Because Kundalini Yoga specifically provides a technique that allows us to create the physical prerequisites for awakening. As an example, let’s assume it’s time to go to bed, just to name one off the top of my head. You should create the ideal environment for a restful night’s sleep. Thus, if you lie down and adjust the temperature to your preference, you’ll be more inclined to sleep…
The appropriate kind of information is sent to your brain when the blinds are closed and the room is dark. When it grows dark, your brain begins to manufacture melatonin. As this becomes habitual, your body begins to respond in the expected manner. Sleeping is more likely for you. You are less likely to fall asleep compared to using a treadmill.
That is similar to what we are doing with Kundalini. The physical environment is being prepared for Awakening. Therefore what we do in yoga actually has an energetic component, as I demonstrate in my video that you recently posted on Awaken. There’s the visual material, where we see people striking poses and laughing while they breathe. Yet, what is actually taking place is that we are dissolving energetic barriers, which permits the energy to flow in a way that facilitates the phenomenon that we refer to as “awakening.”
Or, we have other fancy names for it like, Self-Realization. Or, Samadhi, which means, the state of no separation. Non-distracted awareness. Presence. Samadhi. God Realization. Wholeness. Oneness. We have so many names for this experience. But that is the key—it has to be experienced. We can read all the books on our bookshelves and we can have Ph.Ds, proclaim ourselves masters of writing and intellectual understanding, and we’ll be no better off. And so, there is an energetic component to that experience…or, what facilitates that experience. And when the energy rises—what we call Kundalini rising—we set up the conditions for the experience of oneness. So, Yoga is a tool for that. All forms of Yoga.
