Power of Kundalini Yoga | Sadhguru

So uh what is the relationship between uh prana and condundalini and then this is related to it. How do we generate and maintain a proper flow of prana? The word kund means a pet. It could be homund which is a sacrif which is a kind that you have seen or just a kund. It is just a pit. So kundalini is not the name of a particular energy I am speaking. This is also kundalini. You are listening that is also kundalini. A dog is barking that is also condundalini. A tree is flowering that is also kalini. So the whole energy in the existence is referred to as kundalini because this is the nature of the energy. It is always in a pit only if you put a potential possibility like a seed it finds expression. So right now you put the right kind of seed and allow it to find expression rather trying to dig it out. But those who are in a rush and those who are competent or those who are in the presence of the competent constantly such people can dig it out. You know there are certain systems of tantra. There were certain types of people particularly in central Asia these were certain groups of gypsies numatic people who in their rituals in a matter of 2 and 1/2 hours to 3 hours they will plant an apple seed and make the tree grow and bear fruit. In India there have been many situations like that. But in I'm saying outside of India these people did that because these people had a certain process of tantra where within a matter of few hours you plant do certain rituals and make things happen a plant actually grows up and bears a fruit. So there are other ways that if you create a certain type of energy, if you dig out a certain type of energy, what would happen in a certain span of life would happen very rapidly. Kundalini is the is a description of a certain practice. I know everywhere people are using the word like it is some film star or something. Kundalini. Kundalini. Where's your kundalini? Now getting your energy out of the pit, the latent energy which is in the pit to get it out of it is condalini. Kundalini yoga means to get the energy out of the pit and active. A massive amount of energy is in the pit. It's still there. You also have it. But it is not yours yet. Till you dig it out, it is not yours yet. If you dare to open this, you must be ready for many things. So we established a whole yogic system called kundalini yoga. Those who dare to directly open it. Because once you move in this direction, you should not be concerned about your life. Like she's doing asa, she's worried about her relationship. You shouldn't have such concerns in your life. You're doing your asa, you're worried about your money. You shouldn't have such concerns in your life because if this grabs you from inside, everything will evaporate. Nothing matters. So kundalini yoga is for those who have no interest in life around them. After they master it maybe they can play with life. But when they are on it they have no interest in anything around them. Their only interest is they want to go and explore the pit where the life is coming from. All this is happening. They want to know where it's coming from. from all this physical manifestation they want to dive into it and see. So one aspect of kundalini yoga is to go into the pit or kund is also another reference to the om. You're trying to go back to the going back to the means going back to the place where you were manufactured. Do not think about it in terms of uh female anatomy. It is a place where you were manufactured, isn't it? It's like you went back to your factory where you were made. Uh yesterday I went to the I went to Bangalore to visit the Volvo plant where they make the buses and trucks in India. So I went there and I got engrossed the whole day in the engines and the works and the technology because it's one thing to see a machine performing outside. It's another thing to see how it is made with how much care and how much intelligence the whole thing is made is a different game altogether. That's what a mother's home is. Isn't it? Such a complex system is being put together in a woman's womb. So one of the things that most kundalini yogis do is if they don't find a cave, they will burrow a hole in the earth and go inside. I have seen uh I have visited some kundalini yogis in their holes. Unfortunately, they had become like rats, not like yogis. They only borrowed themselves in without the necessary what needs to happen within them. So when that happens, you just end up being a rat. Not in the race but just a rat. This happened. I was teaching in Hyderabad way back. These were the first few programs that I taught 30 years ago. 19 85 80 83 I think 83 was the first class in hydroat and uh one man came completely wired out no no muscle all wired he was an ex member of the parliament so he got so engrossed in kundalini yoga and he dug a hole there's a place called anybody from Hyderabad Nobody. Oh, you're there. This Hussein Sager, the other side of Hussein Sagar, not the tank bond. The other side of Hussein Sagar. This man somehow got government permission to build one small room, borrow a hole and sit inside and do his yoga. But he's so full of himself. He's not willing to take instruction from anybody. He read books and started doing kundalini yoga. So when he came to me, he was quite a twisted out creature, but he's a member of a parliament. He was at least. Now he's been exposed to the ways of the world and everything. So I start off responsibility. I did not come here to learn civics. Teach me yoga. So I looked at him and I said this was I remember this very well because the volunteers and people who are there to help me were just shocked. I was telling him so many things. He just came back with the same thing. I said hey man I said hey man just listen I know what you have done to yourself in the last 12 15 years. either you I will undo this or just see you as you sit here I'll do something else to you now because you won't allow the class to progress there are 100 people in the program this guy rants out his own thing his own yoga that he's read in his books so to the member of the parliament amen they all got shocked sguru it could be the end of you and then after the program we did something to him something for the first time little sweetness he experienced in his life then he asked me to come to his sadena room and bless him I said okay and I went other side of Hussein Sagar and he's got a rat hole this could be a yogi's cave If it is done properly, if you don't do the right kind of things, it just becomes a suffocating hole, you know. So, I walked in a stench. Stench is not uh not in terms of smell. It's a stench of no life. This man is killing himself literally doing all the wrong things. So he's doing all the physical things right in the sense he's sleeping on a mat no pillow he eats only one time a day and you know all those things that he read in the books that yogis are supposed to do then uh it's morning I went early morning like 600 6:30 then I went and I spoke to him for about 2 hours and by then he was like this with me then Uh I said order a breakfast. He said morning I don't eat. No I don't eat in the morning. I said order a breakfast. I want to eat. See for somebody who thinks not eating is the greatest sadena eating is corruption. Do you understand? So I want to do that to him. I want to eat in his place. I said order what is their closest hotel? Order this, order that. So with great uh you know he never brings all this food into the thing. He's just eating raw uh what's gai gurkai. Gorchikai. He's eating gorchukai. It's a bitter vegetable you know only by cooking it'll be nice. So that's his breakfast. He wants to have his that's his meal. Actually I said leave that. I ordered idli this that and said eat with me and I spent almost five six hours that day with him and made him eat idli and upuma and whatever was there broke his rigidity a little bit. So yoga can become like that kundalini yoga because you're trying to dig. So you dig a coal mine without the necessary preparation you can die in just the dust of the coal isn't it? So the same thing if you dig into the kund you must be ready equipped in every possible way otherwise you don't talk kundalini not necessary at all I know it's so loosely talked about kundalini is not referring to a certain dimension of energy kundalini is referring to a certain form that our energy has taken or a certain place our energy has settled into it has settled led into a pit and it's not coming out and what is in a pit is of no use to you. So bringing it to use there are gentler ways of doing it. Hata yoga that you're doing if you open up your system slowly depending upon what your system is ready for slowly it will move up a higher level of energy you can easily experience. But if you dig the pit itself then it's like a minefield. You know there are people who go and diffuse bombs. So now if you go to diffuse or to dig up something which is very powerful without necessary preparation that's not a good thing. If you are too good at it maybe without protection you can go and do it. Otherwise it's always best that substantial protection is created before we attempt it. Or the best way is you open up the system slowly you will see a higher level of energy moving through you gradually system becomes more and more vibrant. But if you want to touch the condalini that which is in the kund preparation or constant observation by somebody who knows what's happening or very a cared for atmosphere a an atmosphere that is competent enough to handle it. Somebody who is competent enough to handle this for you or your own competence will come. It's too long to get your own competence. So going for kundalini yoga straight is a foolhearted thing to do. Most people just do it for 3 days and they go on saying you know I did kundalini yoga I didn't do kundalini yoga because uh something in that name they're doing because people want to start with the highest not with the lowest. Where should you start? 1 2 3 or zillion billion million 1 2 3 is a way to start isn't it? If you do 1 2 3 if you know up to nine you can go any number you want you don't have to learn zillion if you learn up to nine numbers and if you get a gift of zero you can go as far as you want isn't it? You don't have to start there. See right now there is condundalini in the earth. Instead of trying to dig it and suck it out, you plant a seed. It grows up. If a tree has to push itself against gravity and grow that big, a phenomenal energy must be working, isn't it? Isaac Newton only saw a small apple falling down. Why did he miss a whole tree growing up? Something is pushing it up. Isn't it much bigger than apple falling down or no? Something far bigger energy is pushing it up. Now this pushing up, you can call it kundalini. So kundalini is that dimension. One should not meddle with it unless they're truly truly competent.