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PATH OF GRACE
awakened stretches forth through the vertebral column right from one end to the other with its head at the centre of Sahasrara and its tail in the Mooladhara region. The effect is then supposed to be carried through the spinal column and reflected upon the chakras through the medium of the nerve fibres. This process is called chakra bhedan. The chakras are presumed to be awakened automatically with the awakening of the Kundalini. The awakening of the Kundalini is believed to result in the acquisition of the super-normal powers explained above. This is what the traditional yoga offers and nothing more, not to speak of realisation of the true nature of man in the scheme of things of the divine creation.
Sri Ramchandraji Maharaj, the great master, says that the Kundalini is not like a coiled serpent at Mooladhara but instead is like an open ring, the two ends of which are but slightly apart from each other. They face each others as two poles for the passage of energy. Thus it is more a closed circuit of power based in the Mooladhara. For this reason the action of the Kundalini force remains within itself without
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