Living with Kundalini by Gopi Krishna

Author:Gopi Krishna
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shambhala

ELEVEN

Perennially Conscious of an Inner Luminosity

I QUITE REALIZE THAT it is impossible for me to convey accurately or for the average reader to understand clearly what I mean by the expressions “widening” and “contraction” of consciousness, which I use frequently to denote the fluctuations in my mental condition. However, it is only by employing these phrases that I can describe even vaguely a purely subjective experience that seldom falls to the lot of the average person. To the best of my knowledge, the weird phenomena following the awakening of kundalini have so far never been revealed in detail or made the subject of analytical study. The subject has remained shrouded in mystery, not only because of the extreme rarity and astounding nature of the manifestation, but also because certain essential features of the development are closely bound up with the intimate life and private parts of the individual who has the experiences. The disclosures made in this work are likely to appear startling, even incredible, because the subject is being discussed openly for the first time after centuries of a veiled existence.

We can more or less follow the meaning of words, however difficult they may be, which describe mental states common to us all, or discuss intellectual problems and abstract propositions based on common experience and knowledge. But the phenomenon which I have tried to explain in these pages is so rare and so removed from ordinary affairs that in all probability only a few of those who happen to read this account will have even heard of anything so extraordinary. Accomplished masters of kundalini yoga, always extremely rare in the past, are almost nonexistent nowadays, and the cases of a spontaneous type, where the awakening occurs suddenly at some period in life, more often than not end in mental disorder, which makes a coherent narration of the experience impossible. Under the circumstances it is no wonder that a detailed account of this strange experience is not available anywhere.

In spite of all this, the experience is not as singular or as unauthenticated as might at first appear. There is enough evidence available to suggest that from times immemorial, probably from the very birth of civilization and even before that, there have been cases, extremely rare indeed, of the awakening of kundalini spontaneously or by means of suitable exercises. In the few cases of the former type where the awakening proceeds towards a healthy culmination, the symptoms being usually mild and the development gradual, as in born mystics, the essential characteristics of the rebirth, which were startlingly apparent in my case, might conceivably escape notice or when noticed may be attributed to other causes.

In the large proportion of cases of the same class where the awakening is morbid, the frenzied expressions of the stricken, even when correct, would be utterly disregarded as the senseless rubbish of a delirious brain. In the case of awakening brought about by voluntary effort as, for example, in a monastic order, secluded yoga center, or solitary

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