kundalini
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Sanskrit कुण्डलिनी (kuṇḍalinī, “coiled”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: kun‧da‧li‧ni
Noun[edit]
kundalini (countable and uncountable, plural kundalinis)
- (yoga) An energy said to lie coiled at the base of the spine and to be released by yoga.
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 131:
- For us it is, of course, a symbol of the caduceus of Aesculapius, of the spinal column, of the kundalini-serpent of the Indians – you will be able to trace the ancestry of the idea through many continents and many religions.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 19:
- The physiology of Tantra yoga focuses on the magical numinosity of the male semen, but the experience of the awakening of kundalini is not an exclusively male phenomenon.
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Noun[edit]
kundalini m (plural kundalinis)
- kundalini