❖ Chakras are energy centres in the body that play an important role in our physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing.
❖ Understanding this mind-body energy system is essential for becoming the most vibrant, healthy, and radiant version of yourself.
❖ The Sanskrit Word Chakra literally translates to “wheel” or “disk.”
❖ In Yoga, Meditation and Ayurveda, this term refers to wheels of energy throughout the body.
❖ To visualize a chakra in the body, imagine a swirling wheel of life-giving energy — the vital force that animates us and all living things.
❖ The Chakras are centres of Shakti as a vital force.
❖ In other words, these are centres of Pranashakti manifested by Pranavayu in the living body, the presiding Devatas of which are the names for the Universal Consciousness as It manifests in the form of these centres.
❖ The Chakras are not perceptible to the gross senses.
❖ Since everything in the mind-body energy system is moving, it’s essential that your seven main chakras stay open, aligned, and fluid.
❖ If there’s a blockage, the flow of energy is constricted — like water forced to run through a narrow pipe, so it is too with our bodies and the chakras.
❖ The key to unblocking, moving, and transforming your energy — so that you can reach your highest mental, physical, and spiritual potential — is simple: awareness.
❖ The mind of a worldly man with base desires and passions moves in the Muladhara and Svadhishthana Chakras or centres situated near the anus and the reproductive organ respectively.
❖ If one’s mind becomes purified the mind rises to the Manipura Chakra or the centre in the navel and experiences some power and joy.
❖ If the mind becomes more purified, it rises to the Anahata Chakra or centre in the heart, experiences bliss and visualizes the effulgent form of the Ishta Devata or the tutelary deity.
❖ When the mind gets highly purified, when meditation and devotion become intense and profound the mind rises to Vishuddha Chakra or the centre in the throat and experiences more and more powers and bliss.
❖ Even when the mind has reached this centre, there is a possibility for it to come down to the lower centres.
❖ When the Yogi reaches the Ajna Chakra or the centre between the two eyebrows he attains Samadhi and realizes the Supreme Self, 1 or Brahman, there is a slight sense of separateness between the devotee and Brahman.
❖ If he reaches the spiritual centre in the brain, the Sahasrara Chakra, the thousand-petalled lotus, the Yogi attains Nirvikalpa Samadhi or superconscious state.
❖ He becomes one with the non-dual Brahman, and all sense of separateness dissolves, this is the highest plane of consciousness or supreme Asamprajnata Samadhi, Kundalini unites with Siva.
❖ The Yogi may come down to the centre of the throat to give instructions to the students and do good to others.
