Siddha Maha Yoga: The Royal Way for Spiritual Ascent

Siddha Maha Yoga Happiness is man’s timeless goal. Since we have a notion that anything pleasant or pleasurable to the senses (the sense of smell, taste, sight, touch and sound), would lead to happiness, our mind harks for such experiences. However, there are several shortcomings in seeking happiness in this way. Firstly, senses always require some external object in order to convey an experience. This spells dependence and in the long run, slavery. Secondly, experience of sense gratification is only temporary, while what we really are looking for is a lasting state. Thirdly, if an experience is pleasurable, the senses demand more of the same experience, leading to a constant state of wanting. In Yoga, we have a science that deals with searching for lasting, sense-free happiness. To begin with, we should have no exception in accepting that the entire Manifest Creation is a Cause and Effect Hierarchy Matrix in which the gross elements to which our senses and mind are tuned are located at the Effect Space of this matrix. Since for lasting happiness, its source has to be free from the five senses, our awareness or consciousness has to ascend this hierarchy and move towards the Cause Space in the matrix. We must therefore first find a force in this Hierarchy which is superior to the mind so that we could hand over the mind along with all its disturbing contents to it! This Superior and Intelligent force is our very own Prana Shakti. Friends, take yourselves to the time when you were in your mother’s womb. Did you ask for two eyes and two ears? Or for one nose and one mouth? Or for two hands and two legs? No. It is that very Intelligent Force viz. Prana Shakti that decided and caused not only your body, but also the mind to take a particular form and constitution. It even caused the first heartbeat and the first breath and will continue to be the cause of your breathing till death. The self-intelligently functioning Shakti of Nature becomes dormant just at birth as this Shakti has finished Her work of bringing a living being into existence, who as per the Law of Cause and Effect (better known as Karma), has to live out some or all of the past Karma in the current life-span. We are hence born with a certain constitution, which are actually driven by subtle energy centres or “Chakras” which are pre-set for that person. If, after having completed her task of creation (birth), this Shakti (Yogis named this dormant Shakti as “Kundalini Shakti”) had not become dormant, She would have commenced her return journey i.e. towards Pure Consciousness. Having to work Her way through that person, She must correct the Chakra pre-sets, since the aberrations represent obstacles in her way. The Shakti thus effects these corrections by means of causing various corrective Kriyas, thus bypassing the need to actually live out the karma. Most other Yoga Practices directly or indirectly aim at balancing these energy Chakras willfully. However, as every individual is constitutionally different, it is difficult to select suitable practices, leading to puzzlement. In Siddha MahaYoga, the Sadhaka’s dormant Shakti is awakened by the grace of the Guru at the time of Initiation. Hence, during daily Siddha Yoga Sadhana, all one has to do is to sit relaxed and simply surrender one’s will to the awakened Kundalini Shakti and be a calm witness as this Prana Shakti works out various corrective Kriyas. Such corrective Kriyas could be physical, mental or even emotional in nature depending upon the karmic requirements or the Chakra imbalance of the individual. Some of these could even be imperceptible as when corrections are taking place concerning some hidden health disorder. As the practitioner’s mind does not exert any will for these Kriyas, Siddha Maha Yoga could thus be seen as “auto-customized”. The preparatory practice for Siddha Maha Yoga consists of learning to hand over the mind, at least for a few minutes everyday, to this Mother Prana Shakti manifesting in all of us as breath.

The aspiring Siddha Maha Yoga Sadhak could thus make a start as outlined below:

Sit in any comfortable position. Relax the body to the maximum, as if the body is not there.
Close the eyes calmly, with deep devotion to the Divine Power. As soon as the eyes are closed, a wave of Prana-Shakti, the driving life current naturally rises up from the base of the backbone to the top of the brain.
ALLOW the NATURAL breathing to take place OF ITS OWN. Keep the eyes closed and simply observe the automatically incoming and outgoing air.
Sit this way for three minutes or more and allow any involuntary happenings that may take place. This is the Introductory Practice of Siddha Mahayoga, which is proving to be highly effective because in Siddha Mahayoga, by the above practice, we simply establish Mother Prana Shakti as the supreme aspect within us and allow this Mother Prana Shakti to work through the body and mind for self-purification.While there are many Yoga practices such as Hatha-Yoga, Mantra-Yoga, Laya-Yoga, Raja-Yoga, etc. it is easily seen that Siddha Mahayoga is definitely the simplest and highest form of Yoga because in this Yoga, the body and mind is freed from the doer-ship which is taken over by the Prana Shakti, the supreme aspect of creation, inherent in all. The above practice, if done daily, for three minutes or more, slowly leads to the advent of qualities such as integrity, sincerity and inquisitiveness. It also results in higher IQ and scholastic abilities, this being of particular importance to students. Self purification also leads to elimination of many negative aspects of one’s character, which would certainly pave the way for a more harmonious society. Other benefits of this practice are innumerable – varying from person to person.Trials of this practice have already been conducted and thousands of people have expressed the experience of positive changes taking place within themselves.
Experiencing the reality and Universality of Prana, through the medium of Air (which is everywhere) generates an inner feeling of mutual brotherhood, crossing individual, social, racial, economic, gender, age and religious differences.

If done regularly, this preparatory practice will result in many positive changes. In due course it will also kindle one’s wish to obtain the Grace and Initiation from the right Guide on this path. If such grace is showered, from then on, during daily Sadhana, the awakened Prana Shakti, will cause appropriate corrective Kriyas and over time will remove all the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual imbalances within the Aspirant.

(Writer Anand M. Kulkarni is graced with Siddha Maha Yoga initiation from P.P. Shree Narayan Kaka Dhekane Maharaj; Readers can reach him at: mahayogi@vsnl.com or mahayoganand@gmail.com )

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