Satprem: But then what is this consciousness we feel like a force inside us? For instance, sometimes in meditation it rises, then descends it’s not fixed anywhere. The Mother discusses why the descent of Kundalini is better than it’s rising from the bottom © The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International. Painting by Dinabandhu Das from the Korsnäs Gard Art Collection. Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga – III: The Triple Transformation Part is absorbed by the inconscient and lost to the individual consciousness and its action.Part flows out into the universal Nature.Part of it goes behind and remains as a support to the active part of the being.Part of it is stored up in the frontal consciousness and remains there.Whenever there is a descent of the higher consciousness in the Adhar(i.e. It is not really the plane that descends, it is the Power and Truth of it that descends into the material and then the veil between the material and it no longer exists. The descent of Peace (Sat), the descent of Force or Power(Chit), the descent of Light, the descent of Ananda, these are the four things that transform the nature. Sri Aurobindo on the mechanism of descent This “ descent experience” has no equivalent in other Yogas where the focus is on raising the Kundalini upwards towards the head from the Muladhara at the base of the spine. ![]() With progress, it is this Power that fills the heart and other parts of the lower being and gradually brings about a change of consciousness. In Integral Yoga, after the constant practice of mental silence and concentration of the consciousness above the head, one inevitably experiences what may be called a “ descent“, in which there is a palpable feeling of a Power/Force descending from above the head and working its way down the Brahmarandhra (door of Brahman, AKA anterior fontanelle) through the back of the head and down the spine.
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