Chinmoy - Kundalini, the Mother-Power

AUM PUBLICATIONS NEW YORK

Sri Chinmoys first book,
Meditations: Food for the Soul,
was published in 1970.

Copyright 1992 Sri Chinmoy

Copyright 2011 Sri Chinmoy Centre (ebook)

ISBN: 978-1-934972-243

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Chapter 1. The Mother Aspect of the Divine

God is both Mother and Father to us, both masculine and feminine. The kundalini power is the power of the Supreme Goddess, the power of the Mother aspect of the Divine. Sometimes the Mother wants to play with Her children, who like to see their Mothers Power; so sometimes, in order to see the strength of Her children, She plays all kinds of games. Then She comes down to the childrens level to show them how much power and strength they can get if they behave well. The children are charmed; they are fascinated. They feel, Mother is so strong; Mother is so powerful.

The Mother has to come down considerably in order to show Her kundalini power. She shows some miracles and the children want to learn how to do the same. The Mother says, All right, first learn this kind of game. Then She shows her highest Power, Her highest Consciousness. At that time the children are dumbfounded. They say, Oh, Mother is like that! Then they start practising love, devotion and surrender. When they see the Mother in Her highest Form, which is Her real Form, then they feel that these kundalini powers are nothing. They are like playing with little flames and fires.

Kundalini power is power, true; but it has a tremendous restlessness. Kundalini power is most of the time like a monkey; its quality is restlessness. But real spiritual power, the Supreme Mothers Power from the highest level, is not restless. When we use spiritual power and offer peace, it is real peace.

Even if we use kundalini power for the right purpose, we wont be able to offer infinite peace, infinite bliss or infinite light that way. No matter how many miracles we show, the person who sees them will be pleased for only five minutes, and then he will be jealous because he does not have this power. Then, when we do not show him the power the next time, he becomes mad and doubts. He will think that we have limited capacity, that we can do miracles only from time to time. Kundalini power can perform all kinds of miracles, but when it is a matter of elevating someones consciousness, it wont be able to elevate their consciousness even one inch. For that we need spiritual power, the power that comes from the Supreme Goddess at Her highest level.

Chapter 2. Kundalini Yoga: The Mother-Power

Do we want to follow the path of kundalini yoga? Then we must not sleep. We must not sleep in the world of darkness and night. The world of darkness weakens our inner potentialities. The world of night destroys our outer possibilities. When our inner potentialities are weakened, our life becomes miserable. When our outer possibilities are destroyed, our life becomes unbearable. Where can our inner potentialities safely grow? Our inner potentialities can safely grow only in the heart of the Mother-Power, kundalini. When can our outer possibilities be effective? Our outer possibilities can be effective only when we are at the feet of the Mother-Power, kundalini.

Do we want to follow the path of kundalini yoga? Then we must possess an adamantine will. We must be brave in the world of ignorance and inconscience. Ignorance compels us to be helpless and useless. When we feel useless, the Mother-Power in us feels helpless. When we feel helpless, the Mother-Power in us untiringly encourages, inspires and illumines us out of Her infinite Compassion. Do we want to follow the path of kundalini yoga? Then we must love. We must love the Mother in us, love the Mother before us and love the Mother around us. The Mother in us is soulful. The Mother before us is beautiful. The Mother around us is powerful. We need the Mother of Soul to play the cosmic game of life. We need the Mother of Beauty to sing the cosmic song of life. We need the Mother of Power to dance the cosmic dance of life. The game of life energises us. The song of life enlightens us. The dance of life immortalises us. Our energy is for the world to use. Our enlightenment is for the world to glorify. Our immortality is for the world to treasure.

Do we want to follow the path of kundalini yoga? Then power must come first in our life and power must come last in our life. When Power divine is our first choice, fear leaves us. When Power divine is our last choice, doubt leaves us. When fear leaves us, we become what we wanted to be: divine warriors. When doubt leaves us, we become what we originally were: the Universal Self.

Do we want to follow the path of kundalini yoga? Then we have to feel that each second of our life is as important as a whole year. And we have to realise that each year is filled with as many opportunities as there are seconds. Each second carries us either toward realisation or toward frustration. Each year carries us either toward the transcendental Truth or toward the abysmal falsehood.

Truth tells us that we are Gods chosen children. We need God to reach the Highest and God needs us to manifest the Highest. Falsehood tells us that we are deaths instruments and that death needs us badly. The transcendental Truth beckons us. The abysmal falsehood frightens us. When the transcendental Truth beckons us, we feel that we are none other than the Supreme. When the abysmal falsehood frightens us, we feel that we are the eternal slaves of ignorance, inconscience and death.

Do we want to follow the path of kundalini yoga? Then we need purity in thought and purity in action. With a pure thought, we build the strongest and largest palace of love and fulfilment. With an impure thought, we break down and demolish the strongest and largest palace of love and fulfilment. We give birth to a pure and divine thought when we feel that we are of God and for God. We give birth to an impure, undivine thought when we feel that we are of ignorance unknowable and for ignorance known and unknown. With a pure action we become the life-saver of the aspiring world. With an impure action we become the life-destroyer of the entire world.

Do we want to follow the path of kundalini yoga? Then we have to know that our essence is the delight-power of Heaven and our existence is the peace-power for earth. With the delight-power we begin. With the peace-power we end.

14 February 1973

Chapter 3. Prana and the Power of the Chakras

Prana

Kundalini yoga is the yoga of prana. Prana is the life-energy or life-principle of the universe. There are three principal channels through which this life-energy flows. These channels are ida, pingala and sushumna. In Sanskrit these channels are called nadis. Ida, pingala and sushumna are inside our subtle physical body, not inside the gross physical. Ida carries the current of life-energy in the left side of the body. Pingala carries the current in the right side of the body. Sushumna carries the current in the middle of the spinal column. Sushumna is the most important of the three nadis. It receives a ceaseless stream of life-energy from the Universal Consciousness-Light.

There is an inner connection between ida and pingala and the zodiac and planets. Ida has a special connection with the moon and the planet Mercury; hence its main quality is coolness and mildness. Pingala is connected with the sun and Mars; hence its quality is powerful and dynamic heat.