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    Re: What does Kundalini energy feel like?

    Quote Originally Posted by Lucrosus View Post
    As being the originator of this post, I was not looking nor asking for anyone to direct me to a kundalini master. I was mere wanting to know what symptoms are present when kundalini is accidentally awakened. Does anyone have any real information on what this post was supposed to be about?

    Dear Lucrosus,You seem to be serious about what you talk. Very good!

    Kundalini is an ecstasy, a state of elated bliss. It tastes as venom for a Bhogi and nectar for a Yogi.

    It (the energy) is usually awakened systematically (step by step, time taken depends on the capacity of the practitioner) with the help of a master.

    It is also unknowingly awakened through the practice of bhakti (self surrender) and mantra mediation. Partial awakening takes place in the both cases, but definitely this awakening pours knowledge and vital energy over the practitioner and helps to progress towards the ultimate goal, the complete awakening.

    Before the awakening of kundalini, the channel through which kundalini passes is cleared by awakening the pranic forces, which is at times misunderstood as the awakening of kundalini itself.

    Immediate effect of accidental awakening is abnormal behaviour, one may start to act as insane, or a saint or a realized person until the power descents (it not only ascents, but also descents).
    The practitioner might fall ill and have sleeplessness for some days (when the incidental awakening is done with so much of caution, care and preparation, just imagine how accidental awakening would be.)

    Symptoms on accidental awakening differ, and depend on from which chakra it is awakened, and through which chakra it is passed through.
    Accidental awakening cannot be systematic, thus the practitioner will not be able to share his experience systematically.


    One thing is sure, whether it is accidental or incidental; the awakened energy is one, the practitioner experiences ecstasy, but not sure how others take it.
    Whether you take a dip in Ganges or slip into Ganges doesn’t make a difference, your sins are washed off, dipping is done with caution and preparation, but slipping may end up in drowning.

    But some exceptional cases happen with really brave people, if you think you had a very systematic experience on accident, please do fully share it. Please share it with love, we aren’t strangers...

    I have not learned Kundalini awakening as a science by itself, only incorporated this as part of the Sadhana I have been practicing. Love

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    I just wanted to share my experience with kundalini, if it even is that, i'm not totally sure. It started with me trying to do tummo(generating natural body heat) meditation after I read about it. All I was doing was rapidly breathing deeply. To my amazement, my body was actually becoming warmer. I began to perspire a bit and burst out laughing uncontrollably and then just sat in a blissful state for a short while.

    When I try do this nowadays, it is not the same as the first time. I start off the same way, by breathing deep and picking up the pace. My palms quickly become warm, and my hands and feet began buzzing and become extremely itchy. I begin to sweat from my armpits. The warmth is there for a short while, but I can't really feel it anymore as this buzzing begins to rise throughout my entire body until it reaches my head and i'm feeling quite numb. Unfortunately, I am always forced to stop when by body becomes numb and my limbs are bent in very painful positions.

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    Re: What does Kundalini energy feel like?

    Namaste sir, regarding the post on Kundalini energy you stated, "I've also heard there is a certain magnetism to the word, and concept which attracts people who are not ready and it can lead to problems."

    If you do not mind, please expound on this. Did not think I have anything to worry about but I do not know what I do not know.

    Peace.
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    Re: What does Kundalini energy feel like?

    Vannakkam friend: Kundalini experiences are way up there somewhere. For average Joe, its meaningless, although some teachers have been known to use the word as a 'cool' word. There are some great pretenders. It is an ego thing to go around spouting off "I was in the ajna chakra today," and the like. Any real yogi wouldn't be spouting off.

    There are 7 chakras above the muladhara (including the muladhara) and 7 below. Lord Ganesha is said to sit on the muladhara. So dharma is there in the muladhara. It is the place that includes the gateway from adharma to dharma.

    As others have said, it is true that the kundalini may have momentary rises, but this is in no way stable, or even to be sought after. What we seek in sadhana is sanity, stability, and self-control. Things like anger management, some will, a steady job, tact, sexual purity (abstinence before marriage, within the marriage after marriage) are all prerequisites to any genuine kundalini.

    From what I have been told, I understand that the intensity of such experiences can be quite rattling to the uninitiated as there are nerve currents etc. let loose. This is why some would consider it dangerous. Not that its really dangerous, but its certainly not the final goal, but more a natural process once stability has been reached on the yogic path. Many sects and sampradayas view renunciation and celibacy as pre-requisite.

    Bottom line is not to worry about it.

    Aum Namasivaya

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    Namaste Eartern Mind,
    Thanks for expounding on your previous comments. Your knowing response is most reassuring. Appreciate it.
    Peace.
    Rich

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    Re: What does Kundalini energy feel like?

    Quote Originally Posted by Lucrosus View Post
    Does anyone know if it has a specific feeling?
    How we experience this depends entirely on situation, timing and above all eles Karma. Depending on how well you have learnt to practise Raja yoga, how much it has become a part of you, you will have a greater or lesser ability to channel this creative force and not be destroyed by it. Kundalini energy will magnify who you are at that time. If you are in a predominantly Tamasic state this can leave you in a very dangerous place indeed any tendency to delusion will take on the scariest proportions and create within you vrittis of a power that few could recover from.

    We all have Kundalini energy at all times, it is just sleeping however it is my belief that en our every day lives the serpent may open an eye or just wriggle from time to time.

    What does this feel like? You know the saying somebody just walked on my grave? When you get a slight shiver up the spine?
    It is related to orgasm which is its self (in man) a short circuit of this system. Restraining from sex and orgasme will greatly increase your awareness of this driving force which lays within you.

    Awareness is a key point here as it is only when we become aware that something is there that we can say that we feel it, it may however have been there all along controlling our actions!

    Aum Shantih.

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    Re: What does Kundalini energy feel like?

    I have heard bad press about kundalini, though...I'm not saying it's bad or anything, but people make it bad...

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    Quote Originally Posted by brahman View Post
    Dear Lucrosus,You seem to be serious about what you talk. Very good!

    Kundalini is an ecstasy, a state of elated bliss. It tastes as venom for a Bhogi and nectar for a Yogi.

    It (the energy) is usually awakened systematically (step by step, time taken depends on the capacity of the practitioner) with the help of a master.

    It is also unknowingly awakened through the practice of bhakti (self surrender) and mantra mediation. Partial awakening takes place in the both cases, but definitely this awakening pours knowledge and vital energy over the practitioner and helps to progress towards the ultimate goal, the complete awakening.

    Before the awakening of kundalini, the channel through which kundalini passes is cleared by awakening the pranic forces, which is at times misunderstood as the awakening of kundalini itself.

    Immediate effect of accidental awakening is abnormal behaviour, one may start to act as insane, or a saint or a realized person until the power descents (it not only ascents, but also descents).
    The practitioner might fall ill and have sleeplessness for some days (when the incidental awakening is done with so much of caution, care and preparation, just imagine how accidental awakening would be.)

    Symptoms on accidental awakening differ, and depend on from which chakra it is awakened, and through which chakra it is passed through.
    Accidental awakening cannot be systematic, thus the practitioner will not be able to share his experience systematically.


    One thing is sure, whether it is accidental or incidental; the awakened energy is one, the practitioner experiences ecstasy, but not sure how others take it.
    Whether you take a dip in Ganges or slip into Ganges doesn’t make a difference, your sins are washed off, dipping is done with caution and preparation, but slipping may end up in drowning.

    But some exceptional cases happen with really brave people, if you think you had a very systematic experience on accident, please do fully share it. Please share it with love, we aren’t strangers...

    I have not learned Kundalini awakening as a science by itself, only incorporated this as part of the Sadhana I have been practicing. Love
    Thankyou Brahman for your kind words.

    My experiances with Kundalini are what has brought me to this site and to you kind people. I did not know the word kundalini up till about a year ago when I chanced upon a magnificent paper by Swami Sivananda on the subject.

    My first experiance was at the age of 19 (17 years ago) when the Kundalini rose in me. The nature of religion or spirituality was very much revealed to me in my minds eye, being of a scientific background this was most strange to me. Part of my thought prosses leading up to this had been of quantum physics and the nature of the universe. I was none the less looking for an "expansion of my understanding". I vividly recall requesting spiritual aid and expressing my desire for renunciation as I was taken to a mental hospital and given the pharmaceutical equivalent to a hammer. My vision of infinity was swifty removed leaving an enormous hole which was then filled by creping depression.

    To cut a very long story short I have spent the last 17 years travelling and working to understand what had happened back then, always refusing medication and refusing any notion that I was ill. I had consequent risings of this energy which always lead me to a large change in direction of life, in many ways this energy has guided me. I have learnt to avoid its rising.

    The past years events have brought me an enormous understanding as many of the things long forgotten from the initial and greatest rising have been brought back to me. Whilst reading Swami Sivananda Paper on Kundalini she rose in me as I read. I became quite elated this time how ever I was able to sleep.

    When I read the Bhagavad Gita it is a reminder to me of my initial revelation I feel less alone that the vision which was revealed to me has already been described. A true comfort and guidance to me when my own society's godless doctrine proclaim only that I am ill.

    I returned to see A French Psychiatrist whilst this was recurring whilst the Kundalini was risen. Having been previously diagnosed as "Manic Depressive" back in England all those years ago. This doctor said that I had the "symptoms without the pathology".

    I replied that I was simply forming a spiritual belief and ridding myself of doubt.

    I can not over state my relief to finally find some sanity on a subjest which in my mind is the single most important factor in human social evolution.

    Phew, I'm not very good at writing and its such a lot to explain I hope you don't mind me sharing this with you. It is something that I have nobody with whom I can easily communicate this.

    To me this experience is a calling to a spiritual life and by no means a goal or an end.

    Aum Siva

    Iain

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    Re: What does Kundalini energy feel like?

    Quote Originally Posted by Mana View Post

    Aum Siva

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    Namasté
    I am of the opinion that all events and experiences are natural and ultimately good. Negative thoughts and feelings steer us back onto a better path, if only we can find the energy to take up that better path.

    Clearly, I mean a better path of unconditional love, happiness and a a sense of value in life (with the divine).

    I enjoyed the posts above. I have no experience to report of Kundalini energy. I encountered the idea early on that unnatural breathing techniques can be dangerous, so my desire was quashed.

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    Re: What does Kundalini energy feel like?

    Quote Originally Posted by brahman View Post
    .......

    Kundalini is an ecstasy, a state of elated bliss. It tastes as venom for a Bhogi and nectar for a Yogi.......

    Immediate effect of accidental awakening is abnormal behaviour, one may start to act as insane, or a saint or a realized person until the power descents (it not only ascents, but also descents).....

    I have not learned Kundalini awakening as a science by itself, only incorporated this as part of the Sadhana I have been practicing. Love
    Namaste Brahman,

    Good to know you practice kundalini meditation, me too, small experience in the field. As you mentioned above "it not only ascents, but also descents" I would love to hear more on descent of Kundalini, can it be done or it happens automatically?
    You said "I have not learned Kundalini awakening as a science by itself, only incorporated this as part of the Sadhana I have been practicing" I believe you meant you were initiated into kundalini meditation by a Guru?
    Kindly share some more wisdom of yours if possible on this Kundalini awakening.


    Quote Originally Posted by Mana View Post
    Thankyou Brahman for your kind words.

    My experiances with Kundalini are what has brought me to this site and to you kind people. I did not know the word kundalini up till about a year ago when I chanced upon a magnificent paper by Swami Sivananda on the subject.........

    I can not over state my relief to finally find some sanity on a subjest which in my mind is the single most important factor in human social evolution.

    Phew, I'm not very good at writing and its such a lot to explain I hope you don't mind me sharing this with you. It is something that I have nobody with whom I can easily communicate this.

    To me this experience is a calling to a spiritual life and by no means a goal or an end.

    Aum Siva

    Iain
    Namaste Mana,

    If you have a doubt in Kundalini practice I may help, just PM me, but my sincere advice would be to get yourself initiated into kundalini meditation, if you need help in that regard just let me know.

    Pranam

    Ekoham
    Jo sahaj hai, saral hai, wohi satya hai!

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