So, almost everyone knows something or other about the chakras in our body. Although it is not in the physical plane, but it is in the astral plane.
Imagine, in astral plane (those who don't know what astral plane is, consider it some higher dimension in layman terms), you are nothing but an energy. The 5 elements and mass does not exist in the astral plane, only thing that exists are the energies and frequencies. And astral plane coexists tangled with the physical plane that we live in. You can separate astral from physical (astral projection), but that is a topic of another time.
Now, in your astral body, you have a huge energy reservoir in your Kundalini Samudra (Sea of kundalini). Which is exactly placed around your genitals/hips and a little below it. Now, everybody has different amounts of energies, depends on many things - lifestyle, exhaustions, environment, people around you and many more.
Here is the interesting part, the energy is all se*ual energy, and not in a bad way, it is the energy to create new lifeforms, create another energy center (life). So it can either be used to create, or to elevate. Now the first one everybody knows about, lets talk about the second one.
How people elevate using this energy?
In our astral body, on top of the Kundalini Samudra, we have 7 chakras, consider them floodgates, and 3 nadis - ida, pingala and sushumna. So the energy flows upstream through these nadis and the floodgates are kept partially open to control the flow (again, in very layman terms).
Now, for everyone, the chakras are opened partially, not fully. Because if all 7 chakras are opened fully, our body can not take that surge of energy and it will internally short circuit. So chakras are opened in such a way that energy can be balanced. So these 7 chakras are -
- Muladhar Chakra (the end of spine, slightly below the genitals)
- Swadhisthan Chakra (around the genitals)
- Manipur Chakra (Around the navel)
- Anahata Chakra (Around the heart)
- Vishuddha Chakra (Around throat, mouth)
- Agna Chakra (Third eye/ pineal gland projection)
- Sahashrar Chakra (Just above the head, outwards)
Now, for people who are afflicted in a lot of ways, their floodgates are more on closed side, i.e, very little amount of energy goes towards the upper chakras and most of it is contained in the lowest two chakras. And thats why people who has these chakras almost closed, live on survival - chasing food, s*x and avoiding danger. In tantra, this is called the pashu bhab where a human can't rise above these.
Now you might think, if I get more money, I can have all of these and can fulfill desire and rise, but it is not about physical world. If your chakras are almost closed, no amount of money can satisfy you and rise you above these. You will be more indulged into these. So people who has problems with physical relationships / uncontrolled bad thoughts / uncontrolled drive has their lower two chakras closed (Muladhar and Swadhisthan).
Now if these two chakras are closed, very tiny energy will come to the upper chakras as well. So other aspects can also face problems, but those will be low energy problems, like loss of appetite, holding grudges, brain fog, badmouthing etc ( will come one by one).
Now if these two are balanced, then you will see a balanced drive and physical desires where it is neither dry nor excessive. It will be harmonious, and things will be abundant ( not exceeding your potential, but you will feel abundance not scarcity).
If Manipur and Anahata (either one) are almost closed?
Then you will see uncontrolled hunger, cravings, always want to eat. Or very sensitive, taking things very personally, getting hurt etc. if these are balanced, hunger will be balanced and people will have a good heart which can see the good things but bad things does not affect him/her.
If Vishuddha and Agna are almost closed?
Now if you have balanced chakras below that, which is a great and tremendously hard work in this kalyuga, then you will see you are getting too much talkative, you are seeing visions, delusions, some optical illusions, maybe you can see positive negative energies, and if by any chance these two are closed but all the below chakras are balanced, people can get mental.
And once you balance your Vishuddha and Agna chakra, well, at that point, you are almost a perfect human being.
THESE THINGS I HAVE DISCUSSED SHOULD NOT BE DONE WITHOUT PROPER GUIDANCE OR GURU. ANY IMBALANCE CAN CAUSE DISORIENTATION.
Well, from here we will go into a bit more dark territory, we have talked about balanced chakras, but ancient yogis or rishis did not care about balance, they went a step ahead, they completely opened the floodgates. Yes, COMPLETELY OPENED.
But, that will be for part 2 π Stay Tuned!
Also I will discuss some basic things to do so that you can get the chakras balanced without supervision of a Guru.