Kundalini Experiences, Meditation Experiences, Spiritual Experiences, Yogic Experiences, Kundalini Awakening Experiences, Third Eye Opening Experiences, Chakra Activation Experiences, Fourth Level of Consciousness/Superconscious Experiences, Start of Spirituality, Beginning of REAL Meditation (Dhyan, Chan, Son, Zen), Real Vipassana/Insight, Samadhi

             

All the above mean the real meditation experiences listed in this post.

Meditation is practiced to reach a heightened level of spiritual awareness to experience the higher reality about oneself. We have dual realities--one is physical (lower) and the other one is spiritual (higher). The idea/concept of a higher reality, the means to attain it, and the words describing such ideas, means, methods, and practices all came from our ancestors. We all, accurately or inaccurately, use the words coined by our ancestors but are ignorant or negate the ideas/concepts which the words refer to.
http://kundalini-brahmajnani.blogspot.com/2016/08/medha-nadi-meditation-meditation.html

Q: What does meditation experience mean?

A: Meditation experience means a mystical or spiritual experience during meditation. In other words, a meditation experience means experiencing a heightened level of spiritual awareness during meditation. Meditation experiences are not the ordinary experiences that are apparent to the senses and obvious to the intelligence. Transcending such apparent/ordinary experiences during meditation and having an extraordinary/supernormal/spiritual experience is a true meditation experience.

Peace, joy, peace of mind, mental calmness, happiness, "living in the present," not thinking about the past and the future, JUST BE, crying, laughing, and any other mental or physical activities/states without Kundalini or spiritual awakening are not mediation experiences. Children have all these states and do these activities without meditation, and we have all been children in the past. Did we realize anything spiritual about ourselves with such activities or states? Any experience without meditation is not a meditation experience. Any experience without Kundalini/spiritual awakening is not a spiritual/meditation experience.

Q:  What is Kundalini?

A: It is a name given by Indian Yogis and Seers for the mechanism in our body which is responsible not only for our breathing but also for our spiritual awakening. This is a higher/spiritual power/energy in us which gives Samadhi/deep meditative states and real meditation experiences. To have a general idea about Kundalini and its relation to DNA, click:
http://kundalini-brahmajnani.blogspot.in/2016/06/kundalini-as-it-is-myths-about.html

Q:  What do I experience during meditation?

A: The first real meditation experience is always going to be experiencing death, feeling that you are going to die, losing control of your body and/or breath, inability to move the body, trance (to mean sleep-like state/profound absorption) or semi-conscious state with jerks and body shakes, or an intense experience (mostly scary, frightening) in which you feel something, someone, or some powerful force has seized you from the inside and/or the outside. In all these experiences, you will realize your utter helplessness. This is how Kundalini, the higher power in you, reveals its existence.

For my first meditation experience, click:
http://kundalini-brahmajnani.blogspot.com/2016/06/my-first-meditation-experience-effects.html

When the higher Power (Kundalini) in you awakens and there is a consequent experience. You may get immersed in that experience and may not be aware of your body and the surroundings (Nirvikalpa Samadhi/Jnana Samadhi).  In some experiences, you may be aware of your body and your surroundings in a semi-conscious state (Savikalpa Samadhi/Kriya Samadhi).  The experiences will be very intense.  These experiences may last for a couple of seconds, minutes, or hours.

ALL THE FOLLOWING REAL MEDITATION EXPERIENCES WILL:

• Happen ONLY during deep meditation/Samadhi or Intense Experience stage of the following link: 
• http://kundalini-brahmajnani.blogspot.com/2016/05/dhyana-or-meditation-techniques-silence.html
• Not happen after you have stopped and gotten up from meditation
• Never happen when you are wide awake, fully conscious, and have full control of your body
• Never happen when you are actively involved in physical and mental activities
• Never happen if you don't achieve a momentary natural/involuntary silence
• Never result in flight of ideas/racing thoughts

The following list is not exhaustive but indicative of what one may experience during meditation (for ease of discussion later, the meditation experiences are clubbed into various categories; the individual experiences, however, can be listed under different categories):

VISION:  You will see:

                                         

• Lights of different colors.  These may be moving, circling, still and invariably all of them will be shining as bright as the sun in the afternoon but without straining your eyes. After sometime, they will vanish and you will regain your body consciousness and realize that you had been meditating. YOU WILL NOT HAVE THE SAME VISIONS AGAIN. If you are fully aware of your body and seeing colors, lights, etc., WITH YOUR NAKED/OPEN EYES, then it's not a meditation experience and may lead to problems.
• A brightness or whiteness everywhere, you turn in all directions, it is the same everywhere.  There is nothing apart from this brightness – no objects, no you.
• Pitch darkness everywhere.  You may feel that you are unable to move your body and unable to stop seeing this darkness.  You may get frightened at this experience.  This will linger on for some time and then you will be able to move your body.
• All the colors of the prism at the same time.  These may be circling on one another, like that of a shooting target sheet.  The center of these circling lights will be of a pure white color.  The outer colorful circles will start fading and the center color, i.e., the pure white starts growing and becoming bigger and bigger until you see nothing but pure whiteness or brightness everywhere.

                      

• A very small white light or bright light against a clear background.  Its size will be that of a small grain of fine sand.
• Lotuses of various colors with few petals or innumerable petals.  The lotus will be seen either as a bud or as fully blossomed.  The fully blossomed lotus will not be facing upward but facing you.  Most prominent would be a huge dark pink lotus with innumerable petals.
• God, Goddess, Divine Form of various sizes, usually huge.  The vision will be so intense that you would feel light itself has taken the form of a God or Goddess. 
• The face/head without the torso of a God/Goddess/Deity or Divine Form – usually huge.
• Very queer, strange-looking, terrible and frightening forms of human-like beings.
• All the planets aligned in a line.

• Objects, people or places you have never seen before and may never see again.  You will have a crystal clear vision of all of them.  You will be unable to see yourself – left, right, up and down – the place exists but not you.

REVELATIONS:  You will experience the following:

• The surroundings in which you are meditating have dissolved into a void and only whiteness remains.
• You will see water everywhere; to the right, left, up and down; and you will see yourself right in the middle of deeper water and drowning/going still deeper.  The meditators may feel that they are unable to breathe and would definitely die and they get frightened.  As soon as such thoughts arise, the meditation is disturbed and they wake up from their meditative absorption.  However, if they persist in observing such phenomenon as if it is happening to someone else, they will see themselves going deep down to the bottom of the water body and see some wonder happening there and would realize that they are deathless.

        

• You will see your spiritual, ethereal, or astral body (Suksha or Ativahika Sharira) sitting and meditating.  This body is entirely different than anyone has ever read or imagined about.
• You will experience that either you are aware of or have become all the objects surrounding you, to the left, right, up, down, front, back.  If you are meditating inside a room, then you experience that you have become the chair, table, cot, pillow, floor, wall, clock, and all the objects that are in your surrounding.  If you are meditating outside in the open, you experience that you have become the trees, shrubs, grass, houses, stones, sand, space, and all the objects that are in your surrounding.
• You will experience that you have all the emotions and thoughts (the pairs of opposites like good and bad, happiness and unhappiness, love and hatred, merit and demerit, etc.), and there is nothing for you to seek or nothing for you to give up.  You experience that you are complete (Purna), i.e., you have everything or everything is yours, you are everything and everything is in you; and then there is the resultant indescribable peace.
• You have become an object or aware of the in and out of an object.  For example, you have become the car and then you start experiencing that all the parts, the body of the car, tires, seats, wheel, axle, steering, gear, gear box, hood, engine, and the parts inside the engine, the petrol, knowledge of the mechanism with which the engine works, etc.  This may be any object.
• You experience you are overtaken by extreme happiness or bliss, as if you have been intoxicated with happiness.
• You will experience indescribable peace.  You will experience that your body has become very light.
• You will experience that you have no body and that you are unborn.
• Without your will or intention, you will start crying, laughing, smiling, speaking unintelligibly and start exhibiting other emotions during meditation.  You will not be fully aware of such acts, but if you become aware of such acts, then you will wake up from your meditation. Sometimes, you may or may not have recollection of such actions.
• Against a dark backdrop, you will see many tiny light wave particles like streaks of tiny light waves vibrating and vanishing.

• You will experience the Supreme Sound: http://kundalini-brahmajnani.blogspot.com/2016/05/brahm-parambrahma-naad-brahm-veda.html
• You will experience that you are sleeping and snoring.  You will watch your body lying down, sleeping, and snoring (if you snore, that is).

BODY TEMPERATURE:  You will experience:

• Your body has become unbearably hot, having a burning sensation.
• The body has become too cold to bear and you cannot move your body or utter anything.
• There is cool sensation under your eyes, in your lips or in your breath.
• The body has become breathless, motionless, and cold.

BODY MOVEMENTS:  You will experience the following:

• Sudden jerks or intermittent jerks of arms, legs, neck, trunk, or the whole body.
• Sudden jolts in any part of the body or the whole body as if you have touched a live electric wire.
• Brief shaking of the extremities or the whole body later progressing into violent shaking, convulsions, or seizure-like activities.
• Your upper body or trunk oscillating, moving like a pendulum sideways or forward and backward.
• Sudden jolt that propels you up from your position giving you a little jump.  This little jump has been exaggerated by people as levitating.
• Swaying of the trunk in circular or semicircular fashion.
• You will start making some ordinary and extraordinary gestures with your hands, tongue, eyes, lips, face, and other parts of the body which you have been doing usually and also which you have done never before.

                                 

• Rhythmic movements of the body or extremities.  Dance-like movements of the body.
• The body starts performing various postures or starts twisting itself in various positions.  You have no control over your body and cannot stop but just perform them.
• At the end of your meditation, you will realize that you have changed your body posture or moved to a different place without your knowledge.
• Some shaking around your perineum (Mooladhara). The shaking may give you a little jump, and then you wake up from your meditation.
• Muscular movements in your buttocks while you are sitting and meditating as if something is moving or crawling under your seat.
• Sudden surge of energy from the perineum to the top of your head making the body to suddenly straighten itself and shake.
• Slow movement of air in the spinal column, as if a small air bubble is passing through your spinal column, from the perineum to the middle of your chest and then suddenly the whole body shaking violently.
• You will experience as if a small wheel is rotating very fast around your belly button and you will feel generation of some heat in that place.

SOUNDS (SPEECH/GLOSSOLALIA):

• You will start hissing like a snake  (glossolalia) and start crawling like it.  You will start roaring like a lion or a tiger (glossolalia) and may start gesturing with your open hands like the tiger or lion when it attacks its prey with its claws. You will also gesture like an elephant, fish, bird, etc.
• You will speak unintelligible sounds, words, etc., (glossolalia) which you may or may not recollect.
• You will hear sounds that are very sudden, very short but very loud like the blast or explosion of a great magnitude, bursting of an electric bulb, etc. (The difference between such REAL meditation experiences and signs of tinnitus/vertigo/Meniere's Disease is very thin. These can be distinguished if you are having such experiences repeatedly, when not meditating, without entering into Samadhi, without having other Samadhi experiences, etc. Check the comment section of this link: http://kundalini-brahmajnani.blogspot.com/2016/05/dangers-in-meditation-meditation-or.html)

SMELL AND TASTE:

• You will experience smelling or tasting of different objects, both good and bad. (YOU WILL NEVER SMELL/TASTE WITH YOUR NOSE/TONGUE. After the experience, you will realize that you had been meditating.) 

BODY SENSATIONS:  You will experience:

• Your body is made up of air or water waves or is being touched by such waves or the whole of your body is floating or you may experience ticklish sensations throughout your body.  Though it's difficult to explain such sensations; however, the end result is that it gives you immense pleasure and happiness.
• You have become breathless and you are gasping to take a breath but are unable to do so and you are unable to move the body, breathe, cry, shout, speak or do anything.  You will wake up after sometime to find that you have been meditating.

BREATHING:

• You will start breathing in different ways – very slow, very fast, very short, very long, etc.
• You will experience that your breath is being locked in different parts of your lungs for different time duration. You will experience brief breathlessness states.
• You will experience that you are involuntarily breathing in air from one nostril and breathing out air from the opposite nostril without closing any nostrils with your fingers. 
• You will experience breathlessness accompanied with many frightening experiences.

Such involuntary, spontaneous breathing/locking of breath is called Swabhavika Pranayama or Kriya of Kundalini. When such Pranayamas and Kriyas happen to you, you will realize the ignorance/delusions surrounding the practice of Pranayama or Kriya to awaken Kundalini.
http://kundalini-brahmajnani.blogspot.in/2016/05/kundalini-awakening-through-pranayama_8.html

OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCES:

• You will experience that you are exiting from the top of your head, i.e., anterior fontanelle through a white thread, like that of a lotus stem or an umbilical cord and going up and above into the sky branching into a thousand "you" and you realize that if one or hundreds of "you" were to die or get killed, you still live on with several other bodies, hence you are deathless.
• You will experience that you are exiting from the belly button and are going up and above into the sky yet connected to your body through the same white thread-like cord.
• You will experience you are coming back and entering your body slowly, slowly.  You will start feeling your body as if you are feeling someone else's body, inch by inch.  Then you will come back to your senses and realize that you have been meditating.
• While meditating, you will experience that you have risen out of your body and you are looking at your body from a distance.
• You are moving into the sky and going to distant places.

OTHER EXPERIENCES:

• There are a lot of other experiences which give you an insight into your spiritual reality and the spiritual/higher nature of existence. This is real Vipassana or Insight. To know about Vipassana meditation as taught by present-day teachers, click: http://kundalini-brahmajnani.blogspot.in/2016/05/vipassana-mindfulness-here-and-now-just.html
• There are other experiences that cannot be made public.

Q: I have heard that the experiences in meditation are useless, should not be paid any attention to, and one should go beyond all such experiences to know the indescribable Real nature of oneself, is it true?

A: No. These experiences are never useless but are very, very important in the path of Self-realization. Without meditation/spiritual experiences, how will you know what spirituality is or what being SPIRITual really means? How will you know whether you are meditating or simply sitting and thinking? If Self-realization/spiritual awakening is doing some physical and mental exercises by sitting in an asana, breathing differently, shaking your head or other body part, observing/focusing on some body part/body sensations/mental sensations or thinking differently, then the whole world is doing it but why is nobody having any spiritual experience? How will you know your spiritual/meditation progress without spiritual/meditation experiences?

What is Self-realization after all? It is a direct experiential knowledge (Aparoksha Anubhuti) of your higher Reality. If not through experience, how else can one have Self-realization? By thinking? By pretending to be Self-realized? By faking, imagining, hallucinating?

Without direct meditation/spiritual experiences, all the spiritual knowledge in the world is borrowed and second-hand, either heard, read, or thought about.

The spirit, spiritual body or sukshma sharira, is inside and outside of our physical body, much like a magnetic field. Meditation is all about awakening this spirit or being the spirit. Knowledge of one's real Self can only be known through this spiritual body. This sukshma sharira experiences the cosmic reality THROUGH DIRECT EXPERIENCES. Spiritual body does not require words and language for cognition. Words and language have no meaning to the spiritual body.

Spiritual self, Real self, true Self, higher Self, inner Self, inner Reality, inner Being, higher Reality, true Nature, higher Nature, Buddha nature, spirit, spiritual body, ethereal body, ativahika sharira, sookshma/sukshma sharira, astral body, airy body, etc., all mean one and the same.

Q: What do these experiences signify?

A: All these experiences will be new and extraordinary, and they are a MUST to get an insight, Vipassana, into your inner Self or spiritual nature of your existence. These experiences convince you about the existence of a higher Reality and encourage you to tread the spiritual path. These experiences mean that the Self-realization process has started. They signify that you are on the right path in your Sadhana (spiritual practice); the higher Power in you is pleased with your efforts; and your worldly Vasanas* and Samskaras** are thinning out or getting powerless one by one.

*Vasanas - worldly knowledge, desires, tendencies, inclinations. 
**Samskaras - past impressions; conditioning or formation of your personality due to past actions of the body, speech, and mind.

Note: I have used some Sanskrit words for better understanding of some important and highly talked about spiritual ideas and concepts. I don’t know Sanskrit and if you find that I have not given an English meaning for a Sanskrit word, then Google it (that's what I have done and that's what I do). Words and language have no meaning to the spiritual body or spiritual consciousness, which is our higher Self or Reality.

RE-LIVING AND RELIEVING PROCESS/STAGE:
Some of the above meditation experiences are due to Re-Living your past Vasanas and Samskaras which will result in Relieving them one by one. This is called Re-Living and Relieving Stage/Process.

Anything which has been experienced/thought about is stored up in the mind. The mind is a storeroom of all ordinary and extraordinary/both good and bad bodily actions/speech/thought, frightening experiences, near-death experiences, catastrophes, heartbreaks, great embarrassments or insults, disastrous performances, unforgettable bad experiences, unspeakable dejection and rejections, insatiable sexual desires/Vasana and indescribable sexual acts, fear, divinity, love, hatred, jealousy, feeling of worthlessness, inferior complex, great expectations, inexpressible emotions, secrets, sins, crimes, scheming, lying, terrible and horrible experiences, etc. These experiences and thoughts keep resurfacing time and again, either when you are awake or during your sleep in your dreams. The bad ones/memories keep troubling  you throughout your life.

The bad/negative experiences, thoughts, feelings, and unfulfilled desires/Vasanas would have formed stronger impressions (Samskaras) than the good/positive ones or fulfilled desires. This is because the good ones are easier to forget and the bad ones are difficult to forget making us think about them time and again.

This is the reason when people achieve a bit of concentration during meditation, all such stored up bad/negative past experiences, thoughts, feelings, Vasanas come to the fore first. These will torment/disturb them. These won't allow people to achieve silence and without silence, nobody can have a spiritual experience.

Believe it or not: A past intense experience, speech, or feeling forms a strong Samskara (impression) or an ethereal knot in the spiritual heart. The bad/negative experience, speech, feeling or unfilled desire forms a stronger knot than the good one. These memories/knots can only be loosened or gotten rid of by Kundalini awakening and passage of spiritual currents to the spiritual heart. Spirituality is about loosening all the knots of the spiritual heart.
http://kundalini-brahmajnani.blogspot.in/2016/05/spiritual-heart-hritgranthi-bhedana.html

Reliving and Relieving Process:
1. When Kundalini awakens, you will experience, speak, or feel something which you had experienced, spoken, or felt in the past, but with much more intensity. (Glossolalia during meditation is due to Savikalpa/Kriya Samadhi.) During such intense spiritual experience/Samadhi, you will not know that you are meditating but you would feel that you are really experiencing, speaking, or feeling something. This is called Re-living.

2. When the spiritual nerve currents pass due to Kundalini awakening and you experience a shock, jolt, or body movement, an ethereal knot (past experience which had formed a samskara/knot) will get loosened. This is called Relieving. People can call this healing also. You are healed of your past bad memory. The next time when you think about this particular past experience , you will not get much affected by its memory. If you were in such a speaking Samadhi and someone were to hear you, he/she would say that you were speaking unintelligibly (glossolalia) during meditation.

This whole process (1 and 2) is called Re-living and Reliving Process/Stage.

Food for thought: In some experiences, people roar like lions or tigers, gesture like elephants or snakes, etc. Can you guess what these experiences mean?

After loosening such knots, you will not be affected by the past impressions (Samskara) even in your dreams because you would have Re-lived and Relieved such past experiences, speech, feelings, and Vasanas. Those who have not Relieved their past through Kundalini awakening will get troubled time and again in their life during waking as well as during dream states--they just relive their past, time and again (people reliving their bad past will suffer time and again even in dreams).

Self-realized people who have relived and relieved all their past will be indifferent to the pairs of opposites, good and bad, past or present, etc., because they would have loosened all the knots of their spiritual hearts through Kundalini awakenings. Completing the Re-living and Relieving Process/Stage is a must for everyone, including the Seers, Brahmajnanis, Self-realized people. Only people who have finished this stage can experience Nirbhaya Shanti (fearless permanent peace; this type of peace is real bliss/happiness).

The reason why the wise say "be good and do good" "as you sow, so you reap" "you are responsible for yourself" "karma is real" is because the bad karma/activities/thoughts/experiences/memories trouble us a lot.

Re-living and Reliving process can also mean burning of your past karma through meditation, progressing to a state where no past karma (actions)/experiences/emotions will affect you now. It can also mean that you are getting rid of the limited worldly knowledge you acquired in the past.

One has to deal with divinity and fear during meditation because fear is a natural survival instinct and divinity is the age-old belief stored up in the mind right from childhood – both would have been thought over repeatedly throughout one's life. These things will be projected as intense fear of death or intense vision of divine forms during meditation. I have listed some divine visions that I had. This is also a part of the Reliving and Relieving process. If you start losing your sleep over/thinking day and night about fear and divinity, you will have problems.

Note: If the Re-living and Relieving Process/Stage is not clear to you or you did not understand it well, then don't bother about it. You will realize it when you start having real meditation/Kundalini/spiritual experiences.

MEDITATION AND KUNDALINI EXPERIENCES EXPLAINED:

The meditation experiences signify that the wrong perception that you are only a physical body (dehatmabuddhi) is changing into you are something more higher and divine with a supernormal existence.

The experiences of Visions, Smell and Taste, Sounds, Body Temperature and Body Sensations signify that without your eyes, nose, ears, tongue, or skin coming into to contact with any object or external environment, you have the capacity to see, hear, smell, taste, and feel or sense. This will give a hint about your spiritual Self.

The experiences under Body Movements reveal the neural path in which the spiritual current passes. These experiences signify that the spiritual nerves and nerve channels (Sushumna and its tributaries) which were dormant in you have started getting activated, awakened, and the spiritual current has started flowing in these nerves and nerve channels. This process is called Chakra activation, Third Eye Opening, Prana (Vital Breath/Energy) Entering Sushumna, Kundalini Awakening, Naadi Shodhana (Purification of Spiritual Nerves), Great Awakening, Spiritual Awakening, etc.

The Supreme Sound you experience is the reality about oneself and the cosmos. This is the sound that is reverberating in oneself and the whole cosmos all the time. It is the subatomic vibration or energy of modern-day science. It is the yet-to-be found God Particle which is mentioned in all the religions of the world, eg., Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, etc.
http://kundalini-brahmajnani.blogspot.com/2016/05/brahm-parambrahma-naad-brahm-veda.html
   

The experiences under Revelations and Out Of Body Experiences give a glimpse into your true potential and existence of a Supreme Being in you. These reveal that you are formless, deathless, not limited by the body, and that you have an eternal existence though the body may die by becoming breathless. The experiences in which you realize you are deathless signify that you are eternal. They reveal that you have two realities--form and formless, body and spirit, matter and consciousness, death and deathless, breathing and breathless, etc.

The experiences listed under Visions and Revelations vary from person to person depending on his past and present conditioning (Samskara), belief, upbringing, etc. These experiences should happen during meditation, in a semi-conscious state. If such experiences happen when you are wide awake and you are seeing forms with your naked eye, hearing voices with your ears, and experiencing with your physical senses, then you are hallucinating.

Breathlessness happens on its own as the thoughts vanish and you will start breathing as soon as thoughts arise, so no need to be afraid. Such experiences do not mean the fancy named ego-death and consequent Self-realization but such experiences definitely give a glimpse of your real breathless/deathless Self which cannot be understood by your brain/intellect/thinking mind.

Every experience has a significance of its own and can be interpreted in several ways but invariably all mean that the higher Power in you has awakened and it is for real. 

Most of the experiences will not repeat. Only the experiences listed under Body Movements will keep on recurring, and the Supreme Sound also will be experienced at regular intervals.

All the above experiences mean that you are experiencing through YOUR spiritual body and mind. It is an indication that your consciousness is expanding from body-mind consciousness to spiritual consciousness.

The experiences signify that Kundalini has awakened.

The experiences mean that your supersensory spiritual body/mind/consciousness (real you) has born and like a newborn baby, it has started looking, hearing, sensing, feeling, witnessing, experiencing, etc., itself and the whole cosmos. It simply means your spiritual body is awakening!

MOST IMPORTANT: The above meditation experiences signify that real Kundalini awakening experiences are different than pseudo-mental states, body sensations, imaginations, visualizations, and hallucinations.

Warning: You should be able to distinguish between Hallucinations and Meditation Experiences.
http://kundalini-brahmajnani.blogspot.com/2016/05/hallucination-imagination-and-kundalini.html

To know the dangers involved in wrong meditation techniques and practices, click:
http://kundalini-brahmajnani.blogspot.com/2016/05/dangers-in-meditation-meditation-or.html

Q:  I have heard that people describe meditation, its practices and methods, experiences and their interpretations differently.  People say Kundalini experiences are subjective and Self-realization is described differently, is it so?

A:  Is the digestion process different in different individuals?

No, but the food eaten and digested and the ability to digest certain foods may be different in different people.

Do all people breathe through their noses or through their ears?

All people breathe through their noses, but different people may have different breathing patterns.

Is the basic awareness of one's existence different in different people?

No.

Kundalini is the power that is responsible for our breathing and also for spiritual awakening. Kundalini awakens our spiritual body/mind/consciousness. The awakening process is the same but the causes of the awakening may be different. People will interpret and understand such Kundalini awakening experiences differently based on their current state of mind or conditioning (Samskaras), beliefs, upbringing, knowledge of Kundalini/spirituality, etc.

The experiences listed under Body Movements would be the same. However, there will be some minor variances here and there as far as vision, smell and taste, and revelations are concerned. If a person who knows and believes in God A, he/she will have the vision of God A and not God B since the person does not know or does not believe in God B. This is a part of Reliving and Relieving Process/Stage because the experiences in this stage are different for different people.

The duration of the intense Kundalini experience may also vary from seconds, minutes, to hours.

In all these different experiences (manifestations), the underlying condition is the same, which is Kundalini Awakening. It is similar to an underlying medical condition manifesting as different signs and symptoms. For example, the underlying condition malaria manifesting with many signs and symptoms of high fever, diarrhea, joint pains, headache, body aches and pains, dehydration, lack of appetite, etc.

We have two realities – lower and higher, physical nature (physical body) and spiritual nature (spiritual body). Our spiritual nature can only be known through Kundalini awakening. Ignorant people who have never had any real meditation/Kundalini experience say meditation, meditation practices, spirituality, Kundalini, spiritual experiences, Self-realization, Self-Knowledge, Soul, Atma, Enlightenment, Spiritual/Ultimate Reality, etc., etc., are all different or have different meanings.

Note: All the experiences listed in this post are mine, except for a couple. If you have had any meditation experiences or if you want me to explain any particular experience, you need to ask me by commenting on this post.

CAUTION: PEOPLE CAN  FAKE MANY OF THE KUNDALINI EXPERIENCES LISTED ABOVE.

A person who has had Kundalini experiences will easily come to know that so many past/present famous Pranayama/Kriya gurus, Sex Tantra gurus, and other types of gurus were/are all fake. Such gurus/persons just had theoretical knowledge and never had real Kundalini experiences but they succeeded in making fools out of so many disciples/followers/people, and these befooled disciples/followers/people are making fools out of others/the masses.
http://kundalini-brahmajnani.blogspot.com/2016/05/kundalini-in-nutshell-spirituality-in_91.html

Your Goal of Meditation and Spirituality Should Be: One Real Kundalini/Spiritual/Meditation/Awakening Experience in this life.

Note: If you have had Kundalini experiences, you can verify somebody's false claim of awakened Kundalini by asking probing questions. Since I am not interested in probing people who comment on my posts, I take their experiences as real and answer their queries accordingly. Readers should use their discretion.

Warning: Those who fake Kundalini experiences will never have their Kundalini awakened in their whole lives: there are some Kundalini Rules/Spiritual Rules.

To know gurus, Inner guru, how to differentiate between a fake and a real guru, and how to become a guru (real/fake), click:
http://kundalini-brahmajnani.blogspot.in/2016/09/gurus-grace-religious-and-spiritual.html

For links to all the posts of this blog:

http://kundalini-brahmajnani.blogspot.in/2016/12/links-to-blog-posts-secret-substances.html

WARNING: It's okay if you don’t meet a Brahmajnani (Self-realized Seer) or realize yourself in this life, but never ever meet or follow a BHRAMjnaani (fake guru who will make you delusional).  If you do, then you will suffer your entire life.
http://kundalini-brahmajnani.blogspot.in/2016/05/bhram-jnana-bhramjnani-brahmajnana.html

Shubhamastu – Let Good Happen to You!