Flickriver: Photoset 39;the Gong in Kundalini Yoga meditation39; by birzer
Kundalini in the concept of Dharma, identifies a kind of primal energy or shakti reported to be located at the base of the vertebrae. Different spiritual customs teach methods of awakening kundalini for the purpose of reaching religious enlightenment and a range of supernormal forces. Writer Joseph Campbell details the idea of Kundalini as the physique of the coiled girl serpent a serpent goddess not of gross but of simple substance which is to be regarded as residing in a torpid, slumbering condition in a subtle center, the to begin the seven, close to the foot of the spine the purpose of the yoga exercises then being to rouse this serpent, lift her head, and bring her up a delicate nerve or channel of the spine to the so called thousand petaled lotus Sahasrara at the crown of the top. She, growing from the lowest to the highest lotus center, will pass through and wake the five between, and with each waking the mindset and personality of the specialist will be completely and fundament...