enlightened?
This is quoted from Yoah (aka Jack Wexler) regarding enlightenment and kundalini.
"Good Question.
First of all, one can mistake a kundalini awakening with pranic activity in the body. The Life Force or shakti in the body is called prana. Intense pranic activity or pranatana is often mistaken as kundalini. It is not. When the prana is in the central energy channel, called shusumna, it is called Kundalini.
A kundalini awakening may or may not be an enlightenment experience. Energetically, enlightenment could be described as when the Kundalilne energy pierces through all the grunti's or knots (the lower, middle and upper triads of chakras) and into the sahasrara or thousand petaled lotus flower of the crown. DIRECT CONSCIOUS UNION or SELF REALIZATION OF TRUTH is enlightenment. One's kundalini may energetically pierce into the saharara and one may NOT REALIZE the Truth due to their attention being distracted by the phenomena associated with kundalini. They are caught up in the phenomena that occurs right before or right after the enlightened state. They are caught up in the bodymind's reactions to kundalini..... the heat, the joy, the tears, the laughter, the intensity of mental, physical and psycho sexual phenomena. So they miss it. It is still there. It always is. One needs to just notice the obvious.
Having that awakened kundalini and self realization does not mean one MAINTAINS that awakened state of consciousness. Just as you awake in the morning from a long night of sleep and then go back to sleep again in the evening..... so to does one awakened state of being go back to sleep due to the forces of nature, the levels of impurity in bodymind and what one is committed to.... sleeping or awakening.
As well, the egoistic false pride of awakening may 'hitch a ride' onthe enlightened state and claim ownership for sake of fame and fortune. As a friend of mine likes to say, the mountain top of enlightenment is a slippery slope and one quite easily slides back down."
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