Utthan (kriya 17)

This is the seventeenth of the twenty Kundalini Kriyas of Kriya Yoga. If you have not completed my free online course, please download and complete that first.

Continue sitting in Siddhasana or Siddha Yoni Asana. Eyes are closed, breathing is normal, tongue is in Kechari Mudra, and head is facing forward.

Bring your awareness to Mooladhara. Try to visualize a black Shivalingam made of a smoky gaseous substance sitting there. The bottom and top of the lingam are cut off, and circled around it is a red baby snake. This red baby snake is trying to uncoil itself so it can move upward through Sushumna. It struggles and comes free with an angry hissing sound as it ascends the spinal passage. The tail of the snake remains fixed at the Shivalingam, while the head and body move upward and come back down again. The head of the snake is very large, filling your own head when it rises, but it is not a cobra. After some time you may feel your body contract, or perhaps a sensation of bliss. When this occurs go to the next kriya.

A video describing and demonstrating this kriya will be posted with kriya 20.

Prana Ahuti (kriya 16)

This is the sixteenth of the twenty Kundalini Kriyas of Kriya Yoga. If you have not completed my free online course, please download and complete that first.

Continue sitting in Siddhasana or Siddha Yoni Asana. Eyes are closed, breathing is normal, tongue is in Kechari Mudra, and head is facing forward.

Feel the soft touch of a divine hand lying on your head. The hand is infusing subtle prana into your body and mind and the prana is traveling down from Sahasrara through the spinal passage. You may experience it as a wave of cold, heat, energy, electric current, or as a stream of wind or liquid. Its passage will result in vibrations, shocks, jerks or tickling sensations which course through you. When the prana has reached Mooladhara, then immediately go on to the next kriya without waiting to experience the prana a second time.

A video describing and demonstrating this kriya will be posted with kriya 20.

Sushumna Darshan (kriya 15)

This is the fifteenth of the twenty Kundalini Kriyas of Kriya Yoga. If you have not completed my free online course, please download and complete that first.

Continue sitting in Siddhasana or Siddha Yoni Asana. Eyes are closed, breathing is normal, tongue is in Kechari Mudra, and head is facing forward.

Bring your awareness to Mooladhara and visualize the chakra there, with its four red petals, square, inverted triangle, and lam mantra (see above). Move your awareness to Swadhisthana in the spine and visualize the chakra there, with its six orange petals, crescent moon, and vam mantra (see below).

Move your awareness up the spine to Manipura and visualize the chakra there, with its ten yellow petals, inverted triangle, and ram mantra (see below).

Move your awareness up the spine to Anahata and visualize the chakra there, with its twelve green petals, two interlaced triangles, and yam mantra (see below).

Move your awareness up the spine to Vishuddhi and visualize the chakra there, with its sixteen blue petals, inverted triangle, circle, and ham mantra (see below).

Move your awareness up the spine to Ajna and visualize the chakra there, with its two purple petals, inverted triangle, and aum mantra (see below).

Move your awareness up to Bindu at the back of the head and visualize the chakra there, with its drop of nectar over the crescent moon (see below).

Move your awareness over to Sahasrara at the top of the head and visualize the chakra there, with its many petals and many colors (see below).

Finally, visualize your whole body in a transparent form and all of the chakras glowing brightly within. Enjoy this image for some time, then go to the next kriya.

Take Back Your Motherland, People! (book 4 chapter 24)

In this chapter Anastasia provides new meaning to the word "Motherland", but as usual that meaning is lost on Vladimir (for now).

At first I found my dialogue with Anatasia about what constitutes the Motherland rather unintelligible. Her arguments didn't even seem normal to me, at least initially. But later...

Even today I can't help thinking of them. I distinctly recall her response to my questions about what to do to prevent war - either earthly or interplanetary - from happening to us, to eliminate bandits altogether and bear happy and healthy children. It went this way:

"We need to tell everyone, Vladimir: Take back your Motherland, people!"

"'Take back your Motherland?' - are you sure you're not mistaken, Anastasia? Everyone has a Motherland, or a native land, only not everybody lives in the country where they were born. Maybe you didn't mean 'take back your Motherland', but 'you need to come back to your Motherland' - is that what you were trying to say?"

"I was not mistaken, Vladimir. Most people living on this planet today have no Motherland at all."

"What d'you mean they haven't a Motherland? For Russians, Russia is their Motherland, the English have England. After all, everybody was born somewhere, and so people will use the term Motherland or native land to refer to the land where they were born."

"Do you consider that one's Motherland must be measured by someone's arbitrarily determined border?"

"What else? That's the way things are. All states have borders."

"But if there were no borders, how could you determine your Motherland then?"

"By the place I was born - the town or village - or maybe the whole Earth would then be a Motherland for everyone?"

"The whole Earth could be a Motherland for each one of its inhabitants, and Man could be caressed by everything in the Universe, but for that to happen, he would need to join together all planes of being into a single point, call it his Motherland, and create with his own self a Space of Love therein. Then all the best things of the Universe would come into contact with it first hand - come into contact with the space of your Motherland. You in yourself will feel the whole vast Universe through this point, and possess power unsurpassed. They will know about this on other worlds. Everything will serve you, as God, our Creator, wanted it."

"You've really got to speak in simpler terms, Anastasia. I didn't get anything about those 'planes of being', or how to join together their strands. Or about the 'point' I can call my Motherland."

So while you might be feeling the same as Vladimir right now, all will be explained in the coming chapters (and my future posts).