Kundalini
DAILY READINGS
From Mother Radha's recordings of Swamiji
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Sri Ramakrishna found out who he was by Tota Puri [his Advaita Vedanta 'guru'] making him go beyond Kali-consciousness [dualistic awareness of the Divine Mother].
Certain spiritual experiences show that the kundalini or spiritual power in you is awakened. At these times whatever is nearest to your mind will flash through your mind. Seeing lightening or seeing light is also the awakening of the kundalini. Feeling pain is also the awakening of the kundalini (except where you try to force it; then it becomes a false kind of headache rather than a natural feeling of pain). This awakening differs from person to person depending on the state in which his or her mind is. Degrees of purity also differ from one person to another.
First of all one must establish what kundalini is. Secondly you must know what result you will get when the kundalini is rising in a particular direction and what the feelings will be.
If you read 'Ramakrishna the Great Master' Sri Ramakrishna describes, according to his experiences, how the kundalini awakens. Master said that sometimes it hops like a bird, sometimes it comes up like a snake, sometimes it jumps like a frog. Sri Ramakrishna very clearly describes the effects of the kundalini rising.
If the kundalini shakti [power] is rising according to the instructions laid down in the scriptures (and we will take it for granted that the disciple, the student or the practitioner has followed all the rules of purity), then the result will always be the sharpening of the intellect and the increase of love towards God. That will be the first result.
But if the kundalini has risen and it has gone off-gear you will either become insane or you will get diseases in your body because the current, like two wires, gets fused and you become confused. Or you will find that you cannot meditate or concentrate. If you do not have love for God and your mind is always going on lower things, sensual things, what to do? You do not have to worry about it too much. Just leave out all the things that you know to be worldly and start living a pure life. And when you live a pure life naturally the kundalini shakti will adjust itself and go on to the correct channel. The easiest way to rouse the kundalini shakti is through japa [meditative repetition of a mantra or one of God's many names].
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