Friends! There is a positive pressure Kundalini awakening. There is a negative pressure Kundalini awakening. In the first case, the energy is forcibly raised by sexual yoga etc. In the second case, the mind is emptied so much by Vipassana etc. that it itself pulls the Kundalini energy from the Muladhara. However, some emptiness of the mind is necessary in both and some sexual assistance is taken in both. The difference is only of level. In the first case, the person has to continue Vipassana and Karmayoga even after Kundalini awakening. Because the mind is not completely empty. But in the second case, it seems that everything has been attained and there is nothing left to attain or do. The happiness also remains more and for a longer time in this. It is a deeper transcendental state.
Yoga scriptures say that by stopping the breath with Pranayama, the life force or mind stops inside. This does not mean that the thought picture of the mind is destroyed. It means that it stops, that is, it does not change or a new thought picture is not formed in its place. Prana is the name of movement. When Prana stops due to holding the breath, then the movement stops. The benefit of a little stopping of the thought picture is that it is felt clearly. By feeling it clearly, it becomes easy to develop a sense of witness or self-consciousness towards it. By having a sense of self towards the body, one automatically develops a sense of self towards thoughts. Because thoughts are born in the present gross body only. Usually there is such a race of thoughts that before we start developing a sense of self towards a thought, it is destroyed and a new thought comes in its place. In this way, if a habit of holding the breath is formed by Pranayam, it gives the benefit of being a witness continuously. Even if only a sense of witnessing towards thoughts is done with Pranayam, it is not successful. Sakshi-consciousness also succeeds only when the gross body is also connected with it. There can be no sense of witnessing towards thoughts alone. By just watching the thoughts, we ourselves are flowing as thoughts. We are not seeing them. When the body is also in the experience, only then it will be proved that we are the body in the present and are seeing various types of thoughts which are situated in the past and future. It means that at that time the man is the body of the present and keeps seeing the thoughts coming and going. It is the body that anchors or connects us to the present. Although any scenario of the present like the sounds of the surroundings or birds, scenes etc. also connect to the present, but the body and breath connect most deeply. Although thoughts cannot be seen separately from the soul, but with the feeling of a witness they merge into the soul. This is because we have considered the gross body of the present as the soul or self. And the thoughts arise in the body only like waves and also dissolve in it. Just like the waves of the ocean keep forming and disappearing. Although they form and disappear in the soul. But we cannot experience the soul directly. Because the pure soul is beyond experience. But when the focus is on the body, and the thought waves appear to be forming and disappearing in the body, then the soul starts remembering the formation and disappearance of thoughts in itself and this feeling keeps growing. This is to go from gross to subtle. Gross waves keep forming and disappearing in the gross body. Whereas in the subtle and experience-form soul, the experience of that wave keeps forming and disappearing. Sooner or later, the subtle is remembered from the gross. Just like from the holes made in the earth, one can guess the shape of the creature or snake living in it. The special thing is that the suppressed thoughts that arise during yoga get connected to the physical body, its breaths, its reactions, sensations, movements, etc. Therefore, if those thoughts arise again during worldly activities other than yoga, then the focus automatically goes to the body. This automatically leads to Vipassana.
Demystifying Kundalini 