All the Seven Chakras are located along the spine and extend out to both sides of the body. Chakra is derived from Sanskrit language and means 'wheel'. These chakras also called energy centres are so significant because
1. They receive prana (life force) and transform them into energies to flow through the body.
2. Each chakra corresponds to a specific human behaviour.
3. Each chakra corresponds to a specific conscious level.
1. First Chakra (Muladhara):
Location : One inch above the anus, base of the spine. This center is in the center of the body if you draw a vertical and a horizontal line to your body.
Symbol : a lotus with four petals
Animal : Elephant
People: gluttons
Human Behaviour : Desire to food and sensual things.
Conscious level: No Mind (Rock)
Element : Earth
Scientific Name: Reproductive glands
One who has much energy flowing through this chakra will go mad after food and other sensual things. Elephant has the biggest stomach and one who falls under this category always eats tasty items and grows into an elephant. Many ordinary people fall under this category. They have no higher aim in life than being satisfied with physical and sensual needs. They live to eat. They are equal to a rock which has no mind. Their consciousness state is almost like Coma (deep sleep). They cannot be awakened easily.
According to Science, this chakra refers to reproductive glands which controls sexual development and secretes sexual hormones.
Benefits of Meditation:
One who meditates on this center with his kundalini power awakened by a Spiritual Master knows the secrets of Earth and attains the power to control Earth. Sexual desires can also be brought under control. Man has to flower spiritually and know his own fragrance. A lotus with four petals(see the picture of this chakra) stands for the less flowering of a man, being addicted to food and other sensual things.
Mystery of this Chakra:
Two becomes one. This is the whole purpose and meaning of life. The meeting place is the chakras.
Matter wants to become one with matter. This is the first chakra. See the child whose first need is food and water given in the form of milk. Matter meets with matter and becomes matter. Your body wants food and food becomes your body. Two becomes one. This meeting of matter with matter continues from childhood upto death.
Why should they allot God Ganesh (a hindu god with 5 hands) having the head of elephant. The five elements in nature are aakash, air, fire,water and earth. One evolved from another - from aakash (individual energy particles) the air, from air the fire, then water and at last earth. This chakra is the root chakra representing earth which evolved as the fifth one, and so the god is Ganesh.
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2. Second Chakra (Swadhisdana):
Location : In between navel and mooladhar. Just four fingers distance below the navel and inside.
Symbol : a lotus with six orange petals and moon inside.
Animal : Lion and Crocodile
People: Politicians
Human Behaviour : Desire to dominate others. Love for power, prestige, money at peak.
Conscious level: Sub conscious (Tree)
Element : Water
Scientific Name: Adrenal glands
One who has much energy overflowing on this chakra will go mad after power. Politicians belong to this category. If the energy grows here uncontrollably, then you turn into a Hitler or Alexander the Great. Conquering the conquerors becomes your whole meaning of life. You cannot be alone. Your beloved is the crowd. You know how to control others.
Here you are mostly subconscious. You have the mind but you have no mind to mind the mind just as the tree, just as you are in dream. Your own control upon your mind is zero.
According to Science, this chakra refers to adrenal glands which are connected with immune system and metabolism of the body.
Benefits of Meditation:
It is the death centre. One who meditates on this center can communicate with dead people. Meditation more on this center may lead to soul attachment. Japanese and in many martial arts use this centre to kill people at a stroke, without shedding blood and pain. A lotus with six petals(see the picture of this chakra) stands for the little more flowering of a man than the previous chakra, All questions about death, birth, soul and ghost get answered, if the center is rightly used.
Mystery of this Chakra:
Man wants to control all people to make them one with him. This is the second chakra. See the child which cries and gets what it wants. Being a small politician, it controls the parents. The second urge in man is to dominate others, ego springs up. Teacher wants to dominate students. Parents want to dominate the children. Husband wants to dominate the wife and the like. But hereto it means unity. man wants to get united with men. Man meets men. The crowd is the beloved of politicians. Lion and crocodile which are symbols of power and death represent the consequences of the energy flow through this center.
God Brahma (a hindu god with 4 heads) is the deity of this chakra and represents the fourthly evolved element water.
How to move the energy from one center to another center?
1. Through kundalini yoga meditation.
2. Through chanting mantras repeatedly and raising heat.
3. Through breathing yogic exercises (pranayama) - inhalation, cessation of breath and exhalation each for a specified number of seconds.
4. The easiest way is that when you drop out your inclination to the matters concerned to a chakra, your energy automatically will get moved to the next higher chakra. For example, when you drop out your attachment to food and sensual objects, your energy will move from first to second chakra. Similarly, when you drop out your urge to control, dominate others, your energy will move from the second to third and so on.
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