Energizing kundalini

India
February 23, 2011 8:12am CST
I have heard that the Indian Yogic achieve high spiritual energy ny awakening the kundalini. What exactly is kundalini and how does one energize it.
2 responses
@LadyMarissa (12148)
• United States
23 Feb 11
Kundalini is the energy that lies dormant at the base of the spine until it is activated, as by the practice of yoga, and channeled upward through the chakras in the process of spiritual perfection. It is different how each person energizes theirs, but think it through discipline & practice!!!
• India
23 Feb 11
Thank you very much for the information. Do you know which specific Yoga helps in awakening kundalini.
@amirev777 (4117)
• India
24 Feb 11
Hi viru1981 The word Kundalini refers to the power, in the form of a coiled serpent, residing in Muladhara Chakra, the first of the seven Chakras, the other six being Svadhishthana, Manipuraka, Anahata, Visuddha, Ajna and Sahasrara, in order. All Sadhanas in the form of Japa, meditation, Kirtan and prayer as well as all development of virtues, and observance of austerities like truth, non-violence and continence are excellent tools to awaken kundalini and make it to pass through all the succeeding Chakras beginning from Svadhishthana to Sahasrara.Practicing Hatha Yoga can awaken this Kundalini through the discipline of the physical body, purification of Nadis and controlling of Prana. Through a number of physical poses called Yoga Asanas it tones up the entire nervous system, and brings it under the conscious control of the Yogi. Through Bandhas and Mudras it controls the Prana and regulates its movements. Pranayama for awakening kundalini: Inhale deeply, without making any sound. As you inhale, feel that the Kundalini lying dormant in the Muladhara Chakra is awakened and is going up from Chakra to Chakra. At the conclusion of the Puraka, have the Bhavana that the Kundalini has reached the Sahasrara. The more vivid the visualisation of Chakra after Chakra, the more rapid will be your progress in this Sadhana. Retain the breath for a short while. Repeat the Pranava or your Ishta Mantra. Concentrate on the Sahasrara Chakra. Feel that by the Grace of Mother Kundalini, the darkness of ignorance enveloping your soul has been dispelled. Feel that your whole being is pervaded by light, power and wisdom. Slowly exhale now. And, as you exhale feel that the Kundalini Shakti is gradually descending from the Sahasrara, and from Chakra to Chakra, to the Muladhara Chakra. Now begin the process again. But when it comes to Vedanta philosophy, there is no question about Kundalini or any type of mystical and mechanical methods. It is all enquiry and philosophical speculation. According to Vedanta the only thing to be destroyed is ignorance about one’s real nature, and this ignorance cannot be destroyed either by study, or by Pranayama, or by work, or by any amount of physical poses, but only by knowing one’s real nature, which is Sat-Chit-Ananda or Existence-Knowledge-Bliss.