kundalini yoga

1. Transformation of the sexual libido (retas) into the subtler and luminous ego-transcending or trans personal Being-energy (ojas).

2. Awakening of the psycho nuclear energy and its appropriation of the newly generated valve-energy (ojas) resulting in upward movement along the central canal (sushumna) of the spinal cord.

3. Considerable withdrawal of energy from the vital organs, efferent nerves and externally oriented musculature.

4. Gradual opening or activation of the various energy centers and associated glands of the body resulting in the exploration of the higher levels of consciousness as the regular practice of meditation continues from day to day, from month to month, from year to year.

The tantric philosophy of India is in agreement with modern science that there is, in ultimate analysis, only one stuff of all existence, and that is energy. The primordial energy is known as mahashakti. According to Vedanta, the superconscient divine energy is experienced by the meditator at the highest peak of cosmic consciousness.

According to some, the kundalini or primal energy is the right vagous nerve that controls the nerve phlex of the autonomic nervous system. When thevital center in the medulla oblongata is stimulated, the functions of heart, lungs and larynx are inhibited. At the same time the functions of the stomach, intestine and digestive glands are accelerated.

The most authoritative interpretation postulates the kundalini as the nuclear energy of the psycho physical system. When awakened, this energy is simultaneously experienced as physical, vital, mental and spiritual. So in a sense it is immaterial whether it is described as the physio nuclear or bio nuclear or psycho nuclear or somato nuclear energy. It is the nuclear energy of the enormously complicated organized structure of man's existence, which we call the psycho physical system.

There are varying degrees of awakening of the coiled energy, which is the static pole and positive nucleus in relation to the rest of the bodily energies, which are dynamic. Whenever a person enters into the condition of immensely intensified consciousness due to his total concentration on an absorbing project, whether scientific, artistic, commercial or political, he feels the thrill and excitement of overflowing energy. What happens is the partial awakening of the coiled energy. His concentrated vital energy (prana), withdrawn from all other affairs of the world, puts pressure at the base of the spinal cord. The coiled energy reacts by re channeling the mobilized vital energy along the spinal cord toward the brain. This results in the flow of new creative ideas, or exciting new solutions to the problems concentrated on.

A greater measure of re channeling of energy from the outer to the upward direction takes place. If and when there comes a time when the coiled energy undergoes total conversion from the static to the dynamic form, the yogi attains what is called bodiless liberation. He leaves the body and becomes one with the vastness of cosmic Being.

Under the impact of their concentrated attack, the positive nuclear of the psycho physical system (kundalini), the apparently static positive pole of the body's magnetic field, sends forth an emanation or ejection, some kind of "etheric double," as theosophists call it, which shoots up like an electric current along the central canal of the spinal cord.

Under the impact of breath-control and intense concentration, the root center, like an electromagnetic machine, becomes over saturated. It then produces an inductive action, analogous to electromagnetic action, by which the mobilized dynamic energies operative in the body are converged along the axis. In this case there is no need to postulate the conversion of the static pole into its dynamic equivalent. The root center, like an over saturated electromagnetic machine, induces in the neighborhood an equivalent and opposite kind of electromagnetism without losing its own stock of energy.

Written By:-Diwakar Vashist

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