Many philosophers and spiritual researchers have named it as ‘Serpent’. Kundalini or serpent power is something that is related to subtle body ( shuksma Sharira) rather than to physical body. For every macroscopic phenomenon there lies a subtle microscopic phenomenon. Kudalini energy plays a vital role and has manifested itself in various energy forms like - Life energy ( chinese call it chi - the life force), we call it as Jeevani Shakti, creative energy, will energy. Kundalini is a fire, and breathe (prana) is a Dravya, and the product is life ( a kind Yajna). We offer prana to fire -Kundalini, and the resultant or product is life force. The body itself is a Shava ( jada) and kundalini ( adi shakti) when holds this shava, becomes shiva. Shiva is shava without shakti.
This union degraded physically to worldly sexual intercourse. Even, the small and temporary glimpse of pleasure that is achieved as an orgasm is conversion of creative energy( its like spending your ‘tapas’). When this creative energy increases an unstable state of mind is acheived and this energy starts finding a way to drain out. So, few knew how to channelize this energy. They use it in different ways. Great people like Leonardo Da Vinci, Socrates, William Shakespeare, Other have used this energy which is a form of kundalini energy. The yogins know the truth and they channelize this energy, with help of breathe prana control, yoga( not body exercises), meditation, focus all different forms of kundalini energy which is distributed and concentrate to kundaini itself. Kundalini sleeps in muladhara with 3.5 coil of condensed electric impulse form. When awakens eats up all earth matter. Aspirants have different experiences.
Kundalini awakening should be practiced in guidance of a master. Its not a child play.
Kundalini awakening can trigger neurological incidents such as, traumatic brain injury ( like burst of brain nerve - cerebral thrombosis), damage to spinal chord or mental disturbance ( like a person can go lunatic). I have seen an incident where a person died in process of kundalini awakening by forceful method (Hatyog). There are certain yogic practices and breathing exercises that accounts to the process of kundalini awakening but these practices requires patience, time and experience (Dhaarna). Meditation is important factors that play an important role to balance body and mind. Mind is the only tool that is used for meditation and other spiritual progress. Mind when sharpens, become subtle and can understand the mystical and subtle knowledge hidden in spiritual books, understanding real essence of shashtras requires a sharpen and subtle mind.
