Chapter 6 Chapter 6 Kundalini: The Awakening of the Life Force

No theoretical knowledge helps meditation, no figurative dissection of kundalini makes sense for meditation.By saying this, I do not mean that there is no such thing as kundalini or chakra centers.The kundalini is there, the chakras are there, but no knowledge is helpful in any sense; instead it hinders, it becomes a hindrance for many reasons.One reason is that any knowledge about kundalini or about the mystical channels of bioenergetic energy, the inner channel of life force, is conceptual, it is different from person to person, the roots are not the same.A has a cause of A, B has a cause of B, and C has a cause of C. Your inner life has an individuality, so what you know by theory doesn't help, it can get in the way because it's not about your.It can't be about you.You will know yourself only when you yourself come into you.

There are chakras, but how many are different from person to person.Some people have 7, some have 9, some have more, some have less.That's why so many different traditions have developed. Buddhists say there are 9 chakras, Hindus say 7, Tibetans say 4 and they are all right! The root of kundalini, the channel through which kundalini passes, also varies from person to person.The deeper you go inside, the more individual you become.For example, in your body, your face is the most individual part; in the face, the eyes are more individual.The face is more alive than the rest of the body, so the face has individuality.You may not have noticed that at a certain age, especially with sexual maturity, your face begins to take on a shape that doesn't change much throughout your life.Before sexual maturity, the face changes a lot, but with sexual maturity, your individuality becomes fixed and does not change, and your face more or less does not change.

The eyes are more alive than the face, and they are so individual that they change every moment.Eyes are never fixed unless one is enlightened.Enlightenment is another kind of maturity. With sexual maturity the face becomes fixed, but another kind of maturity fixes the eyes.You don't see any change in Buddha's eyes: his body grows old, he dies, but his eyes are always the same.This has historically been a marker.When someone attains nirvana, the eyes are the only door through which an outsider can judge whether he has really attained nirvana.Now, the eyes never change, everything changes, but the eyes remain the same.The eyes are the display of the inner world.However, kundalini goes deeper.

Little theoretical knowledge is helpful.When you have a little bit of theory, you start to impose it on yourself, you start to see things as they were taught to you, but things may not fit your personal circumstances.In this way, a lot of confusion arises. One has to feel the chakra, not just know something about it.You have to feel, you have to send the tentacles into yourself.It is beneficial only if you feel your energy centers, kundalini and its channels.Otherwise it is useless.In fact, knowledge is very destructive to the inner world, and the more knowledge you acquire, the less likely you are to feel something authentic and reliable.

You start to impose what you know on yourself.If someone says, "Here is the chakra, here is the center," then you will see the chakra in that place, which may not be there at all.Thus, you create an imaginary energy center.You can create, your mind has this ability.You can create imaginary energy centers and because of your imagination, there will be flow, but that is not kundalini, that is just imagination, it is all a dreamlike phenomenon. Once you can see the center in your imagination and create imaginary kundalini, you can create everything.Then imagined experiences follow, and you develop a completely false world within yourself.The world outside is unreal, but not as unreal as the world you make inside.

What is inside is not necessarily real or actually there, because imagination is also inside, and dreams are also inside.The mind has a faculty, a very powerful faculty to dream, to hallucinate, to project.That is why it is best to be completely unaware of the kundalini center when doing meditation.If you run into them, that's fine.You may slowly start to feel something, and only then can you ask.You may start to feel an energy center operating, but let that come first.You may feel a surge of energy, but let that come first.Don't imagine, don't think about it, don't make any intellectual effort to understand it beforehand.There is no need for any preconceived notions, and far from being necessary, they are certainly harmful.

One more thing: kundalini and chakras do not belong to your body structure, physiological system, kundalini and chakras belong to your subtle body, your subtle body (sukshma sharira), not to this body, This heavy body.Of course, there is a corresponding point there.The chakra is part of your ethereal body, but your physical structure and physiological systems have points corresponding to it.If you feel an inner energy center, only then can you feel the corresponding point.Otherwise, you may dissect the whole body and not find such things as energy centers. All the talk, all the so-called evidence and all the scientific claims about your gross body having kundalini and chakra centers is nonsense, absolute nonsense.There are indeed corresponding points, but you can only feel those points when you feel the real chakra.Dissect your gross body and find nothing.nothing.So the problem is not physical.

One more thing: there is no need to go through chakras one by one.It's not necessary, you can bypass them.There is also no need to feel kundalini before enlightenment.This phenomenon is quite different from what you might think.Kundalini is felt because it is rising, just because you don't have a very clear channel.If the channel is completely open, then energy is flowing without you being able to feel it.You only feel it when something is there to stop its flow.You only feel it when the energy is flowing upwards and there is a blockage in your pathway.So people who feel more about kundalini are actually blocked: there are many obstacles in the passage, so kundalini cannot flow.When there is resistance, kundalini is felt.You cannot feel energy directly unless there is resistance there.If I move my hand without encountering resistance, the movement is not felt.I feel the movement because of the resistance of the air, but it is not as strong as the resistance against the stone, and I feel the movement more when I encounter the stone.And in a vacuum, I can't feel movement at all.So it's relative.

Buddha never talked about kundalini.It's not that there is no kundalini in his body, but because the channel is so open that there is no resistance at all.So he never feels it.Mahavira never talked about Kundalini, so a wrong concept was created. Later, the Jains who believed in Mahavira believed that Kundalini was pure nonsense and there was no such thing .Since then, Jainism has been denying Kundalini for 2500 years, claiming that it does not exist, because Mahavira himself did not feel Kundalini.But Mahavira doesn't talk about it for another reason.Because there is no blockage in his body, he never feels it.

So, you don't have to feel kundalini; you don't have to feel it at all.If you don't feel kundalini, you are bypassing the chakra, because the chakra is only working out of the need to break the block; otherwise, it is not needed. When there is a blockage, when the kundalini is blocked, the nearby energy centers are activated by the blocked kundalini, it becomes dynamic.The chakra will work because of the blocked kundalini, and it will work so fast that a special energy will be created because of the movement, and it will break the block. If the channels are clear, then there is no need for chakras, and you will feel nothing.Really, chakras are there to help you.If kundalini is blocked, there is help nearby.A certain energy center takes over the blocked energy.If energy can't go forward, it goes backwards.Before it recedes, the chakra absorbs the energy completely and the kundalini moves in the chakra.The energy becomes more alive, more alive through movement, and when it comes back to where it was blocked, it can break it.So, this is just an arrangement, a help.

If the kundalini moves without obstruction, then you never feel any chakra.That's why someone feels nine chakras, someone ten, someone only three or four, or one, or none at all.This varies from person to person.In fact, the number of energy centers is infinite.Every time a kundalini takes a step, there is a chakra standing by, and if it needs help, it can help. That's why I insist that theoretical knowledge is not helpful.Meditation like this has nothing to do with kundalini at all.If there is kundalini, that is another matter, but meditation has nothing to do with it.Meditation can be explained without even referring to kundalini, there is no need to mention it.The mention of kundalini, on the other hand, creates conflicts of interpretation.Meditation can be explained directly, you don't have to worry about chakra centers, you just start meditating.If there is a blockage in the passage, you will feel the kundalini, the chakra will be there, but that is completely involuntary, you have to remember that it is involuntary, it does not require your will at all. The deeper the channel, the more involuntary it is.I can move my hands, it's a channel of autonomy.But I can't move my blood.I can try it.Years of training can make people's blood circulation become autonomous, and Hatha Yoga can do this.It's been done, it's not impossible, but it's useless.Practicing for 30 years just to control the flow of blood is stupid and pointless, because this control brings no results.Blood circulation is involuntary and does not require your will.You eat, and once you eat, your will is no longer needed, the mechanics of the body structure have taken over and it will go on doing what is needed.Your sleep is involuntary, your birth is involuntary, and so is your death.These are non-autonomous mechanisms. Kundalini is much deeper, deeper than death, deeper than birth, deeper than blood, because kundalini is the circulation of your second body.Blood is the circulation of your physical body, and kundalini is the circulation of your etheric body, which is absolutely involuntary, and even a hatha yogi can do nothing about it. One has to go into meditation.Then the energy starts to move; what you have to do is to meditate.If you go deeply into meditation, the inner energy starts to rise and you feel a change in flow, and it can be felt in many ways, even physically. For example, in general, having hot feet and a cool head is a sign of health, biologically speaking, it is.On the contrary, if the feet are cold and the head is hot, it means that the person is sick.If the kundalini flows upwards, the same thing happens: the feet become cold. In fact, hot feet are nothing more than a downward flow of sexual energy.Once the life energy, the kundalini, starts flowing upwards, the sexual energy follows and the feet become cool and the head becomes hot.From a biological point of view, it is better for the feet to be warmer than the head; but from Osho's point of view, it is better for the feet to be cooler than the head, because this is a sign of upward flow of energy. After the upward flow of energy, many diseases may arise because the whole biological organism is disturbed.Buddha died very ill, Mahavira died very ill, Raman Maharshi died of cancer, Ramakrishna died of cancer.The reason is that the entire biological system is disrupted.There are also many other reasons given, but they are all nonsense. ①Raman Maharshi (Raman Maharshi, 1879~1950): Hindu philosopher and yogi.Advocates the homogeneity of God and man and the theory of illusion. —— Annotation ② Ramakrishna (RamaKrishna, 1836~1886): Hindu leader.It is asserted that God exists in all truths, and that all religions have the same essence and are all truths. —— Annotation The Jains made up many stories because they could not imagine that Mahavira could be sick.I don't think so.I can't imagine how he can be completely healthy.He cannot be perfectly healthy because this is his last life and the whole biological system has to disintegrate.A system that had lasted for thousands of years had to break down.He couldn't be healthy, and in the end, he had to be seriously ill.And he did get seriously ill.His devotees, however, find it hard to believe that Mahavira could be ill.At the time, there was only one explanation for being sick.If you get some kind of disease, it means his karma, the seeds of your previous life are not good.Mahavira is sick, which means that he is still under the influence of the evil debts owed in the previous life.How did this happen?So an ingenious story was invented: Mahavira's rival, Goshalak, used evil forces against him.But that's not the case at all. The natural flow of life is downward, the spiritual flow is upward.The whole biological organism was created to flow down. You may start to feel many changes in the body, but the earliest changes will appear in the subtle body.Meditation means building a bridge between the gross body and the subtle body.When I say meditation, I just mean if you can jump out of the heavy body, that's what meditation means.But for this jump, you need the help of your heavy body, which you have to use as a stepping stone. You can jump from any pole.Fasting has been used to take people to an extreme.After a long and sustained fast, you will reach the edge.The human body is generally capable of fasting for 90 days, but by then your body is completely depleted and the reserves it has built up for urgent needs are depleted. At this point one of two possibilities will arise: If If you do nothing, death happens; if you use the moment for meditation, jumping happens. If you do nothing and continue fasting, death will happen.That is a suicide.Mahavira was the most profound experimenter with fasting in the history of human evolution, and the only one who allowed his disciples to commit spiritual suicide.He calls it the santhara, the tipping point where both can happen.In an instant, you can die or you can jump.If you use a certain technique, you can jump.So, Mahavira said, that was not a suicide, but a very great spiritual explosion.Only Mahavira has said it, only he has said it.Even suicide can be used for spiritual advancement if you have the courage. You can jump from any critical point.Sufis adopt dance.There is a moment when you dance that feels out of this world.When a true Sufi dances, even the audience feels otherworldly.Through body movement, rhythmic movement, the dancer soon feels that he is not equal to the body, separate from it.You just start moving and soon the body's involuntary mechanisms will take over. You start, but if the end is yours too, that dance is just an ordinary dance.If you start and you end up feeling as if somewhere in the middle the dance is taken over by an involuntary mechanism, then it becomes a Sufi Dervish dance.You move so fast that your body shakes and becomes involuntary. This is the point where you can go crazy or jump.You may go mad because an involuntary mechanism has taken over the movement of your body, it is beyond your control, and there is nothing you can do about it.You could go mad and never get back from this involuntary movement.This is the tipping point where you go crazy, or calm down (if you have mastered the jumping technique). So people keep calling Sufis crazy.They're famous for being lunatics!As usual, they are crazy.There is a sect in Bengal, just like the Sufis, called Baul. They go to one village after another to dance and sing. The word Baul means crazy.They are crazy people. Madness has happened many times, but if you know the technique, meditation can happen.It always happens at the tipping point, and that's why the mystics love to use the word "blade".Either madness or meditation, each method makes your body like a blade, where either this happens or that happens. So, what are the techniques for jumping into meditation?I have spoken of two: fasting and dancing.All the techniques of meditation are designed to push you to the brink of jumping, and the jumping itself can only be done in very simple, methodless ways. If there is a moment when fasting has brought you to the precipice of death and you remain aware, if you remain aware when death is approaching, if you remain aware, then there is no death.Not only is there no death now, but there will never be death.You have jumped!When the moment is so tense that you know it's fleeting, and if you don't seize the second, you'll never get it back, be aware, just jump that way.Awareness is the method.Because awareness is the method, Zen people say there is no method.Awareness is not a method at all, that's why Krishnamurti keeps saying there is no method. Of course awareness is not really a method at all.But I still call it method, because if you are not aware, then when the moment you can jump, you will be overwhelmed.So, if someone says, "Only by awareness," it may apply to one person in 10,000, but that person is someone who has reached a point where they either go mad or die.Either way, he's reached a tipping point. For most of the rest, just talking about awareness is useless.First they have to be trained.It is useless to be aware in ordinary situations, and you cannot be aware in ordinary situations.The mind has been dull for ages - its drowsy, sluggish, unaware, it's been around for so long, you can't just listen to Krishnamurti or me or someone else to remain aware.It is not easy to be aware even of things that you have done without knowing it countless times. You come to the office and don't even notice that you are moving: you turn around, walk, open the door.You've been doing this all your life, and it's become an involuntary mechanism, completely out of your awareness. So Krishnamurti says, "Be aware that you are walking." But you are never aware of it while you are walking.The habit is so ingrained that it becomes part of your bones and blood, and it becomes difficult to be aware of it. You will be aware only in emergencies, in unexpected stressful situations.Someone puts a gun to your chest and you know it because you've never been in that situation before.If you are familiar with this situation, you will not be aware at all. Fasting is about creating an emergency, an emergency that you have never experienced before.So, it may not help someone who practices fasting regularly, he needs to fast for a longer period of time.Or, if you've never danced before, you can easily get help by dancing.But if you are a dance expert, Sufi Dervish dance no longer works because you have danced so perfectly, so skillfully, that it is useless.Skillful means that this is already being done by the involuntary part of the mind.Skillful always means that. That's why 120 methods of meditation have been developed, one will not work for you, another may.The most useful one should be the one you don't know about at all.If a particular method has never been practiced, it can quickly create an emergency.In such emergencies, be aware! So your concern is meditation not kundalini.When you are aware, many things happen to you.For the first time you will become aware that the inner world is bigger, wider, and wider than the universe; there will be unknown energies, completely unknown energies flowing inside you; never heard of, never imagined or Dreamed phenomena also began to happen.However, the phenomenon that occurs varies from person to person, so it is better not to talk about it. Occurrences vary, so ancient traditions emphasize having a spiritual master.Classics don't work.Only a spiritual master can do that.And the guru has been against the scriptures, although the scriptures talk about the guru and praise him.The very concept of a spiritual master is antithetical to the scriptures.The familiar idiom "No teacher, no knowledge" does not mean that there is no knowledge without a spiritual master, but that there is only scriptures without knowledge. A living guru is needed, not a dead book.Books cannot know which type of person you are.Books are always general and cannot be aimed at a specific individual.That is impossible, there is no such possibility.Only a living person can understand your needs and know what is about to happen to you. This is indeed paradoxical: the scriptures speak of a guru, saying that without a guru there is no knowledge, yet the guru speaks against the scriptures in a symbolic way.The idea that a spiritual master will teach you knowledge does not mean that knowledge is given by him, on the contrary, it means that only living people can help.Why?Because only the living can understand people. No book can understand the individual man.Books are not written for a particular person but for everyone.In teaching the method, however, your individuality must be taken into account very, very precisely and scientifically.The knowledge imparted by the guru has always been secretly and privately passed on from master to disciple. Why keep it a secret?Secrecy is the only means of imparting knowledge.The disciples were commanded not to mention it to anyone.The mind always wants to speak.It's hard to keep a secret if you know something.Keeping a secret is the hardest thing, but it has always been a requirement of spiritual masters, teachers.When they teach you something, there is always one condition: don't talk about it.Why?Why keep it secret? Many people say that truth does not need secrecy, it does not need privacy.This is nonsense.Truth needs privacy more than untruth, because truth can be destructive and dangerous to anyone.Taught to a specific person, that means only for him, not for others.He should not delegate it to anyone else until he himself has reached a point where his individuality has disappeared.This must be understood. A guru is a person whose individuality has disappeared.Only then can he see deeply into your individuality.If he is an individual himself, he can explain you, but he never understands you.Let's say I'm talking about you here, it's about you, it's not about you, it's about me.I can't help you because I don't really know you.Whenever I get to know you, it always comes around, and that's by getting to know myself. ·There ·I· must disappear at this point.I must just be a non-existence.Then I can go deep into you without any explanation.Then I can know you as you really are, not as I know you.Only then can I help.Therefore, it must be kept secret. So, it is better not to talk about kundalini and chakras.Only meditation needs to be taught, heard and understood, and everything else will fall into place. Kundalini itself is not a life force, on the contrary, it is a special channel of life, a way.But the life force can go other ways too, so it doesn't have to go through kundalini.It is entirely possible to achieve enlightenment without going through kundalini.But kundalini is the easiest shortcut to take. If the life force passes through kundalini, then the terminal point is the brahman point on the top of the head.However, if the life force goes the other way (there can be innumerable channels), then the brahman point on the top of the head is not the terminal.Then the flowering of the Brahman acupoint on the top of the head is the only possibility, the only potential. Some schools of yoga don't even mention kundalini.Then there is no such thing as a brahmacharya above the head.But kundalini is the easiest way to go, so ninety percent of the enlightened people go through kundalini. Kundalini and chakras are not in the physical body, they belong to the etheric body, but they have a counterpart in the physical body; just like you put your hand on your heart when you feel love.There is actually no such thing as "love" there, only your heart, your physical heart, is the corresponding point.When you put your hand on your heart, you are putting your hand on that energy center that belongs to the ethereal body, which is roughly equivalent to the heart of your physical body. Kundalini is part of your ethereal body, so any progress you make on the kundalini path doesn't die with the physical body, it follows you.Anything you achieve will stay with you because it is not part of your physical body.If it's part of your physical body, then every time you die it disappears and you have to start all over again.But if someone has reached the third chakra, this progress follows him into the afterlife.It will follow him, it will be stored in his ethereal body. When I say the life force goes through the kundalini, I mean the kundalini is like a channel, the whole channel connecting the 7 chakras.These energy centers are also not in the physical body, so everything that is said about kundalini is said about the etheric body. As the life force moves through the kundalini, the chakra begins to vibrate and blossom.Once the energy is there, these energy centers come alive.It's like hydroelectric power, where the force and pressure of the water turns a generator.Without pressure and water, the generator stops and it doesn't work.The generator turns due to the pressure.Likewise, chakras exist, but they are dead until the life force passes through them.Only after the life force passes through them do the energy centers start turning. That's why they are called energy centers.The translation as "center" is not very accurate, because the center is something that does not move, but the energy center is moving.Therefore, it should be translated as "wheel" instead of "center"; or "dynamic center", "rotating center" or "active center". The chakras were centers before the life force came, but once the life force reached them, they became wheels, and now they are not centers but wheels, turning.And each wheel generates new energy as it turns.This energy is used to turn the next chakra.So as the life force passes through one energy center after another, it becomes more alive and powerful. Kundalini is the channel through which the life force moves.The life force is located in the sex center, stored in the sex center muladhar, and it can be used as sex energy, and at this time, a specific life, the life of a small creature, is reproduced.It also creates movement and thus more energy, but this is biological.If this same energy moves upwards, the channels of kundalini are opened. The first to open is the sex center - Murada.It can reproduce biologically, and it can reproduce spiritually.Murada has two openings, the lower one and the upper one.In the tunnel of Kundalini, the highest center is Sahasrah, with the Brahmanana on the top of the head as its midpoint, and it is a path of self-realization. ① Sahasrar (Sahasrar): The last energy center of the body. —— Annotation Other passages without kundalini are possible, but they are more difficult.In these other passages there is no question of kundalini and therefore no question of movement through this passage.There are Hindu methods, raja yoga, mandala yoga, and many techniques of tantra.There are also Christian methods, Buddhist methods, Zen methods, and Taoist methods.None of them involve kundalini awakening, without that channel.They use other channels, even channels that are not part of the ethereal body.You can use the channel of the astral body.The third body, the astral body, has its own channels, and the fourth, the mental body, has its own channels.All 7 instances have their own passages. There are many schools of yoga that do not mention kundalini.Only Hatha Yoga uses kundalini as a channel.But this is the most scientific and least difficult.It is easier than other schools of yoga and is a step-by-step approach to awakening. Even without using the kundalini channel, sometimes there will be a sudden awakening of the kundalini.Sometimes things happen that are beyond your reach, sometimes things happen that you can't even imagine, and that's when you are completely dismantled.The other channels have their own preparations to do.The tantra or occult methods are not kundalini yoga.Kundalini yoga is just one method among many, but it is best to use only one if you want to use it. The dynamic meditation I use is related to kundalini.It is easier to practice with kundalini because it involves your second body.The deeper you go, involving the third, fourth body, the more difficult it becomes.The second body is closest to your physical body and has a counterpart there, so it's easier. If you practice the third body pair, the corresponding point is on the second body; if you practice the fourth body, the corresponding point is on the third body, then it has nothing to do with your biological body.You don't feel anything physically at all.But with kundalini, you feel every step exactly and know where you are.At this time you will have more confidence.With other methods, you must first learn the technique to help you feel the corresponding point on the second or third body, and that takes time. Those other methods negate kundalini, but their negation is incorrect; they negate it because they don't need it.Kundalini has its own methodology.If you are practicing in a Zen way, you should not be concerned with kundalini. But sometimes, even with another method of practice, there will be kundalini, because the 7 entities are interpenetrating, they are interconnected.So, when you are working on the third body astral body, the second body may also start working, it may get a spark from the third body. The reverse is impossible.When you practice the second body, the third body will not be ignited, because the second body is lower than the third body.But when you work on the third body, the energy you are creating can come to the second body without your effort.Energy will flow to the lower realms.Your second body is lower than your third body, so energy created in your third body may sometimes flow into your second body. Kundalini can be felt in other ways, but people who teach other methods that don't involve kundalini don't want you to pay attention to it.If you pay attention to it, more and more energy will come out, then the whole method that does not involve kundalini will be destroyed.They don't know anything about kundalini, so they don't know what to do. Gurus who use other methods will completely deny kundalini.They will call it bullshit, say it is imagined, say you are just projecting. "Don't care about it, don't pay attention to it." And if you don't pay attention to it, then you can go on with the third body and gradually the kundalini will stop.Energy no longer flows into the second body.That would be better. Therefore, you have to concentrate on using any method.Don't intervene in other ways, don't think about other ways, because that will be confusing.The flow of kundalini is very subtle and unknowable, and confusion can damage it. My dynamic meditation is related to kundalini.Even if you just keep watching your breath, that will help kundalini, because the breath, accompanied by the life energy prana, is associated with the second body, the ethereal body.Breathing has nothing to do with the physical body, it is extracted from the physical body, and the physical body is just a portal. ① Prana (prana): Sanskrit refers to breathing.In Indian philosophy, the "air" or energy of life in the human body. ——Editor's note Prana is associated with the ethereal body.The lungs are breathing, but for the ethereal body.Your first physical body works for your second etheric body.Likewise, the astral body works for the third body, the astral body, and the astral body works for the fourth, the mental body. Your physical body is the gateway for the second body.第二体是那么微妙，以至于不可能直接同物质世界发生关系。所以你的生理体首先把每一种物质都转变成生命形式，然后这些生命形式才能成为第二体的食粮。 一切得自于感官的东西都转变成生命形式，然后它成为第二体的食粮。然后第二体再把它转变成更微妙的形式，它再成为第三体的食粮。 好比你不能吃泥巴，但是泥巴的要素在蔬菜中被转化了，这时就可以吃了。蔬菜把泥巴转化成微妙的活的形式，这样你就可以吃了。你不能吃草，牛代你吃了，草到了牛肚内，牛把它转化成牛奶；于是，你就能吃了，你就能喝牛奶。 同样，你的第一体吃下物质，把它转化成生命形式，让第二体吸收。呼吸由肺吸入，肺是机制，为第二体工作。如果第二体死去，肺的状态仍是好的，但是没有呼吸，呼吸没有了。第二体是第一体的主人，第三体是第二体的主人。每一个下一级的体是上一级体的仆人。 所以，对呼吸的觉知在空达里尼修炼中是很有帮助的。它产生能量、保存能量，帮助生命力向上升起。 我的全套方法与空达里尼有关。一旦这些方法被掌握，什么都能靠它而办到，这样就再也不需要什么了。 最后一个能量中心是萨哈斯拉，用任何方法都能到达。萨哈斯拉和头顶的梵穴都是空达里尼瑜伽中对第七个能量中心的称法。如果你不用空达里尼，如果你修炼第三体，你也可以到达这一点，但它就不称作头顶的梵穴，而且前6个能量中心也没有了。你走的是另一条路，所以里程碑也不同，但是终点是相同的。7个体同第七个能量中心都关联着，所以从哪里出发都可以到达。 一个人不可以同时关注两个通道、两种方法，那样会产生混乱的，内在能量会分流到两个渠道中，任何方法都应该把全部能量纳入一个方面。我的动态静心法便是这样做的，这就是为什么以10分钟的深而快的呼吸开始。 空达里尼的感觉是否同蛇的运动相仿？不，它们不一样。也许有人从来没有见过蛇，如果他的空达里尼唤醒过来了，他无法把它想象成"蛇的力量"。这是不可能的，因为这种象征是不存在的。于是他会以其他方法感觉到它。这一点必须明白。 在西方，人们无法把空达里尼想象成蛇的力量，因为蛇不是他们日常生活中的实物。在古印度，蛇是人的邻居，天天见面的邻居，而且是人看到的力气最强大、行动最优美的东西。所以才把蛇的形象作为空达里尼现象的象征。而在其他地区，蛇不能成为象征，那显得不自然。人不知道蛇，就不会想到它，甚至无法想象。 象征是存在的，就你的个性而言它们是有意义的。但是一个特定的象征只在它对你是真实的，又同你的心理构成相适应时才有意义。 空达里尼是一种心灵（psychic）现象吗？你提这个问题时，心怀恐惧，那个恐惧就是，如果它是心灵现象，那就是不真实的。心灵现象也有它的真实性（realic ty），心灵意味着真实世界的另一个领域，非物质领域。真实性（reality）和物质性（materiality）在人的头脑中变成了同义词，但它们不是的。真实性比物质性要大得多。物质性只是真实性的一个层面。即使是一个梦也有它的真实性。梦是非物质，但不是不真实的。梦是心灵现象，但不要以为它是不真实的，它只是真实性的另一个层面。 甚至一个念头也有它的真实性，虽然它不是物质性的东西。每一样东西都有它的真实性，真实有不同领域、不同等级和不同层面。但是在我们的头脑中，物质性成了唯一的真实性，所以当我们说"心灵的"或"心理的"，事情就是在被谴责为不真实的。 我在说空达里尼是象征的，是心灵的，这个真实性是心灵的，但是象征是你赋予它的某种东西，不是它所固有的。 这个现象是心灵的。有某种东西在你里面升起，那是一个有力的升起，某种东西从下面升向你的头脑，它是一股强大的穿透力，你感觉到它，但是你想表达时，就会想到一个象征；甚至在你开始理解它的时候，你也得借助象征。不仅在你向别人表达这一现象时你要借助象征，你自己要理解它也非借助象征不可。 当我们说"升起"，这也是一个象征。我们说"四"，这也是一个象征。"向上"和"向下"也都是象征。在真实的存在里，没有什么向上向下的东西。在真实的存在里有存在的感受，但是没有理解和表现这些感受的象征。所以你的理解要借助于比喻。你说"它像一条蛇"，它就变得像一条蛇，它就呈现出你给予它的象征的形状，看上去像你所设想的。你把它塑造成特定的模型，否则你就不能理解它。 当有什么东西已开始萌发、开花，它来到你的头脑中时，你必须以某种方式来设想正在发生的事情。思想一介入，它会带上它自己的范畴。所以你会说"开花"、"萌发"，你会说"渗透"。这件事本身可以通过许多比喻来加以理解，用什么比喻，取决于你，取决于你的头脑。而这种取决的本身又取决于许多东西，例如你的生活经历。 今后二三百年，地球上可能没有蛇了，因为人类杀死了一切他视之为敌的东西。那时，"蛇"将成为一个历史的名词，一个书本中的词汇，它将不再是一个真实的东西。今天，蛇对大多数世人已经不是一个真实的东西了。那样，比喻的力量会消失，美也不再有了。这个象征将是死的，人们必须以某种新的方式来想象空达里尼。 它可能会变成一个电的涌流。电比蛇更合适、更贴切人的头脑。它也可能变成一架喷气式飞机升空或比作一个火箭飞向月球。这种速度更加贴切。它会像一架喷气式飞机。如果你能感觉、而且整个头脑能设想它成一架喷气式飞机，它就会变成一架喷气式飞机。真实是另一回事，但是这个比喻是你给的，你根据你的经验选用了这个比喻，因为这个比喻对你有意义。 由于瑜伽在一个农业社会中发展出来，所以它用了农事的象征：一朵花、一条蛇等等，但是这些仅仅是象征。佛陀从未谈论过空达里尼，即使他谈过，他也不会谈到蛇的力量；摩诃毗罗也不会这样说。他们出身皇族，别人听来亲切的比喻，他们听来并不亲切。他们会使用别的象征。 佛陀和摩诃毗罗出生在皇宫里，那里没有蛇这个真实的东西。但是对农民来说，蛇是极常见的真实的东西，他不可能不熟悉它。蛇也很危险，一个人必须警觉它。但是，对于佛陀和摩诃毗罗，蛇根本不是一个真实的东西。 佛陀不可能谈到蛇，他谈到花。花，他是知道的，比别人知道得更多。他看见过许多花，但只是看见鲜活的花。他的父亲命令御花园园丁千万不让乔答摩①看到一朵即将凋谢的花。只能让他看见初绽的花，所以园丁们通宵达旦地修剪整理。等他早晨进园时，看不见一片枯叶。看不见一朵凋谢的花，只看见生机勃勃的花。 ①乔答摩（Gautama）：释迦牟尼的姓氏，也用以称呼释迦牟尼。 —— Annotation 所以，对他来说花开是一个真实的存在，对我们则不然。当他悟道后，他在谈论中把悟道比作一个百花怒放的过程。真实的情况是另一回事，但是这个比喻来自佛陀。 这些比喻并不是不真实，这些比喻不仅仅有诗意。它们同你的本性相对应，你属于它们，它们属于你。对象征的否定已被证实为过激而又危险的。你一再否定一切非物质性的真实，而宗教的仪式和象征就进行报复。它们一再地回来，它们又冒出来了，它们出现在你的服饰、庙宇、诗歌、行动之中。象征必定会起来报复的，它们会回来的。它们无法被否定，因为它们属于你的本性。 人的头脑不能以相对的、纯抽象的方式进行思维。它不能。真实的存在不可能用纯数学的概念来加以设想，我们只能用象征来设想它。象征的联想是建立在人类的性格上的。事实上，只有人类的头脑才能创造象征，动物无法创造它们。 一个象征是一幅活的画。无论内在发生的是什么，你都必须借用外在的象征。你一感觉到什么，象征就会自动出现；一有象征出现，就有力量注入那特定的象征。这样，空达里尼变得像一条蛇，它就变成一条大的蛇。你会感到它、看见它，它甚至会比一条真的蛇更有活力。你会感到空达里尼就是一条蛇，因为抽象概念是不可能被感觉到的。impossible! 我们为上帝造了种种偶像，因为我们无法领会抽象概念。上帝作为抽象概念，是毫无意义的；它只是个数学概念。我们知道上帝这个词并不就是上帝，但我们不得不用这个词。词不过是一个象征。我们知道上帝这个词是一个象征，是一个标记，而不是一个真正的上帝，但我们还是非用它不可。这就是悖论：当你知道它不是事实，又知道它不是虚构，它是一个必需品，是一个真实的东西，那么你就必须超越象征。你必须超越它，还必须认识这个超越。 但是，头脑无从设想超越，而头脑是你仅有的工具。每一种概念都是通过你的头脑出现的。所以，你会感觉到这个象征，它会变成真实。而对另一个人会出现另一种象征，和你的象征一样真实。这样就产生了矛盾。对每个人来说，自己的象征才是真实可信的。但是，我们都被具体的现实所困扰。象征必须对我们是真实的，否则它就不可能是真实的。 我们说："录音机是真实的"，因为录音机对我们每个人来说都是真实的，它有一个客观的真实性。可是，瑜伽关心的是主观的真实性。主观的真实性不如客观的真实性那么真实，但它有它独特的方式显示真实。 对客观的执著必须去掉。主观的真实性其实和客观的真实性一样真实，只是你一设想主观的真实性，你就把你自己的气味传给了它。你给它一个属于你自己的名字、一个属于你自己的象征。这样设想的方式必定是个人的。即使别人体验到同一件事，记录也是不同的。即使两条蛇也会不一样，因为蛇这个比喻来自两个不同的个人。 所以这些比喻——空达里尼的感觉像一条蛇的行动——都只是象征性的，但是它们和真实相对应的。同样的行动在那里，那个像蛇一样的微妙的行动在那里；力量在那里，那个金色的现象在那里，所有这一切同蛇的象征是相符合的。只要你觉得那个象征合你的意，它就行了。 但是，也可能觉得不合意。所以千万不要对人说发生在你身上的事必然也会发生在他身上。不要对任何人这样说。可能是这样，也可能不是。这个象征符号对你合适，对他也许不合适。如果这被很好地理解了，那么就没有理由产生意见分歧了。 印度教教徒是通过他们的环境来看上帝的。美丽的大自然、肥沃的土地，这个民族深深扎根于土地中。一切都在流动，朝着一个特定的方向流动，缓缓地像恒河一样。它既不吓人也不危险。所以印度教的上帝必然是跳着舞吹着笛的克利希纳。这个形象来自环境、来自民族的思维和民族的生活经历。 每一样主观的东西必须经过翻译，但是，不论我们给予它什么名字、什么象征符号，都不是不真实的。它对我们是真实的。所以一个人必须捍卫自己的象征符号，但不能把它强加在别人身上。一个人必须这么说："即使所有的别人都反对这个符号，它对我是合意的，它自然而然地发生在我身上。上帝就是这样降临于我的，我不知道他怎样降临于别人的。" 所以有过许许多多、千千万万种表明这些事情的方式。但是当我说它是主观的、心灵的，我并不是说它只是一个名称。它不仅是一个名称，对你而言，它是一个真实的存在。它以这种方式来到你身上，不可能以别的方式。如果我们不混淆物质与真实，不混淆客观性与真实性，那么一切都会变得明明白白。但是如果你混淆了它们，那么事情就变得难以理解了。