The Radiant Body

I have a question for anyone reading:

Do you understand that building your Radiant Body means connecting to everybody in the sense that you can hold all the world's pain and happiness in your heart without it hurting from being so full of both joy and misery? That to get there you have to become neutral and able to get past aversions to misery and bliss, and conversely, attachments to misery and bliss? I myself am by no means there, but I am trying. If you don't wish to join me in continuing down this path to learning to care about more than the tiny finite self, then by all means stop reading right here, because you will then likely feel aversion to what I have to say next. Go on then. Go get high off some yoga instead. Hurry...your bliss is waiting!

If you are still reading, be forwarned that the rest of this entry on the Radiant Body contains all sorts of things designed to provoke both irritation and the pursuit of bliss...read at your leisure, and your peril......you've been forewarned.

I don't practice yoga and meditation just get into a state of bliss and stay high there, although it appears that many do. I practice them so that I may become so strong spiritually, mentally and physically that I may be able to 'attract' blessings not only for myself but for my family. Not only for my family, but my community. Not only for my community, but for people I don't even know, for the entire world. Not only for the entire human world, but the marine and land animals. Not only other moving life forms, but plants and the core of the earth, the lava flow beneath the water and the earth. Not only for the earth but for the entire cosmos.

When I can build my Radiance to the point that I can get beyond my attachment to having my 'bliss bubble' burst, or not be overwhelmed because my life is crazy, or not be dwelling in a state of lack feeling that my life is so plagued with calamity in one of the wealthiest nations in the world that I don't have time to worry about the status of the world... then I will feel I've actually come to understand what the whole point of meditation and building your Radiant body are for in Kundalini Yoga. It definitely isn't to parade around in a costume feeling like a bliss ninny.

No, that would be an addiction. It would be being stuck in Shakti Pad, unable to move toward taking one's vibrancy and radiancy and adding it to the efforts to heal the whole world and not just your immediate family. But that truly would mean I would be an 'Advanced Meditator', as our teacher called us all at our last training weekend. That would mean that I would no longer be running around trying to do as much Kundalini Yoga as I can so I can stay 'high' on something that won't send me to jail. That would actually mean that I would no longer be a spiritual child. That would mean that I understand what building the Radiant Body is truly for...not for being blissed out and unaware of what is happening in the world, or only able to handle what is happening to my immediate family. That would mean I could care about more than just my own father's illness, and my friend Dan's, and not be overwhelmed.

Here I am 'poking and provoking', and I have this to say to the world: If you don't like it, then don't read my blog and diary.

So, to continue upon yesterday's theme, I want to quote from Siri Atma S. Khalsa, M.D.'s book "Waves of Healing":

"Good luck comes to you, not because you deserve it, not because you want it, not because you are beautiful and not because you asked for it. It comes to you because of your electromagnetic field and the radiance of your tenth body. You don't have to speak a word when your radiant body is effective. Sometimes you misunderstand and think, 'I did it, I attracted it, I got it.' That is not true. It is your confidence and the strength of the radiant body which brings success. The physical body is just a basement; the radiant body is the top story, the tenth floor."

Ah! Now my dreams at Winter Solstice make more sense. I dreamed I was in a 10-story building, and every floor below the first was part of the basement. Each was gray and damp and empty. I'd cleared out all the junk down to the third floor. Then I raced to the top to get into the sunlight, and I awoke! I awoke at the top step of the end of the basement floors. I awoke at the 9th floor, stepping into the 10th. The 10th is the radiant body.

I am cleaning house!

"That's what Kundalini Yoga is about; it builds strength in you. You become you. All your fears, conflicts and duality go away. Your reality starts coming, and things come to you because you are very attractive. The attraction is not you; it is your absolutely radiant body. The radiant body is a shining armor around you for both protection and attraction. Its radiance depends on how deeply you consume prana each day by breathing deeply."

And Yogi Bhajan himself said this ~

"You are wrong if you think your intelligence works or your words are powerful or you are very charismatic. Actually, it is your radiant body, the glow, the shine in you that works."

The Guru Gobind Singh Shakti Mantra meditation works to build this, but so does any other Laya Yoga Mantra practice, and I am doing one. This one. So if you want the light within me, don't skim off the surface, go directly to the Source. Swim up to the surface and do the work yourself. Don't feed off of me. I am a Sikh. I will teach you, but I will teach you how to fish. I will not give you the fish of my body and my energy. I will lead you to the Source of the water in which your fish swims...maybe, if I want to. If I'm not in the space to do it, you can find it without me. You don't really need me. All you need is your Self.