Author: Swami Sivananada Radha
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
Year: 1992
Language: English
Pages: 379
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8120808126
Description
Kundalini Yoga is a direct path to higher consciousness. It is the process of conscious cooperation with evolution. Within each of us there lies a vast potential of energy and power which, when properly understood and directed, will lead to previously unimagined heights of perception and awareness.
In ancient times, the process of evolution was preserved in the symbolic picture language of the Kundalini yoga system. Down through the ages the gurus and spiritual teachers have used these symbols as the key in directing aspirants to the realization of their own hidden potential. Swami Sivananda Radha continues in this noble tradition of the transmission of knowledge. Her book is based upon twenty years of her own practice and experience. She has demystified Kundalini Yoga so that it can be understood and applied in the daily lives of men and women of today.
This is a book of inspiration, and also an eminently practical one. Tools to bring quality into life are given for those who wish to cooperate with evolution. Swami Radha has presented clear directions for exercises and practices.
Because of its emphasis on self-development, this book will be of particular value to those in the helping professions.
REVIEWS
Swami Sivananda Radha has written a book destined to become a classic in the literature of altered states of consciousness. She has succeeded magnificently in describing the Kundalini tradition and in making it accessible for those individuals in our troubled culture who are badly in need of its cleansing flame.
-Stanley Krippner
Humanistic Psychology Institute, San Francisco
Clear, comprehensive and full of extremely useful information.
-Stanislav Grof
Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California
Kundalini Yoga is full of sound advice and spiritual directions for purifying and developing the physical, emotional and mental being as a foundation for the safe awakening of the Kundalini Power.
-Judith Tyberg
East-West Cultural Centre, Los Angeles
The book is a treasure chest. It is a welcome relief to read about Kundalini in ways that are clear, detailed, explicit and profound, a genuinely useful text for personal development.
-James Fadiman
California Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Menlo Park, Ca.
In view of the growing interest in the inner way by which we attempt to tune into the forces of evolution, Kundalini Yoga may well mark a break-through, long expected and long overdue.
-Herbert V Guenther
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Sask.
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
A WORD FROM THE AUTHOR
CHAPTER ONE
The Aspirant
CHAPTER TWO
Mystical Aspects of Hatha Yoga
CHAPTER THREE
Divine Mother Sakti (The Devi)
CHAPTER FOUR
Muladhara: The First Cakra
CHAPTER FIVE
Svadhisthana: The Second Cakra
CHAPTER SIX
Manipura: The Third Cakra
CHAPTER SEVEN
Anahata: The Fourth Cakra
CHAPTER EIGHT
Visuddha: The Fifth Cakra
CHAPTER NINE
Ajna: The sixth Cakra
CHAPTER TEN
Powers of the Cakras
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Brainstorming: Mind, Consciousness, Energy
NOTES
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
INDEX