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    The Chakras: Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan
    The Chakras: Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan
    The Chakras: Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan
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    The Chakras: Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan

    By PhD Yogi Bhajan

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    The Chakras is a powerful collection of lectures and meditations that will expand your current definition of the chakras: how they interact with one another and within you. The lectures collected here are aids to furthering your study and deepening your understanding of Kundalini Yoga and its relationship to the chakras. 


    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKundalini Research Institute
    Release dateAug 1, 2014
    ISBN9781940837819
    The Chakras: Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan
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    PhD Yogi Bhajan

    Yogi Bhajan was declared a Master of Kundalini Yoga at the age of 16. He came to the United States in 1969 and openly taught this transformative technology for the next 35 years, until his last breath in Aug 2004. In the turbulent drug culture of the 70s, Yogi Bhajan first reached out to the youth. He recognized that their experimentation with drugs and "altered states of consciousness" expressed a desire to experience themselves and a longing for family, for connection to their soul and their community. In response to this innate longing, he created a family known as 3HO (Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization). Soon, 3HO ashrams began springing up across the United States and throughout the world.He sparked a movement whose tendrils have woven their way into numerous aspects of our culture. Yoga and meditation have gained widespread acceptance in the West and the holistic health movement he introduced through diet, herbs, and lifestyle technologies. Born Harbhajan Singh in what is now Pakistan to a family of healers and community leaders, Yogi Bhajan studied comparative religion and Vedic philosophy in his undergraduate years and received his Masters in Economics with honors from Punjab University. Years later, he earned his Ph.D. in communications psychology from the University of Humanistic Studies in San Francisco. Yogi Bhajan emerged as a religious, community, and business leader with a distinguished reputation as a man of peace, world vision, wisdom, and compassion. He founded several food companies that manufacture and distribute natural products based on these teachings. He fostered economic development in communities around the world. He is also the author of several books on yoga philosophy, business, and communication during his lifetime.The Kundalini Research Institute continues his legacy through The Yogi Bhajan Library of Teachings, the International Teacher Training in Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan®, and the publications of lectures and kriyas to serve the community of teachers, students, and practitioners around the world. See www.kundaliniresearchinstitute.org to learn how you can help keep the legacy alive!

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      The Chakras - PhD Yogi Bhajan

      The First Chakra

      January 22, 1991

      I am going to share with you certain things that you cannot find either from a normal Yogi or a great Yogi or a highly qualified Yogi, normal or abnormal, or from any Yogic book. But the way I will explain it and talk about it will be very human. I am going to talk about the chakras. No human being, no matter what religion you belong to, who you follow, who you love, what your blessings are, what your face is, what your shape is, no human can be happy, granted, I mean to say, period. I don't care how many degrees you have or how sexy you are. These are just your qualifications. You can take every worldly qualification—how rich you are, how powerful you are, you may be the President of the United States or you may be a peon—any facet of your personality, status, and identity, but you won't find happiness. Why? Because we do not know how to concentrate.

      Take this very ordinary thing: you go to bathroom. You feel it, but if you don't concentrate you won't poop. No, we are talking very frankly here. Nobody can pass one's stool if they don't concentrate. So either by necessity or by human urge or by complex, we have learned to concentrate on the First Chakra, but we do it once or twice a day, that's it. That's the maximum we need; beyond that we forget that it even exists. Secondly, we have to urinate, for which, unfortunately, we don't concentrate.

      Now believe me, it is something which you have to understand very carefully, but when you involve yourself sexually with the same kind of mate if you are a gay, or the opposite kind of mate if you are heterosexual, then you have to concentrate. You cannot ejaculate if you do not concentrate; but sometimes you ejaculate, and you find out that your prostate has gone wrong or your gonad has gone wrong, this has gone wrong and that has gone wrong. That's a normal, human physical thing. But essentially there are only two places where you know to concentrate, because these are your daily necessities, okay? You do not know how to concentrate on the navel point because you don't need it, you don't want it. It is just a part of your physical existence, but you do not know what it is all about.

      What is a navel point? Nobody has put lipstick around it yet; I mean to say, they are not glorifying it. They don't even recognize it, this point called navel point. But remember this, it is the third center of your entire being, and it is the center of the apaana. All your body's elimination is because of that, and it is responsible for bringing home your old age. Your total physical strength, your projection, and your reality are based on this center, and you do not know about it; you don't touch it, you don't pump it, you don't feel it, you don't bother about it, it's not important.

      Now, if you are a Christian or you are a Moslem or you are a Hindu or you are a Sikh or you are French or you are German, you cannot be without the navel point. It exists. For five thousand years all the great men—men of great knowledge—actually worked out everything about these chakras: their works, their petals, their sounds, their Infinity, their co-relationship, their coordination. There is a whole science, and this total science gave birth to Kundalini Yoga. That's how Kundalini Yoga was born. They found out what the chakras are and where lies the human's central powers. Then they found out what is the human—not the central power—but what the human is. They found out that the human is based in these chakras, these seven chakras are in the body of the human. Then they looked at the coordination of it, and they found out there is a Heart Center: what it does, what its color is, what compassion is. These are all symbolic; they are indications, like, if you make a circle with a plus sign, it's a woman. These chakras are symbolically described and need explanation, and after you read that explanation you have to know what we are talking about—that's very important. After the Heart Center, then they say there is a Throat Chakra and an Ajana (Agia) Chakra²; then they say there is a sahasrara; then they go further, there is an aura; there is an arc line; there are ten bodies, five tattvas, three gunas, seven chakras, and so on.

      Why is it important to know about the chakras and to talk about the chakras? Because you don't concentrate on the chakras. You only concentrate, as a physical necessity, on two chakras. You don't concentrate on your Throat Chakra at all. There is a way of talking which can be very effective; and there is a way of talking which will not be effective, though you say the same words: How do you do? [with inflection] You see how sexy it is?

      You can provoke a response. We used to bet, my friends and I, that within fifteen minutes, by your watch, you, without your self-control or with all your self-control, shall be horny. We will arouse your Second Chakra whether you like it or not, and we used to bet on it! That is the power of the Fifth Chakra, because the Fifth Chakra and the Second Chakra are connected. They are inter-poles. May I? Hello! I am talking to you versus May I please speak to you? You got it, you have bewitched the person. Or someone says to you, May I talk to you? And you reply, No, go get that, damn it, and that's it. You think this throat is just for expression? No, it's for fishing, it's for protection. It's the most powerful force, the most powerful psychic center you have. It's absolute: Zabaan Sheri, Mulk Geeri. What the strength of your tongue is, that is the strength your universe is.

      It's not that it doesn't matter what you speak, it does matter what you speak; but it also matters how you speak. This how in speaking is so important that if you start evaluating it you will be surprised how fast life changes. For example, you say, Oh, my God! It's a horrible mistake. You are expressing distress, you are expressing a mistake, or you say, Oh, my God, my dear, look what we have done. Instead of you, you say we, because everybody is a compliment and a supplement, no two people are separate. You use the word we, you say what we have done, then you bring the same disaster to the notice of another person. You immediately make that other person feel guilty, responsible, understanding, ashamed, apologetic, without going through all that yelling and screaming and all that loud stuff.

      If you know how to use the Fifth Chakra, husbands and wives will never fight. The source of all fights and all affection is the Fifth Chakra; there is no other fight. In every aspect of your love life or your hate life, it is the Fifth Chakra which is in play. It's the root, it's the middle, it's the end.

      First, nobody knows about this third eye. They say third eye, or call it commonsense, or intelligence, or the center of intuition. But to control your emotions and your emotional wrongs, you have to concentrate on this Sixth Chakra. If you do not have any touch or control with it, and you do not have any stimulation from it, you have a lot of problems in your life—wanted and unwanted—and there is nothing you can do about it. And second, it is commonsense: sahasrara, when this sahasrara starts bombarding you with thoughts, which your intellect releases and your intelligence cannot cope with, you are known as insane, spaced out, and incompetent.

      These chakras are not just imaginary circles. Watch this: I am receiving it at the Third Chakra, there is a dip; you are talking from the Third Chakra and I am staring at the Sixth Chakra, there is a rise, an elevation. A person who wants to achieve has to see that the level of the Chakra meets at par. Now, you spend money on beautifying yourself, you want to look pretty, you want to look attractive, you have so many things to do. Why do you want to be recognized, to be effective, to be known? The truth is that all that money is a waste if you do not know how to balance the chakras in relationship to the other person when you communicate. Sometimes you do not talk from the third center—the gut feeling they call it, right? The other person immediately senses that this guy is a phony, he is only talking philosophy; but when he returns five days later he says, I spoke to you. And the other guy says, What? He didn't hear it, he didn't sit with it. The understanding cannot come when you are not at the same frequency.

      It's very important, and it's not only important for us as human beings; it is important for us in life, as friends, husband and wife, boss and employees, colleagues, during ordinary chit-chat, with acquaintances, in any relationship. I know that a majority of my students become negative to me, I know it; and I do it so cleverly. They don't want to! They don't want to be negative; they want to be positive. But if I make them positive all the time, then what is there to provoke them? First is attack, provoke, what does that do? The person becomes alert. If you provoke somebody, he will become alert: what are you saying, what is this, what is meant? I have said something, very simple slang; and it doesn't mean anything. But the moment I say, Hey, what are you up to? the other person says, He said something, he said something! What is it, now? What is coming next? Oh God, why did I come here! I was going to a movie, I just thought I should stop on the way to see Siri Sigh Sahib, now what the hell is going to happen?

      You say to somebody, Hey, what are you up to? It's just a simple thing, it doesn't mean anything, but what you are doing with these words and in this manner is this: you are provoking self-examination and self-alertness in a person. Then you have to go one step further and provoke: Well, what do I see here? Watch! I have a PhD in psychology of communication. Learn from me certain things which are known around the world. Well, well, well, here we go. Hey, what am I seeing here? You say a little louder, Oh, my God! And every molecule in the person will become totally alert. It is so provocative a sentence, you can't believe the effect of it. Yelling and screaming doesn't make sense; it is the combination and permutation of words and how they are flashed. You see that and then you say, poke, provoke, confront, Hey, you! I want to talk to you. Don't say a word more. You have established every standard of confrontation: I want to talk to you. I want to see you, huh, huh. It's a very heavy word, this huh. It's heavier than twenty abuses. It's a mystery word. Huh hah, these are sounds, Ek Akshri; one-word sounds are the heaviest. You must understand that.

      It is also known as sex language. Sex has its own language. This sex doesn't know English. I mean, people who didn't know English were having sex, and they were making sounds then, too. And people who are Japanese, they make the same sounds as you make in English. So too, if you are ninety years old, you make the same sound as when you are nineteen years old. These sounds are infinite. They are there, they are always going to be there, and we are always going to make them. At a certain point they are automatic. They are ultras; they are not us. They elevate: Oh God, that's it! Oh, oh God, oh God! You have elevated a person with a cannon and they are going up. These are the body's signs, symptoms, small words, small notions; it's not that you have to make a whole speech: Where are you coming from and where you want somebody. But do you have a practice? No. Still, it comes in handy once in a while if you know about it.

      The secret of success is not what you are; the secret of success is how you deliver it. You will say, I am successful. Yes, with total circumstances, you are successful; but when you want to be consciously successful, then you have to work it out. Enjoyment in life is your conscious success, not the money. Money does a lot of things, I am not saying money is not there. And you do a lot of things, but you are not there. Conscious success is a self-fulfillment, which you do, and which you live for. That is what God is in you. I am not saying that emotions are not right. Emotions are part of us, feelings are part of us, drama and trauma are part of us, neuroses are part of us.

      I was talking to somebody one day. He said, How do I know I am fine?

      I said, If your sadhana is more important to you than your neurosis, you are fine; if your neurosis is more important than your sadhana, you are not.

      Now, what is this sadhana? Sadhana is a test of self-grit. Nobody—it doesn't matter how saintly you are or how good a practitioner you are—nobody wants to get up at the ambrosial hour; take it as granted from me. Why you do it is still a mystery. This has been a mystery since the Earth was formed, and this will still be a mystery when the Earth ends. Nobody wants to get up between three o'clock and six o'clock—nobody. Because we want to be relaxed in our life, we want to be comfortable, and that is a very comfortable time when the Sun's rays hit the planet at a longitude and latitude of sixty degrees. Everybody wants to sleep, or lazy around, and then over and above that, to get up and take a cold shower? God, what a hell that is! And for what? Nobody is appreciating, nobody is watching, nobody knows, nobody is affected by it. Why on this earth, at three o'clock, does one get up from the warm beautiful quilt bed, sleeping with their partner, and take a cold shower? And then you sit down and meditate? Sleeping is not bad, sleeping is meditation; when you sleep, you are meditating. Why wake up to meditate and impose a self-containment on yourself when you are already contained in sleep? Don't you understand? These are rational thoughts. I was sleeping peacefully, I was not disturbing anybody, I had to do nothing to it, so why the hell I am sitting now and calming myself down? And then over and above that, repeat the damn mantra, my God! And again and again and again, am I crazy to say something this many times? Once is enough, twice is enough, three times is the maximum, and to say it one hundred and eight times, there is something wrong with me. No, when you do push-ups, one push-up is okay, so why do you do two hundred push-ups? To create a stamina in your life. Sadhana gives you aim, absolute mental stamina; physical stamina is okay, but everybody who needs physical stamina, needs mental stamina; without that there is no chance for life to be smooth, to be happy, to be successful, to be enjoying, to be fulfilling. These are necessities,

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