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experience of the kundalini shakti cleansing the
inner tube and chakras” (Ayurveda Encyclopedia , p.
362).
Kundalini is a Hindu concept that there is powerful form
of psychic energy at the base of the spine that can be
“awakened.” It is described as a coiled serpent and is
called “serpent power” and is depicted in Hindu art as a
hooded cobra. It is supposed to be located in the first of
the seven “chakras” or power centers in the body. If the
kundalini is awakened through such things as yogic
mediation, tantric practices (e.g., fire worship, goddess
worship, and tantric rites), intensive chanting and
dancing, and the laying on of hands, it can be encouraged
to move up the spinal column, piercing the chakras,
eventually reaching the seventh chakra at the top of the
head, resulting in spiritual insight and power through
“union with the Divine.”
Kundalini is called the female Shakti, which is
considered the ego or self identity, and the objective of
the practice is to unite her with the god Shiva and thus
unite the individual into the whole of the divine which is
considered the real Self. “The purpose of Kundalini Yoga
is to reunite Shiva and Shakti, to create the eternal form
of Shiva, Sadashiva” (Robert Svoboda, Aghora II:
Kundalini, p. 69).
Kundalini is often worshipped in the form of a goddess.
She is called “the Great Mother Goddess
Kundalini” (Aghora II, p. 13). Hindu guru Vimalananda
encountered Kundalini as a goddess of crematory fire
and death. “When Kundalini awakened for him, she took
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