With yoga I certainly do not mean to modern practice is linked to fitness and which has been stripped of its true meaning discipline, which has in the asanas and postures, which constitute the bulk of the practice in the West, a mere activity preliminary to direct the practitioner to union with the divine, that is what it meant to the ancient yoga, a discipline that seeks communion or divine ecstasy. Modernity, all passing through the filter of capital has made yoga a secular practice, desdiosada and mostly lite in which anyone can have a relaxing experience or shape your body to adjust to the pressures of the paradigmatic beauty, but hardly the mystical state is described by the ancient texts only increase our flexibility. Yoga is a way any activity that brings us closer to the divine, with the brahman, the spiritual essence of things and yet, the yogic traditions of India have a number of quite precise esoteric practices and detailed to produce tangible effects and operate on the body in its subtle plane. It is not a diffuse or suggestive spirituality, but is a specific system for activating certain energy centers and even secure the release of the spirit and achieving a state of immortality. In some traditions it is said that the human body is the mudra of divinity, and under certain gestural correspondence with the archetypal principles of the cosmos becomes a conductor of divine energy.
Following the tantric text Sat Chakra Nirupana, Arthur Avalon in his book The Serpent Power explains the process of awakening the kundalini energy at the base of the column, the first chakra in which dwells the goddess Shakti, the consort of Lord Shiva, who symbolizes conscience and who dwells in the crown chakra of the head, symbolized by a lotus with a thousand petals. The union that occurs in the crown or fontanella in tantric yoga is the union of Atman with Brahman, the individual with the One who is All. Arthur Avalon describes this process: Devi Kundalini, "when it reaches the lotuses" for the channel [nadi] called nadi-Brahma, "shines in all its splendor in the lotus" and "as subtle, fine as the fiber lotus, approaches Shiva, who is the Supreme enjoy, and who is in form of Bindu, in the pericarp of the Sahasrara "that fills the" sadhaka ", the practitioner, the" supreme joy of liberation. " That is, in our body the two essential cosmic principles, join the divine couple in their eternal erotic drunkenness, energy and consciousness. In the Sat Chakra Nirupana talking about a difficult point (bindu) to achieve, "which is the key to liberation" and which is also said to reside Parama-Shiva, "the Brahman and Atman of all beings". This point is described as "sunyata" the great void and Avalon said, "can be achieved only with great effort and incessant performance practicing dhyana '(meditation). It is also said that in this bindu chakra amrit, the nectar of immortality occurs.
As we know today the inhabitant of a city almost anywhere in the world has a wide range of different streams of yoga, some will be more proper than others to their expectations, but I think the important thing is to expand on the techniques, which are install the knowledge within a tradition and all practices to its purpose which is to be carried, again, the union with a divine principle or a spiritual essence. You can do all the "dogs face down" or "cobras" you want but remember that this is subject to union with the divine and to the experience of truth. Otherwise you can make these positions, and there is nothing wrong with that, but will not be doing yoga.
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