Energy and Vedantic traditions, a little on Kundalini

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Hi Amanda,

>The answer may as I see it be exactly what

>you have stated, the world and the universe

>is Maya and Brahman at the same time,

>Brahman is Maya and Brahman at the same time.

> Contradictory, I know.

 

Matt just wrote to me,

>Paradoxes are the sign of incipient Paradise.

 

Love,

Dharma

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Hi Greg, Claude and all,

 

Claude, your question is really interesting.

 

I wanted to write something of the Kundalini

energy and how it relates to a non-dual

perspective, but Greg beat me to it.

 

On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 17:39:43 Greg Goode wrote:

>In advaita vedanta, the *formal* kind at least, energy is more abstract.

>1. Creation from emanation, where creation precedes perception. The world

>emanates from Brahman

>2. Creation via perception, where the mind and perceptual apparatus exist,

>created, maintained, and detroyed at every

>moment by the very powers of perception and cognition.

>

>3. Non-creation. Nothing created, nothing destroyed, all is spontaneous,

>uncaused appearances in consciousness.

>

>And as for Maya it is often loosely translated as "illusion," but more

>formally characterized as unspeakable, neither real nor unreal. The world

>is Maya and Brahman at the same time.

 

Really interesting, Greg ! )

 

I don't really see any big contradiction

b/n the three teachings you mention there.

Thanks for presenting them.

 

I find your last sentence very interesting.

 

Sri Lakshmanjoo, who was a teacher in the

Kashmir Shaivism tradition, has written

a 6 part piece on the Kundalini process.

It can be found at the web site

www.kashmirshaivism.org

 

Sri Lakshmanjoo states that during the

Kundalini process, there is a realization

that "this is me", "I am this Kundalini".

>From this perspective, the Kundalini becomes

seen as the true proprietor of the physical

body and even the thinking and feeling mind of

what was previously perceived as oneself as well

as those of others.

 

Kundalini-Shakti becomes the creative

as well as the perceptive power of the

individual and the universe.

And in this way, the only difference between

those perceived as "Kundalini awakened"

and those who are not, is that in the former

the sensory apparatus is aware of the penetrance

of something "not-self" yet commandeering of

the individual self in the mind-body.

 

Only at different times, when the Kundalini-

Shakti contacts the individual self at a broad

range of sensory modalities and flood it

with itself, events called mudra,

such as the often feared Kechari mudra

and the Krama mudra, does its true nature

manifest clearly for the individual self.

(Poor thing )

 

But realization that "I am this Kundalini

and so are everyone else"

leaves the question, how can the

energy, which in itself is true,

at the same time also be something which is untrue (individual selves) ?

The answer may as I see it be exactly what

you have stated, the world and the universe

is Maya and Brahman at the same time,

Brahman is Maya and Brahman at the same time.

Contradictory, I know.

 

Love,

 

Amanda.

 

 

 

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