Wake up, Mother Kundalini - the Bliss Eternal of Brahman! Wake up.

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PRAYER TO MOTHER KUNDALINI

 

Wake up Mother Kundalini.

Thou whose nature is Bliss Eternal—The Bliss of Brahman.

Thou dwelling like a serpent asleep at the lotus of Muladhara,

Sore, affected and distressed am I in body and mind,

Do thou bless me and leave thy place at the basic lotus.

Consort of Siva the Self-caused Lord of Universe,

Do thou take thy upward course through the central canal.

Leaving behind Svadhishthana, Manipuraka, Anahata, Vishuddha, and

Ajna.

Be thou united with Siva, thy Lord the God.

At Sahasrara—the thousand-petalled-lotus in the brain.

Sport there freely, O Mother, Giver of Bliss Supreme.

Mother, who is Existence, Knowledge, Bliss Absolute.

Wake up, Mother Kundalini! Wake up.

 

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.

 

Kundalini And Tantrik Sadhana

 

Kundalini Yoga actually belongs to Tantrik Sadhana, which gives a

detailed description about this serpent-power and the Chakras, as

mentioned above. Mother Divine, the active aspect of the Existence-

Knowledge-Bliss Absolute, resides in the body of men and women in the

form of Kundalini, and the entire Tantrik Sadhana aims at awakening

Her, and making Her to unite with the Lord, Sadasiva, in the

Sahasrara, as described in the beginning in detail. Methods adopted

to achieve this end in Tantrik Sadhana are Japa of the name of the

Mother, prayer and various rituals.

 

Kundalini And Vedanta

 

But when we come to Vedanta, there is no question about Kundalini or

any type of mystical and mechanical methods. It is all enquiry and

philosophical speculation. According to Vedanta the only thing to be

destroyed is ignorance about one's real nature, and this ignorance

cannot be destroyed either by study, or by Pranayama, or by work, or

by any amount of physical twisting and torturing, but only by knowing

one's real nature, which is Sat-Chit-Ananda or Existence-Knowledge-

Bliss. Man is divine, free and one with the Supreme Spirit always,

which he forgets and identifies himself with matter, which itself is

an illusory appearance and a superimposition on the spirit.

Liberation is freedom from ignorance and the aspirant is advised to

constantly dissociate himself from all limitations and identify

himself with the all-pervading, non-dual, blissful, peaceful,

homogeneous spirit or Brahman. When meditation becomes intensified,

in the ocean of Existence or rather the individuality is blotted or

blown out completely. Just as a drop of water let on a frying pan is

immediately sucked and vanishes from cognition, the individual

consciousness is sucked in by the Universal Consciousness and is

absorbed in it. According to Vedanta there cannot be real liberation

in a state of multiplicity, and the state of complete Oneness is the

goal to be aspired for, towards which alone the entire creation is

slowly moving on.

 

Kundalini Yoga

Sri Swami Sivananda