QUESTIONS & ANSWERS BY JIVANMUKTI
ABOUT SHAKTIPAT, KUNDALINI AWAKENING, SPIRITUAL AWAKENING AND INNER ALCHEMY, INITIATION, SIDDHA KUNDALINI YOGA PROGRAM, SIDDHA PATH & SIDDHANTA YOGA
Question:
What is True Awakening and Yoga? What is Spiritual Path?
Answer:
True awakening means one awakes to the natural being or natural unconditional mind awareness of the self. Before this happens one is not able to see between the transitory and the permanent. Cultivating inner stillness and inner being through absorption is the key to spiritual evolution.
It is much easier to perform vigorous exercises and practices than to simply dwell in one's own equanimous being, isn't it?
The true path is not about practices and exercises or rituals. It is about the awakening to one's natural blissful being first, and then about the gradual inner refinement and transformation. To find such a path is a true grace. True knowledge is not about words but about the experience of the Ultimate.
What is True Awakening and Yoga? What is Spiritual Path?
Answer:
True awakening means one awakes to the natural being or natural unconditional mind awareness of the self. Before this happens one is not able to see between the transitory and the permanent. Cultivating inner stillness and inner being through absorption is the key to spiritual evolution.
It is much easier to perform vigorous exercises and practices than to simply dwell in one's own equanimous being, isn't it?
The true path is not about practices and exercises or rituals. It is about the awakening to one's natural blissful being first, and then about the gradual inner refinement and transformation. To find such a path is a true grace. True knowledge is not about words but about the experience of the Ultimate.
Dear Jivanmukti,
I hope you are doing well.
I want to let you know that I am doing ok. After my conversation with you, I started experiencing a warm feeling in the heart center area and solar plexus. I experienced it when I first watched one of your transmissions and now it happens once a day.
I wanted to ask you some questions and hope you can share your knowledge/advice with me.
1. What is the force that moves your head during the transmissions? I felt the spinning vortex on top of my head before and as if something was pushing my head forward but I resisted it. I saw in your video that you move with it so I started doing the same. It feels that it is intelligent as it aligns my head as it 'thinks' needed.
Answer: your energy or spiritual body activates so all the nerves that are connecting that with the physical body try to restore the proper energy circulation and make you aware that you are beyond the body. The physical body gets healed through these movements two. Gradually.
2. What is the best way to achieve deep absorption? I recognize that it is individual but I'd love to get your feedback. I try to breathe and relax while settling into a comfortable position and then just sit still whether with my eyes rolled up or relaxed. I heard that three elements need to be achieved in order to go deeper - thought, awareness and breath. It was not elaborated, however, as to what is behind each element. Thought - to be thoughtless? Awareness - to be aware of your body and mind? Breath - breath slow and deep?
Answer: absorption is a result of awakening, it comes naturally and you realise it's your being. Ince you drop thinking of wgat you are to do abd jyst sit in silence, you will experience... This Path is all about the experience and absorption.
3. Is initiation the same as awakening or is it just a nudge to start moving towards awakening in a more 'aware' fashion?
Answer: It's awakening and the beginning of self refinement.
I hope you are doing well.
I want to let you know that I am doing ok. After my conversation with you, I started experiencing a warm feeling in the heart center area and solar plexus. I experienced it when I first watched one of your transmissions and now it happens once a day.
I wanted to ask you some questions and hope you can share your knowledge/advice with me.
1. What is the force that moves your head during the transmissions? I felt the spinning vortex on top of my head before and as if something was pushing my head forward but I resisted it. I saw in your video that you move with it so I started doing the same. It feels that it is intelligent as it aligns my head as it 'thinks' needed.
Answer: your energy or spiritual body activates so all the nerves that are connecting that with the physical body try to restore the proper energy circulation and make you aware that you are beyond the body. The physical body gets healed through these movements two. Gradually.
2. What is the best way to achieve deep absorption? I recognize that it is individual but I'd love to get your feedback. I try to breathe and relax while settling into a comfortable position and then just sit still whether with my eyes rolled up or relaxed. I heard that three elements need to be achieved in order to go deeper - thought, awareness and breath. It was not elaborated, however, as to what is behind each element. Thought - to be thoughtless? Awareness - to be aware of your body and mind? Breath - breath slow and deep?
Answer: absorption is a result of awakening, it comes naturally and you realise it's your being. Ince you drop thinking of wgat you are to do abd jyst sit in silence, you will experience... This Path is all about the experience and absorption.
3. Is initiation the same as awakening or is it just a nudge to start moving towards awakening in a more 'aware' fashion?
Answer: It's awakening and the beginning of self refinement.
Dear Jivanmukti,
I have been thinking about initiation and have some general questions about the process and the guru-student relationship. I also have other questions I hope you can help me find answers to.
Initiation. Would it be cheating on my part if I decide to be initiated? Some people spent years of strict practice to activate their upper chamber. Or is it a normal practice?
JIVANMUKTI:
I would say you can spend some time watching free transmissions or maybe joining the weekly transmissions next season and or watching the recordings of the previous transmissions where you can learn about the path within, and various points of life. There is only one path within, back to the natural ultimate Being. Which is always there unconditional always aware of the self-being, in all states of the mind whether awake, dreaming or deeply asleep. It never sleeps. It is blissful empty, space like being that is an eternal contentment. All the words in the world will not describe it. Words mislead. On this path there is no superiority or inferiority, there is equanimity, where disciple meets the guru in the space of Self, and there is only the space, and neither guru nor the disciple.
The relationship is the invisible link, through the awareness of the ultimate space of the self-being. The student's dedication to self-evolution and expansion of the awareness with the guidance of the other being is important, but the path within is the most important. Awakening the awareness about one's being is the key, No one is guru and no one is disciple, all are on the path to self-awakening, refinement and evolution. Mutual respect and dedication are necessary for the trust and better guidance, however.
This is not the path of practice. Life is the practice. Once you become more aware and expand your inner and outer perception you see the world and self differently. This is your practice. TO mirror the self in the world and learn from it and refine self.
QUESTION: Is there a price to pay for an initiation (karmic entanglement, some sort of spiritual debt to pay later)? Or is it a process when a guru sharing their power with the adept who genuinely seeks the path towards evolution?
JIVANMUKTI:
This path is the path of direct Transmission, selfless service and transcendence. Where knowledge is awaken and shared through the experience. There is no price. Gratitude donation depends on each adept. Some choose to become a montly supporter to support the activities, in case if they are financially capable. Others may support randomly. The service that is given to people is unconditional.
QUESTION: 1. I am watching video #13 now and you mention that the guru takes responsibility for every student they initiate. I think you are talking about guru's responsibility for guiding a student, not for the student's actions. Is there a student's responsibility towards the path, teaching, guru?
2. Protection after initiation. What happens to a student's protection if they decide to take another path after activation? This is an extension to the question above about the student's responsibility.
JIVANMUKTI: The responsibility of the spiritual guide is to unfold and awake the potential of a worthy adept, The way an adept is going to choose to go through the process and refine self or tangle self is solely the responsibility of the adept to the self. The preceptor will guide unconditIonally and with dedication until the adept is willing to take the guidance and appreciates it, as well as until one is able to take advice and apply it in one's life and refine without tangling and going into traps. Unconditional mutual trust is important. Adepts can be challenged and tested on the way through their inner distortions. In this case the guide would need to help them navigate out of the traps or negative past programs. Protection also comes as a part of this responsibility, If one feels not ready they may attend weekly transmissions for a while or some other forms of interaction , one on one, until they feel it is the right moment for them. If they feel like walking away they are free to go and are responsible for it themselves. The process of spiritual awakening is ongoing as well as the evolution and we learn through life and inner perception fo this reality. Some people take detour and then come back to the path. Some get tangled and then realise it.. Each path is individual that is why the individual guidance is crucial and unconventional for each adept.
Other questions:
Water. You mention to drink a lot of clean fresh spring water. It is a hard thing to find these days. All the water they sell has been bottled some time ago, purified and stored in plastic containers. Our tab water contains fluoride in it. Can the water be charged in the sunlight?
JIVANMUKTI: Mineral mountain still water is the best. Sun brings some energy, but it does not influence the consistency of the minerals in the water. The most important is to stay away from stimulants and sugars.
Membership. What is the spiritual meaning/purpose of membership? I was a member of the church before and I am still not sure what it meant outside of just measuring the size of an organization. How can one be a member of something that is hard to describe, of the truth that is impossible to organise? I plan to donate and would love to be shared rare transmissions, but I am a bit uneasy about membership.
JIVANMUKTI: There is nothing like this here. Personally, I do not support any sort of organised spirituality in the forms that exists worldwide. Please read more about all these in my blog, there are various articles speaking about it and will give you deeper answers. There are supporters, not really members, There is no organisation as you imagine it. There is a certain "body" through which the service is given and support and service are organised so that people can receive it, some publications are done, and donations obtained to support further activities. Yet, there are no members as you may imagine through your past experience. Everyone is guided individually and pursues their own path, refinement, in their own life circumstances, remaining spiritually connected through the scope of unconditional being with the source. You can not be a member of anything. You can only support out of gratitude if there is an inner call, otherwise, you explore yourself on the path and live your life trying to refine through the inner awoken within contentment and blissful being.
Blessings
Jivanmukti
Thank you again.
Sv. B (USA)
I have been thinking about initiation and have some general questions about the process and the guru-student relationship. I also have other questions I hope you can help me find answers to.
Initiation. Would it be cheating on my part if I decide to be initiated? Some people spent years of strict practice to activate their upper chamber. Or is it a normal practice?
JIVANMUKTI:
I would say you can spend some time watching free transmissions or maybe joining the weekly transmissions next season and or watching the recordings of the previous transmissions where you can learn about the path within, and various points of life. There is only one path within, back to the natural ultimate Being. Which is always there unconditional always aware of the self-being, in all states of the mind whether awake, dreaming or deeply asleep. It never sleeps. It is blissful empty, space like being that is an eternal contentment. All the words in the world will not describe it. Words mislead. On this path there is no superiority or inferiority, there is equanimity, where disciple meets the guru in the space of Self, and there is only the space, and neither guru nor the disciple.
The relationship is the invisible link, through the awareness of the ultimate space of the self-being. The student's dedication to self-evolution and expansion of the awareness with the guidance of the other being is important, but the path within is the most important. Awakening the awareness about one's being is the key, No one is guru and no one is disciple, all are on the path to self-awakening, refinement and evolution. Mutual respect and dedication are necessary for the trust and better guidance, however.
This is not the path of practice. Life is the practice. Once you become more aware and expand your inner and outer perception you see the world and self differently. This is your practice. TO mirror the self in the world and learn from it and refine self.
QUESTION: Is there a price to pay for an initiation (karmic entanglement, some sort of spiritual debt to pay later)? Or is it a process when a guru sharing their power with the adept who genuinely seeks the path towards evolution?
JIVANMUKTI:
This path is the path of direct Transmission, selfless service and transcendence. Where knowledge is awaken and shared through the experience. There is no price. Gratitude donation depends on each adept. Some choose to become a montly supporter to support the activities, in case if they are financially capable. Others may support randomly. The service that is given to people is unconditional.
QUESTION: 1. I am watching video #13 now and you mention that the guru takes responsibility for every student they initiate. I think you are talking about guru's responsibility for guiding a student, not for the student's actions. Is there a student's responsibility towards the path, teaching, guru?
2. Protection after initiation. What happens to a student's protection if they decide to take another path after activation? This is an extension to the question above about the student's responsibility.
JIVANMUKTI: The responsibility of the spiritual guide is to unfold and awake the potential of a worthy adept, The way an adept is going to choose to go through the process and refine self or tangle self is solely the responsibility of the adept to the self. The preceptor will guide unconditIonally and with dedication until the adept is willing to take the guidance and appreciates it, as well as until one is able to take advice and apply it in one's life and refine without tangling and going into traps. Unconditional mutual trust is important. Adepts can be challenged and tested on the way through their inner distortions. In this case the guide would need to help them navigate out of the traps or negative past programs. Protection also comes as a part of this responsibility, If one feels not ready they may attend weekly transmissions for a while or some other forms of interaction , one on one, until they feel it is the right moment for them. If they feel like walking away they are free to go and are responsible for it themselves. The process of spiritual awakening is ongoing as well as the evolution and we learn through life and inner perception fo this reality. Some people take detour and then come back to the path. Some get tangled and then realise it.. Each path is individual that is why the individual guidance is crucial and unconventional for each adept.
Other questions:
Water. You mention to drink a lot of clean fresh spring water. It is a hard thing to find these days. All the water they sell has been bottled some time ago, purified and stored in plastic containers. Our tab water contains fluoride in it. Can the water be charged in the sunlight?
JIVANMUKTI: Mineral mountain still water is the best. Sun brings some energy, but it does not influence the consistency of the minerals in the water. The most important is to stay away from stimulants and sugars.
Membership. What is the spiritual meaning/purpose of membership? I was a member of the church before and I am still not sure what it meant outside of just measuring the size of an organization. How can one be a member of something that is hard to describe, of the truth that is impossible to organise? I plan to donate and would love to be shared rare transmissions, but I am a bit uneasy about membership.
JIVANMUKTI: There is nothing like this here. Personally, I do not support any sort of organised spirituality in the forms that exists worldwide. Please read more about all these in my blog, there are various articles speaking about it and will give you deeper answers. There are supporters, not really members, There is no organisation as you imagine it. There is a certain "body" through which the service is given and support and service are organised so that people can receive it, some publications are done, and donations obtained to support further activities. Yet, there are no members as you may imagine through your past experience. Everyone is guided individually and pursues their own path, refinement, in their own life circumstances, remaining spiritually connected through the scope of unconditional being with the source. You can not be a member of anything. You can only support out of gratitude if there is an inner call, otherwise, you explore yourself on the path and live your life trying to refine through the inner awoken within contentment and blissful being.
Blessings
Jivanmukti
Thank you again.
Sv. B (USA)
