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Experiences
during Awakening of Kundalini |
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characteristic symptoms of the awakened kundalini are here
gives below from Mahayoga Vijnana, a treatise on the subject
in Hindi by Sri Yoganandji Maharaja, the author's revered
guru. They are illustrative and by no means exhaustive:
1. When throbbing of muladhar beings, the
whole body shakes, involuntary kumbhak (filling in of the
lungs with air) starts beyond control, breath is forcibly
exhaled out, without volition deep inhaling and exhaling of
breath starts and the body gets uncontrollable, know then
that kundalini has awakened.
2. When your body beings trembling, hair
stands on roots, you laugh or begin to weep without your wishing,
your tongue begins to utter deformed sounds, you are filled
with fear or see frightening visions, semen passes out, think
that the kundalini shakti has become active.
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3. When your posture becomes fixed, uddayan,
jalandhar, and mula bandhas come involuntarily, your tongue
reverts back or rises up towards the soft palate and the whole
body becomes so active that you are unable to sit still, your
hands and legs stretch out forcibly, you ought to know that
the divine power of the goddess kundalini has come into action.
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4.
When your posture becomes fixed
and sight is attracted towards the middle point of eyebrows,
the eye balls begin to revolve, you get automatic kewal-kumbhak,
void of all outward knowledge, understand that ….the
goddess kundalini has come into action.
5. When you feel currents of prana
rising up your cerebrum within you, automatic repetition of
Aum starts and the mind experiences waves after waves of blissful
beatitude, think the universal mother kundalini has come into
action.
6. When different kinds of nad [subtle
sound] become audible, in your spinal column you experience
vibrations, feeling of bodily existence for the time being
is lot, in other words you feel as if there is no body, everything
looks vacant, your efforts, electric-like currents seem flowing
up and down the nerves and you have convulsions, known that
mahamaya kundalini has come into action.
7. When with the closing of eyelids your
body falls to the ground, or begins to rotate like a grinding
stone and breath comes not out, the body squatted on floor
cross-legged begins to jump from place to place like a frog,
or moves from place to place, or lies down like one dead,
hands may not be lifted even if so desired, you feel contraction
of nerves, you feel as if your life is passing away, the body
undergoes convulsions like a dying fish, know that yogamaya
kundalini has come into action.
8. When your mind gets influenced spiritually
as if some spirit has taken possession of your body and under
that influence different postures of yoga are involuntarily
performed without the least pain or fatigue and you feel increasingly
buoyant, and simultaneously strange sorts of breathing exercises
start, think that the divine power of kundalini has come into
action.
9. When you feel vibrations of prana at different
stations inside your body and feel its flow wherever you fix
your attention and your nerves begin to show easy jerks like
jerks of electricity as if passing through them, know that
the goddess kundalini has come into action.
10. When all day and night you feel within
your body some activity of prana and whenever you concentrate
your mind, your body at once begins to shake or begins tossing
and your mind remains filled with joy and bliss at all times,
even when at call of nature, even during sleep you feel currents
of prana rising up in your sahasrar and even in dreams you
experience her presence, know that the joy-inspiring kundalini
has come into action.
11. As soon as you sit for prayers your body
begins to shake and in ecstasy of joy you begin to sing hymns
in tones of music charming to hear and whose composition and
poetry come out involuntarily, your hands giving a rhythmical
clapping, and you pronounce languages you know not, but the
sound ecstasies your mind, know that the goddess of speech,
Saraswati, has awakened into action.
12. When you feel intoxicated without taking
any drug, while walking your steps fall majestically or like
one drunk and you are unable to do any other work and you
like to remain mute and dislike speaking to or hearing others
and you feel like one drunk of divinity, know that your atma
shakti kundalini, the power of Self, has come into action.
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13.
When in meditation you see vision divine and fall in a dreamy
state of mind, have divine smells, see divine figures, feel
divine tastes, hear divine sounds and experience divine touch
and receive instructions from gods, then understand that the
divine power of kundalini has come into action. |
14.
When you are in meditation and the future unfolds its secrets
to you or the hidden meaning of scriptures, Vedas and Vedanta
shine on your understanding, all doubts vanish, you acquire
an insight into the abstruse meaning of the works on spiritual
science even at their first glance, you acquire strange powers
of oratory and feel not the need of approaching even Brahma,
the creator himself, for knowledge and you acquire self-confidence,
understand then that kundalini the bestower of siddhis (occult
powers) has come into action. 15. When at morning and evening
hours punctually and automatically your body becomes charged
with such of the divine influences, and body, mind, and prana
become overpowered by her, know that the goddess kundalini
is rightly functioning. |
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