Question:
What is Kundalini?
 Sadhguru: Let me take you from your
own experience of life because the stories about it are many. In your
house, there is a plug-point in the wall. The plug-point in the wall does not
produce any power. Somewhere else there is a huge power station which is
producing the power, but it cannot give you power directly. It is the
plug-point which gives you the power. Most people have not even thought about
the power station, isn’t it? They have no conception of what that is, but
they know that if they plug an appliance into the plug-point, the appliance
will run.
So Kundalini is the plug-point not the power station. It is not a 3-pin point, it is a 5-pin point. You
might have heard of the seven chakras. The muladhara is like a plug-point.
That is why it is known as muladhara; it means “fundamental” or “basic.” Five
of the remaining six chakras are the plug. What is the seventh chakra? It is
like a light bulb; if you plug it in, then everything about you glows. If you are properly plugged in, keeping the lights on
twenty-four hours of the day is not an issue anymore. Now you don’t
have to turn off your power because your battery might run out. You can just
keep it on blatantly, recklessly, because you are plugged into the power
source.
Even
right now you still have energy. You can hear what I am saying, that means
life energies are functioning of course, but in a very miniscule way; just a
small part of it is functioning. If the whole of it becomes available to you,
if it is properly plugged in, there is no limit to what you can do out of it.
Even with the plug-point at home, once you are plugged in, you can make the
light happen, you can get the air conditioning going, you can have the
heater, you can have the television – anything you want. Just one power
point. Any number of things, endless number of things you can do, but you are
not plugged in.
You
are trying to generate your own power. So you eat five times a day, but still
you are tired most of the time. It is a struggle to keep life going. Energy
is not just in terms of physical energy or activity, energy is in terms of
life; existence is energy, isn’t it? The basis of existence is energy.
Knowing that is like knowing the foundations of life. If you understand the ways of the energy, you know the whole mechanics
of creation. So if you are plugged in, you don’t know how power is
generated but you know what the power is, what it can do and what you can
make out of it; you are plugged into an endless source of power – that is
Kundalini.
Now
to plug in an appliance, if your hands are shaky, you will scratch the whole
wall but you will not get it in. In the same way, to put the 5-point plug
into the plug-point is difficult for a lot of people because there is no
steadiness in their body, their mind, their emotions or their energies. All
this yoga is just to get the necessary steadiness so that you can just plug
it there; if you put it there, boundless energy. You don’t have to go and
learn about and understand the power station. You plug it in; everything is
fine.
Yoga is just the science of getting the
plug properly in so that there is an uninterrupted source of power. Once you
are connected to this uninterrupted source of power, naturally you will
proceed in the way life should. Naturally you will proceed towards the goal
of what life is longing for. You will not get lost with your fancy ideas,
dreams, thoughts, emotions or entanglements of the world.
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Kundlini is like power plug
