Kundalini Yoga increases Satva Guna

Best wishes to all friends on International Yoga Day

Friends, According to the scriptures, the universe is made with the cooperation of Purusha and Prakriti. Only Prakriti has all the three Gunas, not Purusha. Purusha is Gunaatita means he is beyond the three Gunas. Purusha is pure soul. Prakriti is inert. It means that Prakriti does not have its own existence. Prakriti is virtual. Then who feels the three Gunas of Prakriti? It is Purusha only who feels the Gunas of Prakriti. Nature or prakriti has been given a feminine form because there is more similarity between the two. A woman wants to show her beauty and looks to the world as much as possible by dressing up and so does nature. Seeing beautiful nature reminds one of a beautiful woman. Similarly, seeing a beautiful woman brings alive the charming nature. A man does not enjoy going anywhere without a woman. Actually, a man is connected to nature, that is, he is bound. This is what we call a bound soul. When he separates himself from nature by behaving indifferently towards its qualities, then he again becomes a free soul, that is, a pure soul. It is worth noting here that to be free, it is necessary to be bound. The first step to liberation is bondage. How can an animal that is not even tied to a peg be free from it? In the living state of a man, his soul feels the rising and falling waves of the three Gunas of Prakriti. This is considered to be the sign of a man’s living state. The more and faster the waves are formed in him, the more alive he is considered to be. When one meets a lover, the wave of Satva Guna rises. Love and happiness overflow all around the mind. Old memories become fresh in beautiful forms. There is a smile and glow on the face. There is a good appetite, one feels like working. The person is filled with a good mentality. When there is separation from her or him, the rising wave of Sattva Guna descends and falls below the base or ground level. All the happiness seems to disappear. The mind turns into depression. Old beautiful memories disappear in the deep darkness. A feeling of hatred and sadness engulfs the mind. There is a wrinkle and darkness on the face. Hunger disappears. One does not feel like working. What was earlier a wave of Sattva Guna, becomes a wave of Tamo Guna. During the mutual change between Sattva Guna and Tamo Guna, there is also a state of a small wave of Rajo Guna. It means that there is no immediate change from Sattva Guna to Tamo Guna and Tamo Guna to Sattva Guna, but it goes through Rajo Guna. We can call Rajo Guna a slightly rising wave. The basic nature of a human being is considered to be Rajo Guni. Meaning he is so busy in work that he is rarely able to raise the mental wave to the high level of Satva Guna. Sadhus raise it through meditation. Gods are called Satva Guni. Meaning their Satva Guna is of a high level. Of course there is no wave in it because they do not have a physical body. The various human-like idol forms given to the various gods are all imaginary, although they are very similar to their real forms. Similarly, all animal species are called Tamo Guni. This happens due to the lack of brain i.e. mind in them. That is why it is said that Satva Guni people go to Devlok or get liberated, Rajo Guni people attain human life again and Tamo Guni people attain animal life.

Now the question is that after death, till the time a body is not gotten, in what state do the gunas remain in the soul. In the previous article also we had thrown light on this fact of the scriptures that at that time all the three basic qualities that’s gunas remain in equilibrium. Equilibrium means that the quantity of the three qualities can vary among themselves, but each quality will be at a certain fixed level only. Meaning it will not change. Because without a body waves will not be formed in it. I had experienced a greater amount of Sattva Guna in the pure soul. It seemed as if the sun like an endless sky was covered by a thin membrane or veil and darkness was created from it. But that darkness was as bright as mascara, and as if the pressure of the sun rays wanted to burst that covering membrane. Sattva Guna is also a symbol of light. Still nothing was changing. There was no movement anywhere. The invisible movement like boiling that was felt was probably the basic Rajoguna. However, it was only an apparent movement, not real. Tamoguna was already there in the form of darkness like kajal or mascara. Consider the shine in kajal as Sattva Guna. Still that soul seemed pure and Satvik to me. Once during yoga I also felt an evil soul for a few moments. Its darkness seemed scary and full of sin, hatred and feelings of revenge. That soul had also harmed an acquaintance of mine that day, but he had survived safely. Meaning that there are subtle variations among souls in the form of different guna-groups. Superficially all souls look the same to us, but it is not so. The soul of a person is the same as the gunas and karmas of all his births.

There is also a psychological fact here which is related to yoga. Tamoguna is formed by worldliness adopted with attachment. But if attachment is removed from it through Kundalini yoga, then the same worldliness becomes Satoguna. Meaning that Satoguna increases with yoga. Rajoguna is the name of movement. Meaning that while Tamoguna is going towards Satoguna, it passes through Rajoguna. Meaning that the process of Satoguna turning into tamoguna and tamoguna turning into Satoguna is called Rajoguna. Both Satoguna and Tamoguna have a share in this, because one guna is getting destroyed and the other guna is getting formed. The soul’s natural tendency to move from Tamoguna to Satvaguna is Rajoguna, and that is what I felt as a virtual boiling or surge in the soul. Ignoring the natural tendency, people deliberately go from Satoguna to Tamoguna by doing bad or mean or sinful deeds. Sometimes they go directly from Satoguna to Tamoguna and sometimes go slowly through Rajoguna. Rajoguna comes in between in both situations. Of course, a little in the first situation and more in the second. Many Yogis enter into satoguna from Tamoguna immediately with  aggressive tantric Kundalini Yoga. Many people reach Satva Guna from tamoguna after going through the worldly life alongwith Rajoguna for a long time. This process of change of Guna or transformation of Guna continues like this.