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last reaches the hcad. This is called the movement of the Mahāvāyu, the Spiritual Current. It culminates in samādhi.
"One's spiritual consciousness is not awakened by the mere reading of books. One should pray to God. The Kundalini is aroused if the aspirant feels restless for God. To talk of knowlcdge from mere study and hearsay! What will that accomplish?
“Just before my attaining this state of mind, it had been revealed to me how the Kundalini is aroused, how the lotuses of the different centers blossom forth, and how all this culminates in samādhi. This is a very secret expcricnce. I saw a boy twentytwo or twenty-three years old, exactly resembling me, enter the Suşumņā nerve and commune with the loluscs, touching them with his tongue. He began with the center at the anus and passed through the centers of the sexual organs, navel, and so on. The different lotuscs of those centers-four-petalled, sixpetalled, and so forth—had been drooping. At his touch they stood erect.
"When he reached the hcart-I distinctly remember it-and communed with the lotus there, touching it with his tongue, the twelve-petalled lotus, which was hanging head down, stood erect and opened its petals. Then he came to the sixteen-petalled lotus in the throat and the two-petalled lotus in the forehead. And last of all, the thousand-petalled lotus in the head blossomed. Since then I have been in this statc.” 66
"Waken, O Mother!" wrote Rāmprasād, "O Kundalini, whose nature is Bliss Eternal! Thou art the serpent coiled in sleep, in the lotus of the Mūlādhāral" 18
"In dense darkness, O Mother," runs another wonderful song, “Thy formless beauty sparkles":
In dense darkness, O Mother, Thy formless beauty sparkles; Therefore the yogis meditate in a dark mountain cave.
66 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, pp. 829-830. 36 lb., p. 369.
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