I am not too sure where to begin regarding this question, I have observed many individuals sharing their experiences of spiritual awakening on YouTube. However, I have noticed many not mentioning the serpent, or having any knowledge of the term "Kundalini" it appears that Kundalini is a specific flavor of awakening, I have since learned that there are potential differences from traditional awakening, my guess would be that traditional awakening is much more mild and easier to tolerate than Kundalini awakening. I sense that it calls for a much more dramatic transformation in the form of "Spiritual Rebirth"
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Edited: Mar 18, 2023
What differentiates Kundalini from traditional spiritual awakening?
What differentiates Kundalini from traditional spiritual awakening?
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I think it's a difference between a sheep and a lion. Traditional awakening is that suddenly your life philosophy becomes smooth and you get many relaxing and eye-opening feelings; you start to feel that there is a rhythym about life and the higher truth is guiding you. But this is all quite peaceful journey, and in many cases looks more like your life philosophy is slowly progressing upwards.
Kundalini Awakening, it's a sudden force, which takes you like a storm, causes many events, which are good and bad, but both in extreme, and the whole process sometimes it seems does not care about you very much, in a sense; sure it has deep meanings, but the storms are real storms and the moments of seeing the Truth, well it's a scarily forceful and active truth, not a calm port, where your soul reaches to relax and take a deep breath.
I think in traditional awakening, you end up somewhere in the farm enjoying the nature, but Kundalini rather takes you into the wild life and moves everything around with huge power, all the things from physical to spiritual - so instead of riding there with a horse, you start going with a modern, high-speed train, and instead of getting the very clear picture, you also go through confusing and crazy times.
In my case, it took me to the Heaven - but, it also took me to the Hell. Here I can burn and hopefully become some kind of phoenix, finally. I think the traditional awakening, it can take a lot of patience and waiting, but it does not take you directly to Hell, to do it's thing. I think I had to reconceptualize, as I saw this thing.
But otherwise, I think the enlightened beings tend to be wise beings, and the "normal" enlightening indeed leads people to wise lives.
BTW. for me they happened in order - when I was younger, I got more or less enlightened in normal way, tough my resulting stage is not perfect; but years later, the Kundalini process started. This way, it looks like going upwards on the stairway and maybe, for some people the relaxed journey simply is not enough. But you cannot say that people with normal awakening are not going to inspire you - as I said, they are wise people and you can find a lots of important pieces of wisdom in their work, you can perfectly use where they reached with their philosophy, you can take their understanding of life quite seriously and thus, it's not completely right to say that they are lower. But I think they might lack some storms, some burning and melting the Steel. Finally, I think, both processes lead to some Heavens and Higher Lives, and they remove the qualities of personality, which are the most disturbing - so in culture, when you meet a normal, enlightened person, they are not leaving the scars to Kundalini awakened person, whereas common people, when they manage to change your life - they make you being hurt and broken. So, in this sense, awakening is awakening and probably we work all in union to bring this "Heaven to Earth", or to go there, or whatever follows - normal awakened people are quite tricky as well, and come up with surprising manifestations of Truth far from what one could expect. But they are less likely to be seen as crazy, they tend to calm down, whereas Kundaliny tends to charge you up :) In the end - every experience is personal and we constantly find some new words about things we are experiencing; with every new awakening experience I have, someone is going to teach me some new words in Sanskrit and always the old concept seems to be limiting - Buddha also told that when you are completely awakened in terms of Buddhism, then in higher Heavens, you find new similar conceptions, instead of Buddhism, you learn another path, which is going to lead you even higher, so (for I'm a Buddhist, but Christ also said that who follows him, will be higher than him) there will be next teacher instead of Buddha, and they are teaching you next thing instead of Buddhism, and once again you cree that may all the beings become this or that, even if they are all there already.