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  1. Swami Shailendra Saraswati
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    2020-11-03T10:31:09+05:30
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    When we are absolutely peaceful, the spinal column becomes perpendicular to the ground. This happens on its own if the man is healthy and not ill or too old. Therefore, when we want to be peaceful, we should fix our spinal cord at a ninety-degree angle. Thus gradually a yogi comes to experience what is going on within him.

    As we progress further we will feel energy rising upwards from our spine. We will feel it as sharp warmth that flows through the spine. Ripples of electricity rise within, and as they climb higher and higher, we are filled with joy. Pain and despondency begin to vanish and a feeling of joy arises.

    As the electrical waves go even higher, all that is trivial falls away into the valley and we feel as if we are on a high mountain. The fog of the village, the talk of people and the mundane struggles of life are left far behind. This is why the spinal column is called the Meru Dand. Meru is a mountain in heaven; thus it is the Meru spine and it is said that he who climbs the heights of Meru Dand reaches the same height as Mt. Meru in heaven. The Hindu never shaves a tuft of hair at the top of the head; this is the last peak, the seventh door from which the energy then is absorbed into the infinite. When our energy begins to diffuse from this place we attain to brahmacharya, celibacy.

    We need not do anything to attain brahmacharya; whenever sexual desire arises we needn’t actively suppress it. We have only to straighten our spine for all the energy to flow upward. The same energy that flowed into sexual desire becomes the energy of brahmacharya. It is the same whether it flows downward through the first door into nature, or upward through the seventh door to reach the divine.

    Sex is horizontal. When we are totally aware, sex becomes vertical. And that vertical movement of sex is Kundalini. If sex moves horizontally, then we go on reproducing others and reproducing our self. If the energy begins to move upward, vertically, we just go out — out of the wheel of Existence: as the Buddhists say, out of the wheel of life. This is a new birth — not in a new body, but in a new dimension of Existence. This Buddhists have called Nirvana. We can call it MOKSHA — liberation — or whatsoever we like to call it.

    Water evaporates at 100 degrees. At 90 degrees it becomes warm, it may become hot, but it cannot evaporate. Only at a fixed point, at 100 degrees, it evaporates, it   transforms; it is no longer water; the quality changes. Water flows downward; that is its inherent quality. But the moment it evaporates, it moves upward. It has become a vapor. Now it is moving up; the very quality has changed. It was moving downward. Now, it is moving upward.

    At a particular point, we can meet the divine. It is a cosmic orgasm – just like the orgasm that happens in sex. Through our sex center we meet with nature. Through Sahasrar, when our energy is moving into the cosmos through our head, we meet the divine. It is also a sex act, known as Samadhi. We are meeting existence itself.

    When sex has disappeared into love and love has disappeared into bliss, there is a Brahmacharya, a spontaneous celibacy. Brahmacharya means ‘living like God’. The whole energy is just grace, gratitude, a benediction. One becomes absolutely divine.

    — Swami Shailendra Saraswati

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