Kundalini Yoga

The religious discipline (yoga) focusing
on the kundalini, the latent spiritual
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Kundalini Yoga
power that exists in every person.
Through a combination of yoga practice
and ritual action, it is believed that the
kundalini is awakened and rises through
the chakras in the subtle body. This
action brings further spiritual capacities
and, ultimately, final liberation (moksha) of the soul. One of the claims for
kundalini yoga is that it is much quicker
than other means of spiritual development, harnessing more powerful forces.
For this same reason, it is viewed as
more hazardous, and should be done
only under the supervision of one’s religious preceptor (guru). According to
tradition, those who engage these forces
without proper supervision risk
unleashing forces they cannot control,
possibly bringing on insanity or death.