"Yogis have described the trembling of the body which precedes the arousal of Kun.d.alini, and the explosion of heat which passes like a current through the Sushumn.a.

... but the yogi goes on until he can hear the innermost, the most subtle, the ‘unstruck’ sound (anahata nad).

that in the final state of illumination dissolve into an inner radiance of intensely bright, pure light."

p. 71

The eyes may

p. 72

One may even see one’s own body lying dead."

Now I understood that the onset of sexual desire was connected with the process of becoming an urdhvareta, from which one gets power to give S`aktipat. When the Svadhisthana chakra is pierced, sexual desire becomes very strong".

p. 73

"In another recent autobiographical account, Gopi Krishna describes his experiences when Kun.d.alini was aroused spontaneously ... . Seated in meditation ... he became aware of a strange and pleasing sensation below the base of the spine. ... with a ‘roar like a waterfall’, a stream of liquid light entered his brain through the spine and he became ... ‘immersed in a sea of light’."

[quoted from :- Gopi Krishna : Kundalini, the evolutionary energy in man. Boulder & London, 1971. p. 84] "The heat grew every moment, ... I writhed and twisted from side to side ... . But still the heat increased and soon it seemed as if innumerable red-hot pins were coursing through my body ... like fling sparks. ...

p. 74

The throbbing of my heart became more and more terrific, acquiring ... a spasmodic violence ... . ... The whole system was burning, ... under the fiery blast racing tthrough its interior."

[quoted from :-Ibid., p. 87] "There was no diminution in the vital radiation ..., emanating from the seat of Kun.d.alini, sped ... to every part of my body, filling my ears with strange sounds and my head with strange lights ... . ... I invariably perceived a luminous glow within and outside my head in a state of constant vibration, as if a jet of extremely of an extremely subtle and brilliant substance rising through my spine spread itself out in the cranium, filling and surrounding it with indescribable radiance. This shining halo never remained constant in dimension or in intensity of its brightness. It waxed and waned, brightened and grew dim, or changed its colour from silver to gold and vice versa. When it increased in size or brilliance, the strange noise in my ears, now never absent, grew louder and more insistent ... . The halo was never stationary but in a state of perpetual motion, dancing and leaping, eddying and swirling, as if composed of innumerable, extremely subtle, brilliant particles of some immaterial substance, shooting up and down, this way and that, combining to present an appearance of a circling, shimmering pool of light."

"Ramakrishna, who followed the disciplines of kun.d.alini-yoga under the guidance of a female guru, Brahman.i, ... directly perceived the ascent of the Kun.d.alini, and later described to his disciples its various movements as fishlike [cf. the fish depicted on p. 50], birdlike, monkeylike, and so on."

The __ centre of consciousness

is in the region of the __.

When mind riseth to this centre, __.

4^th

heart

"man has a spiritual vision of the Divine Light and is struck with wonder ... . His mind then no longer runs after worldly pleasures."

5^th

throat

"man becomes free from nescience and ignorance. He then talks only on subjects relating to God and grows impatient if any worldly topic is discussed. He avoids hearing about worldly subjects."

6^th

between the eyebrows

"man becomes merged in divine consciousness. There is still left in him, however, the consciousness of a separate ego."

7^th

brain

"there is samadhi. That is the transcendent consciousness, in which one realizes his oneness with God."

[quoted from :-Saradananda : S`ri Ramakrishna, the Great Master. Madras. p. 364] ‘The very distinction between ‘I’ and ‘thou’ vanishes ..., and speaking becomes impossible.’ In the final centre, ‘the distinction between the subject of consciousness and the object of consciousness is destroyed. It is a state wherein self-identity and the field of consciousness are blended into one indissoluble whole.’

[unification of subject and object is likewise advocated in Mahayana]

p. 76

Ramakrishna became the priest of the Kali Temple, north of Calcutta . He explained :

p. 77

[quoted from :- Colin Wilson : The Outsider. London, 1978.] ‘... suddenly the blessed Mother revealed herself to me ... . ... the temple ... vanished from my sight ... . Instead I saw a limitless, infinite, effulgent Ocean of Bliss. As far as the eye could see, the shining billows were madly rushing towards me on all sides with a terrific noise to swallow me up. ...’

"Jyotiji is a yogi who frequently travels in space after leaving his material body."

__-bindu

within the __ man.d.ala

Maha- [‘great’]

Sahasrara

Rajas- [‘dust’]

Tatastha

Tamas- [‘darkness’]

Maya

"Commenting on the system of chakras according to the famous Nathayogi Gorak[h]natha ..., Dr Kaviraj writes that beyond this there is a series of twenty voids."

"Beyond these twenty-eight chakras, the great yogin describes a series of twenty voids. ...

[quoted from :- Kaviraj : Aspects of Indian Thought. Burdwan University, West Bengal, 1966. p. 234] ""The ms. [Devata Acintyanatha and the S`akti Avyakta] observes that the final liberation takes place in the great void (paramas`unya-sthana) above twenty-one brahman.d.as."

The final liberation is attained in the great void called paramashUnya sthAna above the twenty-one brahmANDas." ("GP")

multi-headed white serpent

p. 83

p. 89 variants

1.

Bindu "Compact mass of energy"

2.

Ardha-candra ‘half-moon’

Ardha-indu [‘half a drop’]

3.

Rodhini

Nirodhika

4.

Nada

5.

Nada-anta

6.

S`akti [‘power’]

Kala

7.

Vyapika

Vyapini

8.

Nirvan.a

Samana

9.

Ud-mani

10.

Maha-bindu

p. 92

a sense ... energy travelling along thousands of tiny channels throughout my system."

[a case history of a woman artist ] She "started transcendental meditation, and after about five years began to experience ... tingling in her arms and heat in her hands. She did not sleep for days, with energy surging throughout her whole body, and had several dreams of having her consciousness separated from her body. A continuous loud sound had appeared inside her head. Soon there were cramps in her big toes, followed by vibratory feelings in her legs. ...

p. 93

The vibrations spread to her lower back and swept over her body from her lower back up to her head, forming a band of sensation around the head, just above the eyebrows. Then her head started to move spontaneously. Later her body moved sinuously and her tongue pressed to the roof of her mouth. ... The tinglings spread back of her neck and head, over the head to her forehead and face. ... At times her eyes seemed to move separately, and the pupils felt like holes that bored into her head and met in the center. Then she felt and tremendous head pressure and a brilliant light, followed by bliss and laughter. ... About this time there were dreams of heavenly music. Then the sensations went to her throat, chest and abdomen, and eventually she felt as if there was a closing of the circuit ...; up through the spine, down through the front of the body. {This is the "microcosmic orbit" of Taoist yoga.}As it developed, the circuit activated particular chakras on its way ... . ... After that there was a continuous feeling of energy pouring into the body through the navel area. ,,, The whole experience had strong sexual overtones."