Soundarya Lahari - Part 260

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Meenakshi of Madurai is also the same. She is the ‘nakuleshvarI’, who shakes up the sleeping serpent-power in the mUlAdhAra Chakra and opens up the treasury of the Atman to us. The ‘mUlAdhAra’ has another name ‘kulam’. The kuNDalinI sleeps in the ‘kula-kunDa’. What wakes it up is the ‘nakuli’. 

This word arises from ‘nakulam’ which should be broken up as ‘na kulam’ to mean, ‘not kulam’, and therefore the opposite of ‘kulam’.

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