Awakening the Kundalini Energy From Below or From Above

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Traditional paths of yoga
describe the various chakras or

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subtle energy centers that act
as collecting and disseminating

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points for various specific
vibrational patterns related to

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the action of that specific
chakra.

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Certain paths such as various
tantric disciplines as well as

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the well known Kundalini Yoga
take up this knowledge and apply

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it to the growth of
consciousness and the

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realization of the divine and
liberation of the individual

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from the external personality
and the ego.

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The normal course is for the
energy which lies sleeping at

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the base of the spine in the
Mulladhara chakra when it is

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awakened, to rise up through the
channels that carry the energy

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up through the various chakras
until it meets the chakra at the

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top of the head, which is
described as 1000 pedaled Lotus.

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At that point, realization
occurs.

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In the meantime, the intervening
chakras are activated and

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energized and vibrate according
to their own vibrational

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patterns.
Kundalini Yoga and the various

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Tantras that rely on the
awakening of this energy in this

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way all point out the dangers
inherent with the opening when

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not done under the guidance and
control of a qualified guru.

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As the opening of the various
lower chakras in particular can

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bring up energies that are
contrary to the aim of the

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seeker or can drive the seeker
into delusions, madness or even

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injuries to his physical health.
Sri Orobindo experienced a

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different method and describes
it as the energy beginning above

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the head, descending and opening
the chakras from above to below.

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This method is safer and less
disruptive to the being as it

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uses the powers of the mind and
the heart to manage and control

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the energy released by the lower
chakras when they open.

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Many people have implemented
this method and they report a

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sensation like a drill piercing
the top of the skull and energy

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pouring in, or else a sensation
like raindrops coming down on

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the head.
They also experienced the

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effects of the opening of the
chakras, starting with a wider

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insight, greater strength of
will, enhanced skills at

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communication, a more embracing
and compassionate view to life

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and the opening and conscious
connection to the psychic being.

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As examples of the type of
impacts that can occur, Sri

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Orabindo writes quote.
There is a force which

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accompanies the growth of the
new consciousness and at once

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grows with it and helps it to
come about and to perfect

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itself.
This force is the Yoga Shakti.

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It is here coiled up and asleep
in all the centres of our being

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chakras and is at the base what
is called in the Tantras the

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Kundalini Shakti.
But it is also above us, above

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our head, as the Divine Force,
not there, coiled up, involved,

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asleep, but awake, silent,
potent, extended and wide.

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It is there waiting for
manifestation.

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And to this force we have to
open ourselves to the power of

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the Mother in the mind.
It manifests itself as a Divine

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mind force or a universal mind
force, and it can do everything

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that the personal mind cannot
do.

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It is then the yogic mind force
when it manifests and acts in

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the vital or the physical in the
same way it is there apparent as

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a yogic life force or a yogic
body force.

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It can awake in all these forms,
bursting outwards and upwards,

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extending itself into wideness
from below, or it can descend

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and become there, a definite
power for things.

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It can pour downwards into the
body, working, establishing its

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reign, extending into wideness
from above.

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Link the lowest in us with the
highest above us.

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Release the individual into the
cosmic universality, or into

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absoluteness and transcendence.
End Quote.

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Reference Sri Aurobindo and the
Mother Powers within Chapter 8,

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Yoga Shakti, page 80.