Kundalini Tantra : Be Vulnerable

After reading a recent article – Tantra & Intoxicants, Cecilie asked a question:

Hey! I’m reading the book called: “Halfway Up the Mountain” by Mariana Caplan. They warn about the rising of the Kundalini before you are ready. Can you comment on this?

Cecilie, you can never be ready for Kundalini awakening. It is a sudden happening. Mind cannot conceive that is beyond its imagination, that is infinite, and hence it cannot be contemplated. There is no preparation whatsoever that can be done in order to get you ready for it. It is as intense as an atomic blast out of blue in your consciousness. It is a radical revolution that takes place into your being and you are completely new. The one who used to think that one was getting ready for it to happen, is dead, is no more.

All the preparations, which you do in order to get ready, are nothing but a constant search. Suppose you are standing on a crossing, you want to go to a temple but you don’t know the way. What can you do? The only possibility for you is to start searching for the right path. Preparation or Sadhana is like hit and trial method. You check something and if it doesn’t work, you discard it. And in this fashion, reaches closer to the right path. I am reminded of a great scientist Newton who was trying to invent the electric bulb. He used several things as filament, but nothing worked. He kept trying. People who were initially with him, kept getting disheartened by failure and left him. They asked, “Why are you still trying? We don’t see any possibility that it can be done. You have failed 300 times.” Until that time, Newton had failed 300 Times. What he said is very significant. He replied, “I have not failed 300 times. I have discarded 300 wrong ways. Now I am much closer of achieving success.” That’s the only thing that can be done even in the path of awakening the Kundalini. You can try and try, until you find how to activate it. And it’s not gradual, it is sudden.

What you were doing before isn’t getting you ready for anything. You merely come to know about the paths that don’t work, which are futile. That’s all. But when Kundalini goes up, it transforms your consciousness. Any past experience or practice cannot prepare you for it because it cannot be called an experience at all. There remains no one to experience it and hence there’s no experience. So, what Mariana Caplan says is utterly absurd.

Yes, there is no doubt that this can be dangerous. But the life, each and every moment, is filled with various kinds of risks. To be more precise, life is a risk, a danger in itself. You can die any moment. You are reading this article and you can die. Life is very vulnerable, very fragile. But this is the beauty of the life. And Kundalini Jagran (awakening of Kundalini) is nothing but the flowering of life in all its dimensions. So I suggest you, if I may do so, to be courageous, be open, be fragile. If you can do it, you will start enjoying the biggest danger of all i.e. life. Only then your life can bloom like a rose. You won’t have to read any silly book then. You’ll be a light unto yourself.