Consciousness and Chakras 1
Channel: Consciousness Research Centre
Date: 02/02/2020

This series is classified *Introductory | General *
Consciousness of the Chakras: 
• Sex Chakra—measures everything by physical appearance and potential for lusty    enjoyment (crotch consciousness, thinking with the small head)
• Energy Chakra—measures everything by energy and effort
• Movement Chakra—looks for rhythmic harmony of movement in external world 
• Heart Chakra—has faith in an ideal relationship of a certain taste (bhakti-rasa)
• Throat Chakra—wants to express the taste enjoyed by the heart or forehead chakra
• Forehead Chakra—looks within for a relationship of a certain taste: seeks freedom
• Crown Chakra—knows that Self is everything, there is no individual, all appearances are illusory, awareness alone really exists

In general, lower three chakras are incomplete, lonely, looking for something outside to complete them. They can’t understand that completion is to be found within. The heart knows what it wants, what is beautiful, right and true. The lower three have to be trained to worship the Deity of the heart, and the throat to express that positive faith instead of the negative doubts of the mind. The mind suspects that all form is illusion, all words are lies, and seeks its root in emptiness. But the mind is also very unhappy without the beauty of the heart. It has to learn to accept the natural religion without compromising its deep insight into Reality.

From the foregoing it should be clear that the needs of the chakras are different. This is why there are several yogas and several levels of attainment, depending on the center of gravity of consciousness (catur-darśanam). So all the major yogas—Tantra, qigong, hatha or other movement arts, bhakti, mantra, rāja and jnana—have to be practiced simultaneously.

Self-development that denies the needs of one or more chakras leads to chronic disease. If the chakras are denied their needs the whole being suffers weakness in that area. Especially if the sex chakra remains immature, the whole being lacks the energy necessary for the higher levels of realization.

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