Teaching the Essence of Kundalini Yoga
Beads of Truth, Spring 1980, #4
by Yogi Bhajan
Every wise man will be aware when he teaches Kundalini Yoga or talks about it that there are very strong do's and don'ts about it. You cannot teach Kundalini Yoga and tell everybody that they can just sleep in bed whichever way they like. (Sleeping in an East-West line will make vou less susceptible to the gravity and magnetic field of the earth.) You can't do that. You cannot play the fool with your psyche. You cannot teach Kundalini Yoga and tell a weird type of meditation to blow off the top of somebody's head. And you cannot teach Kundalini Yoga if you cannot come out of your psycho-electromagnetic field to protect your student in the universe.
Kundalini Yoga is not dangerous for the person who learns it; it is dangerous for the person who teaches it. If he cannot project health, forget it. His end will be so miserable you can't imagine it. It is a link cycle, a layer of the vibration; you can't get out of it. Kundalini, the mother of awareness, the mother of fulfillment, of creation, is not an occult power; it is not a gimmick. It is not a circus which is happening. It is awareness; it is a totality of the personality of the being. The total being is involved with no part left out. It is not one religion or one God we are going to meet. A man who practices Kundalini Yoga neither meets nor seeks God. God seeks him. He does not meditate; God meditates on him. He is the center of the whole nucleus. When he vibrates, the universe vibrates with him.
We are releasing Kundalini Yoga techniques every year slowly and gradually. We don't initiate anybody; we don't train anybody to be a disciple. Our link is love. People will come and go. They will get what is written in their destiny. Some become aware in the first day, in the first moment. Some are here for years and never get out of the second chakra. With all my love and dedication and sincerity I could not pull them out. 
Others came, took the mantra and the knowledge; they are great. Who can sit in judgement? Who can tell who is right and who is wrong? Nobody is right; nobody is wrong. Curiosity is alright to begin with. You must be curious to know. What do you want to know? There are twenty-two types of yoga. If you study each for one year it will take you twenty-two years. Then study awareness. Awareness of totality is a kundalini. It is not occult power. It is not a mastery of one thing or the other.
You must understand what you are studying, what you are learning, what you are going to be. It is AWARENESS. Your awareness as a unit must correspond to the Universal Awareness. You are not to meditate specially. There is no speciality for you. You are special from the beginning to the end. Your self is special. If you do not understand this, you have not understood anything yet. Your totality is special. Your way of sitting, eating, moving, all is special. Your every action of life IS special, because whatever you are, whatever you are doing, you are doing as an aware being. And when you are totally aware, then you are aware of the relationship of you as you and the universe. And this contact is the yoke. It is where you join with each other. It is that link which is missing in all other systems.
Swami Vivakananda has been quoted in "How To Know God." He said "If there is any prayer answered, if you relate to any religion, any God, any conciousness, any higher self, it is the project of your kundalini." Period. Any goodness in you is because of this primal energy in you. You get it through any yoga. You drink water in a gold glass, a silver glass, a stone glass, or a wooden glass, or with your hands. Why should Yogi Bhajan be afraid of it? All I want is that you should drink and not be thirsty. But if like a fool you just discuss the glass all the time and don't get to drink water, what should I tell you?
Go on finding God. If God won't find you, can you find Him? Can anybody find such a thing as God? It is a most unfortunate thing if you ever say it, because you are already a part of God. What are you going to find? Those who are part of God don't find God; they live as God. Either you live as God or you are going to keep on finding God. No miracle can bring you to God. God is a relationship of your unit consciousness with the universal consiousness. It is you. It is your self. It is that your lower self must surrender to your higher self. You must discipline yourself.
Detachment does not mean I will not wear clothes. That is hypocrisy. "I don't eat food; taste doesn't suit me." What are you talking about? He gave you a six-inch long tongue and the power to taste so that nothing can go past the tongue without good taste. Do you think if you eat garbage that you are God? This is a way to meet God? How ridiculous we become just to do those weird, unwarranted, unethical, unsociable things to be known as some type of special nut. Rather, live conveniently; live relaxed. The more relaxed you are, the more God is in you. When you are uptight, you have shut-up the God.