Kundalini Experience
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 5 years before Apr 15, 2017
Marcia Beloved 5 years ago
This morning during seated breathing exercises, kundalini flooded the entire body all at once. It was felt as infusion or as a filling up, and perceived as a bright white energy. The subtle body was being lifted up as if floating. For a split second I saw the subtle body in a seated meditation posture (as the physical one was), in the form of bright white light. This seated form was situated within a surrounding bright white light energy. It was light within light, the infused subtle body encapsuled within a circle of light. I remained seated as the energy dissipated.
Several days ago, I had an experience, also during seated breathing exercises, in which kundalini operated from the base chakra and propelled the subtle body upwards. I can only give a comparison and say that this experience is like being lifted up, propelled upwards as when a rocket lifts off, straight up into space. I felt the propulsive energy, moving in waves like an upward current, beneath the subtle body, pushing it slightly upwards.
Other than noting these experiences, how could they be evaluated?
MiBeloved 5 years ago
Kundalini rising in a way in which there is a complete infusion of the subtle body and not just a part of it, or if it is a full infusion of the head of the subtle body even without any other part of that body, gives the yogi an indication about certain higher planes of existence.
One should note these planes of existence, just as one would notice an important building in a far away city during a visit as a tourist. If you read Patanjali there is a part where he discusses various samadhis. If you read that over and over you will get some idea of what the locations are that one might reach and then you can identify where you are in the realms of the levels of consciousness, just as a tourist can identify what is seen in some faraway place, from reading a guide book of a former traveler.
The value of these tours is this:
You get some idea of other dimensions and begin to have more confidence in people like Patanjali and Krishna in what those persons described, rather than being cynical with them or doubtful and challenging. If you pick up a guide book which was written by a fiction writer, then if you find out that the person just made it all up, you might lose your confidence in all guide books. But if you pick up a guide book by a reliable source who is an employee of National Geographic, you might feel confident enough to go on a tour on the basis of that person’s descriptions.
It is also important to observe that even though you may reach higher places, spiritual bliss levels of existence, you are not allowed to stay there. So why is that? We have heard of people like Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, who is said to have reached some bliss planes of consciousness. In the Vedanta Society, they claim that the founder Sri Ramakrishna Paramhamsa reached bliss planes of consciousness, even though those who oppose the society say that it is not true. If we accept Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s word for it and also the word of the goswamis who wrote about him, then why did he stay on those levels for hours and we are not able to do so? Also why did he perceive other individual entities and relate to them in those environments when he used to enter those planes of consciousness?
So these are things to research in meditation.
If at the end of this life, heaven or paradise or the spiritual world, or the kingdom of God or Shambala will be just a blip on the screen of consciousness, then what is that? Why are we unable to remain in those realms?
Right now in these experiences, there seems to be no visual perception, so why is that? Is there a body on the bliss planes or it is just spatial consciousness without any definite visual format?
If I am going to a place usually I will get a map, get some information from reliable sources and study up on it. This gives me a better chance for appreciating the place and dealing with any odd circumstance which might manifest there. But regarding the hereafter, do I apply the same approach. Or should I just wait till that happens and make no preparation for it?
Should I just do as they say on the Internet and enjoy what is here and now and forget about what might happen after the body is finished?
In relation to the kundalini infusement, a consideration is that the kundalini seems to always want to return to its gross creature existence. It is not wanting to have a higher level of existence as its home. It seems to prefer the base physical life. How can that be adjusted?
