Kundalini is a Sanskrit word meaning a serpentine or twisting force or gas. According to the Tantric disciplines, this force can be drawn up through the central spinal canal (Sushumna) and when in its ascent it strikes the brain, it stimulates or opens the spiritual centers of consciousness, thereby consummating the Yogi’s labors toward self-mastery and illumination. Kundalini, also sometimes called “the astral serpent,” is described as a power or energy in the Muladhara. “It has its head in the region of the navel.” It is called serpent-like because of its strange curving motion. “It appears to move around and around in a circle; Ida and Pingala alternate on account of its motion.” As Kundalini ascends, it enters into one spinal chakra after another and incorporates into itself the qualities of these chakras, mastering them and resulting in certain definite extensions of power and sense perception. Upon completing its ascent, it has absorbed into its own essence all the qualitative states through which it has passed, so that the chakras appear as “united into one current,” like beads upon a thread or knots upon a sacred cord. The magicians of Egypt turned their rods into serpents before Pharaoh and Moses threw down his rod also, but it was transformed into a great serpent which swallowed up all the little serpents. Here is a most vivid account of the function of Kundalini. The serpents are the countless Nadis; the great serpent is the spinal fire herself, who is victorious over all the functions of the sensory nerves, so that it is scarcely an exaggeration to say that she devours them. Kundalini is the brazen serpent of Moses which he raised upon the Tau cross in the wilderness, and those who looked upon it did not die from the stings of the little serpents. _Continue reading on our knowledgebase: https://www.gnosticserpent.com/knowledge-base/kundalini-sympathetic/ Art by @nychos #Kundalini #serpentpower #kundalinirising #gnosticserpent (at Vedic Shastras) https://www.instagram.com/vedic.shastras/p/CXRK4RZhumL/?utm_medium=tumblr
