KUNDALINI SHAKTI

 

In the yogic science the three main nadis, Pingala (the right channel), Ida (the left channel) and Sushumna (the central channel) are symbolically represented by two entwined snakes.

All three nadis are moving through the subtle body. They all originate in the base of the spine. Ida and Pingala travel along the spine in a spiral crossing the psychic centers (chakras) from the base of spine up to the space between the eyebrows. Sushumna Nadi flows directly through the spine.

The real unity of all three Nadis happens in Sahasrara, the crown chakra, the thousand petaled lotus but experienced in the heart.

kundalini shakti serpent power

Kundalini, Nadis, Chakras

The Symbol of Kundalini Shakti


 

A single coiled-up snake in three and the half circles is a symbol of Kundalini, or Kundalini Shakti, the serpent power.

The old Indian sages and seers did not see the Universe as a flat disc covered by a spheric roof but through their practices and experiences they acknowledged that a human body together with its spheric roof (brain) is not separated from the Universe. And also that the Universe is a manifestation of pure consciousness.

Kundalini is a divine cosmic energy in the body. Kundala means coiled, kunda means cave and this is why a single coiled-up snake is a symbol of the divine but sleeping power in each and every human.

Purification and Opening of Nadis


 

Practice of Hatha Yoga techniques leads to awakening that vast sleeping and repressed power.

Pranayama techniques and asana practice (see this page too) both leads to the purification and opening of the right and left psychic channel.

Purified and opened channels of Pingala and Ida lead to the purification of the central space in the spine, the Sushumna.

Purified and opened central channel changes the psycho-physiological state within human being. When the Sushumna channel is purified and opened, in this emptiness, the individual soul is merging with the cosmic one. Those people are rare, however to each and every of us is given the golden opportunity to access the higher state of consciousness.

If you do not start, you do not finish.

Union or Better, Joining


 

The meaning of the word Yoga refers to the union or better joining Yin and Yang, two halves of the brain, the parasympathetic nervous system and sympathetic nervous system, between the sun (or the right channel, Pingala) and the moon (or the left channel, Ida), time and space, Prakriti (nature, the female creative energy) and Purusha (pure consciousness, the source of consciousness, the male aspect), Shiva (your static, male energy) and Shakti (your dynamic, feminine energy).

This is how the practice of Hatha Yoga unites two opposites in you and how duality is becoming oneness. When you experience the unity between the opposites you will be enough calm and balanced to experiment all the other dimensions of your being.

As the embryo gradually develops into the first breath the man unfolds his psychic centers step by step towards its source since his first breath.

 

I hope that my introduction into Yoga and Hatha Yoga, and into Kundalini Shakti, the serpent power, can now help you to see clearly why it is not right to understand Hatha Yoga as a physical exercise or in a more tragic case a gym and in the most tragic one, a competition for who has more pliable meat on his muscles.