Shakti and Shâkta : essays and addresses on the Shâkta Tantrashâstra

KUNDALIN! SHAKTI

point is, as it were, the Shakti left over (though yet a plenum) after the Prithivi, the last of the Bhfitas has been created. We have thus Mahakundali at rest as Chidrfipint Shakti in the Sahasrara the point of absolute rest ; and then the body in which the relative static centre is Kundalf at rest and round this centre the whole of the bodily forces move. They are Shakti and so is Kundali Shakti. The difference between the two is that they are Shakti in specific differentiated forms im movement; and Kundali Shakti is undifferentiated residual Shakti at rest, that is, coiled. She is coiled in the Maladh&ara, which means fundamental support, and which is at the same time the 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 Mfla&dh4ra, in so far as it is the seat of Kundalf Shakti, a comparatively gross form of Chit (being Chit-Shakti and M&y4-Shakti) is the static pole in relation to the rest of the body which is dynamic. The “working” that is the body necessarily presupposes and finds such a static support; hence the name MslAadhara. In one sense the static Shakti at the Milddhara is necessarily co-existent with the creating and evolving Shakti of the body ; because the dynamic aspect or pole can never be without its static counterpart. In another sense it is the residual Shakti left over after such operation.

What then happens in the accomplishment of this Yoga? Thisstatic Shakti is affected by Pranayama and other Yogik processes and becomes dynamic. Thus when completely dynamic, that is when Kundali unites with Shiva in the Sahasrara the polarisation of the body gives way. The two poles are united in one and there is the state of consciousness called Samadhi. The polarisation, of course, takes place in consciousness. The body actually continues to exist as an object of observation to others. It continues its organic life. But man’s consciousness of his

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