Kundalini Shakti

His breath is still. His mind is quiet, his heart unwavering but through the dense dark matter of his earthly form stabs the vibrant relentless flame of the Kundalini Shakti. There he waits... 

And in one tapering comer there is the plantain flower. Below the face of the B/zn-kaaram is the Kundalini Shakti. 

Vallabai here embodies the Kundalini Shakti itself. Because when a personalized relationship is established with the energy personified than one "listens" with more care and understanding to it s natural movement and need not fear the premature expansion of consciousness. 

This line gives us one of Bhogar s more vivid allegorical images of the trepidatious crossing over from the realm of matter into the realm of spirit. The hair bridge is the Chitrini Nadi, the innermost thread of Shashumna. The River of Fire is the Kundalini Shakti. 

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

Since the Kundalini Shakti is coiled around the lingam at Muladhara she is called Kubjika ("the Hunchback"), but from the point of view of the Twelve Inch Flame she is a straight line which stretches on into infinity. 

With this object in view, it will be necessary for us to devote a certain amount of space to Fire when considered in its principal aspects, such as Divine, Creative, Spiritual, Solar, Purificatory, Sacrificial, Baptismal and Elemental, together with its symbolical forms as Lion and Serpent. In addition to these we must also mention Kundalini Shakti and its Western counterpart, the Speirema. 

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 ... 

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. 

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