The Snake Inside

Chapter 4

Amar's uncle's funeral was over. Life went on, Amar went to school as he did before. The only thing he did differently was to practice yoga and meditation regularly.

And in yoga, he was showing great results. In addition to the course, he also practiced at home. Almost every day there was a time when he sat on his straw mat and began meditating, singing mantras and performing asanas. This sometimes lasted for hours, and he enjoyed every second of it. This has been going on for months.

One day, while focusing his concentration on the root chakra particularly well, Amar started feeling very unusual. He felt tingling as if small electric currents hit him from the bottom of the spine to his head, across his back. The stinging spread all over his body. The back of his spine began to burn and chill, alternately. His arms and legs began to vibrate, and intense heat started rising through his spine.

Amar realized that what he was experiencing was a Kundalini awakening and he felt very happy. He recognized it because his depression became much easier. He was very excited and interested to see what was going to happen next.

Suddenly, all of his consciousness was clouded and he felt as if he was walking through some heavenly clouds. Everything around him became enchanting, unusual, as in the most beautiful movies he had seen, only this wasn't a movie, but his own self. He felt the tension of immense power around him and turned around to see what was causing it. It seemed to him everything was trembling and moving.

And really, in the room in front of him, there was walking on the ground ... or crawling? Amar couldn't quite understand how the creature that was in front of him was moving. She was a woman, but not just a woman, an unusual woman, half serpent; halfway down the beauty's body was a cobra-shaped, which she was carrying with great ease and her whole appearance, was not everyday-like.

She was extraordinarily beautiful. Amar couldn't remember ever seeing such beauty before, except perhaps for the beautiful yoga class girl who made such an impression on him whenever he saw her. Only she was a girl, and this creature had a mature, developed beauty that, along with the aura of power that surrounded her, was an extraordinary splendor, a true goddess on the earth.

"So, this is you now," she said in a voice that looked more like a squeak than talk, but with wonderfully clear words. Amar was made to understand them more with his consciousness than he heard them with his ears.

"What is happening? Who are you?" he asked with a great desire to find out.

"I'm Lavantica, a serpent woman, semi-goddess and a Naga," the creature said proudly.

"Naga? From serpent people Nagas inhabiting the underworld?" asked Amar, who immediately remembered everything he knew about Hindu mythology.

"That's right," said the serpent woman "I have a message for you."

"I am listening," Amar said with interest "What do you have to say to me?"

"I want you to do a good deed. Build a Hindu temple by the well of Sheshna in Benares!"

"I would, but how?" said Amar. "Who am I? I'm still just a kid. I'm underage."

"That's not important. Go to Benares this summer and look around the terrain near the well. Find a nice place for a temple. It doesn't matter when the construction begins. It is important that you honor the gods enough to serve them!"

"And what if I fail? To build a temple is a big deal," said Amar. "I don't know if I'm capable of that!

"You have to succeed, Amar," he Naga told him "the whole of your life depends on it. A wonderful adventure awaits you if you engage in this endeavor! Go to Benares!

"I'll think about it," Amar said. "If I decide, I'll go. "Thank you for trusting me. You are beautiful!"

"Ah, and you! Goodbye, Amar!" said the serpent woman and disappeared.

Everything in the room returned to normal as it was, and so did Amar's head. He felt wonderful, though he was a little worried about his unusual experience. To push the anxiety away, he decided to share his experience with his yoga teacher.

"I think I had a Kundalini awakening," he said to her. "Everything went very nice, just as you taught me. But eventually, I experienced something very unusual. I had a vision of a semi goddess - Naga, who instructed me to build a Hindu temple on the Sheshna well in Benares!"

"Mystical experiences are not an unusual thing during the Kundalini awakening," the teacher told Amar. "They happen sometimes. It is up to you, and only you, to accept your experience and decide will you obey the goddess. Each of us in our own way honors the gods and serves them. It can also be a way to alleviate some bad karma. Don't worry, everything will be fine."

"Bad karma! Yes, they say that's my problem in life. Maybe I should try! But why should the temple be at the well of Sheshna?

"They say the entrance of the underworld is there," said the teacher. "It makes sense."

"How exciting! Eh, you know what I would like most? To enter that underworld and meet Lavantica once again. How beautiful she was!"

Amar thought and decided to build the temple, as he knows and can. After he made the decision, in that time, he received a letter from his uncle's lawyer from the United States. It stated that Devrat owned a multi-million dollar home and hotel chain, and Amar was his only heir. Amar needed only to turn eighteen years to become the owner of the money, and by that time the lawyer would take care of it. But that was just enough time for Amar to go to Benares and see where he would like the temple to be built.