Kundalini
DAILY READINGS
From Mother Radha's recordings of Swamiji
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Do not be fooled by people when they say you must do pranayama and certain things to raise the kundalini. It is very difficult. Many people bluff you that their kundalini shakti has risen, but a man whose kundalini shakti has risen will not talk ill of another, he will not feel jealous about another person, he will not condemn others. He will become love personified. Do not think that all can become God-realised. If anyone's kundalini is going wrong then his sensuality will increase more and more.
When Swami Vivekananda was giving lectures in America it appears that some people in the audience started shouting, 'Hail Jesus, Hail Jesus,' and 'Glory to the Lord.' Here the kundalini was raised because they were all bhaktas [followers on the path of devotion] but as soon as they went home it appears the kundalini went lower than normal. Swami Vivekananda says that they were emotionally awakened without any yama and niyama [disciplines and observances of spiritual practice], without any purity, and therefore they turned out to be brutes. And when you become brutish then by sheer will you have to give up all those things that you want to do in a sensual way. It is that easy. Do not go to a guru to correct it, you can correct it yourself. How? Try to do away with all those sensual things and do more japa [meditative repetition of a mantra or one of the many names attributed to God].
Forget the people who say, 'Do pranayama.' By force you awaken the kundalini shakti [power] through mudras [postures of the hands], pranayama etc. We do not want to do that. As our minds become purer so the kundalini will rise. Take for instance a container which is empty, it is full of air. But as you pour the water in, to the extent the air is empty to that extent the container will be full. So to the extent you purify yourself to that extent the kundalini will come up.
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