*Chapter 2 - Energy Centres*
*Day 14*
Shakti, or energy, rises from muladhara chakra to svadhihthana chakra where it expresses itself either as lust or creativity.
When it climbs up higher to manipura chakra, the region around the navel, it is expressed as jealousy, generosity, joy or greed.
Usually, a rich man's stomach is depicted to be large and round, and often it is like that. Generosity, happiness and greed all happen in this one place.
The same energy rises to the heart, anahata chakra, where it expresses itself in three ways love, hatred and fear.
When you are frightened, you place your hand on your heart, and also when you express love or respect, you touch your heart.
Feelings of hatred are also connected to the heart. Then the same energy rises to the throat region, or visuddha chakra, where it expresses itself as gratitude or misery.
When you feel grief or express gratitude, the throat begins to choke. This energy then travels upward to the area between the eye-brows, known as ajna chakra.
It is expressed as awareness, knowledge and anger. So Shiva's third eye represents both knowledge and anger. When Shiva is angry he
reduces everything to ashes just by opening his third eye.
Finally, when this same energy rises to the top of the head to sahaswara chakra, there is only bliss and joy.
This is how the energy of consciousness travels, and you can become familiar with it by observing this movement.
Normally, life energy is flowing through these chakras, but if we feel under pressure or disturbed, then knots form in the chakras, obstructing the flow of energy.
Place your attention on the
energy in these chakras, and you will see that the negative energy in the chakras gradually dissolves.
All impurities disappear, and positive qualities are established. If you feel jealous and then meditate with
attention on your navel, the jealousy will automatically subside.
Due to jealousy, we make mistakes and then try to defend ourselves by justifying what we did. We should know that all that happened was because of impurities in our mind.
The world will be annihilated if you come in contact with these chakras through meditation. "Annihilating the world" means dropping the worries of this world forever.
A classic example of losing the world is when you fall asleep. If you kept worrying about issues of the world you could never sleep. After all, what is sleep?
You can only sleep when you are alone. If you keep your world with you, constantly thinking about different things, you will never be able to sleep.
You will stay awake, tossing and turning. You can move beyond this by meditating on the energy centers. During the advanced course the energy centres are dealt with.
Everyone should take out three to four days every six months or a year to do an advanced course. When we spend time in silence, meditating, the body and mind become pure, quiet and full of enthusiasm.
Many people have experienced this after doing an advanced course. Although chakras exist in the body, do not imagine that they are like wheels on a cart or "ashok chakra."
There are no such chakras in the body. Do not think like this. The moment you start visualising it like this, fantasies increase.
In India, it is said that there is a lotus with so many petals at one place in the body and at another place in the body there is a lotus having another number of petals, this is because we love flowers.
While we use the phrase "like a flower" to describe anything that is continually fresh and tender, there are really no such lotuses in the body. We notice this only when our mind becomes delicate and subtle.
