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Remembering it helps.
"The Kundalini Shakti is the highest possible expression of an individual’s will power. When you have purified your will so totally that it can be directed to a single object at a time — coherent just like a laser beam — then the Kundalini Shakti is operating in you, not before. Anything travelling that fast must have tremendous force behind it, and very few people can handle such power. This is why I get so wild when I read about all those people in America who claim either to have had their own Kundalinis awakened painlessly, or to be awakening the Kundalinis of all and sundry effortlessly. Don’t
ask me to believe such drivel. If it were so all of America would have merged with the infinite by now.”
Restraining his indignation with some effort, he continued.
“Why I am so outraged? Because the ordinary individual can at best, after
long penances, become able to partially self-identify with the universe, or with a deity; wheneverthat self-identification becomes perfect the ego loses all concept of individuality and all contact with the body, which then disin-
tegrates. Once you lose your ability to identify yourself with imperfection,
how will you be able to continue to exist in our imperfect world? All the
swamis and sadhus nowadays who talk about the awakening of Kundalini
are really talking about Her partial awakening, whether they realize it or not.
You may accidentally awaken your Kundalini partially, or a saint may partially awaken it for you, but that is not the end; it is only the beginning, which is why so many aspirants go astray.”
A brief pause signified that this applied particularly to me.
In an ordinary individual the ego resides at the lower end of the spinal
cord because gravity has full power over Her. So long as She lies there sleeping the individual remains in ignorance. If you want to liberate the ego from her restrictions you must create a force within your body to counteract the force of gravity; this can only be done by strenuous penance. The purpose
of all spiritual practices in every religion is to disengage the ego from her identification with the limited personality so that She may reunite with Her
perennial personality.
“Whether you do it slowly or quickly, you have to rip your ego away from
your nerves when you practice Kundalini Yoga, and this will come as quite a shock to your organism. The ego has such a strong grip on the body that it
is impossible for most people to do this. In fact, some die of shock when
Kundalini is awakened, and others become severely ill. Indiscriminate awak-
ening of the Kundalini is very dangerous. Everyone is doomed to die, of
course, but dying disoriented in pain and fear will ruin your chances for a
good rebirth.
“If your nervous system is strong it can endure a great deal of shakti
before disintegrating, which is why penance is required. If you do the practices your guru sets for you and control your tongue and your penis — ”
“Or if you are a woman?”
“Or your clitoris, you can create nerves of steel. I’m sorry, but if you think
you can dare to awaken Kundalini and survive while living in a body that
has been weakened by dissipation you are living in a fool’s paradise. How
do you think Moses was able to withstand his experience with God? Only
because of his long penances.Moses described a burning bush which burned but was not consumed. That bush was his own brain and nervous
system, ignited by God.
Kundalini has been described as vidyut lata, the “lightning creeper.”
Think of how a creeping vine clings to a tree; and then think of that vine as a
lightning stroke, a bolt of billions of volts of energy which would splinter or
incinerate any ordinary tree, or bush. But Moses was destined for greatness, and his nerves, though severely strained, were able to take the sudden flash of pure consciousness that God graced him with. How few are able to do
this!
If you could just for a moment experience the power of a fully awakened
Kundalini Shakti you would know what bull is being put out by these phony Yogis who say that the Kundalini can be felt as a creepy feeling in the spine, or as a cool breeze in the palm. Creepy feeling, my, my foot! And to control Kundalini, do you think it is some sort of joke? Never! For an ordinary human to control Kundalini is impossible, or nearly so. Only immortals can
properly control Her.
“No, raising Kundalini in an uncontrolled way is not the answer. You don’t become enlightened or become a yogi just because your Kundalini is aroused. There is a great potential for abuse of this power. As long as it goes up it’s fine, but when it falls, it falls like a thunderbolt.”
AGHORA II.Robert Svoboda.
"The Kundalini Shakti is the highest possible expression of an individual’s will power. When you have purified your will so totally that it can be directed to a single object at a time — coherent just like a laser beam — then the Kundalini Shakti is operating in you, not before. Anything travelling that fast must have tremendous force behind it, and very few people can handle such power. This is why I get so wild when I read about all those people in America who claim either to have had their own Kundalinis awakened painlessly, or to be awakening the Kundalinis of all and sundry effortlessly. Don’t
ask me to believe such drivel. If it were so all of America would have merged with the infinite by now.”
Restraining his indignation with some effort, he continued.
“Why I am so outraged? Because the ordinary individual can at best, after
long penances, become able to partially self-identify with the universe, or with a deity; wheneverthat self-identification becomes perfect the ego loses all concept of individuality and all contact with the body, which then disin-
tegrates. Once you lose your ability to identify yourself with imperfection,
how will you be able to continue to exist in our imperfect world? All the
swamis and sadhus nowadays who talk about the awakening of Kundalini
are really talking about Her partial awakening, whether they realize it or not.
You may accidentally awaken your Kundalini partially, or a saint may partially awaken it for you, but that is not the end; it is only the beginning, which is why so many aspirants go astray.”
A brief pause signified that this applied particularly to me.
In an ordinary individual the ego resides at the lower end of the spinal
cord because gravity has full power over Her. So long as She lies there sleeping the individual remains in ignorance. If you want to liberate the ego from her restrictions you must create a force within your body to counteract the force of gravity; this can only be done by strenuous penance. The purpose
of all spiritual practices in every religion is to disengage the ego from her identification with the limited personality so that She may reunite with Her
perennial personality.
“Whether you do it slowly or quickly, you have to rip your ego away from
your nerves when you practice Kundalini Yoga, and this will come as quite a shock to your organism. The ego has such a strong grip on the body that it
is impossible for most people to do this. In fact, some die of shock when
Kundalini is awakened, and others become severely ill. Indiscriminate awak-
ening of the Kundalini is very dangerous. Everyone is doomed to die, of
course, but dying disoriented in pain and fear will ruin your chances for a
good rebirth.
“If your nervous system is strong it can endure a great deal of shakti
before disintegrating, which is why penance is required. If you do the practices your guru sets for you and control your tongue and your penis — ”
“Or if you are a woman?”
“Or your clitoris, you can create nerves of steel. I’m sorry, but if you think
you can dare to awaken Kundalini and survive while living in a body that
has been weakened by dissipation you are living in a fool’s paradise. How
do you think Moses was able to withstand his experience with God? Only
because of his long penances.Moses described a burning bush which burned but was not consumed. That bush was his own brain and nervous
system, ignited by God.
Kundalini has been described as vidyut lata, the “lightning creeper.”
Think of how a creeping vine clings to a tree; and then think of that vine as a
lightning stroke, a bolt of billions of volts of energy which would splinter or
incinerate any ordinary tree, or bush. But Moses was destined for greatness, and his nerves, though severely strained, were able to take the sudden flash of pure consciousness that God graced him with. How few are able to do
this!
If you could just for a moment experience the power of a fully awakened
Kundalini Shakti you would know what bull is being put out by these phony Yogis who say that the Kundalini can be felt as a creepy feeling in the spine, or as a cool breeze in the palm. Creepy feeling, my, my foot! And to control Kundalini, do you think it is some sort of joke? Never! For an ordinary human to control Kundalini is impossible, or nearly so. Only immortals can
properly control Her.
“No, raising Kundalini in an uncontrolled way is not the answer. You don’t become enlightened or become a yogi just because your Kundalini is aroused. There is a great potential for abuse of this power. As long as it goes up it’s fine, but when it falls, it falls like a thunderbolt.”
AGHORA II.Robert Svoboda.