The Muladhara Chakra

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The Muladhara Chakra

Sahasrara chakra Guru chakra Nirvana chakra Indu chakra Manas chakra Ajna chakra Lalana chakra Vishuddha chakra Anahata chakra Hrit chakra Manipura chakra Swathisthana chakra Muladhara chakra Chakras

The Muladhara is one of the seven Primary Chakras, and is associated with the element: Earth, representing the densest grade of manifestation. In the Kundalini-yoga system of Shaktism, the Muladhara Centre is described as having four petals, corresponding to the psychological states of greatest joy, natural pleasure, delight in controlling passions, and blissfulness in concentration. All these qualities correspond to the bliss of realising the Divine in the physical body. The highest and most complete forms of spirituality do not reject the body, but see it as the vehicle for the transmutation of the body and the spirit together. It is, according to Shakta Tantric doctrine, the seat of Kundalini, the latent cosmic energy or shakti that resides in every living being. When this latent power is activated through Hatha Yoga practicises (pranayama, purification of the nadis, etc), it rises through each of the rear or spinal chakras, and up through the top of the head, to the Sahasrara or "Thousand Petalled Lotus" located above the crown. There it unites with its opposite polarity, the Paramashiva or Supreme Godhead Consciousness, and the yogi attains total Liberation from phenomenal reality. Colours associated with this chakra are red, yellow, and golden. It could be considered the bliss centre for physical body.

Deities within the Muladhara Chakra

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countercounterclockwise from the bottom: Indra, Brahma, Dakini

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MULADHARA
Tantric muladhara, adhara, mula chakra or padma, brahma padma or bhumi chakra, chaturdala, chatuhpatra

Terminology Vedic (late muladhara, adhara, mulakanda, brahma Upanishads) Puranic muladhara, adhara
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Position Petals Matrikaletters number colour on petals colour on petals Vrittis In the pericarp Earth-bija (in Earth Region) colour of Earth-bija Form of Earth-bija Concentration form of Indra In the bindu of Lang Concentration form of Brahma Presiding divinity Concentration of Dakini Triangle colour location Swayambhuform linga colour Kundalini as KulaKundalini name

externally, perineal region, close to anus four; arranged from right to left blood-red (deep red), shining red, yellow, golden (shining yellow) four in number; Wang Shang Shang Sang, arranged from right to left gold (shining yellow), blood red (deep red) four in number; arranged from right to left 1 greatest joy; 2 natural pleasure; 3 delight in controlling passion; 4 blissfulness in concentration quadrangular Earth-region

colour of the Earth Region yellow, golden (shining yellow) Lang yellow, shining yellow deity Indra Indra is yellow in colour, four-armed, holding the Vajra and a blue lotus in his hands, mounted on the white elephant Airawata deity Brahma Brahma is deep red, young, four-faced, three-eyed, four-armed, holding a staff, a sacred water-pot, and a rosary of rudraksha, and making the gesture of dispelling fear; seated on a swan power Dakini Dakini is shining red or shining white in colour; she has beautifull face with three eyes; four-armed, holding a trident, a skulled staff, a swan and a drinking vessel; seated on a red lotus shining deep red inside the triangle broad at the bottom and tapers to a point at the top shining deep red, black (or green), golden (shining yellow) Supremely subtle, lightning-like splendorous; also of shining red, white and black (or dark-green) colour; in three and a half coils around Swayambhu-linga

reference Layayoga - an Advanced Method of Concentration by Shyam Sundar Goswami, p.276. Colour plate above from same book

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Associated minor chakras

Coccygeal Perineal

The Five Gifts of the Root Chakra

major and minor Chakras

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The Muladhara Cakra according to the Satcakra-Narupana of Purnananda Swami (Translated

by Arthur Avalon in The Serpent Power)

Muladhara Chakra Muladhara Chakra - Alfred Ballabene (in German)

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