Kundalini

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KUNDALINI

 

The word Kundalini is a familiar one to all students of Yoga, as it

is well known as the power, in the form of a coiled serpent, residing

in Muladhara Chakra, the first of the seven Chakras, the other six

being Svadhishthana, Manipuraka, Anahata, Visuddha, Ajna and

Sahasrara, in order.

 

All Sadhanas in the form of Japa, meditation, Kirtan and prayer as

well as all development of virtues, and observance of austerities

like truth, non-violence and continence are at best calculated only

to awaken this serpent-power and make it to pass through all the

succeeding Chakras beginning from Svadhishthana to Sahasrara, the

latter otherwise called as the thousand-petalled lotus, the seat of

Sadasiva or the Parabrahman or the Absolute separated from whom the

Kundalini or the Shakti lies at the Muladhara, and to unite with whom

the Kundalini passes through all the Chakras, as explained above,

conferring liberation on the aspirant who assiduously practises Yoga

or the technique of uniting her with her Lord and gets success also

in his effort.

 

In worldly-minded people, given to enjoyment of sensual and sexual

pleasures, this Kundalini power is sleeping because of the absence of

any stimulus in the form of spiritual practices, as the power

generated through such practices alone awakens that serpent-power,

and not any other power derived through the possession of worldly

riches and affluence. When the aspirant seriously practises all the

disciplines as enjoined in the Shastras, and as instructed by the

preceptor, in whom the Kundalini would have already been awakened and

reached its abode or Sadasiva, acquiring which blessed achievement

alone a person becomes entitled to act as a Guru or spiritual

preceptor, guiding and helping others also to achieve the same end,

the veils or layers enmeshing Kundalini begin to be cleared and

finally are torn asunder and the serpent-power is pushed or driven,

as it were upwards.

 

Supersensual visions appear before the mental eye of the aspirant,

new worlds with indescribable wonders and charms unfold themselves

before the Yogi, planes after planes reveal their existence and

grandeur to the practitioner and the Yogi gets divine knowledge,

power and bliss, in increasing degrees, when Kundalini passes through

Chakra after Chakra, making them to bloom in all their glory which

before the touch of Kundalini, do not give out their powers,

emanating their divine light and fragrance and reveal the divine

secrets and phenomena, which lie concealed from the eyes of worldly-

minded people who would refuse to believe of their existence even.

 

When the Kundalini ascends one Chakra or Yogic centre, the Yogi also

ascends one step or rung upward in the Yogic ladder; one more page,

the next page, he reads in the divine book; the more the Kundalini

travels upwards, the Yogi also advances towards the goal or spiritual

perfection in relation to it. When the Kundalini reaches the sixth

centre or the Ajna Chakra, the Yogi gets the vision of Personal God

or Saguna Brahman, and when the serpent-power reaches the last, the

top centre, or Sahasrara Chakra, or the Thousand-petalled lotus, the

Yogi loses his individuality in the ocean of Sat-Chit-Ananda or the

Existence-Knowledge-Bliss Absolute and becomes one with the Lord or

Supreme Soul. He is no longer an ordinary man, not even a simple

Yogi, but a fully illumined sage, having conquered the eternal and

unlimited divine kingdom, a hero having won the battle against

illusion, a Mukta or liberated one having crossed the ocean of

ignorance or the transmigratory existence, and a superman having the

authority and capacity to save the other struggling souls of the

relative world. Scriptures hail him most, in the maximum possible

glorifying way, and his achievement. Celestial beings envy him, not

excluding the Trinity even, viz., Brahma, Vishnu and Siva.