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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 There are actually two distinct (and
very different) traditions associated with the
(conditionally appearing) Kundalini Shakti. The first (and most commonly known)
tradition associated with the Kundalini Shakti is founded
upon the “natural” (or gross 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 egoic human
body-mind-self. This tradition is, originally, associated
with the ancient animistic and shamanistic cultures of
humankind—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 ascent and circulation of the All-Pervading
cosmic (or conditionally appearing) Energy. And this
tradition is of Divine origin. That is to say, this
tradition is not the product merely of human psycho-physical
efforts to achieve the Divine Condition (or any higher
knowledge and psycho-physical powers). Rather, Kundalini
Shaktipat has appeared spontaneously (originating,
ostensibly, from Above—but, really, in cosmic terms,
effectively from below), and it has always been Given
(thusly) by (or in and of) the Divine (in one or another
cosmically mediated form) Directly to potential
Siddha-Masters (or would-be Spiritual Realizers),
who—by means of the Thus received Kundalini
Shaktipat—then proceed to achieve fully (or at least
greatly) ascended states. And the same Kundalini Shaktipat
That was received is, thereafter (or once It is received and
developed), Transmitted (or passed on) by the Siddha-Masters
(and always as and to the degree and stage of life It has
been developed by the particular Shaktipat-Transmitting
Siddha-Master) via their subsequent (and various) lineages
of disciples and devotees. In the domain of popular
religion, this Kundalini Shaktipat tradition is represented,
for example, in the legend of the Spiritual Baptism of Jesus
of Galilee 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),
ostensibly, 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 (Baba) Muktananda. In the same
manner, I, in My bodily (human) Form, Received Kundalini
Shaktipat (or the Transmission of cosmically manifested
Divine Spirit-Power) from several individuals—including
Bhagavan Nityananda, Rang Avadhoot, Baba Muktananda, and
Rudi (also known as Swami Rudrananda). And, in My Own 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, all of the Masters and Modes and Events of Divine
Spirit-Transmission Manifested to Me in the course of My
bodily (human) Lifetime-Ordeal were necessitated by My
original Divine Avataric Act of Submission to be Born for
the sake of all conditionally manifested beings. Prior to
That Divine Avataric Birth, and in the Instant of It, and in
the earliest years of My bodily (human) Lifetime, I was (and
Always Already Am) the “Bright”, the One and Only,
and Divinely Self- Manifested, and Indivisible, and
Non-Separate Conscious Light (Itself)—the Source and
Person of Divine Spirit-Power (Itself) and Divine
Spirit-Transmission (Itself). My Submission to be
Avatarically-Born Required the Lifetime-Ordeal of My
“Sadhana Years” and all of My Divine Avataric
Self-Revelation-Work. Nevertheless, in due course, the
Divine Re-Awakening of My Eternal Self-Condition was
Accomplished. And, now (and forever hereafter), I Stand
Free, in and As My Self-“Bright” Divine
Self-Condition and Person, Avatarically Self-Transmitting My
Divine Spirit-Power to all who resort to Me as true and
faithful devotees of Mine. My Own Avataric (and Unique) Work
of Divine Spiritual Transmission—although It also
(potentially, and secondarily) Manifests via the signs
otherwise characteristic of Kundalini Shaktipat—not
only Originates from Entirely (or Infinitely, and Truly
Divinely, and not merely ostensibly and cosmically) Above,
but Functions Entirely from Above Downwards (or in a
Unique-to-Me Yogic Process in Descent). And My Divine
Avataric Spiritual Transmission Manifests (primarily) in and
via and at and As the True (or Fundamental) Heart Itself,
Always Already Beyond and Prior to all limitations and
conditionality. Therefore, My Avataric Work of Divine
Spiritual Transmission (or Ruchira Shaktipat, or
Hridaya-Shaktipat) Directly (and Most Perfectly) Reveals the
Perfectly Subjective Divine Heart (or Self-Existing and
Self-Radiant and Inherently egoless Divine Being
Itself)—both in and As the Heart Itself (or the Priorly
and Perfectly Self-Abiding, or Horizontal, Root Itself) and
at and As the “Bright” Source of all lights (or
the Priorly and Perfectly Ascended, or Vertical, Root
Itself). The characteristic descriptions
(whether traditional or modern) of the Kundalini Shakti and
of the experiential phenomena associated with the Kundalini
Shakti indicate (and reflect) a particular
(conditionally-based) mode of energy-development—which
begins in the gross dimension of conditional existence and
becomes (potentially) more subtle as it progresses. In
contrast, My Divine Avataric Spiritual Self-Transmission (or
Ruchira Shaktipat) does not originate in the gross plane.
Rather, My Divine Avataric Spiritual Self-Transmission
Originates both Above (or from the Priorly Ascended Divine
“Place”, Infinitely Above the crown of the head)
and In-Depth (or from the Priorly Self-Abiding Divine
“Place”, Prior to the right side of the
Heart)—entering, from “There”, into the
totality of conditional patterns. Because It Originates not
only from Above but also from In-Depth, My Divine Avataric
Spiritual Self-Transmission is felt (primarily) as a kind of
progressive Saturation of the total psycho-physical being of
My devotee. My Divine Avataric Spiritual Self-Transmission
is Non-conditionally Self- Manifested and Tangibly
Self-Indicated—Originating from Beyond and Perfectly
Prior to the body-mind, and Indicated (progres-sively) from
Infinitely Above and Deeply Within to every context and
dimension below and without. My Divine Avataric Spiritual
Self-Transmission does not merely “hit” the gross
physical body of My devotee. My Divine Avataric Spiritual
Self- Transmission Originates Beyond (or
Prior to) the causal plane—first Entering the causal
dimension, and (then) the subtle dimension, and (then) the
gross dimension of conditional existence. That is to say, My
Divine Avataric Spiritual Self-Transmission Saturates (or
Pervades, or “Intoxicates”) the totality of the
psycho-physical being of My devotee—from Above and from
In-Depth, to “down” and
“out”. Therefore, My Divine Avataric
Self-Revelation is a Unique Revelation for the sake of all
conditionally manifested beings. My Divine Avataric
Self- Revelation is not offered or given
as a method to “get back” to the Divine by means
of seeking (whether in the mode of ascent or in the mode of
going within). Rather, My Divine Avataric Self-Revelation is
the here-Given present-time Revelation of That Which Is
Prior and Divine. Thus, I do not offer you a
“path of return”—whether from below to Above
or from left to right.37 My Divine Avataric Spiritual
Self-Transmission In-Fills you—from Above to below, and
from right to left. Therefore, to receive My
Ruchira-Shaktipat-Transmission is to be Purified and
Transformed by heart-Communion with That Which Is Divine,
and Priorly Ascended, and Infinitely Beyond (and Prior to)
all conditions. 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, in conditionally Ascended
Nirvikalpa Samadhi) 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. And, in the
course of that ascending 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 the human being 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 characterize the lesser tradition of the
Kundalini Shakti. However, the unique characteristic of the
senior and greater (Kundalini Shaktipat) tradition is that
the Kundalini Shakti (Itself) and the fundamental Yogic
process are not generated via self-effort and self-applied
techniques, but the Yogic process is Generated (and Engaged,
and Fulfilled) directly and spontaneously, by the Kundalini
Shakti Itself—Which is Given, Guided, and constantly
re-Generated by a Yogic Siddha-Master (and sometimes via the
Empowered representative, or representatives, of a Yogic
Siddha-Master). And, when Yoga is so Given and so Guided, it
develops according to a unique Divine Intelligence—such
that (unless the devotee surrenders to the ego-self, rather
than to the Guru, or Sat-Guru, and the Divinely
Self-Revealing Power—and although many signs of
psycho-physical purification may develop and then pass) the
Yogic process does not develop signs either of misdirection
of energies or of fixed attachment to lesser (or merely
intermediate) conditional states. Even the senior tradition of the
Kundalini Shakti (like the commonly known, or lesser,
tradition of the Kundalini Shakti) is, characteristically,
associated with the Spiritual process of ascent, by stages,
from below (or from the grosser to the subtler). Sometimes,
as in the case of the Teachings of Rudi (or Swami
Rudrananda), there is an associated exercise of opening and
purification that suggests Spiritual Work along the line of
the total internal circuit of the body-mind (including both
the frontal line and the spinal line)— and, thus, down the front and up the
back. Nevertheless, the essential orientation, even in such
schools of the senior tradition of the Kundalini Shakti, is
toward a process that will, in due course, progressively
ascend from below (or the lower or grosser) toward the
ultimate Goal of seeking (Which is subtler and Above).
Overall, the general tradition of
the Kundalini Shakti is based on a system of Yogic
philosophy that idealizes Yogic ascent (not
descent)—and, therefore, both the lesser and the senior
traditions of the Kundalini Shakti (and the derivative
traditions of “ascending Yoga” in general) are
associated with systems and techniques of practice that are
intended to strategically develop the ascending Yogic
process in the context of the fifth stage of life—thus
(often, or even in general) bypassing (or, at least,
minimizing) the foundation Yogic Ordeal associated with the
“original” and the “basic” fourth stage
of life (and, in some cases, even the necessary
self-discipline and self-responsibility that must be
associated with the first three stages of life). As a result
of this bypass, both the lesser and the senior traditions of
the Kundalini Shakti—and the various, and variant,
traditions of “ascending Yoga”, such as
“Kriya Yoga” and “Shabd Yoga”, 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 fifth stage
of life—if the potential ascending Yogic process is
itself to develop truly, rightly, and fully). In contrast to all such traditional
Yogic idealism, the Only-by-Me Revealed and Given Way of
Adidam (and of Ruchira Shaktipat)—once it is (formally)
Spiritually Initiated by Me (and, all the while thereafter,
Spiritually Maintained and Magnified by Me)—is Always
Already Spiritually Established Above and In-Depth and
Spiritually Functioning Above and In-Depth.
(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) More on Shakti from Adi Da and The
Beezone: More: The
Supremely Auspicious Wedding with the Great Goddess
Shakti Consciousness
Itself Is Natively Senior to The Kundalini Shakti
The Lesser and Greater Traditions
Associated with The Kundalini Shakti
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