Balance the Body for Kundalini Awakening
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January 20, 2011
Do you know? If you keep the body balanced, you will not have pain. You will have a stable, steady posture that can take you beyond pleasure. Actually, when you keep the body balanced, the intense, innate pleasure inside gets awakened. Please understand, your muscle by its nature creates pleasure, just because it is alive. If the life force is infused into the muscle, and if the muscle is aware that it is alive, it will create pleasure. When you balance your body, the life force is experienced inside the muscle, and this leads to intense inner pleasure, which takes you beyond the outer pleasure.
When you enjoy any pleasure, just be aware. Go through any pleasure with awareness just once. With awareness, you will be complete, liberated from that pleasure. When you are alive in your muscles, the pleasure created is so strong, so intense, that you will go beyond the outer pleasure.
Let me give you the exact instruction for balancing. Sit either in vajrasana, padmasana or sukhasana. Then try to find out in which position your upper body feels lightest, weightless.
If you lean or move your body to the right side with closed eyes, you will feel the weight of the body. Slowly try to bring it back to the point where it is straight. When equilibrium is reached, when the whole weight falls in the center, you will feel your body as weightless. Same way, try moving to the left side. Again, you will feel the heaviness of the body. Again, slowly bring your body back to the center. Actually, wearing a heavy jewel like a heavy rudraksha will be useful when you do this balancing. It will really help you catch the exact point. If you are balanced, at one point, you will see your body feels weightless. Again, start step by step with deep awareness. At one point, you will feel you are weightless. Try this in all four directions. You will find the right, balanced posture for you.
It may take a total of three to four minutes. You can start in any direction, but you need to do it in all four directions; only then will you find that balance-point for you. The moment you find your balance-point and are centered, you will immediately see that there is no pain. You can sit for any number of hours. When you sit in the proper posture and have the samana mudra (hands clasped on your lap with the right thumb on top of the left thumb), immediately you will experience the psychological kundalini awakening. You will become light. Then, after a few days of practice, the physical levitation will also happen.
Every day, before you sit for your meditation, take three minutes to align your body. You will see that with the aligned body, the kundalini awakening will be very easy. The backbone structure is such that the energy flows very easily from center to the crown.
When the posture is conquered, there are no dualities; pain and pleasure, excitement and boredom. The body feels completely balanced, settled and alive. All you need to do is align the body.