Kundalini.Tantra.by.Satyananda.Saraswati

awakening of kundaiini, but a release of pranic force called pranotthana. This preliminary
awakening starts from mooladhara and ascends the spinal cord via pingala nadi, only
partially purifying the chakras until it reaches the brain where it is usually dispersed.
In this type of awakening the experience of shakti is rarely sustained. However, it
does prepare the aspirant for the eventual awakening of kundalini, which is something
altogether different and more powerful. After the awakening of kundalini, the individual
will never be the same again. Here there is an ascent of force accompanied by a psychic
awakening which is permanently accessible. Even though it may fall back again, the
potential will always be there.
Mooladhara and sexual expression
Awakening of mooladhara chakra is very important, firstly because it is the seat of
kundalini, and secondly, as it is the seat of great tamas. All the passions are stored in
mooladhara, all the guilt, every complex and every agony has its root in mooiadhara
chakra.
This chakra is physiologically related to the excretory, urinary, sexual and
reproductive organs. It is so important for everybody to awaken this chakra and get out of
it. Man's life, his desires, his actions and his accomplishments, are controlled by the
sexual desires, and whatever we do in life is an expression of that lower chakra. Our
lower samskaras and karmas are embedded there, as in lower incarnations, one's whole
being is founded on the sexual personality. Dr. Sigmund Freud has also emphasized this
point. He said that one's selection of clothing, food, friends, home furnishing and decor,
etc., everything is influenced by his sexual awareness.
All the schizophrenics and neurotics and many crazy people who are ridden with guilt
and complexes are people who have not been able to get the shakti out of mooladhara
chakra. As a result of this, their lives are imbalanced.
Sexual fulfillment and sexual frustrations control our life. If sexual urges are removed
from life, everything will change. Often we react to sexual life on account of bitter
experiences and we vow not to follow the same path again. We are fed up and on account
of that we say, 'No more'. But this is no solution, it's only a reaction and not the
permanent structure of our mind.
Unless mooladhara chakra is purified, its corresponding center in the brain will
always remain tamasic. We can live the same type of life as we do today, but we can
make it much better. Sexual relationships are not a sin, but the consciousness must
awaken and the purpose of the whole act must be transmuted.
It is clearly stated in tantra that the purpose of the sexual act is threefold, and these
threefold purposes depend on the level and frequency of one's mind. Some people
practise it for procreation, because that's where their mind is at. Others practise it for
pleasure only; that's the level of their mind. And some people practise it to open the