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Fearless movement in six cycles/107
The person who wishes to awaken his 'Kundalini', should concentrate his entire energy at this sense-centre where the consciousness, all the actions and powers of mind and speech will be centralised; from there the ‘Kundalini' would get a jolt and it would begin to wake up.
Man should proceed sequence-wise. After the first cycle, he should cross the second cycle, and the third one after the first. If minutely observed, the first three cycles remain already awakened. If the 'Kundalini' crosses over the first cycle, don't be deceived that you have succeeded in attaining 'sadhana'. This is not success. Here you have got defeat. Now, just the internal evils have begun to wake up. In the first three cycles, a person keeps on trying to stoke the fire buried under ashes inside him. True 'sadhana' begins only when entry inside the fourth cycle takes place.
It is said that God dwells in the heart. This exactly is the fourth cycle. The very first experience of soul takes place in this cycle. As man goes on crossing one cycle after another, his purity would go on increasing.
Come, let us try to enjoin these cycles with general life. When a person enters into the fourth cycle, then his third eye opens. What in 'Yoga' is called 'the third eye', is also called 'Shiva's eye'. Here is the language of Mahavira, Shukla Leshya (bright virtues) begin to get released. As the person goes on mounting himself higher and higher, his feelings tend to become deeper, and his cleanliness too goes on increasing. After this a man goes on ascending upwards on the ladder of suceess.
Every person has such a power as would either come out, or would rise upwards within. Let it ascend once, let consciousness rise up. Just understand this thus : To flow is the property of water, downwards. However high you take it up, it would certainly come down. That is the nature of water, but if you take it up and confine it inside a tank, then it would stop. Likewise, after three cycles, we make the energy, the water-river within us, enter the fourth cycle, then that energy would itself construct its path of ascent. The name of this very process is the upward ascent of
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