Kundalini.Tantra.by.Satyananda.Saraswati

THE PRACTICE OF DHYANA
No. 20: Dhyana (meditation)
You have realized your astral body as a single point of light. Now look closer at that
point of light and you will see it take the form of a golden egg. As you watch this golden
egg, it will begin to expand. The golden egg is luminous and glowing intensely; however,
it does not give off any rays of light. As the golden egg becomes larger, it will begin to
take on the same shape as that of your astral and physical bodies. This form, however, is
not a material or even a subtle form. This form is glowing light. It is your causal self.
Section 4 - KUNDALINI RESEARCH
Chapter 1
Introduction
This section is a compilation of various pieces of research that have been collected
and correlated at the IYFM Research Coordinating Center at Munger, Bihar, India. Over
the last few years, under the guidance of our guru, Swami Satyananda Saraswati, we have
seen time and again that the words and teachings of many of the yogis, saints and sages
from all ages have been recently verified by modern science. It has been our function to
fit together the bits and pieces of researches and to point out:
1. the overlap between what modern science and yogis have been saying,
2. how the various pieces fit together to give us an expanded concept of man,
3. what directions research can take in order to design and analyze research in the
light of yogic psychophysiology.
One of the great traps in attempting to research yoga is to design experiments without
a thorough knowledge of yoga itself. This is like looking at only a small part of the
whole, just as the six blind "wise" men who each examined a different part of an elephant
and pronounced their judgements based on these limitations, could never understand the
whole elephant and how it looked. Yogic training requires many years and the skilled
guidance of a master to discover its basic principles, its mode of application, and to
prepare oneself for the experiences which arise from this training.
The totality of man
Perhaps the outstanding feature of yoga is its ability to give us a more total picture of
who we are, to put the various elements into a simpler and at the same time more
sophisticated and more expanded perspective. Yoga also teaches us that within us all
there is a vital power, a basic essence, whose thread can be seen running through all of