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CHAPTER VII
The Kundalini (Secret Energy) and How it is Aroused
The last chapter dealt with the attainment of the ultimate stages of consciousness desired by the Yogi,—the attainment of SAMADHI through DHYANA,—the unification of the mind with the Absolute.
Every one is, however, interested in phenomena. I have always noticed that in a lecture, accompanied by demonstrations, most people tolerate the lecture for the sake of the demonstrations! And I suppose it is the same with Yoga,—although, as a matter of fact, all through these practices,—which one undertakes in Yoga,—one obtains all kinds of phenomena of an interesting psychological character,—not spiritistic and not supernormal invariably,—but interesting psychological, inner experiences which are real. We now come to an offshoot of these experiments, so to say,—in which we shall delve more particularly into the direct experimental production of phenomena, by means of the Yoga methods.
Before doing so, it will be necessary to say a few words regarding the constitution of man, according to the Hindu conceptions.
The ordinary Western view of man is that he has a physical body, and that somewhere inside this is concealed a spirit
or mind
or soul,
or something, —a very vague idea,—and that this mind works, and thinks, and constitutes the real man ; and that, beyond this, there is some spirit or vapour or shadow or wraith, which he calls a soul,
which somehow inherits the Kingdom of Heaven
; but what the connections between mind, spirit and soul are have always been very vague in our Western minds.
Now, the Hindu idea is that man is made-up much more complexly than this. To begin with, man has seven bodies, and the lowest of these is the physical body, —the gross
body, they call it ; that above this there is the etheric
body (this is also, of course, the Theosophical doctrine, which is borrowed from the Hindus) and above that there is the astral
body, and then the mental
body, and so on, through the higher planes above the mental. Each of these bodies acts as a sort of link or intermediary between the one above and the one below. For instance, the etheric constitutes the link or connection between the astral and the physical; and the astral constitutes the link between the mental and the etheric ; and so on.
I have already mentioned very briefly the subject of insanity,—the fact that there is a connection or link between the mind and the body, and that many forms of insanity are due, not to fundamental diseases of the body or to fundamental disorders of the mind, but to the link between the two being out of order.
These bodies, then, all function on their own particular planes, and there are as many planes as there are bodies,—or, rather, there are as many bodies as there are planes,—each functioning in its own plane; the physical body functions on the physical plane, the mental body on the mental plane, the etheric body on the etheric plane, and so on.
Now, the Hindus have an idea that energy, as it were, plays down on matter from above,—which I also believe to be fundamentally true,—although matter in a sense is alive, in the sense that it is in constant motion, rapid motion ; also that it has a sort of innate consciousness of its own. There is also another consciousness which is added to it when that becomes organized or bound together, and that this is due to the fact that there is a playing-upon that material substratum of this energy from, as it were, above.
The Hindus have worked-out a very elaborate theory of evolution on this principle, the outpouring of the divine breath,
and other things, which we cannot go into now. At any rate, this fact that we can draw on an inexhaustible supply,—a source of mental and physical energy,—seems experimentally demonstrated to us by our practical daily lives and by common experience.
For instance, a woman of my acquaintance took some morphine for a minor operation, and under the influence of this morphine, read through in one day three books of a heavy character, and remembered practically every word of those three books.
Take another drug (cocaine), and you experience extraordinary happiness. But the happiness you experience is not in the cocaine,—it does no exist in that little white powder,—it is in the human being, and the drug simply brings it up to the surface. So