Sahaja Yoga Meditation Australia

Sign of the Kundalini

During my students’ art class recently, one of the girls used the sign of the Kundalini in making a pattern of her own after looking at a painting by Margaret Preston.

Watching her drawing the symbol I said, “That’s the sign for the Kundalini.” She replied, “What’s that?” The four other children at the table looked up and listened to the explanation about how in the sacrum bone at the base of the spine, an energy lies there in that same shape, like a coil. This is part of the nervous system known by doctors, but doctors don’t know the whole story. The energy comes up and it exits from the head as a coolness. 

The children looked a little surprised and then I said, “We can test whether this happens. Put your hands out and ask, ‘Please give me my Self-realisation’”.  The four of them stood up, put out their hands, asked the question and in an instant they all said they could feel the coolness over their heads and then on their hands. They didn’t ask any more questions and they all double-checked. One of the girls felt it first, and the boy who is very shy was last but not least.

Then they all sat down and just continued painting as if they had been given just another piece of art information. Wonderful!

A Sahaja Yoga art teacher

After reading this story, another Sahaja yogi who is a former teacher made the following comments:

Children are so humbling and grounding – they get to the essence of something and appear to move on immediately but it goes very deeply into them. You had the perfect teaching opportunity – the learner showed you that she was ready to understand and you supplied the next piece of information she needed to expand her experience and to “know what she knows”. Then you showed her how to put it into practice in the collective situation.

This is how I’ve felt that all teaching needs to be. Many years ago I stopped still on a street on the way to work at the Education Department with the realisation that “the curriculum is inside the child!” We can’t arrange it from the outside; we can only set up the environment so that learning can happen.

Art is one of the means through which Self-realisation can take place. These children have accepted your teaching, which you have offered them freely. It is so sweet to picture them. Possibly what will happen now is that opportunities to show them the Kundalini in the work of other artists, and in the world in general, will arise spontaneously.

(Graphic: kundalini.org.hk/sychinese)