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KUNDALINI
THE
AROUSAL OF INNER, DIVINE
ENERGY |
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Liberation while living is considered in indian
life to be the highest experience - a fusion of the individual with
the universal. The individual manifestation is like a spark of
cosmos, as the human organism, the microcosm, parallels everything
in the macrocosm. |
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The
whole body with its biological and psychological processes becomes
an instrument through which the cosmic energy reveals itself.
According to tantric principles, all that exists in the universe
must also exist in the human body. If we can analyse one human
being, we shall be able to analyse the entire universe. , because it
is believed that all is built in the same plane.
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The
purpose is to search for the whole truth within, so that one may
realize one's inner self, unfolding the basic reality of the
universe. |
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The
Sanskrit word kundalini means 'coiled-up'. The coiled kundalini is
the female energy existing in the latent form. Not only in
every human being but in every atom of the universe. It may
frequently happen that an individual's kundalini energy lies dormant
throughout his or her entire life-time and he or she is unaware of
its existence. The object of the tantric practice of kundalini-yoga
is to awaken this cosmic energy and cause it to unite with Siva, the
Pure Consciousness pervading the whole
universe. |
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The
static, unmanifested Kundalini is symbolised by a serpent coiled
into three and a half circles, with its tail in the mouth, and
spiraling around the central axis at the base of spine. When
kundalini Sakti is ready to unfold, she ascends to unite above the
crown of the head with Siva(Pure
Consciousness). |
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Long
training and preparatory disciplines are undertaken for the
arousal of kundalini, but there is no fixed rule. Several yogic
principals are used in arousal of Kundalini Energy.
Breath provides the means of symbiosis between
different forms of life and also between existence and awareness.
Yoga is concerned to direct this bio-motor force towards the
expansion of consciousness in the human organism. It is through the
science of breathing that the body's subtle centres are
vitalized |
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Yoga
has developed systematic techniques of breathing regulating its
speed, depth and rhythm. In normal circumstances our breathing is
very irregular. not only are inhalation and exhalation shallow but
they lack harmony. |
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The
cosmic principles moving with the outgoing(i.e. descending) current
of vital air are involuted with the starting of the return current.
Ascent is to made in the reverse order to descent. This repeated
filling and emptying of the breath is the rhythm of the universe
itself, sending waves to strike at the root impulses of the
kundalini.
When Kundalini is
struck, she awakens, uncoils(i.e. is dynamized), and begins to rise
upwards like a fiery serpent, breaking upon each chakras as she
ascends, until the Shakti merges with Siva in the
laya-yoga. |
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The
dynamization, transformation and sublimation of the physical,
mental, and spiritual state is only possible with the arousal of
Kundalini Sakti and her reorientation from downword to upward
movement as she rises to unite with Siva, resulting in the flooding
of whole being with indescribable bliss. The aspirant raises himself
from the grosser elements to the subtler, and realizes, in a
transcendental experience, his union with Siva-Sakti, to become a
'cosmic-man'. |
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