Latest / Sri Aurobindo Studies / Awakening the Kundalini Energy From Below or From Above

Transcript

Awakening the Kundalini Energy From Below or From Above · Sri Aurobindo Studies

• 0:02
  Traditional paths of yoga describe the various chakras or
• 0:06
  subtle energy centers that act as collecting and disseminating
• 0:10
  points for various specific vibrational patterns related to
• 0:15
  the action of that specific chakra.
• 0:18
  Certain paths such as various tantric disciplines as well as
• 0:23
  the well known Kundalini Yoga take up this knowledge and apply
• 0:27
  it to the growth of consciousness and the
• 0:30
  realization of the divine and liberation of the individual
• 0:34
  from the external personality and the ego.
• 0:38
  The normal course is for the energy which lies sleeping at
• 0:43
  the base of the spine in the Mulladhara chakra when it is
• 0:47
  awakened, to rise up through the channels that carry the energy
• 0:51
  up through the various chakras until it meets the chakra at the
• 0:55
  top of the head, which is described as 1000 pedaled Lotus.
• 1:01
  At that point, realization occurs.
• 1:05
  In the meantime, the intervening chakras are activated and
• 1:09
  energized and vibrate according to their own vibrational
• 1:12
  patterns. Kundalini Yoga and the various
• 1:16
  Tantras that rely on the awakening of this energy in this
• 1:19
  way all point out the dangers inherent with the opening when
• 1:24
  not done under the guidance and control of a qualified guru.
• 1:29
  As the opening of the various lower chakras in particular can
• 1:33
  bring up energies that are contrary to the aim of the
• 1:36
  seeker or can drive the seeker into delusions, madness or even
• 1:42
  injuries to his physical health. Sri Orobindo experienced a
• 1:48
  different method and describes it as the energy beginning above
• 1:52
  the head, descending and opening the chakras from above to below.
• 1:57
  This method is safer and less disruptive to the being as it
• 2:01
  uses the powers of the mind and the heart to manage and control
• 2:06
  the energy released by the lower chakras when they open.
• 2:10
  Many people have implemented this method and they report a
• 2:14
  sensation like a drill piercing the top of the skull and energy
• 2:19
  pouring in, or else a sensation like raindrops coming down on
• 2:24
  the head. They also experienced the
• 2:27
  effects of the opening of the chakras, starting with a wider
• 2:31
  insight, greater strength of will, enhanced skills at
• 2:35
  communication, a more embracing and compassionate view to life
• 2:41
  and the opening and conscious connection to the psychic being.
• 2:45
  As examples of the type of impacts that can occur, Sri
• 2:49
  Orabindo writes quote. There is a force which
• 2:53
  accompanies the growth of the new consciousness and at once
• 2:57
  grows with it and helps it to come about and to perfect
• 3:01
  itself. This force is the Yoga Shakti.
• 3:06
  It is here coiled up and asleep in all the centres of our being
• 3:09
  chakras and is at the base what is called in the Tantras the
• 3:15
  Kundalini Shakti. But it is also above us, above
• 3:20
  our head, as the Divine Force, not there, coiled up, involved,
• 3:25
  asleep, but awake, silent, potent, extended and wide.
• 3:33
  It is there waiting for manifestation.
• 3:36
  And to this force we have to open ourselves to the power of
• 3:40
  the Mother in the mind. It manifests itself as a Divine
• 3:44
  mind force or a universal mind force, and it can do everything
• 3:49
  that the personal mind cannot do.
• 3:52
  It is then the yogic mind force when it manifests and acts in
• 3:58
  the vital or the physical in the same way it is there apparent as
• 4:02
  a yogic life force or a yogic body force.
• 4:06
  It can awake in all these forms, bursting outwards and upwards,
• 4:11
  extending itself into wideness from below, or it can descend
• 4:17
  and become there, a definite power for things.
• 4:20
  It can pour downwards into the body, working, establishing its
• 4:25
  reign, extending into wideness from above.
• 4:29
  Link the lowest in us with the highest above us.
• 4:32
  Release the individual into the cosmic universality, or into
• 4:37
  absoluteness and transcendence. End Quote.
• 4:43
  Reference Sri Aurobindo and the Mother Powers within Chapter 8,
• 4:48
  Yoga Shakti, page 80.