Kundalini Explained S u s h u m n a H y m n a l s
Kundalini in the concept of Dharma, identifies a kind of primal energy or shakti said to be located at the base of the back. Different spiritual customs teach methods of awakening kundalini for the intended purpose of reaching religious enlightenment and a variety of supernormal powers. Writer Joseph Campbell details the idea of Kundalini as the shape of an coiled female serpent a serpent goddess not of gross but of understated substance which is usually to be regarded as surviving in a torpid, slumbering condition in a simple center, the first of the seven, nearby the base of the spine the purpose of the yoga then being to rouse this serpent, lift her head, and bring her up a understated nerve or route of the back to the so called thousand petaled lotus Sahasrara at the crown of the head. She, increasing from the cheapest to the highest lotus center, will pass through and wake the five between, and with each waking the psychology and personality of the practitioner will be completely