"Without the inner world the
outer loses its meaning, and without the outer the inner loses its
substance." R.D. Laing
Today – the day of Nag Panchami, we
worship snakes. Serpents and snakes are expressions of good and evil that we
find in our history, religion and culture. As snakes shed their skin through
sloughing, they are symbols of rebirth, transformation, immortality, and
healing. Their venom, on contrary, is connected with poison vengefulness and
vindictiveness. These expressions and the galore of Nag or male serpents apart,
have you heard of the power of female serpents – the Kundalini?
Mythology
explains Kundalini as a serpent goddess who lies asleep and dormant at the base
of the spine. Her name is Kundalini Shakti, and she represents the unfolding of
the divine energy, the energising potential of life itself, a living goddess
who enlivens all things.
“Awakening Kundalini” is often described in Yoga and Meditation as an
energy releasing process that triggers the natural power to free oneself from
personal conditioning. It is a clearing process that is designed to enable an
open, clear and compassionate perspective of life and death, and to feel the
essential bliss and connectedness of all things. It helps one to release self-judgment,
which is an important prerequisite to know who or what you really are. It is
not about becoming saintly but about becoming present, relaxed and in tune with
the earth and the natural potential of living in harmony with ourselves and
others.
What is the purpose of Kundalini?
The capacity
for "choice" is what life is all about. Depending on how one
navigates the awakening, this determines whether the ultimate outcome is more
creative or destructive. Usually it's a mixture of both for the birth of the
new requires the death of the old. It’s just like you are clearing out your
stuffed house, cleaning it all creating a new inside of it!
Our true nature has no
judgment and no resistance to life. Waking up is not an abandonment of life as
it is, but an expansion, so that consciousness sees the inner-connectedness,
the oneness, underneath all the diversity of expression in the world. Without
judgment there is still a responsiveness, a deep feeling can move through
related to compassion for the suffering in the human condition, and action can
emerge spontaneously, the form having great variations among different people.
Great laughter and joy can arise in seeing clearing how we have missed the
truth for so many years, and ignored the clear evidence of our own eternal
consciousness. Even in the joy we can still feel strong compassion for the
confusion that all humanity shares.
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