The Great Realisation of Fredji –
Kundalinii
Outline
Fredji went to a lecture by a yogi.
He was told about Kundalinii.
What is Yoga?
What is Kundalinii?
Kundalinii is the latent force – it represents the sleeping soul or spiritual consciousness.
It awakens and passes through the cakras, representing different states.
It is a universal spiritual experience - St
Theresa of
Tantra is a gradual process, requiring the discipline of yoga, meditation and lifestyle.
The spiritual practices of Tantra require guidance.
Mantra and initiation is the first step.
Fredji went home, and tried meditation in the park - like Buddha.
Sound familiar?
Detail
Fred was an ordinary person like you or I. He attended a lecture and during the lecture, the yogi started talking about a snake that was not a snake, writing long Samskrta words all over the place. Fred was really confused. What is the snake?
Well, the yogi described how the Kundalinii is potential found in the universe. The spiritual potential that represents the bound up power of Prakrti (Shakti) in the microcosm. To go from a finite perception to infinite feeling of Oneness is not easy. To realise God is no joke.
The yogi said that with the power of Kundalinii it is possible. When the yogi started talking about samadhi and ecstasy, Fred was getting really inspired. Now it was getting really interesting. Fred was thinking, "If this great bliss is there in my head, this Cosmic Consciousness, how come I can't feel it all the time. It's my head, not someone else’s!”
Just as he thought this the yogi began to explain the answer. "Why can't we feel it? We human beings are very complicated creatures and we have very complicated minds that have one big ‘problem’, we are always thinking Ego.
When the yogi talked about Buddha, the germ of an idea began to form in Fred’s mind. When the yogi asked, who wants to learn meditation, Fred said, "Me!”, and jumped right to the front of the queue. The yogi offered to teach him tomorrow, Fred insisted on learning that night.
He decided to try out an idea on the way home. He selected a nice tree and started meditating. Uncomfortable! Then he started to see a light, waiting for the ecstasy, when a policeman’s voice said, “Hullo, what’s going on here”. The light was his torch. “I'm meditating”, said Fred. “Well you can't meditate here, the park is closed, go and meditate somewhere else”, said the policeman.
Grumbling about the bad karma the policeman would get, Fred went to find a new tree. Fred thought to himself, that he now realised that the policeman had been sent by God because he was sitting under the wrong tree. So he selected the right tree very carefully, gave it a hug to make sure, and sat, then discomfort, then pain in the back, then caterpillar, and so on… . So he gave up frustrated.
But Fred learnt something that night. It's not so easy to be a real yogi, but it is worth working on. It takes discipline. So he continued meditating every day, gradually getting the hang of it and developing some concentration. He began to enjoy his meditation and had many beautiful experiences, and became known as a wise and compassionate man.
One day, after many years, when he was meditating, the joy of the universe seemed to unfold within him like a powerful love awakening, too beautiful to describe , and this time it wasn’t a policeman, and it wasn't a caterpillar, it was ... Kundalinii.
Is it unusual?
One only need to turn to the work of Aldous Huxley
to get a glimpse of what is involved.
See: http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0403/is_n1_v41/ai_17180248/print
In The
Perennial Philosophy Huxley writes that many Eastern and Western spiritual
teachers recommend intense concentration on an idea. Such an exercise is
helpful when it results in "mental stillness, such a silence of intellect,
will and feeling, that the divine Word can be uttered within the soul" (p.32).
Huxley’s novel Eyeless
in Gaza, acts as a summation of Huxley's spiritual journey. It functions as
a Bildungsroman not only of Huxley's development from adolescence to maturity
but also of the evolution of his mystical vision seen in the color and light
imagery in his work. The title refers to the Israelite, Samson (solar or sun's
man), who became blinded by vanity and thereupon revealed the secret of his
strength. Having failed to rely upon the Lord, Samson lost his legendary power,
allowing his Philistine captors to put out his eyes. Samson remains eyeless in