KUNDALINI AWAKENING: THE MIRACLE AND THE SCIENCE🔗

NITHYANANDA MEDITATION UNIVERSITY

NITHYANANDA MEDITATION UNIVERSITY

© NITHYANANDA MEDITATION UNIVERSITY 2012

enerGeTIcs: wHere scIence anD mysTIcIsm meeT ......................... 1

THe TruTH BeHInD THe FacTs .............................................................. 25

aDvanceD KunDaLInI acTIvaTIon researcH ................................... 45

Inner awaKenInG anD ceLLuLar TransFormaTIon ........................... 53

ImpacT oF KunDaLInI awaKenInG on Gene FuncTIon ...................... 63

GLossary anD InDex ............................................................................ 83

During most of the long history of humanity, energy has been understood experientially. Ancient cultures around the world were interested in how things worked, not in why they worked. When a formula for success was found in any area of life, it was observed, nurtured and passed on as wisdom. It was not, however, dissected and challenged to discover why it worked. That was not perceived as important, as long as it accomplished the desired result.

Ancient people accepted that the cosmos had laws which governed how things worked, and that those laws stemmed from a source akin to, but greater than, the individual being. They acknowledged the interconnection between humankind and its environment, honoring the great dance of life in its glory and complexity. They understood that each small element, including each person, was not only part of the whole, but a complete microcosm of the whole: a hologram, an entire universe in miniature. By changing the energy patterns in any particle of the cosmos, those patterns also shift in the greater whole. This is the “butterfly effect”: when a butterfly on one side of the world flutters its wings, somewhere else a wind will arise, perhaps even a storm.

Everything each of us does, thinks and feels, has a cosmic effect. We are not independent, we are interdependent.

The ancients also understood the experience of spontaneously accessing knowledge through what is nowadays called intuition. Many modern scholars, especially those who have solved

outstanding equations, have spoken of this experience. Einstein, Oppenheimer, Crick and Watson who revealed the structure of DNA—have told of being in a deep contemplative state and then “suddenly I saw” or “I just knew”. Others have spoken of seeing the needed information in a dream— information which turned out to be valid.

Such spontaneous “downloading” of information is available to all of us, but can only operate when we set aside our suspicion. Ancient cultures bypassed skepticism by not challenging successful information. This welcoming attitude led them not only to technological heights we have yet to imagine, but to personal and communal harmony.

Energetically speaking, this openness to all dimensions is what is meant by the terms spirituality and mysticism. Whether we download from an emotional connection and name it as “God”, or from a less personified source we call “Inspiration”, we are in tune with cosmic forces beyond the visible. It is simply the other face of science, from which we have become divorced.

Most of the world's inhabitants today have received a "modern" scientific education. Contemporary scientific thought is a young trend, rooted in the western European countries about eight hundred years ago. Its originators—Galileo, Leonardo da Vinci, Paracelsus and Gutenberg—were wise beings who understood the symbiosis of matter and spirit, faith and "proof", mechanics and mysticism. They worked against a canvas of nearly utter darkness, in the shadow of a religion which forbade any curiosity about the functions of the universe. The light they fostered was great.

In the course of time, however, the division between matter and spirit grew wider. Logic and "reason" became the enemies of spiritual experience. Logic became perverted into a weapon to defeat the "subjectivity" of mysticism. In a backlash against the strangling control of the medieval Christian church, Western thought rejected all spirituality.

Eastern (Asian and Oceanic) and Southern (African, South American and Australian) civilizations retained their holographic understanding. But the Western perspective spread rapidly outward through mercantile exploration and colonial aggression, trampling on local customs and traditions and in many cases extinguishing them.

Internal degradation also took place through the rise of materialism in China, India and the Southeast Asian countries, as imperial dominance replaced the wise leadership of sages and monastics. At times the monarchs relied on priestly advice, but they were free to dispense with it when it displeased them and to suppress any spirituality they found threatening.

Today's modern education consists of mechanistic thought based on "objective" sciences: Mendelian genetics, Darwinian biology, medicine based on Pasteur and Lister, and Newtonian physics. These ideas built the twentieth-century lifestyle, which has proliferated across the planet. With its proliferation, humanity has discovered its dangerous limitations.

and that genes switch on and off, depending on beliefs and expectations. Suppressed writings of Pasteur have been recovered, indicating that he realized his process of pasteurization would not be necessary with the proper awareness of disease.

Most important, quantum physics has demonstrated that the world of atoms and molecules is not absolute. A point is also a wave—at times. A plane is also a cube—depending on circumstances. Every experiment conducted in allegedly "objective" surroundings is influenced by the intentions and thoughts of those who conduct it. There is no such thing as "objectivity".

If thoughts and expectations can influence matter, there must be a connection between them. We are inexorably led back to the holographic universe, to the ancient understanding of interconnectedness. Rebuilding our global culture on this realization can do away with scarcity, pollution, and violence born of greed.

The current methods of energy generation, food production, transportation and health care threaten to overwhelm the resources of Planet Earth. But scientific research is bringing new revelations to move us beyond twentieth century knowledge. The work of Mendel and Darwin is being re-evaluated, showing that evolution is not an orderly progression

The giants of earlier centuries had only half the picture: they missed the impact of thought, emotion (hope, anticipation, disappointment) and mystic contemplation on the physical world. The energetic nature of the universe continues to reveal itself, and with it our technology can also evolve. Welcome to the 21st century!

In his groundbreaking book No Boundary, philosopher Ken Wilber points out that whenever a boundary is established we have divided space into halves: the half we consider contained within the boundary, and the “other half”, which entails everything beyond the boundary. Usually the inside half denotes something comfortable, familiar and cozy— our no-stress zone, where we have control. The other half is unexplored territory, with unknown terrain and untried situations.

The scientific, “practical” world looks at mysticism as the “other half”. Any shift in the material environment that is unexplainable other than by spirituality has been dismissed as imaginary, delusional or fraudulent.

But is this “factually” true? Or is this the coziness of our comfort zone?

In parts of the world—South and East— where ancient holistic knowledge still flourishes, such phenomena are routinely accepted occurrences. The boundary between practical and spiritual has never been drawn. The universal energy that drives the cosmos is understood as both material and mystical. They are not even separate concepts.

accounts by contemporary researchers speak of observing these “flights” as prolonged levitation events. Shamans have been seen to suspend themselves against gravity for as long as seven minutes at a stretch.

The mystical lineage of India likewise survives intact, especially in rural villages which are essentially untouched by time. The extraordinary powers available through mystical dedication are well-known and accepted. Spiritual practitioners, known

the lineage of these practices continues unbroken, they have never been forced to change from mystical into mythical in the cultural perspective.

Now investigators in the North and West are beginning to acknowledge the profound genius that gave birth to these civilizations. Consistently, research using modern standards is confirming that the effect of mysticism—meditation, prayer, visualization and dream—upon matter is neither imagination nor hoax: it is simply the action of scientific laws that contemporary scholars have not rediscovered. There is quite literally no boundary: everything is energy.

There is quite literally no boundary: everything is energy.

as sadhus or yogis, continue to implement the age-old, time-tested formulas for such powers as living comfortably without food and water, sitting unscathed in a roaring fire, walking on air, burying themselves for prolonged periods without harm, and healing grave illness, to name only a few of the abilities that manifest. Because

Within this understanding lies hope for the beleaguered planet. Once humanity moves beyond its limited sources of fuel, food production and irrigation, infinite possibilities become available. Competition is replaced by cooperation.

Since the needs of Planet Earth are urgent, time is of the essence. Waiting for scientists to re-discover all the properties of energetics is not practical. It is also unnecessary. The knowledge of some ancient cultures is still available, vibrantly alive and ready for implementation.

This knowledge pre-dates the written word, which is a comparatively late development. The principle behind oral transmission is neither inferior intelligence nor lack of sophistication. On the contrary, its basis is highly scientific, acknowledging the vibration of sound as the fundamental unit of energy from which matter is created, sustained and destroyed. When information is communicated orally, sound waves embed themselves into the memory. Cognitive learning is bypassed and the physical body absorbs the data without the interference and judgment of the mind.

Modern experiments are now validating the ability of sound to manifest, shape and alter material objects.

For rapid contemporary use, however, a literary database gives prompter service. The search is on for a complete, holistic, currently practiced system of energetics, one whose range of effectiveness extends over physical matter, emotional and mental patterning, and ultimately influences external events (such as lowering the crime rate by meditating on peace in a violent area). Finally, the desired system should be transmittable both orally and through written language.

The Vedic civilization of what is now the sub-continent of India responds to all these requirements. Its origins defy identification, since available historical tools such as carbon-dating do not extend further back than 30,000 years. Beyond the limits of these methods, evidence shows that a great civilization throve around the Saraswati River, near the border of present-day India and China. "Downloaded" information places its peak at some 90,000 years ago.

Vedic civilization was based on the complete understanding of energy, its production and uses, and on the holographic nature of the cosmos. Its traditions were oral, but were also recorded in a series of texts called the Vedas, from the word meaning "knowledge" or "knowing". The written version stands untarnished today and is still studied and practiced by millions of people under the umbrella of "Hinduism." Because of its experiential nature, founded on the exploration of one's personal spirituality, Hinduism is receptive, embracing all mystical phenomena as valid.

Despite written accessibility, much Vedic instruction is still given orally because of the importance of imprinting the sounds physically into students. Sound formulas, called mantras, sutras and slokas, are transmitted from master to apprentice in an intensely committed training. This initiation of power permanently raises the vibrational level of the student. The goal of such apprenticeship is not only mastery of the chants and texts, but enlightenment: the capacity to consistently download spontaneous information, to alter and regulate the flow of energy in all objects and living beings, and the ability to transmit that energy to others for the benefit of humanity.

The Vedic civilization gave the world Vedic mathematics ( a calculation system not based on linear solutions but on holistic comprehension), medicine, astronomy, engineering, navigation and flight powered by sound, technique which the world has temporarily lost. It also developed a unique science of well-being that simultaneously nourished the body, mind and inner meditative zone. This science was called yoga, which means to unite, linking together all our dimensions to maximize our potential at every level. Through physical postures, regulated breathing and intentional contemplation, the full flowering of human possibility is called into bloom.

Yoga survives today in multiple forms, as the descendants of Vedic culture have added their insights and offshoots. It is the connecting thread between all sects of Hinduism, diverse as they have become. Such is the power of this ancient science that it is taught and practiced all over the world by people otherwise unconnected with India.

The Vedic lifestyle proposed that each individual live to the pinnacle of his potential. Education and choice of vocation were guided by the community guru, who had mastery of Vedic wisdom and was able to perceive the flow of energy in all things and direct its movement. Combining this perception with the discriminating use of sound formulas, the guru restored health in the sick, corrected emotional imbalances, mediated disagreements, and above all, maximized the energy pathways within each person, removing blocks that interfered with blissful living.

The guru was able to move objects from place to place (known today as teleportation), to negate the effect of gravity (gravity nullification or levitation), and to produce needed objects seemingly from nowhere (materialization). Gurus were also able to deflect light waves so they could be unseen (invisibility) and to appear in multiple places simultaneously (bilocation). Finally, and most important, they were able to activate the dormant source of inspirational energy in each human being and bring it into flower. This process is known today as kundalini activation: the opening of super-consciousness within us.

Such abilities, called siddhis, seem impossible by the standards of conventional science, because we know only half the picture. We are peering out from inside our limiting boundary. In the more expansive light of quantum physics, the phenomena of the Vedic tradition make complete sense.

we can see that expanding our boundary of acceptance is simply a sensible choice. The needs of Planet Earth are desperate enough that we cannot afford the self-indulgence of holding back.

So where do we begin to integrate this science?

As the holographic model clearly shows, we begin with ourselves. The Vedic tradition understood this: that as each of us transforms, the environment follows us. As each of us activates our kundalini and unfolds to our full self-realization, external problems spontaneously resolve.

So how do we go about it?

Let us look at a map of the human energy system. Our energy is stored in and dispensed out of seven major centers. The Sanskrit word for these centers is chakras. Chakra means wheel, something circular that rotates, which is how our centers look to those who can perceive them.

If we consider that not long ago cloning was impossible, “test-tube babies” (in vitro fertilization) were thought of as outlandish, mobile phones were a wistful dream and the World Wide Web was inconceivable,

The chakras lie along a central line that runs up our spine from the tailbone to the crown of the head. This central conduit for energy is called Sushumna. Entwined around it on the left and right sides of the spine are two other energy lines, the Ida and the Pingala, which carry feminine and masculine energy respectively. Ida and Pingala run from the tailbone to the nostrils, weaving back and forth around Sushumna. Wherever they meet and cross lies a chakra.

Each chakra is connected to a different endocrine gland in the physical body. The endocrine glands govern our hormones and therefore also our emotions. Any positive or negative experiences we have had relating to the emotion of a specific chakra is stored inside that chakra. For example, the second chakra, lying between the navel and the pubic bone, governs fear. If we have had a deep fright at some point in our lives, the feeling of it is stored in that chakra. It determines how we react to future situations that remind us of our fear.

The existence and location of the chakras have been confirmed by innumerable sources. The most detailed scientific validation can be found in Hands of Light by Barbara Brennan, a NASA physicist for fifteen years who began spontaneously experiencing the human energy field and went on to document her discoveries using her physics training.

At birth, every human being carries a reservoir of kundalini energy at the base of the spine. It is coiled up in a serpent-like pose, which is where the name kundalini comes from: it means "the coiled one." Kundalini lies dormant until it is stimulated by specific yoga techniques. Because our contemporary society provides no support to awaken it, many people live out their lives without accessing their birthright to the power it

One of the roles of the guru in Vedic tradition was to safely and knowledgeably awaken the kundalini and guide its rise up the spine to flower at the crown of the head. This image is remarkably reproduced in the symbol of the caduceus, the winged serpent-staff of western medicine. Once the serpent arrives at the top of the staff it sprouts wings, a metaphor for the realization of our divine consciousness. Observing this image, we can readily see that the roots of western healing indeed spring from Vedic civilization, and that the West at one time understood the dynamics of kundalini activation.

What do we do to raise our kundalini?

There are a number of methods, most of them potentially risky and requiring years of committed training and practice. The swiftest and safest method is to receive initiation from a guru—an enlightened master. The initiation is called deeksha and involves the transmission of energy from master to recipient.

supplies. If it does arise spontaneously, the psychic experiences it produces are often regarded as madness or "nervous breakdown" by ignorant medical personnel.

Entanglement was first identified by Einstein and his colleagues, who believed it was an erroneous concept. Their experiments aimed at disproving it. They were not only unable to do so; ensuing study has proven its truth beyond any question.

Entanglement occurs when two molecules interact and then are separated. Even if they are divided by an enormous distance, the encounter they had creates a shared state—they acquire identical behavior. Their energetic connection allows them to exchange both information and physical matter between each other without the need to travel across physical distance. Other terms for this phenomenon are telepathy (information) and teleportation (physical matter).

A corollary to entanglement is entrainment. Entrainment is something we

often witness in daily life. If we have a clock ticking in a room, for example, and we introduce other ticking clocks, eventually they will all follow the same rhythm and tick together. Psychology experiments have shown that the human brain also responds to entrainment. Given a rhythm or behavior which appeals to our nervous centers, we will find ourselves imitating it.

The one with the highest vibration will be the entrainer. On an energetic scale, whichever object vibrates at the highest frequency raises its fellows to that frequency. The inclination of all life is toward enlightenment, toward the realization of a greater level of being.

In the case of entanglement, the molecule of a pair which is identified

first then sends its identity to its partner, and the partner duplicates the pattern. Therefore, when a kundalini adept encounters an inexperienced seeker, the identity of the adept sets the expectation for the seeker.

The enlightened master's years of training and contemplation have permanently soaked his physical essence with the highest vibrational frequency, creating a field around him that entrains those who enter it. When this energy is consciously directed it becomes a force for positive change, clearing old debris from the chakras, awakening and guiding the kundalini, and supporting those receiving the power to integrate it safely.

Having discussed the theory, it is time to experiment with the facts. Groundbreaking studies have been underway for a decade in India at the retreat center of Paramahamsa Nithyananda near Bangalore in India.

Revered as a living incarnation by millions worldwide, Paramahamsa Nithyananda is the head of the world's most ancient living Hindu organization, Madurai Aadheenam as well as helming his own international socio-spiritual organization, Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam. The heir of a 5000-year-old lineage of enlightened Indian yogis who are adept in awakening the Kundalini energy for healing and spiritual transformation, Nithyananda is an accomplished siddha yogi, spiritual healer, orator, and author with a following in 150 countries.

Over the past decade, Paramahamsa Nithyananda has been working closely with a team of scientists and researchers to throw more light on the mystical sciences rooted in the Vedic tradition, and reach the benefits of these sciences to people across the world.