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To explore kriya yoga in a certain depth and
intensity, says Sadhguru, the physical body must be
stable and one’s emotional identity must expand.

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Karma, Yoga of Action

Q: Sadhguru, you had spoken about conflict or friction between

di!erent layers of the system and how, in some people, the karmic
body or the energy body may be in friction with their physical body.
Why does this happen, and how can we overcome this?

Sadhguru: Let me give you an automobile example. Suppose you

take a little car and put a very powerful engine in it. If you don’t beef
up the entire car, the car is going to fall apart – not because the
engine is bad, but simply because the engine is too good. Similarly,
if your energy body is greatly enhanced without enhancing your
physical body, and without making your karmic body conducive to
that, something may fall apart.

This is why we conduct several days of classes just to teach the

twenty-one minute Shambhavi Mahamudra – so that you also learn
to handle your physicality and, above all, your karmic nature. There

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are certain ways to function in the world where, if you enlarge your
identity – particularly your emotional identification – the karmic
body sits loosely upon you. Now it will accommodate any amount of
ambitious expansion of your energy body. Your emotional
identification has to expand. Without that, your karma sits tight on
you.

When your karma sits so tight on you, if your energies expand, you
will feel like you are being ripped apart. It is good if you are ripped,
but you must be able to endure that. If you are not able to endure
that, you will think you are going crazy. So, the best thing is to
expand the karmic body in such a way that, whatever level of
intensity and expansion happens in the energy body, the karmic
body is able to withstand it.

Regarding the physical body, it is rare that someone’s physical body

cannot take this. That will come into play only when we do very
powerful systems of kriya yoga. Before we explore the nature of
kriya yoga to a certain depth and intensity, it is very important that
the physical body is stable and capable of taking that. Without this
necessary understanding, they could cause immense damage to
themselves.

I have seen people who have caused immense damage to their

physical body, simply by doing what is generally called kundalini
yoga. But generally, most people are only talking yoga, rarely
practicing yoga with any intensity. I know a lot of people,
particularly in the United States, who only practice yoga when they
meet once a month. It is like a yoga club. If you are just an
“entertainment yogi”, you may not feel the di!erence. But if you
seriously practice, and if your energy body genuinely expands in a
big way, then the physical body and karmic body must be ready for
that. Otherwise they cannot handle it.

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Editor’s Note: “Mystic’s Musings” includes more of Sadhguru’s insights

on karma and the yogic sciences. Read the free sample [pdf] or purchase
the ebook.

Marriage is not about

compatibility,
companionship, or
extracting happiness. It
is an opportunity to
achieve a union that
will open up a greater
possibility.

– Sadhguru
Today’s Mystic Quote

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