Pranayama for Awakening Kundalini
Kundalini is the latent shakti or spiritual energy in man.
It is described as a serpent that is coiled three and a half times, face
downwards, sleeping in mooladhara chakra, at the base of the spine. Until this
kundalini awakens, no samadhi is possible. When it is awakened, kundalini
hisses like a serpent beaten with a stick and enters the hole of sushumna,
travels from chakra to chakra, and layer after layer of the mind opens up.
Eventually this force of shakti is united with Shiva, seated on the sahasrara
or thousand-petalled lotus, at the crown of the head.
The ultimate effect of pranayama is the udgata or awakening
of the sleeping kundalini. The practice of kumbhaka in pranayama produces heat
and thereby kundalini is awakened and passes upwards along the sushumna nadi.
One must have knowledge of the nadis and chakras and be perfectly desireless
and full of vairagya, non-attachment, before attempting to awaken kundalini by
pranayama.
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