Sahaja Yoga and Other Kundalini Practices - A Serious Warning

The basic trouble with ALL practices which 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 which 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 (from the astral or 'dark' forces), 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 realization - so that they typically have little or no motivation to continue for true enlightenment and beyond to full self realization. Even those who do have such motivation, if they have followed the route of kundalini 'awakening', in almost all cases have been left with an unbalanced outlook which would be a serious obstacle to full self realization.

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', as I'd already come to understand that this was something which 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 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 realization 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 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 self realization now?". Indeed, I found it quite comical and found it a little bit difficult not to burst out into laughter in the group or display an offending smirk.

Another problem about Sahaja Yoga, or at least the way it was presented, was that it was confusing enlightenment and self realization. That is serious, because even when a person does achieve enlightenment through that practice (I expect a certain 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 full self realization, which cannot be achieved by that method.

I now recognise Sahaja Yoga very much as astral-sourced ('dark') 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 astral forces, as part of the sequence of events which led up to my severe troubles with astral entities from 2003 onwards.

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 astral forces, 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), apparently believing that they were healing implants which would dissolve over a week or two.

The good news which arises out of all this is that for enlightenment and true self realization you NEVER need a kundalini-specific practice, because true self realization methods - all of them - bring about a progressive rising of the kundalini in balance with all the other positive changes in your whole being. So, you could well say that the practices taught by Stephen and Lynda Kane (some of which have been further developed my me, as given in Some Potent Self Realization / 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 in balance with the whole system - and always cultivating groundedness, while kundalini-specific practices are all ungrounding and thus open you (more) to astral ('dark force') interference and influence.

For more about really effective true self realization methods, including those which I use myself with dramatically positive effect, please see Healing - The Safest and Quickest Way. Even if you took no other measures for self realization, to have a Clarity-Sphere™ (set up properly and 'tuned' to you) would steadily bring about a process of inner healing, clearance and self realization, in a completely natural and balanced way, with no 'kundalini nasties', nor entity or astral connections.