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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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