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Kundalini Yoga consuming surplus tantric power

Friends, there is a story in the scriptures mainly the Shivapuran that once Devraj Indra along with Lord Brahma and other gods left his house with the desire to go to Kailash and have the darshan of Lord Shiva. Lord Shiva came to know about this because he is trikaldarshi or all time viewer. He thought of testing him. He disguised himself as an Avadhoot or badly posed renunciate type with matted hair and stood in his way. Devraj Indra asked him who he was, and asked him to leave the path. Also asked about the here about of Shiva if he was at Kailash or not. But he did not answer. He was asked again and again, yet he did not answer. At last, in anger, Indra fired his deadly weapon Vajra at him. At the same time Shiva came into his true form so that the vajra could not do any harm to him. Lord Shiva was very angry at Indra and was about to kill him when Brahma fell at his feet and started placating him. Due to this Shiva felt pity on him. Shiva asked him where he should vent his anger. Once the anger of a Purnayogi or accomplished yogi comes out, it never returns. Brahma asked him to pour that anger into the sea. From it the demon Jalandhar was born from the sea.

Spiritual analysis of the above story

Shiva means the awakened one here. Indra here means ordinary Tantrik or ordinary Panchamkari. The power obtained by him from simple tantra is not used for Kundalini meditation, but for the growth of worldly life. It also includes Kali Tantrasiddhis or black magic like Maran, Taran etc. Probably the use of Marana or killing Shakti by Indra has been called Vajraprahar, because like awakening, the basic source of such tantric powers also seems to be the Vajrashakti or Sushumna Shakti passing through the spinal cord. There seems no other way to attain supernatural power in the body than this. But it does not harm a real Tantra Yogi in the same way as fireflies cannot harm a lamp, on the contrary they can burn themselves. Sometimes, if many fireflies gather, they can cover the lamp a littlebit. Similarly, very powerful Vajra Shakti or hateful tantric Vajra Shakti launched by many people can also cause some harm to the awakened Yogi too. However, he keeps walking on the path of truth without caring about his own loss, but when his life is in danger, then anger comes out naturally for self-protection, it is not a common anger that is expressed deliberately, nor it sounds like anger. His anger may come out in a transformed form. Like in the form of some social reform movement or as a boon to someone. That anger does not harm anyone, because an awakened person does not harm anyone at all. Now, it is not known what good of the society is hidden in the origin of Jalandhar, but Indra was saved from destruction, meaning the entire creation was saved from destruction, because Indra is the king of the gods. Anger is man’s biggest enemy. Anger weakens or destroys one’s own body, and all the gods including Indra are situated in the universe of our own body. It can be said that Jalandhar is the energy of anger that has descended to Muladhar. This is called drinking anger. At that time it was drunk but later it can also come out of Muladhar in the form of immoral love affair. This is Jalandhar who had become enamored with goddess Parvati and Lakshmi. Only his devoted wife Vrinda saved him from death. This means that he had become as powerful as Shiva and Vishnu through the power of Tantra. He is already considered to be a part of Shiva. He defeated all the gods, meaning he was no longer under the control of the nature governed by the gods, and despite giving pain to everyone, remained happy through the power of Tantra. When Vishnu violated Vrinda’s modesty by deceit, she committed suicide through burning in the fire and the Tulsi plant grew there with her ashes. Tulsi is the most sacred plant of Hindu religion which can be found growing in the courtyard of almost every Hindu family. It is a storehouse of medicinal and spiritual properties. The meaning is clear that a devoted woman is superior to all types of human beings and should be present in every family. Jalandhar city of Punjab is named after this demon. There is also a temple of Vrinda here. In fact, the wife plays a big role in the success of a tantra yogi. If the wife does not cooperate, even the gods do not cooperate. Failing in this path of salvation is considered death. In reality, the extra tantric power of a meditative yogi gets spent in Kundalini meditation, due to which he has not any strength remaining to think bad or do bad. But those who use tantric practices and techniques but do not do proper meditation, their excess tantric energy remains accumulated in the body. Only it can make them do wrong. Call it black magic or sorcery or posing bad eye or creating ruckus by eating and drinking or keeping jihadist type mentality in local language. It would not be an exaggeration to say that many organisations, nations, religions or sects have been using this excess or uncontrolled Tantric energy for centuries for their illegal and immoral growth. Even demons were born from this, although they also died from this. It depends on the method of use. Energy has to be released. Anyway, Shiva is having fun. Meaning he is happy with himself. This means that he possesses all the qualities within himself as per his need. That is why they are called ghostly, because they also accept dark Tamoguna when needed. Perhaps this is how the concept of Tantrik Panchamakar originated. Others depend on each other for balance of basic qualities or gunas. Some people always remain in state of Satoguni, such as Vishnu, some in Tamoguni, such as Asuras or demons and animals and still others in Rajoguni, such as Brahma and Indra. These three types of people remain dependent on each other. Therefore, they avoid angering or disturbing each other as much as possible. Especially people with good qualities or satoguna, because it’s the weakest, and it needs both the other gunas even for its sustenance. But Shiva does not care about anyone. He is completely capable in his own right. That is why he’s not in a mood to forgive Indra, but it has to be done for the public good, not to fulfill his selfishness, because he does not need anyone. The state of awakening cannot be called Satoguni, although it is achieved by abundance of Satoguna. Of course, there is a light like good quality in it, but it is different from the common worldly good quality. It also has the appearance of Tamoguna and Rajoguna, but they also seem different from worldly gunas. It cannot even be called a mixture of all three qualities, of course one has to take help of them to describe it, and it feels like a mixture of them, but according to the scriptures it is not even a mixture of them. Perhaps that is why it has been called Trigunatit or devoid of any Guna. It is like if lemon, sugar and salt are mixed in equal quantity in water then that water will appear plain but in reality it is not pure plain water. Similarly, if all the three gunas remain equal then that state will appear to be trigunateet but in reality it is not a pure trigunateet or nirgun state of the soul. Perhaps because of this deception many spiritual leaders consider themselves God. It is for this reason that the experience of awakening does not seem different in nature from the worldly experience. But in reality there is a world of difference between the two. While the experience of awakening is like pure water, the worldly experience is like water mixed with salt, lemon and sugar. The ratio of all three keeps changing every moment. When it becomes equal, then light and happiness like awakening is felt. This mainly happens due to the balance of Idapingala i.e. Yinyang through Yoga. It gives us a feeling of a state of awakening. This inspires one to achieve real awakening. The meaning from these talks is clear that the so-called Tamogun of Shiva does not hinder but helps in his awakening. Although it is not Tamogun but it looks like Tamogun. If it happens then it is of good nature. Perhaps this happens by eliminating the ego of good qualities or Satoguna. It is also said in the scriptures that awakening from good qualities is achieved only when the egoistic feeling towards it is destroyed. Due to destruction of ego, despite having good qualities, one does not focus on these much. It is because of the lack of attention or attachment towards it that it appears to be like the state of Tamo Guna. All this means Shiva’s Tamoguna is virtual, not real.

Kundalini Yoga powered Ganges flow irrigates the chakras in the form of Shivlinga

Famous legend of Atri-Anasuya

The story of Anasuya comes in Shivpuran. Anasuya means one who does not criticize or condemn anyone. Once there was a great famine. There was shortage of water everywhere. People and animals started dying due to thirst. Saints cannot see the sufferings of the world. Therefore, Sage Atri started doing penance for water. His disciples also left him. Only Anasuya continued to serve her husband and worshiped the Shivling everyday. One day Atri asked for water. Anasuya took the kamandal that’s sacred handheld pitcher and started searching for water. On the way she met Ganga. Ganga was pleased with Anasuya’s devotion to her husband. Anasuya asked for water from Ganga. Ganga asked her to dig a pit. That pit became filled with water. Anasuya went away with water. He gave water to Atri. Atri said that it was not like everyday drinking water. Anasuya told the whole story. She took Atri to that pit. Both of them took bath in it and drank it. All the people were satisfied with that. When Ganga started leaving, Anasuya prayed to her to stay there forever. Ganga in return demanded from her the fruit of her one year’s husband’s service and worship of Shiva. Ganga said that she likes husband service the most. When Anasuya gave it, Ganga settled there. Along with this, Shiva also sat there forever in the form of Atrishwar Linga.

the explanation for mythological story

Atri is a living soul. Atri literally means devoid of all three qualities or gunas. Only the soul is like this. Anasuya is intelligence or intellect. Intelligence does not condemn anyone, because it wants everyone to get its work done. Only a useless mind condemns. Intelligence is like a devoted wife to her husband as soul. She serves the living being soul in every way, along with worshiping Lord Shiva. An idle mind does nothing. Actually work is done by intellect, and work itself has been called worship. Work is the worship of Shivling because the world is made up of a combination of Purush meaning Shiva and Prakriti meaning Shakti. The body itself is that drought-stricken country. All the cells of the body are its people and creatures. They were thirsty means deprived of water in the form of energy. Energy flows like water. Intellect used to provide the soul in the form of Rishi Atri with enough energy or simple water for living. But the whole body country could not survive well with it. That’s why sage does penance i.e. Kundalini Yogasadhana for extra energy. One day, on asking for Shakti-jal by Rishi-jiva, Anasuya-buddhi started wandering all over the body in search of it. By the grace of Shivling, she felt the sexual based Kundalini Shakti i.e. Ganga around Muladhar. She inspired the prana of the body i.e. the workers of Dahdesh or body-country to make a pit there i.e. to press Muladhara with the heel in Siddhasana or to make a sensory pit in the front Manipur Chakra by yogasanas, massages etc. It seems to me that this pit is the deep pit above the base of the back or the hip bone prominence. At the time of massage, by pressing hard with the base of the straight palm and slowly sliding upwards, a sharp and blissful sensation is felt, which starts climbing upwards in the spinal cord. It seems to be directly related to the real or textual Mooladhara, because Mooladhara is also often referred to as the pit. Massage should not be done in the spine with the force of fingers, because there can be a fear of damage like injury to the delicate bone. Divine water was filled there, which means there was a feeling of blissful energy. She fed that water to the sage means the soul felt that sensation. The soul found it different and divine from other days because sexual pleasure was also mixed in it. Both of them took bath in it, which means that it climbed up from the coccyx to the brain, due to which both of them got refreshed along with the whole body. Both the intellect and the soul reside in the brain and are connected to each other, so they feel everything together. It can also be taken in another way that a tantric couple is consuming energy together in Yabyum posture. All living beings were satisfied after drinking water, which means all the cells of the body were refreshed and recharged with energy. Ganga liked Anasuya’s chastity. Surely she must have taken hes test, only then came to know. Nowadays there are many examiners of the religion of chastity. For women going to office or work, various men peeping at them and talking to them with love-filled obscenities, being in the mood to misbehave with them, etc. is their test. There will be no exam while sitting inside the house. The meaning is clear that stay with everyone but serve your husband only. Ganga asked Anasuya for a year’s good deeds in exchange for permanently settling there, which means that Sushumna can be permanently awakened by one year’s Tantric Yogasadhana and Shivling worship. There the Atriswar Linga was also established permanently. To me it seems to be the awakened Muladhar Chakra. Chakras are in the form of lingas, because the same sensation as linga-based is experienced there. Twelve Jyotirlingas are twelve chakras only. The light is created there by the shining of the meditation picture. That meditation picture can be the form of Shiva, Guru, lover etc. According to Shivpuran, there are many lingas and upalingas, but these twelve Jyotirlingas are the main ones. Other lingas are called sub or upa lingas only, not Jyotirlingas, because the brightness of the Kundalini picture is felt only on the chakras. By the way, every cell of the body can be called a linga, because they become active only when Ganges water in the form of energy falls on them. As far as the Kundalini Shakti in the form of Ganga reaches to bathe, there is linga’s presence. Anyway, cerebrospinal fluid flows in the spinal cord, which is just like water. Many scientists claim that energy flows in the same way as the flow of a fluid. Although at the time of Sushumna awakening, energy flows in the form of sensationally bright line. It is possible that flow can occur in both ways, especially in the common and simple energy flow, the contribution of fluid flow is more. From this story it seems that any sage discovered Kundalini Shakti and realized it, which he told in the form of a myth rather than telling it directly.