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Subject: Re: [K-list] kundalini origin
From: Wim Borsboom

Hi Supidt

You wrote:
> You once wrote a post speculating on the origin of the word Kundalini.
> Well, in Hindi, which is a derivative of Sanskrit, kunda means lock.

Funny that you should bring this up as over the last few days I have been
thinking intensively (again) about the words 'Kundalini Yoga'. I am aware of
the traditional explanation of the word 'kundalini' as the 'coiled serpent
at the base of the spine'. That explanation never felt right to me as my
rather concrete K experience culminated at one point in the 'joining up' of
two reproductive forces through and in my body as though "the universe and
the earth were copulating in my spine." I do not, as so many of us, have the
more common serpent experience. The serpent in my personal (and akashic)
memory (about 9000 years in this instance) has a totally different
connotation and role.
Anyway, the universal yab yum (Tibet) experience was what brought me to
consider a different etymological solution. You remember that I speculated
that the word Kundalini might be derived from Kunda which could mean vagina
(cunt, kut, kond) and Linga, penis. The Sanskrit word 'yoga' as well as the
Latin verb 'religio' (religion) means joining up, tying together. Also I am
reminded of some very powerful tantric representations of K where a
heaven-suspended penis is depicted as descending down towards the earth as
represented by a vagina. (Even Jesus in a rather daring interpretation of
his "Lord's prayer" may have alluded to this. "Thy will be done..., etc")
Some ppl. have commented on my uncommon and unscientific derivations but
then I do not think that linguisticians (is that a word?) have the same
experience as K ppl. have, which, I submit, limits their scientific point of
view as rather narrow and uninspired.
So yes, I take some freedom to find and arrive at my own meanings. Btw, I
pride myself somewhat on the linguistic knowledge pumped into me by some
good monk / teachers while I was a trappist monk some 37 years ago.

Love,
Wim

PS. My wife is at the moment in a Tibetan Monastery in South India "Dzongkar
Chode" near Mysore. Will be there for a month, maybe longer. She has
memories of having been a lama, right down to remembering the robes, bowl,
prayer beads... and some brass object that she could not describe too well.

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