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| I need to write an essay of "kundalini and chakaras". Can anyone provide some links? Thanks. |
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| I have a few pages bookmarked on the chakras: http://www.kheper.net/topics/chakras/ and http://www.sacredcenters.com/chakras.html
You can do a search for information on kundalini. You can also go to the local library and look up information on both of these topics. If you find something at the library that you really like and cannot live without, then you can buy it at a bookstore or order it online.
I hope this helps a little 
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Location: A Blue State | For this topic, I'd recommend that you look at the book by Arthur Avalon
titled The Serpent Power (Dover Publications 1974; first published in
1919 in London). Avalon was apparently the pen name of Sir John Woodroffe.
The book includes introductory commentary and translation of two Sanskrit
works, Sat-cakra-nirupana and Paduka-pancaka, or Description
of the six chakras and Fivefold footstool. These date from about
1500 AD. The subject matter is the use of Sat-cakra-bheda or piercing
the six chakras of the body, using Kundalini Shakti, or, the Serpent Power, as
Avalon terms it.
The book includes descriptions of the Chakras and some truly scary photos of
a thin bearded yogi sitting in Padamasana or Siddhasana while holding various
locks.
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Location: right where I'm supposed to be | "Kundalini for Beginners" by Ravindra Kumar, Ph.D. This might help a little.
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| Dear Brother Bay Guy:
Paduka Panchaka means as follows:
paduka - sacred sandals, in the olden ages a disciple will worship the sandals (made up of wood, worn by monks, or others) of guru or a symbolic sandal of god, such as worhipped by his brother Bharata when Shree Rama left for exile. If you go to Indian temples, you shall see some padukas being worshipped of Rama, Shirdi Saeebaba, Saints, etc, etc.
Panchak - made up of or consisting of five things, generally five verses of poem or a philosophical text, or whatever.
neel kulkarni
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Expert Yogi
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Dear Brother Neel,
Thanks for the clarification. I was quoting Avalon, who uses the phrase without
much explanation. At another point he calls it "Fivefold Footstool of the Guru."
The story you mention from the Ramanayi should have been familiar to
Avalon, so I wonder why he used this other phrasing.
BG
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| Diverting from the above talk, I wonder why Beauty Cat has to write such an essay.
Neel Kulkarni
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Location: Somewhere in the Mountains of Western NC | Neelbhai,
Where have you been??? Didn't you know they are teaching Yoga in College now???  |
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| Cyndiben:
Which college are they teaching? I have been teaching at George Mason University for the past 5+ years.
neelbhai
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Expert Yogi
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Brother Neel,
What are you teaching at George Mason -- asana, philosophy....?
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| I have been teaching a Yoga Class which includes Hathayoga mixed with some meditaton at GMU for a very long time. I also taught two pure meditation courses there. And, one Teacher Certification Course. I shall soon be teaching a Philosophy Tutorial course for Philosophy and Religion Students and any interested general public.
Regards
neel kulkarni
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| Thank you guys. All these help me lot. I almost done. Cindy is right. Now there are yoga classes in college. |
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