THE SEVEN CHAKRAS

         

                           KUNDALINI AWAKENING 

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                     KUNDALINI IN SANSKRIT MEANS 'COILED' LIKE A SNAKE. IT IS A DORMANT SPIRITUAL ENERGY THAT LIES AT THE BASE OF SPINE IN EVERY HUMAN BEING. IT IS DESCRIBED AS A COILED SERPANT WITHIN IS WAITING TO BE AWAKENED. IT IS AWAKENED FOR UNION WITH GOD. KUNDALINI AWAKEING RESULTS IN DEEP MEDITATION, BLISS AND ENLIGHTENMENT.

                     THERE ARE SEVERAL NADIS IN THE BODY. THEY ARE CHANNELS THROUGH WHICH THE PSYCHIC ENERGY FLOW. THEY CAN'T BE SEEN AND THERE IS NO SCIENTIFIC REASON OF THEIR EXISTENCE. THEY ARE NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH NERVES, VEINS AND ARTERIES DISTRIBUTED OVER THE HUMAN BODY. THERE ARE THREE IMPORTANT NADIS I.E. SUSHUMNA, PINGALA AND IDA.  SUSUMNA RUNS IN THE SPINE OR ALONG THE SPINE THROUGH SEVEN CHAKRAS - MULADHARA AT BASE AND SAHASRARA AT THE CROWN OF THE HEAD. PINGALA ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF SPINE HAS SUN LIKE NATURE WHEREAS IDA RUNS ON THE LEFT SIDE OF SPINE AND HAS MOON LIKE NATURE. THE KUNDALINI AWAKENING CAN BE GRADUAL OR ABRUPT, VARYING IN INTENSITY DEPENDING UPON PHYSICAL COMPOSITION AND NATURE OF DIFFERENT PERSONS. ITS AWAKENING LEADS TO PSYCHO-SPIRITUAL GROWTH. IT INCREASES KNOWLEDGE AND EFFECTS CONSCIOUSNESS.

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                          BEFORE ENTERING SAMADHI ONE'S KUNDALINI HAS TO BE AWAKENED THROUGH WHATEVER PATH ONE MAY FOLLOW - BHAKTI, KARMA OR JNANA YOGA OR A COMBINATION OF THE TWO OR ALL THREE. KUNDALINI CAN BE AWAKENED BY THE GURU OR BY OWNSELF. ONE'S KUNDALINI CAN BE AWAKENED BY DOING JAPA, SORROW, PAST KARMAS OR PRANAYAMA. THE GURU CAN AWAKEN KUNDALINI EITHER BY SEEING, TOUCHING OR BY MERE THINKING ABOUT DISCIPLE.

                       KUNDALINI SHOULD BE AWAKENED BY A GURU WHO CAN FULLY CONTROL THE RISING ENERGY OTHERWISE IT MAY LEAD TO MANY PSYCHO PROBLEMS IN THE ASPIRANT. BEFORE AWAKENING ONE SHOULD HAVE ALL THE GOOD QUALITIES TO HOLD THAT ARISING POWER. AFTER AWAKENING, ONE SHOULD TAKE GREAT CARE IN CONTROLLING THE THOUGHTS THAT ARE ENTERING THE MIND. MIND SHOULD ALWAYS BE FILLED WITH POSITIVE THOUGHTS O THOUGHTS ABOUT GOD. THE THOUGHTS OF ANGER, HATRED, JEALOUSY, AND EGO SHOULD BE AVOIDED TO THE BEST. ONE SHOULD ALWAYS TRY TO IMPROVE ONESELF THEN ONLY COSMIC ENERGY WILL NOT HARM ONE'S BODY AND MIND. OTHERWISE THE RISING ENERGY CAN INCREASES THE FLOW OF BLOOD TOWARDS BRAIN WHICH CAN CAUSE FAINTNESS, COMPLETE INSENSIBILIT, IRRITABILITY, EXCITEMENT, IN EXTREME CAN PARANYSIS OR DEATH. IT IS VERY ESSENTIAL FOR THE PERSON WHOSE KUNDALINI ENERGY IS AWAKNED TO BE MORALLY A GOOD PERSON. ONLY THEN ENERGY BLESSES ONE WITH MANY SUPER NATURAL POWERS WHICH ARE BEYOND ONE'S THINKING AND IMAGINATION. IT IS BELIEVED THAT ON THE AROUSAL OF DORMANT KUNDALINI ENERGY A COMMON MAN OF CLAY CAN BE TRANSFORMED INTO VERY INTELLIGENT, VERY STRONG AND VERY POWERFUL PERSON. 

  

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                         GOPI KRISHNA WROTE IN "KUNDALINI - THE SECRET OF YOGA". KUNDALINI ENERGY CAN BE COMPARED WITH A POWERFUL ORGANIC ELECTRIC CURRENT OF WHICH, ON AWAKENING, THE BODY BECOMES THE GENERATOR". HENCE, THE POWERS SHOULD NEVER BE MISUSED IN HARMING OTHERS.

                                                             

                                ❤   LOCATION OF SEVEN CHAKRAS  ❤

                                                                    

                      * MULADHARA

                      * SWADHISHTHANA

                      * MANIPURA

                      * ANAHATA

                      * VISHUDDHA

                      * AJNA

                      * SAHASRARA

                     * MULADHARA - IT IS KNOWN AS BASE CHAKRA. IT IS LOCATED AT THE BASE OF THE SPINE IN COCCYGEAL REGION. IT IS REPRESENTED BY FOUR PETALS OF LOTUS.

                    * SWADHISHTHANA - IT IS SACRAL CHAKTRA. IT IS REPRESENTED BY SIX PETALS OF LOTUS FLOWER.

                   * ANAHATA - IT IS HEART CHAKRA. IT IS LOCATED SPINE IN HEART REGION. IT REPRESENTS A LOTUS WITH TWELVE PETALS.

                 * VISHUDDHA - IT IS THROAT CHAKRA. IT IS LOCATED AT THE BASE OF NECK. IT IS REPRESENTED BY SIXTEEN PETALS LOTUS.

                   * AJNA - IT IS THIRD EYE CHAKRA. IT IS LOCATED IN THE MIDDLE OF EYEBROWS JUST ABOVE THE NOSE. IT IS REPRESENTED BY TWO PETALS OF LOTUS. IT IS A POINT WHERE DUALITY DIMINISHES. THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIGHT OR DARK, MALE OR FEMALE.

                * SAHASRARA - IT IS THE SEVENTH CHAKRA AND ALSO KNOWN AS CROWN CHAKRA. IT IS LOCATED AT THE TOP OF THE HEAD. IT APPEARS LIKE THOUSAND PETAL LOTUS.

                        THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PETALS IN THE SIX CHAKRAS FROM MULADHAR TO AJNA CHAKRA IS FIFTY, WHICH CORRESPONDS TO THE NUMBER OF LETTERS IN SANSKRIT ALPHABET. WHEN ALL PETALS OF LOTUS COMBINED TOGETHER THEY FORM ALL THE ALPHABETS OF SANSKRIT LANGUAGE.

WHAT IS KARMA ?

 

                                  

                                       KARMA YOGA

                  KARMA IS A SANSKRIT WORD MEANING ACTION OR TO WORK. EATING, SLEEPING, WALKING, THINKING AND READING ARE ACTIONS. BAL GANGADHAR TILAK IN GITA RAHASYA SAYS, "NO MAN IS FREE FROM ACTION AND THAT ACTION SHOULD NEVER BE GIVEN UP". EVERY ACTION IS SPIRITUAL, IF IT IS DONE WITHOUT ANY SELFISHNESS IN DOING A TASK THEN IT IS ONLY "ACTION" AND NOT "KARMA YOGA".

                  UNSELFISH ACTIONS CLEAN THE MIND. ACCORDING TO PARAMAHAMSA HARIHARANANDA, "KARMA YOGA MEANS THE PRACTICE OF DETACHMENT IN ALL ACTIONS. UNSELFISHNESS PRODUCES DETACHMENT AND INDIFFERENCE TO THE RESULT OF ACTIONS". WHEN ONE DOES ALL THE KARMAS ASSIGNED TO ONESELF WITHOUT ANYTHING IN RETURN LIKE NAME, FAME, SATISFACTION OR MONETARY GAINS THEN ONE BECOMES KARMA YOGI.  A KARMA YOGI DOES ONE'S DUTY PROPERLY, ACCEPTS DESTINY AND DOES SELFLESS SOCIAL SERVICE IGNORING PERSONAL DESIRES. DOING ONE'S ALL DUTIES WHILE REMAINING IN THIS MATERIALITIC WORLD AND WITHOUT ANY EXPECTATIONS, LEADS TO LIBERATION THROUGH KARMA YOGA. ONE CAN PRACTISE KARMA YOGA WITHOUT TAKING SANNYAS (LEAVING HOUSE TO LIVE A LIFE OF HERMIT).

                        KARMA YOGA CAN BE PRACTISED BY DETACHING ONESELF WITH THE FRUITS OF ACTIONS. IF THE RESULT IS NOT UPTO ONE'S EXPECTATION THEN ONE SHOULD NOT GET ANGRY, IRRITATED OR UNHAPPY. ONE SHOULD ACT ACCORDING TO ONE'S DUTY WITHOUT CONSIDERING ONE'S SELFISH DESIRES OR LIKE AND DISLIKES. WHATEVER MAY BE THE RESULT OF ONE'S ACTION IRRESPECTIVE OF THAT, ONE SHOULD KEEP DOING ONE'S SINCERELY.

                   KARMA IS OF THREE TYPES :

                 1. SANCHIT - THERE ARE THE ACCUMULATED KARMAS OF THE PAST ACTIONS.

                2.  PRARABDHA - THEY ARE THE PART OF SANCHIT KARMA. THESE ACTIONS WERE DONE IN THE PAST AND NOW THEY HAVE STARTED GIVING THEIR FRUITS. THESE ARE FRUCTIFYING KARMAS. THEY ARE EXHAUSTED  ONLY BY EXPERIENCING THEM.

                3. AGAMI/KRIYAMANA/ VARTAMANA - THESE ARE CURRENT ACTIONS WHICH WILL GIVE RESULTS IN FUTURE.

                     ONE'S SANCHIT AND PRARBDHA KARMA DECIDES WHAT ONE DESERVES AND ONE'S AGAMI KARMA DECIDE WHAT ONE WILL BE. WHATEVER ONE IS TODAY IS THE RESULT OF THE PAST KARMA. AND ONE'S FUTURE WILL DEPEND UPON KARMAS ONE DOES TODAY. ONE'S ACTIONS AND THOUGHTS DECIDE ONE'S DESTINY.

                        JNANA YOGA 

                     JNANA YOGA MEANS LIBERATION THROUGH KNOWLEDGE. JNANA IN SANSRIT MEANS KNOWLEDGE.  KNOWLEDGE IS TRUTH. AND TRUTH IS THAT GOD IS EVERYWHERE AND IN EVERYTHING . HE IS IN ALL BEINGS ARE IN HIM. THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SELF AND GOD.

                    ACCORDING TO SWAM SIVANANDA . "SELF-REALIZATION OR DIRECT INTUITIVE PERCEPTION OF THE SUPREME SELF IS NECESSARY FOR ATTAINING FREEDOM AND PERFECTION. THIS JNANA YOGA OR THE PATH OF WISDOM IS, HOWEVER, NOT MEAN FOR THE MASSESS WHOSE HEARTS ARE NOT PURE ENOUGH AND WHOSE INTELLECTS ARE NOT SHARP ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND AND PRACTISE THIS RAZOR-EDGE PATH. HENCE, KARMA YOGA AND BHAKTI YOGA ARE TO BE PRACTISED FIRST, WHICH WILL RENDER THE HEART PURE AND MAKE IT FIT FOR THE RECEPTION OF KNOWLEDGE JNANA YOGI IS THE PATH OF SELF-ANALYSIS, REFLECTION AND ENQUIRY".

                         ADI SHANKRACHARYA AND RAMANUJA WERE JNANA YOGIS. SHANKRACHARYA I ATMABODHA SAID,

                      "SRAVANAADIBHI UDDEPTA

                       JNAANAAGNI PARITAPITAH

                       JEEVA SARVAMALAT MUKTAH

                      SWARNAVAT DYOTATE SWAYAM".

                       (THE INDIVIDUAL IS PURIFIED BY HEATING IN THE FIRE OF KNOWLEDGE KINDLED BY HEARING REASONING AND DEEP MEDITATION ON WHAT HAS BEEN HEARD AND REASONED OUT. THEN THE INDIVIDUAL SHINES OF ITSELF LIKE PURE GOLD WHICH IS OBTAINED AFTER PURIFYIN THE GOLD ORE BY MELTING. ONE HEATS GOLD ORE IN A CRUCIBLE TO PURIFY IT, SIMILARLY, ONE HAS TO USE THE FIRE OF KNOWLEDGE TO PURIFY THE MIND. KNOWLEDGE CAN BE ACHIEVED BY SRAVANA (HEARING) MANANA (REASONING OF TRUTH) AND NIDHI DHYASAMA (DEEP CONTEMPLATON) THE MIND WILL BE FREE FROM IMPURE THOUGHTS, AND THE FEELING OF INDIVIDUAL GETS AUTOMATICALLY DESTROYED. THEN ONLY THE SELF ILLUMINATING SOUL EXISTS).

CONCENTRATION POWER

 

                    

                          HOW TO CONCENTRATE

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                      WHEN MIND IS AGITATED BECAUSE OF ANGER OR FEAR THEN BREATHING BECOMES SHORTER, SHALLOWER, FAST AND IRREGULAR. WHEN MIND IS RELAXED AND CALM THEN ONE BREATHES SLOWLY. MIND AND BREATHING ARE INTERRELATED. IF ONE IS CONTROLLED THEN IT WILL CONTROL THE OTHER AUTOMATICALLY.

                    EVERYBODY HAS CONCENTRATION POWER BUT ITS RANGE MAY VARY. ONE SHOULD STRENGTHEN MIND'S CAPACITY BY VARIOUS WAYS. A NEWCOMER IN THE FIELD OF MEDITATION MUST PRACTISE CONCENTRATION EXERCISES TO FOCUS THE SCATTERED RAYS OF MIND ON A SINGLE POINT WHICH LEADS TO SELF REALISATION. THERE ARE VARIOUS EXERCISES USING DIFFERENT TECHNIQUES LIKE POWER OF SOUND. VISUAL IMAE OF DEITY OR SYMBOL. BUT THEY ALL HAVE ONE AIM, TO CONCENTRATE THE MIND.

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                       TRATAK - IT IS STEADY GAZING ON AN OBJECT OR A POINT WITHOUT BLINKING TILL TEARS START FLOWING FROM EYES AND THEN CLOSING EYES AND TRYING TO VISUALISE THE OBJECT IN THE MIND. IN THIS EXERCISE THE OBJECT CAN BE THE TIP OF LEAF. TIP OF NOSE, THUMB PLACED IN FRONT OF EYES. LEAF IS VERY GOOD OPTION AS SEEING GREEN COLOUR IS GOOD FOR EYES. THE OBJECT SHOULD BE PLACED AT THE SAME LEVEL WITH THE EYES. IT DECREASES THE WANDERING OF MIND, INCREASES CONCENTRATION, MAKES EYES STRONGER AND STIMULATES THE AJNA CHAKRA, THE SIXTH CHAKRA OF KUNDALINI YOGA LOCATED IN BETWEEN THE EYES.

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               CATEGORY CONCENTRATION - THIS EXERCISES IS VERY EASY TO PRACTISE. HAVE A LOOK AT THE ROOM. MEMORIZE FIVE THINGS IN A ROOM LIKE FAN, TUBE LIGHT, CHAIR, TABLE AND CUPBOARD. TRY TO VISUALISE THESE FIVE OBJECTS IN YOUR MIND WITH CLOSED EYES. OPEN THE EYES AND DELTE ONE ITEM, SAY CUPBOARD, NOW MEMORISE FOUR REMAINING OBJECTS. TRY TO VISUALISE THEM. REPEAT THE PROCESS DELETING EACH ITEM TILL ONLY ONE ITEM IS LEFT. FOCUS MIND ON THAT OBJECT. YOU CAN DO THIS EXERCISE IN A GARDEN ON FIVE DIFFERENT FLOWERS, FRUITS AND LEAVES. WITH THIS EXERCISES MIND BECOMES STILL BUT HAS A LITTLE FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT. IT HELPS IN INCREASING CONCENTRATION POWER OF MIND BY NARROWING THE POINT OF FOCUS.

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                      CONCENTRATION ON SOUND - SIT COMFORTABLY IN SUKHASANA. CLOSE BOTH THE EARS WITH THE THUMBS AND EYES WITH FINGERS. TRY TO HEAR THE INNER SOUNDS. FLUTE, VIOLIN, HUMMING BEE, CONCH SOUND, THUNDER SOUND, BELL SOUND ETC. CAN BE HEARD. YOU MAY HEAR ONE SOUND OR MANY. TRY TO CONCENTRATE ON THE SOUND COMING FROM RIGHT EAR AND SOMETIMES ON THE SOUND COMING FROM LEFT EAR. ONE-POINTEDNESS OF MIND IS ACHIEVED BY FOCUSING MIND ON MYSTIC SOUNDS.

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                   MINS IS A MONKEY WHICH CAN'T SIT AT ONE PLACE.

           MIND IS A MONKEY WHICH IS DRUNK SO WILL DO ALL NASTY THINGS.

                    AND MIND IS A MONKEY WHOSE TAIL IS ON FIRE WHICH WILL DESTROY EVERYTHING.

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                  JUST LIKE A MONKEY WHO JUMPS FROM ONE BRANCH TO ANOTHER. MIND CAN'T SIT QUIET. MONKEY MIND WANDERS FROM ONE POINT TO ANOTHER. SUCH THINKING IS CONSIDERED AS "SATVIK" THINKING. SIMILAR TO A MONKEY WHO IS DRUNK, MIND DOES UNPLEASANT AND HORRIBLE ACTIVITIES. SUCH THINKING COMES UNDER "RAJASIK" THINKING. LIKE A MONKEY WHOSE TAIL IS SET ON FIRE AND IS EAGER TO DESTROY ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING. THE OUTCOME OF SUCH SITUATION IS UNPREDICTABLE AND TOTALLY DIFFERENT. SUCH THINKING WITH A DESTRUCTIVE MOTTO IS "TAMASIC" THINKING. THE MIND, WHICH BEHAVES LIKE A MONKEY NEEDS TO BE TRAINED AND DIRECTED IN A POSITIVE DIRECTION. THIS CAN BE DONE BY DISCIPLINING IT WITH PATIENCE AND PRACTICE. THEN ONLY THIS MIND MONKEY WILL BECOME TAME AND CALM.

                             MIND IS RESTLESS, UNSETTLED, CONFUSED, INDECISIVE AND UNCONTROLLABLE. MIND JUMPS FROM ONE THOUGHT TO ANOTHER JUST LIKE A MONKEY WHO JUMPS FROM ONE TREE TO ANOTHER. THE MONKEY MIND IS NOT SATISFIED IN THE PRESENT MOMENT. IT IS CONTANTLY DISTRACTED WITH REPLAYING THE HAPPENINGS OF PAST EVENTS OR PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE. FOCUSING OF MIND TO STAY IN PRESENT CAN BE ACHIEVED BY PRACTISING MEDITATION.

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                     MEDITATION IS THE PRACTISE BY WHICH THERE IS CONSTANT OBSERVATION OF THOUGHTS ENTERING THE MIND. EVERY DAY NEAR ABOUT 50,000 THOUGHTS ARISE IN MIND. IF THEY ARE NEGATIVE THEN A PERSON WILL DEFINITELY FEEL SAD AND IF IT CONTINUE FOR SOME DAYS IT WILL LEAD TO DIPRESSION.

                    EVERY BODY HAS ITS OWN WORLD OF THOUGHTS. THERE ARE POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE THOUGHTS. THROUGH THE PRACTICE OF JAPA OF MANTRA. PRANAYAMA AND YOGA ALONG WITH READING SACRED BOOKS ONE CAN FILL MIND WITH PURE AND POSITIVE THOUGHTS AND ERADICATE IMPURE THOUGHTS FROM MIND.

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                          MEDITATION IS A TECHNIQUE TO HAVE FULL CONTROL OVER MIND. IT TRAINS MIND TO WORK WITHOUT GETTING TENSED, STRESSED, TIRED AND AGED. IT KEEPS THE MIND CHEERFUL, PEACEFUL, CALM, SERENE AND YOUNG AS THERE IS INCREASE OF GREY MATTER. MOST IMPORTANTLY IT HELPS ONE TO BE PEACEFUL IN TURBULENT TIMES.

                          AN EAGLE SOARS HIGH IN THE SKY BUT STILL HAS A KEEN VISION FOR ITS PREY. AS THE EAGLE CAME DOWN TO ATTACK ITS PREY, THE MUSCLES OF ITS EYE BALLS CONTINUOUSLY ADJUST TO MAINTAIN SHARP FOCUS AND ACCURATE PERCEPTION THROUGHOUT ITS APPROACH. SIMILARLY A CONCENTRATE MIND IS FOCUSED ON A PARTICULAR OBJECT AND IMPORTANCE SHOULD BE GIVEN ONLY TO THOSE THINGS THAT ARE OF GREAT IMPORTANCE. MIND PURELY FOCUSES ON FULLFILLMENT OF PURPOSE OF PRIORITY.