Meaning of Worship of the Snake The saints and seers of this land never spoke lightly or acted irrelevantly. They had the good of the generations always in view. When they invested some places as holy and named some days as sacred, they also prescribed the rules and ceremonials to be observed by pilgrims and Saadhakas (spiritual aspirants), so that time, expense and effort could be used for the expansion of love and the education of the instincts and impulses. The object of every rule was to bring the realisation of the Aathma, as ones reality, a few steps nearer. For, the Aathma in the individual is the Aathma in all; Shivoham is the truth; and the truth alone can make man free and full of bliss. Take one prescription, the worship of the snake. Those afflicted with barrenness or serious illness or skin diseases of virulent types vow to proceed on pilgrimage to shrines of Subrahmanya (conceived in the form of a snake). People laugh at this practice. Indians offer adoration to snakes, because, in their opinion, they have poison in their fangs! The truth is quite otherwise. The inner meaning of snake worship is quite different. The spinal column of man ending with the thousand petalled lotus in the brain is very much like a serpent poised on its tail with hood widely spread. In the science of Kundalini Yoga, the vital energy of man lying dormant like a coiled snake, at the bottom of this column is the lowest Muulaadhaara Chakra (the basal plexus) is awakened and aroused, so that it courses up through six more wheels (centres of superior consciousness) until it reaches the Sahasraara (thousand-petalled lotus energy centre) at the very top of the skull. The passage for the Kundalini is through the Sushumna nerve in the centre of the spinal column. The worship of the snake, ridiculed as superstition, is the symbolic counterpart of this great Yogic Saadhana which confers vigour and vitality....SAI BABA
Posted on: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 19:58:29 +0000
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