On 07/05/2012 06:07 PM, emptybill wrote: > Why kundalini shakti experiences mean nothing at all about > awakening/enlightenment. > > http://www.shiningworld.com/top/images/stories/pub-pdfs/Articles/Vedanta\ > _and_Kundalini.pdf > > >
Dynamic kundalini rising experiences such as what Gopi Krishna experienced and I experienced are not preferable at all. When I sat down to try meditation for the first time I was not expecting anything like that at all. Neither did Gopi Krishna. "Gopi Krishna was a middle-class Indian who, while meditating in 1937 at the age of 34, suddenly perceived a roaring stream of light rising into his head from his spine. For months afterward he suffered a variety of painful physical and mental symptoms, including some that seem akin to psychosis. These symptoms gradually subsided into a condition which he regarded as higher consciousness." The kundalini rising is preferably more of a passive result of practicing meditation and should be a gradual experience. But for some people a full rise can be triggered easily. Does it matter? Well it is certainly a process of attaining enlightenment but something you don't need to work on specifically other than using some meditation poses such as siddhasana which aids the process by keeping the spine straight. Most yoga asanas are warm-ups to the true yoga which is meditation. They are made to limber up the body and legs for spending long sessions in meditation though some asanas can be useful for solving health problems. Of course only in the west would you have people who thing of "yoga" as the stretching exercises. :-D
