The power of kundalini
‘UNTAPPED INTERNAL ENERGY CAN BE USED TO ACHIEVE ONE’S POTENTIAL’
QUESTION: What is kundalini? Sadhguru: If you look at it, on one level, kundalini is just another name for the divine or that which is the source of your creation. Though you provided it the fuel from outside, all the growth that has happened to this body up to this day – from the day it was born and even before that – has happened from the inside. That energy which makes all this happen, you can call it god, divine or whatever. In yoga, we gave it a specific name because we are not looking at it with faith, but as a science.
Today, science tells us that this body is the greatest piece of engineering on the planet. It really is a masterpiece. Something that is capable of creating this, you think this is all it could do? Suppose you saw one painting of an artist which was really incredible, you think that is all he can do? He could be doing so many other things. Similarly, you allowed this energy to create only this much. You have seen just one piece of creation; you have not seen the rest of it. The whole system of yoga is looking at how to allow this “inner engineer” or this “inner artist” find his full potential. The physical body is the most basic thing he is able to create. He is doing it for everybody. If he is able to produce billions of them, then he must be capable of many more things. We are seeing how to allow him the freedom to function at his full creativity.
The word “kundalini” generally refers to that dimension of energy, which is yet to realise its potential. There is a huge volume of energy within you which is yet to find its potential. It is just there waiting, because what you call as a human being is still in the making. You are not yet a human being, you are a “human becoming.” You are not an absolute entity of being human. There is constant scope to make yourself into a better human being.
For this process to happen, the process of evolution allowed a huge volume of energy untapped, that if you become conscious, you could use this to make something fantastic out of it.
When you were an animal, you did not choose evolution. When you were a monkey, you did not desire to become a man. Nature just pushed you on. But once you become human, there is no more unconscious evolution. If you are unconscious, the same endless cycle of the same nonsense will go on and on. If you seek evolution consciously, it will come to you. Now if you become conscious, evolution or any change cannot happen without the necessary energy. So nature left a huge volume of untapped energy that you could use. It is a treasure on which you are sitting. If you are looking in the wrong direction, you will never know that there is a treasure.
It happened once. There was a beggar who lived in terrible poverty. He just sat under a tree and begged. People threw a few coins, and he just lived on. One day he died and his body was just lying there. No friends and relatives, nobody wanted to carry him somewhere and bury him. Nobody wanted to carry his body far away, so they decided to just bury him right there under the tree. So people started digging, and then they hit upon a huge treasure. Just a few feet beneath him there had been a huge treasure, a huge pot full of gold and the fool was sitting right there all his life, begging. If only he had dug down, then he would have been a very rich man. But he sat there all the time being a beggar.
This is the way of the kundalini. It is sitting right there. Everybody is sitting on a jackpot but are looking in other directions. They’re not looking where the treasure is. So they never realise something like this is there.
Kundalini is that treasure within you which has been left unused, untapped. The kind of energy which can create something as fantastic as a human body, if a huge volume of it is untapped, can you imagine what you could create out of it? Anything, isn’t it? You could make something fantastic out of it. You could use that energy to transform this into a completely different dimension altogether; a dimension that you cannot imagine is there.
n Ranked among the fifty most influential people in India, Sadhguru is a yogi, mystic, visionary and a New York Times bestselling author Sadhguru has been conferred the Padma Vibhushan by the government of India in 2017, the highest annual civilian award, accorded for exceptional and distinguished service.