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by Barbara Heather (Translator), Kiu Eckstein (Author)
This report, as stated in the preface, is an attempt to describe some of the experiences and insights offered by Kundalini Shakti that were supported and explained over a period of five years by a master who helps people in difficult Kundalini processes. I myself went to this Kundalini master in order to overcome a stubborn blockage in my own process, not to write a book about his work and my experiences.
Only in the third year, when I began to understand the connection between a Kundalini rising and the many detours and wrong turns in my own life, and realized I had found a real master in a very usual way, the idea came to me to write this book.
During my second stay in Rishikesh, Swamiji gave us every evening for several weeks two to three hours of instructions. These daily classes offered insights into the theoretical background of this spiritual science. It was a regular course about Prana, Vayus, Nadis, Chakras, and Kundalini Shakti Herself, about the conditions for Her awakening, the subtle channels in which She rises and the blockages that hinder Her ascent at various levels of the subtle body.
During the class, we could ask questions and often the opportunity presented itself between the four hours of daily practice to ask Swamiji to clarify any doubts that had arisen. There was none of the false tones and pure speculation so frequent in the realm of spirituality. Swamiji's statements on Kundalini processes and their related subtle events were always clear and coherent. I tried to maintain this separation of chaff and wheat in the report.
The book ends with these words:
The persistence with which Swamiji follows his own traditional way and his unlimited openness for the many paths his disciples pursue, make it easy - because of the example he gives and the freedom one enjoys - to open oneself to 'the cause of all causes' Kundalini Shakti, who manifests Herself beyond the differences between East and West and all religious forms, wherever it pleases Her.
This last paragraph became an obituary. Swami Chandrasekharanand Saraswati left his physical body on March 30, 2016. But his work and what he taught us continues in his designated successor Silvia Viryananda and in the US with Joan Shivarpita Harrigan.
Author Biography
Kiu (also K.M. and Klaus) Eckstein, born in Munich, Germany, shortly before the Great Depression belongs to the Luftwaffenhelfer Generation (pupils drawn to military service in the Second World War), also called the 'sceptical generation', studied sociology and communication at the University of Munich (LMU), worked as editor of feature films, director of documentaries in Peter von Zahns Documentary Programs, Washington, D.C., joined the newly founded Washington and Rio de Janeiro Offices of ZDF, German Television, Channel Two, was co-producer of Brazilian feature films and from 1969 until 1980, the dramatic years of Allende and Pinochet and the return of Perón, foreign correspondent for Latin America with office in Rio, made 30 and 45 minutes documentaries in South- and North America, Vietnam and Laos, entered the training for facilitators of Holotropic Breathwork, gave workshops in Brazil for 12 years, found then the way to his master, to Swani Chandrashekharanad Saraswati, Rishikesh, India, which led to the book 'Kundalini, The Master and the Disciple'. In 2009 he returned with his Brazilian wife to Germany. His Chilean daughter lives with her Swedish husband in Cape Town, South Africa, his Brazilian son in Hungary, both with their two children.
