Book Title: World of Philosophy
Author(s): Christopher Key Chapple, Intaj Malek, Dilip Charan, Sunanda Shastri, Prashant Dave
Publisher: Shanti Prakashan
View full book text
________________
achieved. In the modern scientific terms, it means the activation of the vast dormant areas of the brain, which possesses around to billion brain cells, in relation to 25,000 others. Once these areas are completely active, we have begun to communicate with our own higher consciousness. The opening of the lowest psychic center, called the Mülädhāra-cakra in the Susumṇā-nāḍī, to its fullest capacity enables the Kundalini to ascend to the highest psychic center, called the Sahasrara-cakra, the place of the Cosmic Consciousness, symbolized by a lotus having a thousand- petals, just above the top of the head, where the aspirant realizes in at transcendental experience, his union with Śiva-Sakti.
However, the process of arousing the Kundalini and of making her ascend to the highest psychic center, the Sahasrara-cakra, is very rare, since it can be accomplished by a proficient Yogi only who has acquired the supernatural power (siddhi) for accomplishing it in the case of the aspirant devotees.
Fortunately, I have had the good luck, in August 1964, to get such an accomplished master Guru, who was residing in a Hanumanaji temple in Bandhawad, where the Sarpamca of the village had respectfully entrusted him the temple. He was a Siddha-yogi, in that he had seen. with his own physical eyes Hanumanaji in person. And, he used to invoke Hanumanaji in that set of the Mantras to help him arouse the Kundalinis in the bodies of the aspirants sitting in the meditation sessions held by him. The name of that Siddha-guru was the adorable Shri Madhsüdanadāsaji of Bandhawad, a village situated in the Banasa- kämthä district in North Gujarat, used to make the devotees sit in meditation, and he recited a set of the Mantras.
The details about the daily program use to be as follows: The session was held in the evening at the time of the twilight, say at about 6.30 p.m. or so. All the aspirants, like me and my wife, about fifty people, were gathered in a small hall of about 20 x 20 feet, which was the drawing room of the empty bungalow of Sheth Shri Hiralal Panchal. They were made to see in systematic rows, side by side and one behind the other. Then the door was closed, and the lights, except a zero bulb, were put
off.
Then, the aspirants were asked to inhale very slowly, while mentally uttering "Rāma" and exhale very slowly, while mentally counting one, two, three, and so on, consecutively, till one forgot the counting itself. During that time Pujya Dhäna-yogi Śrī Madhusudanadāsaji Maharaja sang melodiously and rhythmically the set of seven Mantras, thrice each, as follows:
520
