On the spiritual path of Kundalini Yoga, the rules help to recognize and distinguish the true ego Ser Thanks to the rules, the novice acquires habits that make choosing and maintaining their connection to their inner being for the rest of their spiritual journey. For example, a rule common to all forms of Yoga is the ancient custom of entering without shoes to the holy sites, being left dirty shoes at the entrance to a representation of your ego, concrete symbolic meaning of the obstacle to spiritual perfection.
Yogi Bhajan was referring to the ego at a conference in these terms: "The only way to survive today is through the madness of the ego. The ego has its rationality, and the ego of man is like a snake that spits you venom as a source. It means nothing. just scares you, that's all. People have been restricted, diminished, squashed to mere physical existence. Today we are six billion ugly ducklings living on the planet and we have no quality or quantity, or character or commitment. Look at our character, is shrouded in lies and inconsistencies. We say things that are not true, really say things that are not true. Dramatically say things that are not true. "
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" When consciousness frees itself from its identification with the physical and mental forms, it becomes what we call pure or enlightened consciousness, or presence. This has already occurred in some individuals and seems destined to happen soon in a much larger scale, although there is no absolute guarantee that will happen.
Most beings humans are still in the grip of the egoic mode of consciousness: identified with your mind and dominated by it. If not released from his mind in time, will be destroyed by it. Experience confusion, conflict, violence, disease, despair and madness growing. The egoic mind has become like a sinking ship. If you do not leave will sink with him. The collective egoic mind is the entity most dangerously insane and destructive that ever inhabited this planet. What do you think will happen on this planet if human consciousness remains unchanged?
For most humans the only respite from their minds that are already, is to move occasionally to a level of consciousness below thought. Everyone reaches every night during sleep. But it also occurs to some extent through sex, alcohol and other drugs that suppress the excessive mental activity. If not for the alcohol, tranquilizers, antidepressants and illegal drugs, which are all consumed in large quantities, the insanity of the human mind would be even more obvious than it is now.
I think that if it were deprived of their drugs, a large proportion of the population would become a danger to herself and others. These drugs, of course, simply keep people mired in dysfunction. Their widespread use only expands the collapse of the old mental structures and the emergence of higher consciousness.
Although individual consumers can find some relief from the daily torture inflicted on them his mind, the drug prevents them from generating enough conscious presence to rise above thinking and thus find true freedom.
fall back into a level of consciousness below mind, which is the level of pre-thought of our distant ancestors and of animals and plants is not an option for us. There is no way to turn back. If humankind is to survive, you need to advance to the next level.
Consciousness is evolving throughout the universe in trillions of forms. So even if we could not, would not matter on a cosmic scale. Never miss a gain in consciousness, so just be expressed through some other way. But the very fact that I am speaking here and you are listening or reading this is a clear sign that the new consciousness is gaining ground on the planet. "
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