Some Concerns.....

Below is chain of discussions that I have had with a dear friend from our group.... which is quite intersting... I would like your inputs on this.. please write your 
comments on the same.......
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FRIEND:
Shashi: thank you for being so opened. I would like to know actually more about you, were have you learn all of this? And why are you taking all this work ? I am wondering who you are as a person.
ohh I was forgetting to ask you about kundalini that you mention, isn't it dangerous to get involve in that. I mean, we can all expand it but what if we are not prepared to do that. I have been told that kundalini moves energies that not always we are prepared to deal with.
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ME:
Coming to Kundalini... the power that are there are very powerful and but very hard to attain that state of raising those powers upwards and openning the gateways of the chakra... what we are trying to do here, realise the awareness of them within our self.... and I don't think that in only 11days we will be able to unleash its energy ... and no its not dangerous if you are able to awaken those energies as I believe that if you are strong enough to awaken them, then you are strong enough to handle them.. all these danger thing has come from the Tantric Practices who try to raise it for some kind of negetivite actions and try to control these energies for their personal physical gains.... and some of them wanted this to be obscure so they made it dangerous... to handle.. anything to do with supreme consciousness is a positive thing and will have positive effect only...

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FRIEND:
Ok, I will take your word of kundalini not being dangerous. Nevertheless I do recommend that you measure what you say about it, I have seen that the majority of the people in this group are female and western, and I’m afraid that it could lead them to improper methods.

So far what you have proposed us, it great, but westerns are not very patient and we want things know and sometime we get involve in stuff that are not very nice. I say this not thinking in your program but thinking in the afterwards.

About you not being a guru, I have to tell you that it doesn’t worry me. We are all trying to evolve, to walk the path that leads us you nirvana, it doesn’t really matters where we are standing, just matters that we keep walking and helping each other.

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ME:
I really did not understand what you mean by saying that westerners not being patient etc and get involved actually. What about afterwords, Please explain as it will definately help me in understanding and taking this forward as well as it will also make me grow further in my understanding. I will be happy if you explain frankly.
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FRIEND:

Hi Shashi, what I meant about westerners is that we have a very strong Judeo-Christian culture and the problem with that is that those religions don’t offer any method of spiritual development. You don’t get to an enlightment, you just sit and wait till you die. And your only salvation is to regret your sins. It’s a culture based in guilt and there is nothing you can do.
For those uncomfortable with that you can either go for the hole experience or you search a shortcut. And by that a mean magical things, they look up for palm reading, and rituals with candles, anything at all that can give them power over others.
There are thousands of books with witchcrafts recipes, that would give you the job you are looking for, or making someone fall in love with you, or having more money.
But those who know about kundalini, and are avid of power is worst, because I understand that there are ways that you can awake that energy without being prepared, and a lot get of them get harm or harm other people.
And this happens as I was telling you because of the hole of our religions. We don’t have the Vedas or the Sutras to guide us, we are told that all that stuff is diabolic. So those who have the courage to look beyond, sometimes are mist lead.
All the mystical aspect of life has been hidden for centuries as a result of the persecutions of the catholic church.
Now a days we have access of almost everything but we do not know how to used that knowledge, and the majority of the people want pleasure and power, they don’t know that is a path of love and renounce.
Of course I am generalizing, not everyone is like that, but giving information to someone that is not prepared, can be dramatic.
And I should know that, you have no idea the things I have herd. One time a was teaching a simpler way of meditation that I do to a guy, and that person told a friend of mine that I was a witch and that I wanted to harm him. In an other opportunity a friend told me that it was her last reincarnation. I mean people can’t distinguish very well anything, and perhaps the people that you selected in you group aren’t like that, maybe they have things a lot more clear then me, but the only thing that I was trying to say is that we never know the impact that we can have in a person and we should take that with a great responsibility.
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Om Namah Shivaya
Shashi