Spiral Of Fire - The Power of Kundalini

"Today I told you about Kundalini, and that Kundalini is the Pure Desire within us, that

manifests or is awakened to give us our Self-realization.

Means the desire is only fulfilled when you get your Self-realization, otherwise it is not manifested – it is just dormant; it is still residual.

It has created the whole universe, but until and unless you get Self-realization, unless and until you become one with your Spirit, you have not achieved the manifestation of this power, which will go on making you run and run and run, thinking that you have not yet achieved, or you have not found out your meaning.

It will be there, all the time, sleeping, but giving you a feeling of vacuum, you see.

So this power must be made to manifest...

Then, this power has got certain qualities.

The first quality it has got, this is ungrahavati, means it goes against the gravity.

It goes against the gravity. You see, a thing rises, it doesn’t go down. So a person who has to be aspiring by nature. If a person is not aspiring type the Kundalini doesn’t rise. Because, like, you see that, when food passes down our stomach it presses the sides of the intestines. By that these movements of going down takes place. Do you see my point?

So when the Kundalini starts, and starts pressing on the sides of the chakras, she creates a feeling of throwing it higher and higher, so the chakras bounce it upward.

All the heavy things, all go downward, but the Kundalini rises higher and higher and higher, because it is like fire. Fire never burns downward. It always burns upward.

She looks also like fire, and she has the capacity of fire within her. The fire has a capacity to purify, and to burn off whatever can be burnt off. It purifies the things which it cannot burn, and burns off the things which are inflammable, which can be burnt out.

So, the quality of fire that exists in the Kundalini burns off whatever is useless. Like in our house we find all the useless things, and we take them in the garden and burn them off, finished – once for all they are finished.

So when the Kundalini rises, She also burns off all useless things that you have, all your useless desires, your useless ideas of action, all sorts of useless accumulation of feelings and egos, and every sort of a nonsensical thing that is in between. Everything is burnt off fast, because they can be burnt, they are not eternal by nature. They are not eternal by nature. They are temporarily there.

All that is temporary, she burns off, and that’s how she enlightens the Spirit, because Spirit cannot be burnt by anything.

But this burning is so beautiful that it burns off all that is bad, stagnating, all that is polluting, all that is a disease, and cools down the system.

It is very interesting to see how this power of fire becomes the cool breeze, but in the science also you find that electricity can give you hot breeze or cool breeze. You can transform from one to another, but there is no ultimate for these things, they are always reversible.

Supposing something becomes a magnetism, you can always convert into electricity, electricity can always be converted into magnetism.

But Kundalini is such a thing that once she burns off everything that is there, that’s how you get heat, because she’s burning.

But when she cools down and becomes cool then she is not reversible. That’s why it is a living process. Living process is never reversible. All dead processes can be reversible, but anything that is reversible – now, supposing you are grown up: you cannot become a little baby. Whatever you may try – you may have any number of operations – you cannot become that (laughter).

Now you are grown up, now you are modern, over-developed. You may try anything to become a primitive person – you cannot.

You just cannot, whatever you may try.

That will be all very artificial.

You may just feel that you have become primitive by wearing some sort of a dress, by feeling that, ‘Oh, now there’s no modernism in us, and now we have become very, very subdued’, nothing of the kind. It is curable, but not reversible.

But, it’s a living process. So, Kundalini within us expedites the living process within us of our evolution.

So the power of Kundalini is to purify, she purifies us like fire. She doesn’t purify us like water, it’s surprising, she doesn’t purify us like water.

Now, water, what does the water do? Water never burns off anything, but it dissolves certain things. It can take in something within itself, you see? It can contain some of the dirt within itself. Supposing you put a color in the water – it assumes the color. But Kundalini does not assume the color. She burns off. Do you follow My point? So, if you have anything wrong within you, she’ll burn it off, but she’ll not absorb – she’s pure. She cannot absorb those things into her that will pollute her. She cannot be polluted.

This quality of fire – say for example, if you put gold in fire, silver in fire, you can purify these things. Their pure form comes in… That’s how you know. But if you put gold and fire in water, nothing will happen.

At the most you can wash them from outside. But in and out you cannot do it.

So outwardly you can do with other things, but with Kundalini you do in and out.

The face also looks beautiful, as if some glazing has taken place on the face, a new, bright face. It’s not sallow, neither it is horribly burning, nor is it pale and ugly-looking, but it becomes radiant. Radiance, that’s what Kundalini gives you.

It looks also, as if a molten iron, you see – have you seen molten iron? – Pillar of – supposing you take a pillar of iron and, and heat it, to a point where it starts showing, you see, copper, every color in it, copperish and all sorts of color you see, see it’s golden, copperish and all that, you see, like a furnace. But very silently, very silent, it works out.

Now, the sound of Kundalini I have told you in one of My lectures, how it creates sound.

For example at Vishuddhi, it creates the sound of all the vowels that are in Sanskrit language.

The English vowels are very few. Sanskrit language are a aa – i ii – u uu – ru ruu – lru lruu – e aì – o aù – am ah.

These are the sounds at Vishuddhi we can say. But she creates sounds on all the chakras, but when she comes to Nabhi it becomes a vani.

Vani means information, coded information, that’s the nearest you get, coded information.

First it is the Paravani, which you don’t hear. When it rises from the Kundalini point – means Mooladhara Chakra and Mooladhara, then it is not heard – there’s no sound.

Then it comes to the stomach, the Paravani starts. Then it comes into the centre, where, in the heart, always you hear it – Madhyama – where you can hear it ‘Lub dub, Lub dub, Lub dub’, just like heart, properly. With a stethoscope you can hear it.

Then it comes to Vishuddhi. It becomes a witness, means ‘Pashyanti’, the One who Sees. Might have noticed yourself, when you are caught up in Vishuddhi, you feel the thing going on here.

But here She sees. Then this sound, which is the sound with which you speak, when it comes to the throat, it becomes Vaikhari, is saying.

This is even before the Kundalini’s there, the Vani, the coded information, the language, which is first only coded, becomes decoded here, she it called Vaikhari, which talks.

But after realization, the Kundalini enlightens the vani, as it enlightens everything else. Because of that enlightenment, your mantras become enlightened. And that’s how, when you say a mantra, it is effective, it’s lighted.

Before this, any mantra said has no meaning, it’s just ordinary Vani, just like in any ordinary person.

So, it is called as the mantra which is ‘Jagrut’, awakened. So, a mantra which is Jagrut cannot be created out of a mantra which is not enlightened.

Like if you have, say, an earthen pot or an earthen thing like this, or this one as it is, and you have all the oil and everything there: still it won’t give light till it is enlightened. In the same way, the mantra is nothing, it’s just a dead pot.

Unless and until it is enlightened by Kundalini, it is from ordinary vani, which cannot give you enlightenment, and which cannot give enlightenment to the mantras, and that’s why these mantras have no meaning at all.

A person whose Spirit is enlightened, and his vani is enlightened, such a person, whatever he says comes true. Whatever he asks for happens.

Even before he says something, the desire, the desire within us, which is the Paravani, which is the coded information of the desire you have, becomes enlightened, and that’s how you get the results. Suddenly you get something, you said: ‘Oh, I have struck the jackpot, and Mother has done it’. That’s how it works out.

The whole system works out this way, of Kundalini. So this pure Kundalini creates purity within us. Without the purity we cannot see anything. Anything that is impure – say, say my hands are not clean, I can’t see the light. Anything that is dirtied, you cannot see the real picture of it, you cannot see the reality if it is not been purified.

But, even if it is superficially purified or artificially painted, still, you can always say that it is artificially painted, and you cannot see the beauty of this one, because this is done from outside.

But this Kundalini burns off everything – bhasmasat – makes everything into ashes, and whatever remains is the pure gold of the Spirit within us.

That’s why, when people try to raise the Kundalini by wrong methods, she shows her temper. Actually, she never gets angry. If Kundalini gets angry such a person can never exist, is impossible, but doesn’t happen normally.

But it is Shri Ganesha, which is the Deity of Shri Kundalini, gets angry, and He creates this problem of heat. Because she’s fire, and He’s the deity.

So the fire of this Kundalini works out in such a manner that your sympathetic nervous gets excited with heat, and one may get even blisters and things, if you try any tricks with Kundalini, any unholy behaviour… (inaudible words)

The Urdhva-vati of Kundalini, the rising of the Kundalini, is its nature. But when she goes and touches the Sahasrara, that is an important point.

If she does not touch the Sahasrara, then the Grace doesn’t fall in, and the Grace has to come in within us on our both sides of the Ida and Pingala Nadi. That’s how you feel relaxed.

Now, how important it is for us to preserve our being, before coming to realization.

To preserve it as it is."

Excerpt:  The Power of Kundalini, Talk to Sahaja Yogis, Chelsham Road Ashram, London (UK), May 17th,1981