Yogic AnatomyThe Chakras

Men of great knowledge actually found out about the chakras-their workings, their petals, their sounds, their infinity, their co-relationship, their powers. They found that the life of a human is totally based on these chakras. They developed into a whole science. This total science gave birth to Kundalini Yoga. That is how Kundalini Yoga was born. · YOGI BHA]AN

This chapter includes … Chakra Basics 184 A Profile of the Chakras 185 Understanding the Chakras 187 Maha Shakti Kriya 192 The Third Chakra & Mantra 192 The Awakened Kundalini through the Chakras (drawing) 195 Regaining Self-Esteem (A lecture by Yogi Bhajan) 196 Tattvas & the Chakras (table) 197

Chakra Basics  Chakra means “wheel.” Chakras are energy centers, or energy vortices. They exist as dynamic energies, and they can help us to understand the way energy is processed by a human being within the vast and complex interplay of a multi-leveled existence. In studying and teaching Kundalini Yoga, we focus on the eight major chakras.  Seven of the chakras correspond to areas of the endocrine system or to nerve plexes in the physical body, and the eighth corresponds to the aura or magnetic field of the body.  The first three chakras are known as the Lower Triangle and the Fifth, Sixth. and Seventh chakras are known as the Upper Triangle. The Fourth Chakra, the Heart Chakra is the point of balance between them, where experience shifts from “me to Thee,” or from “me to we.”  No chakra stands alone. When exploring Yogic Anatomy, we need to shift our understanding from the Western model which needs to analyze and separate. to a more holistic approach that recognizes that everything works in unison. The chakras are all part of a larger cycle of evolution and devolution, manifestation and sublimation. The Lower Triangle chakras focus on elimination and reduction, and are balanced by the Upper Triangle chakras which accumulate, create and refine.  The first Five Chakras are associated with each of the five tattuas or gross elements-earth, water. fire. air, and ether, and the qualities each element represents. The upper three chakras correspond to more subtle realms, therefore there is no correlation with the tattuas.  Prana, the life force. powers the chakras, by clearing the blocks to the free, natural flow of energy through them. Kundalini Yoga facilitates this clearing, balancing, and maximizing of the functioning of body, mind, and spirit.  The chakras affect our perceptions, feelings, and choices. They affect the flow and types of thoughts we have, and the energies we can gather to act upon them, and manifest our thoughts. In all of our behavior, they affect the relationship between the conscious and the subconscious. Opening and balancing the chakras opens the senses, and integrates them into a responsive network that can relate to the larger source field of energy from which we come and to which we return.

A Profile of The Chakras LOWER TRIANGLE First (Root) Chakra SECURITY & SURVIVAL Muladhara Earth Foundations, survival, security, habit, self-acceptance. LOCATION: The end of the spine between the anus and the sexual organs. ORGAN/GlAND: Organs of elimination. COlOR: Red. QUAliTIES: Grounded, centered, secure, loyal, stable. Healthy functions of elimination. SHADOW: Fear, insecurity. Life feels like a burden; feeling of not really belonging on Earth or in one’s culture or family. Weak constitution, elimination problems, reduced physical and mental resistance, sexual perversions. YOGA EXERCISES: Crow Pose, Chair Pose, Body drops, Frog Pose, M ulbhandh, Front Sretches, Lying on the stomach, feet kicking buttocks. Second Chakra CREATIVITY To feel, to desire, to create LOCATION: The sexual organs. Svactisthana Water ORGAN/GlAND: Sexual organs, reproductive glands, kidneys, bladder COLOR: Orange. QUAliTIES: Positive, relaxed attitude to sexual functions; patience; creativity; responsible relationships. SHADOW: Rigid emotions, frigidity, guilt, no boundaries, irresponsible relationships. Problems with reproductive organs, or kidneys. YOGA EXERCISES: Frog Pose, Cobra Pose, Butterfly, Sat Kriya, Cat-Cow, Maha Mudra, Pelvic Lifts.

Third (Navel) Chakra ACTION & BALANCE The will of the spiritual warrior. CHA.KRAS Manipura Fire lOCATION: The area of the navel point, solar plexus. ORGAN/GlAND: Navel plexus, liver, gall bladder, spleen, digestive organs, pancreas, adrenals COlOR: Yellow. QUAliTIES: The center of personal power and commitment. Self-esteem, identity, judgment. This is where the strength for inner balance, inspiration and good health is developed. SHADOW: Anger; greed, shame, despair. Obstacles everywhere. Not enough strength and spontaneity. Conforming in order to be recognized. Refuting ones own wishes and emotions. Problems with digestion, the liver, the gallbladder, and the pancreas. YOGA EXERCISES: Stretch Pose, Sat Kriya, Peacock Pose, Bow Pose, Fish Pose, Diaphragm Lock, Breath of Fire; all exercises which train the abdominal muscles.

BALANCE POI NT B ETWEEN LOWER & UPPER TRIANGLES Fourth (Heart) Chakra LOVE & COMPASSION Love and awakening. From “me to we.” Anahata Air LOCATION: The middle of the chest on the breast bone at the level of the nipples. ORGAN/GLAND: Heart, lungs, thymus gland. COLOR: Green. QUALITIES: Compassion; kindness; forgiveness; service; love. Recognizing and understanding these qualities in others. Sacred transformation. Awakening to spiritual awareness. SHADOW: Grief. Attachment. Closed to surroundings. Easily hurt. Dependent on love and affection from others. Fear of rejection. Helper syndrome. Heartlessness. Heart problems: lung problems; blood pressure problems. YOGA EXERCISES: Ego Eradicator, Yoga Mudra, Bear Grip, Baby Pose (strengthens the heart muscles). All arm exercises, and exercises which twist the upper torso. All Pranayam. U PPER TRIANGLE Fifth (Throat) Chakra Vishuttttha PROJECTIVE POWER OF THE WORD Ether Hearing and speaking the Truth. The Teacher. LOCATION: The throat. ORGAN/GLAND: Trachea. throat, cervical vertebrae, thyroid. COLOR: Light blue. QUALITIES: The center for truth, language, knowledge and the ability to communicate effectively. Authenticity. Healthy selfexpression and interactions. Inspiring, teaching. Embodying God’s Wil l. SHADOW: Lethargy, weakness in expressive and descriptive abilities. shyness, voice problems, insecurity, fear of other people’s opinions and judgments. Throat problems, neck problems, thyroid problems. YOGA EXERCISES: All Chanting. Shoulder Stand, Cobra Pose, Plow Pose, Camel Pose, Cat-Cow, Neck Rolls, Neck Lock. nose to knees.

Sixth Chakra (Thirc:t Eye) INTUITION, WISDOM, & IDENTITY The union of opposites. LOCATION: Between the eyebrows. ORGAN/GLAND: Brain; pituitary gland. COLOR: Indigo. /Una QUALITIES: Center of intuition, clairvoyance; visualizing; fantasizing; concentration and determination. Self-initiation. Power of projection. Understanding your purpose. SHADOW: Confusion, depression. Rejection of spiritual ity. Over-intellectualizing. YOGA EXERCISES: Meditating on the Third Eye, Long Chant, Kirtan Kriya. Archer Pose. Whistle Breaths. Yoga Mudra. All exercises where the forehead rests on the floor. Seventh (Crown) Chakra Sahasrara H UMILITY & VASTNESS Transcendence. The Tenth Gate. LOCATION: Crown of the head. ORGAN/GLAND: Brain; pineal gland. COLOR: Violet. QUALITIES: The seat of the soul. Connection to the Highest Self. Enlightenment. Unity. Elevation. Relationship to the Unknown. SHADOW: Grief. The feeling of being separated from existence, and from abundance. Fear of death. YOGA EXERCISES: Ego Eradicator, Mahabandha, Sat Kriya. Concentrating on the tip of the nose. All meditation. Eighth Chakra RADIANCE LOCATION: The electromagnetic field. COLOR: White. The Aura QUALITIES: The aura combines the effects of all the chakras, and constitutes their total projection. The aura projects and protects. SHADOW: Shy, withdrawn, vulnerable. YOGA EXERCISES: Triangle Pose, Ego Eradicator. Archer Pose. All arm exercises. All meditation.

Understanding the Chakras THE NATURE OF OUR MULTI-LEVELED EXISTENCE In the midst of the great web of energies which make up this universe. each human being is a complex organism capable of interacting and communicating across the levels of energy in the world. On the grossly physical levels we have the same limitations as all physical objects. We melt and dissipate under too much heat. we break under too much force, and we fall without the support of gravity. But unlike many other things we have the capacity to cross the levels of subtlety in the universe. At levels other than the lower dimensional physical we can still exist, connect, communicate, gather forces, manifest, and think. We are like a little chakra, a circle or vortex of energy that cuts across many levels of existence. Unlike the outer explorers of modern science who believe in a single level of existence, the inner explorers find that the universe is in its very Essence, multi-leveled. The gap in our ability to deal with a multi-level universe is like the dilemma many people faced with reconciling the idea that photons can act like a particle or a wave depending on the circumstance and type of observation. We want the security of classifying light in one conceptual box or another. But, in experiment after experiment. it leapt out of the box and beyond any comfortable labeling by our intellectual mind. It is not wave or particle, it is other or it is orland/neither/both. Experience on that level of physics pushes us close to realms that are fundamentally different from logical physics. Whatever a photon is, it has phases or levels of manifestation that depends on the viewer and circumstance. Its individual nature depends on the state of the entire universe to which it is connected. Its real essence is beyond our senses-but it exists. Our soul or essence has the same relationship to our mind and to our normal experiences. We can be particulate or wave-like; like a left brain or a right. But in essence we are beyond those classifications and are more than our senses can capture. The vortex of energy that we are has sub-vortices, energy centers that cross through and interconnect the levels of existence. Those centers can be thought of in a very earthy way-like a wheel; or in a watery way-like a whirlpool’s spinning vortex; in an airy way-like a whirlwind; or in an etheric way-as filaments of divine energy that orchestrate the instruments of the senses and preserve the gateways to our inner life. The seeming separation we have from everything outside of us is balanced by the intimate unity we share with everything. Both are true and neither alone is complete as a thought. Spiritual practices realize the connectedness and guide us to develop a relationship to

all levels of our existence. They tell us not to be lured into a trancelike agreement with a lower-dimensional definition of what it is to be a human being. The senses are attractive. The drive to manifest. to reproduce. to feel is universal. It is an irresistible force called maya. It is a veil that hypnotizes and creates illusions. The opposite flow is transcendence, enlightenment-the kundalini force of awareness. Each of us can act in alignment with the greater field from which we originate and in which we live. We can consciously link to the source field, which some call God or spirit. Or we can draw the veils closed and pretend that we are totally isolated and act only within the gross. lower-dimensional, clear-cut rational and tangible world. INTEGRATING OUR MANY DIMENSIONS The chakras or energy centers are central to the regulation of how tightly those veils are drawn. This realization affects how robotic or free we are able to act. It changes the range of our perception, feelings, and choices, which affect the flow and types of thoughts we have, as well as the energies we can gather to act and manifest our thoughts. They affect the relationship between the conscious and the subconscious in all our behaviors. Opening and balancing the chakras opens the senses. It integrates them into a responsive network that can relate to the larger source field of energy. The kundalini is the thread of the Infinite pushed through the small eye of the finite needle of creation. Every part of us: the body, an organ, a cell, or a molecule, vibrates and relates to that larger field. Each part can create a blend of qualities of energies that can be a seed along which the Infinite can align and manifest. This used to be called magic, shamanism, or alchemy. It was cross-dimensional thinking. It is the art and science of a conversation with the soul. The only instrument up to the task of decoding these interconnections between dimensions is the soul-awareness itself. in the awakened human being. The masters (all explorers of the inner realms of the possible human), agree on the path. They say each experience is unique but the process of gaining that awareness has many common features and laws. The Infinite field that we ultimately are is so creative, original, and complex that no individual is ever repeated; none of us are simple cogs from a Cosmic cookie cutter. We are each made with more love, uniqueness. and potential than that. Long intellectual classifications of the steps of transcendent experience are avoided as false distractions, betrayals of the humility needed to approach the Infinite. and by their very nature inau

thentic. The most authentic expression of the Infinite is the life of a saint. The only real record of the awakened realms are our actions and our compassion. Every word, action, success, and failure is the textured expression of the attuned Will of God manifesting through each individual in the actual experienced process of life. That is why the histories and artifacts of a saint’s life are so useful and powerful. They point us accurately toward the moon even if they are not the moon itself. They train us where to put our attention and where to surrender the veils of the ego. They pass on goals, attitudes, and beliefs that help you apply a sadhana, a discipline, to the self-initiation and awakening of the kundalini. The doors of the soul are opened as the chakras are balanced and awakened, with special techniques rather than life rules. THE FIRST (ROOT) CHAKRA (Muladhara) Foundations, Security, and Habit The First Chakra is located at the base of the spine. One of its facets is the quality and functions of earth. Here “earth” means the final step of manifestation in the realm of the senses: the most public areas of life. It is also the most veiled to the spirit. It is the most deeply wrapped in the illusions of separateness, aloneness, and tangibility. It represents the functioning of the mind and emotions when we are most unconscious. This is not bad. It is necessary. When we perform our best in any activity, a large part of that activity is automatic and unconscious. When you ride a bicycle well, you do not think of the pedals. The pedals are your focus only when you first learn to propel the bike and balance at the same time. Then the conscious action becomes an unconscious habit. The First Chakra is the realm of habits. It is the land of automatic behaviour. It is a repository of deep instinctual patterns we use for survival. Our potential for survival response is unconcious and deeply shared, regardless of intell igence, race, or age. The things stored and tapped in the First Chakra processes allow little individuality. The character of the First Chakra is to “reduce everything to the bottom line.” The First Chakra is associated with elimination, with the anus and large intestines. From the anus, the food you eat is returned to the Earth in a digested form. With little variation, everything you eat is universalized to its base components. At the upper regions of the body you care a lot about each smell, taste, color, texture, and sensation. By the time it comes to the Earth, it is reduced to what is common, universal, most tangible. The many subtle qualities are lost. No chakra stands alone. They are all part of a larger cycle of

evolution and devolution, manifestation and sublimation. The function of elimination and reduction is balanced by the upper areas that accumulate, create and differentiate. The First Chakra functions are very important in our modern times. We are surrounded by pollution from many chemical sources. There are thousands of chemical insults to the body that we cannot avoid. Our front-line defense is to reduce them, eliminate them, and return them to the Earth. Strong eliminative capacity is essential for survival. The function of elimination applies to physical, mental, and emotional realms. Thoughts that become obsessive, sadness that will not go, depression that is a lack of feeling, all need the strength of the First Chakra. The ability to create and act on regular habits is partly an earthly function. Planning may come from the Sixth Chakra, projection from the Fifth, and order from the Third, but the final actions that support and make it ” in hand” will require the touch of the First. It is the drone, or the base-tone, that supports the variety in the melodies of life. If you eliminate too fast, it is diarrhea. You can die quickly of typhus. You loose water, dehydrate, and get no nutrients. People stuck on a habit, who are extremely rigid, let no new ideas, feelings, or people into their life. They wither emotionally. Over-functioning of the First Chakra leads to many maladies. Or imagine the reverse, you cannot let anything go. The toxins build up. You reach a state of self-poisoning, bitterness. The First Chakra is associated with the sense of smell. When you hold all the toxins in you begin to reek. People keep their distance. When it functions well you radiate a sweet smell. The exact composition of that smell will vary according to the functioning of the overall frequency of your consciousness, due to the mix of glandular activity that accompanies the chakras involved. This is the basis of aromatherapy. Smell is linked to survival. It can tell you not only about sickness, it can also let you know how different and how much the same someone is. It is found that many patterns of sexual bonding and the abil ity for monogamy is influenced strongly by the smell and by proper hormone releases during intercourse and other forms of stimulation. Those smells are often imitated in the aromatherapy used for romantic influence. The First Chakra has strength in its functions of elimination, of setting foundations and reducing complex things to common elements. In its best use, this gives purity, security, and universality. Problems arise when this is the focus of consciousness without connection and synchronization to the other chakras. Then its

CHAKRAS Reconciling the conscious and subconscious emotions in the specific arena of each chakra will create a flow of energy and personality in which the human is consistent and not defeated, and has conscious goals. – YOGI BHAJAN

functions become exaggerated. Elimination and lack of appropriate levels of attachment accelerate. This leads to insecurity. Each idea, feeling and substance is reduced to its most basic elements, so differences are lost. This loss of context can lead to compulsions and fixated behaviors. The loss of context and the mixing of all the tattvas in this chakra to make up earth can create a clouded behavior that forms its own singular world. Traditional writings call this tamas-heavy and confused. or perverse behavior. disconnected from the natural expression of our identity. Techniques that strengthen the key functions of this center and integrate its energy with the higher centers are used frequently in Kundalini Yoga. Sat Kriya is one of the best examples of that. In nonhouseholder traditions of the spirit, people would remove themselves from daily life to emphasize the energy of the higher centers and remove themselves from “earthy” influence. Kundalini Yoga embraces the householder life and transforms the energy of each chakra so the practitioner becomes as a lotus on the water-able to elevate his or her consciousness regardless of the environment. When the First Chakra is functioning perfectly and it is well integrated with the other chakras, it gives you certain abilities. You are secure, stable, steadfast, positively relentless, and loyal. You show great endurance under non-ideal situations. There is a sense of self-sufficiency that comes from the quelling of the negative mind: “I don’t need anything. I’m not under threat, I’m not without resources.” The checklist of imminent threats is empty. You can grasp and hold the world. You can easily accept doing something at a particular time and place. You easily receive material objects, money, gifts, etc. You feel you have a base and are not bothered by a sense of drifting emotional homelessness. One of the periods in life that affects this the most is the very first 40 days of an infant’s journey on Earth. When you were an infant, your body was totally connected to your mother. Your blood and her’s mixed. The sound of her heartbeat pulsed the cosmic drum to which you danced in a watery world full of feelings and warmth. To be ripped away from her-to physically loose touch-was greatly disorienting. In the tradition of Kundalini Yoga, the child is kept with the mother from the instant of birth for 40 days. Visits and extra stimulation are discouraged. The mother is often cared for-fed, massaged, served-by a loving volunteer. The baby is kept in constant contact and is massaged at least twice a day by the mother. The sense of connectedness and emotional security that comes from this magic time cannot be replaced even by years of psychotherapy and meditation. It lets the infant have trust: ” I’m here, I am welcome, the Earth is OK, I can be here, I should be here. My needs are met. What I need is already here.” Many spiritual teachers say one of the most difficult things for

the modern person to do is to first trust the Earth, then themselves, then the invisible. The great sage Guru Nanak says in his sacred poem japji, “Why do we worry? When the flamingo flies away, God takes care of its young.” Our lack of this basic instinct of trust stops the flow of energy to the higher centers or chakras. It impedes our wholeness and our complete emotional development. We engage in many defenses against the uncomfortable feeling of rootlessness and insecurity. We become depressed, cut off, and full of grief. We reject the world before it rejects us. We hold onto something, anything, in order to deny the insecurity and lack of personal center in the storm of life. It leads to fanaticism, torturing, perversion, and narrow-mindedness. With the First Chakra strong, trust is automatic. We trust a person to be a person. Mastering the earth element you know earth can be reshaped. Water (emotions) can be added to the dirt (old habits) and in the new flexibility with a little heat (will, challenge and discipline) a new vessel can be made. A healthy first chakra lets change occur in steps. THE SECOND CHAKRA (Svadisthana) To Feel, To Desire, To Create Each chakra is a vision of the world. It is a perspective that organizes all of our feelings, thoughts and values to encounter the world and to act within it. The vision of the Second Chakra is about desire and passion, about duality and polarities, about movement and change, and fundamentally about creativity. The element associated with the Second Chakra is water. Consider the qualities of water. It flows and moves freely. It doesn’t run up hills, so water under the influence of gravity seeks the lowest spot, just as feelings under the pressure of desire seek out a situation of rapport, a situation where similar feelings can become fulfilled. Water doesn’t have a set shape. just as feelings are not fixed. Water is much more mobile than earth and through patient and constant repetition, water can even shape earth. just so, feelings can give form to habits. There is a limit to the speed at which water can move and with which you can move through water. Have you ever leapt off a high diving board and unfortunately landed flat? Water which has a mobile nature suddenly seemed as solid as a wall. People who function strongly through the Second Chakra and have opened to the world of feelings move, at a speed dictated by those feelings. If they don’t feel ready to move, they won’t, regardless of the outside pressure. If they feel they are ready to move, they will, regardless of the appropriateness of the outside world. Someone who is dominated by the vision of the Second Chakra sees the world in terms of feelings, in terms of desires and impulses, and in terms of the fulfillment of passions. Sex from the Second Chakra represents the seeking of a polarity and the fulfillment and

CHAKRAS release of the energies created by that polarization. Unlike the First Chakra, where the vision of the world is singular, secure and isolated, the Second Chakra requires others. When the Second Chakra is well developed, you have opinions. you make distinctions, you like blue but not red, you prefer hot rather than cold. You’re not someone who lacks contrasts and contours. A well-functioning Second Chakra paints the world with passions, motivations, and opinions. It prepares the way for compassion in the Fourth Chakra because there are things you dearly care about and want. Language in the Second Chakra is often sensual. colorful. and goal-oriented. It is flexible and fluid just like water. Many people experience this as the ability to lie or to create a line or a story in order to get to the real passion underneath. It is like flirtation; whatever you may be talking about, flirtation ultimately has a sexual connotation. In fact, that’s the art of flirtation: how to talk sexually without saying anything directly sexual. From the yogic point of view, the experiences of the Second Chakra provide the first taste of merger, of going beyond one’s isolated self, dissolving with, through, and into another. The momentary forgetfulness in the ecstasy of sexual release is a taste of the much greater bliss available to us as we let go and merge with the Infinite Polarity, where our finite and infinite have intercourse into a creative sense of awareness. This is very much what was meant by the Tantras. i.e., using sexuality as a way to experience the spirit. The combination of creativity and passion found in the Second Chakra is one of the reasons that we often see such quirky and temperamental personalities attributed to artists. In the Second Chakra, desires, pleasures, and the pains and struggles of finally expressing your creation in the light, are all mixed together. When all the other chakras are balanced in relation to the second, sexuality becomes joyful. varied, expressive, and rarely has the connotations of confusion, struggle, pain or perversion that seem to be on the rise in our culture. Stimulation of the Second Chakra is the common form of stimulation in our society. They say everything sells if you just add sex, so we see sexy bodies draped across cars. walking in shoes and voraciously consuming every item of food. It is not that all the shoes and the cars and the food give you good sex. It is that seeing a sexual object provides stimulation, reminds you to have passions, asks you to have feelings, and tries to engage you with the deep subconscious tides of your own passions. In the classical symbols for the Second Chakra, there is an animal in the center of it. It is an alligator and a serpent. It represents a kind of monster or serpent that travels deep under the ocean, the kind of thing sailors were always on the lookout for that might cap-

size their ships. Our mind rides on the ocean of the unconscious of feelings in a little boat. It can be capsized at any moment by the power of one wave of emotion. This symbol reminds us that despite all of our rational and intel lectual thoughts, regardless of our systematic plans, if we don’t have a mastery of, and a good relationship to our passions, our boat can be overturned. Modern research has found that thinking and feeling go together. that our memories are sorted within our mind as much by feelings as they are by meanings or by other forms of content. It simply isn’t true that thinking is a purely non-emotional function. The emotions and passions expressed through the Second Chakra, and the thoughts and assessments that are given through the Sixth Chakra stimulate each other. Thoughts and imaginations about different things produce feelings, and feelings regulate the flow, intensity, and believability of thoughts. Imagine the rising tide. With the tide, all boats rise. As you elevate your mood and your capacity to feel, all your conscious intentions gain more clarity and contrast. You’re able to throw yourself wholeheartedly into an action, towards a goal. Taste is the sensory system connected with the Second Chakra. Without passions, life has no taste, and taste itself is conveyed by the watery mixtures of chemicals that we take in through our tongue. When you experience great passion, then the tastes within your mouth also change. In the state of yoga, you unite with the Infinite, at that point your brain produces an amrit, a sweet nectar. and the tastes within your mouth change. Someone asked me, “What does this have to do with the sexual organs, which are certainly located lower in the body?” But to the tantrics who understand the use of polarity to stimulate passions, the tongue represents the male organ and the lips the opening of the female organ. The constant vibration of this into speech is the production of seed, and those seeds are what give the creativity in the world. You can create on the gross level directly through the Second Chakra and the physical organ, or you can create through the word and through vibration. In both cases, you’re mastering the art of blending polarities. When the Second Chakra is too weak, the world seems flat. There is little passion. You don’t really have opinions about this or that, and your body doesn’t show the effects of motivation, of loving the senses, of movement. It tends to be constricted and limp. When the Second Chakra is overactive, there is nothing that is not sexual. You have a kind of sexual mania. Relationships will be about the fulfillment of your passion, regardless of what you say, regardless of the other roles. Someone with a very strong Second Chakra may have difficulty maintaining a business relation strictly for business. They cross over boundaries. They cannot maintain themselves because it seems to them that regardless of how the

other person is actually talking, they’re always really talking about sexual stimulation. In yoga, the exercises that we do, such as Frog Pose and Sat Kriya, (that are known to work on the Second Chakra and on all three of the lower chakras), provide balance and full functioning of the chakra. Don’t think of the exercises as stimulating to increase or reduce a chakra’s functions. Rather the intent is to balance, and to interconnect the chakra with the play of all the other chakras. THE THIRD (NAVEL) CHAKRA (Manipura) The Will of the Spiritual Warrior The Third Chakra is the center of energy, of will power, of a sense of control and coordination. It is associated with the region around the Navel Point. It is fed by the fire from the solar plexus and associated with the adrenals and kidneys. It’s ruled by the element of fire. It coordinates and develops the sense of sight and vision. Of the three chakras-the First, Second, and Third-that make up what is called the Lower Triangle, it is the most subtle. It is the driving force to act and to complete the conceptualization, and the visualizations that one has in life. The Navel Center is a beginning. It’s the first point through which we are fed, nurtured, and given the energy to live as a fetus in the womb of the mother. Once your physical connection with the mother is severed, the Navel Point continues in the more subtle function of being an area to collect energy from the cosmos. As you walk and alternate the motion of your legs and arms, there is a function of the body and the hairs on the body to gradually accumulate energy at the Navel Point. The Third Chakra near the navel is considered the reserve pool of energy within the body. It is from this area that the Kundalini energy is said to be initiated. The reserve energy at the navel gathers strength, and then goes through two small reserve channels down to the base of the spine and awakens the slumbering kundalini which lies coiled through the First Chakra. Then the kundalini energy begins its constant journey of awakening and arousal along the spine. The stimulation, strengthening, and distribution of energy at the Navel Chakra is a central part of a kundalini kriya. The first thing you do when you wake up in the morning is Stretch Pose: raising the heels and the shoulders six inches and doing Breath of Fire. This stimulates the Navel Point. That energy, when it flows properly, creates a coordination among all the organs of the body. The eliminative functions are triggered, the sense of having enough energy to support your actions is gathered, and the will to project that energy to support your actions is given to you. The energy lotus of the Third Chakra has ten petals. Ten repre

sents the number of completion, the sense of the individual self represented by the number one and the sense of the infinite self represented by the number zero. Ten petals means that the person who has mastered the Third Chakra knows how to initiate and to complete an action. That is why it is associated with the archetype of the spiritual warrior, one who is able to know one’s mission and formulate the energy to act and complete it. A spiritual warrior is conscious of each action, but not necessarily aware of the entire purpose of a particular mission. A spiritual warrior knows to serve the True King, to act in relation to the higher consciousness, but has not necessarily awakened the upper chakras of the heart and the brow and intuition. The essence of a spiritual warrior is fearlessness, an ability to act with integrity regardless of conditions. A person who is strong at the Third Chakra will have a sense that their life and the quality of their life depends on what they do. They are doers. They can shape, direct, and develop what happens within their life. There’s a deep confidence. The fire element associated with this chakra represents a willingness to initiate. When in doubt in the First Chakra secure your stations and hold to your old habits. When in doubt in the Second Chakra, find your feeling and follow your passion. When in doubt in the Third Chakra, act. Do something, shake the boat, project your point, or get a vision, an image sent from the higher commander in self. A person acting in the Third Chakra is rarely still. When this chakra dominates, the person is exuberant and expressive. It is associated with colors like yellow. Dressing from the Third Chakra will bring bright colors, grand expressions. It will grab your attention and seize your eyesight. When the Third Chakra energy is insufficient, a person has to compensate. If you don’t feel you have enough energy to accomplish your task, you reach out for other sources of energy to gather that. This can be stimulants, drugs, or food. When you have a lot of feelings, (whether they be anger or blame, resentment, or just raw ambition), and yet you feel that you don’t have the right or the energy to express them, you begin to gather energy instinctively into the Navel Center. It is the gathering, an accumulation at the Navel Center that prepares you to initiate action, to initiate the kundalini and awareness, to begin the path of embodiment. The Third Chakra is the doorway to the Fourth Chakra. The lower three chakras represent the realm of the unconscious. The diaphragm of the body is like the surface of the Earth, and above that, the Heart Chakra becomes the beginning of consciousness. Making the Navel Point strong is part of gathering the energy and organizing the energies of the lower three chakras to pierce into the upper realms of consciousness. Without a strong Third Chakra, you

have many ideas and many good intentions but they do not come to fruition. With a strong Third Chakra, even your least intentions create actions and begin to stir the ethers. The qual ities associated with the Third Chakra are highly valued in our culture. We’re very supportive of the go-getter, of the one who initiates, of the entrepreneur and risk-taker. We admire the one who raises the hand first and takes the risk to accept a task regardless of the security and the assuredness of its outcomes. Some of the best kriyas for working on the Third Chakra are Stretch Pose. Sat Kriya, and Archer Pose. (See box.) Notice that the Third Chakra regulates vision. and that it’s the Fourth Chakra that gives us the opening to the full realm of feelings through touch. Then the Fifth Chakra gives us the power of creativity through subtle sound. Sight and vision are associated with the stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system. Sight and vision gives us a sense of control. Many successful people who constantly formulate plans visualize their goals and create a concrete image. The tangibility of an image, the concreteness of each of its many parts, builds the sense of focus and will associated with the Third Chakra. Visualization access gives us a stronger sense of control. accesses the wil l power. and connects us through the more easily accessible lower chakras. The visual capacities certainly can serve all chakras, but it is ultimately the sense of vibration. the feeling of vibration and the sense of sound, that opens the doorway to complete merger and to the surrender of the highest chakras. A person who is strong in the Third Chakra will have a relationship to their feelings that uses the feelings to accomplish their goals. They will also look to the past to give them information about accomplishing things in the future. Third chakra actions are not necessarily strategic, but they are always focused and intelligently tactical. There are many kundalini kriyas that have you relax deeply after the exercises and meditate at the pulse that you can feel at

THE FOURTH (HEART) CHAKRA (Anahata) Love and Awakening The Heart Chakra is ruled by the element of air. For the first time we no longer see the chakra; it becomes completely subtle. It represents the opening of feelings and compassion and the very capacity to love. The symbol for the chakra is a triangle going up and a triangle going down, the two triangles overlapping into a sixpointed star. It represents the balance point in the body between the flow of the upper energies of the Heavens and the lower energy flows of the Earth. The lower three chakras represent the cultivation and mastery of impulse. The opening of the Heart Chakra begins the first true level of self-reflexive awareness, where you can see yourself through the eyes of others, and you can fully see others to be as important as yourself. It is the chakra where “we” starts to mean something. In the first three chakras, one is ruled by the sense of “me.” Once we have activated all the energies and passions of the first three chakras. we can use those passions for the benefit of our larger sense of self. When the Heart Chakra is open, we have a new relationship to our feelings. The most common confusion about the Heart Center is that you can only feel if it is open. Actually, in the subtle quality of the Fourth Chakra you can consciously know what your feelings are, and you can direct them. Someone who loves another may have very strong impulses and

passions, but they shape the use of those passions to fulfill their commitments and obligations within that love, as a mother does in sacrificing for a child. The Heart Center rules subtle feeling, the abil ity to touch. We say that when someone speaks from their heart, it touches us; it grabs us at our very core. The functions of the Heart Chakra are also about boundaries. This relates to the immune system, to the thymus, as well as to the heart. When it functions very well, the Heart Chakra is like a good immune system that knows when something is foreign and needs to be examined, and when something is part of you and it can be let in. When your Heart Chakra functions perfectly, you know how to let someone in to each of your relationships appropriately. So, the Heart Chakra is the chakra of relationships and relatedness, but in a different way than the relatedness of the Second Chakra. If it is overactive, you can be subject to too much sympathy. When it’s underactive, you can have dependency and diffusion of a sense of yourself. In the pantheon of the Sikh teachers and Gurus, Guru Ram Das, the fourth Guru represents the rule of the Neutral Mind as well as for the opening of the Heart Chakra. For indeed it takes the Neutral Mind to compassionately weigh others with as much worth as you would yourself. One of the sounds that we frequently use to stimulate this chakra is “hum,” which means “We.” 1’Humee hum brahm hum” can both open the Heart Center and activate its relation to the Fifth Chakra. The Heart Chakra is called anahata. It’s often interpreted as the sound that is made without striking two things, because at the Heart Chakra there is no conflict; Heavens and Earth come together in balance. Inner and outer merge in a sense of flow and spontaneous action. When you chant a mantra from the Heart Center, it is empowered with the subtlety of air through the use of the mind, to create a subtle or silent mental repetition. When you chant a mantra from the Navel Point, the entire universe vibrates the sound for you, and you simply merge into it. The Heart Chakra is also stimulated by the use of prana. Any blocks in the diaphragm or in the breathing mechanism deeply affect the Heart Center. So, the use of breath by all forms of pranayam is a powerful stimulant to this center. The colors that are associated with the Heart Chakra are green and rose pink. Communications from the Heart Center always include the other person as strongly as oneself. So one speaks with kindness, sweetness, and rapport. Unlike Fifth Chakra communications, which tend to be very blunt, those of the Fourth Chakra, which are not necessarily indirect, are nonetheless fully cognizant of the person who is to receive the communication. Speaking to a mate from the Heart

Chakra gives each person a feeling of being truly present with the other. It is the basis of real intimacy. It is not true that communication from the Heart Center means that you are only sweet and that you ignore all hard challenges. It is not a Pollyanna form of shallow happiness. The Heart Chakra has tremendous strength associated with it. It brings with it the capacity to contextualize anything you say. Yogi Bhajan has often said that a truth spoken in fear is a lie. This is a comment from the Heart Chakra. To speak truthfully but kindly is the signature of the Heart Chakra. THE UPPER TRIANGLE THE FIFTH, SIXTH & SEVENTH CHAKRAS SUBTLETY & REFINEMENT OF WISDOM THE FIFTH (THROAT) CHAKRA (Vishuddha) Speak and Create The Fifth Chakra-associated with the Throat Center and with the thyroid and parathyroid glands-is truly the entering into the miraculous and the mysterious, for it is ruled by the element of ether. Ether is the condition of space and time that allows something to exist. It is the very beginning of the process of manifestation. If you think of the sequence of elements, ether, air. fire, water, and earth, as phases of manifestation, then ether is the most subtle of those five elements. It is the twinkle in the eye of the mother and father. Before they even have the heart connection through the element of air, they have the feel ings that begin the process of engagement with each other. It is fire that gives them the energy and focused goal to actually do something, the water, that gives them the passion to flow and merge together, and the earth the power to actually perform the final manifestation. As the Fifth Chakra opens, you gain the perception of subtlety. You know how to be alert to the very beginnings of cause and effect. You know how to cultivate the implantation of the bija, of the seed. The ultimate seed is the Word, so the Fifth Chakra is associated with the power of word. vaak siddhi. This power is the power to initiate the manifestation of a physical form or action by simply uttering the words that are the seed of that future manifestation. One of our greatest powers as humans is to initiate a direction of action. Once we’ve planted a seed, once we’ve put it into the soil of maya, it follows the laws of maya. As Newton’s first law of motion states, it is very difficult to try to change the course of something once it’s already in motion. Vaak siddhi, then, is the power to plant seeds that will fulfill someone’s ultimate goal and destiny. The kind of communication that comes from the Fifth Chakra is very blunt. So be it, be it so. It represents the power of projection, but that power comes from the certainty of placing something at the beginning of the cycle of creation and knowing that all the laws of

the universe shall support it. It is a different kind of certainty than that which comes from the accumulation of personal power in the Third Chakra. The power of the Fifth Chakra is having your tongue and the tongue of God be the same. A very effective kundalini mantra for this chakra is “Sat Naam Sat Naam Sat Naam Sat Naam Sat Naam Sat Naam Wahay Guroo. ” The pulse of the Bij Mantra. Sat Naam, is blended rhythmically and attached to the opening of the etheric Gur Mantra. Wahay Guroo. The Fifth Chakra is just such a doorway. It is only by mastering the Word and by mastering the skill to initiate actions that come from the soul that one can truly open the doorway to the higher realms of the triangle. SIXTH, SEVENTH & EIGHTH CHAKRAS: BEYOND THE ELEMENTS INTUITION, BEING & VASTNESS When we go beyond the Fifth Chakra to the Sixth. Seventh and Eighth, we are now beyond the gross elements. We’ve gone through all the transformations of our ordinary experience that are coded by earth, water. fire. air. and ether. So, there are no specific gross elements associated with these chakras. THE SIXTH CHAKRA (THIRD EYE) (Ajna) The Union of Opposites. Intuition and Wisdom. The Sixth Chakra is at the Brow Point. It corresponds to the pituitary gland. It is represented by only two petals. Ajna means “to command.” The Ajna Chakra. the Sixth Chakra. is the command chakra. It is here that you reach the integrity and integration of the personality. It is from here that you get the sense of intuition of the direction that you want to go. It is here that the major channels of energy, the ida, the pingala. and the sushmuna, all come together. The three rivers of inner energy meet as one at the Ajna Chakra. This is the chakra that is associated with what is called the Eye that goes beyond the two eyes. The two eyes give you dimension in the normal world. The Third Eye gives you depth. dimension and scope in the subtle worlds. The Sixth Chakra al lows mastery over the flow of the mind. It’s often represented by light, but in this case it is the inner light. When these channels open and someone has the mystic vision, they say that God is like the light of a billion-trillion bursting suns. This is also the chakra we can use to master the duality of the mind. The two petals represent the plus and minus contained in every thought. Anytime the intellect gives you a “yes.” it automatically implies a “no.” Anytime it gives you light, it also implies a darkness. To master the Sixth Chakra is to never be confused by any of the polarities of life and to be able to read between the polarities. between the lines. Even the gland, the pituitary, that relates to this chakra. actual-

ly has two parts. the anterior and the posterior pituitary. During human growth. each of the two parts of the physical gland migrate from a different origin, and yet they intertwine. The duality, the polarity, and the constant dynamic represented by the two petals of the chakra of the Brow Point is even reflected in its physical structures. When we chant “ONG. ” the sound “ng, ” (the slightly nasalized sound that we also use when we pronounce “Sa-Ta-Na-Ma “). stimulates the cavity in the skull in which the pituitary rests. When that cavity is vibrated properly, the pituitary gland awakens and triggers a more active relationship to the other key higher gland. the pineal gland. THE SEVENTH (CROWN) CHAKRA (Sahasrara) Transcendence. The Tenth Gate The pineal gland is associated with the Seventh Chakra. the Crown Chakra. The Crown Chakra is one of the easiest ones to see in the aura because it’s right over the top of the head. That area of the aura is especial ly dense because the density of the aura increases at about a 60° angle upwards from the shoulders. and everything within that range becomes easier to perceive. Watch someone who’s lecturing and engaged in a higher frequency flow or an intensive intellectual effort. If you relax your eyes. you can often see a kind of disc, or halo of light. the color of which reflects the type of thoughts and the degree of strength of the mind of the person who is speaking. As the Sixth Chakra was associated with a subtle light, the Seventh Chakra is associated with cosmic sound. There. the awakening of perception is like the shattering crash of a thousand simultaneous thunderstrokes. The ancient seers tried to capture that sensation in the sound of the gong. If you listen to the gong carefully as it cascades into a vibrant crescendo, all the nerves are stretched to their limit. The entire body sense and body image is dissolved into a flood of synesthesia. Under the pressure of that sound. you have the choice: to let go and surrender or to contract and pull out of the experience. The Seventh Chakra has the key characteristic of surrender-the humility that fills you as you bow before the Infinite. That is one of the reasons that so many different traditions use the act of bowing. The top of the head, the Seventh Chakra. is brought all the way to the Earth. The focus of attention. of blood and circulation and of prana becomes focused at the Seventh Chakra and the person is given a new sense of openness and strength. Without the proper opening of the Seventh Chakra. the psychic function that can come from the Third or the Sixth Chakras may lead a student into difficulties. Without humility, the openness to information from the Unknown can result in spiritual ego. That’s one of the reasons that

Yogi Bhajan often says, “May God protect me from the psychics. They pollute and dilute my faith.” He is referring to the highest level of sensing and functioning using the intuition with all the open chakras. In that place, you flow spontaneously with the universe with certainty in your rhythm. Many times we stop before attaining that state; we find the temptations of the powers given by the opening of psychic function to be all that we need. That is why most spiritual traditions warn against the development of power for power’s sake. Remember, you can be just as crazy in the astral realm as on the Earth. just because you’re dead doesn’t mean you ‘re stripped of the ego. So, all the subtle forces that open to your perception as the Sixth Chakra opens, and as the intensity of the lower chakras builds, still need to be integrated with a sense of integrity and wholeness. This integration comes through the operation of both the Fourth and the Seventh Chakras. THE EIGHTH CHAKRA-THE AURA Radiance Finally, we reach the Eighth Chakra, which according to Yogi Bhajan is the aura. The aura combines the effects of all the other chakras. To experience this, imagine yourself rising high above your physical body. As you look down at the radiant light of the aura, it appears to be an oval or a circle of light. This chakra is often referred to as the circumvent field or circumvent force, the strength of the energy shell that surrounds all the other chakras. It, too, is a chakra, a circle, a vortex of energy, a place to focus the flows of universal energy. When this circumvent field is strong, negative influences are automatically filtered. When it is weak, you seem vulnerable to everything that passes by or through you. A strong circumvent field improves the workings of all the other chakras, and relates to the integrity of the body’s electromagnetic field. The circumvent field will appear round and symmetrical in the aura when you’ re healthy. When you’re ill, it has various dimples and pockets in it where there is less radiance. The sensitivity that comes through the circumvent field is connectedness. It interweaves you with the entire universe. The soul body loves to associate, dwell and operate through the Fourth Chakra or through the Eighth, with a sense of balance and compassion and love or with a sense of vastness and impersonal reality. This Chakra is not associated with any element, only with a sense of being. It establishes your sense of domain and fills the room with your presence. When the circumvent field is strong, and the other chakras are aligned and functioning well, your presence alone seems to work and direct many of the forces in the universe to effortlessly fulfill your desires and needs.

Regaining Self Esteem IN SPITE OF A GOOD FAMILY BACKGROUND, innate high-caliber psyche, and good environmental background, in the 60s’, thousands of young people lost their self-esteem because of frustration, misguidance. failure of the nation to inspire credibility or loyalty, and an overemphasis on individual needs over those of the community. To feel better, to feel different, hundreds and thousands of young people got into drugs and tried various rites and rituals. Seeking a different experience. they went to any philosophy, psychology, or procedure that they could participate in with a new idea, thought, mechanism, methodology, or regimentation. In other words, they wanted to expand themselves like infinity. but lacked the deeper understanding that infinity is already within each person. In !969 I began to share with these young people the practical knowledge of how to elevate themselves through the grooves of their own goodness. I made them understand that there are five tattvas and that there are eight chakras. They learned that they could regenerate their energy just as a cavity in the tooth can be filled to enjoy the chew of life again. They could respond to the challenges of life with excellence. with the full use of their Godgiven intelligence, using the applied wisdom which they gained by generating their own creative energy through uncoiling their reserve force, the therapeutic energy within, to meet the challenge of life. The hearts of thousands of Americans were touched by these teachings. Many are grateful for this experience, and I am grateful for having the chance to teach them. The human being has been created as a pattern of energy flows: energy flowing through the spine. flowing through the body and limbs, and flowing through the energy centers known as chakras. The chakra system is composed of eight energy centers: seven in the body and one in the aura or magnetic field. The first Chakra is located in the anus, and when the energy is at the First Chakra level, the person is concerned with basic questions of security and survival. This is the arena of self and selfreverse, or survival and self-destruction. The focus of energy at the Second Chakra level. located in the sex organs, is sexuality, sensuality, and creativity, and is the arena of projection and withdrawal. At the Third Chakra level, located at the Navel Point, energy focuses on identity, power, and judgment and the negative, positive, and neutral views of life. The fourth Chakra is the Heart Center. the arena of kindness and compassion.

The fifth Chakra is in the throat. Here one experiences the arena of knowledge. The Sixth Chakra is located at the brow and is called the Third Eye Point. Here one sets goals and assesses the long-range effects of one’s actions. It is the arena of projection and sophistication. The Seventh Chakra is located at the top of the head. Here one experiences the infinity of self. the arena of elevation. The Eighth Chakra is located in the aura, the magnetic field generated by a human being that surrounds him or her up to nine feet in every direction. The quality of the aura reveals the personality in the projection of power or the depression of defeat. There are five different. specific frequency ranges of pranic vibrations, each associated with a particular chakra. These frequency ranges are known as tattvas and are designated as earth, water, fire. air, and ether. We can most readily experience them as emotions but they serve other energy functions in the body as well. Self-esteem is nurtured by bringing a balance to the depressed energy of the physical body. When the nervous system and the muscular system cannot handle the outside pressure, the inside self needs to release enough extra energy not only to handle the challenge and bring balance back into the being. but also to release enough extra energy to go one step ahead of the environmental time pressure, to give the person a comfortable, relaxed attitude about the hassle and the hustle of life. In the ancient times the technology of releasing this energy was known as Kundalini Yoga. Now we call it the science of Humanology. And God knows what it will be called in the future. Practically speaking, it is one simple, honest science which works for everyone as an instrument to restore self-esteem. Pranic energy. the energy of life, flows through the limbs and trunk of the body and can be blocked in the energy squares (located in every joint and between the vertebrae of the spine). An excessive blockage results in arthritis, but if the energies flow freely, the life is graceful and healthy. There are also energy squares in every joint of the hand and toes. Human energy continuously flows through the chakra centers along the spine. It also flows through pathways on the front of the body that are in the form of triangles. These triangles communicate energy throughout the body, and every two triangles have a

KRI I NTERNATIONAL TEACHER TRAINING MANUAL LEVEL I TEACHINGS OF THE MASTER A LECTURE BY YOGI BHA)AN Apri/ 1989 The fifth Chakra is in the throat. Here one experiences the arena of knowledge. The Sixth Chakra is located at the brow and is called the Third Eye Point. Here one sets goals and assesses the long-range effects of one’s actions. It is the arena of projection and sophistication. The Seventh Chakra is located at the top of the head. Here one experiences the infinity of self. the arena of elevation. The Eighth Chakra is located in the aura, the magnetic field generated by a human being that surrounds him or her up to nine feet in every direction. The quality of the aura reveals the personality in the projection of power or the depression of defeat. There are five different. specific frequency ranges of pranic vibrations, each associated with a particular chakra. These frequency ranges are known as tattvas and are designated as earth, water, fire. air, and ether. We can most readily experience them as emotions but they serve other energy functions in the body as well. Self-esteem is nurtured by bringing a balance to the depressed energy of the physical body. When the nervous system and the muscular system cannot handle the outside pressure, the inside self needs to release enough extra energy not only to handle the challenge and bring balance back into the being. but also to release enough extra energy to go one step ahead of the environmental time pressure, to give the person a comfortable, relaxed attitude about the hassle and the hustle of life. In the ancient times the technology of releasing this energy was known as Kundalini Yoga. Now we call it the science of Humanology. And God knows what it will be called in the future. Practically speaking, it is one simple, honest science which works for everyone as an instrument to restore self-esteem. Pranic energy. the energy of life, flows through the limbs and trunk of the body and can be blocked in the energy squares (located in every joint and between the vertebrae of the spine). An excessive blockage results in arthritis, but if the energies flow freely, the life is graceful and healthy. There are also energy squares in every joint of the hand and toes. Human energy continuously flows through the chakra centers along the spine. It also flows through pathways on the front of the body that are in the form of triangles. These triangles communicate energy throughout the body, and every two triangles have a COPYRIGHT YOGI BHAJAN 2003 central lotus or chakra. The first triangle is formed between the eyes and the sixth chakra lotus, or Third Eye point. The second triangle goes from the corners of the mouth to the lunar center in the chin. The third triangle goes from the Fifth Chakra lotus to the nipples and has the Fourth Chakra lotus in the center. The fifth triangle in men goes from the Third Chakra lotus to the outside of the testicles encompassing the Second Chakra. In women, the fifth and sixth triangles go from the Third Chakra to the left ovary and down to the sex organ encompassing the Second Chakra lotus. The last triangle is formed between the fourth spinal vertebra and the sides of the hips. The end line of the triangle is a line formed by the sides of the hips and the anal opening, encompassing the first Chakra. Loss of self-esteem can happen at the very moment of conception, if the parents are not in a mental, projectile, angular energy beam. And if at the time of conception the male and the female do not have a mental harmony, the very act of conception can cause the child to be born with low self-esteem. Loss of self-esteem can also happen during the pregnancy through intense depression on the part of the mother and father, by household problems, social problems, biological difficulties, sociological handicaps, and psychological mismanagement. Another way the child loses self-esteem is when he or she is raised in environments of unscientific love and is deprived of the inner seeding of the personality. All environmental inner centers may be stretched into diagonal forms, damaging the triangles and squares of the reserve energy and the projective energy. Rather than flowing through established patterns, the energy must compensate by taking imbalanced routes through the body. This results in an unmanageable personal ity. At that stage the human starts taking the help of bourbon on the rocks and other heavy narcotic drugs and then starts living a neurotic behavior. He or she starts developing a heavy, deep, seasonal depression or permanent mental depression which dulls the sensitivity

towards the innate vigor of the personality. The result is a subconscious pattern of loss of self-esteem, which is felt both consciously and subconsciously. Self-esteem can be very easily and firmly rehabilitated by balancing the tattvas at both conscious and subconscious levels, equating the understanding of the participation of the chakras. Reconciling the conscious and subconscious emotions in the specific arena of each chakra will create a flow of energy and personality in which the human is consistent and not defeated with his conscious goals. In other words, if the balance between the tattuas and the chakras is established, then there shall be no earthquake because the personality will be harmonious. It shall have ample reserve through the squares of the being, because energy will flow through the body along the proper channels. Also extra energy may be stored in the energy squares of the body for use in times of stress: to write off the pain of the childhood; to overcome negative influences, negative thoughts, and negative company; to cope successfully with the pain of adulthood, the fear of old age, and the pressures of the family; and to withstand the projective animosity of social, economic, and personal environments. The science of humanology is a very simple, scientific process, and it is very much hoped that people in the Western World will take advantage of this excellent technology. That simply means the emergence of a projected human who knows the science and art of being healthy, happy, and of being holy. By holy I mean everyone has nine holes and the inlet and outlet of these holes should be consciously controlled, consciously directed, and unconsciously patronized. It is my prayer that these ideas may open your heart to some possibilities.