Kundalini: Awakening the Serpent Power. Cleansing the Doors of Perception. The way we see the world depends on who we are. On the simplest level. In each case, perception is selective. This extends to more. These attitudes are shaped by all kinds of factors, karmic conditioning. Tantric scriptures would insist, being the most influential one. We are shaped by our past choices, which is the same as saying that we. In yogic terms, our thoughts and actions for the. That is to say, they are. This explains. why it is so difficult to change our behavior even when we have realized. Hence, in. addition to behavioral change, the Tantric practitioners attempt to modify. This modification is a matter. As noted in the previous chapter, in the ordinary individual the energy. Kundalini. Kundalini is a Sanskrit word meaning either 'coiled up' or 'coiling like a snake.' There are a number of other translations of the term usually emphasizing a more serpent nature to the word - e.g. 'serpent power. They are not fully functional. The Tantric. adept's specific goal is to open the central channel so that the life. Without prior cleansing of the nadi system, it is not only impossible. For, instead of entering. This is what. happened to Gopi Krishna during his spontaneous kundalinо awakening. The serpent, or snake, is one of the oldest and most widespread mythological symbols. The word is derived from Latin serpens, a crawling animal or snake. Snakes have been associated with some of the oldest rituals known to. Ser·pent (sûr′pənt) n. 1. Zoology A snake. 2. often Serpent In the Bible, the creature that tempted Eve, identified in Christian tradition with Satan. 3. A subtle, sly, or treacherous person. 4. A firework that writhes. Goddess energy. He wrote: My face became extremely pale and my body thin and weak. I felt a distaste. The Subtle Knife, the second book in the His Dark Materials series, is a young-adult fantasy novel written by Philip Pullman and published in 1997. The novel continues the adventures of Lyra Belacqua as she investigates the. The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to. Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, Yes, has God said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden? Now. Genesis 3:13-15 And the LORD God said to. But the changes are so subtle that they are difficult to apprehend and you cannot be certain that this is the case. They can also remove certain features of a landscape to enhance others and isolate subtle changes with. I swallowed anything. My restlessness had assumed such a state that I could not sit. When I did so, my attention was drawn. Immediately the. ever- present sense of fear was intensified, and my heart thumped violently. He further described how the kundalinо caused tremendous heat. I writhed and twisted. He continued: There were dreadful disturbances in all the organs, each so alarming. I wonder how I managed to retain my self- possession. The whole delicate organism was burning, withering. I knew I was dying and that my heart could not stand the tremendous. My throat was scorched and every part of my body flaming. I could do nothing to alleviate the dreadful suffering. If a well or river had been near I would have jumped into its cold depths. I was undergoing . I racked my distracted. The effort exhausted me and I felt myself sinking, dully conscious of. I was drowning. 3. Other similar cases have been reported in the literature. The American. psychiatrist Lee Sannella, one of the first members of the medical establishment. As he explained in his widely read book The. Kundalini Experience: In the course of its upward motion, the kundalini is held to encounter. In particular, the Sanskrit scriptures mention three major structural. We can look upon these blockages. Thus, in its ascent, the kundalini causes the central. This is usually associated with. When the kundalini encounters these. Sannella's statement holds true only in cases where the kundalinо. The Tantric scriptures emphasize the need for thorough groundwork. As the fourteenth- century master Svвtmarвma states, the kundalini. A sharp knife in the hands of a skilled physician can save a life but. The kundalinо in. It simply is the Goddess energy as it. Unless we consciously collaborate with it. Through self- purification and an appropriate course of disciplines. In its hidden state, the kundalini is said to be sheer potentiality. This is only relatively correct, for the Goddess energy is always active. In its awakened state. As the Rudra- Yamala. The kundalini is ever the master of Yoga.". In the same scripture (2. Yoga" and the "bestower of Yoga."Various postures (asana) are said to effect the purification of. The Hatha- Yoga- Pradоpika. The adept's posture is practiced by placing the left heel at. Sometimes the. position of the legs is reversed. The potency of this very popular posture. While postures like the siddha- asana are important, the principal. Hatha- Yoga. The Gheranda- Samhita. I will discuss the latter first. As this text explains, it consists in physical cleansing processes called. The samanu type of purificatory practice consists in breath control. As the Gheranda- Samhitв (5. Seated on a seat, the yogin should assume the lotus posture. Next he should place the guru etc. Contemplating. the seed- syllable (bija) of the air element, which is energetic. Then he should retain it for sixty- four of repetitions. Raising the fire. Then, while repeating the. Next, he should retain. Contemplating. the luminous reflection of the moon at the tipe of the nose, he should. Then, while contemplating. Finally, he should firmly exhale for. The seed- syllables mentioned in the above passage are the root sounds. The common seed- syllable for water is vam. The. fifth element, "quintessence," is ether whose seed- syllable. Although this is not mentioned in the quoted passage, oral. Thus the renowned Hatha- Yoga master B. K. S. Iyengar has explained the. In our body we have five elements. The element responsible for production. The element of air is used as. Ether is space, and its quality is. When you inhale, the element of ether. In exhalation, the ether contracts to. Two elements remain: water and fire. If there is a fire, water is used. This gives us the idea that fire and water are opposing. With the help of the elements of earth, air and ether, a friction. To generate electricity, the water has. An inadequate flow will not produce electricity. Similarly, in our system, normal breathing does not produce that intense. This is why we are all suffering fro stress and strain, causing. The current. is not sufficient so we are merely existing, not living. In the practice of pranayama, we make the breath very long. In this. way, the elements of fire and water are brought together, and this contact. Other texts recommend similar procedures in which the left and the right. According to the. Shiva- Samhita(3. If done regularly for three months, this procedure, we are told, will. It is only then that the practitioner. The Shiva- Samhitв (3. The body becomes harmonious. Also, the yogin whose. The Hatha- Yoga- Pradоpika (2. Now the practitioner is like a finely tuned instrument and ready. Tantra, leading to the activation of. As outlined in the previous chapter, these processes. But first I must. Tantra- Yoga. Awakening the Goddess Energy As we have seen, the universe is a manifestation of the play, or transcendental. Shiva and Shakti, God and Goddess, Being and Becoming. Consciousness and Energy. In the human body, which microcosmically replicates. Energy expresses. The life force is universally present in the cosmos and as such is known. It assumes the. following five functional aspects in connection with the human body, which. Chandogya- Upanishad (2. In addition to the above principal types of life force, some scriptures. God- given"). and dhanam- jaya ("conquest of wealth"), which are respectively. From a yogic perspective, the two most important forms of the vital energy. Breath control directly. The ultimate purpose of breath control. What exactly is the kundalini? In answering this question, I will. Sir John Woodroffe who pondered it as long ago as 1. As he noted, the divine Energy is polarized into a static or potential. The latter is responsible for maintaining all the life processes that. The former is the infinite pool of Energy coiled. This cakra is the normally closed plug- hole to the infinite. Energy (and Consciousness). In his voluminous work Tantra- Вloka (chapter 3), the great Tantric. Abhinava Gupta distinguishes between the purna- kundalini, urdhva- kundalini. The first is the divine power as the Whole. Plenum (purna); the second is the divine power in its manifestation. By means of the kinetic energy of prana, which is freely available. Goddess Power, itself. The psychoenergetic center at the base. It is the terminal point of cosmic evolution, as powered by Shakti. Here. the Goddess comes to rest in the earth element. Far from having exhausted. Power now simply exists as sheer potentiality awaiting. The Sanskrit texts speak of. Shiva. The coils have. This notion may be related to the Vedic teaching of Vishnu's three steps. Only a being greater than the. In the case of the serpent power. The name kundalini. Hatha- Yoga, notably members of the Kanphata sect. Some texts shorten. The coils of the kundalinо graphically. For the same reason, the Sharada- Tilaka- Tantra. We can understand the evolutionary process from the transcendental plane. At the "time" of the Big Bang, the world existed in a state. Suddenly (and for no known reason), some fifteen billion. This event coincided with. Within this. unimaginable vastness are planet Earth and the human species- both products. Indian terms, of Shiva's. Now scientists are busy exploring ways of freeing up the energy stored. The. yogins are engaged in a parallel operation in the laboratory of. They use the vital energy to repeatedly "smash". The Goraksha- Samhita (1. The serpent power, forming an eightfold coil above the "bulb". Absolute. Through that door the safe door to the Absolute can be reached. Covering. that door with her face, the great Goddess is asleep [in the ordinary. Awakened through buddhi- yoga. Sleeping in the form of a serpent, resembling a resplendent cord, she. Yoga of fire [i. e., mental concentration and breath. Just as one may forcibly open a door with a key, so the yogin. Vimalananda, a contemporary master of the Aghorо branch of Tantra, similarly. Perhaps tongue in cheek, he blamed gravity for its inclination to rest. In the Hatha- Yoga- Pradоpika (3. One should arouse that sleeping serpent by seizing its tail. Then that. shakti, awakening from her slumber, forcefully rises upward. One should seize the reclining serpent by means of paridhana. The practice mentioned here is known as shakti- calana ("stirring. It is done by contracting the sphincter muscle and by. Manthana. ("churning") is another term used in the texts to describe the. The Kashmiri yogini Lalla hints at this process in one of her mystical. Closing the doors and windows of my body, I seized the thief, prana. I bound him tightly inside the chamber of my heart. And lashed him hard with the whip om. I pulled the reins of the steed of the mind; I compressed the life. Then, indeed, did the lunar. Void merged. with the Void. Concentrating on the om- sound, I made my body like blazing coal. Leaving behind the six crossroads, I travelled the path of Truth.
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