--- 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. > > > > 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. > > > > What's the point? > > > It's a by product of either pranayama or the most elementary form of > kundalini awakening. > > 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. >
IF you happen to buy into the kundalini explanation, which is a very johnny-come-lately trend in Yogic circles, and many/most scholars don't consider it vedic.
