{"id":5700,"date":"2009-07-15T21:01:11","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T20:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deinayurveda.net\/wordpress\/?p=5700"},"modified":"2009-07-16T20:06:08","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T19:06:08","slug":"kundalini-the-mystical-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.deinayurveda.net\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/kundalini-the-mystical-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Kundalini & the mystical tree"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The mystical tree<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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In the 15th Chapter of the Bhagavad Gita there is a description of the ‚imperishable tree‘ which has its roots at the top and its trunk and branches below, growing downwards. He who knows this tree knows the truth. This tree is existing in the structure and function of the human body and nervous system.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

One must know and climb this paradoxical tree to arrive at the truth. It can be understood in this way: the thoughts, the emotions, the distractions and so on, are only the leaves of this tree whose roots are the brain itself and whose trunk is the spinal column. It is said that one has to climb this tree from the top to the bottom if he wishes to cut the roots.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This tree seems to be completely topsy-turvy, yet it contains the essence of all occult truth and secret knowledge. It cannot be understood intellectually, but only through progressive spiritual awakening, for spiritual understanding always dawns in a way which is paradoxical and irrational to the faculty of intellect.<\/span><\/p>\n

This same tree is called the ‚Tree of Life‘ in the Kabbalah and the ‚Tree of Knowledge‘ in the Bible. Its understanding forms the basis of both Christian and Judaic religious traditions, but unfortunately it has been completely misunderstood by and large, for a very long time.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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So it is that everybody who is trying to move from mooladhara to sahasrara is climbing to the root every time, and the root is at the top, the brain, the sahasrara. Mooladhara is not the root center at all. So if you are moving from swadhisthana to sahasrara or from manipura to sahasrara, then you are climbing to the root, which is at the top in sahasrara.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The importance of awakening sushumna<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Sushumna nadi is regarded as a hollow tube in which there are three more concentric tubes, each being progressively more subtle than the previous one.<\/span><\/p>\n

The tubes or nadis are as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n

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    chitrini – signifying sattva and <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    brahma – signifying consciousness. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    The higher consciousness created by kundalini passes through brahma nadi.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

    When kundalini shakti awakens it passes through sushumna nadi. The moment awakening takes place in mooladhara chakra, the energy makes headway through sushumna up to ajna chakra.<\/span><\/p>\n

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    \nMooladhara chakra is just like a powerful generator. In order to start this generator, you need some sort of pranic energy. This pranic energy is generated through pranayama. When you practise pranayama you generate energy and this energy is forced down by a positive pressure which starts the generator in mooladhara. Then this generated energy is pushed upward by a negative pressure and forced up to ajna chakra.<\/span><\/p>\n

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    \nTherefore, awakening of sushumna is just as important as awakening of kundalini. Supposing you have started your generator but you have not plugged the cable, the generator will keep running but distribution will not take place. You have to connect the plug into the generator so the generated energy can pass through the cable to the different areas of your house.<\/span><\/p>\n

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    When only ida and pingala are active and not sushumna, it’s like having the positive and negative lines in your electrical cable, but no earth. When the mind receives the three currents of energy all the lights start working, but if you remove the earth wire, the lights will go down. Energy flows through ida
    \nand pingala all the time, but its effulgence is very low. When there is current flowing in ida, pingala and sushumna, then enlightenment takes place.<\/span><\/p>\n

    This is how you have to understand the awakening of kundalini, awakening of sushumna and the union of the three in ajna chakra.
    \nThe whole science of kundalini yoga concerns the awakening of sushumna, for once sushumna comes to life, a means of communication between the higher and lower dimensions of consciousness is established and the awakening of kundalini occurs.<\/span><\/p>\n

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    Shakti travels up sushumna to become one with Shiva in sahasrara.<\/span><\/p>\n

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    \nKundalini awakening is definitely not fictional or symbolic; it is electrophysiological! Many scientists are working on this, and Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama of Japan has developed a unit by which the waves and currents of energy which accompany the awakening of kundalini can be recorded and measured.<\/span><\/p>\n

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    \nWhen the roots of a plant are watered properly, the plant grows and its flowers bloom forth beautifully. Similarly, when kundalini awakening occurs in sushumna, awakening occurs in all the stages of life. But if awakening only occurs in ida or pingala or in one of the other centers, it is by no means complete. Only when kundalini shakti awakens and travels up the sushumna passage to sahasrara is the entire store of higher energy in man unleashed<\/span><\/p>\n

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    The mystical tree<\/p>\n

    In the 15th Chapter of the Bhagavad Gita there is a description of the ‚imperishable tree‘ which has its roots at the top and its trunk and branches below, growing downwards. He who knows this tree knows the truth. This tree is existing in the structure and function of the human body and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,69],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deinayurveda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5700"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deinayurveda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deinayurveda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deinayurveda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deinayurveda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.deinayurveda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deinayurveda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deinayurveda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deinayurveda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}