Sadhguru: If you activate this dimension of
energy, other dimensions of life will open up. One thing is, are you ready for those dimensions? Kundalini Yoga, in its essence, is the most
dangerous form of yoga. I'm saying dangerous,
because it's the most potent also. If you have to jump into an abyss,
you should be insane or you should have enormous
trust in somebody. So what is Kundalini? Right now, I'm speaking, this is Kundalini. You are alert and listening. If you
are alert and listening, that is Kundalini A flower is blossoming, that is Kundalini. A dog is barking, that is also
Kundalini, or in other words, the fundamental life force
in the existence, we call it Kundalini. Now, within the system, within the human system, if you look at this as a kind of a life
package, it's a piece of life. This piece of life is packed in a certain
way, with layers of this energy. One dimension of energy comes alive immediately,
because that is necessary for your survival process. The other dimensions of energy will not come
alive unless you do something about it. Unless you're aware of it and activate it
in a certain way, they do not come into existence. They remain dormant. The dormant energy is way bigger than the
energy that is in use right now. To take care of your survival process, to
live a physical life completely, to live a complete physical and intellectual life, you need to activate only
about twenty-one of your chakras. Out of this one hundred and fourteen, if about
twenty-one of them are on, you will live a complete life, you
will not feel any inadequacy. You will live a complete physical life. There'll be no problem with your life, you
will think you're a great success, but you're only twenty-one, that is less than twenty-one
percent out of one hundred and fourteen, less than twenty percent. At let… less than twenty percent, you will
feel like a complete life without any inadequacies. The remaining percentage of life,
what is it about? It is not even needed if your intention
is just to live well. If you activate this dimension of energy,
other dimensions of life will open up. One thing is, “Are you ready for those dimensions?” The question is not about
whether it's good or bad. The question is just about,
“Are you ready for it?” Because even if the best things in life come
to your life, when you are not ready for it, it will not be a good thing for you. In your experience it will not be a good thing if something came to you when you're not ready for it, isn't it so? Even if it's a greatest thing, it may be the
greatest thing, but it came to you when you are not ready for it. Then it is not a good thing, isn't it? So are you ready for it, is the first question. If you're ready for it, what
can we do for it? What can we do to activate it? The various ways of doing this, many, many
ways, but the Kundalini Yoga… are people familiar with Kundalini Yoga
practicing or…? Okay. Kundalini Yoga. I…I'm not
making a comment about anybody, okay? Kundalini Yoga, in its essence is
the most dangerous form of yoga. I'm saying dangerous, because
it's the most potent also. What is most potent is always the most dangerous
if improperly handled. There are various kinds of
energy in the world right now, even the electricity is being manufactured in…
I mean, produced in so many different ways. One of the ways that we do it is through nuclear
reactions, nuclear reactors rather. It is the most efficient way of producing
energy that we know right now, but it is also the most dangerous way, isn't it? When things go wrong, they go seriously wrong. When they're going right, it is the easiest and the best way to produce
energy on the planet is nuclear energy actually. But when it goes bad, it goes bad, really
bad, like in ways that you can't fix it. So, similarly with Kundalini Yoga, it is the
most potent and it is the most dangerous. Without the necessary preparation and
guidance, without expert guidance, constant guidance and observation,
nobody should ever attempt it. But the problem is, books have been written
about it and everybody wants to do the highest yoga. Nobody wants to start with A, everybody wants
to start the alphabet with Z. This attitude itself is dangerous. What can be a life-transforming force can
become a life-destructive force simply because without the necessary commitment and dedication and focus and understanding it is being handled. Anyway, about raising the Kundalini,
if the Kundalini rises, the dimensions of your life will change
so rapidly that you must be willing to make the outside admin…
adjustments equally, quick. Otherwise, things will fall
apart in a big way. In the classical yogic traditions, there is a certain type of yoga we teach for
people who live in family situations. There is a certain other type of yoga
we teach for ascetics. In Isha, we have both the forms, we have ascetic
yoga and we have the general yoga. We will never teach you the ascetic form. That is the most pos… potent way to do it. But it will demand a certain dimension of
discipline and focus, which your regular lives will not allow. If you do that kind of yoga, it will dismantle
your outside life instantly. Now this Yoga is not designed
to dismantle your life, this Yoga is designed to make your
life happen better. When life happens better, when things happen better, you make more money,
your business is going better, your profession is
happening better. You're generally unfortunately, you are longing
to seek the higher becomes slower. Yes. So in the real sense, it is
not the good way to do it. But it's the only way it works
in today's world. And it's the only way it works
for majority of the people. For a small number of people, we can
do it other ways. We can bypass all these things and just do
very powerful ways of doing things. But it will dismantle all social structures
around them, which is not good for everybody to do. So these are different dimensions.
Kundalini Yoga, if it has to be practiced, you must be in a certain kind of atmosphere. You cannot live in social situations and do
Kundalini Yoga. Otherwise, in the name of Kundalini Yoga,
you're doing something simplistic. Otherwise, Kundalini yoga can transform the
way you are within days. Suddenly you find you're a stranger in your
own home within two days of practice, because it will change everything about you. So, can we raise the Kundalini?
Yes, we can. One way is to create a conducive atmosphere
so that slowly it rises. The other way is to provoke it in such a way
that it rises quickly. If it rises quickly, then everything
changes dramatically. If it rises slowly over a period of time, changes will happen slowly, you will be capable of handling these changes over a period of time. But if it happens very quick, then you will
not be able to handle the changes, things will look like things are falling apart. So there are different ways of doing this. How many ways? There are too many ways,
I will not go into how many ways. There are so many ways of doing it. Essentially, there are one hundred
and twelve ways of doing it. There are hundred and twelve ways in which
you can take this up, from the base to… Oh! for this you have to know the structure,
otherwise it will become very elaborate. Hmm, out of this one
hundred and fourteen chakras, there are seven which we recognize
as seven dimensions. Out of this, six are within the body, one
just outside the physical body. So, if you employ this one hundred and twelve
methods, you will handle the six chakras, the seventh one you cannot handle. There are hundred and twelve ways in which
you can at… attain to a chakra which we refer to as Agna, but from
Agna to Sahasrara, there is no way. There is no way to do it, you just
have to jump into an abyss. If you have to jump into an abyss, you should be insane or you should
have enormous trust in somebody. Somebody says jump
and you are jumping because you have such a deep trust in somebody that
when he says jump, it has to be good for you. You simply jump into a bottomless pit. So, the journey from the Mooladhara to Agna
there are one hundred and twelve ways to get there. But from there to there, there is no way. It is just one jump, that can happen in trust,
in devotion or in madness. Choice is yours.
