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.In the case, again, of the impregnated ovum, Shakti is already presentedin its two polar aspects, namely, the ovum (possibly the static) and the spermatozoon, the dynamic.Thegerm cell does not cease to be such.It splits into two, one half, the somatic cell gradually developingitself into the body of the animal, the other half remaining encased within the body practicallyunchanged and as the germ-plasma is transmitted in the process of reproduction to the offspring.In short, Shakti, when manifesting, divides itself into two polar aspects -- static and dynamic -- whichimplies that you cannot have it in a dynamic form without at the same time having it in a static form,much like the poles of a magnet.In any given sphere of activity of force, we must have, according to thecosmic principle, a static background -- Shakti at rest or "coiled" as the Tantras say.This scientific truthis illustrated in the figure of the Tantrik Kali.The Divine Mother moves as the Kinetic Shakti on thebreast of Sadashiva who is the static background of pure Cit which is actionless (Nishkriya); theGunamayi Mother being all activity.The Cosmic Shakti is the collectivity (Samashti) in relationto which the Kundali in particular bodies is the Vyasti (individual) Shakti.The body is, as I have stated,a microcosm (Kshudrabrahmanda).In the living body there is, therefore, the same polarization of whichI have spoken.From the Mahakundali the universe has sprung.In Her supreme form She is at rest,coiled round and one (as Cidrupini) with the Shivabindu.She is then at rest.She next uncoils Herself tomanifest.Here the three coils of which the Tantras speak are the three Gunas, and the three and a halfcoils to which the Kubjika Tantra alludes are Prakriti and its three Gunas together with the Vikritis.Her50 coils are the letters of the alphabet.As She goes on uncoiling, the Tattvas and the Matrikas, theMothers of the Varnas, issue from Her.She is thus moving, and continues even after creation to move inthe Tattvas so created.For as they are born of movement, they continue to move.The whole world(Jagat) as the Sanskrit term implies, is moving.She thus continues creatively active until She hashttp://www.sacred-texts.com/tantra/sas/sas29.htm (11 of 14)07/03/2005 16:05:10 Chapter Twenty-nine: Kundalini Shakta (Yoga)pkmishra1961@rediffmail.comFor Learning Meditation , Kundalini Yoga etc.--> CONTACT :->> PH : GSM : +91-9990 90 8228evolved Prithivi, the last of the Tattvas.First She creates mind and then matter.This latter becomesmore and more dense.It has been suggested that the Mahabhutas are the Densities of modern science:Air density associated with the maximum velocity of gravity; Fire density associated with the velocity oflight; Water or fluid density associated with molecular velocity and the equatorial velocity of the Earth'srotation; and Earth density, that of basalt associated with the Newtonian velocity of sound.However thisbe, it is plain that the Bhutas represent an increasing density of matter until it reaches its three-dimensional solid form.When Shakti has created this last or Prithivi Tattva, what is there further for Herto do? Nothing.She, therefore, then again rests.She is again coiled, which means that She is at rest."Atrest," again, means that She assumes a static form.Shakti, however, is never exhausted, that is, emptiedinto any of its forms.Therefore, Kundali Shakti at this point is, as it were, the Shakti left over (thoughyet a plenum) after the Prithivi, the last of the Bhutas has been created.We have thus Mahakundali atrest as Cidrupini Shakti in the Sahasrara, the point of absolute rest; and then the body in which therelative static center is Kundali at rest, and round this center the whole of the bodily forces move.Theyare Shakti, and so is Kundali Shakti.The difference between the two is that they are Shakti in specificdifferentiated forms in movement; and Kundali Shakti is un-differentiated, residual Shakti at rest, that is,coiled.She is coiled in the Muladhara, which means fundamental support, and which is at the same timethe seat of the Prithivi or last solid Tattva and of the residual Shakti or Kundalini.The body may,therefore, be compared to a magnet with two poles.The Muladhara, in so far as it is the seat of KundaliShakti, a comparatively gross form of Cit (being Cit-Shakti and Maya-Shakti) is the static pole inrelation to the rest of the body which is dynamic.The "working" that is the body necessarily presupposesand finds such a static support; hence the name Muladhara.In one sense the static Shakti at the Mula-dhara is necessarily co-existent with the creating and evolving Shakti of the body; because the dynamicaspect or pole can never be without its static counterpart.In another sense, it is the residual Shakti leftover after such operation.What, then, happens in the accomplishment of this Yoga? This static Shakti is affected by Pranayamaand other Yogic processes and becomes dynamic.Thus, when completely dynamic, that is, whenKundali unites with Shiva in the Sahasrara, the polarization of the body gives way.The two poles areunited in one and there is the state of consciousness called Samadhi.The polarization, of course, takesplace in consciousness.The body actually continues to exist as an object of observation to others.Itcontinues its organic life.But man's consciousness of his body and all other objects is withdrawnbecause the mind has ceased, so far as his consciousness is concerned, the function, having beenwithdrawn into its ground which is consciousness.How is the body sustained? In the first place, though Kundali Shakti is the static center of the wholebody as a complete conscious organism, yet each of the parts of the body and their constituent cells havetheir own static centers which uphold such parts or cells.Next, the theory of the Tantriks themselves isthat Kundali ascends, and that the body, as a complete organism, is maintained by the "nectar" whichflows from the union of Shiva and Shakti in the Sahasrara.This nectar is an ejection of power generatedby their union.My friend, however, whom I have cited, is of opinion (and for this grounds may beurged) that the potential Kundali Shakti becomes only partly and not wholly converted into kineticShakti; and yet since Shakti -- even as given in the Mula center -- is an infinitude, it is not depleted, thepotential store always remaining unexhausted.In this case, the dynamic equivalent is a partialhttp://www.sacred-texts.com/tantra/sas/sas29.htm (12 of 14)07/03/2005 16:05:10 Chapter Twenty-nine: Kundalini Shakta (Yoga)pkmishra1961@rediffmail.comFor Learning Meditation , Kundalini Yoga etc.--> CONTACT :->> PH : GSM : +91-9990 90 8228conversion of one mode of energy into another.If, however, the coiled power at the Mula becameabsolutely uncoiled, there would result the dissolution of the three bodies, gross, subtle and causal, andconsequently Videha-Mukti -- because the static background in relation to a particular form of existencewould, according to this hypothesis, have wholly given way [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]