The adventures of the ticklysnake, let me tell you how the name came about.

A couple of months ago I was at the Ishana store at Delhi's International Airport, it was just after midnight and I was browsing through the displays. I used to go the store frequently, primarily because it gave me a lot of peace, the store is full of positive vibrations, having been blessed by Sadhguru himself.

In one section there were rudrakshmalas and snake rings and amulets on display, as I stood near the display case, one of the lady sales assistants came up to me and we started talking. Back of my mind I thought, oh no, she's going to pester me into buying something. Thankfully, she did not and we got talking about our shared interest in spirituality and meditation.

During the conversation I noticed that my entire body was tingling from head to toe, this  was something I had experienced before while meditating or in a deeply spiritual state but earlier the sensation had been restricted to my scalp. All of a sudden my eyes fell on the 'Linga Bhairavi' amulet kept on display and zoop! I felt a tickly wave of energy slither up from the base of my spine to the top of my head. It lasted a fraction of a second and I realised that I had been blessed by a glimpse into the existence of the Kundalini.

First thing next morning I called up my friend Dr. Shiv Biswas eager to share the exciting news, hmm said the good doctor as he pondered over what I had just shared with him. He then brought me down to Earth by sharing that the sales lady who I had been speaking with, had been recently attuned by Sadhguru. So she was like a battery that had just been charged and we had made a connection through our conversation so the energy momentarily flowed through me. It was a bit like one tuning fork vibrating in the presence of another.

Over many years of flirting with spirituality, my rational mind keeps on strangling the romantic yearning and denies the existence of anything that cannot be proved.

This was one of Shiva's ways of showing me that there exists something beyond the current limitations of scientific enquiry. He allowed me to feel the energy in one of the thousands of Kundalini strands to satisfy my query, He also started me off on an internal journey in search of the ticklysnake ,the coiled serpent in my Muladhara chakra.