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Kundalini: The Mother Of The Universe, The Mystery Of Piercing The Six Chakras

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I purchased this book to further my studies in the divine mother (kundalini). This was a difficult book to obtain, but luckily I found a copy at a rare book publisher. This book has given me many additional insights and different angles at looking at awakening the Kundalini. It has also given me an inner strength to pursue my work with the kundalini.

The book covers such topics as pranayama, the five pranas, the nadis (Ida, Pingala & Susumna) and the charkas; their importance and understanding in raising the Kundalini is also covered. From this the book also discusses the outcomes of successfully practicing the methods given. These outcomes (not to be pursued for themselves) are moreover an indication of successful achievement of ones progress thus far.

Pages 89-196 Contain `The Bhagavati: Mother Kundalini'. Essentially these are the 1000 names or sayings of the Divine Mother. I enjoyed reading this section as it gave me further insights into the many facets of the Divine Mother and further increased my understanding.

"Thou art worshiped by Meditation as consciousness"
"Thou art the tree of knowledge"
"Thou art the Object of three desires (A.U.M. or past, present and future)"
"Thou art in the Semen"
"Thou art above duality"
"Thou art the absolute"
"Thou art above the Tattvas (nature's finer forces)"
"Thou art fond of Tantra" etc
These are just 9 random aspects that stuck out to me of the 1000 aspects of the Divine Mother given.

The book then goes on to give the description of creation by the God Siva in three Divine forms for three divisions of work, "namely Brahma as Creator, Vishnu as Supporter and Rudra as Destroyer. His Symbol is ever-embraced by the Symbol of Nature, the World Mother". Rishi Singh Gherwal discusses the worship of Atman within Susumna and other gems as meditation upon the Chakras is a divine worship of Siva. The worship of Siva via the lingam (symbol) is also discussed.

Rishi Singh Gherwal in the last chapter `Rev. Leadbeater off the trail' discusses how Charles Leadbeater erred in his descriptions of the Chakras. For instance, Rishi Singh Gherwal tells us that "The `Thousand - petalled' we do not call a chakra, as it is above the nature element and mind". From the Sanskrit alphabet each petal represents a letter. "By repeating all of the 50 alphabetical letters 20 times, we have 1000, the symbol of the `Thousand-petals'. This is discussed in response to C. W. Leadbeater claiming that there are only 960 petals. Other criticisms are given as Yogic duty to correct error.

The book finishes off with an endorsement to read Arthur Avalon's `The Serpent Power - The secrets of the Tantric and Shaktic Yoga'. I had already purchased this book and intend to read this, especially in light of this endorsement and the very positive reviews of other readers.

All in all, this was a very nice book to read, of which further increased my understanding of the topic at hand. I would highly recommend reading this book to anyone interested in the Divine Mother Kundalini.