The Kundalini Craze: When Instagram Meets the Serpent Power
- Oct 8
- 7 min read
Why awakening isn’t an achievement, but an alignment with your inner truth!
You don’t awaken Kundalini — you awaken yourself, and then she rises.
The Trend That Was Never a Trend
Somewhere between meditation apps and YouTube shorts, the word Kundalini became the new Enlightenment hashtag. It’s the modern-day spiritual gold rush — “Activate your serpent power in 7 days,” they say, as if consciousness were a software update. But the truth is older — and far less glamorous. Kundalini Sadhana was never meant for the curious, the impatient, or the algorithm-chosen.
It was designed for the prepared. Not the physically flexible, but the internally refined.
Chakras Are Not Stickers on a Yoga Mat
In ancient yogic understanding, the Chakra system is not just a rainbow diagram of colours and affirmations. It is a precise psychospiritual architecture, describing how consciousness expresses itself through the human body and mind.
Each Chakra holds Vrittis — thought patterns, emotional currents, and karmic imprints that shape one’s inner world. The purpose of practice is not to raise energy, but to purify the patterns that block its natural flow.
Muladhara (Root) anchors fear, survival, and attachment. When your sense of security wavers at life’s smallest shake, the serpent has nowhere to rise. If you are not financially stable and free you should not raise your Kundalini. If you have any skin diseases or any sickness in the body you should not go via the Kundalini route. It will give you Anal Fissures, Piles and all sorts of problems in and around that area, Psychosis, Paranoia, Schizophrenia, Parkinson. It may expire your Kidneys as well.
Svadhisthana (Sacral) stores desire, pleasure, and creativity — the echoes of past-life tendencies seeking expression. If you are not emotionally stable and free you should not raise your Kundalini. If you are suffering one or more relationships in life, you need not go via the Kundalini route. It will give you sicknesses of the reproductive organs.
Manipura (Solar Plexus) burns with willpower and control. Its fire can illuminate or consume, depending on awareness. If you do not have pure Sattvik "will" to "power" do not raise your Kundalini or you will be another Hitler in the making. It will give you sicknesses of the stomach, intestine, bowels etc.
Anahata (Heart) is where human love learns to become divine compassion — the bridge between doing and being. If you still love some and hate some people do not raise your Kundalini as it will give you Neurosis, loss of voice, thyroid, and what not.
Note: Here, I am not saying all the above diseases "only" happen because you raised your Kundalini. They can happen due to your own Karma, someone else's Karma or black-magic or something else too.
Each Vritti — lust, jealousy, pride, greed, devotion — is a frequency of consciousness. The task is not to suppress them, but to transform them through awareness.
If your ego wants enlightenment, the universe will keep you busy with workshops.
Karma: The Blueprint of Your Becoming
Every seeker carries a unique karmic imprint — a constellation of tendencies, strengths, and resistances shaped by countless lifetimes of thought and action. Your spiritual path is not chosen by preference but revealed by readiness.
To demand advanced practices before stabilising the basics is like trying to channel lightning through an ungrounded wire.
Kundalini Sadhana does not reward ambition; it responds to equilibrium. When the mind is balanced, the breath steady, and the ego humbled — the Kundalini Shakti stirs on her own.
The Economy of Prana: When Energy Itself Is the Currency
Another truth often overlooked is that not everyone has the same reserve of Prana Shakti, the vital life-force that fuels both body and consciousness. Each petal of every Chakra unfolds only when infused with sufficient Prana — like lamps lighting up one by one upon adding fuel. Even Mantra chanting requires enough Prana Shakti or you will sleep while chanting.
For many, the challenge is not awakening the Kundalini but replenishing the current. People living in a poverty of Prana — constantly drained by stress, fatigue, poor diet, or restless living — simply lack the energetic wealth required for higher Sadhana.
It’s like expecting someone who has laboured all day under the sun to hit the gym in the evening — there’s no energy left to build new strength. Before the ascent can begin, one must restore abundance — through rest, right food, breath discipline, joyful living, and harmony with nature. The fullness of Prana is the foundation on which true awakening stands.
Opening your third eye without grounding is like opening multiple browser tabs on a dying laptop.
Prana is the currency of awakening — and most of you are energetically bankrupt.
The Guru Is Not a Trend Manager
A true Guru doesn’t tailor teachings to social-media trends. They don’t offer initiation because it’s fashionable or because students are restless for it or for the “results.” They prescribe practice like a skilled physician — after diagnosing the seeker’s karmic constitution, mental readiness, and energetic health.
When the Guru asks you to chant a single mantra for years, decades, it’s not because they lack creativity; it’s because your energy channels (nadis) need cleansing before any awakening can safely occur.
Kundalini rising prematurely doesn’t give you Siddhis — it can destabilize your body, distort perception, and unearth unresolved trauma for which you may not be ready.
The ancient seers were scientists of consciousness, not marketers of mysticism.
The Guru doesn’t awaken you; they remind you to stop sleeping.
The Dangers of DIY Kundalini and Blind Guidance
In the age of online spirituality, one of the gravest risks is mistaking information for initiation.
Practicing from YouTube videos or following self-proclaimed “masters” who cannot see your karmic architecture can be disastrous.
These are not mechanical techniques — they are energetic surgeries.
If an untrained guide forces open your Sahasrara (crown chakra) without grounding the Muladhara (root), the nervous system can shatter. You may begin to hear voices, lose grip on reality, or spiral into psychosis — sometimes fatally.
If Vishuddhi (throat chakra) is opened without the awakening of Anahata (heart), you swallow the poison instead of transforming it into Amrit — nectar. The toxicity of unprocessed emotion manifests as chronic illness: digestive disorders, bowel ailments, inflammation, and deep psychosomatic suffering that medicine alone cannot heal.
Each Chakra must open in divine sequence, guided by one who can see your inner map. Without that guidance, what you call awakening may in truth be disintegration.
The Guru’s art lies in balance — they will not raise the serpent if the vessel cannot hold the fire.
When Prana Rises on Its Own
Sometimes, without deliberate practice or initiation, Prana rises on its own — a spontaneous Utthan (surge) through one or more Chakra patterns. It can feel ecstatic, terrifying, or utterly disorienting. What’s really happening is not divine punishment or premature Enlightenment, but the surfacing of what was buried. Unresolved fears, traumas, and karmic residues stored in those Chakras rush to the surface, demanding attention.
This forced purification can feel like the body and mind are being dismantled — sleeplessness, anxiety, emotional breakdowns, or strange physical sensations, psychosis, paranoia may last for years. The mistake is trying to suppress it or to “fast-forward” through it with more techniques. In such cases, the right path is stabilisation, not acceleration. Grounding, breath regulation, simple living, and surrender to divine timing become essential.
No Guru can “switch it off,” and no video can fix it, it's your Karmic residue. What can be done is to contain it — with compassion, patience, and guidance that honours your pace. What must not be done is to romanticise it as Kundalini doing all the bad things to you.
Spontaneous Pranic awakening is not a shortcut to liberation; it’s an invitation to clean your inner house before moving in fully.
Not for Everyone: The Rarity of True Kundalini Readiness
Kundalini Sadhana is not for everyone — and that is not a judgment, but a mercy.
The human system is a finely tuned instrument, and only a few are born with the physiological, psychological, and energetic architecture strong enough to withstand the intensity of that ascent.
True for most people: No amount of enthusiasm, practice, or imitation can alter one’s core constitution more than 25% for current lifetime. For many, attempting to raise Kundalini prematurely is like trying to channel a lightning storm through a fragile wire — the energy does not liberate; it shatters. The body trembles, the mind fragments, the nervous system collapses under the surge it cannot yet hold.
And yet, the beauty of the path is this: you don’t need direct Kundalini practices to realize the Self.
Moksha — liberation — has been attained by countless seekers through gentler, more integrated paths: devotion, meditation, self-inquiry, service, mantra, or pure surrender.
The fire of awareness need not burn the vessel to light the lamp.
The serpent is not the only door to the Infinite; it is merely one — and perhaps the most demanding one. For most, peaceful realization is safer, sweeter, and equally sacred.
The Slow Alchemy of True Sadhana
Before you seek to raise Kundalini, learn to raise awareness. Before you chase chakras, understand your Vrittis. Before you ask for enlightenment, honour the karma that shaped your journey.
Spiritual evolution is not about speed; it’s about depth.The serpent doesn’t rise by force — she ascends through surrender.
When the mind is disciplined, the heart purified, and the breath balanced, awakening is not a miracle — it’s a natural unfolding.
A Whisper to the Awakening Generation
The goal isn’t to awaken Kundalini. The goal is to become worthy of her awakening.
Because when your inner world is clear, she doesn’t need to be summoned. She recognises you — and rises on her own.
In an age where spirituality is packaged for quick consumption, it’s easy to forget that the oldest sciences of consciousness were meant for the long game. Those who are looking for instant gratification through quick resulting Sadhana are not meant for Kundalini kriyas.
True awakening is not an event; it’s an evolution — from impulse to awareness, from restlessness to reverence.
The Kundalini doesn’t need to be awakened. You do.
Blessings,
Jai Shivay,
Prakriti
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