Theos-Talk Archives (March 2003 Message tt00330)

Friday, March 14, 2003

Dear Friend:

To begin, the popular concepts of what Kundalini will largely be found
to be upset by the definitions that Theosophy gives. Here are some of
these to consider and inquired into, as I have learned from Theosophy.

Kundalini is a strange (to us on the material plane of experience)
universal and important spiritual (not "psychic") power. It can be
used wisely for the benefit of all by those who are altruistic, or, if
abused, it will lead to the subjugation and torture of millions by
those who might employ it selfishly. Hence little is said of it.
Imagine the promulgation of false teachings which in the course of
time will affect many millions -- Who desires to bear the Karma of
that? But does the aspirant think of Karma? His own and that of
others? Do they think they can evade and escape from the Karma of any
level of evil?

It is for this reason that those who transmit wisdom ought to
preserve, and not to interpret or alter recordings of such wisdom as
may be recorded, in their effort to make it available to those who
follow them in time. The Karma of human development along the right
lines is taken voluntarily by such strong and benevolent ones as are H
P B and the "Masters of Wisdom." Who are we to elevate ourselves (by
egotism) and pretend to have the power to know better, and to change
and alter Their teachings?

One might say that those who pretend to teach it (Kundalini and
occultism), do not know it, for if they did, they would not advertise
for paying pupils, or offer to teach it -- unless their knowledge is
of the "left-hand Path." They would "advance" and go elsewhere. If
"taught," it is an imposition on human credulity, and the selfish
anxiety of the so-called disciple to acquire special powers for his
own private use and advantage. And it can be easily seen that this
pretense provides the "teacher" with some material advantage.

Spiritual wisdom cannot be bought or sold. If it exists, and it does,
it is developed by the altruistic and generous qualities -- the
impartiality and the impersonality, and above all, the desire to help
and serve others -- of the developing disciple.

And, without any knowledge, reading, or training, how can a disciple
determine the value and knowledge of one who offers himself as a
teacher? It is said that true occultists do not seek for pupils, but
they are prepared to assist others when asked and when Karma permits.
It is only those who aspire to do universal good that look for the
means to acquire spiritual knowledge, and realize they can only
acquire it if they purify themselves of all selfishness or
self-interest. Having acquired it, they lay it on the altar of
self-sacrifice. The danger of selfishness is great, and if the least
remnant of this is detected spiritual wisdom will not and cannot be
imparted.

Let us consider some of the hints dropped in The SECRET DOCTRINE .

Kundalini is regarded as: "...the Universal Life Principle
manifesting everywhere in nature...[it] includes the two great forces
of attraction and repulsion. Electricity and magnetism are but
manifestations of it. This is the power which brings about that
"continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations"
which is the essence of life...[and which] is the basis of
transmigration of souls, punar janman (re-birth) in the doctrines of
Hindu philosophers. A Yogi must thoroughly subjugate this power before
he can attain Moksham... [ implies a freedom from passions DTB ]
S D I 293

Electricity and magnetism -- active and passive Fohat -- this is
forever moved by altruism and the desire to serve others and sustain
universal Life by melding individuality with the Universal purpose:
of total Perfection for all beings. One must remember that in the
manifested Universe this represents total cooperation, and total
sharing of individual abilities with all the rest. These beings are
the immortal Monads. [Atma-Buddhi-Manas]. They are permanent, and
every incarnation marks an advance in their learning process through
experience and the free use of ethical / moral self-choice. It is
brotherhood in voluntary application.

So far as the "material form" is concerned, those countless Monads are
drawn during the life of man to every such Man/Mind center by
cooperative Karma.


"The Monad had but to step into the astral body of the progenitors, in
order that the work of physical consolidation should begin around the
shadowy prototype. (Fn.) ...every Occultist and theosophist will
easily recognize the process. There can be no objective form on Earth
(nor in the Universe either), without its astral prototype being first
formed in Space...a sculptor has had to created first of all a model
in his mind, then sketch it in on and two dimensional lines, and then
only can he reproduce it in a three dimensional or objective figure.
And if the human mind is a living demonstration of such successive
stages in the process of evolution--how can it be otherwise when
NATURE'S MIND and creative powers are concerned?" S D II 660 &
fn.


"...Kriyasakti, that mysterious and divine power latent in the will of
man, and which, if not called to life, quickened and developed by Yogi
training, remains dormant in 999,999 men out of a million, and gets
atrophied....the mysterious power of thought which enables it to
produce external, perceptible, phenomenal results by its own inherent
energy. The ancients held that any idea will manifest itself
externally, if one's attention (and WILL) is deeply concentrated upon
it; similarly, an intense volition will be followed by the desired
result....creation is but the result of will acting on phenomenal
matter, the calling forth out of it the primordial divine Light and
eternal Life.
S D II 163

Those interested in discovering what "Yogi training" is, ought to
study Patanjali's Yoga sutras, the BHAGAVAD GITA , the VOICE OF THE
SILENCE, and H P B's articles on "Occultism."


"...Great intellect and too much knowledge are a two-edged weapon in
life, and instruments for evil as well as for good. When combined
with Selfishness, they will make of the whole of Humanity a footstool
for the elevation of him who possesses them, and a means for the
attainment of his objects; while, applied to altruistic humanitarian
purposes, they may become the means of the salvation of many." S D
II 163


"This fire is the higher Self, the Spiritual ego, or that which is
eternally reincarnating under the influence of its lower personal
Selves, changing with every re-birth, full of Tanha or desire to live.
It is a strange law of Nature that, on this plane, the higher
(Spiritual) Nature should be...in bondage to the lower. Unless the
Ego takes refuge in the Atman, the ALL-SPIRIT, and merges entirely
into the essence thereof, the personal Ego may goad it to the bitter
end....That which propels towards, and forces evolution, i.e., compels
the growth and development of Man towards perfection, is (a) the
MONAD, or that which acts in it unconsciously through a force inherent
in itself and (b) the lower astral body, or the personal Self.

Owing to its identity with the ALL-FORCE...inherent in the Monad, it
is all-potent on the Arupa, or formless plane. On our plane, its
essence being too pure, it remains all potential, but individually
becomes inactive...

So with the Atman; unless the higher Self or EGO gravitates towards
its Sun--the Monad--the lower Ego, or personal Self, will have the
upper hand in every case. For it is this Ego, with its fierce
Selfishness and animal desire to live a Senseless life (Tanha) which
is the "maker of the tabernacle" [personality] ...the Atman alone
warms the inner man, i.e., enlightens it with the ray of divine life
and alone is able to impart to the inner man, or the reincarnating
Ego, its immortality. Thus we shall find, for the first three and a
half Root-Races, up to the middle or the turning point...

Then, from the turning point, it is the Higher Ego, or incarnating
principles, the nous, or Mind, which reigns over the animal Ego and
rules it whenever it is not carried down by the latter. In short,
Spirituality is on its ascending arc, and the animal or physical
impedes it from steadily progressing on the path of its evolution only
when the selfishness of the personality has so strongly infected the
real inner man with its lethal virus, that the upward attraction has
lost all its power on the thinking reasonable man.

in sober truth, vice and wickedness are an abnormal, unnatural
manifestation, at this period of our human evolution--at least they
ought to be so. The fact that mankind was never more selfish and
vicious than it is now, civilized nations having succeeded in making
of the first an ethical characteristic, of the second an art, is an
additional proof of the exceptional nature of the phenomenon.
S D II 109

How did it happen that this state of affairs developed. The SECRET
DOCTRINE narrates as history and it can be gleaned by reading S D
II pp. 282-5, 167, 254-5, among other references.

To sum up: Kundalini is a spiritual force of creation. Each human
Monad/Mind has the use of this power if he wills to become a
cooperator with Nature and the Universe in their procedures of
developing the perfection of being in every Monad and being in this
universe. For this he has to spiritualize himself or herself
entirely. The selfish are forever debarred from using and misapplying
this terrible destructive, or creative force, compared in mythology
with the fiery power of the "Third Eye."

Best wishes,

Dallas

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-----Original Message-----
From: cesar J
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 8:08 AM
To: study@blavatsky.net
Subject: [bn-study] :kundalini


Hello friends


Will somebody help me about this question,Is it true that you can
awake
kundalini not starting from the base but instead from the head going
to the
base,what i know is that the awakening start from the base.Did sri
aurobindo
do this method of awakening kundalini from the head,only a honest
question

cesar j