Maharishi said 6 chakras. Whatever happened to the seventh?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 <no_re...@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > > > I may have posted this before. Can't remember. > > > > Chakras and Kundalini > > Lake Louise, Canada, 1968 (audio) > > MAHARISHI: ...chakras are the mile stones on the path of kundalini. How > > many have experienced during meditation sometimes some movement along the > > spine, there is something coming up and down, something like that? > > This is movement of kundalini. These movements, like the energy impulses we > > have talked in the morning, flowing like that, like that, they are the signs > > of release of stress and strain. > > And have you noticed some times when you are meditating, that breathing > > becomes much refined and it flows equally with both the nostrils? Otherwise > > generally it flows either from the left or from the right. But during > > meditation, when it becomes very refined it flows from both. > > When the breath flows from both, then it is called shushumna. > > There is a very fine hole deep inside the spinal column. Very fine, much > > thinner than the width of the hair. May be one hundredth of the width of the > > hair. Such fine spine and when the nervous system becomes freer from deep > > rooted stresses and strain of which we talked in the morning ... (using a > > board) See, this is the spinal column. And at the end of the spine is the > > kundalini. Kundalini is the symbol of life force that is present in each > > living being. > > Higher state of consciousness depends on how much this kundalini is awake. > > It is said to be on this end of this... And this column is said to be > > shushumna. And as the body becomes purer and purer, this germ of life, it is > > like a serpent, it becomes awake. > > In all the creatures, the small, small insects and birds and animals and man > > and angels, in every living being, this germ of life is present... > > ...at any time along the spine you may feel some movement of energy. It is > > physical, you feel it, up and down movement. These are the movements of this > > germ of life. It becomes awake... > > ...What happens is, this very fine path of air is blocked, may be some block > > here and some block there. If it is blocked, then... In our system of > > meditation, when the mantra becomes very fine, very fine, then breathing > > becomes very fine. And when the breathing becomes very fine then the breath > > permeates the system. Absolutely very fine breath, it is able to pierce > > through the whole body. And then the air starts passing from this very fine > > hole, very fine passage. > > When the air passes from here, then if there is a block here, then the > > pressure is created here. And due to that pressure the body may rock this > > way or that way. The whole body may even do like that. All this is just due > > to the air pressing through the fine hole and finding its way up. > > Movement, any kind of movement may happen here or there. And along this > > path, there are certain chakras or what they call it, centres, one here and > > one here and one here. And each centre is like that, may be two-petaled rose > > or four-petaled rose or six or eight or twelve, like that. > > And when this kundalini, the germ of life, travels from here through this > > and the passage is clear, then each of these (chakras) become upward like > > that. They turn over. And a turn over means, the passage is clear now. > > And by the time all these six Chakras open up, then the whole passage is > > clear. And the kundalini then comes here, resides here and this gives > > clearer experience of Being, very clear, pure consciousness. And that is > > called enlightenment, that pure awareness of pure consciousness fills the > > whole thing. > > There is a system of practice which is called Laya Yoga. Laya means > > absorption. The kundalini finds its absorption in all these centres, here > > and here and here and eventually here in the cortex, the thousand-petaled > > rose, a thousand-petaled lotus. > > And by the time kundalini comes here, everything, the whole thing becomes > > full of light. Full of light means full of awareness. Light means not this > > light, but pure Being. And when this whole area becomes aware of Being > > clearly, then it is CC (Cosmic Consciousness). Then the Being is never lost > > irrespective of our engagements during the day or restfulness in the night. > > It remains permanent. And this is what is called the state of enlightenment. > > > > As kundalini becomes more and more awake, the soul keeps on coming to higher > > and higher species. Coming to man`s species, it comes to a level of > > wakefulness, that it can rise up and it has then this whole path to bring it > > to this region, where Being will be permanently established in the very > > nature of the mind. This whole area of the nervous system becomes > > enlightened. > > Question. Do you know when you have it? > > MAHARISHI: See, you feel the up and down march of this. Sometimes it goes > > up and down and up and down. When the whole thing is clear and the whole > > nervous system is completely free from stresses and strains, then it never > > returns. It gets there and gets absorbed. > > You experience the up and down march of this thing and you experience when > > it is permanently established in the whole nervous system.... > > Very nice, thanks for posting this ! > > >
