Kundalini awakening

Shushumna is the street that climbs the mountain of the spine, but until the Kundalini awakens, the spine keeps us firmly chained to the earth, to the realm of matter, with the golden chain of attachment and aversion, the sweet and bitter fruits of the Tree of Life. 

The word Moolam can mean either "root" or "source". It refers to the Muladhara, the chakra or nerve plexus found at the base of the spine. The Muladhara is the starting point of the journey of consciousness, as awareness is propelled up the Shashumna Nadi by the force of the awakened Kundalini energy which lies in its dormant state in Muladhara. In speaking of Muladhara and this journey of consciousness the great tantric dictum... 

Although a great portion of Bhogar s work is devoted to the alchemical science, his reference here to "the True Polymorph Alchemy" has little to do with the act of changing base metals into gold. It is common for the Siddhars to speak of the awakening of the Kundalini with alchemical terms. 

As the spine was once the chain that binds us to matter, when the Kundalini is awakened, the spine becomes a prop that supports the universe. 

Bhogar s system gives three primary tools to awaken and direct the Kundalini Shakti ... 

The body turns a reddish hue as the Kundalini is aroused. There will also be a concentration of heat in the region of the awakened chakra, as Woodroffe also attests to in The Serpent Power. "There is one simple test whether the Shakti is actually aroused. When she is aroused intense heat is felt at that spot but when she leaves a particular centre that part so left becomes as cold and apparently lifeless as a corpse. The progress upwards may thus be externally verified by others. When the Shakti (Power) has reached the upper-brain (Sahasrara) the whole body is cold and corpse-like except the top of the skull, where some warmth is felt, this being the place where the static and kinetic aspects of Consciousness unite." At this point the body appears pale, cool, and glows with a soft lustre. 

As a beginning we may ask ourselves what is Kundalini Shakti and why is it said to be coiled like a serpent What is the nature of this power and what are the Chakras Why is this force in the Muladhara, and why, when awakened, should it go upwards What is the effect of its going to Sahasrara ... 

Now the object of Kundalini Yoga is to awaken this coiled and sleeping force by Pranayama and other Yogic practices, so that it shall become dynamic. She is thereupon immediately drawn upwards to that other static centre in Sahasrara, the Thousand-petalled Lotus, which is, in fact. Herself, but in union with the Shiva-consciousness, or the consciousness of ecstasy beyond the world of forms. When she sleeps man is awake in the material world, but when she awakens the Yogi loses all consciousness of the world and enters his causal body, passing thus to formless consciousness. 

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