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The Following is from The Basket Of Tolerance, Booklet Series, number 5. Published by the Dawn Horse Press, from an Essay by Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj, published in 2000.


The Lesser and Greater Traditions Associated with The Kundalini Shakti

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There are actually two distinct (and very different) traditions associated with the cosmically manifested Kundalini Shakti.

The first (and most commonly known) tradition associated with the Kundalini Shakti is founded upon the bodily point of view, and it is associated with the ascent of the natural energies of the physical, etheric and lower mental (or lesser psychic) dimensions of the human body mind self. This tradition is, originally, associated with the ancient animistic and shamanistic cultures of mankind, and it developed, over time, via such traditions as Taoism, Hatha Yoga, and the lesser modes of Tantrism.

The second (and senior, although less commonly known) tradition associated with the Kundalini Shakti is the tradition of Kundalini Shaktipat, which is the process of the descent and circulation of the cosmically manifested Divine Power. And this tradition is of Divine origin. That is to say, this tradition is not the product of human psycho physical efforts to achieve the Divine Condition (or any higher knowledge and psycho physical powers), but it has appeared spontaneously (descended from above), Given by the Divine (directly), and Transmitted via various lineage's of Yogic Siddha Masters: In the domain of popular religion, this Kundalini Shaktipat tradition is represented, for example, in the legend of the Spiritual Baptism of Jesus of Nazareth by John the Baptist (in which case, the "Holy Spirit" is said to have descended upon the head of Jesus 'like a dove", or in other words, from above, and from and As God.) In the modern era, this Kundalini Shaktipat tradition has been represented, for example, by Ramakrishna," in His spontaneous Transmission of Spiritual Power to Swami Vivekananda, and by Bhagavan Nityananda, in His Transmission of Spiritual Power to Swami Muktananda. In the same manner, I, in My present-time bodily (human) Form, Received Kundalini Shaktipat (or the Transmission of cosmically manifested Divine Spirit-Power) from several individuals, including Bhagavan Nityananda, Rang Avadhoot, Swami Muktananda, and Rudi (also known as Swami Rudrananda). And, in My (present-time) Case, the Divine Spirit-Transmission was, at last, also Given most directly, in Person, and in Its Utter Fullness, by the Divine Goddess, "Shakti" Herself. However, My own Realization, Thus Served by Means of the Divine Spirit Transmission, Most Ultimately became (and, Prior to My Avataric Divine Appearance here in My present-time bodily human Form, Always Already Is) Such that My own Avataric Work of Divine Spiritual Transmission, although It also (secondarily) Manifests via the signs otherwise characteristic of Kundalini Shaktipat, Originates and (primarily) Manifests in and via and at and As the Heart Itself, Prior to all limitations and conditionality Therefore, My Avataric Work of Divine Spiritual Transmission directly (and Most Perfectly) Reveals the Perfectly Subjective Divine Heart (or Self Existing and Self Radiant Divine Being Itself).

The commonly known (or lesser) tradition of the Kundalini Shakti is associated with self applied Yogic techniques (of bodily exercises, breath exercises, exercises of mental concentration, and so on) that are intended to raise up the natural energies associated with the lower physical personality Thus, those Yogic techniques are generally associated, first, with efforts to arouse the natural energy that is otherwise locked into the base of the body (at the lower end of the spinal column, at and above the perineum, and at the sexual center, and in the entire general region of the abdomen, including the navel area, and the solar plexus), and, second, with efforts to raise (and to progressively refine and expand) that energy (or those energies), upwards, via the ascending hierarchy of the various key centers of the spinal line (toward and to the primary centers in the head), until (eventually) the ascending energy flow is released (above the brain and the mind and the total crown of the head) to the most ascended Source Condition (in fifth stage conditional Nirvakalpa Samadhi). And, in the course of that ascending (advanced fourth stage, and fifth stage) process, many symptoms of the partially ascended Kundalini Shakti may progressively appear (in the form of Yogic developments of a physical and, then, progressively more purely psychic, or fully psycho physical, kind). And such signs may include not only various Yogic powers (or siddhis), and many visions, auditions, and so forth (progressively Revealing the hierarchical levels of the psycho physical structure of Man and the Cosmos), but they may also include various (either brief or long-term) Yogic diseases (or symptoms indicating either processes of psycho-physical purification or a misdirection of the natural energies associated with the Yogic process).

The lesser known (and senior, and greater) tradition of the Kundalini Shakti is also associated with the same phenomena (and, as secondary, or merely supportive, exercises, the same Yogic techniques) of ascending Yoga that for example, in the legend of the Spiritual Baptism of Jesus of Nazareth by John the Baptist (in which case, the Holy Spirit is said to have descended upon the head of Jesus 'like a dove', or in other words, from above, and from and As God). In the modern era, this Kundalini Shaktipat tradition has been represented, for example, by Ramakrishna, in His spontaneous Transmission of Spiritual Power to Swami Vivekananda, and by Bhagavan Nityananda, in His Transmission of Spiritual Power to Swami Muktananda. In the same manner, I, in My present time bodily (human) Form, Received Kundalini Shaktipat (or the Transmission of cosmically manifested Divine Spirit Power) from several individuals, including Bhagavan Nityananda, Rang Avadhoot, Swami Muktananda, and Rudi (also known as Swami Rudrananda)." And, in My (present time) Case, the Divine Spirit Transmission was, at last, also Given most directly, in Person, and in Its Utter Fullness, by the "Divine Goddess", Shakti Herself. However, My own Realization, Thus Served by Means of the Divine Spirit Transmission, Most Ultimately became (and, Prior to My Avataric Divine Appearance here in My present time bodily human Form, Always Already Is) Such that My own Avataric Work of Divine Spiritual Transmission, although It also (secondarily) Manifests via the signs otherwise characteristic of Kundalini Shaktipat, Originates and (primarily) Manifests in and via and at and As the Heart Itself, Prior to all limitations and conditionality. Therefore, My Avataric Work of Divine Spiritual Transmission directly (and Most Perfectly) Reveals the Perfectly Subjective Divine Heart (or Self Existing and Self Radiant Divine Being Itself).

Also, the senior tradition of the Kundalini Shakti is associated with a process in the total Circle of the body mind (including both the frontal line and the spinal line). This is because the descending and circulating Spirit Power moves in the total natural circuit of the body mind. Thus, the descending and circulating Spirit Power first enters the frontal line, where the foundation work of opening and purifying the physical, the etheric, the emotional, and the mental (or general psychic) personality must he accomplished. Then, potentially, once the frontal line is sufficiently purified (or, at least, sufficiently surrendered and opened) to allow the descending Kundalini Shakti to turn about at the bodily base, the Kundalini Shakti spontaneously begins the upward Yogic course. Thus, because the true process Generated by Kundalini Shaktipat Works first in the frontal line and then (potentially) in the spinal line, the Kundalini Shaktipat tradition actually begins in the Event of the truly Spiritual Initiation of the "basic" fourth stage of life (and, potentially, to some possible degree, even in the rudimentary Spiritual context of the "original" stage, or foundation stage, of the fourth stage of life), and, thereafter (in due course), it continues (potentially) in the "advanced" fourth stage of life and the fifth stage of life. But the lesser tradition of the Kundalini Shakti is based on a system of Yogic philosophy that idealizes Yogic ascent (not descent), and, therefore, the lesser tradition of the Kundalini Shakti (and the derivative traditions of "ascending Yoga" in general) is associated with systems and techniques of practice that are intended to strategically develop the ascending Yogic process in the context of the 'advanced" fourth stage of life and the fifth stage of life, thus (in general) bypassing (or, at least, minimizing) the foundation Yogic Ordeal associated with the 'original" and the 'basic" fourth stage of life. (And, as a result of this bypass, the lesser tradition of the Kundalini Shakti, and the various, and variant, traditions of 'ascending Yoga", such as "Kriya Yoga" and 'Shabd Yoga",20 that are derived from the generalized tradition of Kundalini Shakti Yoga, are often associated with a point of view that would achieve extreme detachment, or strategic dissociation from the body mind and the conditional world, and, otherwise, in general, with programs of practice that do not pay sufficient practice, time to preparing the right and effective foundation that must precede Yogic activities in the context of the "advanced" fourth stage of life and the fifth stage of life, if the potential ascending Yogic process is itself to develop truly, rightly, and fully)

 

 


"The perfect among the sages is identical with Me. There is absolutely no difference between us"
Tripura Rahasya, Chap XX, 128-133


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