the mysteries of the male & female aspects in the mighty kundalini journey

                   
                                    dancing in The Divine

kundalini is:

• a mighty force, a colossal energy
• nuclear in nature
• it is a white snake 
• it is beyond beautiful
• it is bliss

Kundalini is a force within each and every one of us. Lying sleeping, the snake she sleeps. Coiled, waiting to awaken. She is one of the female snakes residing within us on the spiritual astral plane, which is the vigyanamaya kosha/the astral-sheath. These snakes are so majestically, exquisitely beautiful. The epitome of femininity. They are orgasmic in effect when they appear.

the little red snake and shiva lingams

We have already spoken of the red snake within Mooladhara chakra, coiled around an upright elongated oval, which is known as a Shiva Lingam which represents the projection of the material world: this is Cognition. A non-intellectual state. It is, however, the state of "knowing". It is to do with consciousness, and this consciousness is symbolised by a Shivalingam. We have some at other chakras too, and they are considered to be masculine in nature. At Mooladhara the Shivalingam is a beige colour.

The red snake, she represents all of the manifestations of what we know of a "life": ie the physical world. When this exquisite red snake comes away from the Shivalingam, we realise, in an instant, we just "know", that our awareness is indeed separate from all of these manifestations including our thoughts, feelings and energy. Energy is female in nature, and all physical manifestations are considered also to be energy.

Within our psyche, the red snake also is our own energy, whilst the beige shiva lingam is also our own awakened consciousness.

male and female

These male/female aspects can cause confusion in spiritual seekers when they hear that consciousness is male and energy is female. And sometimes people can get angry when they make the common mistake to apply these principles to male and female humans. People can become offended at hearing these things, but in spirituality we are talking of something else: we are talking about consciousness, the various levels, mind. and the Higher Mind, which of course does have to develop and reveal itself, this is the consciousness/male aspect. Not the human man aspect. Then the energy in all of it's forms, both manifest and unmanifest, is the female aspect. But not the human woman.

This can be hard to understand but like all spiritual truths and realities, it is to be experienced in order to understand. I have seen confusion with these principles to newcomers of philosophy in both yoga and the esoteric Maori teachings whereby people completely misunderstand and they the apply man/woman thing. But this is all right, for how can we understand what we have not experienced?

The male aspect, consciousness, is just as much a part of each individual as is the female/energy aspect. And on the physical level, the right side of the brain and the body are the feminine sides, whilst the left brain hemisphere and side of the body are the male sides. Again, we all have both male and female.

forms of energy

With the prana, or life-force, aspect, the flow of the breath in the left nostril "feeds" the right side of the brain with prana. The right nostril breath flow is for the left side of the brain. Again, we all have both aspects, male and female.

On the nadi aspect, the flow of energy in each of the two main nadis,  electrical in nature when awakened, are called  ida, and pingala. Each has it's own qualities, the qualities of ida complimenting those of pingala, and vice-versa. Two halves of a whole:

• pingala/left brain hemisphere/ red/hot/sun/active/male. Also relates on the physical level to the sympathetic nervous system
• ida /right brain hemisphere/blue/cool/moon/passive/female, also relates on the physical level to the parasympathetic nervous system.

So ida and pingala on the physical level relate to the Autonomic Nervous System  = parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems.

These two energies emerge from either side of mooladhara chakra, pingala comes out on the right, ida on the left. They end at Ajna chakra (third eye) in the centre of the head, with pingala coming towards it from the right, whilst ida comes towards it from the left. 

So, where ida and pingala start, and end, are chakras: mooladhara at the start/base; ajna inside the head. Ida and pingala weave out of  the base chakra and travel up, alongside but separate from, the spine, up to the next chakra: they intersect/unite/crossover at points in the spine where other chakras are: behind the pubic bone; behind the navel; behind the heart; behind the base of the front part of the neck.

the dance of energy

It is like a dance, between male and female, ida and pingala. Sometimes one is stronger than the other, Other times they are balanced. But when both are strong, are full of prana, or electricity, whatever, and are in perfect balance, in that moment in time of exquisite harmony, these two energies, they "kiss" and in that moment. a spiritual awakening takes place. We have many spiritual awakenings in our journey and these two aspects, male and female, must be separate, yet harmoniously balanced, and travel in unison. 

It is like a Divine longing in those moments. The two must meet. Time (energy/female) and space (consciousness/male) stand still. And an awakening happens. An awakening is able to take place because a third energy, the Divine internal energy, emerges, and gives birth to the experience. In an instant. In a heartbeat.

It is the same in the manifestation of the cosmos. In reverse. From the Divine energy  that pervades everything in the Universe, by what ever language one uses: IO, God, Great Spirit, Brahma, emerges both the God Siva/consciousness, and the Goddess Shakti/energy who weave, separate, come together, and dance with each other to create life, in all it's forms. There is but one Creator. From here emerge the Gods and Goddesses, down through a lineage (Whakapapa) with IO, God, Brahma, Great Spirit at the top, the peak, of the lineage/whakapapa.