Sahaja Yoga and Other Kundalini Practices - A Serious Warning

The basic trouble with ALL practices that are regarded as being at least primarily for raising or 'awakening' the kundalini 'energy' is that they are greatly unbalanced, and the use of any of them is actually trying to force an out-of-context change in one aspect of your 'energy system'. This is true even for people who are supposedly 'ready' for kundalini 'awakening'. Virtually universally, people are regarded as ready for kundalini 'awakening' if they don't have particular blocks in their energy system that would cause major and obvious mental / emotional disturbances when the kundalini quickly 'rises', but nonetheless, using a kundalini-specific practice at all creates harmful energy imbalance.

Also, all these methods are ungrounding and so are harmful in that respect - and that is so even when the kundalini rises without immediately obvious harmful effects.

Yet another harmful aspect, strongly related to the origin of the various practices (i.e. from the dark force), is that the practices lead people to believe that when they've had a kundalini 'awakening', they have 'got there' and have found enlightenment and self actualization / self realization - so that they typically have little or no motivation to continue for true enlightenment and beyond to optimal self actualization. Even those who do have such motivation, if they have followed the route of kundalini 'awakening', in almost all cases they have been left with an unbalanced outlook that would be a serious obstacle to gaining optimal self actualization.

I mention Sahaja Yoga in particular, because a particular guru, Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, has founded and is widely promoting this method as an alleged fast-track and indeed almost instantaneous means to "self realization". One thing it does NOT achieve or truly help towards is true self realization. It appears that she has trained quite a number of people to teach this practice, and they are introducing people to it pretty widely throughout the world.

I myself encountered Sahaja Yoga in about 2002, when for some weeks a couple of very well intentioned young men trained by Shri Mataji gave weekly free group sessions of Sahaja Yoga close to where I live in Exeter. At that stage I didn't know of anything specifically 'wrong' about it, but was intrigued (and quite a bit sceptical) about the claim of near-instant "self realization". Another cause of scepticism was the matter of kundalini 'awakening', for even then I'd already come to understand that this was something that was inclined to cause severe problems for many people. Yet these teachers were making out as though Sahaja Yoga was completely safe and would cause no-one any problems. Curious!

Because I'd already been enlightened for a good five years then, I suspected that my kundalini would very likely have already been rising in a healthy and gradual way and that their method wouldn't harm me and might benefit me*, so I went to two of their sessions and repeated the practice once or twice at home before altogether losing interest in it.

* I now understand that I was at that time on the verge of the truth about myself in relation to kundalini practices, but there was something fundamental that I didn't know then. I now understand myself to be a no-soul incarnation, and, as I understand it now, all no-soul people already have full kundalini integration, with no kundalini at all locked up in their nether region. This is because the normal situation, with kundalini locked away "at the base of the spine" (as many people describe it) is part of the actually pathological condition of having a soul - which latter is a distortion of a particular 'level' of consciousness that makes the person a captive of the dark force and programmed to go through sequential, karmic lifetimes, as explained in The True Nature of 'The Dark Force' and its Interference and Attacks.

So, any true no-soul person would get absolutely no kundalini effect from Sahaja Yoga or any other kundalini practice - though he still could get more ungrounded as a result of any such practices, and misinterpret that as some sort of 'spiritual opening up' or other supposedly positive change.

I have to say, the whole Sahaja Yoga practice seemed to me to be primitive in the worst sense, in that it incorporated a simplistic outlook that expected enlightenment and self actualization to be handed to you on a plate if you sat for about 15 to 20 minutes with your hands on a sequence of positions on the body, at each hand position asking some higher source for a particular type of improvement in your personality, and at the final position directly asking for your self realization "now". So, you go through what is effectively a type of prayer ritual and ask for self realization to be given - yes, given! - to you as though on a plate! At that point I felt remarkably like a young schoolboy putting my hand up in class and asking, "Please, Miss, I've been a good boy and completed this practice, so can I have my Brownie points / sweets / ice cream / self realization now?". Indeed, to me it was quite comical and I found it a little bit difficult not to burst out into laughter in the group or display an offending smirk (maybe I even involuntarily did  the latter!).

Another problem about Sahaja Yoga, or at least the way it was presented, was that it was confusing enlightenment and self actualization. That is serious, because even when a person does achieve enlightenment through that practice (I expect a small proportion of people do, though in a narrow and unbalanced way), the person actually has still in almost all cases a long way to go for optimal self actualization, which cannot be achieved by that method.

I now recognise Sahaja Yoga very much to be dark force sourced stuff, regardless of the good intentions of pretty well everyone who is promoting it.

I myself experienced nothing to notice when I did those practices - but, as I say, I suspected that through my own self healing and enlightenment I'd already achieved in a more gentle and balanced way what Sahaja Yoga was claiming to do*. What I didn't know then was that those sessions did actually do me a little harm, in slightly further weakening my grounding and increasing my connections with the dark force, as part of the sequence of events that led up to my severe troubles with the dark force from 2003 onwards.

* As noted further above, I now understand that, as a no-soul person, I already had full kundalini integration, so my kundalini had never had any cause to 'rise'.

At the time when those Sahaja Yoga sessions were running in Exeter I mentioned the practice to a very experienced local healer, who it turned out, was outspoken against it. He told me that he'd been at a mind, body and spirit fair where there had been a Sahaja Yoga stand with lots of people being guided through that practice, none of them being given any cautions about possible undesirable effects. He said that during that fair he'd had a pretty constant stream of people coming to him for healing because of immediate serious troubles they'd got from trying Sahaja Yoga.

Unfortunately, as that healer himself was being seriously controlled and misled by the dark force, it's unlikely that anyone got much real benefit from his assistance, and in various cases he may have compounded their problems, particularly with the harmful energy implants that he was prone to put into people's systems (as he did into mine in a weekly Reiki 'shares' group), apparently believing that they were healing implants that would dissolve over a week or two.

You can read on my Self Realization and Clear-Mindedness Forum an account of one person's difficult times arising from his involvement with Sahaja Yoga.

The good news that arises out of all this is that for enlightenment and true self actualization you NEVER need a kundalini-specific practice, because true self actualization methods - all of them - bring about a progressive rising of the kundalini (if indeed the latter isn't already fully integrated) in balance with all the other positive changes in your whole being. So, you could well say that the practices presented and pointed to in Some Potent Self Actualization / Healing Practices are among the ultimate kundalini practices, because they do not focus specifically on kundalini at all but still bring about a steady and, you could say, 'safely rapid' rising of that 'energy', if and as required, in balance with the whole system - and always cultivating groundedness, while kundalini-specific practices are all ungrounding and thus open you (more) to dark force interference and influence.

For more about really effective genuine self actualization methods, including those that I use myself with strongly positive effect, please see Healing - The Safest and Quickest Way.