So, here we are going to talk to you about this frequent question about the problem of Kundalini.
Some have seen this issue of Kundalini as a difficult thing to understand, and there is even a lot of fear about this subject.
So, I want to talk to you a little bit about that, about what are actually myths, imaginations, fantasies and dangers. People ask about dangers, or their doubt is basically about dangers, and around these dangers there are many myths, fantasies and imaginations.
Let's face this matter very direct, very simply. Notice that breathing, for example, is a natural process, it's a simple process.
You don't need to get involved with this process. If you get involved with this process, you can create clutter. So, yes, there is a certain danger, for example, in you trying to change the way you breathe. Note that breathing is not something you do, it is something that happens in a simple, direct and natural way. The less you are involved, for example, with breathing, the better for you, because there is no risk. Nature is in charge of it, nature takes care of it.
Regarding Kundalini Awakening, we have exactly the same thing here. You are not going to do something to awaken the Kundalini. So, when people ask “how to awaken the Kundalini?”, this question already starts wrong from that expression; the expression “how." That would be the same as asking “how to breathe?” You never ask how to breathe, you just breathe. Kundalini is the same thing. You just find out how this process takes place; you observe how this process takes place.
So, this is the real way to Kundalini Awakening. This does not involve any danger. Danger comes when you want to control what you cannot control and you want to get involved with what you cannot get involved. If this is a process like breathing itself and you don't get involved in it, in breathing, why should you engage with the process of Kundalini Awakening?
Here again, we come across this fantasy: the fantasy that you are going to do this. It's always, basically, the idea of “someone," "someone" controlling something, "someone" doing something, which actually is completely absurd, because Kundalini, basically, is the Awakening of Consciousness, and Awakening of Consciousness is the end of the illusion of "someone," of someone present, "someone" present to do, to be determined, to perform, to control. "Someone" present is basically unconsciousness.
The idea you have about who you are is unconsciousness. Your idea of any control over any aspect of life is complete unconsciousness. So here we are faced with this illusion. So, it's an illusion, it's a fantasy, it's an imagination, the Kundalini Awakening by you.
Kundalini Awakening is a process that takes place in the body, because of this Consciousness becoming aware of Itself in this organism, in this body-mind. Just like breathing – when you don't mess with it, it doesn't pose any risk to you –, so is with Kundalini Awakening!
What I have noticed is that some have attributed some symptoms, some psychological patterns emerging, some patterns of psychic presentations appearing, to the Kundalini Awakening. So, they say, “Look, Kundalini has awakened and now it's like this, like this, like this and like this.” What you have there, is just a psychological representation still of unconsciousness, of psychological disorder. This is not Kundalini Awakening.
So, people come and say: "Kundalini Awakening is very dangerous, because I know someone in whom Kundalini awakened and she started having visions, started talking to beings from the other worlds or to spiritual entities." Anyway, there is a lot of this happening concerning this matter of Kundalini Awakening. Then, fear arises, then there is this so-called danger, which is actually a myth, is a fantasy, is an imagination, is an illusion.
The Awakening of your Being is something natural. Humanity is currently experiencing a moment of transition, but this has always been like this. In the history of humanity, men and women left this old condition of ego identity, of unconsciousness, of an egoic model of life, for a new moment – not to say “a model” –, a new moment. I could call it a New Consciousness, a New Presence of Existence.
So, this transition is natural. This transition – and here we are putting it in this format of a speaking to you… This transition, some have called "the Awakening of Consciousness", others have called "Spiritual Awakening," "Spiritual Enlightenment."
So, it is the simple transition from the egoic state to the non-egoic state; from unconsciousness, from life in the ego, to a Full Consciousness of Divine Presence in the world, in your life, in your existence. This transition is possible and it takes place when there is, naturally, a change in that body, in that mind. And of course, this change will imply, or does imply, naturally, something new arising, a new process of feeling physically, and thinking, psychologically speaking.
So, this change, yes, one may find it strange, but it is something natural; there is no risk, there is no danger in that.
What I have seen is that some disorders, also arising within this unconsciousness, are being attributing to Kundalini Awakening. Then they say, "Be careful, because Kundalini Awakening is dangerous." No, Kundalini Awakening is a transitional process, although it implies a change, a certain discomfort for the body and for the mind, for this biological mechanism and for this psychological mechanics of this whole body-mind structure. But even so, it is still a natural and risk-free process.
All those who Realized the Truth about themselves had to go through this transition, had to go through this process, had to go through this shift. Now, that doesn't annul either, here for you, the fact that we're dealing with Divine Power, with something that is more powerful than the entire Universe.
We are dealing with what Indians call "Shakti" or the Power... the Power of God, the power of this "Mysterious Thing,” without name, without form...This has an extraordinary Power! The detail is that this Power is neutral. When it starts a work process in this organism, it has a way to happen.
Here, the only risk, or the only danger, is when the egoic mind, or the sense of "I," wants to intervene or interfere in such a natural process, which is the process of this Power moving in this mechanism, in this organism. I never tell people around me, for example, to change their breathing. In fact, I never indicate any technique of practice of meditation, because if you change this issue of breathing, you put the body in an unnatural condition of oxygenation, gas exchange, in short, there is a metabolic change there in the body, in that mechanism, in that organism. This may not be good for the body and naturally this may create some psychophysical alteration in the mechanism.
So, if you are in a process of the Awakening of this Energy, this Divine Power, which is neutral, it can bring some alteration. So, the only risk, or the only danger, is when the ego interferes, is when there is the idea of “someone" present wanting to do something to force a situation or speed up a situation.
So, within this talk here with you, I want to “prepare the ground.” At the same time, I'm telling you that there's no risk, now I'm telling you that you don't have to get involved.
If you aspire to a Divine Life, a Realized Life, a Life in Consciousness, it is important that your body has a condition to support this process of change, of transformation.
So, what I have recommended to people is: be careful with the use of alcohol, be careful with the use of tobacco, be careful with the use of drugs, be careful with the use of unnatural practices, such as the issue of sexuality, or the breathing issue, or any other. This is the care you have to take if you aspire to a Divine Life, a Real Life, a True Life, a Life in God.
It is much simpler, because it is natural and flows in a much more comfortable way the Awakening of this Divine Power in a body, for example, clean, in a mind that has a certain balance, for example, moral. It is not by chance that religions, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Taoism, all the great religions of the world prescribe for human beings an ethical life, a moral life, a life of discipline, not of excess, of not abusing the body. Do you understand this? Because all this makes it easier for this Energy, this Power, which is Kundalini, which is a Power and a completely neutral Presence, to be able to work in this mechanism, in this organism, and find a good organism in good conditions for a process so natural that it is the Awakening of Consciousness, which is that shift, which is that transition from an egoic state to a State of Full Consciousness.
So, the recommendations are these: maintain an ethical life, maintain a moral life, maintain a disciplined life, so that your body and mind are able to receive the impact of this change that is necessary.
The body needs to have a condition – which I would say a minimal condition – for Spiritual Enlightenment, and since there is no Spiritual Enlightenment, or Spiritual Awakening, or the Realisation of God without a change in that body-mind structure, so the chances are 0% for the one who, in this life, does not turn to the Truth of his own Being.
Is it possible for exceptions to happen? Yes. Is it possible that someone addicted to smoking or alcohol, using alcohol, or even drugs, or sex, has an encounter with this Presence and this Power? I'm talking about someone who has an unruly life on some level, even ethical and moral. I'm not saying this is impossible, but these are exceptions. There are reports in the history of men and women who Realized the Truth, had an encounter that, in that touch, there was such a profound change that there was a break in all these patterns of behaviors, of practice, and there was, yes, this Kundalini Awakening and this Realisation of God, but those are exceptions. Just like some of these exceptions are those who awaken at 15 years of age, as well as those who awaken at 16 years of age, like Ramana Maharshi, without even the presence of a human Guru, a human being as his Guru.
Another interesting thing about this subject – and here I've been talking to you, and we have videos on YouTube dealing extensively with this subject – is that This is something natural. Again: This is something so natural that you don't need to know anything about It! In fact, here less is more. If you know little, you already know too much!
A baby, when he is born, nobody tells him that he will have to face a pain: the pain of breathing. But it's a transition. The baby is surrounded by this so-called amniotic fluid; he's been there a long time! The child is in a “very comfortable” condition in his discomfort, because it is the condition he knows, and when he is faced with the air outside, the doctors say that there is pain. He now needs this transition, needs this change. He will no longer be where he spent many "years" of his existence – his nine months were like years. He will now have to come across something new. This transition hurts… this transition hurts, it hurts.
The Kundalini Awakening, the Awakening of Consciousness, this change can bring pain, but nothing that would be unnatural. For the child, there was pain; for the little baby, there was the pain, but it wasn't unnatural, it was part of such a natural transition process. “But no one informed me about this before!” – he didn't need to know anything about it.
In my own experience, I had never even remotely read about It, heard about It. Kundalini Awakening, which is the Awakening of Consciousness, you… the less you know about it, the better!
There are things you need to know, but the only knowledge that is necessary for Kundalini Awakening or the Awakening of Consciousness, which is the same thing, the only knowledge you need is knowing how to unlearn everything you have learned! You, like that baby, must also be Born. Are we in this together?
The baby is born without knowing. When you reach this “not knowing,” you are also ready to be Born. This is the Awakening of Consciousness! So, the only thing you need is to unlearn everything you've learned. What I've noticed is that people, over the years, accumulate information about everything. As they are borrowed, non-experiential pieces of information, they talk about things as if they really knew, and they don't! As they don't really know, what they know about it becomes, inside them, a distortion, a mistaken form of understanding. This is where fantasies, myths, imaginations and fears arise.
Here, this Divine Awakening, this transition, is the Natural Awakening of God. This cannot be dangerous. Danger arises when there is the idea of “someone" imagining, fantasizing, or trying to interfere with what does not concern him. So, relax about it. Turn to self-inquiry: “Who am I?”.
Ramana said... Ramana Maharshi used to say that what yogis intend to accomplish through mudras, mantras, techniques, and practices, including breathing practices, the various practices linked to this question of breathing, Ramana said "here...", he said: "here, through Jnana, in a natural, automatic way, Kundalini Awakening happens." He said: "Kundalini is another word for Consciousness, for Shakti."
So, see. You don't need to know anything about It. So really, the less you know, the better. Even because what you know, as it is not experiential, not real knowledge, it will be part of your imagination, your confusion, your beliefs, it is useless - perhaps, to give you more fear or a purely egoic conviction to master something that, in fact, you don't master; to know something that, in fact, you don't know.
Knowledge has this thing. It's not our subject here, within the theme, but it's just an addendum to you. Knowledge has this thing. Knowledge is a kind of badge that you can wear. Do you know the policeman? He presents the badge before ordering the arrest. Knowledge, in its various areas, works like this. You present your doctorate, as if there was a doctor! A doctor is the one who started to learn something, he just started to learn, he just started to discover. It doesn't matter what area he's in, he's just the first student, that's all. He differs from the others because he is the first student, he is the one who sits there in the front and pays attention, has more dedication to start learning. He's the doctor!
But in the ego, you present your badge, your title, and say, "I know." This is vanity, this is pride, this is presumption. So, knowledge serves as a badge for the vain, proud ego, for knowledge that, in fact, ego doesn't have. So, abandon it. As far as the Realization of Truth is concerned, the Sage is not a fruit… not the ripe fruit of a tree called knowledge. You look at a tree and there you see a ripe fruit, and you say, "There it is...". No, it's not! The Sage is not the ripe fruit of a tree called knowledge, the Sage is Being, Consciousness, Pure Knowledge, and not the knowledge of understanding, of knowing.
The Reality that You are has no badge, the Reality that You are is Being.
That's the Sage! The Awakening of the Truth of who You are is the Awakening and Flourishing of your Natural State of Being, which is Kundalini… Consciousness, Being, Kundalini, Happiness – they are synonymous!
Look, notice what I'm saying! Being, Consciousness, Kundalini, Happiness is the same thing! I'm not saying it, Ramana is saying it. But you don't stick with what Ramana says, because you will believe it. You have to experience, you have to discover, within yourself, that the classic sign of the Awakening of this Presence, which I have called here the Real Kundalini… the Real Awakening of Kundalini is the end of the illusion of the sense of separation. There is no you and the other, there is no you and the world, there is no you and God when the Real Awakening of Kundalini takes place! There comes the end of suffering, and that is Happiness! Anything outside That is not Kundalini Awakening. The classic sign of Kundalini Awakening is the Awakening of the Sage, of Wisdom. This is present when there is no form of suffering – I mean psychological suffering – there is no longer any form of internal disorder. Are we in this together? There is no form of internal clutter!
Someone asks me: “Oh, is that true?” Look at yourself and ask yourself: “Is anyone here?” The sign of “someone” here is always the sense of separation. The day you can look and find absolutely nothing else, and only That which is to remain simply as What is - and What is, is Life as It is...”
When there is the Realization of That what You are, there is no “you.”
This doesn't give you a certificate or authority… Fantasies, imaginations, myths!
All right?
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