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Surrender Meditation
Shaktipat Kundalini Yoga
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Surrender Meditation
The term "surrender” as it applies to Surrender Meditation, is the choice to allow the Divine absolute authority over your meditation. When the life energy in the body (prana) has been released through the instigation of spiritual power (shakti), meditation happens automatically.
The many meditation techniques available today have their origin in this naturally unfolding process. In ancient times, people observed devoted aspirants who spontaneously, without using a technique, entered into the meditative state. These observers tried to duplicate what they saw in order to get the same results, and meditation techniques were born.
Many of these techniques have survived into our own time. They can be seen in yoga and meditation classes, and in various types of breath work and breathing exercises. They appear in religions and spiritual practices of all kinds throughout the various cultures of the world.
A technique is a certain way of doing something in order to get a specific result. Any practice that requires you to try to make something happen or to stop something from happening, is a technique. The process of trying to reach spiritual maturity through techniques is certainly possible, but it is long and demanding.
It is possible to take another road which, though less traveled, can take you with speed and efficiency to the fulfillment of your spiritual quest. What happens in Surrender Meditation is up to the Divine. The practice of Surrender Meditation is a specific context in which this journey, uniquely your own, is experienced naturally and spontaneously.
Success is inevitable when we get out of the way and leave things to God, the Divine.
Shaktipat Kundalini Yoga
Shaktipat means "shakti giving". This is the
transmission of the spiritual power (shakti) that initiates spontaneous
meditation. This transmission occurs between you and a shaktipat
teacher, or between you and the Divine.
Kundalini is the evolutionary force whose function is to evolve the being to the natural state of eternal happiness and perfection.
Yoga, which means "to yoke together," or "union," is the meeting of the warming (sun) and the cooling (moon) life energy functions in the body. With the union of these otherwise opposing energies, Kundalini is awakened.
Shaktipat Kundalini Yoga is a personal journey, unique to each individual. Through the medium of shaktipat, Surrender Meditation and the awakening of Kundalini occur spontaneously.