Stage 1 – Initiation
This is the most painful and extremely uncomfortable stage of Kundalini awakening and also the most transformative. It can last a year or more and can be the most difficult year of your life physically and emotionally.
Awakened Kundalini first frees the person from his unbearable mental burden and old emotional traumas that he has been carrying for decades. It frees him from his fears, stress, pain and sorrows. Such a person reveals personal things to his parents, spouse, close friends, siblings and colleagues that they would not have even dreamed of. He is surprised to see his own anger.
When a person going through the first stage of Kundalini awakening starts knowing people’s thoughts and feelings towards him through his increased intuition, he starts losing close relationships and even family ties. He may also lose his job and social status due to his impeccable behavior with others. He eventually loses his mental balance as well and this is done by his own awakened Kundalini Shakti which basically prepares him physically and emotionally during this challenging phase to bear this immense power in the future and to use it properly. He is emotionally and physically broken to such an extent that he has no other option but to surrender unconditionally to the awakened Kundalini Shakti within him by letting go of his ego. He is forced to free himself from the unbearable burden of his existence which he has silently carried with him all his life. He suffers helplessly and hopelessly, screams, cries and spends many sleepless nights trying to understand what is really happening to him. Your inner thoughts and experiences that have been troubling you for decades come out in unexpected ways during the first stage of your Kundalini awakening.
As you become more aware of the Kundalini energy rising through your spine, you gradually come to fully realize its awakening state within you. This realization is so profound that it completely changes you as a person. As your seven chakras open up and are activated by this rising Kundalini energy, new dimensions begin to be added to your existence. Your perception of everything changes as you gain extraordinary abilities to perceive the world around you that your normal senses cannot see or understand.
If you are not ready for it or if you accidentally awaken your Kundalini without knowing anything about it, the first stage of your Kundalini awakening will definitely turn your whole life upside down. In this stage you will lose everything but in the end you will find yourself.
Second Stage – Decrease
This is a pleasant stage of Kundalini awakening as you start subtracting things and habits from your life that serve no purpose to you. You let go of your lust, anger, ego and greed. You let go of everything that comes in the way of your rising Kundalini Shakti. You also let go of your individual consciousness and start aligning yourself more with the cosmic consciousness. You also develop other extraordinary abilities and siddhis as your awakened Kundalini energy rises and opens your other chakras. The siddhis that come from Kundalini awakening are described in Maharishi Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras.
In this stage you start getting respect and admiration even from people who barely know you. You are the center of attraction wherever you go because of your unforgettable aura and it becomes evident to you.
Third Stage – Awakening:
As your kundalini energy reaches the seventh chakra called the Sahasrara Chakra and activates it fully, you lose the last remaining traces of your individuality. You become a limitless being who is completely centered in cosmic consciousness. There is no difference for you between mundane and miraculous things because everything turns into a miracle for you. There is no difference for you between the possible and the impossible, between the rational and the irrational because you realize that these were just mental games that your own mind was playing with you. The whole universe becomes your playground. You know even such complex things through your incredible thinking power that no one else knows. You rise above material goals and start living for humanity which is reflected in your thoughts and actions. Miracles start happening in your life every day.
In this stage of your kundalini awakening you have a firm realization for the first time in your life that nothing is impossible for you. You feel indescribable joy for no reason that you have never felt before.
Kundalini Yoga is the process of awakening this dormant Kundalini energy that is in all of us and which once awakened transforms us into versions of ourselves that we would not have imagined even in our dreams.
The Kundalini energy is so powerful that it can transform a person into a superhuman being when fully awakened. It makes people do seemingly impossible things because it is a limitless and never-ending force.
An unmistakable sign of people with fully awakened Kundalini are their eyes. Making eye contact with them can shake a person’s soul as doing so gives him a glimpse of the true nature of his own being that he may have never seen before in his life.
The term Kundalini is derived from the position of a coiled snake that is so well hidden from us even when it is very close to us that we think it is not there until it suddenly strikes us and makes us aware of its existence.