Kundalini.Tantra.by.Satyananda.Saraswati

"Sadhakas have seen the sushumna in the form of a luminous rod or pillar, a golden
yellow snake, or sometimes as a shining black snake about ten inches long with blood
redeyes like smouldering charcoal, the front part of the tongue vibrating and shining like
lightning, ascending the spinal column."
The meaning of the 3 1/2 coils of the serpent is as follows: The 3 coils represent the 3
matras of Om, which relate to past, present and future; to the 3 gunas: tamas, rajas and
sattva; to the 3 states of consciousness: waking, sleeping and dreaming; and to the 3 types
of experience: subjective experience, sensual experience and absence of experience. The
1/2 coil represents the state of transcendence, where there is neither waking, sleeping nor
dreaming. So, the 3 1/2 coils signify the total experience of the universe and the
experience of transcendence.
Who can awaken kundalini?
There are many people who have awakened their kundalini. Not only saints and
sadhus, but poets, painters, warriors, writers, anyone can awaken their kundalini. With
the awakening of kundalini, not only visions of God take place, there is dawning of
creative intelligence and an awakening of supramental faculties. By activating kundalini
you may become anything in life.
The energy of kundalini is one energy, but it expresses itself differently through the
individual psychic centers or chakras - first in gross instinctive ways and then in
progressively more subtle ways. Refining of the expression of this energy at higher and
more subtle levels of vibration represents the ascent of human consciousness to its
highest possibilities.
Kundalini is the creative energy; it is the energy of self-expression. Just as in
reproduction a new life is created, in the same way, someone like Einstein uses that same
energy in a different, more subtle realm, to create a theory like relativity. It is the same
energy that is expressed when someone composes or plays beautiful music. It is the same
energy which is expressed in all parts of life, whether it is building up a business,
fulfilling the family duties or reaching whatever goal you aspire for. These are all
expressions of the same creative energy.
Everybody, whether householder or sannyasin, must remember that awakening of
kundalini is the prime purpose of human incarnation. All the pleasures of sensual life
which we are enjoying now are intended only to enhance the awakening of kundalini
amidst the adverse circumstances of man's life.
A process of metamorphosis
With the awakening of kundalini, a transformation takes place in life. It has little to
do with one's moral, religious or ethical life. It has more to do with the quality of our
experiences and perceptions. When kundalini wakes up your mind changes and your
priorities and attachments also change. All your karmas undergo a process of integration.