Chakras

In order to grow in yoga practice, you need to understand what energy processes happens inside and outside you. It states health condition, bad or good habits and other.

Chakra in Sanskrit means ‘wheel, circle, vortex’. Chakras – it is energy centers in our energy body (pranic body, non physical body).

In classical yoga system there are 7 main chakras. They based near our spine. According to Hatha Yoga Pradipika, in our energy body there are at least 72 000 energy channels nadi. Chakras it is place where a lot of nadi energy channels connects in one place. Those chakras make impact to our physical body, mind and intellect. Lower chakras responsible for gross, material states of being. Higher chakras responsible to more subtle levels of being.

If person who practice yoga has material desires, wishes, then energy in nadi channels cannot flow freely and yoga practices helps to purify those channels.

All chakras has positive and negative sides, aspects. If we want to grow in our yoga practice, we should develop positive aspects and clean negative. In society there are a lot of negative energies (tendencies) that attracts lowest desires and actions.

If your consciousness works on lowest chakras, your attitude, actions, thoughts becomes based on basic instincts.

There are 7 chakras:

1) Muladhara.
2) Svadhistana.
3) Manipura.
4) Anahata.
5) Vishuddhi.
6) Ajna.
7) Sahasrara.

Let’s take a look into attributes of every chakra.

1) Muladhara chakra. Personal security, supply basic needs: food, place to live. Individual fights the world to survive.

2) Svadhistana. Seek personal pleasures and sensations through: food, drinks, sex.

3) Manipura. person attempts to dominate situations and other people. Seeks to manipulate world according to personal wishes, gain, wealth, respect.

4) Anahata. Love and understanding people as they are, begin to accept people.

5) Vishuddhi. Logic, rational thinking, fearlessness. Begins to understand and experience world as place of harmony and perfection. Compassion.

6) Ajna. Subtle level, you see world fully. Sometimes use subtle energy without understanding law of karma. For example inventor creates bomb or something negative without understanding karmic consequences. Also in this level person starts creating most positive actions for others and himself in spiritual development. There are no ego, no duality. Can open supernatural powers like: clairvoyance, clairaudience. In this level possible easily go to samadhi.

7) Sahasrara. Highest state when you connected with your higher self. Also person can be in subtle and material level in one time. It’s state beyond mind, beyond senses, beyond usual reality.

Different chakra means different reality, different world.

In the time of death in which chakra will be energy, it determines in which world you will enter. The more clean your nadis and chakras, the higher level of consciousness you can achieve.

How to clean chakras

1) Do hatha yoga asanas regularly (also padmasana, reversed asanas).
2) Do meditation regularly.
3) Do pranayama regularly.
4) Do Mantra OM chanting regularly.
5) Do bandhas and mudras.
6) Do regularly Agnisara kriya.
7) Do shatkarmas (yogic purification techniques).
8) Do Shanka prakshalana.
9) Do regularly Agnisara kriya.
10) Do Askesis (austerity).
11) Cold water dousing.
12) Fasting (at least 36 hours).
14) Read scriptures loudly (it changes information from negative to positive).

By doing this your chakras becomes clean and energy can raise up. Energy that you get in yoga it’s important to use wisely.

How to understand where to direct your good energy after yoga practice? Study law of karma, Vedic scriptures, sutras, lives of saint people.

Serve others – it is best cure from addictions, when you use your time, energy, resources to help others grow.

Essence of yoga to serve all living beings by using yoga as instrument (to share knowledge about yoga, meditation, self-knowledge, spiritual-growth, on purifying yourself).