Friends, the complete prakriti is the shadow of the entire universe. The complete prakriti is also called the original nature or mool prakriti. It is the original nature of the entire universe. The mool prakriti of the microcosm is called the Mooladhara. But the Mooladhara is a pure shadow. There is no information of any particular physical object hidden in it. It means it is a nothingness type of shadow. On the other hand, we are considering the information of the entire physical universe to be recorded in the mool prakriti. But there is no contradiction in it. In the mool prakriti, all the opposing information cancels out each other and becomes zero. The entire universe is balanced, it means it is neutral. There is as much negative as there is positive in it. In this way, both the mool prakriti and the Mooladhara are the same. It means that man can also experience the mool prakriti in the form of Mooladhara. Because the mool prakriti is the subtle form of the entire universe, it means that man can also experience the entire universe simultaneously in an indirect form, that is, in the form of Mooladhara.
There is a problem here. One can say that when all the information in the original nature vanished, how could darkness remain in it, because darkness means the presence of subtle information in it. Actually, the information did not vanish, but their total effect got cancelled out. All the information remained in it. It is like what happens when sugar and neem are added to halwa. Both these things will remain, but the halwa will neither taste sweet nor bitter to us. The same thing happens when a person reaches the Mooladhara. All the information is equal in it. That is why a uniform, non-stinging and blissful darkness is felt in it. Neither attachment to any information, nor hatred to any information. This is non-duality. That is why it is advised to live a non-dual and detached life. By this, a person reaches the Mooladhara quickly. But this happens only when along with non-duality, a full, diverse and opposing worldliness is also lived. By this, a person will collect all kinds of opposite information, which cancel each other out and make him enter the Mooladhara quickly. To me the practice of non-duality without opposing worldliness seems like a sham.
Then it is said that the Mooladhara can merge into the purusha through Kundalini awakening while developing. Then why does Moola Prakriti not merge into Purusha and disappear? Perhaps this is because Moola Prakriti has a real physical existence, which we call dark matter or dark energy etc. It is a scientific principle that a physical object can never end. It can only change its form, but it will remain forever. We call this the Theory of Conservation of Mass and Energy. An object can exist in the form of different types of objects or in the form of energy. All these forms can keep changing among themselves. But that object can never end. On the other hand, Mooladhar has no physical existence. It is the experience of a soul. That experience is even not true but illusory. Or you can say that it is just a virtual picture of Moola Prakriti created by the illusion of the soul. There is nothing real or physical in it. When the illusion ends after the soul gets wisdom, then the experience of Mooladhar becomes as the experience of Purusha. This is the true and real experience of soul. If Moola Prakriti was also just an experience and it had no physical existence, then it would have ended long ago, and the creation would not have existed. Then neither we nor you would have been there nor this colorful world. Many Vedantic people say that the mool prakriti does not exist. It is an illusion, etc. They are actually talking about the Mooladhara, which is a virtual mental picture of the mool prakriti. In physical form, the existence of the subtle mool prakriti is similar as that of the gross physical world. Humanity In Genesis 2:7 of Bible have been defined in the same way. There, we find God creating humanity in God’s image. God creates humanity in a way that is very different from the way God created the physical world.
Only the Mooladhara can be merged in the purusha through Kundalini Yoga, not the mool prakriti. First the worldly garbage accumulated on each chakra is taken out. Then the Kundalini picture is filled in the empty chakra-places. Only then it remains in meditation all the time and wakes up when the right opportunity comes. It is like a gardener on a barren land. He can bloom flowers only when he first cleans that place by removing the grass, straw, bushes, pebbles etc. A well nurtured and cared for flower plant will keep rising and growing and will someday blossom into the flower of awakening.
A physical object can neither be created nor destroyed, this scientific principle also explains the principle of Sankhya philosophy. According to this also, prakriti keeps changing its form. Sometimes it is expressed, sometimes unexpressed. But it always exists. Meaning it is eternal and infinite. Therefore it is not true that prakriti or the world originated from the purusha that’s God. Just like purusha, prakriti also has its own independent existence. This talk of prakriti being generated from the purusha is said for the picture of prakriti made inside the mind, that is for the individual or vyashti prakriti. The soul, that is the purusha himself takes the form of that prakriti picture. Meaning that the picture of prakriti originated from the purusha, not the real prakriti. When the soul becomes aware of its real purusha form, then it is as if that virtual picture of prakriti has again come in its real purusha form, meaning prakriti has merged in the purusha.
Demystifying Kundalini 