Awakening the Non-Mechanical Parts of the Brain🔗

One important thing that you need to know is when the cognitive shift happens, when you change your mental setup, the non-mechanical parts of your brain will be awakened. You see, the mechanical parts of your brain will be active from the moment of your birth just because you are a human being.

But when you start to understand the cosmic law, the great truths, the non-mechanical parts of your brain will be awakened. This is what is called the second birth, dvija, the rebirth. That is why, in the Hindu tradition you are called dvija (twice born) when you are initiated into spirituality. It means that now you have begun to understand the law of the cosmos.

Once initiated into the truths, your thinking becomes new. It is not based on fear or greed like animals. Animals don't need to think because all they do is function based on fear and greed. If you act based on fear and greed, the mechanical parts of your brain are more than enough for you. But to go beyond fear and greed, you need the non-mechanical parts of your brain to be awakened. Awakening the non-mechanical parts of your brain is called as the kundalini awakening.

People usually question me as to how the energy can be awakened by merely changing the understanding. You see, in your day to day life if you are trained to feel tired at a particular time, then you will feel tired when the moment arrives. You will feel tired even if you have not worked the whole day!

For example, let us say you usually get depressed at around 9:30 am every morning thinking that you have to go to office. Then, you can see that even on Sundays when you don't need to go to office, you will be in a low mood, you will be depressed. You will tell yourself, 'Oh it is Sunday today! I don't have to go to office, relax.' Even then, the low mood will not pass. You will still remain in a low mood.

Your mental setup is directly related to your kundalini awakening. When you use the shakti to change whatever you can change, to change your understanding, you awaken tremendous energy in you.

You can see the power of shakti when you want to break some long habit. If you fight with a single habit, any habit for that matter, it will release tremendous energy in you. Habit is energy used unnecessarily and in the wrong direction, both.

When you break a habit, even a simple habit like having a cup of coffee in the morning, you release tremendous energy in your system. That is why in our tradition, we had practices like fasting or keeping vigil throughout the night. It was to break our habits and create a new energy flow. Just bring in awareness into your habits.

Bringing awareness is trying to change whatever you can. Expressing the shakti to change whatever you can is what I call the first technique of living enlightenment.