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A short note from Guruji on how the Guru lifts Kundalini to the crown, and how the light of mantras is placed in the devotee's body.
From the teachings of Sri Amritananda Natha Saraswati (Guruji). Post title: "Kundalinī, Guru, and the Descent of Amṛta". Dated 5 November 2016. The post opens with "Guruji:" and gives his words. The original also has a picture of Shiva and Kundalini, which is not copied here. Originally published at amritananda-natha-saraswati.blogspot.com.
Guruji: Shaakti works by the Guru taking the Kuṇḍalinī Śakti through all chakras in the body of the devotee from Mūlādhāra in the genital to Sahasrāra on the crown of the head. There Kuṇḍalinī Śakti unites with Śiva. Their love produces a flood of amṛta as cosmic visions.
To generate such a flood of nectar, the mantras of the celestial lights of fire, sun, and moon are first invoked. Fire exists as sacred desire which creates life, as digestive energy, and as the creative power of moving time. The sun is in the heart; he moves through twelve zodiacal signs. The full moon is in the Sahasrāra; its slices are the digits of the moon, spread around the neck.
The life of the five cosmic elements — bhūmi, apas, anila, anala, nabhas — and their presiding deities Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Rudra, Īśvara, and Sadāśiva, and the Power of Time Śrī Devī; Amṛta kalās, Sarasvatī, Lakṣmī, Pārvatī, Mokṣa kalās — all are imagined by the Guru to be placed in the body of the devotee at appropriate places.
This kalā-āvāhana empowers the devotee by the light of the mantras.
"Kundalinī, Guru, and the Descent of Amṛta", as posted on Guruji's blog on 5 November 2016. The text is kept as in the original.
Kaula practice treats the body as the temple, and this note maps worship onto it. The Guru carries Kundalini from the Muladhara up to the crown. The sun is honoured in the heart and the full moon in the Sahasrara.
The five elements, earth, water, air, fire and space, are named with their deities: Brahma, Vishnu, Rudra, Ishvara and Sadashiva. In kalavahana these powers are placed in the body, so the devotee's own body becomes the place of worship.
Outer Sri Chakra worship also calls in the kalas of fire, sun and moon (see the pages linked below). In this note Guruji puts the Guru at the centre. The devotee receives the practice through the Guru.
Guruji says Kundalini Shakti unites with Shiva there. Their love produces a flood of amrita, which comes as cosmic visions.
In this note, the Guru is the one who takes Kundalini Shakti through all the chakras of the devotee, from the Muladhara to the Sahasrara.
Kalavahana means calling the kalas, the powers of light, into the body. Guruji describes the Guru imagining the elements, their deities and the kalas placed at the right points in the devotee's body. He says this empowers the devotee by the light of the mantras.
Guruji says the sun is in the heart and moves through twelve signs. The full moon is in the Sahasrara, with its digits spread around the neck. Fire is sacred desire, digestive energy and the power of time.
Read the original: "Kundalinī, Guru, and the Descent of Amṛta" on Guruji's blog.
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