Meditation in Kundalini Yoga
What is Meditation?
Meditation is undisturbed, concentrated attention on the present moment. It is the cleaning of the subconscious, removing the garbage that keeps us locked into reactive patterns of behavior. Meditation instills in us the strength, stamina and grace to consciously choose our responses in everyday situations. Simple, sublime and yet so amazingly profound.
Meditation in conjunction with the practice of Kundalini Yoga, as taught by Yogi Bhajan, is a most effective, safe and powerful way of achieving heightened awareness and increased states of consciousness. The practice of Kundalini Yoga strengthens the nervous system and the entire physical, mental and emotional well being of an individual.
You can then utilize these higher frequencies brought on by meditation. The experience is gradual, safe and enjoyable with the ascent of the Kundalini energy bringing on attendant pleasures and a deeper sense of wholeness and inner connectedness to the Divine within.
A daily practice of Kundalini Yoga and Meditation brings the meditative neutral mind into everyday life and elevates day to day living to a higher plateau. This is the form for the “householder” and done together, the joys and challenges of regular life are “ridden” instead of them riding us. We learn to become the watcher, and all becomes indescribably delicious.
How to Begin
Create a quiet, sacred, clean space for your practice. Always warm up with some stretching, movement and breathwork.
Begin your session by chanting “Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo” 3 times ( I Bow to the Creative Wisdom that resides within me).
Upon completion of your meditation, chant “Sat Nam”, meaning Truth is my True Identity, to close.
Selected Kundalini Meditations:
1,000 Day Meditation for Invincible Spirit to lead to the Aquarian Age
February 14, 2009 to November 11, 2011
Position:
Sit straight, left hand on knee in Gyan Mudra, thumb and index finger touching, raise right palm in front of heart holding the mantra page with eyes open to start reading the mantra as you chant. Without the mantra page, use palm as “page”.
Focus:
Eyes begin open reading mantra page, then end closed with hands moving to cross over each other at heart center.
Timing:
Begin with music chanting holding mantra page: 7 minutes
Eyes closed, hands cross at heart, chanting w/music: 2 minutes
Eyes closed, hands same, powerful whisper w/music: 1 minute
Eyes closed, hands same, chanting w/out music: 30 seconds.
Inhale, exhale and relax.
Mantra:
Sat Siri, (Truth, Projective Prosperity and Greatness)
Siri Akal, (Great Undying One Who Knows No Death)
Siri Akal
Maha Akal, (Infinite Who is Deathless)
Maha Akal,
Sat Nam, (Truth as Identity)
Akal Moort, (Embodied Form or Image of the Infinite)
Wahe Guru, (The Ecstatic Totality of God and Existence)
“In the face of any great change, we confront three destructive impulses: to be alone and withdrawn, to deny or fantasize about the future that’s coming, and to live with greed or scarcity instead of prosperity. This mantra counters these three tendencies and instills the mind with courage and caliber.
Music available for free download: www.kriteachings.com or www.spiritvoyage.com.
Songs to Create Mental Clarity
Simran, which means the constant remembrance of the Infinite, is particularly effective for relaxing the mind. You can use a simple mantra, such as Sat Nam, or a more complex sound, as in the ones below. These chosen mantras help in creating mental clarity, and conscious concentration.
Position:
Sit in a cross legged position (or a chair if unable to sit), with hands resting on knees in Gyan mudra, index and thumb tips pressing. Eyes are closed can look at third eye point.
Focus:
Let your thoughts melt as you consciously concentrate on the mantra. Breathe normally, but be conscious to breath or chant along.
Recommended mantras:
Dhan Dhan Ram Das Guru, for miracles and will bring peace to a troubled and ever wandering mind.
Rakhe Rakhanhar, for protection against all negative forces, inner and outer which move against one’s walk on the path of destiny. It cuts like a sword through every opposing vibration, thought, word and action.
Ardas Bahee, Amar Das Guru, this is the mantra that prays for you, it will save your grace, rewrite your destiny through this prayer.
Time:
11-31 minutes per day. Recommended 40 days.
To End:
Inhale hold your breath and concentrate at the third eye point and exhale, do this three times. Close with Sat Nam, hands at the heart center in Prayer pose.
Prosperity Meditation
Position:
Put both hand over the heart center, left underneath and the right on top. Close your eyes. Breathe very deep breaths, absolutely long, deep and slow.
Focus:
Find God as a deity sitting in your heart center and you are holding this deity with two hands. Every request, all expansion and all prosperity of you within you, shall come to you, if you pray, holding the Infinite at the heart center. Feel no weakness at being one to one, or face to face; every finite has the authority, the blessing and the goodwill to face Infinity within.
When you hold your heart with a presiding deity of that Infinity, the sound word is “Wha-Hay Guroo,” the Trikuti, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, all in oneself. Then you breathe long and deep and love your prana, the breath of life, you shall find result.
Hold this space. This is the most precious prayer, the most precious moment of your life.
Use it that way. Make yourself stronger and stronger. The deeper the breath, the better the results. Inhale deeper; inflate your rib cage as much as you can; bring a lot of prana to your heart center. Let it be lit by your own grace. Do it for yourself, do it right, do it powerfully.
Long, deep inhalations burn disease in the deepest corners of you lungs and your body. Let God preside within you, with His presence at your heart center. It’s the most wonderful and beautiful moment of your life when you as finite can understand Infinity within you. Feel it, touch it and relate to it.
Time: 11 -31 minutes
To End:
Lock your elbows, inhale deeply, hold and squeeze your body and every fiber with the locked elbows. Cannon fire out through the mouth. Repeat this 3 times. Let go, relax.