Query:
What is
Kundalini Awakening? How
do we live our daily life in this illusionary world. Why
is man and woman made. Why are we born in ignorance. Why the senses if we are
to control them to acheive Spiritual growth? As per scriptures man alone is permitted
to acheive Self Realization. Are women not permitted to realize self?
Vijay Kumar:
While proceeding on the path
of Self Realization ... one need to practice Celibacy for a continuous period
of 12 years ... it can be more not less. This helps one retain all the energy
within the self so that instead of taking the staircase of spiritual life we can
jump the lift (the elevator) and go straight up. Going up the lift is what we
know as awakening of the kundalini ... the inherent dominant force present in
every human being.
While
the kundalini is being awakened ... we come across various experiences ranging
from God Almighty trying to distract us from realizing the self. Were it not so
... then why would have God Almighty made such a long journey of 8.4 million manifestations
(a total cosmic journey of 96.4 million years) for atman the soul within to get
liberated.
God
Almighty desires one to pass through all the manifestations before one realizes
god. We need to live as an amoeba (the first manifestation), then an insect, a
tree, an animal and finally evolving into a human being. The journey is long and
whoever tries to cut it short ... there are many distractions on the way.
Literally
God tries to bewitch us by providing assurance of material comforts and what not.
Most of the people succumb to these pressures ... some fall for the Siddhies (manifest
powers) practicing which one can gain material comforts and fame. Practically,
whatever power we may desire God is willing to give provided we get distracted
from the goal ... the goal of realizing the self.
I
shall narrate the example of sage Vishwamitra who practiced austerities to its
climax. He was to have Realized God but it so happened that while walking through
the jungle (deep forests) he came across the sight of a very fair Lady having
bath in a very sensuous environment. It was all a play of God to distract sage
Vishwamitra from his path of gaining Self Realization ... Enlightenment! He fell
for it ... he could not anticipate what God had in store for him.
He
lost almost 10 years of his life ... he was much ahead of sage Vashistha in practicing
austerities but he had to accept finally the supremacy of sage Vashistha who was
of a very strong character. His practice of Celibacy having failed ... the whole
process had to be repeated again!
Our goal of life has to be absolutely clear ... lest we repent in the end. Acharya
Rajneesh aka Osho could not gain Self Realization in this life because he committed
one single mistake ... the mistake of practicing free sex. He advocated in the
end part of his life that having free sex induces one towards the ultimate goal
of life ... Self Realization!
He
was totally wrong ... we cannot negotiate with practicing Celibacy for a continuous
period of 12 years. Only then can we hope for gaining Self Realization. We need
to preserve our energies ... for reaching the top floor (the 8.4 millionth manifestation
... the last leg of cosmic life) we have to take the lift of spiritual life ...
Having reached this stage we have nowhere else to go than achieve Salvation Moksha.
Acharya Rajneesh
Osho was wrong to the extent that even USA did not except his practices in the
end. He was turned out of the country (rather thrown out) ... he had nowhere else
to go for every country in the world rejected him ... it was only after serious
deLiberations that his home country ... the beloved India accepted him back ...
what a disgrace!
One
mistake cost him heavily ... the engine of his spiritual life derailed at 99°
... he failed to realize that the last one per cent was very important for the
engine of his spiritual life to develop steam (steam practically generates at
hundred degrees centigrade) ... only then can one Realize God in the present life!
The experiences
one meets with while experiencing the awakening of the kundalini are sometimes
really frightening ... they carry so much force that a normal human being gets
scared ... for none has ever come across so much power which can be made available
to a human being (the normal mortal) by the grace of God. In the physical manifested
life we need the medium of money to purchase power. and when we have power ...
our senses provoke us all the time display the power ... power of ill-gotten wealth.
On the contrary, in the Spiritual realm ... Lord
Krishna (an Avatar) had the ultimate power in form of Sudarshan chakra
but he rarely used it ... for we are not supposed to nor expected to display our
supremacy and the might. There is nothing to be feared of ... we have to boldly
face all the circumstances and get ahead in life. While proceeding on the path
of Self Realization I was tempted with so many vital gifts of life that it is
easy for many to get swayed from the path.
I
had only one goal ... to come across God face-to-face. I shall not accept anything
less. It was a really difficult time of my life ... why, because there was none
to guide me ... I never had a Guru in my life. I had absolute faith in God Almighty
... I won in the end.
To
understand process of Karma in totality we need to understand that it is Karma
... and only Karma that needs to be practiced with sincerity without which our
atman the soul within cannot get purified ... liberated from the cycle
of birth and death. As is the case with mining one KG of silver out
of a lump of hundred KG of silver ore ... every atman the soul within has to pass
through 8.4 million manifestations before it can clear of with the 99% impurities
carried within.
If we look at the process of mining or for that matter any other process of purification
... we observe that the whole lump of silver ore is sometimes dipped in water
(the period when every human being experiences happiness). Comes a stage when
the balance silver ore is put in a furnace ... and burnt to the required temperatures
... both processes removing a part of impurities (this is the period when a human
being suffers agony).
It
is only through the process of suffering and happiness (getting dipped in water
and put through the furnace that we can achieve the purity within the silver ore
... without these two essentials ingredients of suffering and happiness ... no
human being can ever achieve the stage of Self Realization ... Salvation Moksha
... we have to burn the dross within ... there is no other alternative ... we
do experience happiness at various times but to gloat over the fact that we shall
continue to experience only happiness ever after shall never happen.
The
power of Satan is minus hundred ... almost opposite to the power of God, which
is plus hundred. As we face the sufferings ... so shall we experience the happiness?
Vice versa as we experience the happiness so shall we also face sufferings.
In the cosmic system
everything has two facets ... we have day ... we also have a night. We have fire
... we also have water. All are equally opposite to each other ... and complement
each other. None can survive without the other. Without sufferings ... happiness
would not have any meaning. It is only when we suffer do we realize the importance
of happiness. If we have Swarga Heaven ... we also have hell. It is our Karma,
which lands us either in Swarga Heaven or Naraka hell.
Suffering
and happiness are two sides of the same coin ... for one the glass is half empty
(the materialistic tendencies taking hold) for the other (a Spiritual man) ...
the glass is half full ... he is already contented many times with the grace of
God ... he does not desire more ... rather he has killed the desire within ...
having controlled his senses and the mind ... the Spiritual man has transgressed
the mortal domain. For him materialistic values have no meaning.
Happiness
and suffering in life can never be compared. A beggar who has not eaten for many
days will eye the spare food as a luxury ... for us it was only meant for the
dog on the street. Bhagavad Gita never stipulates that we can Realize God without
burning the dross within ... we have to hundred percent absolve ourselves totally
from the bindings of Karma before we can ever think of realizing God within this
life.
Take
the case of Gautama Buddha who left the palace in search of the absolute knowledge
... he left in the night when his wife and the child were asleep ... he left the
palace without having burnt his Karma ... he went to the deep jungles in search
of God ... he could not find one ... after toiling for a long period of time he
returned to the city for the guidance of a Guru ... which he could never find.
He tried his very best.
He
tried both the methods ... the seclusion of the jungles ... and also the community
life ... he understood everything in the end. He finally advocated the middle
path ... neither leaving the family and venturing into the jungles can one Realize
God ... nor while living in the family ... he advised everyone to follow the middle
path. He had to primarily burn out his Karma by practicing austerities he later
learnt in life while living in the community. The sooner he absolved himself of
all the Karma ... he Realize God.
Gautama
Buddha Realized God at the end part of his life ... while he was nearing 81. He
felt so happy that he immediately left the mortal frame, which had suffered for
long. This is not an isolated case. Lord
Mahavira, Jesus
Christ and Prophet
Mohammed... all faced different types of experiences yet the goal for
all of them was always the same. The paths can be different but destination always
remains the same.
We need to understand the system in its totality lest we shall fail in our Spiritual
efforts. In the system of God there are no sufferings ... happiness has no meaning
for everything is energy ... it is only the bodily form which experiences the
sufferings and the happiness. In the domain of God ... the life of a human being
has no meaning ... it is the world of Atmans souls that is governing ... and every
atman soul is nothing else but pure energy.
Living
in this world either we can live happily fulfilling our base desires, the wanton
desires ... lest we have to establish a control over the senses and the mind if
we are to proceed higher up on the Spiritual plane. Ignorance and illusion is
part of life ... it is inherent in the 99% impurities of life ... we have to cut
the shackles of the Karma and come out of it to experience absolute bliss ...
the stage of Nirvikalpa Samadhi ... where there is nothing else but face-to-face
dialogue with God Almighty.
Reaching
the stage of Nirvikalpa Samadhi is like having covered 99% of the distance ...
the balance 1% still can be achieved with the grace of God.
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It is an absolute
truth that for being able to realize self one is required to be born a man ...
in the total history of mankind only two women have Realized God ... it is the
conviction ... the faith in the Lord ... that shall win you the day. Whatever
be the inclination or the desire ... a woman proceeding on the path of absolute
Spirituality ... if she comes across a child crying on the way ... do you expect
of her to look the other way. It is just not possible ... her Womanhood comes
in the way ... the inherent feeling of motherhood blocks a woman realizing God.
God has made the
system like that ... if everyone starts to Realize God then who would serve food
to the people on the path to Realization ... it would so happen that the child
is getting ready for school and the mother says I am meditating for I have to
Realize God in the present life. It is just not possible for a lady to make an
excuse ... the inborn inherent tendency of serving others comes in the way of
her realizing God as a woman.
Gargi
was one woman who did not marry in life ... she faced all the extremities of life
that can be expected of a lonely women ... she had only one goal of life ... to
learn of the absolute truth in the present life. One day it so happened that a
superior priest of that era Mandan Mishra challenged her on the topic of sex.
He probably thought that in the midst of thousands of priests and pundits it would
be extremely difficult for women to discuss on a forbidden topic ... he failed
to realize that Gargi was a woman of conviction.
In the grueling dialogues that followed ... Mandan Mishra realized the gravity
... but he was too late ... he not only failed miserably to cross examine Gargi
on the issue of sex ... for him sex was a taboo ... but for Gargi ... sex was
only meant for procreation ... it had no other purpose ... for a person with a
Spiritual goal of life the differentiation between a man and a woman did not exist.
She countered that there is only one man, one Karta (creator) in whole Cosmos
and that is God Almighty ... according to her it is only God Almighty who can
create something out of nothing.
If
a man cannot do so then in terms of Spirituality all are women. It was true for
none in this world can create out of nothing even the smallest pebble. Mandan
Mishra admitted his fault. The balance of his life as per the terms and conditions
of the duel he was to have spent as a slave of Gargi but as Gargi was a woman
of conviction ... she forgave Mandan Mishra saving him from disgrace. The Gargi
College in New Delhi, India is built in her remembrance.
Another
was Maitreyi, the wife of Sage Jnanavalakya. Sage Jnanavalakya had two wives ...
one had materialistic inclinations and Maitreyi was more inclined towards Spiritual
values ... she wanted to follow the path her husband was following. It so happened
that having spent a considerable time in the community Sage Jnanavalakya announced
that he should be making a move for the jungles for the balance of his life.
Maitreyi got disturbed
and she asked for permission to accompany her husband. Sage Jnanavalakya kept
mum on the issue. Subsequently he called for both the wives and split his wealth
equally amongst them both. The one inclined towards materialistic tendencies still
had wanton desires for more. Sage Jnanavalakya could easily make out from her
face.
Maitreyi was
an intelligent woman. She put up a question to Sage Jnanavalakya that all the
wealth he is leaving for her ... would it result in her attaining the absolute
knowledge. Sage Jnanavalakya who inherently understood the meaning of Maitreyi
knew beforehand what lay in store for him ... he was just passing time. After
persistent questioning ... Sage Jnanavalakya succumbed to the pressures of Maitreyi
and agreed to take her along. Maitreyi had succeeded in her determination ...
she called for the other wife and happily gave her the balance wealth.
It was all joy for the wife
with materialistic inclinations ... no one was at loss! Maitreyi wanted the knowledge
of the absolute ... she knew it was only possible through the grace of God and
his husband. She was after it ... it was only her will power that she succeeded
in her attempt. In the company of Sage Jnanavalakya Maitreyi ultimately gained
Realization. The Maitreyi College in New Delhi is reminiscent of the Sage Jnanavalakya
and his times. It continuously reminds us that Self Realization for a woman is
not only possible ... but also comparatively a very difficult path to follow!
In my own personal
life ... while I was nearing the ultimate goal of my life ... God asked of me
which path I desired to follow ... the path of Mahavira or the Buddha. He also
explained the merits and demerits of the same. Buddha gained enlightenment at
81 years of age ... he had suffered so much that he did not want to continue further
and left his mortal frame shortly after Self Realization.
In
the case of Mahavira ... he gained Self Realization at the age of 42. He did not
want to leave immediately ... he wanted to disseminate back to the community what
he had learnt with the grace of God. He spent 30 years after gaining enlightenment
... preaching to the world community the inherent meaning of the sacred Scriptures
... the true essence of life! He left his mortal frame at the age of 72.
I chose the path taken by
Mahavira. I also did not leave the mortal frame in 1993. Had I wanted to do so
... I could take a samadhi within three hours. I shall continue in my efforts
to give back to the community what I have gained with the blessings of God. Only
after a certain period of time that I shall leave the mortal frame as per my own
wish.
Having
gained Self Realization ... death of a body carries no meaning for me ... I am
but a pure cluster of energy ... a god realized soul in essence! I have reached
the Mount Everest of my cosmic life ... I have nowhere else to go. The day I feel
my work is completed I shall bid goodbye.
God
be with you.
Always
there to clarify your queries (send
your query),
Vijay
Kumar "Atma
Jnani"
Vijay Kumar... The Man who Realized God in 1993 on Kundalini Awakening.
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Full text of query:
I have
heard of people having problems when their kundalini instead of passing through
the sushumna passes through the ida or pingala and are confronted with energies
that can cause hallucinations or other fearful experiences. Why does this happen
and is it normal? Is any kind of Meditation okay?
you
told me that I should burn my Karma and then maybe seek the Spiritual path. But
in the gita it says that a man can burn out all his Karma if he seeks the path
of god, no matter he completes his reponsibilities in this world. Everthing that
we do in our normal lives are due to an illusion that man has been condition to
beleive since time immorial.
Why
I ask this is, now all my aqauintances, are living life still trying to figure
out why they go through all the troubles that they go through in their journey
of life, while trying to make money, or being in love, or taking care of family
or what ever. It is because they are ignorant about the larger life force that
they are part of.
But
since I know that the ego is actually nothing and that it is the spirit which
is a part of everything, even the food before I eat it is already a part of me,
everything that I am looking at right now is only part of the physical world,
but there is a whole other dimension out there which I have not explored.
Being in the
physical world only pulls me down toward my lower impluses and I feel all the
unwanted emotions which I dont need to if I left this world. Then how do I stay
here in this physical world knowing that it is all an illusion anyway and keep
doing the regular things that I do when I feel like I am playing a stupid game.
Shouldn't a Human Beings purpose in life be to realize god and rise above the
ignorance and illusion?
Why
is man and woman made and why are they born in ignorance and why are they given
all the senses, and then required to control the senses to acheive Spiritual growth?
Why is it that in all the scriptures that only the man is required to go to the
jungles and acheive Self Realization while the woman is supposed to be at home
?
