According to Osho, Kundalini sadhana is positive—absolutely positive. He regards it as an affirming, life-supporting flow of energy oriented toward growth, awareness, and integration, not something harmful or regressive. Practiced with understanding, it channels inner potential constructively, allowing consciousness to flower rather than suppressing or negating one’s natural energies.
It’s a good, helpful practice that supports your inner growth.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Osho, in kundalini sadhana there is talk of the ascent and the descent of kundalini—arohan and then avarohan. So this descent—does it mean sinking back into the kund, or is it something else?
In truth, sinking into the kund is neither descending nor ascending. In sinking into the kund, both these notions disappear. It is not going up or coming down; it is dissolving, ending. When a drop falls into the ocean, it neither descends nor ascends. Yes, when a drop dries in the sun’s rays, it ascends toward the sky; and when, cooled in the cloud, it falls to the earth, it descends. But when it reaches the ocean there is no ascending or descending—there is sinking, dissolving, dying. So this talk of going up and coming down—of descent—is meant in quite a different sense. It means that the energy we raise from the kund sometimes has to be sent back to the kund. We do raise this energy, and many times we have to return it as well. There can be many reasons. The chief reason is that often more energy…
A friend has asked: Osho, some people commit suicide—what do you say about them? Are they not afraid of death?
Now I suggest: experience along with me. The body is becoming relaxed… feel it: the body is becoming relaxed… the body is becoming relaxed… the body is becoming relaxed… the body is becoming relaxed. Keep letting go; feel: the body is becoming relaxed… the body is becoming relaxed… the body is becoming relaxed. The body is becoming relaxed… it is going toward death… going toward death. We are slipping inward… to where life is. Let go… let go… leave the wave; become the ocean. Leave the body completely… if it falls, let it fall; do not worry about it. Do not hold it back… do not cling… let go. The body is becoming relaxed… the body is becoming relaxed… the body is becoming relaxed… the body is becoming relaxed. The body is becoming completely relaxed… the body is becoming relaxed… the body is becoming relaxed. Let go… as if it…
For kundalini awakening?
Yes, for kundalini awakening. Because kundalini is your dormant energy. You won’t be able to awaken it with carbon; carbon will lull it to sleep even more. Oxygen is very supportive for awakening it. Therefore, by whatever means possible… This is why morning meditation has always been understood to be useful. It has no other greater value; its value is simply that in the morning, even if you breathe a little, more oxygen reaches within you. Around sunrise, for about an hour, the earth is in a very unique state. To make use of that state, morning was chosen all over the world as the time for meditation. The more forcefully the life-breath (prana) strikes that sleeping energy within you, the more quickly… We don’t see it, do we! A lamp is burning: we see the oil, we see the wick; we see the match that was struck to light…
Questioner: you said at the nargol meditation camp held recently, that the sadhana or discipline of kundalini is a way of preparing the body. Will you please explain it?
In a deeper physical sense, the awakening of the kundalini means that you have so much energy with you that your old channels are not able to contain it, and so it irresistibly seeks new avenues and new doors. As a result, many new and subtle senses within you will become awake and active. These extrasensory centers will make you telepathic and clairvoyant; you will begin to see and hear things which are beyond the reach of your ordinary eyes and ears. You will experience certain things your normal senses have nothing to do with. Altogether new sense organs will become active within you. And the most profound result of the intensification of the new senses will be that you will begin to know the invisible world which lies hidden in your body, which is the most subtle and imperceptible part of your body, and which we call the atman…
Osho, I want to be rich, I want a high position, and I want a beautiful woman too. What should I do?
A man once placed an advertisement—meant for people like you: “Send two rupees and learn the formula to become a millionaire overnight.” Now who wouldn’t want to become a millionaire for two rupees! Almost a hundred thousand people sent their money. A week later, everyone who had sent the two rupees received the reply: “Do exactly what I did.” He had indeed become a millionaire overnight! One lakh people sent two rupees each—two lakhs landed in his lap. This is how you’re being duped—through gambling, matka. And it’s not only people who run these scams; governments do it too. Governments that claim to be Gandhian run lotteries! A lottery is gambling—a cheat dressed up nicely. But the greedy get hooked: “Just one rupee for a chance at lakhs. If it comes once, that’s enough…!” But what will you do after getting lakhs? There’s a famous story by Tolstoy: A tailor…