The knowledge of how to arouse the Kundalini cannot be imparted by teaching alone; it can only be imparted by experiencing. This alone is the basic teaching of all mysticism and was used since the dawn of recorded history. In fact, some Egyptian statues show the Pharaohs sitting with straight backs on their thrones with various types of head ornaments that show what appear to be bumps on the top of the ornaments, indicating the expanded cosmic consciousness possible through the arousing of the Kundalini through meditation.
When one meditates, he should concentrate his energy on the centre of his forehead, just above the bridge of his nose. The room in which he is sitting should be dark, and he should concentrate on one word, which as I said, could be your name, God, or love. Only by experiencing what happens after a few weeks of meditation can one begin to understand any of the Eastern teachings. There is a great deal of difference between having knowledge and having understanding through experiencing knowledge, just as there is a great deal of difference in having energy that you allow to become negative and turning the energy into a creative flow. Whenever you criticize mentally or express the criticism, it is negative energy flowing. You can direct the negative energy positively, with discernment and control and it will change your state. This requires self-control because the will is only able to generate and direct energy and needs control, and the stronger the will and self-control, the greater the accumulation and the more positive the direction of energy.
Meditation through calming down the body and cooling it out is a means of increasing energy. Just keeping the eyes closed conserves energy and increases concentration. Two hours of meditation will refresh the body more than ten hours of sleep, and will revitalize the body as well as slowing down the aging process, thereby giving the body new energy and new life. People who meditate daily are much quieter and more centered than those who do not meditate. They are also much more decisive because there are not the continuous inner activities which leak out energy. Meditation brings the body into a one-pointedness and harmony that simply cannot be obtained any other way. Slowly but subtly it changes the vibratory level, creating more control over one's own thought process. As one obtains new energy, which also depends on the increased purity of one's thoughts, one begins for the first time to evaluate the bondages of indoctrination, our attitudes, our habits, and our personalities. This is the bringing into balance of man's spiritual and material nature, which is the quality with which we are faced. As we bring this balance into focus, we begin to realize many things that had previously escaped our conscience.
Many of today's western youths have turned to the use of drugs which have the result of creating rushes of energy, and they have, for brief moments, experienced insight and indeed, spiritual revelations, of man's duality. But the mind is like a puncture-proof tire. Drug-released energy breaks through and shows wonders that transcend the rational mind, but once the drug effect passes, memory fades and man returns to that level of consciousness he had before taking the drug. Drugs give simply a glimpse over the wall of one's potential. They cannot keep a man perpetually high, but they can tantalize him with his untapped potential and let him know in the course of time that only through his own self-discipline and effort can he develop the energy necessary to keep himself perpetually high
To Be Continued...
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