According to Osho, as kundalini awakens, sexual power increases simultaneously and becomes the propulsive force opening higher centers. By aware, noncooperative witnessing and not releasing it sexually, the energy conserves, intensifies, and turns upward. This ascent culminates in overflowing bliss at the sahasrar, where personal energy dissolves into the cosmic (brahman), felt as a thousand‑petaled flowering—fulfillment rather than the emptiness created by habitual sexual discharge.
When kundalini stirs, your sexual urge grows; if you stay watchful and don’t spend it in sex, it rises inside, blossoms into deep joy, and connects you with the whole.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Question: in the awakening of the kundalini, in the opening of the passage, isn't there an increase in sexual power?
The increase in sexual power and the opening of the kundalini passage are simultaneous -- not the same, but simultaneous. The increase in sexual power will be the thrust to open up the higher centers; so sexual power will increase. If you can be aware of it and not use it sexually -- if you do not allow it to be released sexually -- it will become so intense that the upward movement will begin. First the energy will try its best to be released sexually, because that is its usual outlet, its usual center. So one must first be aware of one's downward "doors." Only awareness will close them; only noncooperation will close them. Sex is not so forceful as we feel it to be. It is forceful only momentarily: it is not a twenty-four-hour affair, it is a momentary challenge. If you can be noncooperative and aware, it…
Understand it like this. There is a small child; he knows nothing yet of lust. Lust is hidden in him, but the sex-center has not yet become active. As soon as he becomes mature sexually, the sex-center will become active, and his whole mind, his whole personality, his whole conduct will be filled with lust. Thinking, getting up, sitting, dreaming — lust will surround him. Only one flavor will remain everywhere. What has happened? Such a sudden transformation in the entire personality! Therefore, between fourteen and eighteen, children fall into great restlessness and trouble. They themselves do not understand what is happening. This age between fourteen and eighteen is an age of great restlessness. They can tell no one, and no one tells them anything. So many transformations are occurring within, and their whole consciousness is so badly besieged by lust that nothing else occurs to them.
As soon as we think of sex, our mind begins to flow toward the genitals. So, the instant the genitals are drawn inward, all the doors leading outward are closed. And the energy that has arisen—if in that moment we close the eyes, and begin to look in such a way as if we are looking within toward the dome of the head—the energy begins to flow upward. With a month’s practice this can bring any person into an unprecedented experience. Whenever the sexual thought arises, at once draw the sex-center, the muladhar, inward; close the eyes and begin to see from within as if looking upward toward the roof of the head. And within a month—within twenty-one days—you will find that within you something has begun to move from below to above. It will be an actual experience that something is flowing upward, something is rising.
Osho, how are rapid breathing and asking “Who am I?” related to the awakening of kundalini and the process of piercing the chakras?
Controlled descent of energy through shaktipat Ordinarily, man has two ways to deliver such blows; exceptionally there is a third, which we call shaktipat—the astral route. It requires a medium. If another person is present as a helper, your inner intensity can increase. In that case the other person does nothing; his presence is enough. He becomes a medium. Infinite energy is all around. We put a lightning rod atop a house so that if lightning strikes it will go to ground; even without a rod, lightning can strike—but then the whole house may be shattered. With the rod it passes. Lightning has been falling from the beginning; only recently did we think of the rod. Likewise, infinite energies surround man; they can be used for his spiritual growth—if there is a medium. You yourself can become a medium, but at first this can be dangerous. The descent may be…
The name of the sleeping power at the sex-center is Kundalini. She sleeps coiled, as a serpent sleeps. If she awakens, she rises like a hood all the way up. On some Jina Tirthankara idols you have seen the serpent-hood raised above them. Do not think that some snake came to shelter them, or that such stories were fabricated. Those are symbols—symbols of that power which has uncoiled and whose hood has fully opened, blossomed, and revealed itself above. That coiled power is hidden in each. Its name is life-force. And in all of us she lies asleep at the center of kama, unable to rise above. Whether we become householders or run to be sannyasins, if our consciousness roams around kama—whether for or against—our center remains there; we cannot rise above. To raise it above is a scientific process.