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There
must be preparation through bodily purifications, asanas yogic postures,
mudras gestures,
and pranayama yogic breathing.
Kundalini is basically tantric in origin. It works through the union
of the psyche with matter, and the mind with the physical body.
The
body plays a great role in producing various moods, including the
highest mood, samadhi, the mood of bliss. This state is achieved
by channeling energy through the nervous system and through the
spine. The energy ascends through a narrow passage in the spinal
column and passes through six psychic centers before it reaches
its final abode, the seventh center. The seventh center is located
in the cerebrum, the hollow space between the twin hemispheres of
the brain, where again a fusion takes place, and where the activities
of the mind are completely suspended. Both hemispheres become calm,
the inner dialogue stops, one loses all sense of time and space,
and identifications and false notions of the phenomenal world melt
away.
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