Namaskar to all the dear brothers and sisters who are seeking God. This brother would just like to share a humble thought. If it is not appreciated, feel free to ignore it completely. The point of all Mantra is to realize Brahman. The point of the Veda is to realize Brahman. The point of Bhakti is to realize Brahman. The point of Jnana is to realize Brahman. The point of Yoga is to realize Brahman. Human beings are not here to battle against monsters who want to destroy the world. The universe cannot be destroyed because the universe is Brahman. Just as no television program can destroy your TV, in the same way, no monster can destroy the universe. Human birth is rare. Please do not turn Sanatana Dharma into a joke. Faith and patience, compassion and humility, devotion and insight for all sentient beings. ❤️

2. Kuṇḍalinī is essentially visarga, the resonance of consciousness, its self-awareness. So, Kuṇḍalinī is Speech; Mantra itself. You will recall that KLĪṀ, in the context of the verses from the Vāmakeśvara Tantra, is what arouses Kuṇḍalinī and is indeed Her aroused state. The actual practice being described is this: when the yogi attains one-pointedness and thus activates the central channel, having become that pure consciousness which is the Liṅga, he penetrates and thus arouses the Yoni by enunciating the bīja, the passionate arousal of which is the ascent of Kuṇḍalinī, which was hitherto in the "middle of desire". On a more practical level, this means that the yogi, presumably after having inhaled and holding his breath, enunciates the bīja either mentally during breath pause, or aloud while exhaling, in either case causing its resonance to move up the central channel and culminating in the Sahasrāra where it fades away. So, the resonance of the bīja and that of Kuṇḍalinī are one and the same. She rises consciously on account of the union of the Liṅga and Yoni, that is, consciousness impelling itself, by means of itself, into itself. She is that emission; visarga. 3. The meaning of "Liṅga" here should probably be clarified first. The Chummāsaṅketaprakāśa gives a definition: "That in which all cognitions, arising in relation to both internal and external phenomena, gradually merge with the untouchable Supreme Space, which is beautiful with the bliss of stillness, that is, the unlocalizable Supreme Śiva, beyond the dichotomy of manifest vs. unmanifest states: that is taught in this oral tradition as the supreme ‘Liṅga’, transcending all, highly celebrated due to its universality, and eternally distinct from the three worlds by virtue of the recognition of it as the Self." In other words, the Liṅga is the one-pointed, central awareness which arouses Kuṇḍalinī by penetrating Her in Her abode. This makes sense: if you are being thrown about by the movement of Kuṇḍalinī which you do not even recognize, this is precisely because you do not recognize that you are yourself the Lord, who is one with His Power. Conversely, when you do attain this central awareness, that Power is recognized to be your own. Hence, in the act of manifesting all things from paśyantī to vaikharī, you are simultaneously withdrawing the world of duality because you realize that the expansion of all things is none other than the radiance of your own Being. It is not separate from you. Now about this "Touch". It is essentially undifferentiated perception. As the skin (which, in the scheme of Sāṁkhya tattvas, is connected to tactile sensation) covers the whole body and retains its ability to feel all around, so pure consciousness is the experience of all things as being of one flavor; sāmarasya. And this is precisely because there is nothing other than the light of consciousness. It is, in that respect, its self-awareness or self-grasping (again, skin and tactility are associated with the act of grasping). It is this which arouses Kuṇḍalinī. 4. To "throw the universe into turmoil" means the state in which the ordinary course of things is halted and controlled. The noise of saṁsāra comes to a halt as a result of this practice. The motif is fairly common. I believe the Svacchanda Tantra mentions the yogi being able to stop the movement of the stars, planets, tides, and basically everything, as also with Pratyaṅgirā's ability to stop the movement of the stars and planets with Her laughter, just to name a few. What is meant here is that the world of duality, characterized by the incessant noise of thoughts, is destroyed on account of the arising of awakened awareness which, as previously stated, is the recognition of nonduality, the lack of "another". This does not mean that the universe literally vanishes before one's very eyes. Rather, it is viewed in a completely different way, so much so that destruction is an apt comparison. It is explained in one of the Chummās: "In that state, that which takes the form of the operations of Emission, Stasis, and Dissolution, Time itself, is dissolved in the quiet & indistinct vibration of non-sequential Awareness—that is called the Devouring of Time." This is the "bliss of stillness" mentioned in the other quotation. It is "still" because, there being only one "thing" that exists, Śiva, there is no real change or movement. Such things necessarily imply sequentiality, mutual differences between one reality and another. The phrase also implies one's control over all things. Again, this is because the yogi recognizes that he is Śiva, who is the Lord of the Wheel of Energies which radiate from Him like the sun's rays. This is not a matter of the limited, egoic personality gaining supernatural powers. Rather, quite humbly, it is that same ego being submitted to and subsumed by the Will of Bhairava, which is none other than the trans-individual spontaneous dynamism of awareness. Now about diseases. The comparison of saṁsāra to a disease is fairly common. The most relevant example for this site, I think, is that of the Sarvarogaharacakra in the Śrīcakra, which literally means "Destroyer of all illnesses". The Yoginīs of this cakra embody a state of awareness in which the energies of consciousness move about freely in the infinite, empty sky of consciousness. According to Amṛtānanda in his commentary on the Yoginīhṛdayam, this cakra is appropriately called the remover of diseases, because it embodies a state of nonduality free from the "illness" of saṁsāra.

Namaste Nesh. 1. Yes, that is essentially what it is describing. Kuṇḍalinī is defined in the Siddhayogeśvarīmata Tantra as "the womb of the universe." Her initial state is described in the Tantrasadbhāva: "Wrapping itself inwardly around the Bindu of the Heart, it slumbers there in the form of a sleeping serpent and is aware of nothing at all. That goddess, placing in her belly the Moon, Fire, Sun, stars and fourteen worlds, sleeps like one affected by poison." Jayaratha says, commenting on a verse from the Triśirobhairava Tantra: "When this energy is devoid of the tendency to externalize and so rests in Herself alone, She is called Śaktikuṇḍalinī, because Her form is like that of a sleeping snake. As long as She is in this state, She is in Her lower form, and Her nature is pure consciousness alone." On the other hand, this can be understood to mean the state of the Goddess, one's own awareness, in its contracted form. Kuṇḍalinī is really always active, manifesting and withdrawing the universe in every instant. But normally, we are not directly aware of this. She throws the bound soul about through Her ascending and descending movements in the left and right channels. Unfolding on account of the churning of the Liṅga, however, She is made to unfold. The Tantrasadbhāva continues: "She is awakened by the resonance of supreme awareness and churned by the spontaneous rolling of Siva's seed within Her. Pierced in this way, that subtle power of Kuṇḍalinī is aroused." I have already explained the meaning of this in the previous comment. It is because of this that the movement of Kuṇḍalinī becomes conscious. She is invoked in the central channel, where the oscillation of consciousness is stilled. Kṣemarāja says: "The joy of awareness is discovered through the expansion of the Center." You probably know that She is said to be coiled three and a half times. This is a reference to the triangular Yoni, which is the womb of all energies and a map of Kuṇḍalinī's movement. The three lines of the triangle represent Her three energies. The left line is Vāmā, which embodies sṛṣṭi, icchā, paśyantī, among other things. Vāmā means two things. Firstly, it means a reversal. From the transcendent state of Parāvāc, Vāmā is the initial sprout of manifestation as paśyantī. It also means "she who vomits", that is, expunges the hitherto unmanifest energies of consciousness in order to manifest all things. The top, straight line is Jyeṣṭhā, who embodies sthiti, jñāna, madhyamā, etc. Her being represented by a straight line symbolizes the interconnectedness of all the reality levels, from Kālāgni to Anāśrita. The third line on the right is Raudrī, who embodies saṁhāra, kriyā, vaikharī, etc. Now, even though She embodies the "grossest" levels of divine activity, this is because She is the culmination of it all. She is often described as having the shape of a water chesnut, that is, of the form of a triangle, the idea being that She embodies the perfected form of the triangle, the culmination of Kuṇḍalinī's activity. The half-coil is actually the center of the triangle. It is a half-coil because it is not one among the other energies; it is their ground and essential nature. On this point, I suggest you read the Māṇḍūkyopaniṣad. The same general idea of everything I have said is presented therein. The overall idea is that Kuṇḍalinī's ascent is simultaneously a sort of emanation and withdrawal. Recall how I said that this is the conscious rise of Kuṇḍalinī, and that Kuṇḍalinī is in fact always active, whether we realize it or not. When Kuṇḍalinī rises through the central channel, She unfolds as Speech, moving from supreme to grossest in the phases of articulation. This is the "articulation" of the entire universe, and it is mirrored in the human form, where the three aforementioned phases are located in the heart, throat and tongue, respectively. Kuṇḍalinī is the sonic body of the Goddess, the embodiment of all the phonemes (remember this for the answer to your second question). There is much that can be said on the topic of Kuṇḍalinī, but for our purposes here this will suffice. Now with the context out of the way, I will simply quote Jayaratha again to explain the culmination of all of this, which is the crux of your question: "In the final phase of propensity towards the introverted state of consciousness, She assumes the form of surpeme pure consciousness alone, at rest within itself as the Supreme Kuṇḍalinī." This is what is meant by "enfolded in the womb of desire." Again, there are layers to all of this which I haven't even touched upon, but I've gone on long enough here. I will answer your other questions in more comments.

I’ve been meaning to ask you, would you recommend one or two specific texts for cognizing the panchadashi mantras, primarily kadi? What about regarding the Lalita and Kali nityas? Many of the texts one finds cited, such as Dakshinamurthy Samhita, are difficult to find translated into English.

Wonderful translation and commentary...This site should be used by many.

Namaste Dylan. Thank you so much for shedding light on the complex matters and distilling them enough that I can start inching towards deeper understanding. It always takes me some days and multiple readings to begin taking in stuff when it begins getting abstruse, but it’s very satisfying whenever one gets an inkling of new understanding in this realm. If I may, some follow up questions: 1. When you say that Kuṇḍalinī becomes “enfolded in the womb of desire” in the Sahasrāra, could that be understood as the return of the initial impulse of creation back into its own source? Like the arrow of desire completing a full arc and dissolving into stillness? 2. I’m curious about the phrase “Her essence is inseparable from its utterance.” Is this pointing to the idea that the sound of the bīja doesn’t just represent Her but is Her in some way? How literal should I be taking that? 3. You mentioned the Liṅga of Touch as “consciousness laying hold of its essential nature.” That seems incredibly precise. Is that moment of contact between attention and the Yoni what actually awakens Kuṇḍalinī, or is the desire itself already Her stirring? 4. “throwing the universe into turmoil” is very vivid indeed. This or very similar phrasing appears with a bit of frequency in the Śakta corpus of scriptures, no? Can that be understood as a poetic way of describing the shockwave of realization once this union happens? Or is it something more structural, like a reorganization of the energies that make up perception itself? At very vast scales, could it ever imply editing the source code of the universe, ie altering fundamental constants or changing seemingly “past” events? Please let me know if I’ve totally misread anything. If it’s alright, I’d like to bring more questions once further layers of my confusion clear up. very, very tangentially, some years back I was looking into some yantra + mantra construction, iirc derived from Soundarya Lahari, which was indicated at face level to treat certain pathogenic diseases. I can’t recall the verse or the interesting shapes of this simple yantra. Anyway, I was curious if one can safely assume there be some deeper meanings and uses for such a device, and if those may retain qualities from the gross level of meaning.

Thank you for thoughtfully and eloquently sharing so much Agni Ji. It has been a lot to process, and surely those who have read have a lot of contemplation and meditation to do, to properly consider and digest what you have revealed. Please forgive the small- or close-minded levels of some of us, myself included. you are elevating us greatly, even if we do not yet realize it. I would ask you more questions but there are some replies to you which are very silly and infantile, and it makes me sad to see such a low level of consciousness on a discussion forum that has been lately so vaunted by the words you and Shri Tivra have posted. Thank you so much for your services to this world. Wishing you all the best!

Namaste Omid. This felt brilliant to read! What might the impact on a soul be when it has had the experience of being temporally restricted, then returned to a state beyond such confines? Is it plausible that one may retain a sense of the restriction in such a manner that they are still effected by the experience after the bounds of linear time no longer persist?

I may be very late for asking but I want to know more about this nabhi vidya

Very interesting explanation! I guess, it is a kind of burden (on the enlightened souls).