Kundalini yoga

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In the Yoga of knowledge, energy is thought to follow awareness. Therefore the emphasis is on developing the power of attention.

In the Yoga of devotion (Bhakti Yoga), energy is thought to follow love. Kundalini may not be recognized apart from the intense power of devotion or attention. In neither of these other two systems of Yoga is any special method for awakening the Kundalini required. It is usually to supplement these two Yogas or in the absence of their full power that methods to arouse the Kundalini may be used. In this regard Kundalini practices can be an important part of these two paths as well.

It should be noted that Kundalini can be aroused artificially by a willful or egoistic practice. It can also be stimulated by drugs or extreme emotional reactions.

If the nature is not purified, the Kundalini may only serve to aggrandize the ego. It tends to magnify our nature, so that if our nature is not yet attuned to the Divine Will, it may magnify our weaknesses. Hence Kundalini practices do have their possible side-effects and should be done with care.

The proper awakening of the Kundalini is through Divine grace. This does not mean that any effort on our part is not useful but that our effort must be to attune ourselves to the grace.

Merely to arouse Kundalini is not an end in itself. The goal is to move more deeply into peace. When power is not part of peace it always becomes destructive.

The premature arousing of the Kundalini can burn up the nervous system. It can limit or prevent our spiritual growth for perhaps the rest of our lives. Kundalini can be used up to the level of the third chakra or solar plexus to increase the powers of the ego.

According the Vedas and Puranas even the demons practice Yoga up to this level because it gives them more power.

The critical mind of the third chakra often considers itself to be enlightened.

It does have the power to see through and control other personalities.

It sees the limitations in others. However, it cannot see the Divine presence in others, or its own limitations and usually becomes caught in some process of manipulation. Most false gurus operate on this level.

Swami Muktananda (1908-1982) began living as a sadhu, a mendicant in search of spiritual fulfillment, at an unusually early age.

Though as a young man he gained renown for his yogic attainments, Swami Muktananda often said that his spiritual journey didn't truly begin until 1947, when he received shaktipat, spiritual initiation, from the holy man Bhagawan Nityananda. It was then that his spiritual energy, kundalini, was awakened and he was drawn into profound states of meditation.

"Everything you seek in this world is within you. Supreme joy blazes inside. But it is not enough merely to have an intellectual understanding of this. You have to go deep inside. The heart is the true house of God. It is the seat of happiness, the abode of unending love. Go there."

In the 1970s, on his guru's behalf, he brought the venerable tradition of his master's lineage to the West, giving the previously little-known shaktipat initiation he himself had received to untold thousands of spiritual seekers.

Before his death, in 1982, Swami wrote many books, sixteen are still in print.

He also established more than six hundred meditation centers and several ashrams around the world.

His work, through the auspices of the Siddha Yoga Dham Associates Foundation, is carried on by his spiritual heir, Swami Chidvilasananda.