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Treasure Within

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DEMYSTIFYING YOGA

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Yogi and mystic,

Sadhguru, looks at the
enormous potential that
Kundalini carries. He
speaks of the importance of becoming
aware of the Kundalini, awakening to a
hidden treasure within.

Sadhguru: The word “kundalini”

generally refers to that dimension of
energy that is yet to realize its potential.
There is a huge volume of energy within
you that is yet to find its potential. It is
just there waiting, because what you call
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.

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

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will go on and on. Evolution will come to
you only if you seek it consciously.

If you become conscious, evolution – or

any change – cannot happen without the
necessary energy. So, 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. It is a
treasure on which you are sitting. But if
you are looking in the wrong direction,
you will never know that there is a
treasure.

Kundalini: Sitting on a
Jackpot

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. He had no friends or
relatives, and nobody wanted to
carry him somewhere and bury
him. So they decided to just bury
him right there under the tree. As
people began digging, 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, 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. Everyone is sitting on a
jackpot, but they are all looking in other
directions. They are not looking where the
treasure is. So they never realize
something like this is there. Kundalini is
that treasure within you which has been
left unused, untapped. You could use that
energy to transform this into a completely

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different dimension altogether; a
dimension that you cannot imagine.

Kundalini: Plug into the

Ultimate Source

Let me take you from your own

experience of life because the stories about
Kundalini are many. In your house, there
is a plug-point in the wall. This plug-point
does not actually produce any power.
There is a huge power station elsewhere
that is producing power, but it cannot
give you that power directly. It is the
plug-point that gives you access. Though
most people have not even thought about
the power station and have no concept of
what it is, they know that if they plug an
appliance into the plug-point, the
appliance will run.

Similarly, there is a “plug-point” within

the human body. It is not a 3-pin point, it
is a 5-pin point. You might have heard of
the seven chakras. The muladhara is like
a plug-point. That is why it is known as
muladhara. Muladhara means
“fundamental” or “basic.” Five of the
remaining six chakras are the plug. What
is the seventh chakra, known as the
sahasrar? It is like a light bulb. If you
plug it in, everything about you glows. If
you are properly plugged in, keeping the
lights on 24 hours of the day is not an
issue anymore. You don’t have to turn off
your power because you are worried the
battery might run out. You can just keep
it on blatantly, recklessly, because you are
plugged into the power source.

Even right now,

you still have
energy. You can
read what is
There is a
written. That “plug-
means life point”
energies are within the
functioning, but
human
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in a very
miniscule way.
body. It is
Just a small part not a 3-
of it is pin point,
functioning. If
the whole of it
it is a 5-
becomes
pin point.
available to you,
if it is properly
plugged in, there is no limit to what you
can do out of it. Even with the plug-point
at home, once you are plugged in, you
can make light happen, you can get the
air-conditioning going, you can have the
heater, you can have the television –
anything you want. Just one power point.
You can do so many things.

Unfortunately, most human beings are

not plugged in. They are trying to
generate their own power. So they eat five
times a day, but still they are tired most of
the time. It is a struggle to keep life going.
Energy is not just in terms of physical
energy or activity, energy is in terms of
life. Existence is energy, isn’t it? The basis
of existence is energy. If you know that
basis, it is like knowing the foundations of
life. If you understand the ways of the
energy, you know the whole mechanics of
creation. So if you are plugged in, you
know what the power is, what it can do
and what you can make out of it. You are
plugged into an endless source of power –
that is what is Kundalini.

How Do You Plug Into

Kundalini?

To plug in an appliance, if your hands are

shaky, you will scratch the whole wall but
you will not get the plug in. In the same
way, to put the 5-point plug into the plug-
point is difficult for a lot of people because
there is no steadiness in their body, their
mind, their emotions or their energies.
Yoga is a means to get the necessary
steadiness so that you can plug it in. Once
you plug it in – boundless energy! You

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don’t have to go and learn about or
understand the power station. You plug it
in and everything is fine.

Yoga is the science of getting the plug

properly in so that there is an
uninterrupted source of power. Once you
are connected to this uninterrupted source
of power, naturally you will proceed
towards the goal of what life is longing
for. You will not get lost with your fancy
ideas, dreams, thoughts, emotions or
entanglements of the world.

The Organic Atom

A human being is an “organic atom”, an

individual unit of life. For example, today,
human beings are exploring atomic
science. An atom is not even visible to
you, but if you smash it, something
tremendous happens. And if you are in
the way, something terrible will happen.
No one ever realized that there could be
so much energy packed into this tiny,
little atom until they broke it. Similarly,
there is a tremendous amount of energy
packed into a human being. The
Kundalini awakening or rising means you
have found the technology of tapping into
that energy.

However, if you tap into this dimension of

energy, which is a phenomenal force, you
must be on stable ground. This is just like
learning to operate nuclear energy.
Nowadays, everyone is learning a lot
about atomic science because of the
Japanese situation! If you have forgotten
the Russian experience, the Japanese are
reminding you. If you tap into this
energy, you must tap into it with extreme
caution. If you are not in the right kind of
situations, if you are in the way of a
tsunami or an earthquake, you could be
asking for trouble. It is the same thing
with the Kundalini.

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Don’t Build a
“Kundalini” Bomb!
With the kind of lives that most people
live, where there are too many things –
people, food or activity – that are not in
absolute control, trying to activate the
Kundalini because you read a book
somewhere is like starting to build a
nuclear reactor in your home because you
read how to do it on the internet.
Apparently, until 2006, there was a
detailed plan about how to build a nuclear
bomb available on the internet! We don’t
know how many people have downloaded
it. The only fortune is they have no access
to the material that is needed. With
Kundalini too, there are too many people
who have read about how, with the
Kundalini awakening, you can do all sorts
of miraculous things. But though they
may intellectually know what to do,
experientially they don’t. And that’s a
good thing because if they crack this
energy open and they cannot contain it, it
can destroy your whole system in no
time. Not just you, people around you
could be hugely harmed too. So is
Kundalini a bad thing? No. It is a
tremendous thing but anything which is
tremendous has to be conducted in
utmost care and caution.

How Else Do You

Activate Kundalini?
So is there something else that one can
do? Every aspect of yoga in some way
activates Kundalini. In fact, everything
that you do, if you go and jump for 10
minutes or play football, will activate
your Kundalini to some extent. In
moments of absolute involvement in a
game, people show a phenomenal sense
of energy, which is not possible for them
in normal situations. This is because the
Kundalini gets activated in intense
activity. But consciously trying to crack it
open and use it is a different business.
That has to be done under absolute
control and guidance.

Editor’s Note: “Mystic’s Musings”

includes more of Sadhguru’s insights on
tantra, chakras and kundalini. Read the
free sample [pdf] or purchase the ebook.

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