the consciousness of humanity. It is vital that the mediocre man develop their normal powers and these powers hidden in men can be used for the good of the individual.
Some scientific instruments can be modified and can be used to detect the emanations from the Agna Chakra and the frontal lobes like the force field detectors.
If the aura is a complex electrical field around the body - a sort of ghostly second self and if the strength of the Aura is related to the third eye and attempts to chart them is worth the endeavor.
Agna is Psi, the most important is that both the sender and the receiver should have high powers of concentration and Agna Chakra is the place for faultless high degree of concentration.
With man's evolution passing from a stage of drift to a step towards conscious destiny, the awakening of the third eye aids and builds up the pre-ordained destiny.
You should be an active participant to lay a new and modern foundation for a profound truth which our ancestors have known, forgotten, hidden behind rituals and expanded over thousands of years as hovering hooded-serpents over the images of Goddesses.
The new heights of human destiny could be achieved by making better and deeper use than ever before of the untapped potentials of the developments of the frontal lobes known to us as Agna Chakra and activisation of Mooladhara (Val Arivu) which induces a trance like state. These are very efficient set of techniques.
GURUJI'S personal experience linked with the concepts will flow as effortlessly as a river meets the Sea, because the body of EVERY INDIVIDUALS HAS A PHYSICAL AND A SUPRA-PHYSICAL COMPONENT -- " A BODY TERRESTRIAL AND BODY CELESTIAL ".
We are going through life without suspecting the existent of Agna and Mooladhara but applying the requistic stimulus and at a touch they are there in all their completeness. This is super-conscious oriented psyche.
In all humility you should be after a much bigger game -- nothing less than a fundamental improvement of the entire approach to scientific method in psyche.
It is possible to investigate and work with the important phenom- ena of Psychic-Yoga which is perfectly compatible with the es- sence of scientific method.
12. We Can Spiritualize Politics
For true spiritual revamping, the Prime Minister and the Presi- dent of India having recognized the need to make India practical- ly spiritual, certain concrete steps are necessary.
India's constitution is an initation of Democratic Institutions of the west -- the party system. Party system which entails huge Election expenses, it is increasing; is also strengthening the negative aspects of the caste system. Many of the political parties do not have a goal or aim even any principle.
The President of India GIANI ZAIL SINGH the other day speaking at a function laying the foundation of Rajaji Vidya Ashram at Madras has remarked :-
"The need of the hour is a recommunion between us and the sages of our Land, so that future may be built on rock and not on sand."
This has led me to think that the basis of our democracy has to change. The foundation of our constitution has to change. The method of our election and representation to the state Legisla- ture and Lok Sabha has to be modified. India should become a Spiritual State and not a Secular State.
The following are suggestions of which you may think more deeply to build a New India with a Spiritual involvement and the powers that be may initiate action for evolving a spiritual set up in the Legislatures to concertize the spiritual destiny of India.
The secret spirit, a divine reality desires that the Legislature and the Executive -- the Ministers -- should also be Rishies. They should become Raja Rishies.
So for a real political and National Integration of this greatest Civilization still with great vitality, wonderful in potentiali- ty, we have to alter the structure of our legislatures. We have to remove the present structure of organized selfishness. Cruelty and greed based political party's representation -- which is gathering strength to govern through natural distruct, division, animosity, violence in the name of party system.
Nothing but a radical change of the constitution can save India from the terrible plight in which it is plunging the entire Nation and those who are spiritually inspired like our Prime Minister and The President of India have to create a need based Body-polity for a spiritually creative Nation to survive.
Now let our thinking go on the lines of not setting up candidates by political parties. The political parties will have 25% of the present strength in the legislatures and Lok Sabha on polling for the party and not for the individuals. The seats will be in proportion to the number of votes polled by the parties and the members to be by nomination by the party-leader, and the party- leaders have to nominate Men and Women in equal numbers. As at present it will be a single non-transferable vote.
The other 50% of the seats will be by election from professional groups :-
Engineers, Scientists, Medical People, Lawyers, Army, The Police, Merchant of shop keepers, Students, Teachers, Religious Leaders, Spiritual teachers, etc. The list can be added and the represen- tation on the basis of the number of persons who register in these categories.
This simple but far reaching change will usher in a new need type of society, a spiritually motivated politicians and not the present type of politicians, who have to spend all their energy to gain money power land to stay in power and to come to power. Hence only film stars and lawyers and big landed gentry can enter politics to vitiate and spiritual heritage of India.
The candidates to be nominated by the party leaders and from professional groups, will be only those in whom the spiritual energy has been awakened, in whom the Kundalini has been aroused and in whom enlightenment has taken place.
A dialogue on these lines, is necessary to Spiritualize our body-polity.
-- Yoga and Bhoga - by Guruji Thapas Yogi C.K.Sivaramakrishna (CKS)
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