Kundalini or Kundalini-Sakti
(Sk.). A Universal Energy; The power of Life.
Whence comes the application and the action of the fire of Kundalini? From the same source—the fire of love. (AY, 425)
Spirit-knowledge is revealed in the consciousness of a true Agni Yogi. The consciousness that embraces the currents of Space and grasps the formula of psychic energy may enter the vortex of Kundalini. (INF I, 22)
Agni Yoga is not only a progressive development of human possibilities; it should effect the combination with the cosmic energies which reach our planet at a prescribed period. This fact must be understood with surety. Otherwise a seeming succession of sickness will spread, and their treatment by external measures will bring on the most disastrous results.
How can one be cured of this manifestation of fires? They can only be utilized as a useful psychically active force. How can one cure pains in the spine if they are correlated with the awakening of the Kundalini? He who knows will welcome and aid it by rubbing in mint. How can we stop the burning of the third eye if it begins to function? Is it not more rational to help its development, shielding it from the sun? Long ago people knotted their hair on the crowns of their heads, in order to protect this channel. Can one stop the functioning of the solar plexus if it begins to rotate? Each outrage of the solar serpent may culminate in injury to the brain. Equally dangerous is an interruption of the functioning of the center of the Chalice. Of course, poisoning by opium intercepts the movement of the centers; but, then, decapitation would be simpler! (AY, 220)
It is correct to define the Kundalini as an abstract principle. When the conditions of earthly life were crude, need arose to attract the spirit into the higher spheres. Previously, the Eye of Brahma held priority; then it was replaced by the triumph of the Kundalini. But the attainment of Samadhi did not protect humanity from the horror of slavery and treason.
Now is the time to insist upon the synthesis of action. Straight-knowledge will provide this synthesis of earthly existence. The treasure of straight-knowledge is contained in the Chalice, therefore one should add to the two primary sources the blossoming of the third center. Let the rainbow of the Kundalini attract one upward, but on Earth earthly construction is needed. One has to supply a foundation for the pillar, as does handwriting for thought. The long-silenced Chalice will again come to life, and humanity will tread a new path. Three Lords, three centers, will comprise the cooperation here.
Whoever understands the addition of the Chalice to the Kundalini will understand how the father transmits the earthly kingdom to the son. The Kundalini is the father, the generator of the ascent. The Chalice is the son, awakened by the father. Whoever realizes the essence of the father will, at the change of races, understand the son. The Chalice of attainment initiates action. Thus nothing is rejected, but only strengthened. Let the Eye of Brahma be the natural supplement to this condition. (AY, 549)
First of all, one should recognize the centrifugal aspect of the heart and study outward from it, not inward toward it. The solar plexus is the antechamber of the temple of the heart. The Kundalini is the laboratory of the heart. The brain and all the centers are the estates of the heart, because nothing can exist without the heart. Even the brain can be supplemented to a certain degree. Even the Kundalini can be somewhat nourished by a manifestation of electricity, and the solar plexus can be strengthened by blue light. But the heart stands as the temple of humanity. One cannot conceive of the unity of humanity by way of the brain or the Kundalini, but the radiance of the heart can bring together the most seemingly varied organisms, even across remote distances. This experiment, of the unification of hearts across distance, awaits its workers. (H, 339)
Kundalini is the very same force, or psychic force, that acts through the center at the base of the spine. But it manifests through the heart in highly evolved spirits. In the past centuries attention was directed mainly to the center of Kundalini for attainment of the visible result of the action of psychic energy. But in the coming epoch, with the worlds coming closer to each other, the center of the heart will be especially intensified. Action through the center of Kundalini is convincing and real chiefly in the earthly condition, whereas for attaining the higher worlds and for the sojourn in them it is essential to refine the energy of the heart. (LHR II, p 332)
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