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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.
(read
this without the parenthetical marks) 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 Lesser and Greater Traditions
Associated with The Kundalini Shakti
"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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