The mystical kundalini energy has some, I don't know if you'd call them limitations, but there are certain operational factors which you should understand about it.

Physical circumstance will not cause happiness. Or if it does, there is the fear of loss. Now you are a slave to it. You have become bound to it.

I think to be in a monastery or an ashram is not always the answer because we don't fight, we kick back. We don't listen to Sri Krishna.

To go within doesn't mean to become enraptured with who you are, or to become enraptured with ideas of who you are.

Sit in front of an object of concentration with the eyes open. Focus on a candle flame, or a yantra, a little dot, something small. Just look at it. Focus on it until there is nothing else in your mind. This develops willpower.

There is a big difference between the lower samadhis and the upper samadhis, like the difference between the Sierras and the Himalayas.

When most people see a tree, they don't see a tree at all. They see an idea that they have developed of what a tree is.