Kundalini.Tantra.by.Satyananda.Saraswati

one by one, and as a result of this awakening, you can have very good psychic
experiences which you can easily handle. In my opinion, it is safer to awaken the chakras
by the mild methods.
The asanas are intended to create mild awakening in the chakras. For example,
sarvangasana will awaken vishuddhi, matsyasana will awaken anahata and bhujangasana
will awaken swadhisthana. By awakening the chakras mildly, you will not have any
jolting experiences. Sometimes, when a chakra awakens suddenly, you can have the
experience of lower lives. This means you can be assailed by fear, anxiety, greed,
passion, depression, etc.
Each chakra is symbolized by a certain animal, indicating a type of animal
consciousness, and if sudden awakening of a chakra takes place, you may exhibit some of
the animal emotions in either a mild or very strong way. For instance, fear is not a human
emotion, nor is infatuation or violence. Of course, man is trying to expel the animal from
him, but at the same time he is maintaining it. Therefore, care must be taken not to give
an explosive manifestation to the awakening of the chakras.
Step 3: Awakening sushumna
In order to purify and awaken sushumna, a lot of work has to be done and you must
be ready to cope with experiences that are more intense than those associated with chakra
awakening. These experiences are beyond logic. They are not even real and they cannot
be explained or properly understood. If the chakras are awakened, ida and pingala are
balanced and the other nadis are also purified, but there is an obstruction in sushumna,
then the awakening of kundalini will not fulfil its purpose.
Actually, I don't believe ida and pingala nadis are inferior to sushumna. Awakening of
pingala nadi will awaken one portion of the brain and awakening of ida will awaken
another portion. However, when kundalini enters sushumna, it affects the whole brain.
In the ancient texts of tantra it has been clearly indicated that it does not matter if
kundalini enters another passageway. If there is an awakening in pingala, one becomes a
healer or a siddha, one who has control over nature, matter and the mind. When there is
awakening in ida, one can predict things; he becomes a prophet. But when sushumna
awakens, kundalini ascends straight to sahasrara and one becomes a jivanmukta, a
liberated soul.
So, hatha yoga and pranayama are prescribed for the awakening of sushumna. There
are also other ways, but kriya yoga is the best, particularly the practices of maha mudra
and maha bheda mudra. For awakening of sushumna, ida and pingala have to be
suppressed. Thus you can see the importance of practising kumbhaka, breath retention.
When both nadis are suppressed in kumbhaka, immediately after you'll find that both
nadis are flowing simultaneously. It is at this time that kundalini should awaken.