Speaking about the chakras, CWL writes,
"In the undeveloped person the chakras are usually in comparatively sluggish motion, just forming the necessary vortex for the force, and no more. In a more evolved man, they may be glowing and pulsating with living light so that an enormously greater amount of energy passes through them, with the result that there are additional faculties and possibilities open to man." We see these energies in full drive in children. It tapers down as we age and in the old, we see them lose the drive or "spirit" to live.
When I asked Agathiyar to make me understand all that I read, saw, heard, and others sharings, he told me that my experience (Anubhavam) shall become my knowledge or wisdom (Arivu). I guess he is asking me to rely on my own experience rather than take on another's. It is interesting to note that in helping us go within, Agathiyar and Ramalinga Adigal gave us some techniques that slowly moved on to another and another, moving us from placing efforts to having things happen spontaneously. I did not realize this until later. First, in having us go within, they asked us to do Nadi Sudhi. There was an effort on our part in practicing this. They told us that as we placed the effort, so shall we reap its benefits. Later they told us just to observe the breath, telling us that it shall move on its own. We were to just follow it. Here there was no effort or involvement on our part. We stood a witness to it. When Tavayogi told me that breath or Vaasi was God, I did not understand then. Only when we had moved within in Yoga from Sariyai and Kriyai, initially praying to pictures and idols of God, have we come to acknowledge the fact that breath is indeed God. Soon, Agathiyar asked that we observe the vibration (Athirvu) that was felt and follow it. In asking to know his true form as we were laden with so many images of Gods, Agathiyar told us that he was the inner feeling or sensation or Ul Unarvu felt when we sit to meditate, do puja, and do charity. God is now in this vibration. From Pranayama or the practice of tuning and balancing the breath to just being aware and observing it to following the vibration that is set in motion, Agathiyar brings us to watch and move with the Magnetic Wave that arose within now. And I thought nothing was happening. I always told him that I could not go within. Knowing him to only come and explain after we have had the experience, he began to list each feeling and change that took place in me subtly. How could I have missed them? I didn't even realize I was there until he started asking me questions if I had felt, seen, etc. Then he goes on to explain the matter. Asking if I felt or saw some change in me, he would ask me to go with the flow.
I guess the reason I did not recognize these feelings and changes is that with all the reading, watching, and hearing about the spiritual stuff around us, the experiences spoke of by others, and the eye-catching animations, drawings, graphics, and illustrations accompanying these text and videos, we were tuned to expect something of that nature - to see, feel or experience. Indeed, Swami Tadatmananda says the same in his talk in the video titled "Kundalini Yoga -- as Envisioned by the Ancient Yogis." He says, "I am completely turned off by the way it has been distorted and misrepresented. I am tired of seeing dazzling rainbow-hued chakras, and bodies emitting fountains of light from every pore. Images like these portray a practice that has virtually nothing in common with its ancient origins. Yet, people seem drawn to glitzy illustrations and trendy new-age beliefs."
Finally, once the chakras are open we come to the state of having Siddhis unfold, or that is what the vast literature on it says. Let us wait and see for ourselves.
