SVADHISTHANA CHAKRA
Water Element
This region is regarded as the substratum or basis of individuality of human existence. Its counterpart in the brain is the unconscious mind and its storehouse of mental impressions or samskaras. All the karmas, the past lives, the previous experiences, the greater dimension of the human personality that is unconscious, can be symbolized by this chakra.
The unconscious principle of svadhisthana is not an inactive or dormant process. Rather it is more dynamic and powerful than the surface consciousness. It is different from muladhara, which is the overt manifest expression of that unconscious. At the level of svadhisthana, however, there is no conscious activity or manifestation. This is hiranyagarbha, the universal womb of passion and pleasure , where everything exists in a potential state.
In the collective unconscious, the samskaras and the karmas exist in a seed state. Experiences from the past which we do not consciously recall or analyze but nevertheless they are playing a part in determining our daily behavior, attitudes and reactions.
At the clearing of this center one may experience anger, fear or sexual fantasies and passions. Also lethargy, indolence, depression and all kinds of tamasic characteristics. The tendency to procrastinate is very strong and sleep is predominant. This stage of evolution is known as purgatory, and burns temptations situated at a very great depth of our personality which create illusion. Reconnecting intimately with oneself and ones creativity through detachment to external, understanding that desires and pleasure seeking are insatiable outside of self is the way to progress.
Sex is only an expression of the energy, It is even present when one is in the highest state of consciousness. The only difference is that in svadhisthana it is in a primitive state, whereas in the higher centers of evolution it is well integrated and sublimated to fuel higher realms.
- Rohanji
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MANIPURA CHAKRA
Fire Element
Up to this point, kundalini may awaken and arise many times, only to recede again to inertia, but awakening of manipura sets an ongoing dynamic chain reaction after we have passed through the levels of unconscious and subconscious – the Mūlādhāra Chakra and the Svādishthāna Chakra. This center is the core of our personality, our identity, of our ego. It functions through digestion and assimilation of thoughts and emotions into the perception of who we are.
The limitations of perception in the lower planes are responsible for the misuse of siddhis which begin to manifest there. Only when one cleanses manipura is he able to visualize before him the infinite state of consciousness which is no longer gross and empirical. Passion becomes pure selfless love devoid the need for recognition; through the light of wisdom, prejudice and aversion change to respect and understanding sans judgment and criticism; and envy and insatiable greed change to goodwill,respect and healthy moderation. With the gaining of self-confidence, pride and jealousy change to modesty and generosity, ignorance changes into clarity, and laziness into focused, consistent effort.
Decisions that are based only upon the Manipūra Chakra, the so-called “gut-feelings”, are often intuitively correct, but can be distorted by strong emotions and therefore be “irrational”. And judgements based only on intellect lack complete and integrated vision. Therefore both Chakras are important for clarity of purpose; with the “right feeling” of the Manipūra Chakra being guided and examined by “Viveka” (discrimination), a quality of the Āgyā Chakra.
The “firewood” for our digestive fire (Jatharāgni) is the food that we eat. Foods that have a strong, positive vibration aid this fire. Food of a lesser quality also generates less power and poorer health; and “heated” reactions such as rage, anger and aggression also draw energy from the Manipūra Chakra and as a result weaken it.
-Rohan Kapur
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ANAHATA CHAKRA
Air Element
This is the zero point of our torus field, the center where the egoic structures of the individual awareness are materialized through laws of free will.
The precedence of past Karmic actions lose their grip on the present equation, what one calls fate or destiny is molded with realisation of oneness with all creation.
If you can hurl your conscious potential through the gravitational field of anahata, then it will no longer be pulled down by the earth's magnetic forces which take form of latent samskaras that can drag one down in a whirlpool of emotions.
In yogic consciousness you depend solely upon the power of your own creative potential rather than on anything that is external or concerning faith, the freedom to escape from a preordained fate and to determine one's own destiny becomes a reality.
When anahata chakra blooms one develops deep bonds with other beings, sense of caring and compassion without expectations and attachments, feelings of self-love, altruism, generosity, kindness, and respect.
The unhindered flow of energy allows us to recognize that we are part of something larger beyond duality, that we are interconnected within an intricate web of relationships extending through life and the universe, this is devotion.
'The whole world is in me', or 'I am in everyone' is underlying all situations.
Anahata chakra can be aroused and awakened by the practice of devotion and selflessness, it is by opening the field with understanding and insight that we integrate and not by reproaching ourselves to further pains.
Ego can never be removed by intellectual persuasion.
It can never be subdued unless you develop the highest form of love which fills all spiritual wounds and dissolves the ego.
- Rohan Kapur
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When we understand that Reality is made of two aspects: one is the bottom of the ocean and the other is the surface which vibrates, we realize that spirit and matter emerge from the same fundamental essence. The solid matter is expressed as the big, slow waves at the surface of the ocean (low frequency, big amplitude) (which is a more restricted manifestation of the consciousness), whereas the mind, for example, is like a very fine and quick ripple (high frequency, small amplitude) (which is a more intense and free manifestation of consciousness)...Read more:https://blog.advaitashram.org/the-law-of-resonance-yoga-and-the-vibration-of-divine-consciousness/
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VISHUDDHI CHAKRA
Akasha Element
This space is a portal to communication, it not only allows you to express who you are with honesty and what you stand for, but also allows you to listen deeply to another, the two inherent qualities of space, expansion and contraction.
Within the bindu at the back of the head, the moon is secreting a vital fluid or essence known as nectar. This transcendental fluid drips down into the individual consciousness from bindu visarga. Bindu can be regarded in this context as the center or passage through which the individuality emerges from cosmic consciousness in sahasrara.
Between bindu and vishuddhi chakras there is another smaller psychic center known as lalana chakra or talumula, and it is closely related to vishuddhi chakra. When the nectar trickles down from bindu it is stored in lalana. This center is like a glandular reservoir, situated in the back of the nasopharynx, the inner cavity above and beyond the soft palate into which the nasal passages open. When you perform khechari mudra you are attempting to turn the tongue up and backwards into this cavity to stimulate the flow of nectar.
Although this fluid is known as ambrosia, it actually has a dual nature which can act as poison as well as nectar. When it is produced in bindu and stored in lalana it remains undifferentiated, neither poison nor nectar. As long as vishuddhi chakra remains inactive, this fluid runs downward unimpeded, to be consumed in the fire of manipura, resulting in the processes of decay, degeneration and finally death in the body's tissues.
However, by certain practices such as khechari mudra, the ambrosia is secreted from lalana and passes to vishuddhi chakra, the purifying and refining center. When vishuddhi is awakened the divine fluid is retained and utilized, becoming the nectar of immortality. The secret of youth and regeneration of the body lies in the awakening of vishuddhi chakra.
Vishuddhi is the center responsible for receiving vibrations from other sources. It acts like a transistor radio tuning into a radio station, allowing the yogi to tune into the thoughts and feelings. The thought waves of others are experienced in other centers, but the actual reception and transmissions is vishuddhi. From vishuddhi they are relayed to the centers of analysis in the brain associated with the ajna chakra and in this way they enter into the individual awareness.
Associated with vishuddhi is a particular nerve channel known as kurma nadi, the tortoise nadi. When it is awakened, the practitioner is able to completely overcome the desire and necessity for food and drink. This capability has been demonstrated by many yogis in the past.
Vishuddhi is the legendary 'fountain of youth'. It is said that when kundalini is in vishuddhi one enjoys eternal youth. A spontaneous physical rejuvenation begins to take place as this center awakens. The sense of hearing becomes very sharp, but through the mind and not the ears. One frequently experiences shoonyata, the void, and he overcomes all fear and attachment.
- Rohan Kapur
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AJNA CHAKRA
Akasha Element
This is the point of confluence where the three main nadis or forces - ida, pingala and sushumna merge into one stream of consciousness, the bridge between the right hemisphere's creativity and synthetic thinking is integrated and balanced with left hemisphere's logical and analytical thinking. When the mind is concentrated at this conjunction, transformation of individual consciousness is brought about by the merging of the three great forces. Individual consciousness is mainly comprised of ego, and it is on account of ego that we are aware of dualities. As long as there is duality there cannot be samadhi; as long as you remember yourself you cannot transcend.
Although there are experiences of trance in other chakras, there is no merger of the individual ego with the cosmic ego. All throughout you find you are trying to assert yourself behind all the experiences you are having, but when ida and pingala unite with sushumna in ajna chakra, there is complete dissolution. The awareness expands and becomes homogeneous.
All the sense modalities are withdrawn and one enters the state of shoonya or void. This is a state of absolute nothingness, where the empirical experiences of name and form, subject and object, do not penetrate. In this completely static state, the light of the mind is extinguished; the consciousness ceases to function, and no ego awareness remains. This void state is the same as the death experience, and in order to traverse it the ajna must be turned inwards.
When ajna is awakened, fickleness of the individual mind disperses and the purified buddhi (subtle intelligence or higher perception) manifests as a pure witnessing awareness. Attachment, which is the cause of ignorance and lack of discrimination drops away. One becomes the detached observer of all events, including those within the body and mind. Here the level of awareness is developed whereby one begins to "see" the hidden essence underlying all visible appearances. The meaning and significance of symbols flashes into one's conscious perception and intuitive knowledge arises effortlessly.
- Rohan Kapur
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Just before retiring at night and at early morning immediately after sleep, empty your mind of all thoughts. Then repeat any of the following affirmations that suit you, first loudly, then mentally.
(1) Concentrate your vision and feeling in between the eyebrows, close your eyes, and repeat the following three times: "I will, with my own will, which flows from the Divine Will, to be healthy, to be well, to be prosperous and spiritual, to be well, to be well.”
(2) Close your eyes, concentrate upon the heart throb and repeat with devotion and feeling: "Thou art love, Thou art love, I am Thine, Thou art mine, I am Thine, Thou art mine; I am love, I am love, love is healthy, love is perfect; I am healthy, I am love, I am whole, I am perfect.”
(3) Concentrate upon the Navel and imagine a luminous light there. Close your eyes. Feel the navel and repeat with imagination and devotion; “Thou art life, Thou art strength, Thou art mind, and imagination, Thou art thought, Thou art fancy; I am thought, I am fancy. In every way, in every way, I am like Thee, I am like Thee; I am whole, I am like Thee.
(4) Concentrate upon the medulla, close your eyes, and feeling or visualizing the light there, repeat: "Thy Cosmic Current flows in me, flows in me; through my medulla flows in me, flows in me. I think and will the current to flow, in all my body the current to flow. I am charged, I am cured, I am charged, I am cured. Lightning flash goes through me. I am cured, I am cured,"
CONSCIOUS METHOD OF HEALING
(1) Repeat any of the above affirmations during the day and night before and after meditation. All students should make frequent use of “Scientific Healing Affirmations,” which they will find very helpful.
(2) By the power of will, send the Life Energy very slowly to the affected body part again and again, and feel the healing energy scientifically healing you. Self -Realization instructions have taught you to do that in former Lessons.
Paramahansa Yogananda
YSS Magazine, 1968
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I used to marvel when I would see Master hounded by so many things in connection with the work—concerns about people, projects, finances, and so forth. But he had the ability instantly to turn his attention away from all of this and go into meditation. We might be engaged in discussing organizational matters, and then from one moment to the next his mind would completely shift. He would shut off the telephones of the senses that are constantly transmitting information about the outside world, and would be immediately with God...
I was in awe of that: "How is it possible for him to throw so quickly all those troubles out of his mind—those problems that I found so very distressing! I once said to him, "Master, how do you do it?"
He replied: "It comes through meditation. Do your Hong-Sau, practice the Aum Technique, and then do your Kriya. And after your Kriya, don't get up, don't leave your meditation. When your attention is withdrawn from the world and focused within, that is the time you have made contact with God. That is the time to sit long and converse silently with God in the language of your heart."
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