Message #33637

[Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us?]

And finally the purpose of this thread to bring to light the mention and meaning of the chakras in spiritual readings.

The deeper interpretation of this Gita stanza is that of the human spine as the descending and ascending wheel of life. The consciousness of man has come down from his home in the cerebrum, descending through the six plexuses. After reaching the lowest or coccygeal center, consciousness spreads out in the nervous system and becomes responsive to the outer world. The soul descending into the flesh thus becomes entangled, remaining a prisoner of the momentary-pleasure-producing-sensations. The man who allows his consciousness to become saturated with the delusive pleasures of sensations finds that his life is vain; it leads but to negation.

The purpose of life is to ascend the six spinal centers, reinforcing the human consciousness progressively with greater and greater lights, until it is able to unite with all-pervading, thousand-rayed brilliance in the highest center in the brain. This ascent of the consciousness through the spine may be achieved slowly through right actions and right thoughts. The yogi,however, chooses the quicker and more scientific method of meditation.

The soul in man has descended from Cosmic consciousness to the immanent Christ consciousness and thence to the vibratory creation. It continued to descend until it became encased in a physical body, which is characteristically permeated with sense consciousness. When a man becomes a Yogi, his soul consciousness  begins to follow the path of ascension. It first leaves the soil of material attachment and concentrates away not only from objects of the bodily enjoyment but from the body itself. The Yogi detaches himself first from the possessive consciousness and then from all sense identifications. This he removes his mind from the three Lower Centers is that connect man with all bodily sensations in attachments.

The yogi then immerses his consciousness in the divine love radiating from the heart center. He ascends further to enjoy the Cosmic Calmness of the cervical center. Climbing on, the Yogi rests in the Christ consciousness in the medulla and the point between the eyebrows. Here he experiences the joy and wisdom of God inherent and omnipresent and all vibratory creation. He finally stabilizing himself in the cerebral center of cosmic consciousness, the uncaused infinite Bliss beyond the cause-effect reciprocity of vibratory creation.

The internal consciousness of ordinary people operate only from the lumbar sacral is coccygeal centers that direct all material sensory perceptions and enjoyment. The divine lovers and celestial poets work from the heart center. The calm unshaken Yogi operates from the cervical center. He who can feel his presence in the entire Vibratory creation has awakened the medullary and Christ centers.  The illumined Yogi functions in the cerebral center of cosmic consciousness; he may be spoken of as an ascended Yogi.

The sense-identified man who knows nothing of his higher, inner life is this is a “descending one” a mortal, conscious only of the lowest rung of human human evolution.

~ Paramahansa Yogananda