Lakshmana Swamy: Kundalini is the mind

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Dear All,

found this about kundalini in Godman's "No Mind - I am the Self".

This answers of Lakshmana Swamy may be for some of interest as they can help

to see the kundalini experience and also the Heart-experience in another light.

 

In Sri Ramana

Gabriele

 

Question:

I have read different books on yogic and tantric traditions and they all speak of

the kundalini rising from the muladhara chakra (at the base of the spine) to the

sahasrara chakra (just above the top of the head). They say that when the

kundalini reaches the sahasrara, this is the final state, moksha, or liberation.

 

Swamy:

It is not final. It has to go from the Heart to the sahasrara and then back to the

Heart again for realisation to occur. Kundalini sakti means the mind. It rises

from the Heart-centre to the brain. When it goes back into the Heart and dies

there, that is moksha, the final state. ...

 

Question:

It is said that when the kundalini rises to the sahasrara, Siva and Sakti merge.

Is this so?

 

Swamy:

No. Sakti means mind. It has to return back to its source, the Heart,

which is Siva, and die there.

 

Question:

So you are saying that kundalini is only in the mind. Is this correct?

 

Swamy:

No, that is not correct. It is the mind. My direct experience is that the mind

rises from the Heart to the brain, never from the muladhara to the sahasrara.

....

 

Making the kundalini rise from the muladhara to the sahasrara is a mental

activity. It will not take one beyond the mind, and it will not kill the mind.

For realisation, the mind must sink into the Heart and be destroyed by the

Self. The raising of the kundalini through yogic practices does not result in

realisation, even when the kundalini reaches the sahasrara. Such an achievement

is an achievement of the mind; realisation can only result from the destruction

of the mind.

 

There is a channel which runs from the Heart-centre to the brain; it is called the

amrita nadi. The mind rises to the brain through this channel and then goes back

into the Heart-centre again during sleep or deep menditation. The mind rising

and falling in this channel is the true kundalini.

At the moment of realisation the 'I'-thought goes down this channel and is

destroyed in the Heart. After realisation neither the amrita nadi nor the

Heart-centre are of any importance. The jnani then knows that he is the

all-pervading Self.