The Awakening of the Yoga Force in the Individual

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When we consider the awakening
of the Kundalini Shakti at the

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base of the spine, we frequently
imagine some kind of dramatic

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experience, some palpable
energy, some noticeable force

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operating and moving up through
the experiential body, And in

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some cases this actually does
occur this way.

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For the most part, however, the
awakening of the yoga force is

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more subtle.
As a chakra opens, it becomes

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receptive to energies that
vibrate at the frequency that it

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is able to receive, similar to a
radio receiver tuned to a

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specific channel.
In some cases, the development

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of the energies occurs quite
naturally as a process of

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maturation of the being.
The individual simply grows into

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it.
In other cases, there is some

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prod or impetus that touches
something deep inside and

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awakens the individual to a new
thought, a new emotion, a new

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energy, a new way of being.
Then there are the dramatic

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instances where an individual
undergoes some kind of intense

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life changing experience,
possibly a near death

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experience, which radically
changes his life focus.

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Charles Dickens, in his classic
story A Christmas Carol, tells

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the tale of Scrooge, who
operates his life primarily from

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2nd and 3rd chakra energy.
His heart center is closed and

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his methods are rough and
uncaring, demanding and

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unsatisfied.
He has an experience where he is

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visited by the ghost of his
former business partner, Woeful

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and in chains, and is warned
that he will be visited by three

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successive ghosts, one showing
him the past, one the present

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and one the future.
After undergoing these

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experiences, he finds the next
morning that his heart chakra

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has opened and he becomes a
caring, supportive and open

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hearted person, essentially a
complete reversal from his prior

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personality, and with this
change he becomes cheerful and

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even joyful in contrast to his
former constant dower mood.

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Danny and Brinkley in his book
Saved by the Light tells how he

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was literally struck by
lightning, declared clinically

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dead and upon returning he
transformed his life from being

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a stone cold mercenary to a
caring and understanding

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individual with a mission to
help others in their transitions

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as they face death in Hospice
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Another individual reported how
he had his entire life

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transformed through a case of
poisoning and near death event.

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He had been on an educational
path leading to a possible

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career in the legal field until
the event when his body seized

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up from the poison and he could
not breathe.

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He reported hearing an inner
voice that said do yogic

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breathing.
He had no external knowledge of

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or relation to yoga and had
never been exposed to it.

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His body started breathing
differently and when he awoke he

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saw the sun shining brightly and
he knew at that moment that

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there was a divine consciousness
creating and guiding the world,

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and he had been returned to
carry out a life dedicated to a

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path that was laid out before
him.

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He abandoned his education, his
former career aspirations and

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took up the study and practice
of yoga.

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He experienced this as an act of
grace.

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In his epic poem Savitri, a
legend and a symbol, Sri

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Aurobindo describes a process
where the soul takes up the

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effort of former lives.
In his evolutionary development

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quote, a thought was thrown in
the unsounded void.

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A sense was born within the
darkness depths, a memory

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quivered in the heart of time,
as if a soul long dead were

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moved to live.
But the oblivion that succeeds

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the fall had blotted the crowded
tablets of the past, and all

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that was destroyed must be
rebuilt and old experience

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labored out once more.
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A disciple asked about a
citation from Sri Aurobindo.

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There's a yoga Shakti lying
coiled or asleep.

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How can it be awakened?
The Mother responds quote.

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I think it awakens quite
naturally the moment 1 takes the

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resolution to do the yoga.
If the resolution is sincere and

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one has an aspiration, it wakes
up by itself.

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In fact, it is perhaps its
awakening which gives the

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aspiration to do yoga.
It is possible that it is a

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result of the grace or after
some conversation or reading

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something that has suddenly
given you the idea and

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aspiration to know what yoga is
and to practice it.

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Sometimes just a simple
conversation with someone is

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enough, or a passage one reads
from a book.

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Well, it awakens this Yoga
Shakti and it is this which

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makes you do your yoga.
One is not aware of it at first

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except that something has
changed in our life.

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A new decision is taken.
A turning End Quote reference.

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Sri Aurobindo and the mother
powers within.

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Chapter 8.
Yoga Shakti.

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