--- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <r...@...> wrote: > > I may have posted this before. Can't remember. > > Chakras and Kundalini > Lake Louise, Canada, 1968 (audio) > MAHARISHI: ...chakras are the mile stones on the path of kundalini. How > many have experienced during meditation sometimes some movement along the > spine, there is something coming up and down, something like that? > This is movement of kundalini. These movements, like the energy impulses we > have talked in the morning, flowing like that, like that, they are the signs > of release of stress and strain. > And have you noticed some times when you are meditating, that breathing > becomes much refined and it flows equally with both the nostrils? Otherwise > generally it flows either from the left or from the right. But during > meditation, when it becomes very refined it flows from both. > When the breath flows from both, then it is called shushumna. > There is a very fine hole deep inside the spinal column. Very fine, much > thinner than the width of the hair. May be one hundredth of the width of the > hair. Such fine spine and when the nervous system becomes freer from deep > rooted stresses and strain of which we talked in the morning ... (using a > board) See, this is the spinal column. And at the end of the spine is the > kundalini. Kundalini is the symbol of life force that is present in each > living being. > Higher state of consciousness depends on how much this kundalini is awake. > It is said to be on this end of this... And this column is said to be > shushumna. And as the body becomes purer and purer, this germ of life, it is > like a serpent, it becomes awake. > In all the creatures, the small, small insects and birds and animals and man > and angels, in every living being, this germ of life is present... > ...at any time along the spine you may feel some movement of energy. It is > physical, you feel it, up and down movement. These are the movements of this > germ of life. It becomes awake... > ...What happens is, this very fine path of air is blocked, may be some block > here and some block there. If it is blocked, then... In our system of > meditation, when the mantra becomes very fine, very fine, then breathing > becomes very fine. And when the breathing becomes very fine then the breath > permeates the system. Absolutely very fine breath, it is able to pierce > through the whole body. And then the air starts passing from this very fine > hole, very fine passage. > When the air passes from here, then if there is a block here, then the > pressure is created here. And due to that pressure the body may rock this > way or that way. The whole body may even do like that. All this is just due > to the air pressing through the fine hole and finding its way up. > Movement, any kind of movement may happen here or there. And along this > path, there are certain chakras or what they call it, centres, one here and > one here and one here. And each centre is like that, may be two-petaled rose > or four-petaled rose or six or eight or twelve, like that. > And when this kundalini, the germ of life, travels from here through this > and the passage is clear, then each of these (chakras) become upward like > that. They turn over. And a turn over means, the passage is clear now. > And by the time all these six Chakras open up, then the whole passage is > clear. And the kundalini then comes here, resides here and this gives > clearer experience of Being, very clear, pure consciousness. And that is > called enlightenment, that pure awareness of pure consciousness fills the > whole thing. > There is a system of practice which is called Laya Yoga. Laya means > absorption. The kundalini finds its absorption in all these centres, here > and here and here and eventually here in the cortex, the thousand-petaled > rose, a thousand-petaled lotus. > And by the time kundalini comes here, everything, the whole thing becomes > full of light. Full of light means full of awareness. Light means not this > light, but pure Being. And when this whole area becomes aware of Being > clearly, then it is CC (Cosmic Consciousness). Then the Being is never lost > irrespective of our engagements during the day or restfulness in the night. > It remains permanent. And this is what is called the state of enlightenment. > > As kundalini becomes more and more awake, the soul keeps on coming to higher > and higher species. Coming to man`s species, it comes to a level of > wakefulness, that it can rise up and it has then this whole path to bring it > to this region, where Being will be permanently established in the very > nature of the mind. This whole area of the nervous system becomes > enlightened. > Question. Do you know when you have it? > MAHARISHI: See, you feel the up and down march of this. Sometimes it goes > up and down and up and down. When the whole thing is clear and the whole > nervous system is completely free from stresses and strains, then it never > returns. It gets there and gets absorbed. > You experience the up and down march of this thing and you experience when > it is permanently established in the whole nervous system....
Very nice, thanks for posting this ! >
