Jagadguru Sri Abhinava Vidyatheertha Mahaswamin

Chapter 9 - Mastering the Kundalini Yoga

His Holiness had His first experience of the kundalini and the chakras a few months after His initiation into sannyasa. One day, after the completion of His morning ahnika, He had a divine experience during which He was able to visualize His backbone, its interior canal, the triad of nadis, each chakra with its divinities and letters, with a mellifluous female voice narrating the specifics of the same. The senior Jagadguru remarked that Goddess Sharadamba had taught His Holiness directly and of Her own accord, just as She had taught the 33^rd pontiff.

During the chaturmasya in 1935, after His first experience of savikalpa samadhi on Goddess Bala, His Holiness experienced the ascent of kundalini to the sahasrara (chakra located at the crown area of the skull) and went into savikalpa samadhi. As He emerged from samadhi, He felt the descent of a few cool drops of tasty fluid into the back of His throat which He easily identified as the nectar from the sahasrara. Later on, the senior Jagadguru also confirmed that the tasty fluid was indeed the nectar from sahasrara.