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Is chakras Cleansing Important?

These chakras were discovered a long time ago during the Vedic age. In fact, in many of the spiritual chants, you will find referen Today science has proved that there is a gland located near each of these chakras that is related to that particular chakra. These seven chakras supply energy to the glands.

These seven major chakras deeply influence our physical, emotional and mental activities.

These chakras have great power.

Chakras are energy centers and if they are kept in a cleansed and energized condition, they can cause us to live an ecstatic and healthy life.

Dis-ease is only an imbalance in any one of these chakras, because our body and mind are rooted in our inner consciousness. Keeping these chakras in a healthy state, we can see a transformation happening in us at the mental and physical levels

After World War I, a biplane was abandoned near a remote tribal settlement in Asia. The tribal people had never seen an aircraft in all their lives. There was a lot of excitement and commotion about it and a big crowd gathered around it. They wondered what it might be and each one started giving some suggestion about it.

They finally concluded that since it had wheels, it must be a bullock cart! News spread in the village about the new bullock cart. There was a lot of celebration in the village and the biplane was taken around the settlement yoked to bullocks, and it served as a bullock cart.

Some weeks later, a young tribal boy who had returned from the city where he was studying, saw the biplane. He got into it and looked around. He saw all the gears and mechanisms in it. He fiddled with the switches and levers.

Suddenly, the engine came to life!

He managed to taxi the plane on the ground for a short distance and the villagers were shocked at what they saw. The boy had seen tractors being used and declared to the people that the biplane was not a bullock cart but some kind of tractor.

There was great celebration once again and the biplane started being used as a tractor!

Six months passed by and a retired army officer came to the village. He saw the biplane being used as a tractor and was shocked! He told the villagers that it was not a tractor and that the plane could actually fly. They refused to believe him because the only things they had ever seen flying were birds! The army officer got into the aircraft, flew it for a short while and landed.

The villagers were wonderstruck. Then they understood its true potential.

MORAL

Understand: man is a wonderful mechanism meant to fly. But we don't know our true potentiality.

We have a very limited view of ourselves. Most of us operate only as a bullock cart, at the instinct level, surrendering to our emotions.

Just like this, there are mechanisms or gears inside us, called the chakras, which are boundless energy centers. Each of them is associated with a particular emotion within us. If we understand how to handle the emotion properly, we can function as an aircraft.

How Do our chakras get blocked?

Each chakra is connected to a different endocrine gland in the physical body. The endocrine glands govern our hormones and therefore also our emotions.

Any positive or negative experiences we have had relating to the emotion of a specific chakra is stored inside that chakra.

For example,

The second chakra, lying between the navel and the pubic bone, governs fear. If we have had a deep fright at some point in our lives, the feeling of it is stored in that chakra. It determines how we react to future situations that remind us of our fear. It may block us from achieving our goals in life by interfering whenever we need courage to face our situations. The existence and location.

How Do EMOTONS CONNECT TO chakras?

It has been proven that when a person is locked with a particular negative emotion, the chakra associated with that emotion shrinks to the size of a coat button. It becomes that small.

But when the same person experiences the associated positive emotion, the chakra expands to the size of a cartwheel! This is the effect that our emotions have on these energy centers, our chakras.

Our energy flow in these chakras is blocked by our negative emotions and activated by our positive emotons and we are totally unaware of it!

Swadishthana Chakra is situated about three inches above the base of the spine' It gets blocked by fear, and gets unblocked by transcending fear. Swa means self or being and adishthana means established, therefore Swadishthana means where Being is centred. Almost 80% never transcend the muladhara where one is born. Swadishthana is the death centre. When you go beyond fear of death Swadishthana gets opened.

We can categorize all our fears into five major categories:

  • The first is fear of losing our wealth, our comfort, name and fame, prestige, and other outer world things.
  • The second is the fear of losing our health and parts of our body through some accident or disease; the fears concerned with our physical health.
  • The third is the fear of losing our mental health, our mental stability.
  • The fourth is the fear of losing our loved ones, or their love.
  • The fifth is the fear of the unknown: fear of God, fear of ghosts and fear of death itself.

If your fear is activated, if your swadishthana is pressurized, you can't do anything fully, you can't do anything freely. When you understand everything is mangalattva, auspiciousness; the best thing, which can happen, is happening, suddenly you will see so much of intelligence is radiating through you. In front of your eyes, so many possibilities open. Intelligence means so many possibilities, that's what intelligence.

If you have pressure in the swadisthtana, you will have only 120-degree vision. Understand you will have only 120 degree vision. If your swadishthana is released, if you don't have the pressure of fear, you will have 360-degree vision, of you and your life.

In Swamiji's own words: "I have seen my gurukul (literally 'tradition of guru' , refers to the ancient education system in which children were handed over to a guru at a very young age by parents for upbringing and education) kids. We never force them to memorize. Just, they are let to enjoy, jump around and the power, the energy and memory they radiate, Oh God! Some of my kids, they, actually they study in the ashram but they compete with the regular students, by writing exams with the regular students. And they come out with ninety-five, ninety, not a single kid comes out with less than ninety percent. I tell them it is just because their swadishthana (where Self is established; the groin or spleen energy center) is not activated, their swadishthana does not have pressure."

Actually, if you deeply analyse our fears, all the five categories of fear are related to the fear of death. They manifest themselves in different ways.

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Most of do not know anything beyond birth and death. On the grave was written born on and died on. Someone asked why. It was said these are the only two things that one does clearly.

Life is a bridge between birth and death. Unless you live your death you can not live your life. An intelligent man lives his death. Unconscious man dies again and again even in his life. If you really want to live should be prepared to die. How can life be afraid of death. Death is the culmination of life. We never look into death, real death.

We never give ourselves time to ponder death. We want to forget everything about death. That's why we stay far from graveyards, which are usually out of our way. There are two issues: The incident of death that happens at the end of our lives, and psychological death. Real death happens only once, but psychological death the fear of death permeates our life. The idea and fear of death decides our entire life structure; It's controlled by death. Some philosophies believe in only one birth and one death, one life. That's why they are so materialistic. Whatever you have to enjoy, you need to enjoy now. The western world is so intense, so time conscious. Value of time arises from this concept of one life. Who knows whether there is anything beyond this life. Science is the by product of the idea of only one life.

Some philosophies say there is a life after life; there is no need to hurry; let's look deeply into the cycle of birth and death. Inner science was born out of this concept; whereas outer science was born in the West.

Death is not a simple incident; not just something physical. It's something far more, if it guides your whole life psychologically. Your entire life will be transformed if you experience consciously. You will become fully awake, enlightened. You reach your peak, not your end, at the time of death.

Why are we then so afraid of death? Why do we feel frightened of this word?

One reason, we have not lived completely. If we had we will not be afraid. One who has lived fully will have deep satisfaction, fulfilment. We just carry on where our parents left off, carry our desires and their desires, and others' desires through our lives. We have lived others' lives. So we do not have the satisfaction.

When Socrates was about to be poisoned to death, he was asked are you not afraid. He said: why? Either I live after death in another form if there is something called another life, in which case I shall live on in another form and name, or I will be erased completely, and I am not going to be around in any form. Either way what is there for me to worry?

Fear of death is just the fear of continuity or discontinuity. We are afraid of what next. That's why we live not in houses, but in graves, full of security. Complete security is only death. Life is never secure. In a grave yard you have to worry about nothing, nothing to pay, no one to bother you. What worse can happen?

Katopanishad talks about death. A young boy wants to die and goes to meet death. For 3 days he waits for death to come to him. Death was not there when he goes to meet death. Death is a frightening experience when it comes to you, not when you go to death without fear, voluntarily, consciously. This is not committing suicide. We are talking about facing the psychological fear of death. Nachiketa, the young lad, was finally received as a guest by Yama, God of death, and given boons and the knowledge of Death.

When you get the knowledge that you are never going to die, bliss blooms, you are in ecstasy. Your life is transformed from fear to fearlessness, from death to deathlessness.

If we think about continuity no one dies; all lives continue to exist. Once in six months your body is completely changed; not one cell remains the same. When you are forty you are not what you were when you were 10 or when you were 20 or when you were 30. But you do not feel you died, though you are completely different; you are different physically, mentally, emotionally, materially because you feel you are continuing.

If you intelligent, even a little bit, understand that everything in existence continues in one form or another. Leaves become manure and become trees again. Understand and you will lose this fear.

Nothing dies, noting discontinues; everything continues in a manner that nature dictates. Your idea about death will change if you understand this. That you are going to continue, perhaps in a different form, different way.

Once you understand this Swadishthana blossoms. When you get the courage to live your life as you want, with complete insecurity, you will transcend your fear. You will look into your fear deeply and you will be transformed; you will transcend death; death can not touch you. If you die physically its meaning will change.