KUNDALINI AND YOGA

 KUNDALINI AND YOGA

 Kundalini is thought of as a female serpent or goddess lying dormant at the base of the spine. When aroused via yoga, she travels up the spine, opening the chakras (psychic centers), and so leads to union with Brahman. “Traditionally she is knows as Durga the creatrix, Chandli the fierce and bloodthirsty, and Kali the destroyer. She is also Bhajangi the serpent. As Chandli or Kali, she has a garland of skulls around her neck and drinks human blood.”¹³ One does not fool around carelessly with Kundalini—unless they care for terrible body pain and heat, deteriorating health, numerous forms of insanity, or sudden death.¹⁴

Shree Purohit Swami experienced near insanity, ate the leaves of two entire nimba trees, devoured insipid mudra leaves, and could not sit or stand. He mentions one yogi who had the fire rage for six to eight months, another who had to sit under cold tap water eight hours a day.¹⁵ Gopi Krishna, founder of one of the several Kundalini research centers in the world, records his kundalini experience:

It was variable for many years, painful, obsessive, even phantasmic. I have passed through almost all the states of different mediumistic, psychotic, and other types of mind, for sometime I was hovering between sanity and insanity. I was writing in many languages, some of which I never knew [the mediumistic ability of automatic writing].¹⁶

He believes most schizophrenics and manic depressives probably represent malfunctioning kundalini, notes the ease with which it produces mental derangement, and mentions his personal encounters with cases of kundalini-caused insanity. He notes that in India it is widely known that Hatha Yoga practices can lead to insanity.¹⁷

The power, when aroused in a body not attuned to it with the help of various disciplines or not genetically mature for it, can lead to awful mental states, to almost every form of mental disorder, from hardly noticeable aberrations to the most horrible forms of insanity, to neuroses and paranoia, to megalomania, and, by causing tormenting pressure on reproductive organs, to an all-consuming sexual thirst that is never assuaged.¹⁸

It is noteworthy that kundalini, mediumistic, and

 possession states have common characteristics, including various occult manifestations and the demonic succubae. ¹⁹ In light of the above, the tremendous increase of interest in Kundalini yoga is a very serious state of affairs. (There are some yogis who believe that the bizarre and fatal cases of spontaneous human combustion—people bursting into flames—are the result of malfunctioning Kundalini.)

Kundalini is generally thought to be aroused only by specific procedures, with specific accompanying signs. Yet many occult groups use different methods to arouse kundalini (e.g. Edgar Cayce’s method is not Avalon’s ²⁰), but the results are similar, showing that arousal occurs in various ways. Hence “kundalini” may serve as a guise for demonic activity, allowing demons to achieve their purposes by various methods. It generally takes several years for Kundalini to reach the top chakra, though spontaneous or accidental arousal is not to be ruled out. Rieker states that: “Kundalini is the mainstay of all yoga practices.” ²¹ Avalon says all mantras are manifestions of Kundalini, being the basis of arousing her. ²² (He also notes that mantras are psychic powers which lead themselves to impartial use, “A man may be injured or killed by Mantra.” ²³) This is the occult power of black magic where the occultist can injure or kill others. Dr. Koch, in Between Christ and Satan, lists several examples. Even TM’s Maharishi describes what sounds very much like TM-induced kundalini.²⁴ Both TM and kundalini have produced the following: sexual arousal to the point of free prostitution, blackouts, surges of power, past-lives experiences, demonic and insane states, temporary respiration stoppage, astral projection, the development of “soma,” occult powers including an opening to the astral world, use of the akashic records, spirit contact, and extreme paranoia. There is a similarity in claims and in description of mental states attained through the practice of both TM and kundalini arousal (bliss, merging or unity, enhanced perception, ego dissolution, mystical contemplation, union in Brahman, etc.) There are also similar practices used (mantra meditation, sensory withdrawal, nostril breathing), and, finally, both involve an identity change.²⁵