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Kundalini Yoga
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| Wednesday, December 31, 2008 |
The word Kundalini is familiar to all students of yoga, as is well known that the power in the form of a coiled snake, residing in Muladhara Chakra, the first of the seven chakras, the six others being Svadhishthana, Manipuraka, A Nahata, Visuddha, Ajna and Sahasrara, in order.
Less known is the history of Agama as the Vedas, because they provide narrative poem-pictures of Vedic life. The original Agama are twenty-eight in number. They are called Saiva Agama as they focus on establishing a relationship and, ultimately, the attainment of the Supreme Being Siva. They have names like Vira, Hero. Siddha, refined and Swayambhuva naturally revealed.
The Agama are divided into four parts called padas, lessons. The first two padas - Charii conduct, and Kriya, worship outside - to include all the personal details of life at home, home planning, planning, personal worship in the temples, architectural plans for temples and sculpture as well as the intricacies of temple puja. The last two padas - Yoga, internalized worship and the Union and Jnana, wisdom enlightened - clearly describe the process and stages of kundalini yoga, and cod as trays of conscience reached when Sivahood is reached. In the text, padas are classified with jnana first, second yoga, and then Kriya Charii - unfurling from a God-man rule.
The Agama contain tens of thousands of verses, much more prolific than the Vedas. Although the Vedas are strictly in Sanskrit, Agama proliferated across India and oilier countries through many languages. But they have badly managed over the millennia, including yoga and Jnana Padas - so high and powerful. The guard neglected Saiva priests. Many padas Agama all have been lost or destroyed. |
posted by neptunus @ 9:27 PM
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