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First, that Kuṇḍalinī Śakti has a great effect on human consciousness. Our consciousness at present is pendulating, moving through three levels: unconscious, subconscious, and conscious. The level of the unconscious is that of our previous life's karmas. Pralabdha pehle rachā, pīchhe rachā śarīra, pehle pralabdha bantā hai, aur pralabdha banāne ke bāad karmo ke ādhār par kaisā janma hogā āge. We do believe in rebirth. Many don't believe in rebirth, but our Ṛṣi-Munis have proved that there is a next life, and if there is a next life, then the next life is according to your karmas. So what we do now becomes pralabdha in the future. Pralabdha pehle rachā, pīchhe rachā śarīra, uske ādhār par hameṁ pralabdha śarīra miltā hai. So, unconsciousness, the level of the unconsciousness is where, from many, many lives, karmas are dormant. Now those karmas are something like this: here we are sitting, and underground here is a room. Yā sonā chāndī paḍā hai, yā sarf paḍā hai, patā nahīṁ hai, yā upar meṁ ek farsh banā huā hai, aur apne upar meṁ baite hai. Now, maybe there are some bombs or some weapons. Agar ham yahāṁ se isko kholengeṁ, tabhī patā chalegā. Lekin kholne se pehle, before we open this floor, we should know and we should be capable to master whatever is under, that it will come up and we can master this all. So all the problems we have from many, many generations remain in our unconscious level; we are carrying them with us like a rucksack, a back bag. Back bag jo hotā hai, āj-kāl tourists lekar ke jātā hai, I say this is what they are carrying, their karma. Now the second is the subconsciousness. Subconsciousness is a very important part of our life, and subconsciousness begins from the day when your individual soul being first enters into the mother's womb. At that time the subconsciousness, the psychic conditions, begins to influence the embryo: how the situation of the mother is, how mother is happy, unhappy, father is happy or unhappy, father is drunken or not drunken, father is angry or mother is drunken, whatever this, or ghar meṁ jhagḍā ho rahā hai, śastra laḍ rahī hai, yā kaun laḍ rahā hai, jhagḍā chal rahā hai, naukarī chhuṭ gaī hai, everything. That influences that embryo and continues after the birth also. So the level of the subconsciousness is this past time in this life, immediately after the past. And subconscious is what doctors nowadays call psychology, psychic problems, the Freud. The Freud from Austria, who is known as the father of psychology, but I would say the father of psychology was Patañjali. If you read the Patañjali Yoga Sūtra, then you will know what psychology is and what the mind is; Patañjali has given everything. Now these problems, what is in our subconsciousness, sometimes you can explain and sometimes you cannot explain. So the past karmas of the past life are dormant in the Mūlādhāra Chakra, and that's called the serpent power, the snake. Soyā huā sarpa jo hai, usko tum jagāo mat yā usko touch mat karo. If he will bite you, you will not be alive anymore, you don't know. Before going to disturb him, you should know that you can control him. Kāla, kāla kā matlab samaya bhī hotā hai, or past samaya jo bhūta kāla jo hai, vah kāla. Serpent is the second because of the Iḍā, Piṅgalā and Suṣumṇā. Out of the 72,000 nāḍīs in the human body, from the small of the brain, these two nāḍīs, Iḍā and Piṅgalā, are going like this, making waves, and that's like a serpent, and that's why I call it the serpent's power, but there are no snakes. When the Kuṇḍalinī awakes, according to my own experiences and the experiences of many, many of my disciples and others, Kuṇḍalinī awakening doesn't happen in the body. If your body does not have any compen, if there is no current in your body, if there is compen or current in your body, then there are some nervous disturbances in your body, in your central nervous system; there are some problems, psychic problems. Some say that in the body it seems like sparks are going on. Then it means that you have not washed your clothes; now you have to take them off and wash your clothes and wear new clothes. The sparks do not go on. Awakening of the Kuṇḍalinī means the purely awakening of wisdom, self-control, self-consciousness, and awakening of the knowledge of the entire three worlds: past, present, and future. So the subconsciousness problem is a very heavy problem which is received by the five Jñāna Indriyas. The subconscious is located and connected with the Svādhiṣṭhāna Chakra, and Svādhiṣṭhāna Chakra is the seat of the ahaṅkāra, kāma, krodha, mada, lobha, and moha. These are the seat of the Svādhiṣṭhāna Chakra, and this is also because it has been filled through the yāna indriyas and all the desires. So this is a chakra of desires. Now, the awakening of the Kuṇḍalinī Śakti means to purify the two levels of consciousness—the unconscious and subconscious—and then to purify the conscious level. The conscious level is what we are hearing, seeing, smelling, touching. We are aware, we are awakened. Some people say that suṣupti, svapna, and jāgrat avasthā can be compared slightly with this, not exactly. After that comes meditation, then comes the super consciousness, and finally the cosmic consciousness. So, Kuṇḍalinī jāgaran and the chakra: if you practice yoga, your chakras will automatically awake. If you practice āsanas—that was very nicely demonstrated a few days before yesterday, which I saw, and yesterday morning—and concentrate with the breath, if you do the āsana slowly, concentrated and with the breath, surely your Kuṇḍalinī will awake and your chakras will also purify and awake. A chakra is a psychic center. A chakra is not a physical chakra, and it's not only eight chakras in the body: Mūlādhāra, Svādhiṣṭhāna, Maṇipūra, Anāhata, Viśuddhi, Ājñā, Bindu, and Sahasrāra. But there are thousands of chakras in the whole body: even in the hands we have many, many chakras, in legs, in the foot soles, everywhere we have many, many different chakras: Paśu Chakra, Deva Chakra, Rākṣasa Chakra, and Īśvarī Chakra. Recording location: India, Jaipur, International Yoga Conference YOGACON-2004