I am now convinced that the ecstatic movements occurring in
some of my students are not related to sexual orgasms at all, but are kriyas
resulting from my kind of shaktipat. Yes, often the energies are most
often first felt in the genitals, they do not stay there, and quickly migrate
to, or even start in the heart area, then spread to whole body movements and ecstasies.
Jan Esmann reports about "cosmic" orgasms as being secondary
to shaktipat and are first experiences of samadhi.
In my case, my total focus is on love and making a student feel loved. Their responses gradually become one pointed in return. This focus on love often raises sexual energies that converge with the heart energies resulting in one pointedness and samadhi.
According to Jan:
In my case, my total focus is on love and making a student feel loved. Their responses gradually become one pointed in return. This focus on love often raises sexual energies that converge with the heart energies resulting in one pointedness and samadhi.
According to Jan:
The awakened kundalinī will purify the energy
channels of the body, the nādis, and this may lead to spontaneous movements of
the body, called “kriyās”. Kriyās can also be mental or emotional. (ed:
The apparent orgasms appear to be kriyas also.)
At first it may seem odd that a sādhana and
mystical process designed to give liberation results in weird movements of the
arms, body and spine, but on second thought it just proves how profound the
process is. Other systems try to purify the nādis through postures, prānāyāmas
and bandhas, thus forcing the prāna shakti into the nādis in order to cleanse
them.
The shaktipāt kriyās are a result of the
shakti automatically entering the nādis and purifying them. Thus shaktipāt
sādhana is the most supreme sādhana since it fulfills the goal of all other
sādhanas automatically and effortlessly.
It is noteworthy that the source of human
evolution lies more or less dormant in every human being, and is fully awakened
in a few lucky souls. For the person living with an awakened kundalinī it is
only all too obvious that he or she is in the midst of a process of accelerated
evolution. Kundalinī is a super intelligent force driving the evolution of
consciousness. Spiritual evolution is clearly a result of an active or awakened
kundalinī. (ed: I prefer the term Shakti, or which Kundalini is only one form.)
Undoubtedly the state of samādhi is
either a result of changed brain activity or samādhi forces the brain to behave
differently; but either way there must be neurological correlates of the
spiritual changes happening along with the process of kundalinī arousal.
Probably the nervous system of man is evolving in such a way as to allow
samādhi to occur more and more frequently.
The first result of a kundalinī awakened
through shaktipāt is kriyās.
The second, but most important, aspect is
samādhi. Samādhi is a state where awareness has freed itself from
identification with the small self and merged into the pure being of the Self.
This merging is extremely blissful.
Usually a bright light fills the brain and
a kind of prolonged super-orgasm takes place in the body. The super-orgasmic
state is a sign of immature samādhi, after a while it changes to a deep, silent
bliss.
The inner light is a common feature of all
mystical experiences in all cultures and ages. The Christian mystics speak of
the illuminating glory of God and saint Symeon identified the blazing inner
light with Christ. The Taoists speak of circulating light. Hindus speak of the
blazing radiance of a multitude of suns that characterizes Brahman (the Self)
or the self-luminous Ātman (Self). Sufis speak of “Noor”: The splendor
emanating from Divinity. We speak of enlightenment.
The ecstasy, or cosmic orgasm, that takes
place the first times kundalinī reaches the brain, changes with practice to a
soft, calm and quiet bliss. Ecstasy has to be transcended and the cosmic
orgasms are in no way a goal in themselves. This is where so many western so
called “tantrics” go astray. The goal is not ecstasy or sexual bliss, but
samādhi.
Sex will never lead to samādhi. Samādhi is a
state where the awareness has been pulled out of the senses and merged with the
Self. Visions of various kinds may arise before the inner eye, but the most
common are various dots of light. Of these the blue pearl is the most precious;
it is the gateway to the Divine, to the pure Self. Some see a cobra dancing
before their inner eye, which is a sign kundalinī has awakened. Every person
will have his own inner experiences and kriyās. (ed: I also contend that
the kriyas experienced depend on the type of shaktipat and who administers it.)
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