Kundalini

Sri Lakshmana Swamy

Making the kundalini rise from the muladhara to the sahasrara is a mental activity. It will not take one beyond the mind, and it will not kill the mind. For realization, the mind must sink into the Heart and be destroyed by the Self. The raising of the kundalini through yogic practices does not result in self-realization even when the kindalini reaches the sahasrara. Such an achievement is an achievement of the mind; realization can only result from the destruction of the mind.

There is a channel which runs from the Heart-centre to the brain; it is called the amrita nadi. The mind rises to the brain through this channel and then goes back into the Heart-centre again during sleep or deep meditation. The mind rising and falling in this channel is the true kundalini.

At the moment of realization the I-thought goes down this channel and is destroyed in the Heart. After realization neither the amrita nadi nor the Heart-centre are of any importance. The jnani then knows that he is the all-pervading Self.