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Prana: The Power of Kundalini (5 of 5)
17 minutes - 1998
Location: Isha Yoga Center
Transcript
Man in audience reads the following from a sheet of paper:
Q: Greetings Sadhguru. What is the relationship between prana and kundalini? And then this is related to it: How do we generate and maintain a proper flow of prana?
Sadhguru closes eyes for a moment then looks at audience...
A: The word Kund means a pit. It could be homakund, which is a sacrificial pit. Teetakund, which is a kind you have seen (indicates to outer ashram area). Or just a kund. It is just a pit.
So Kundalini is not the name of a particular energy. Kundalini is a description of a certain practice. (Sadhguru suddenly grins and laughs)...I know everywhere people are using the word like it is some film star...(laughs pretending to be a hipster spiritual person)...Kundalini! Where's your kundalini?! [Audience bursts out laughing]
Now...getting your energy out of the pit, the latent energy which is in the pit, to get it out of the pit is kundalini. Kundalini yoga means to get the energy out of the pit and active. [video cuts to a a painting of a slim yogi with mala beads in full lotus, eyes closed, arms extended with gyan mudra.]
A massive amount of energy is in the pit. It's still there. You also have it but it is not yours yet. Til you dig it out it is not yours yet. If you dare to open this you must be ready for many things. So we established a whole yogic system called Kundalini Yoga. Those who dare to directly open it. Because once you move in this direction you should not be concerned about your life - (Sadhguru indicates toward an audience member) - like she's doing her asana but she's worried about her relationship. You shouldn't have such concerns in your life.
[Sadhguru grins]
You're doing your asana, you're worried about your money. You shouldn't have such concerns in your life because if this grabs you from inside everything will evaporate. Nothing matters.
So Kundalini Yoga is for those who have no interest in life around them...(Sadhguru points to the whole room). After they've mastered it maybe they can play with life. But when they're on it they have no interest in anything around them. They're only interest is they want to go and explore the pit where the life is coming from. All this is happening (indicates his body), they want to know where it's coming from, all this physical manifestation. They want to dive into it and see.
So one aspect of Kundalini Yoga is to go into the pit or...Kund is also another reference to the womb. You're trying to go back to the womb. Going back to the womb means going back to the place where you were manufactured. Do not think of it in terms of female anatomy. (shakes hands no vigorously). It is a place where you are manufactured, isn't it? It's like you went back to a factory. Where you were made.
Yesterday I went to Bangalore to visit the Volvo plant where they make the buses and trucks in India. [Video cuts to Sadhguru touring the Volvo plant floor. He is inspecting how the cars are made at various stations. Various people are with him on the plant floor escorting him around showing him the various machinery used daily].
So I went there and got engrossed the whole day in the engines and the works and the technology because it's one thing to see a machine performing outside. It's another thing to see how it is made. With how much care and how much intelligence the whole thing is made is a different game altogether. That's what a mother's womb is, isn't it? Such a complex system is being put together in a woman's womb.
So one of the things most Kundalini Yogis do is...if they don't find a cave they will burrow a hole in the earth and go inside. I've seen, (laughs) I've visited some Kundalini Yogis in their holes. Unfortunately they have become like rats, not like yogis. (Sadhguru shakes head sadly) They only burrowed themselves in without the necessary (Sadhguru shakes head sadly again) ...what needs to happen within them (to make the practice a success). So when that happens you just end up being a rat. Not in the race, but just a rat. (audience laughs).
This happened...I was in Hyderabad...way back. These were the first few programs that I taught. 30 years ago. [Video cuts to show a younger Sadhguru with black hair teaching a packed class.] 1985...1983...83 was the first class in Hyderabad and one man came completely wired out. No muscle, all wirey. He was an ex member of the Parliament. So he got so engrossed in Kundalini Yoga...and he dug a hole. There's a place called...(Sadhguru breaks off)
Anybody from Hyderabad? No? (looks around room) Oh! You were there. (looks at other audience member). This was Sansaga (My note: Sansaga- that's what the word sounded like to me that he said. If anyone from Hyderabad reads this please let me know if I've misheard/misspelled the name). The other side of the Sansaga. Not the side of the (inaudible). The other side. This man somehow got government permission to build one small room, burrow a hole and sit inside and do his yoga. But he's so full of himself. He's not willing to take instruction from anybody. He read books and started doing Kundalini Yoga. So when he came to me he was quite a twisted out creature. But he's a member of Parliament. He was...at least. So he's been exposed to the ways of the world and everything.
So I start off on (a talk about)...responsibility...(Sadhguru pretends to be ex-Parliament yogi-wanna-be) "I did not come here to learn civics! Teach me yoga!" (Sadhguru laughs) So I looked at him and I remember this very well because the volunteers and people there to help were just shocked. I was telling him so many things. He just came back with the same thing. (Sadhguru gets severe look on his face and points) I said, "Hey man!" and he (Sadhguru imitates ex-parliament member jumping back in surprise). I said, "Hey man, just listen. I know what you've done to yourself in the last 12-15 years. Either I will undo this or just as you sit here I'll do something else to you now."
Because he won't allow the class to progress. There are 100 people in the program (but) this guy rants out his own thing, his own yoga that he's read in his books. So to the member of Parliament I said "hey man!" They all got shocked, (puts hands together imitating his class) "Sadhguru! It could be the end of you". (audience laughs and Sadhguru laughs)
And then after the program we did something to him. Something for the first time - little sweetness he experienced in his life. Then he asked me to come to his (Sadhguru grins) "Sadhana Room" and bless him. I said, "OK" and I went. And he's got a rat hole. This could be yogis cave...if it is done properly. If you don't do the right kind of things it just becomes a suffocating hole.
So I walked in. A stench...stench not in terms of smell. It is the stench of no life. This man is killing himself, literally. Doing all the wrong things. So...he's doing all the physical things right - in a sense. He's sleeping on a mat, no pillow. He eats only one time a day and...you know? All those things that he read in the books that yogis are supposed to do.
Then...it's morning I went. Early morning like 6-6:30. Then I went and spoke to him for about 2 hours and by then he was like this (mimics devoted disciple kowtowing to him) and I said, "Order breakfast." (Sadhguru mimics this now-devoted ex-parliamentarian shaking his hand vigorously no) "Morning I don't eat. I don't eat in the morning." I said, "Order a breakfast. I want to eat."
See for somebody who thinks not eating is the greatest Sadhana eating is corruption, you understand? So I want to do that to him. (Sadhguru laughs). I want to eat in his place. I said, "Order. What is the closest hotel. Order this...order that." (Sadhguru laughs again)
So with this great tray (of food)....(Sadhguru mimics new-disciple's reluctance). He never brings all this food into the thing. He's just eating raw cluster beans. It's a bitter vegetable. Only by cooking it'll be nice. So that's his breakfast. He wants to have his meal actually. I said, "leave that. I already ordered this, this, this and that. Eat with me." (audience laughs). And I spent almost 5-6 hours that day with him and made him eat whatever I had there. Broke his rigidity a little bit.
So Yoga can become like that. Kundalini Yoga. Because you're trying to dig. So you dig a coal mine without the necessary preparation you can die in just the dust of the coal, isn't it? So the same thing. If you dig into the Kund you must be ready, equipped in every possible way otherwise you don't talk Kundalini. Not necessary at all. I know it's so loosely talked about. Kundalini is not referring to a certain dimension of energy. Kundalini is referring to a certain form that our energy has taken or a certain place that our energy has settled into. It has settled into a pit and it's not coming out. And what is in a pit is of no use to you.
So bringing it into use. There are gentler ways of doing it. Hatha Yoga that you are doing - if you open up your system slowly depending upon what your system is ready for - slowly it will move up - a higher level of energy you can easily experience. But if you dig the pit itself then it's like a minefield. You know there are people who go and defuse bombs? So now if you go to defuse or to dig up something which is very powerful without necessary preparation that's not a good thing. If you are too good at it - maybe without protection you can go and do it. Otherwise it's always best that substantial protection is created before we attempt it. Or the best way is...(indicates his body) you open up the system slowly you will see a higher level of energy moving through you gradually the system becomes more and more vibrant. But if you want to touch the Kundalini, that which is in the Kund, preparation. Or...constant observation by somebody who knows what's happening or very cared for atmosphere that is competent enough to handle it. Or somebody who is competent enough to handle it for you. Or your own competence will come...it's too long to get your own competence...(Sadhguru stops then shakes head no).
So going for Kundalini Yoga site...is a foolhardy thing to do. Most people do it for 3 days and then go on and say, "You know I did Kundalini Yoga. I did Kundalini Yoga." Because something in that name they're doing because people want to start with the highest, not with the lowest. Where should you start? 1-2-3? Or zillion-billion-million? 1-2-3 is the way to start, isn't it?
If you 1-2-3. If you know up to 9 you can go any number you want. You don't have to learn zillion. If you learn up to 9 numbers and if you get a gift of 0 you can go as far as you want. You don't have start there (points upward).
See right now there is Kundalini in the earth. Instead of trying to dig it out you plant a seed. It grows up. If a tree has to push itself against gravity and grow that big a phenomenal energy must be working, isn't it? Isaac Newton only saw a small apple falling down. Why did he miss a whole tree growing up? Something is pushing it up, isn't it? Much bigger than apple falling down, no? Something far bigger - energy is pushing it up. Now this pushing up - you can call it Kundalini. I'm speaking - this is also Kundalini. You're listening - that is also Kundalini. A dog is barking - that is also Kundalini. A tree is flowering - that is also Kundalini. So the whole energy in the existence is referred to as Kundalini. Because this is the nature of the energy. It is always in a pit. Only if you put a potential possibility - like a seed - it finds expression. So right now you put the right kind of seed and allow it to find expression rather than trying to dig it out. But those who are in a rush and those who are competent or those who are in the presence of the competent constantly - such people can dig it out.
You know there are certain systems of Tantra. There were certain types of people, particularly in Central Asia. These were certain groups of gypsies, nomadic people, who in their rituals in a matter of 2.5-3 hours they will plant an apple seed and make the tree grow and bear fruit. In India there have been many situations like that but outside of India these people did that because these people had a certain process of Tantra where within a matter of few hours you plant, do certain rituals and make things happen - a plant actually grows up and bears a fruit.
So there are other ways that if you create a certain type of energy, if you dig out a certain type of energy - what would happen in a certain span of life would happen very rapidly in your life. So Kundalini is that dimension. One should not meddle with it unless they are truly, truly competent.
Prana: The Power of Kundalini (5 of 5)
17 minutes - 1998
Location: Isha Yoga Center
Transcript
Man in audience reads the following from a sheet of paper:
Q: Greetings Sadhguru. What is the relationship between prana and kundalini? And then this is related to it: How do we generate and maintain a proper flow of prana?
Sadhguru closes eyes for a moment then looks at audience...
A: The word Kund means a pit. It could be homakund, which is a sacrificial pit. Teetakund, which is a kind you have seen (indicates to outer ashram area). Or just a kund. It is just a pit.
So Kundalini is not the name of a particular energy. Kundalini is a description of a certain practice. (Sadhguru suddenly grins and laughs)...I know everywhere people are using the word like it is some film star...(laughs pretending to be a hipster spiritual person)...Kundalini! Where's your kundalini?! [Audience bursts out laughing]
Now...getting your energy out of the pit, the latent energy which is in the pit, to get it out of the pit is kundalini. Kundalini yoga means to get the energy out of the pit and active. [video cuts to a a painting of a slim yogi with mala beads in full lotus, eyes closed, arms extended with gyan mudra.]
A massive amount of energy is in the pit. It's still there. You also have it but it is not yours yet. Til you dig it out it is not yours yet. If you dare to open this you must be ready for many things. So we established a whole yogic system called Kundalini Yoga. Those who dare to directly open it. Because once you move in this direction you should not be concerned about your life - (Sadhguru indicates toward an audience member) - like she's doing her asana but she's worried about her relationship. You shouldn't have such concerns in your life.
[Sadhguru grins]
You're doing your asana, you're worried about your money. You shouldn't have such concerns in your life because if this grabs you from inside everything will evaporate. Nothing matters.
So Kundalini Yoga is for those who have no interest in life around them...(Sadhguru points to the whole room). After they've mastered it maybe they can play with life. But when they're on it they have no interest in anything around them. They're only interest is they want to go and explore the pit where the life is coming from. All this is happening (indicates his body), they want to know where it's coming from, all this physical manifestation. They want to dive into it and see.
So one aspect of Kundalini Yoga is to go into the pit or...Kund is also another reference to the womb. You're trying to go back to the womb. Going back to the womb means going back to the place where you were manufactured. Do not think of it in terms of female anatomy. (shakes hands no vigorously). It is a place where you are manufactured, isn't it? It's like you went back to a factory. Where you were made.
Yesterday I went to Bangalore to visit the Volvo plant where they make the buses and trucks in India. [Video cuts to Sadhguru touring the Volvo plant floor. He is inspecting how the cars are made at various stations. Various people are with him on the plant floor escorting him around showing him the various machinery used daily].
So I went there and got engrossed the whole day in the engines and the works and the technology because it's one thing to see a machine performing outside. It's another thing to see how it is made. With how much care and how much intelligence the whole thing is made is a different game altogether. That's what a mother's womb is, isn't it? Such a complex system is being put together in a woman's womb.
So one of the things most Kundalini Yogis do is...if they don't find a cave they will burrow a hole in the earth and go inside. I've seen, (laughs) I've visited some Kundalini Yogis in their holes. Unfortunately they have become like rats, not like yogis. (Sadhguru shakes head sadly) They only burrowed themselves in without the necessary (Sadhguru shakes head sadly again) ...what needs to happen within them (to make the practice a success). So when that happens you just end up being a rat. Not in the race, but just a rat. (audience laughs).
This happened...I was in Hyderabad...way back. These were the first few programs that I taught. 30 years ago. [Video cuts to show a younger Sadhguru with black hair teaching a packed class.] 1985...1983...83 was the first class in Hyderabad and one man came completely wired out. No muscle, all wirey. He was an ex member of the Parliament. So he got so engrossed in Kundalini Yoga...and he dug a hole. There's a place called...(Sadhguru breaks off)
Anybody from Hyderabad? No? (looks around room) Oh! You were there. (looks at other audience member). This was Sansaga (My note: Sansaga- that's what the word sounded like to me that he said. If anyone from Hyderabad reads this please let me know if I've misheard/misspelled the name). The other side of the Sansaga. Not the side of the (inaudible). The other side. This man somehow got government permission to build one small room, burrow a hole and sit inside and do his yoga. But he's so full of himself. He's not willing to take instruction from anybody. He read books and started doing Kundalini Yoga. So when he came to me he was quite a twisted out creature. But he's a member of Parliament. He was...at least. So he's been exposed to the ways of the world and everything.
So I start off on (a talk about)...responsibility...(Sadhguru pretends to be ex-Parliament yogi-wanna-be) "I did not come here to learn civics! Teach me yoga!" (Sadhguru laughs) So I looked at him and I remember this very well because the volunteers and people there to help were just shocked. I was telling him so many things. He just came back with the same thing. (Sadhguru gets severe look on his face and points) I said, "Hey man!" and he (Sadhguru imitates ex-parliament member jumping back in surprise). I said, "Hey man, just listen. I know what you've done to yourself in the last 12-15 years. Either I will undo this or just as you sit here I'll do something else to you now."
Because he won't allow the class to progress. There are 100 people in the program (but) this guy rants out his own thing, his own yoga that he's read in his books. So to the member of Parliament I said "hey man!" They all got shocked, (puts hands together imitating his class) "Sadhguru! It could be the end of you". (audience laughs and Sadhguru laughs)
And then after the program we did something to him. Something for the first time - little sweetness he experienced in his life. Then he asked me to come to his (Sadhguru grins) "Sadhana Room" and bless him. I said, "OK" and I went. And he's got a rat hole. This could be yogis cave...if it is done properly. If you don't do the right kind of things it just becomes a suffocating hole.
So I walked in. A stench...stench not in terms of smell. It is the stench of no life. This man is killing himself, literally. Doing all the wrong things. So...he's doing all the physical things right - in a sense. He's sleeping on a mat, no pillow. He eats only one time a day and...you know? All those things that he read in the books that yogis are supposed to do.
Then...it's morning I went. Early morning like 6-6:30. Then I went and spoke to him for about 2 hours and by then he was like this (mimics devoted disciple kowtowing to him) and I said, "Order breakfast." (Sadhguru mimics this now-devoted ex-parliamentarian shaking his hand vigorously no) "Morning I don't eat. I don't eat in the morning." I said, "Order a breakfast. I want to eat."
See for somebody who thinks not eating is the greatest Sadhana eating is corruption, you understand? So I want to do that to him. (Sadhguru laughs). I want to eat in his place. I said, "Order. What is the closest hotel. Order this...order that." (Sadhguru laughs again)
So with this great tray (of food)....(Sadhguru mimics new-disciple's reluctance). He never brings all this food into the thing. He's just eating raw cluster beans. It's a bitter vegetable. Only by cooking it'll be nice. So that's his breakfast. He wants to have his meal actually. I said, "leave that. I already ordered this, this, this and that. Eat with me." (audience laughs). And I spent almost 5-6 hours that day with him and made him eat whatever I had there. Broke his rigidity a little bit.
So Yoga can become like that. Kundalini Yoga. Because you're trying to dig. So you dig a coal mine without the necessary preparation you can die in just the dust of the coal, isn't it? So the same thing. If you dig into the Kund you must be ready, equipped in every possible way otherwise you don't talk Kundalini. Not necessary at all. I know it's so loosely talked about. Kundalini is not referring to a certain dimension of energy. Kundalini is referring to a certain form that our energy has taken or a certain place that our energy has settled into. It has settled into a pit and it's not coming out. And what is in a pit is of no use to you.
So bringing it into use. There are gentler ways of doing it. Hatha Yoga that you are doing - if you open up your system slowly depending upon what your system is ready for - slowly it will move up - a higher level of energy you can easily experience. But if you dig the pit itself then it's like a minefield. You know there are people who go and defuse bombs? So now if you go to defuse or to dig up something which is very powerful without necessary preparation that's not a good thing. If you are too good at it - maybe without protection you can go and do it. Otherwise it's always best that substantial protection is created before we attempt it. Or the best way is...(indicates his body) you open up the system slowly you will see a higher level of energy moving through you gradually the system becomes more and more vibrant. But if you want to touch the Kundalini, that which is in the Kund, preparation. Or...constant observation by somebody who knows what's happening or very cared for atmosphere that is competent enough to handle it. Or somebody who is competent enough to handle it for you. Or your own competence will come...it's too long to get your own competence...(Sadhguru stops then shakes head no).
So going for Kundalini Yoga site...is a foolhardy thing to do. Most people do it for 3 days and then go on and say, "You know I did Kundalini Yoga. I did Kundalini Yoga." Because something in that name they're doing because people want to start with the highest, not with the lowest. Where should you start? 1-2-3? Or zillion-billion-million? 1-2-3 is the way to start, isn't it?
If you 1-2-3. If you know up to 9 you can go any number you want. You don't have to learn zillion. If you learn up to 9 numbers and if you get a gift of 0 you can go as far as you want. You don't have start there (points upward).
See right now there is Kundalini in the earth. Instead of trying to dig it out you plant a seed. It grows up. If a tree has to push itself against gravity and grow that big a phenomenal energy must be working, isn't it? Isaac Newton only saw a small apple falling down. Why did he miss a whole tree growing up? Something is pushing it up, isn't it? Much bigger than apple falling down, no? Something far bigger - energy is pushing it up. Now this pushing up - you can call it Kundalini. I'm speaking - this is also Kundalini. You're listening - that is also Kundalini. A dog is barking - that is also Kundalini. A tree is flowering - that is also Kundalini. So the whole energy in the existence is referred to as Kundalini. Because this is the nature of the energy. It is always in a pit. Only if you put a potential possibility - like a seed - it finds expression. So right now you put the right kind of seed and allow it to find expression rather than trying to dig it out. But those who are in a rush and those who are competent or those who are in the presence of the competent constantly - such people can dig it out.
You know there are certain systems of Tantra. There were certain types of people, particularly in Central Asia. These were certain groups of gypsies, nomadic people, who in their rituals in a matter of 2.5-3 hours they will plant an apple seed and make the tree grow and bear fruit. In India there have been many situations like that but outside of India these people did that because these people had a certain process of Tantra where within a matter of few hours you plant, do certain rituals and make things happen - a plant actually grows up and bears a fruit.
So there are other ways that if you create a certain type of energy, if you dig out a certain type of energy - what would happen in a certain span of life would happen very rapidly in your life. So Kundalini is that dimension. One should not meddle with it unless they are truly, truly competent.
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