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A manuscript page illustrating<br />
Sakti with Kundalini. Rajasthan,<br />
c. 19th century. Gouache on paper.<br />
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the brain centre. In most cases the Kundalini may lie dormant all<br />
through one's life time, and an individual may be unaware of its<br />
existence. The closest parallel to this concept in modern terms is<br />
what contemporary behavioural scientists term the gap between<br />
our potential and actual self. According to their findings, the<br />
average individual uses only 10% of his capacities while the greater<br />
part of his potentialities, talents and abilities remain unrealized.<br />
The Kundalini Sakti, however, should not be confused merely<br />
with an individual's creative capacities but should be conceived as a<br />
force which has the potency to awaken an undeniable psychic<br />
power inherent in all of us. No tangible description of the<br />
Kundalini in symbolic or physiological terms will suffice, for it is a<br />
highly potential ultra-subtle vibration which eludes the 'surgeon's<br />
knife'. However elusive its nature, its efficacy can be judged only<br />
by experiencing it and the effect its arousal produces in the human<br />
body.<br />
It is believed that man, within his corporeal frame, embraces all<br />
the subtle planes of the universe; beyond his physical existence<br />
there is a parallel 'etheric-double' which constitutes his subtle<br />
body. The subtle envelopes are related to the gross body at several<br />
psychic points. The numerous etheric channels are known as nadis
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