Author: demystifyingkundalini by Premyogi vajra- प्रेमयोगी वज्र-कृत कुण्डलिनी-रहस्योद्घाटन

I am as natural as air and water. I take in hand whatever is there to work hard and make a merry. I am fond of Yoga, Tantra, Music and Cinema. मैं हवा और पानी की तरह प्राकृतिक हूं। मैं कड़ी मेहनत करने और रंगरलियाँ मनाने के लिए जो कुछ भी काम देखता हूँ, उसे हाथ में ले लेता हूं। मुझे योग, तंत्र, संगीत और सिनेमा का शौक है।

What Lies Beneath Every Religion? Kundalini, Muladhara Shakti and the Hidden Unity of All Spiritual Paths

Atmavat: Similarity Without Losing Difference

The verse “Atmavat sarvabhuteshu yah pashyati sah panditah” has always appeared to me more practical than a simple statement of non-duality. The important word is “vat”, which means “like” or “in the manner of”. It does not say that all beings are literally ourselves. It says that the wise person sees other beings as like himself. To me, this itself contains a meeting point of duality and non-duality. The difference between oneself and others remains, but a fundamental similarity is recognized. Pure non-duality, when taken to mean that all worldly distinctions should simply be ignored, is not always practical in ordinary life. We have different capacities, functions and levels of expression. Human beings, animals and other living beings are not identical. A bus and a car are also not identical, yet they have basic structural and functional similarities. In the same way, all beings can be regarded as fundamentally similar without pretending that every difference has disappeared. This preserves our distinctive human capacities while preventing those differences from becoming a justification for cruelty or indifference. We can act according to our position and responsibilities while still considering others as we would consider ourselves. That, to me, is a practical form of wisdom: difference is preserved, but fundamental equality is not forgotten. However, Jnana Yogins and older people may be able to contemplate this full similarity more easily, as they are less engaged in the practical demands of worldly life, which is necessarily full of duality. This gives greater and more immediate wisdom, but at the cost of losing practicality.

Spiritual Awareness Needs Energy

Such awareness is not always effortless. To keep contemplating other beings as like oneself while performing demanding worldly activities requires some mental and inner energy. I see two possible ways of making that energy available. One is to work slightly below one’s maximum capacity so that some attention and energy remain free for contemplation. The other is to cultivate greater inner energy through Tantra and spiritual practice so that contemplation can continue even while worldly activity proceeds at a fast pace. In my own life, I have experienced the second situation more strongly. There have been periods when increased inner capacity seemed to allow me to work at a high pace without completely losing the contemplative perspective. In advanced age, however, I feel that the first method may become more suitable. There is no need to maintain maximum worldly speed all the time. Slowing down a little can itself become a wise way of preserving space for reflection. The two approaches are also not mutually exclusive. One can increase inner capacity and still avoid unnecessary expenditure of energy.

Bhakti, Discipline and the Loss of Freedom

This understanding also shaped my reaction when I recently met a professional colleague who is a committed member of the Hare Krishna Hare Rama tradition. He follows many strict regulations: avoiding onion and garlic, observing fasts on Vaishnava holy days, completely avoiding non-vegetarian food and alcohol, attending large religious ceremonies and listening daily to Bhagavatam through an app. There is nothing inherently wrong with such discipline when it comes freely from devotion and understanding. Regular practice is valuable in spirituality just as it is everywhere else. My concern begins when one fixed lifestyle becomes the standard for everyone, or when surrender and egolessness are identified mainly with obedience to prescribed rules. A person can certainly become less ego-centred through devotion, but one can also remain egoless while using logic, philosophy, independent thought and ordinary worldly intelligence. Giving up reasoning merely to demonstrate surrender may become another form of identification. Transcending intellectual pride is not the same as abandoning intelligence.

I have also noticed that some strongly organized devotional groups can become so attached to their own path that they praise bhakti as superior and look down upon other approaches. To me, this misses an important fact: people are at different levels, have different temperaments and may need different methods. Not everyone can or should be forced into one lifestyle, belief or practice. A collective spiritual community can provide companionship, discipline and shared learning, but it should not replace individual understanding. The real danger is not group practice itself but the loss of personal discernment within the group.

Actually, he seemed quite worldly, with most of his energy being drained by worldly involvement and little left over for contemplation. He also did not appear to possess the kind of tantric force that makes sufficient energy available for contemplation regardless of the extent of one’s worldly activity. As a result, he became increasingly caught in worldly illusion and ignorance, and therefore chose a devotional path that emphasized surrender and withdrawal from certain domains of life. Had he been able to maintain a better balance between worldliness and contemplation, the very worldly engagement that contributed to his ignorance might instead have become a means of spiritual progress. But he could not sustain an all-inclusive approach in which both domains evolved together, so he had to give greater emphasis to one domain by limiting the other, allowing spiritual development to take place through that imbalance.

I further observe that Tantra does not favour overindulgence or indulgence in left-hand practices for their own sake. What is sometimes understood as the consumption of meat or liquor in Tantra is, in essence, guided by the body’s needs rather than by excess. Tantra reveres the body as the foundation of both spiritual and material life. Through Tantric practice, one becomes increasingly sensitive to the body’s needs and limitations. As a result, one learns to engage in practices that best suit the body without compromising spiritual progress.

A Mala Should Support Practice, Not Replace Choice

This became very concrete when my wife recently went to a temple where Bhagavatam katha was being held. Malas were being distributed, and people were being asked to promise that they would use them daily without fail and also listen to Bhagavatam regularly, perhaps even every day online and through reading. I refused such a commitment directly for myself and the same she followed for herself too. There is nothing wrong with receiving a mala or maintaining a daily practice when one personally understands and accepts it. The problem, for me, is making a sacred object into a vehicle of obligation. A practice can be invited, voluntarily accepted and sincerely followed, but it should not have to be imposed in the name of holiness. I also wondered whether such promises might be followed up or monitored, although the incident itself does not establish that surveillance was actually intended. My basic objection was simpler: what is the value of losing personal freedom in the name of spirituality? Discipline is useful when it grows from the heart and from one’s own understanding.

Different Religions, One Fundamental Basis

From there my thinking goes further. I do not see the different religions and sects as fundamentally separate systems. Their external forms differ greatly, but I see a common underlying spiritual force in all of them, which in the Kundalini framework can be understood as Muladhara Shakti. This is why I do not understand Tantra merely as sexual practice. Tantra, in a broader sense, concerns methods, techniques, worship, disciplined practice and systematic transformation. Different religious systems may therefore look completely different on the surface while working upon a common underlying human and spiritual foundation. The car, scooter and bus look different, but each has an engine that performs the fundamental work of movement. In the same way, different religions may use different symbols, scriptures, rituals and methods while engaging the same deeper force in human existence.

This also explains why I resist sectarian superiority. If the same underlying force is present in all, then the external vehicle should not be mistaken for the engine itself. One tradition may use devotion, another meditation, another prayer, another ritual, another philosophical inquiry, yet all may be working upon overlapping foundations of attention, emotion, consciousness and transformation. This does not mean that all religions teach exactly the same doctrines or that every practice is equally useful. Their historical and theological differences are real. My point is that difference in external form does not necessarily mean difference at the fundamental level.

The Whole and the Part: From the Emerald Tablet to Sharirvigyan Darshan

This view also connects with the ancient microcosm-macrocosm principle: what is found in the whole is reflected in the part, and what is above is related to what is below. Whatever exists in the Sahasrara or brain in the form of religion, sect, emotion, faith or intellectual belief has its fundamental basis in Muladhara. The same Muladhara Shakti rises and expresses itself in different forms at the intellectual levels of the Ajna and Sahasrara chakras, giving rise to diverse religions, sects, beliefs and spiritual philosophies. These differences are like the different bodies of cars, scooters and buses, all built around the same fundamental engine. In the same way, different religious practices and systems are different expressions of the same underlying force of Muladhara Shakti also called sometimes sexual essence. The Emerald Tablet expresses a famous version of this correspondence. The popular holographic analogy points in a similar direction, although I would not claim that modern holographic physics literally proves that every part contains the whole universe. Its value here is as an analogy for recurring patterns and correspondence across levels. My own framework in Sharirvigyan Darshan takes the body, consciousness and larger reality as related through such correspondences. From this perspective, human spiritual systems can also be understood as different expressions of deeper common principles.

The important distinction is between personal experience, traditional teaching and philosophical inference. My personal experiences can be reported directly, while traditional Kundalini and Tantric teachings can be examined in their own context. My understanding goes further from a simple common-sense observation: whatever form spiritual feeling takes—devotion, prayer, meditation, surrender or contemplation—it depends upon the cleansing and refinement of the mind. I see this mental cleansing as primarily connected with the ascending movement of Muladhara Shakti. The same underlying force may therefore be active throughout different spiritual paths, even when its upward movement is not consciously recognized. In intensive tantric practice, this movement can become sufficiently strong and perceptible to be experienced more directly. From this perspective, the common Muladhara basis of different religions is not merely an abstract comparison but a philosophical synthesis arising from the shared process of mental purification and spiritual development.

Unity Without Uniformity

The idea that connects everything for me is that similarity does not require identity. Atmavat means like oneself, not literally oneself. The microcosm may correspond to the macrocosm without being identical to it. Different religions may share a fundamental spiritual basis without having identical beliefs or practices. Spiritual practitioners can share the same human potential without being forced into the same lifestyle. Discipline can support freedom when it is consciously chosen, but it can undermine freedom when obedience itself becomes the goal.

Perhaps the most practical form of spirituality is therefore not to erase all differences or to make everyone follow one system. It is to recognize what is fundamentally common while allowing the surface differences to remain. The deeper unity does not require uniformity. It requires understanding.

Kundalini Awakening Through Karma Yoga and Nonduality: Why Worldly Life May Hold the Key to Spiritual Realisation

The Missing Link Between Worldly Love and Spiritual Wisdom

I have been reflecting on the relationship between worldly life, love, devotion, surrender, Kundalini awakening and self-realisation. My central thought is that spiritual development need not always require withdrawing from worldly experience. Sometimes, living fully in the world while maintaining a nondual perspective may offer a distinctive route to spiritual awakening. This raises an important question: can a person become so absorbed in advanced yoga or philosophical knowledge that they overlook the value of love, emotional fulfilment and ordinary human relationships, only to recognise their importance later in life?

Why Vedavyasa Felt Dissatisfied Despite His Immense Wisdom

According to the traditional account in the Bhagavata Purana, Maharishi Vedavyasa felt dissatisfied even after composing extensive spiritual literature. Narada Muni advised him that he had not sufficiently glorified the Supreme Lord and the sweetness of loving devotion. Vyasa subsequently composed the Bhagavata Purana, which gives special prominence to Krishna’s divine qualities, activities and relationships with devotees. The story suggests that intellectual knowledge and philosophical wisdom do not necessarily provide the same fulfilment as experiencing divine love and devotion. The word rasa expresses this inward sweetness, the deeply relished experience of love rather than merely an intellectual understanding of the Divine.

I wondered whether Vyasa might have recognised this dimension earlier had he experienced worldly love, devotion and surrender before pursuing advanced yoga and knowledge. The traditional story does not say that he regretted missing romantic or worldly love; his dissatisfaction concerned the incompleteness of his spiritual expression. Nevertheless, his story raises a broader human question. A person may devote years to knowledge, discipline, professional achievement or spiritual practice and discover only later that loving relationships and emotional experiences were also essential parts of life. By then, some opportunities of youth, romance, family life and shared experiences may have passed. Although affection, companionship and tenderness remain possible in old age, certain experiences cannot simply be recreated. Spirituality should therefore not require us to postpone being human until little time remains.

Jnana Yoga and the Limitations of Worldly Competition

Jnana Yoga emphasises self-inquiry, discrimination between the transient and permanent, and freedom from identification with the ego. These aims may conflict with competitive worldliness, where people pursue wealth, status, influence and recognition. As attachment to such goals diminishes, motivation for conventional competition may also decline. Jnana Yoga can cultivate sustained clarity, detachment and inner elevation, but it does not automatically prevent professional achievement, love or compassionate engagement with society.

My point is that a person who focuses primarily on transcendence may have less reason to participate in the full range of worldly experiences. If someone renounces worldly life before understanding its emotional dimensions, they may later wonder whether they abandoned something they had never genuinely experienced. This does not mean that everyone must first experience every worldly pleasure before pursuing spiritual realisation. Rather, it suggests that premature rejection of life and mature freedom from attachment are not necessarily the same thing.

Karma Yoga as a Two-in-One Approach

I see Karma Yoga as a potentially integrated approach, combining worldly participation with spiritual development. A Karma Yogi can work, maintain a family, experience love, pursue professional excellence and fulfil social responsibilities while practising awareness, surrender and non-attachment. The Bhagavad Gita teaches that one can act wholeheartedly without becoming psychologically dependent on the fruits of action. This is different from abandoning action or becoming indifferent to its quality.

In this sense, Karma Yoga may offer a two-in-one approach: a person continues living and developing in the world while simultaneously working toward spiritual freedom. Worldly life becomes a field for learning rather than merely an obstacle to overcome. Relationships can reveal possessiveness, desire and vulnerability, while responsibility can teach discipline and selflessness. Love may begin with the desire to possess another person but gradually mature into care that does not demand complete control. Thus, worldly experience can itself contribute to spiritual understanding. Worldly life acts like a raw material to make spiritual progress.

My Kundalini Hypothesis: Worldly Engagement, Prana and Nonduality

I believe that worldly engagement may also contribute to the distinctive character of certain Kundalini awakening experiences. Competitive activity, love, emotional challenges and responsibilities can heighten attention and mental activation. In yogic language, I interpret this heightened vitality as intensified prana, although prana should not be equated directly with physiological arousal in scientific terms.

My hypothesis is that nondual contemplation can redirect this heightened vitality toward an inner meditative image. This is helped by nondual attitude of sharirvigyan darshan and quantum darshan among worldly activities. The image may gradually become vivid, immersive and seemingly alive rather than remaining an idea deliberately maintained by the mind. In deep absorption, the ordinary sense of separation between observer and experience may also change.

I have found worldly nondual contemplation can produce effects that resemble those sought through physical yogic practices, pranayama and other traditional methods. My proposed sequence is worldly engagement creating heightened vitality, nondual contemplation giving that vitality direction, deep absorption making the meditative image experientially alive, and a possible sudden awakening involving changes in bodily awareness, breathing or the sense of self. This remains an experiential hypothesis, not an established physiological mechanism, and a vivid experience alone cannot prove Kundalini awakening or permanent self-realisation. However in advanced later stage of karmayoga, gyanyoga enhances its effects to awakening level.

Can Karma Yoga Produce a Different Kind of Awakening?

I do not suggest that Jnana Yoga alone cannot lead to Kundalini awakening or a glimpse of self-realisation. It may also produce sudden and profound experiences. My distinction concerns their possible experiential character. An awakening arising through sustained contemplative withdrawal may have a different texture from one arising amid worldly relationships, emotional richness, embodied experience and nondual awareness. The latter may retain what I call a worldly tinge, not necessarily in the sense of attachment, but in the richness of its connection with lived experience.

The intensity of an awakening, however, does not establish the permanence of realisation or the maturity of a person’s conduct. A sudden experience may be followed by a long process of integration. Likewise, gradual contemplative practice can lead to profound transformation. Worldly engagement may contribute to the conditions of awakening for some practitioners, but excessive stress and agitation can also interfere with meditation. More intensity does not automatically mean more spiritual progress. Work should be moderate—not too demanding or too light, but comfortably within one’s capacity, leaving enough energy for nondual contemplation.

Sharirvigyan Darshan and the Integration of Body, Action and Awareness

My understanding of Sharirvigyan Darshan centres on exploring spiritual development through embodied existence, worldly action and nondual awareness rather than treating ordinary life merely as something to escape. In this framework, worldly participation supplies experiential richness, Karma Yoga transforms the relationship with action, and Jnana Yoga helps examine the self and loosen identification with the ego.

I see Karma Yoga as a two-in-one approach because it allows spiritual practice and worldly development to proceed together, while Jnana Yoga can appear more like a one-in-one approach when pursued primarily through direct inquiry and contemplation. A Karma Yogi may increasingly rely on Jnana Yoga in advanced stages to understand the experiences arising through action. Yet Jnana Yogis do not necessarily exclude Karma Yoga; many combine knowledge with service, compassion and devotion from the beginning. The Bhagavad Gita itself presents knowledge and action as closely related paths rather than entirely independent alternatives. However, Karma Yoga may be an option rather than a necessity for a Jnana Yogi, while Jnana Yoga may become valuable and a necessity for a Karma Yogi, especially in the later stages of spiritual development.

Why People Follow Renowned Jnana Yogis Instead of Finding Their Own Path

Different people may find different approaches to spirituality meaningful, depending on their temperament, circumstances and responsibilities. Teachings centred on meditation, detachment and self-inquiry can be valuable, just as Karma Yoga offers a way to explore spiritual growth through everyday work, relationships and responsibilities. My interest in Sharirvigyan Darshan is to explore this latter perspective and its relationship with nonduality, without suggesting that one path is universally better than another.

Similarly, devotional films such as Hanuman Ansh and philosophical works such as Sharirvigyan Darshan serve different purposes and reach audiences in different ways. Presenting spiritual ideas through stories and emotions may be easier than explaining a philosophical framework that requires sustained thought and reflection. However, a more engaging or better-presented film is not necessarily more effective in practical life; the actual impact depends on the individual and how deeply the ideas are understood and applied. A film may inspire devotion, while a philosophical work may offer insights that readers can explore in their daily lives. Both have their own value, and their practical effectiveness cannot be judged by presentation or popularity alone.

Conclusion: Spiritual Awakening Need Not Require Abandoning Life

My central insight is that spiritual development need not be divided rigidly between worldly life and transcendence. Jnana Yoga can cultivate sustained clarity and may also culminate in sudden awakening. Karma Yoga can integrate action, relationships, embodied experience and nondual contemplation, potentially giving some awakening experiences a distinctive experiential richness. The two approaches can complement each other, and neither guarantees a particular result.

Perhaps the heart should not be treated merely as something to transcend after the mind has completed its work. Love, devotion, surrender, knowledge and meditation can mature together. Rather than postponing life until worldly experiences are no longer available, we can learn to participate in work, relationships and responsibilities with increasing awareness and decreasing possessiveness. The deeper possibility explored through Sharirvigyan Darshan is that worldly engagement and spiritual realisation need not be enemies: lived experience may become part of the journey toward inner freedom.

The Forgotten Key to Kundalini Practice: The Importance of Daily Chakra Meditation

Why Daily Chakra Meditation Felt Important to Me

I have come to feel that daily chakra meditation has a specific importance that should not be replaced completely by pranayama and yogasanas. I used to meditate on all the chakras regularly, focusing on them one by one as part of my daily practice. Over time, the chakras seemed familiar to me, and I became accustomed to sensing what I describe as Kundalini energy in relation to them. This familiarity appeared especially important when I practiced sexual Tantra with a partner. During yab-yum, when paired chakra meditation was combined with the practice, the flow and sensing of energy seemed easier and more natural. It felt as though the chakras already knew the process because they had been receiving attention every day.

What Changed When I Stopped Chakra Meditation

For about a month, I left out the chakra meditation completely, although I continued my daily pranayamas and yogasanas including the stabilising breathless dhyana. From the outside, my yoga practice had not stopped. I was still doing breathing practices and physical postures regularly. Yet when I later tried paired chakra meditation during yab-yum, the experience was noticeably different. I found it more difficult to sense the energy clearly on the chakras, and the feeling of flow did not come as easily as before. Trying to sense forcibly helped but it produced a kind of stress and head pressure. There also seemed to be less control over sexual retention. This difference was striking to me because the other parts of my yoga practice had continued. It made me question whether general yogic preparation and specific chakra meditation train exactly the same aspect of practice.

Why Chakra Familiarity May Matter

The simplest explanation is that repeated attention creates familiarity. When a person focuses on the same bodily regions every day, subtle sensations may become easier to recognize. Warmth, bliss, pulsation, pressure, movement, relaxation, or changes in awareness may be noticed more quickly because attention has been repeatedly trained there. In yogic language, this can be understood as becoming familiar with the movement of prana or Kundalini through the chakras. In psychological terms, it may involve attention and interoception, or greater awareness of internal bodily sensations. Whatever terminology is used, the practical point remains similar: repeatedly focusing on something can make it easier to notice and work with. Together, energy mostly jumps chakra to chakra, not flow linear in straight line. May be it flows in continuous line but it is seldom sensed at places other than chakras. In a way, chakras are energy sensing spots. So keeping chakras healthy makes them sense energy more efficiently and focusing mind on them makes them healthy. As much energy is sensed on a chakra, that much energy it sucks up from the base.

Pranayama and Yogasanas Are Not the Same Training

My experience also helped me see that pranayama, yogasanas, and chakra meditation may complement one another without being interchangeable. Yogasanas train the body, posture, movement, flexibility, and coordination. Pranayama gives sustained attention to breathing and respiratory control. Chakra meditation repeatedly places attention on specific bodily and experiential centers. Therefore, continuing pranayama and asanas for a month did not necessarily preserve the particular familiarity I had developed through daily chakra meditation. This does not mean that one practice is more important in every person’s path. It simply suggests that different practices may cultivate different forms of awareness, and a practice that is omitted may leave a noticeable gap in an individual’s experience.

However pranayama and yogasanas also produce kundalini sensation on chakras, but it is dependent on movement of body. During deep dhyana, yab-yum or other sitting pose when body is stationery, these can help lesser than still body chakra meditation. I also found without chakra meditation although deep dhyana launched but it took longer time than when I practiced chakra meditation.

The Connection With Sexual Tantra and Retention

The change in sexual retention may also have a practical explanation. Sexual arousal develops through many factors, including attention, breathing, bodily sensation, pelvic-floor control, stimulation, emotional state, fatigue, and mental focus. Regular meditation may help a person remain aware of changing sensations and recognize rising arousal earlier rather than becoming absorbed in it suddenly. In my case, the loss of regular chakra meditation seemed to coincide with reduced control during paired practice. Even bliss of retention reduced somewhat as bliss is straightway connected to the energy-feel. I experienced this as a weaker ability to sense and work with the energetic process as well as a lesser degree of sexual retention. I take this primarily as an observation from my own practice rather than as proof of a particular physiological mechanism.

Daily Whole-Chakra Practice Alongside Other Yoga

The practical conclusion I draw from this experience is simple: all the chakras may benefit from being focused on one by one every day, alongside the other forms of yoga. The purpose is not necessarily to create an intense experience each day, but to maintain familiarity with the entire chakra system and keep attention accustomed to moving through it. Regularity may matter more than intensity. A short, steady practice may therefore be more useful than occasional long sessions followed by a month-long gap. I feel hard to focus on chakra directly so i keep finger tip touched it. It also works very well.

A Personal Observation, Not a Universal Rule

My experience does not prove that Kundalini energy objectively becomes weaker when chakra meditation is stopped, nor that sexual retention must decrease in everyone who omits it. Other factors can influence both meditation and sexual control. Stress, tiredness, expectations, stimulation, breathing patterns, and emotional conditions can all change the experience. Still, the contrast I noticed was meaningful to me because the difference appeared even though I had continued pranayama and yogasanas. It suggests that specific daily attention to the chakras may have a role of its own. It’s equally surprising how this fifteen minutes short procedure has so strong meditational benefit.

The Main Lesson From My Experience

For me, the lesson is not to choose between chakra meditation, pranayama, yogasanas, or other yogic methods, but to let them support one another. Physical practices prepare the body, pranayama works with breath and regulation, and daily chakra meditation keeps attention familiar with the subtle centers on which Kundalini practice is based. When that daily familiarity was present, paired chakra meditation in yab-yum felt easier, the sensing of energy seemed clearer, and sexual retention felt more manageable. When I removed chakra meditation for a month, despite continuing the rest of my yoga practice, the same process felt less familiar and more difficult. That simple contrast has convinced me that daily whole-chakra attention deserves a regular place in my practice.

Can Sexual Release Awaken Kundalini? The Hidden Connection Between Semen Retention, Breathlessness and Sudden Samadhi

When Prana Needs Stabilization Rather Than Force

In my meditation practice I have noticed that prana does not always permit nirvikalpa dhyana while sitting. At such times, if I try to force breathlessness, it may create strain rather than deeper meditation, and I have come to feel that forced breathlessness is not the right approach. Instead, when I allow breathing to continue naturally and simply give attention to the breath, a different picture emerges. Old and new thoughts begin to appear in awareness like waves. They are not sharply separate from awareness; they seem to arise within it in a subtle form, sometimes with a distinct quality of bliss. By giving more strength to pure awareness and less to the content of thought, these thoughts seem to lose their strength. In this way meditation can continue for hours because there is no need to fight with the mind or force breathing to stop. The body, however, cannot remain in one posture indefinitely. After sufficient sitting, the posture can be changed simply to prevent stiffness, while awareness continues without treating the change of posture as a break in meditation.

Sexual Experience, Retention and the Upward Movement

Another striking observation has occurred after sexual activity with semen retention. In that condition, the breath can become agitated and I experience what seems like an upward movement through the back, as though the breath or prana is carrying Kundalini energy upward. The sensation may become concentrated at different centres: sometimes around the heart chakra, sometimes at Ajna, and sometimes at Sahasrara. Although the underlying sensation may initially look sexual, at these upper centres it seems purified or filtered. The basic intensity is still recognizable, but its quality becomes subtler, more blissful and less obviously sexual. I began to see this not simply as sexual excitation but as a possible transformation in the way bodily sensation, attention and awareness are experienced.

This also brought to mind the Emerald Tablet, especially the line that the Wind carries the mysterious principle in its belly. To me, the Wind can naturally suggest breath, particularly when considered beside the yogic idea of prana. The Tablet also speaks of ascent from Earth to Heaven and of separating the subtle from the gross. I do not take this as proof that the Emerald Tablet literally describes Kundalini, but its symbolism seems remarkably compatible with the kind of process I am experiencing: a bodily beginning, the movement associated with breath, an upward transition and a refinement of experience into subtler awareness.

The Unexpected Difference Between Release and Retention

There is, however, a twist in my observations. When sexual discharge occurs, the breath does not become agitated in the same way. Instead, breathless dhyana can arise almost immediately after sitting and meditating on the breathing. This led me to question the usual assumption that an energy reserve at Muladhara must always be pushed upward through intense pranic effort. In my own experience, after release there seems to be no reason to keep generating a strong upward push. Whatever I call the experiential essence of the sexual process seems to rise immediately, while the physical component alone is discharged. I experience this as a sudden opening of the back channel, allowing the experiential essence to pass upward in a single movement. Afterward, however, the effect does not remain in the same sustained form because there is no continuing sexual reserve being retained.

With retention, my experience appears different. I feel that the channel is already partly open and remains available for tantric practice. The retained sexual state seems to release its experiential essence gradually over time. In the initial period, the quantity or intensity seems greater, so prana becomes more agitated and the breath appears to work harder. Later, once the passage feels sufficiently open, the process becomes smoother and meditation can be sustained without the breath needing to act as a forceful pusher. In this model, the retained semen acts as a continuing source for experiential release, whereas sexual discharge produces an immediate and more concentrated transition but does not provide the same prolonged supply.

Why a Dual Approach Seems Meaningful to Me

This led me to the idea that repeatedly seeking sexual release just to recreate the immediate entry into breathless dhyana would not be a practical path. It can feel physically tiring and cannot realistically be repeated every day merely as a meditation technique. Retention alone, on the other hand, may produce a slower and steadier process. Therefore I began to see a possible complementary approach: a period of retention in which tantric meditation continues and the back channel remains open, followed eventually by release rather than endless retention. In my interpretation, this allows the gradual experiential development of the retention phase to be followed by a sudden upward transition, while also preventing the feeling of excessive accumulation or stagnation in the lower organs.

The Possibility of a Sudden Kundalini Awakening

I further feel that this dual approach may create a greater possibility of a sudden Kundalini awakening or at least an awakening glimpse with self realisation. In my model, retention alone provides a slow and steady supply of experiential essence moving upward, but a sudden awakening requires a much larger volume of this experiential essence to reach the brain quickly. Sexual release appears to open the back channel fully and allows the accumulated tantric meditation essence of the retention phase to move upward in a single rush. If the channel is already prepared and unobstructed, the movement may be smooth rather than producing disturbing head pressure. This is important to my interpretation because I experienced my second awakening in a way that seemed similar to this pattern: sustained tantric development, during retention followed by a sudden, smooth upward event and an awakening glimpse. Sustained tantric development occurred through strengthening the meditation image until it became fully vivid and lively in the brain, with experiences of full non-duality, egolessness and bliss emerging as glimpses of awakening. Actually, through the regular release and retension associated with tantric meditation, the Sushumna channel gradually became fully open. When I happened to view a romantic scene in which women were dancing and a few of them were gazing at me with amazement and excitement, a sudden surge of energy appeared at the Muladhara and rushed upward, carrying the meditation image with it and bringing it vividly alive in consciousness as awakening glimpse. An old friend who was like a brother to me meating after decades acted as a stimulating trigger for my meditation image of Dadaguru, who had once been known to both of us while physically embodied.

At the same time, I recognize the difference between an experience and the explanation given to it. The sensations, bliss, breathing changes and sense of upward movement are directly experienced, while the idea of a stored semen depot releasing a subtle experiential essence through a physical or subtle back channel remains my interpretation rather than an established physiological mechanism. Sexual activity can influence autonomic arousal, breathing, muscle tension, attention and emotional state, and these may contribute to the experience without cancelling its spiritual significance. Likewise, a sensation at a chakra does not by itself prove that a chakra has objectively opened, nor does breathlessness alone prove nirvikalpa samadhi.

Letting the Process Remain Natural

The most useful lesson from these experiences may therefore be that meditation should not be forced into a single pattern. Breathlessness may arise spontaneously after sexual release; during retention, agitation may precede a more sustained and subtle absorption; and in ordinary sitting, simply allowing the breath to continue can let thoughts dissolve into waves within awareness. The common factor may be less the suppression of breath or thought and more the gradual transfer of attention from mental content and bodily excitation toward pure awareness. For that reason, I do not see forced breath-holding, deliberate hyperventilation or an attempt to push energy upward as necessary. Breathing should remain comfortable and spontaneous, and posture can be changed when the body stiffens. The deeper inquiry is not merely how to produce a dramatic Kundalini event, but how bodily energy, breath, thought and awareness can naturally move from excitation toward stillness, subtlety and sustained dhyana.

Sun, Quantum Interactions, Living Organisms and Kundalini: A Cyclic View of Karmayoga, Samadhi and Nature

The Sun as a Realm of Extreme Interaction

I began with a simple thought: the Sun is not merely the gravitational hub of the solar system but a tremendous center of physical interaction. Compared with the relatively cool planets, asteroids and other bodies moving around it, the Sun is an extraordinarily energetic environment in which an immense variety of processes are taking place continuously. Nuclear fusion occurs in its core, charged particles interact in its plasma, photons are absorbed, emitted and scattered, atoms and ions are excited and ionized, and electromagnetic and magnetic processes constantly reshape its plasma. In that sense, the Sun can be thought of as a gigantic natural laboratory of nuclear, quantum, atomic, electromagnetic and plasma interactions. This does not mean that every quantum interaction in the universe is centered on the Sun, but it does suggest that the Sun is one of the most intensely active natural environments in our immediate cosmic neighbourhood.

This led me to a more unusual question: why should we not compare the Sun with a living organism? At the ordinary level they seem completely different. One is inorganic and enormously hot, while the other is organic and living. But when we look deeper, both are made of matter governed by the same underlying physical laws. At atomic and quantum levels, both involve particles interacting, exchanging energy, changing states and participating in larger systems. Their mechanisms are not identical, but the basic fact of continuous interaction is common to both. In the Sun, extreme heat, pressure and energy make countless interactions possible; in a living body, enzymes, molecular structures, energy gradients and cellular regulation facilitate and control an enormously complex network of interactions. Heat is not literally the equivalent of an enzyme, because heat mainly increases molecular and particle energies whereas an enzyme is a selective catalyst that lowers an activation barrier and regulates a particular biochemical reaction. Yet the comparison remains meaningful at the level of a system in which energy enables and sustains interaction.

From Chaotic Karmayoga to Stabilization

From here I began to see the quantum particles of the Sun metaphorically as Karmayogis. They are continuously active, continually interacting, moving and transforming in an extremely energetic environment. When matter leaves such extreme conditions and becomes part of a cooler and more stable planet, the same activity is no longer expressed in the same chaotic intensity. Matter becomes comparatively stabilized. I began to see this as somewhat similar to a Karmayogi gradually turning toward sitting Kundalini Yoga. First there is intense activity, then stabilization, then deeper observation and stillness.

In this view, the history of matter can be imagined as a cycle rather than a straight line. In the Sun there is intense interaction, something like a highly active worldly condition. In cooler environments there is increasing stability. On a developed planet, highly organized matter eventually gives rise to living organisms. Life brings back intense activity, but now the activity is far more ordered. This difference between earlier chaotic activity and later organized activity became important to my thought. The earlier activity can be compared symbolically with Karmayoga before the deeper regulating principle has been consciously observed. The later activity, in living organisms, resembles a more orderly worldliness, in which countless processes are coordinated through an extraordinary degree of regulation.

Pure Awareness and the Return to Ordered Action

I then connected this with the yogic cycle that I have experienced and contemplated. A yogi may begin in active worldly life, gradually cultivate observation and regulation, move into Kundalini Yoga and deeper meditation, and eventually enter states of profound stillness such as Samadhi. But Samadhi does not necessarily mean permanent abandonment of activity. Activity can return. What changes is the quality of that activity. After the regulating principle has been seen directly, worldly action can become more orderly, less chaotic and less dominated by unconscious reaction.

This is why I found a parallel between cosmic activity and yogic development. In my interpretation, the particles are not being said to feel or think like human beings. I am not proposing that an electron experiences pure awareness, performs Karmayoga or enters Samadhi. The comparison is based on observable or structural behaviour rather than on claiming identical inner experience. A particle undergoes interactions, energy exchange, transitions and stabilization; a human being experiences action, mental movement, regulation, stillness and renewed action. The inner reality may be completely different, while the pattern of movement can still appear similar. The important distinction is therefore between similarity of pattern and similarity of consciousness.

The Universe as a Cycle or Chakra

This made the idea of the chakra especially meaningful to me. Reality appears less like a straight road and more like a wheel: interaction leads toward stabilization, stabilization allows deeper organization, deeper organization gives rise to more sophisticated activity, and activity can again move toward stillness and observation. The yogi experiences such movement inwardly, while nature displays comparable cycles outwardly. In the yogic case, however, the cycle becomes consciously observed.

This is also why I related the idea to the Dharma Chakra of Buddhism. A wheel suggests continuous movement rather than a final linear endpoint. Stillness and activity are not necessarily enemies. One may move from action to stillness and then return to action at another level. The return is not simply a repetition of the beginning; it can be a return informed by what was discovered in stillness.

Sun Worship, Karmayoga and the Living Body

From this perspective, even ordinary spiritual practices began to acquire a new meaning for me. Giving water to the rising Sun in morning worship can be understood symbolically as aligning oneself with an active, energetic principle. The ritual involves standing, movement, intention and conscious orientation toward light and energy. It can therefore encourage alertness, vitality, gratitude and readiness for action, making it resemble the mental quality of an active Karmayogi. The comparison is not that energy from the Sun’s quantum particles is literally transferred into the worshipper’s mind. Rather, the Sun becomes an object through which a particular quality of consciousness may be cultivated.

By contrast, meditation on simpler and apparently more peaceful objects, such as a stone or a quietly flowing river, may encourage a calmer and more observant state. A stone appears stable even though microscopic interactions continue within it, while a river is continuously moving without displaying the restless complexity of human thought. Contemplating such forms of nature can therefore become a way of cultivating peaceful Yogic awareness. Again, the point is not that the stone’s particles are literally peaceful or that the river transmits a quantum state into the meditator. The object of contemplation acts more like a mirror for the quality of consciousness being cultivated.

Sharirvigyan Darshan provides an especially interesting bridge between the two modes. When the body itself becomes the object of contemplation, one can observe that it is simultaneously intensely active and capable of being observed in stillness. Countless organs, cells, molecules and biochemical reactions are continuously functioning, while the meditative observer can remain quiet. Thus the living body brings together the two poles of the idea: ceaseless activity and silent awareness.

One Pattern Appearing at Different Levels

My larger intuition, therefore, is not that the Sun, a stone, a living body, a quantum particle and a yogi are literally the same thing. They clearly are not. The Sun is a plasma-filled star, a stone is stable matter, a living body is an extraordinarily organized biological system, and a yogi is a conscious human being. What interests me is that similar patterns may appear at very different levels: interaction, transformation, stabilization, organization, renewed activity and, in the human case, conscious observation of the whole process.

The Sun may represent intense activity; the cool planet, stabilization; life, highly ordered activity; meditation, observation and stillness; Samadhi, profound stabilization; and the return to life, Karmayoga informed by awareness. Seen this way, the universe, the living organism and the yogic journey can all be contemplated as different expressions of a recurring cycle. Nature provides the outer pattern, while Yoga provides the possibility of experiencing such a cycle consciously from within.

Quantum Darshan: From Atmavat Sarvabhuteshu to the Unity of Consciousness

There is a Sanskrit teaching that has suddenly appeared to me in a new light: “Atmavat sarvabhuteshu yah pashyati sa panditah” — one who sees all beings as oneself is truly wise. I have often approached spiritual ideas through direct observation rather than through belief, and this verse now appears to me as one of the deepest philosophical foundations of what I spontaneously call my “Quantum Darshan.” What interests me is not merely its familiar ethical meaning, as though it simply advises us to treat others as we would like to be treated. Its deeper possibility is ontological. It suggests that beneath the apparent multiplicity of individual beings there may be a fundamental commonality of consciousness. In that sense, the verse becomes much more than a moral instruction. It becomes an observation about reality itself: many beings may appear separate at the level of body, mind and personality, while the underlying principle by which experience is known may not be as divided as the external world suggests.

Atmavat Sarvabhuteshu and the Mystery of One Consciousness in Many Beings

This understanding fits closely with the direction of my wider writings on Kundalini, meditation, awareness, non-duality and spiritual psychology. Again and again, my own experience has led me toward a distinction between the changing individual structure and the awareness in which that structure is experienced. Normally, the world encounters consciousness only through its association with a particular body. We therefore naturally think of consciousness as belonging to separate individuals: this person has consciousness, that person has consciousness, and every being appears to have its own isolated center. But when attention turns inward through meditation, this assumption can become less obvious. The body remains, sensations remain, thoughts may remain, but awareness itself can be experienced in a way that seems less restricted by ordinary personal identification. This is also connected with my earlier experiences of deep dhyana, breathlessness, Keval Kumbhak, Savikalpa and the movement toward states I have described in relation to Nirvikalpa. The essential question becomes whether consciousness is truly fragmented or whether fragmentation is largely a feature of embodiment and identification.

It is not limited to living beings but extends to non-living beings as well. All matter, whatever its nature or external appearance, also holds a deeper existence that remains unaffected by its outward form. In casual living, we generally consider outer forms as real, but their inner, deeper and pure existence is their true nature. This is why we speak of Paramatman as Atman present in everything.

Even in Sharirvigyan Darshan, the body’s cells, tissues and structures are contemplated as non-distinct from the meditator’s own sense of being. Quantum Darshan simply extends this inquiry further, to every fundamental particle, and ultimately even to the underlying space in which everything exists. A brick, for example, is not ultimately separate from the soil and material from which it is formed. In the same way, no material form can be considered completely separate from the deeper existence underlying it.

Therefore, there is a reason to regard Sharirvigyan Darshan and Quantum Darshan as practical modern extensions of the ancient insight expressed in the verse, “Atmavat sarvabhuteshu yah pashyati sa panditah.” This does not mean that only when the meditator reaches a purified state of the Self can he meditate on his similarity with the world. The sense of selfhood associated with every thought, emotion, bodily structure and interaction also needs to be included in this inquiry. Every cell and every fundamental particle participates in the innumerable interactions that collectively constitute what we call a human being, just as they participate in the interactions of the wider material world. Thus, the same principle can be followed progressively from the human level to the cellular level, from the cellular level to the quantum level, and ultimately to the very ground of space itself up to fundamental pure existence, extending the contemplative insight from the individual body to everything that exists.

Moreover, atmvat literally means “like oneself,” not “fully oneself.” Different beings and things express consciousness to different degrees, so they are not entirely equal in their expression of consciousness. However, their basic structure and fundamental functions are similar, just as a bus and a car are not equal in size or capacity but share the same basic structural principles and serve similar functions.

From Kundalini Experience to a Quantum-Like Vision

My use of the word “Quantum” is therefore philosophical rather than a claim that ancient scripture has scientifically proved modern quantum mechanics. I am not presenting Kundalini or this Sanskrit verse as experimental evidence from physics. Rather, I find that some modern scientific ideas provide a useful language for expressing an intuition that arose independently through contemplation and experience. In my spontaneous formulation, the sequence is simple: one underlying consciousness, apparently expressed through many observers, each associated with a separate body and mind. The multiplicity is real at the empirical level, but perhaps not final at the deepest level of awareness. This is where the phrase “Atmavat sarvabhuteshu” becomes especially powerful. To see all beings as oneself can mean not merely developing sympathy toward them, but recognizing a deeper continuity of being. The individual remains individual in practical life, yet the ultimate subjectivity behind experience may be understood as less divided than the personalities through which it appears.

I even feel that this verse is the core of every secret of spiritual development. Without this understanding, there can be no real spiritual development, while with it, spiritual development can continue in every condition of life. It gives a direction in which every experience and every condition can become part of spiritual development. However, one still has to do good karmas, because the fruits of karmas are inevitable and have to be tolerated when they come. Spiritual understanding does not make one free from the fruits of one’s actions; therefore, good karmas remain necessary while progressing on the spiritual path.

I feel that my first awakening came through this verse, which entered my life naturally through a Sanatana family environment. My second awakening came through the same verse again, but this time in a completely different and unexpected form, disguised as Sharirvigyan Darshan and later as Quantum Darshan. The outer forms were different, but I now feel that the underlying insight was the same. This is what makes the mahima of this verse indescribable and apparently infinite to me.
Because of this personal experience, I find it difficult to compare this verse with other mantras or spiritual teachings, even with Gayatri Mantra. To me, it stands at the top of everything that existed, exists, or will exist. This is not a claim that others must accept, nor do I intend to diminish the importance of other mantras or paths. It is simply how the verse has revealed itself through my own life and spiritual development. Others may experience another mantra or teaching as supreme, and I have no doubt about that. For me, however, the same simple insight has appeared again and again in different forms, first through my family environment and later through my own contemplative discoveries, making me feel that its depth is far beyond what I had understood when I first encountered it.

The amazing thing is that it does not say that the Atma, or pure Self, is similar to everything, as many religions and sects do. Such an idea can become impractical because one cannot live ordinary worldly life while constantly remaining established in the pure Self. Instead, it says atmavat—whatever self-status you actually have is similar to everything. This makes the teaching practical, workable, and effective in ordinary worldly life. Interestingly, the same core message is carried by both of my nondual philosophies as their very foundation—not deliberately or intellectually, but through experiential understanding alone.

The beauty is that ātmavat does not necessarily point to an abstract, pure Ātma that no one can ordinarily observe; with paśyati, it can point to the self as actually experienced—whatever self-status one inhabits. Thus, instead of merely saying “the Ātma is in all,” it offers a practical principle: see others as you see yourself, making nonduality workable in ordinary life.

Had the intended meaning been the pure Ātma itself, the expression could have used ātmanam in an appropriate grammatical construction; the use of ātmavat instead emphasizes “like oneself” or “as oneself.”

On final analysis, the single reason for the principle’s practical ineffectiveness appears to be that people first try to experience the pure Self and then meditate on making that Self similar to everything. But the principle seems to work in the opposite direction: the pure Self cannot be approached experientially without first meditating on the similarity between oneself and everything outside. That “oneself” is not the yet-unexperienced pure Self, but the experiential self-status—the gross self containing all the thoughts, actions, emotions, sensory feelings, and other experiences present at a particular time. If one has already attained the pure Self, why would one need to meditate on making it similar to everything, when nothing other than the pure Self is then experienced? Thus, ātmavat points more naturally to this experiential self-status rather than the pure Self, making the principle practical and workable in ordinary life.

The Core of Quantum Darshan

Seen in this way, the Sanskrit verse becomes a remarkably concise starting point for the whole inquiry. “Atmavat sarvabhuteshu” begins with the perception that the self seen within oneself is not fundamentally absent from other beings. From there, the question naturally expands: if consciousness is experienced as the subject here, what exactly makes it fundamentally different there? Individual bodies, memories, personalities, nervous systems and life histories clearly differ, yet the bare fact of awareness presents a deeper philosophical puzzle. My Quantum Darshan or earlier sharirvigyan darshan grows spontaneously from this tension between apparent multiplicity and possible underlying unity. It does not claim to have converted spirituality into physics. It attempts something more modest and, to me, more meaningful: to place direct meditation experience, ancient symbolic wisdom, non-duality and contemporary scientific thinking into one field of inquiry without forcing any of them to become something they are not. The Sanskrit sages expressed the insight in the language of the self and all beings; my own experiences have led me to approach the same mystery through looking at similarity between scince and spirituality.

Why Puranic Stories Have Endless Layers of Spiritual Meaning

The Many Layers of a Puranic Story

Puranic stories are amazing psychology because they can benefit almost every kind of reader, even when different readers understand completely different things from the same story. I have been thinking particularly about the stories of Ganga and how they seem to work at many levels at once. A child may simply enjoy them as wonderful fictional stories filled with extraordinary events, characters, imagination and adventure. There is no need for the child to understand philosophy or yoga for the story to give joy. As the same person grows older, however, the story can begin to provide moral, social, cultural, devotional and spiritual meaning. The remarkable thing is that discovering a deeper meaning does not make the earlier meaning useless. The story can continue to operate at several levels simultaneously. Thus in a way these stories are wonderful spiritual sanskar builders since the childhood so that yoga doesn’t look strange in later life but well known since quite earlier. Ganga story is just one example among plethora of such awe inspiring stories.

Ganga as Nature Worship and Spiritual Practice

The first important layer I see is the nature-worshipping layer. A person who does not understand yoga or symbolism may simply regard the physical Ganga as sacred. He worships the river, respects it, visits it and develops reverence toward nature. In this sense, he may unknowingly participate in something close to a nondual spiritual attitude: nature is not treated merely as an object outside oneself but as something worthy of sacred recognition. He does not need to intellectually understand nonduality or quantum philosophy for this attitude to influence him. By regarding the natural world as sacred, he is indirectly prepared for a more spiritual relationship with existence.

This is especially interesting because the Puranic tradition repeatedly gives sacred significance to rivers, mountains, forests, animals and other aspects of nature. The ordinary person therefore receives a spiritual orientation through something immediately accessible. Spirituality does not have to begin with an abstract philosophical concept. It can begin with a river.

The Same Ganga as a Yogic Symbol

At another level, the same Ganga story can be approached by a yogi. The river can be understood symbolically as an inner current, and its descent, flow and relationship with Shiva can be contemplated as representations of an inner spiritual process. In my own way of looking at Kundalini and yoga, such imagery can be related to the movement of consciousness and the Sushumna. The physical river remains a real river, but it can simultaneously become an inner map. Although inside is same as outside like microcosm inside macrocosm. So Ganga as sushumna also give similar nonduality effect when revered. Additionally it gives direct yoga benefit too. Together, Nonduality and yoga lives together in cause and effect relationship.

This makes me wonder whether nature worship and yogic symbolism are not accidental additions but two especially important layers of Puranic storytelling. Both belong to major spiritual domains, and the Puranas are known primarily for dealing with religious and spiritual subjects, although they also cover cosmology, mythology, ethics, ritual, sacred geography, devotion and social life. The possibility therefore arises that the stories were designed to communicate spirituality through forms that could be understood at very different levels. I would not claim that every particular yogic correspondence was consciously encoded by an original storyteller without textual evidence, but the structure certainly allows such a reading.

The Social and Behavioral Education Hidden in the Story

The same narrative can also work at a social and behavioral level. A woman reading a revered female figure may find respect for womanhood and may receive an example of qualities considered admirable, such as courage, dignity, devotion, responsibility, compassion or strength. A man may receive another kind of lesson. Seeing a feminine figure treated with reverence can encourage him to understand that externally visible physical strength does not determine human worth. A woman’s lesser average physical strength cannot become a justification for domination, humiliation or mistreatment.

The story therefore does not have to be understood as a yogic text to influence conduct. Someone interested only in ordinary human behavior can still receive ethical education from it. The important point is not that every person must literally imitate every action of a mythological character, but that the narrative can provide models from which people draw principles appropriate to their lives.

From Childhood Imagination to Yoga

This suggests a gradual ladder of reception. A child enters through imagination and fictional joy. An ordinary adult may receive moral and cultural instruction. A person concerned with social behavior may learn respect, duty and appropriate conduct. A devotee may develop reverence for the sacred. A nature-oriented person may learn to see the natural world as worthy of respect. A spiritual seeker may discover symbolic and psychological meanings. A yogi may recognize an inner map involving consciousness, prana, chakras or Sushumna. A deeper contemplative may eventually use the same imagery in nondual contemplation. Although all these steps of ladder complement each other beautifully.

One possible limitation, especially in the modern context, is that a person may become too fascinated by the miracles, supernatural events and extraordinary fictional world of Puranic stories. Instead of using the stories as symbolic, devotional or ethical pathways, some readers may begin to take every extraordinary element literally. In a modern life that depends heavily on practical reasoning, scientific understanding and evidence-based thinking, this could sometimes create tension with a person’s ordinary intellectual and practical outlook. This does not mean that Puranic stories necessarily produce such an effect, nor that everyone is affected by them. For many people, the imaginative and miraculous elements may remain simply part of the storytelling tradition while the deeper values are retained. The concern is that, for some readers, excessive attachment to the supernatural surface may overshadow the symbolic and practical dimensions of the stories, at least to some degree. In earlier traditional societies, where religious, mythological and everyday life were much more closely integrated, the same tension may not have appeared in the same form. Modern readers, however, live simultaneously in a scientific, technological and highly practical world, so maintaining a distinction between symbolic mythology and empirical fact can sometimes be important. The challenge, therefore, is not necessarily to reject the miraculous dimension of Puranic storytelling, but to allow imagination and spirituality to coexist with scientific reasoning and practical life.

These layers need not replace one another. A child who once enjoyed the story can later discover its moral meaning, then its devotional meaning, and perhaps much later its yogic significance. The story grows with the reader.

Why the Layers May Be Practically Endless

I think the layers can go almost endlessly. This does not necessarily mean that every possible interpretation was deliberately placed inside the story by its original composer. Rather, a rich symbolic narrative can interact with different ages, personalities, life situations and levels of understanding, producing new meaningful readings. Its depth is therefore not exhausted when one hidden meaning is discovered.

Perhaps this is one of the great strengths of Puranic storytelling. The story does not demand that everyone understand spirituality in the same language. The child receives wonder; the ordinary person receives values; the devotee receives sacredness; the nature-lover receives reverence for the world; the socially oriented person receives behavioral lessons; and the yogi can discover an inner spiritual map. The same narrative can entertain, educate, shape behavior, cultivate devotion and prepare consciousness for yoga.

The Outer River and the Inner River

The Ganga example brings the whole idea together for me. The outer Ganga can remain an actual physical river and at the same time become sacred nature, an object of devotion, a cultural symbol and an inner yogic metaphor. The ordinary worshipper does not need to know the yogic interpretation for the practice to have value. The yogi does not need to reject the physical river after discovering the inner meaning.

Perhaps this is the deeper genius of Puranic storytelling: it gives spirituality an outer form that almost anyone can approach while leaving room for an inner meaning that can unfold progressively. Nature can be sacred outside, while the same sacred geography can become yoga within. What begins for one person as a child’s wonderful story can become for another a moral education, for another a way of relating to nature, for another a devotional practice, and finally for a yogi a doorway into the mystery of consciousness.

How Ancient Yogis and Celestial Vehicles Flew: The Mystery of Breathless Dhyana

Deep Dhyana as an Experience of Flight

Deep dhyana can sometimes feel surprisingly similar to flying high into the open sky. The experience is not simply one of sitting quietly with closed eyes. As meditation deepens, awareness can seem to move away from its ordinary ground of bodily sensation, familiar thoughts, and the gross world, creating a feeling of rising upward into an entirely different space. The comparison with an aeroplane came naturally to me because both experiences seem to involve a struggle between a downward pull and an upward movement. In an aeroplane, gravity continuously pulls the aircraft toward the earth, while lift generated by the wings counteracts that downward force and allows the plane to rise. In deep meditation, breathing can be experienced in a somewhat similar symbolic way: ordinary breathing seems to keep consciousness closely connected with the body, thoughts, sensations, and the surrounding physical world, almost like gravity keeping the aircraft grounded.

Breathlessness as Inner Lift

As dhyana becomes deeper and the breath becomes extremely subtle or appears to halt, that ordinary anchoring seems to weaken. Breathlessness then feels less like a mere absence of breathing and more like the generation of an inner lift. Just as lift allows an aeroplane to overcome gravity and rise, the cessation or profound stilling of breath can feel as though consciousness is no longer being held down by its usual connection with bodily and worldly awareness. The experience can become like entering deep space, where the familiar gross world is no longer prominent and even the ordinary stream of thoughts related to that world can disappear. This should be understood as an experiential analogy rather than a claim that breath literally produces a physical force that lifts consciousness. What matters is the striking similarity in how the transition is actually felt.

The Tug of War Between Downward and Upward Pulls

At certain stages, a distinct tug of war can be sensed between these two tendencies. One pull seems to draw awareness downward toward the body, breathing, thoughts, and ordinary identity, while another seems to draw it upward toward stillness, expansion, and deeper absorption. This gives the meditation a dynamic quality even when the body itself is almost motionless. The contrast can be especially clear when the mind has become quiet but some subtle bodily anchoring remains. The deeper movement then seems to involve gradually loosening that anchoring until awareness can remain in a state that feels much less connected with ordinary physical and mental experience.

The Hum of the Engine and the Sound of Prana

Another part of the analogy comes from sound. An aeroplane has a continuous engine sound during flight, together with a subtle vibration running through the aircraft. During deep dhyana, an internal hum or continuous subtle sound may similarly be noticed. In yogic language, such inner sound may be described in terms of prana-nada or anahata nada. Along with the sound, a fine internal vibration can sometimes be felt. The comparison is not that the two sounds are physically identical, but that both experiences can provide a continuous background sensation accompanying movement or sustained stability. The aircraft seems to fly within its engine’s hum and vibration; meditation can seem to deepen within a comparable field of inner sound and subtle vibration.

Emerging from Dhyana Feels Like Landing

The analogy becomes even more meaningful when meditation ends. A plane descending from great altitude does not usually return to the ground in a single instant. Its descent is gradual, followed by approach and landing. Deep dhyana can feel similar. Coming out of profound absorption may happen slowly, with awareness returning first to a subtle sense of individuality or bodily presence, then to more recognizable sensations and thoughts, and finally to the ordinary environment. The gradual character of this return is one reason the experience can feel like a real journey rather than simply a temporary closing of the eyes. One seems to descend from a subtler inner space back into the familiar ground of everyday consciousness.

Why Ancient Yogic Imagery of Flight Is Interesting

This experience also gives a new way of looking at ancient yogic imagery. Yogis are sometimes depicted as flying, rising, or moving through the sky, while traditional scriptures contain descriptions of aerial vehicles and extraordinary forms of movement through space. Such imagery can be approached in more than one way. It may have been intended literally, symbolically, or through a mixture of historical belief and spiritual metaphor. There is no need to decide that question merely from the meditation experience. Yet the experiential parallel is interesting: when consciousness seems to rise beyond its normal bodily and mental ground, the language of flight becomes a natural image for describing it. What was once expressed through the image of ascending into the sky may also be understood as an attempt to describe a profound inward movement that ordinary language finds difficult to capture.

It is difficult for ordinary people to imagine consciousness existing independently of the body, let alone consciousness itself flying freely through space. This may be one reason why celestial vehicles were described in the form of flying rathas or chariots. In the scriptures, the ratha is often used symbolically to represent the body: the horses represent the senses that draw it, the charioteer represents the intellect that guides it, and the traveller seated in the ratha represents the soul or consciousness inhabiting the body. Since consciousness is normally perceived by the world only through its association with the body, the idea of consciousness flying beyond the body could naturally be represented as a flying ratha, with consciousness imagined as a celestial being travelling upon it. In this sense, the celestial vehicle may be understood as a symbolic image of the journey of consciousness beyond its ordinary bodily ground.

From Grounded Awareness to Inner Space

The central insight of this whole experience is therefore not simply that breathlessness feels unusual. It is that breathing, stillness, bodily anchoring, thought, inner sound, vibration, ascent, and return can appear as parts of one continuous process. Ordinary breathing seems to belong to grounded embodied awareness; deepening stillness feels like the generation of lift; the silent or nearly breathless state resembles entering inner space; the conflict between grounding and ascent is felt as a tug of war; the inner hum and vibration accompany the journey; and emergence from dhyana resembles a gradual landing. Whether one interprets this entirely psychologically, physiologically, spiritually, or through a combination of these perspectives, the analogy provides a simple way to describe something difficult to explain directly: deep meditation can feel not like remaining in one place, but like leaving the ordinary ground of consciousness and gradually returning from a vast inner sky.

The Mystery of Spontaneous Dhyana: How Padmasana, Kundalini and Effortless Meditation Led Toward Deep Samadhi

A New Experiential Development in Breathless Dhyana

A new development in my meditation has helped me distinguish more clearly between dhyana that is supported by a particular bodily condition and dhyana that seems to arise and continue by itself. Very early one morning, after doing only a little yogasana practice, I entered a deep, breathless dhyana that lasted about an hour. It was accompanied by the familiar pressure in the head. Because I have observed this relationship many times, I already had the feeling that this state was tied to the pressure and therefore had a definite duration. I expected it to disappear when the pressure gradually returned to normal, and that is exactly what happened. Yet I remained awake despite sleepiness and did not go back to sleep. I then started doing some other left-over asanas, and soon an urge to meditate appeared again. I sat in Padmasana and simply watched the breath. Dhyana soon developed on its own, but this time something was distinctly different: there was no head pressure, no deliberate attempt to produce a special sensation, and the whole process felt spontaneous, relaxed and natural. It seemed as if the meditation could continue by itself rather than depending on a temporary physiological condition.

The Difference Between Pressure-Supported and Effortless Dhyana

This second state became especially interesting because it initially appeared almost self-sustaining. In the earlier meditation, the head pressure seemed to provide a kind of measurable support and I knew that the state was likely to end when that pressure declined. In the new experience there was no such limitation. The mind was not struggling to maintain concentration, the breathing was naturally becoming subtle, and there was an absence of deliberate effort. It therefore felt as though the dhyana might have continued indefinitely if the body itself had not intervened. This seemed to reveal something important: the head pressure may sometimes accompany or support the entry into a particular state without actually being the fundamental cause of dhyana. Dhyana may also arise independently when the mind becomes sufficiently quiet.

When the Body Became the Limitation

The limiting factor this time was not the mind but Padmasana. After about twenty to thirty minutes, the right knee began to ache. I tolerated it for some time because I expected that eventually the hip might rotate sufficiently and take over the mechanical stress from the knee, but that adjustment did not occur. Many times it happen with a feeling. The posture could not be maintained comfortably beyond that point, so I finally changed out of Padmasana and came into a normal squat. An important event followed immediately afterward. The dhyana itself was still present, but the head pressure began to build again. This made the sequence particularly revealing for me. While sitting in Padmasana, the meditation had remained spontaneous and free of pressure. After changing the posture, although meditation continued, the original effortless quality seemed to have changed. It felt as though the spontaneous dhyana had been replaced by a very subtle effort on my part, almost unnoticed, to maintain the state. That subtle effort seemed to create bodily and mental stress, and the head pressure began returning.

Why Padmasana Suddenly Appeared So Important

This experience made me understand more strongly why mastery of asana may matter before deep meditation. Had I been able to remain comfortably in Padmasana, I feel that the spontaneous dhyana could have continued much longer and might have developed into a much deeper samadhi-like state. This gave me a practical appreciation of the traditional progression in Patanjali Yoga. Asana is not merely an exercise to prepare the body; the deeper purpose is to reach a condition in which the body becomes sufficiently steady and comfortable that it no longer demands attention. Patanjali describes asana in terms of steadiness and ease, followed by the relaxation of effort and absorption in the infinite. My experience seemed to illustrate this principle in a practical way: when the posture was stable enough, effort disappeared and meditation became spontaneous; when the posture failed, subtle effort returned and the bodily pressure returned with it.

Padmasana Alone Does Not Guarantee Dhyana

At the same time, this experience also clarified something that can otherwise be misunderstood. I have seen people who can remain in Padmasana for a very long time, apparently almost indefinitely, yet they have not necessarily developed dhyana. Therefore, the ability to sit in Padmasana cannot by itself be equated with meditative attainment. Postural stability may create favorable conditions for dhyana, but it does not automatically produce it. The mind still has to become inward, collected and sufficiently free from ordinary mental movement. In my case the important combination was not simply Padmasana, but Padmasana plus spontaneous inward absorption with minimal effort.

What the Knee Problem May Really Indicate

The knee problem also deserves a practical interpretation. I had wondered whether the pain might indicate insufficient surrounding musculature, perhaps even related to inadequate protein intake, because I notice that when I exercise heavily, especially through activities that strongly involve the knees such as uphill cycling, the knee pain tends to disappear. That makes it seem more like a physical or mechanical problem than a purely meditative obstacle. However, the exact cause cannot be established from this experience alone, and protein deficiency is only one possibility rather than a demonstrated explanation. Padmasana depends greatly on hip rotation, and when the hip does not provide sufficient movement, stress can be transferred toward the knee. Therefore, continuing to tolerate knee pain in the hope that the hip will eventually take over may not be the best way to develop the posture. The real goal should be a posture that becomes stable and comfortable without forcing the knee.

Could Blood Flow Explain the Return of Head Pressure?

One possible explanation I considered was vascular. I wondered whether the vessels compressed during Padmasana might release their stored blood after the legs were unwound, producing a temporary increase of blood flow or venous congestion toward the brain and thereby causing the renewed head pressure. There is a physiological basis for considering posture-related changes in circulation because changes in body position can alter venous pooling, cerebral venous drainage and intracranial pressure. However, the simple idea that blood released from compressed leg vessels becomes “gorged” in the brain is probably too direct. The cardiovascular system constantly redistributes blood, and cerebral circulation is actively regulated. So a postural or hemodynamic contribution is possible, but this particular mechanism has not been established by my experience. Another possibility is that leaving Padmasana changed muscular stabilization, spinal positioning or breathing enough to reintroduce subtle effort, which could itself have contributed to the pressure.

The Most Important Finding: Vastness Without Effort

The most remarkable part of the experience was not actually the pressure. During the relaxed dhyana without head pressure, the sense of the void became more merged with me. There was greater bliss and a stronger feeling of vastness. Instead of simply observing a vast inner space, the distinction between myself and that vastness seemed weaker. This made the experience feel qualitatively different from meditation produced through effort. It suggested that when bodily and mental effort recede sufficiently, the experience of vastness may become more immediate and less object-like. I do not need to decide whether this is physiological, psychological, spiritual or metaphysical. The important point is that the phenomenology was clearly different, and that difference deserves careful observation.

A More Precise Understanding of the Experiment

This experience has therefore given me a useful three-stage distinction. First, there can be pressure-supported dhyana, in which a particular bodily process accompanies the meditative state and seems to limit its duration. Second, there can be effortless and spontaneous dhyana, arising without deliberate production of head pressure and appearing capable of sustaining itself. Third, bodily limitation can interrupt that effortless condition; when posture becomes uncomfortable, subtle effort returns, and the earlier pressure phenomenon may reappear even though meditation itself continues. This makes it increasingly reasonable for me to regard head pressure as a secondary phenomenon that may accompany certain methods or bodily conditions rather than as the essential basis of dhyana.

The Next Step in Understanding Spontaneous Meditation

The most useful future observation is therefore not to force Padmasana to last indefinitely, but to discover whether the same pressure-free spontaneous dhyana can arise in any posture that is genuinely stable and comfortable. That would help separate Padmasana itself from the deeper factor of bodily stillness and ease. If the same spontaneous meditation and sense of vastness arise in a pain-free posture, it would suggest that physical stability, rather than the lotus posture alone, is the important condition. At the same time, there is no need to deliberately force breathlessness or kumbhaka in order to reproduce the earlier state. Natural quieting of the breath is one thing; forcing respiratory cessation is another. The deeper lesson from this experience seems simpler: when the body becomes quiet without strain, and the mind no longer has to manufacture meditation, dhyana may begin to sustain itself. For me, this is becoming a more precise experimental understanding of why the preparation of the body through asana can matter so much for the deeper stages of meditation.

Another Test: Nirvikalp Dhyana in a Simple Squat

I repeated the experiment after doing some specific asanas, and again the potential for dhyana arose strongly. This time I did not use Padmasana but sat in a simple squat for meditation. Soon a deeper, almost nirvikalp-like dhyana developed that seemed to stand between the two earlier experiences. It was neither strongly accompanied by head pressure nor completely free of it. For a few minutes it appeared almost fully independent, arising spontaneously without deliberate effort. Then a little pressure began to develop. To sustain the dhyana for about one and a half hours, I eventually had to use a deliberate tactic of holding the breath, although it did not feel like suffocation. Instead of concentrating on breathing, I focused on what I experienced as the suffocating chakra. The result felt similar to breathing: it seemed to supply kundalini energy to the chakra without requiring ordinary respiration. In this way the pressure gradually accumulated, and by the end of the meditation, when the dhyana opened or released itself, the pressure had become considerable. The state then broke on its own, followed by about ten minutes of spontaneous kapalbhati pranayama to lower the pressure. This experiment again made me wonder whether Padmasana has a special importance. The simple squat could support a very deep and partly autonomous dhyana, but maintaining it for a long period appeared to require additional effort and pressure, whereas the earlier Padmasana experience had produced a more completely effortless and pressure-free state. I therefore increasingly suspect that the distinctive value of Padmasana may lie not merely in sitting steadily, but in its ability to allow the body to remain sufficiently balanced and quiet that deep meditation can continue with much less deliberate intervention.

Kundalini Yoga, Muladhara and the Natural Path from Sexual Energy to Spiritual Awakening

Muladhara, Reproductive Energy and the Purpose of Nature

I have been looking at Kundalini not simply as a mystical idea, but as a natural process of consciousness, and this has led me to a different understanding of why Kundalini Shakti is traditionally associated with Muladhara and described in the form of a powerful Goddess. It is not that every function of the body becomes enhanced when energy rises from Muladhara. Rather, brain is energised to produce a type of addictive bliss and awareness that propels one to raise the muladhara energy up through the spine. And the easiest and most effective way to do it practically is the reproduction itself. Thus the nature has already placed an exceptionally powerful mechanism at the foundation of embodied life: the reproductive impulse. Attraction, sexual desire, pleasure, bonding and reproduction are powerful enough to draw attention almost completely toward another person and toward the continuation of life. In biological terms, this serves procreation and the continuation of the species. But perhaps the same intensity can also become relevant to spiritual awakening when it is consciously witnessed rather than merely followed.

Sexual Attraction as a Powerful Activation of Muladhara

This makes the traditional image of the Goddess in Muladhara interesting to me. It’s called muladhara-vasini means one residing at muladhara. “residing” and “activating” are not two separate ideas in this interpretation. If the Goddess is said to reside in Muladhara, her presence itself signifies that Muladhara is alive, activated, and functioning through her Shakti. It is directly stated in the scriptures that the Goddess resides in Muladhara. I think this can also be understood to mean that the Goddess activates Muladhara. In this sense, the two ideas are essentially the same: when someone truly resides in a house, the house becomes inhabited, active, polished , washed and groomed through their presence. Likewise, the Goddess residing in Muladhara can signify the activation of the power lying dormant there. The Goddess is represented in feminine form, and there is an obvious experiential dimension to the way the feminine can activate the reproductive centre of the male. I do not see this as two completely different mechanisms, one sexual and another yogic. The underlying principle is the same. The direct attraction between man and woman can activate a deeply rooted life-force, while Kundalini Yoga may approach that same force through meditation, visualization, pranayama, mantra, devotion and other more conceptual or religious means. Tantra, in comparison, can approach the same principle more directly and in a comparatively raw form. The difference, therefore, may be in the method of activation and direction rather than in the fundamental energy itself.

However, in female it may be god residing in muladhara. So it’s not like the shakti is male or female look. It can have any look but mainly it’s given female look as mostly males used to do kundalini yoga like babas,yogis etc. Second reason is attraction. As female produce more attraction through her clean appearance and voice and many other qualities so kundalini have been given feminine form.

Nature’s Bait and the Moment of Thoughtless Bliss

This also gives a different meaning to the idea that nature has provided sexual pleasure as a kind of bait. The immediate purpose of the mechanism is reproduction, but the intensity accompanying it can produce an unusual alteration of attention. Particularly around sexual release, there can be a brief interval in which ordinary thought becomes extremely quiet or disappears for a moment. It can feel deeply relaxing and blissful, with awareness seemingly coming closer to the Self. I would describe this more cautiously as a momentary thoughtless state or a fleeting glimpse of inner stillness rather than automatically calling it Nirvikalpa Samadhi. Nevertheless, the resemblance is philosophically interesting: an ordinary biological process can provide a very brief experience of a mind temporarily free from its usual stream of thoughts and mental activity. The same force can also give rise to Savikalpa Samadhi and sudden awakening.

From Thoughtlessness to Witnessing and Purification

The important point is not that sexual release itself is liberation. Rather, the experience may reveal something about the possibility of stillness. If that brief thoughtless state is consciously recognized, it can become a basis for witnessing. But without knowing oneself, even momentarily, as the pure awareness devoid of thought-forms, how can witnessing truly begin? When a person has become completely identified with thoughts, he does not recognize himself as the witness; he has, in a sense, become the thoughts themselves. The witness can appear only when there is a glimpse of that silent Self which is other than the changing thought-forms. The moment of stillness accompanying sexual release can therefore become significant: in that brief silence, the ordinarily hidden Self may reveal itself as that “other,” the silent awareness from which thoughts can subsequently be witnessed rather than merely lived as oneself. One begins to notice desire, attraction, bodily sensation, thought, pleasure, and release rather than being completely absorbed in them. This witnessing can produce greater mental purification, and with greater purification there can be greater clarity and bliss. Thus, the same powerful impulse that initially pulls consciousness outward can become a doorway through which consciousness learns to turn inward. What nature uses to encourage reproduction may, under conscious observation, become material for spiritual transformation.

The energy stirred up from Muladhara through sexual attraction can also act as powerful fuel for bringing more and more hidden thoughts out of the caves of the subconscious. In this way, it can serve two purposes together: it can provide a glimpse of the silent Self while simultaneously bringing hidden mental patterns to the surface for witnessing and purification. Both functions can be further enhanced through yogic practices, since one cannot depend continually on the energy-draining sexual act for spiritual growth. It can instead be understood as an occasional boost, while yogic practices provide a more sustainable way to cultivate and direct the same force toward spiritual development. However, the individual preference may vary and may depend on one’s stamina, capability, health, work load and time available to him.

Why the Goddess Is Called Powerful

From this perspective, the traditional power attributed to the Goddess becomes easier to understand without reducing the Goddess to merely a religious symbol. The Goddess can represent the fundamental Shakti of embodied life itself, rooted in Muladhara and expressed through survival, reproduction, attraction and the continuity of life. Saying that the Goddess is in Muladhara can therefore be understood as saying that this powerful latent life-force is rooted at the foundation of embodied existence. When that force becomes activated and harmonized, spiritual progress may become possible because the practitioner is working with one of the deepest and strongest movements of human nature rather than with a weak or artificial stimulus.

The expression that the Goddess becomes “happy” can also be understood symbolically. It need not mean merely pleasing a supernatural figure. It can mean that the fundamental Shakti is awakened, activated and brought into conscious alignment instead of remaining confined to unconscious instinctive expression. In that sense, “the Goddess activates Muladhara” becomes a meaningful interpretation of the traditional imagery: the latent power at the root of embodied life becomes active and available for transformation.

Kundalini Yoga as Redirection Rather Than Rejection

This leads to what may be one of the most interesting ways of understanding Kundalini Yoga. It can be seen as a clever natural strategy in which the powerful mechanism associated with procreation is not simply suppressed but redirected toward faster awakening and ultimately liberation. Nature ordinarily directs reproductive energy toward attraction, pleasure and procreation so that life can continue and the world can grow. Yoga investigates whether the same powerful life-force can instead be consciously redirected toward witnessing, purification, stillness and expanded awareness.

Kundalini Yoga may therefore use conceptual, symbolic and religious methods to approach a process that Tantra sometimes approaches more directly through the raw force of sexuality and relationship. There is no need to divide the two into completely unrelated phenomena. They may represent different ways of activating and directing the same underlying life principle. One begins with the natural force itself; the other deliberately trains consciousness to recognize, contain, transform and redirect it.

From Reproductive Impulse to Spiritual Awareness

Seen this way, the movement can be expressed very simply: natural attraction activates a powerful life impulse; the intensity of that impulse gathers attention; intense attention can temporarily quiet ordinary thought; that moment of thoughtlessness can reveal relaxing bliss and a sense of closeness to the Self; conscious witnessing can then transform an instinctive experience into an opportunity for mental purification; and continued purification can support deeper meditation and spiritual awakening. The biological and spiritual dimensions are therefore not necessarily enemies. They can be understood as different expressions or directions of one fundamental life-force.

This does not establish scientifically that Kundalini is a literal energy rising from Muladhara, nor does every sexual experience constitute Samadhi. These are experiential and philosophical interpretations. But they provide a way of looking at the ancient language of Shakti, Goddess, Muladhara, Tantra and Kundalini without separating them artificially from ordinary human life. The central insight is that the very force nature uses to pull consciousness toward procreation may also, when consciously witnessed and transformed, become a doorway through which consciousness discovers stillness, bliss, the witnessing state and eventually the possibility of liberation.

Lastly, the Goddess depicted with many hands, carrying weapons and killing demons, need not be understood as a literal fierce human-like figure. It can be understood as Shakti purifying hidden impurities and ultimately merging them into the Self. This is also how I understand the scriptural imagery in which demons are not necessarily “killed” in the ordinary sense suggested by the stories, but are absorbed or merged by the gods or goddesses into themselves. The apparent destruction of the demons can therefore represent the dissolution and transformation of the inner impurities they symbolize.

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