Kundalini awakening and out-of-body experiences are among the most mysterious and deeply unsettling aspects of the spiritual path. If you are in your spiritual awakening journey or Kundalini awakening journey, and you are experiencing that most of the time you are out of your body, then understand this truth: it is not something purely esoteric or mystical. It has much to do with your brain and nervous system.
This may feel surprising, because most resources you have come across—teachers, books, or traditions—have spoken of the out-of-body experience as something mystical, otherworldly, or magical. They describe it as proof of higher consciousness or as a doorway into unseen worlds. Yet, when such descriptions are taken without deeper clarity, they only confuse you further. They leave you in awe but without real grounding or solutions.
The reality is far more practical. The prime cause behind your sensation of being out of your body is rooted in physiology as much as in spirituality. Your nervous system has become weak. Your brain has received subtle damage. Because of this, your physical body and your subtle body cannot integrate fully, leaving you unable to feel human in the normal sense.
Before Kundalini awakened in you, you were unaware that you are not just a body but a combination of body, mind, and spirit. You saw yourself primarily as a physical being. The body you see is your gross body—the physical body. On the surface, you appear only as matter. You believe yourself to be made of the five elements of nature: earth, water, fire, air, and space.
Yet these five elements are not isolated. They are deeply connected with your mental and subtle bodies through the layer of breath—through prana. Prana is the bridge. It connects your physical body with your emotional and psychological dimensions. These inner layers cannot be touched as flesh and bone can, yet they are real.
The mind is felt through thoughts, emotions, memories, beliefs, and conditioning. The egoic identifications—I am this, I am that—all belong not to the physical body but to the subtle body.
The weight of the lower mind
All the lower energies you feel in life—fear, insecurity, blame, shame, guilt, sadness, grief, agony, loneliness, depression, anger, regret, pride, frustration, rage, hatred, jealousy, competitiveness, cunningness, doubt, and distrust—these do not belong to your body. They belong to the mind.
These dense energies are what constitute your mental body. They connect to the physical body through pranic energy. Breath is the cord. Breath ties your mind and body together.
When prana is disturbed or weakened, the cord weakens. Disconnection occurs. Slowly, you begin to feel that you are not in your body. The physical reality and the mental reality start moving in two different directions.
During Kundalini awakening, this becomes extreme. The mind begins producing images, thoughts, and events that do not belong to this birth. Why does this happen? Because Kundalini is cleansing your karma. She burns karmic residues. All the energies stored in your subtle body are pulled down from the causal body—the storehouse of karma across births.
The causal body is simply the body of cause—the seed behind your birth. From there, you carry forward what needs to be settled.
Why birth happens
Why are you born at all? Birth happens only for the completion of karma. It is for the settlement of accounts that remain pending from earlier lives.
Every birth is an accounting year. In millions of births, you created karmas. Some were good and gave sweet fruits. Others were bad and brought bitter fruits.
Think of it in accounting terms. In one birth, you created both liabilities and assets. Liabilities represent unfulfilled karmas and lower energies. Assets represent fulfilled karmas and higher energies. These accounts do not vanish at death. They are carried forward into the next birth. Just like in business, the balance sheet continues until the company dissolves.
Your karmic business is a going concern. Lifetime after lifetime, your karmic account settlement remains incomplete. In every birth, you create new liabilities and new assets.
The last dissolution
At the last birth—the final dissolution of karmic business—all liabilities are settled. You pay every debt, every loan, every outstanding obligation. Only then do you reach completion.
At this point, liabilities equal zero. In accounting terms:
Capital = Assets.
This means you have no karma left. All karmas have been burned. All liabilities have been paid. You are free.
You return to the original state from which the business began. You had capital, you invested, you did business, you earned profit and loss, you created liabilities and assets. At the end, when the business dissolves, only assets remain.
This metaphor is not abstract—it is exact. Liabilities are the karmas and lower energies lodged in the mind and energy channels. Assets are the higher energies of the soul and spirit, the qualities of freedom, truth, and love that you retain eternally.
Two currents of energy
Your journey is a continuous balance sheet of energy. On one side lie liabilities: fear, shame, guilt, depression, and every vibration of contraction. On the other side lie assets: courage, peace, happiness, joy, enthusiasm, bliss, freedom, and truth.
The goal of your spiritual journey is to dissolve liabilities and grow assets until you reach zero karma. Only then are you free.
But the process of dissolving liabilities is not gentle. It demands fuel. This is where Kundalini comes in.
When Kundalini awakens, she ignites your liabilities. She burns your tendencies, your subconscious programming, your deeply stored karmic imprints. Some are from this life—the way you were raised by family, the way you related with spouse, the way you interacted with friends, colleagues, and society, the pressures of the matrix. Others are from past lives, deeply embedded in your subtle body.
All of these karmas sit like a heavy ledger in your system, blocked in the channels of prana. Kundalini begins to dissolve them. But to do so, she needs enormous energy.
That energy is your prana.
Kundalini uses prana as her fuel. The very breath that sustains your body is consumed by her for a higher purpose: to burn your karmas and dissolve your mind. Yet, the mind itself is like a thief. It steals away prana to maintain its own illusions. Both the mind and Kundalini draw from the same reservoir, and this is the reason your system feels so strained.
Imagine a petrol pump. The petrol in the tank is your prana. Your mind, like a thief, takes away the petrol to keep itself alive, leaving you deprived. Kundalini, however, takes the same petrol not to continue illusion but to burn the thief itself. She uses prana to dissolve the mind.
The density of the mind is heavy. It is like ice. To transform ice into vapor requires immense heat. Similarly, to transmute the dense energies of the mind into the higher state of pure consciousness, immense prana is required. This is why Kundalini burns relentlessly, consuming vast reserves of breath and pranic energy.
Prana depletion and nervous system collapse
As Kundalini burns the mind, your prana is depleted. This leads to many difficulties. Your breath feels shallow. Your energy drops. Fear rises. Nervous exhaustion becomes normal.
When prana burns away, your cellular functions weaken. Your organ systems lose balance. Your nervous system begins to falter. Nerve cells fail to receive enough prana for rejuvenation. And without prana, they cannot function.
Prana is the lubricant for your nervous system. Just as distilled water in a battery allows current to flow, prana allows your axons and dendrites to transmit signals. Without this lubrication, signals misfire, and your nervous system struggles.
This is why you feel disoriented. This is why you feel you are out of the body. The body and the subtle layers fail to integrate.
The real nature of out-of-body experience
At first, it may appear mystical to feel outside the body. But when seen clearly, it is practical. Out-of-body experience is the symptom of nervous system weakness and pranic depletion.
Yet, at the same time, there is also truth in it. In reality, you are not confined to this body at all. You are everywhere. You are energy. You are pure consciousness. The perceiver, the witness, is never located within the small frame of the body.
The confusion arises because your nervous system, when weak, cannot coordinate body and consciousness. The skeletal system fails to anchor the nervous system. The ego, which was the glue keeping you tied to identity, dissolves. Once the ego weakens, you no longer feel centered in the physical body.
This is why seekers often feel levitated, hovering above themselves, or floating. They feel detached from hands, legs, or movements. The nervous system no longer perceives the self as located in one central point.
But the truth is that even when the ego is intact, you were never in the body. Consciousness has always been beyond the body. Only identification gave you the illusion of being inside.
The danger of disembodiment
Still, there is something to worry about. If you do not feel the body, then who will care for it? If you are out of the body, the body becomes vulnerable.
This is not theoretical. It happens. I have seen it in myself and my students. Many times, seekers in deep out-of-body states fall suddenly. The body trips, hits the ground, collapses near rivers, or loses balance on simple pathways. Consciousness observes from outside, but the body takes the fall.
This shows the importance of integration. Without integration, the physical body remains unprotected. And though you are energy, your human journey requires that this body be cared for until its natural end.
Integration as the solution
What then is the solution? The solution is integration. Your nervous system and musculoskeletal system must become strong enough to handle Kundalini’s burning process. Only then can Kundalini use your body to process herself fully.
When the nervous system is strong, Kundalini builds new neuroplastic pathways. She creates fresh neural circuits. Through these circuits, you function as a new being. This is how transformation is embodied.
Without strengthening, however, you remain disembodied. Out-of-body experiences dominate. You feel fragmented, disconnected, and weak.
The essential steps of strengthening
There are clear steps you must follow to strengthen your system and integrate your energy.
First, if you are a male, you must retain semen for at least one year. Semen retention is not optional. It is the foundation. Without it, you lose ojas, the subtle strength that nourishes the brain and nerves. When ojas is depleted, nervous integration is impossible.
Second, live in pranic places. Choose environments filled with oxygen and natural energy. Countryside, villages, mountains, hills, forests—these are places where prana is abundant. Crowded cities, polluted spaces, and artificial environments drain prana.
Third, adopt a sattvic lifestyle. Eat natural, vegetarian food. Avoid meat, because when you kill and consume animals, you absorb dead energy. This dead energy destroys the subtle pranic body. It infuses lifeless vibrations into your system and weakens ojas.
Fourth, breathe consciously. Learn to engage the diaphragm. Let your belly rise and fall. Rhythmic breathing must become constant, twenty-four hours a day. Train your nervous system to breathe with awareness.
Fifth, hydrate consciously. Drink pure water, fresh juices, and natural electrolytes. Keep your brain and nervous system hydrated. Avoid alcohol, intoxicants, and artificial beverages. They freeze the nervous system and block integration.
Sixth, stop chasing quick dopamine. Pornography, masturbation, casual sex with unknown partners—all of these scatter energy. They invite low energies of lust and impurity into your system. Such indulgence equals eating dead meat—it corrupts your pranic channels.
Seventh, avoid matrix addiction. Stop trying to impress others. Stop maintaining an inflated ego. Every ounce of attention you waste on external approval depletes your energy. Attention is the currency of consciousness. Protect it.
The deeper discipline
Beyond lifestyle, there is an instinctive way of living you must cultivate. Minimalism is the key. Give your body only what it needs. Cook your own meals. Wash your clothes. Expose yourself to natural light. Clean your space. Live simply, without showing off. These basic acts anchor you in reality and rebuild integration.
Alongside this, practice dedicated spiritual sadhana daily. Spend one to two hours in techniques given by the Guru. These integrate Kundalini into the body. Without them, you will drift endlessly in out-of-body states, even if enlightened. Integration is mandatory for all, including the Guru.
The final truth of out-of-body
Even after integration, the out-of-body experience will not vanish completely. It cannot, because it reflects reality. You are, in truth, never in the body. You are consciousness. But integration allows you to operate through the body while being beyond it.
This is the secret. Out of this body, you can operate through this body. Consciousness remains vast, but the nervous system becomes a fine instrument for it to play through.
The final key lies in integrating the vagus nerve into the Sushumna. This is not something you can do alone. Without the Guru, it is impossible. With the Guru, it becomes effortless. The Guru’s power bridges what no practice alone can achieve.
When this integration happens, you no longer suffer from out-of-body experiences as weakness. Instead, you live as a whole, embodied, awakened being—free, but functional.
When Kundalini awakens and consumes prana continuously, the depletion becomes visible in your health. If you are feeling out of the body, then it is not just an energetic sensation; it is also a reflection of the weakening of your physical systems. Your nervous system, brain, and subtle energies are collapsing under the strain.
The consequences of depletion
If you do not take action, you are actually dying day by day. Your nervous system becomes weaker each day. Your brain suffers damage each day. Your body begins losing its capacity to function as a complete unit. You start to resemble a sick person—half alive, half absent.
Your right brain does not function well. Your left brain does not function well. Creativity is gone. Logic is gone. Both hemispheres fail to coordinate.
From this arise countless diseases and disorders:
- Brain and mental health conditions such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, multiple sclerosis, memory loss, dementia, Alzheimer’s disease.
- Chronic fatigue syndromes where you feel drained no matter how much you rest.
- Fibromyalgia, which leaves your body aching with pain.
- Digestive disorders like irritable bowel syndrome, constipation, poor absorption.
- Respiratory issues where you cannot breathe deeply, relying only on shallow chest breathing.
- Sexual dysfunctions where libido disappears, and sexual energy cannot be felt in the body.
The core behind all of these is one truth: your ojas, your subtle vitality, has been lost.
How ojas is lost
Ojas is lost in two ways: by addictions, and by overindulgence in spiritual practices.
Addictions drain ojas through overstimulation and scattering of attention. Every time you seek quick dopamine through pornography, masturbation, casual sex, smoking, alcohol, drugs, or intoxicants, you deplete your reserves. You welcome lower energies into your system—energies of lust, deadness, tamas. These energies block the pranic channels further.
But seekers often fall into another trap: overindulgence in spiritual practices. Breathwork done without guidance, extreme meditations, constant energy manipulations—all of these leak attention and energy. They exhaust the body instead of integrating it. Exhaustion masquerades as progress. Instead of strength, weakness deepens.
Whether through worldly addictions or spiritual overindulgence, the result is the same: ojas is lost, prana is depleted, and you feel disintegrated.
Why semen retention is essential
For men especially, semen retention is not just advice—it is survival. Semen is the most condensed form of ojas. To rebuild integration, you must retain semen for at least one full year. During this time, the nervous system begins to recharge. New vitality builds. The brain begins to heal.
Without this, you are like a leaking vessel. You pour prana in, but it escapes immediately. Retention plugs the leak and allows Kundalini to use your body properly.
The importance of environment
Just as important as retention is environment. If you are living in polluted, crowded cities where the air is dense with smoke, dust, and artificial vibrations, your body cannot breathe prana. Such environments suffocate.
Move into pranic environments—mountains, hills, riversides, forests, villages. Places where oxygen is fresh and abundant, where natural life vibrates strongly. The nervous system breathes these environments like food. The brain soaks in their vitality.
When you live in nature, you are not only surrounded by fresh oxygen. You are surrounded by pranic intelligence—the intelligence of trees, rivers, birds, winds. They support your nervous system silently.
Food and the living energy
Food too is critical. If you kill an animal and eat its flesh, you are eating death. You consume the fear and trauma locked into the animal at the moment of death. This dead energy enters your subtle body, and instead of supporting prana, it introduces blocks.
Killing and eating animals is equal to pouring poison into your system. Even if your body seems to survive physically, your pranic system deteriorates. Your vitality collapses.
Instead, eat sattvic food. Grains, vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds—all of these carry living vibrations from the earth. They preserve prana and increase ojas. They create lightness, integration, and harmony in the nervous system.
Breath as the golden key
Above all, breathe consciously. Breath is prana. Breath is the bridge. Most people today breathe from the chest—shallow, rushed, incomplete. This leaves the nervous system in chronic tension.
You must return to diaphragmatic breathing. Your belly must rise and fall. Your diaphragm must expand and contract. This rhythm must continue twenty-four hours a day. When you retrain your system into rhythmic breathing, you feed prana continuously.
Train yourself through conscious awareness. Whenever you notice shallow breathing, correct it. Over time, the body remembers. The nervous system learns again.
Hydration and purity
Next, hydrate. Water carries prana. Dehydration starves the nervous system. Drink pure water, fresh juices, natural electrolytes—lemon, honey, salt water. Hydrate your brain and cells.
But stop drinking alcohol. Stop consuming colored, flavored, artificial beverages. They sedate your brain. They make your nervous system unconscious. They are poisons that mask vitality instead of enhancing it.
The dangers of quick dopamine
Quick dopamine is the modern curse. Pornography, masturbation, casual sex, and lust-driven encounters scatter energy violently. With every indulgence, you lose ojas.
Worse, when you engage sexually with unknown partners, you do not only share physical contact—you absorb their energy. If they carry lust, pain, demonic frequencies, prostitution vibrations, all of these enter you. They pollute your channels. They reduce you to a vessel filled with alien energies.
Such indulgence is equivalent to eating the flesh of a dead animal. Both introduce death energies. Both collapse prana.
Addiction to the matrix
The most subtle addiction is to the matrix itself. It is the addiction to attention, validation, recognition. You seek to impress people. You spend hours trying to maintain an image. You feed your ego with likes, status, and approval.
Every ounce of attention you give to the matrix is a leak of energy. Attention is consciousness itself. When you scatter it outside, your inner reservoir empties.
This constant maintenance of ego depletes ojas more than you realize. It breeds disorders like ADHD, anxiety, and depression. It keeps you fragmented.
Rebuilding through attention
If you want to save yourself, you must reclaim attention. You must learn the value of it as the currency of consciousness. Where your attention goes, your energy flows. If you waste it outwardly, you bleed prana. If you turn it inward, you rebuild.
This is why awareness practices are essential. To learn how to preserve attention, you must work with the Guru, study the discourses, and reflect deeply. By reclaiming attention, you reclaim life itself.
The instinctive way of living
To rebuild integration, simplicity is the foundation. Live instinctively. Give your body only what it truly needs. Cook your food. Clean your space. Wash your clothes. Dry them in sunlight. Expose yourself to natural light. Groom yourself with love.
Do not live to impress others. Do not maintain unnecessary possessions. Be minimalist. In this instinctive way of living, you anchor yourself in reality. The body learns to function as a body again.
Daily sadhana
Finally, daily sadhana is compulsory. Spend one to two hours each day in the practices given by the Guru. These are not optional. They are mandatory. Even if you are enlightened, you must do them.
Why? Because Kundalini energy must be integrated into the body continuously. Without sadhana, out-of-body experiences will continue as weakness. With sadhana, you remain out of the body as reality, but you can operate through the body as strength.
The Guru’s kriyas bring this integration. They are the only way to anchor Kundalini in the body without collapse.
Even with all the practices of purification, the truth remains: the out-of-body experience will never fully end. And this is not a failure. It is reality. You are not in the body to begin with. Consciousness is vast. Energy is everywhere. The sensation of being confined within the skin was always an illusion maintained by ego.
When the ego dissolves, the illusion dissolves. What remains is the recognition: you are always out of the body. You are not the drop but the ocean.
Consciousness beyond the body
Think carefully. How can you ever be limited to this small frame of flesh and bone? At the cellular level, your body is only clusters of cells. Go deeper, and cells are clusters of atoms. Go further still, and atoms are protons, neutrons, and electrons vibrating in empty space. Even these dissolve into nothingness—only pure vacuum, clusters of energy vibrating at different frequencies.
This is your real identity: emptiness, vibration, radiance. When Kundalini rises, she forces you to disidentify from the illusion of form. She shows you what you are: boundless consciousness, infinite space. That is why the sensation of being outside the body grows strong.
At first it feels strange, even frightening. You wonder: “If I am outside the body, then who is taking care of the body? Who is walking, eating, working?” The fear is natural, because the mind is used to clinging to the body as its anchor. But in truth, the body is only an instrument, a machine, a factory through which consciousness operates.
The danger of neglecting the body
Still, while you awaken to your vastness, there is one danger: neglecting the body. If you no longer feel the body, accidents can happen. You may fall suddenly, stumble, or injure yourself. Many seekers—including myself and my students—have experienced this. Consciousness looks on from outside, while the body collapses or wanders dangerously.
That is why integration is critical. You must learn to operate through the body while knowing you are beyond it. The body must become a tool of consciousness, not a cage of illusion, and not a neglected shell.
Integration through strengthening
The way forward is to increase your ojas, rebuild your prana, and strengthen your nervous system. When ojas becomes strong, the nervous system can function as a bridge. The brain and spinal cord become fit instruments for Kundalini to flow through.
Then, even though you know you are out of the body, you can still operate gracefully through the body. You walk, speak, eat, and act, but you are not confined. This is integration.
Without ojas, out-of-body remains weakness. With ojas, out-of-body becomes freedom.
The role of semen retention and lifestyle
For men, semen retention of at least one year is non-negotiable. Without it, the nervous system never regains its strength. Without it, brain damage continues, fatigue deepens, and spiritual growth collapses.
Alongside retention, live in pranic environments. Eat sattvic food. Breathe deeply with the diaphragm. Drink pure water. Avoid addictions, quick dopamine, and lust-driven distractions. Reclaim your attention from the matrix. Live simply and instinctively.
Each of these steps is not merely moral advice. They are practical necessities. They build the foundation for Kundalini to integrate.
Daily sadhana with the Guru
Beyond lifestyle, there is sadhana. Every seeker must dedicate one or two hours daily to spiritual practice given by the Guru. These practices are not optional, even after enlightenment. They are the bridge through which Kundalini integrates into the nervous system.
Why is the Guru essential? Because integration requires the linking of the vagus nerve into the Sushumna nadi—the central channel. This is not something you can achieve by yourself. You cannot manipulate your nervous system at this depth alone. Only the Guru can guide and transmit the energy required.
The Guru’s powers bridge what no technique alone can. With the Guru, integration becomes possible. Without the Guru, it remains impossible. This is not arrogance; it is truth born of experience.
Out-of-body as reality
Once integrated, the out-of-body experience changes meaning. It is no longer weakness. It is no longer disorientation. Instead, it becomes realization. You understand that you are always beyond the body, and yet you can operate fully within it.
You walk, eat, speak, work, love, and serve, but you know that you are not the doer. The body is an instrument. Consciousness is the player. You are the vast ocean, expressing through a wave.
This is freedom. Out-of-body remains, but instead of pulling you away from life, it allows you to live life with detachment and clarity.
The danger of misunderstanding
Many seekers stop at the first stage of out-of-body experience and mistake it for enlightenment. They feel detached, floating, beyond the body, and they conclude they have arrived. But without integration, this is illusion. Without ojas, they remain weak. Without the Guru’s guidance, they remain fragmented.
True freedom is not escape from the body but mastery of operating through it. It is not neglect but conscious embodiment. The body becomes transparent, a clear channel of consciousness.
The ocean and the wave
Think of yourself as the ocean. Your body is a wave on the surface. A wave is not separate from the ocean—it is the ocean expressing itself in form. The wave rises, moves, and falls back. But the ocean remains vast and unchanging.
When you identify with the wave, you feel limited, small, fragile. When you awaken to the ocean, you know yourself as infinite. But still, the wave continues. You live through the wave without being confined by it.
This is the ultimate resolution of the out-of-body experience.
The final teaching
So remember:
- Out-of-body is real. You are consciousness, always beyond the body.
- But without integration, out-of-body becomes weakness, disorientation, and illness.
- Strengthen your ojas through semen retention, pranic environments, sattvic food, conscious breathing, hydration, and simplicity.
- Stop addictions, lust, quick dopamine, and ego maintenance in the matrix.
- Reclaim your attention as the currency of consciousness.
- Practice daily sadhana given by the Guru.
- Allow the Guru’s power to integrate your vagus nerve into the Sushumna.
Then, out-of-body becomes realization, not disorder. You live free, yet embodied. You function as a unit—body, mind, spirit in harmony—while knowing you are beyond all three.
This is the secret. Out of this body, you can operate through this body. This is the gift of Kundalini awakening when it matures.
Do not remain lost in weakness. Do not let your nervous system collapse. Take action. Strengthen yourself. Work with the Guru. Integrate.
When you do this, you no longer suffer out-of-body experiences as fear or confusion. You live them as truth. You are never just a body. You are vast consciousness. You are the ocean itself.
And yet, through this small wave, you move gracefully in the world, serving the purpose for which you were born.
It works.
