--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Nov 28, 2006, at 2:07 AM, anywho108 wrote: > > > This brings up something I've been pondering about > > "yogic flying" which of course isn't flying at all. > > Although I've had the sutras for many many years, I > > would like to hear some explanation of exactly what > > bouncing around, or shaking, or whatever else people > > are doing has anything to do with levitation.
Hopping is said to be the first stage of yogic flying, the second stage being hovering and the third actual levitation, moving through the air at will. Hopping is supposedly the body's attempt to respond to the impulse to lift into the air that is generated by the flying sutra. Eventually, when mind/body coordination is perfected by repeated practice, the body should be able to respond to the impulse without using the muscles. > > I've always had the feeling that if tomorrow MMY said, > > okay, all this hopping around isn't really necessary, > > then all of a sudden people would stop hopping around. I'm not sure that would be the case with me. The impulse to hop can be very powerful, so much so that one would have to actively resist it, sort of like trying to keep one's knee from jerking when the doctor taps it with a hammer, or trying to suppress a sneeze or a yawn. In other words, hopping is an involuntary muscular response to the impulse generated by the sutra. > > What's the point? The point is to develop one's consciousness. Actual manifestation of the levitation siddhi, including the stage of hopping, is said to be incidental to that development, a benchmark, not the goal in and of itself. Same with all the other TM-Sidhis sutras. > It's a by product of either pranayama or the most elementary > form of kundalini awakening. Um, I wouldn't take Vaj's explanations here as authoritative. > > There are basically three levels of kundalini awakening: prana > kundalini, cit kundalini and samashti kundalini. > > Prana kundalini is usually experienced by jerking, hopping motions. > It's what happens when kundalini awakens at the muladhara chakra. > Kundalini then usually goes on to rise higher, but in the TMSP it is > chronically and repeatedly invoked at this lower level. It also can > provide minor, passing siddhis. > > It's only when kundalini becomes cit kundalini at the heart chakra > that the awakening process really begins to unfold. Once it reaches > the third eye and samashti kundalini is awake, one is able to > perceive from a unified level of consciousness. >
