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The Serpent's Blessing: A Story of Kuṇḍalinī

A satsang on the spiritual concept of Kundalini energy, using storytelling and cautionary advice.

"Don't run behind such things."

"God will give us what we need. And when God is giving, he is giving."

He narrates a detailed, allegorical story about a man who, seeking Kundalini awakening, is given a flute by a master, uses it to attract a cobra, and then loses the snake to a hypnotized monkey. The story serves as a warning against frivolous or greedy seeking of spiritual powers.

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Aaj to yate hi sāyabhya nandhaka, charaṇakamalapadahanganiye dharodhata, charaṇakamalapadahanganiye dharodhata. Thank you. Nāka Manoharata Supalakāro, Nāka Manoharata Supalakāro. Guru Swāmījī so ate hisaya banandakāro. Caraṇaka malapada aṅgani edaro, Caraṇaka malapada aṅgani edaro. Aṅganī edaro dī na ugyo sakāro, aṅganī edaro dī na ugyo sakāro. Satta Guru Swāmījī achato athehī Sayabānandakāro. Caraṇakamalapada aṅganīedharo, caraṇakamalapada aṅganīedharo. Ujjanārāyaṇa Deva Purīṣa Nadeva Brahma Puruṣottama Īśa Puruṣottama Vidhi Pardaya Toka Rora Svāha Upadaya Toka Rora Aṣṭo Ate Īśaya Vananda Karo. Charanakka Malla Pada Anganiye Daro, Charanakka Malla Pada Anganiye Daro. Ugyo Sakaro Rama, Ugyo Sakaro Satta Guru Swamiji. Aaj Tov Atehi Sayavanandakaro. Someone of you will translate this bhajan. If you know, if you don't know, then don't push some different lines inside, so don't put in there any other different lines. Oṁ Śānti. The Kuṇḍalinī and chakras, the mind and consciousness, life and the cosmic self—let us come to this subject, but we have to go very systematically. Like we are climbing on our building, step by step. Similarly, we have to understand the life of the human. Every creature has some energy, the path to climb towards the highest consciousness. A podobně každé stvoření, každý tvor má určitou energii, určitou cestu před sebou, po které si musí vystoupat směrem k nejvyššímu vědomí. How many different souls and lives are with you in your kingdom? Your kingdom. Each and all of you have a big, big, big kingdom. And this kingdom is beautiful, beautiful, and there are these five steps which we have to go through step by step, and when we are on the top, also we have to come down. It is not easy, that what people are saying, "Kuṇḍalinī is awakening." Well, there is one person, and this person has that awakening of the Kuṇḍalinī. And what is he doing? He has a beautiful box. Don't come again. So what we call a basket. Beautiful basket. This is number one, and the master of the Kuṇḍalinī, yes. You all have desires to awaken that kuṇḍalinī. Gurudev said one beautiful story, because I was telling about Gurujī, about kuṇḍalinī. And he said, "I will tell you." So he told a very nice story. And that person who is curious to awake the kuṇḍalinī, and that person was going in the forest, meditating on his kuṇḍalinī. And he reads the book, the Kundalinī. Serpent. Yes, now everyone is curious about the serpent within my spinal column. And it goes energy up. How nice. So one master gave him a very beautiful flute, that this flute will awake your kuṇḍalinī. So he was sitting near one bush in the jungle or the forest, and now he is learning the flute. It's not easy. You have to learn. This, if you can awake this, learn, then kuṇḍalinī can come. Yes. So he had one flute, and he blows his chin for half an hour. Constantly, his flute is flowing, blowing his flute. And you? You can say OM. So let's see. Count it mentally yourself. Mentally. Deep inhale. Kuṇḍalinī will not awake. It's just nothing. He's sitting there and flowing. Half an hour. That we have to learn. Yes. When you blow the conch, then you'll see how long you can blow the conch. But there is someone who can continuously blow. Of course, these are the techniques for awakening your kuṇḍalinī. So I give you freedom. So when you go through, let's say, all chakras, and each chakra takes about 15 minutes, then all chakras at the same time, from the Mūlādhāra, awakens the Kuṇḍalinī. In the bush, a big cobra, and he still is flowing the flute, but it's a flute. The cobra comes. This is a kuṇḍalinī. She doesn't want, "Don't disturb me." But he is now. In the Kuṇḍalinī awakening, like you are in trance. That cobra is in ānanda. Then he can come up. In the beginning, he runs away. But again he comes back. That master is sitting here. So sometimes you go away, but after a few years, again you will come back. Swamiji, I am again here. Swamiji said, "Well, of course, you were in the freedom." How was the freedom, my wife? Godchild, she left me. Gurudev, again I am here. Why not? Alright. The kingdom of the Gurudev is endless. When once you have God's blessing and mantra, it will go with you to the Brahmaloka. But how long will you have to wait? If you break something, then you are in different creatures. So he was blowing. And he had a nice basket, and he brings this snake like this, and he's going in the basket, and he's like this, and he's still blowing. And with one hand, he takes what is that cover? Now your Kuṇḍalinī is in, yes, now going home, and he will show to everyone. All will come, and his Kuṇḍalinī awakes. He will take out the teeth and the glands of the poison, taking it out. So your kuṇḍalinī is powerless, so you are in Mūlādhāra all the time. So he took that cobra, and it was a very hot day, and there was a big, beautiful banyan tree and nice shade. Nice. So he wants to rest. Yes. Now, a person who wants to have a kuṇḍalinī awakening, you must have the master, but that master should also know what the kuṇḍalinī is. That man begins to have a business. Awakening Kuṇḍalinī, awakening Kuṇḍalinī, and many, many people. And he said, "I don't awake, only I saw your Kuṇḍalinī, yes, 10 rupees." And he was flowing his flute, and he opens. And cobra comes. He is well-trained. He goes like a cup. He takes the snake. "Can I awake the kuṇḍalinī on your back?" "No, no..." 9.9, they run away, and so the people are also. When Kuṇḍalinī awakening happens and something occurs, then the poor doctor cannot do anything also. And of course, masters, yogīs can do the thing. It says it's your Kuṇḍalinī. It's your karma. Now, what is awakening? You should feel. So, what is then Kuṇḍalinī? But still, someone is very curious. So, that man was sitting under the banyan tree. He got a new Kuṇḍalinī, a very strong one, about two meters, black. Why is he doing it? It's a blessing. Kuṇḍalinī is everywhere. So what can you do? From far, there was a beautiful, big, big... Big, long tail, one monkey, male monkey, and he thought, "This man is bringing some good things in his basket, maybe some honey bees or some good eatings, so I want to have this." But the master is there, the man is there. Now the monkey is making hypnotizing, because, because the... The Kuṇḍalinī is there, so it has a little effect on others also. So the monkey said, "Man, go away, it's my basket. Man, go." He's doing like this, yes. You know how the monkey is doing? You don't give something, then he's making so hypnotizing. Kuṇḍalinī, so I mean, those who do not know what is a Kuṇḍalinī, the Kuṇḍalinī is your energy, is your knowledge, many good things. It is your light to the cosmic. But now people are making many, many books. Everyone can write something. One said there is no Kuṇḍalinī, another writes it is a snake, another said it is a sexual... "Oh, this Kuṇḍalinī book is good, can you give me?" Yes, but the reality is not there. Well, but the monkey is hypnotizing, and what happens? The man had a feeling to urinate, and of course, we don't want to urinate under this holy tree. As long as possible, don't urinate under the trees. If there is no other way, of course, and the tree, the tree is a great... the tree is that real mother. Your child, you bring there, and the mother is happy. "My child is happy." The tree is also okay. The tree is giving everything. If we throw the stone, this mother will throw us fruit. Yes. Well, the monkey said, and that man, he goes. He goes a little far away, about 50 meters, far behind the bush. And the monkey was so happy. Now, my techniques are perfect. My kuṇḍalinī is coming. Great. I am teaching you the Kuṇḍalinī techniques: the five elements, the body, the energy, the mind, the knowledge, and the freedom, ānanda. The monkey jumped down from one branch to another branch and took the basket with the string in the bell. The monkey has something from the humans and jumped up very high, up a very thin, tiny tree. And he's looking at the man. And man said, "Oh, my God, poor monkey." I made a mistake. I could have taken it. Poor, poor monkey, and what monkey said? "I am not a poor," he said, yeah, yeah. And what? He is sitting like on a very good chair and table. The back legs are hanging, in the lap is the basket, and looking. And he tore the cloth, opened the basket, and Kuṇḍalinī awoke. Oh, my God! Oh, very beautiful. We call it Nāgrāj. We call it Nāgrāj. We call the king cobra. There are many snakes, but only one is known as a king. Yes or no? You know that, no? King cobra. So the cobra Kuṇḍalinī hypnotizes the monkey. The monkey sees everything as yellow. And from the tiny of the tree to the ground, he is making urine and code. Now, he wants to go away. Any movement, the kuṇḍalinī puts you in mahāsamādhi. If you move, she says, can you imagine? Next time when you come to India, perhaps, we will meet the king, but don't come close. King is a king. He cannot take it out. He thought it was the honey inside. But it was not honey. Something very funny. And that funny means so... My dear, The master of the cobra, he said, "Oh my God, please save the... not cobra, the monkey." So who is coming? Who comes to that? When Kuṇḍalinī will awake, the master is not worried about that, about cobra, about them, no, no... Kuṇḍalinī, Mr. No, ma'am, oh, but we ought to. Kuṇḍalinī only, he's sorry for that man. Therefore, don't run behind such things. There is written in many books, many samādhis, and they write prāṇāyāma, five hours prāṇāyāma, and this and that. This means that your brain will be completely... Finished, so neither you are there nor here. So there is something written, but how you should do it, and not like that all the time. Don't think that ṛṣis were only sitting all day in meditation in the Himalayas in a cave. No, no humans are there, and you know who is there? Yes, leopard, tiger, other animals. The yogī is sitting like this, and a leopard comes and pulls him. Out, and Hari Om Tat Sat, my dear, don't think like that. Even those yogīs, they make a protection. Many, many things. So don't think and write something in the book. And one Swami said, "The Himalayan, all caves are occupied. There are no more caves." So I said, "Now the glaciers are melted, so now my back end, many, many Kuṇḍalinī, Kuṇḍalinī." And this Kuṇḍalinī in our body, energy, energy, good energy. But many things in this body, what is all there? How many creatures in your body? How many beautiful rivers there are also. Lake, there's a forest, in this body, very good. Holī Gurujī said a very nice bhajan. And that bhajan, tomorrow we shall sing, and what is that bhajan? So, don't run behind, don't do too strong techniques, anything. And then this master will not save you from this disease. Therefore, we have everything. Beautiful. Beautiful. Enjoy. Eat, drink milk, and relax and meditate, sleep. That is the best part, so the Kuṇḍalinī will come there. So this is the beautiful story there, how the Kuṇḍalinī comes there. Then, that man, the other one, was very curious, and it is said there is a beautiful tree. My God. That is called the one tree, what they call it, Kalpavṛkṣa. Yes, people are still good at studying many, many educations, doctors of the doctors of the doctors, or professors of the professors. Or judge of the judge of the judge. Farmer of the farmer of the farmer. All are searching for this tree. Kalapavraksha. Kalapavraksha... There is one, but then two. And if you go under this tree, you go tomorrow to the forest. Maybe some tree is that, and under that tree, whatever you ask, this tree will give you immediately. Gold, money, vodka, tigers, sleeping, resting, a good bed, everything. Under the tree, and when you go out, nothing. So, this tree. So one man, he was searching for that. So, one day, he was going somewhere to bring his wife again to his house, because she was with her parents for some days, and then her husband came to bring her home. So it was a very hot day. Now you also have very hot days. So there is again a beautiful tree that is called the Galapagos. He was sitting for rest, and he said, "I'm thirsty." Nice cold water would be good. One beautiful pot with nice, cool water is here. He said, "Oh, I have no glass. Glass is there." Whatever he thinks is there: "I am hungry, food is there. What should I eat? Everything: yogurt, milk, salad, fruits, and everything." So he said, "I can have a rest." He lied down. He said, "These stones, I'm so tired." I want to have a nice bed. Already there is a nice pillow, a nice mattress. Mosquitoes are coming, oh God, there are so many mosquitoes. There is no net. Suddenly, a beautiful mosquito net. He said, "What a beautiful..." Everything I think, if my wife is here, she will be so happy, and she is standing there. Oh God, beautiful. Then he was looking up, and he thought, "It must be some ghost. Can it kill me?" Whatever he thinks. So from the tree came the ghost. "Oh, could not kill me?" Is it? Yes, he will throw me out, out of the head of the tree. There is nothing. So this is what we have: some kind of desires to become billionaires, great persons, ministers, money, gold. Etc. Don't look like that. God will give us what we need. And when God is giving, he is giving. He is giving, and we are giving. That's it. So this is how a greedy person, this is where a greedy person, everything is lost. Then they go to play somewhere, I don't know where they are playing with the money. It's a casino, it's a casino, ah, a cinema. Okay, I don't need to learn this word. So, let's come to the kuṇḍalinī, what we have in our body. Let's begin from the beginning of the hair on the body. And hair is not in this physical body. It is the element of the ākāśa. You can cut the hair; it doesn't have pain, though they are growing. So the five elements, our hair is not in two together. This. And that's why, when you have a fear, your body is not so, but you said, "My hair stands up." And you know when the hair is standing up? That I will tell you tomorrow. I wish you a good night, and so let us come to Kuṇḍalinī Nāgrāj. Okay, adiós. Today is our King's Day!

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The text contains hyperlinks in bold to three authoritative books on yoga, written by humans, to clarify the context of the lecture:

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