Relationship Between Chakras and The Five Elements

Relationship between Chakras and the five elements
The mooladhara chakra has its sensory path, or organ of sense, the nose, the
sense of smell. So any of the kriyas that involve the nose and the sense of
smell, are automatically going to allow that earth element, mooladhara chakra,
to open up. Why? The sense of smell is mans most primitive sensory avenue, and
it short circuits straight through to the brain in a very special way. The sense
of smell is related to the primal sexuality of the human being.
Perfume is a sexual signal related to the mooladhara chakra, and we are reminded
of Freuds famous case about a middle-aged man who fell hopelessly in love with
his wifes maid. The maid was anything but attractive, and they couldnt work
out why he was suddenly absolutely in love with her. Freud finally discovered
that she wore the same perfume as the mans mother had. What he had actually
fallen in love with was his mother! And this love was triggered off through his
mooladhara chakra. So this chakra is powerful, very powerful. Perfume, incense,
smell is the mooladhara trigger, and the legs are the output. The process of
walking, of ambulation. Once you are upright you move from the infantile state
of crawling on all fours to an erect position. Then your physical evolution is
ended, and there is only spiritual evolution left.
In swadhisthana chakra the sense of taste is the sensory avenue or input. In

tasting we use the hands, which are the motor output of swadhisthana, to take
food to the mouth, and to drink. There is a very interesting relationship
between the sensation of taste, the sexual fluids of the body and the awakening
of swadhisthana chakra. How do you think we got the expression, Shes a dish!
or He is good enough to eat? This swadhisthana chakra controls the water
element, and twenty-five hundred years ago the Hindu scientists worked out
empirically that there is no sense of taste unless the water element is present.
This is true. The taste buds will not function without the water element being
present. If your mouth is dried up, and I blindfold you and plug your nostrils,
you cant tell whether youre eating apple or onion.
Manipura chakra- the navel centre, the fire centre- is related to the element
heat, incandescence, and its sensory avenue is sight. Without light we can see
nothing. Also, when we are warm and jovial that is manipura chakra giving forth
the warmth of human contact.
Anahata chakra, the heart centre, has as its sensory avenue the element of
touch. It is perhaps the most beautiful centre in all traditions. If you
meditate on anahata, it is something very special. In tantra, the heart centre
is opened through the sensory element of touch. It is an area that represents
the deepest psychological significance. We say, I am touched or I am moved.
The element of the area is air; its sensory avenue is touch. Its motor output or
organ of action is the procreative action, the act of reproduction, but that
reproduction can take place in the mind as well as the body.
In tantra and kriya the movement of consciousness, the rotation of consciousness

around the body, is a tactile experience in which you create your own sensation
of movement, heat, cold, pressure. Yoga nidra is an opening up of anahata chakra
through learning to experience the tactile sensations of heat, cold, touch,
pain, light pressure, deep pressure; all these sensations are deliberately
activated. In this Western society we are out of touch. We are afraid of
touching for to touch is to be involved. We dont even know how to focus our
tactile sensations. There is an interesting experiment you can do that relates
to anahata chakra. Reach out to the person next to you and have a brand new
tactile sensation, by a very simple maneuver. Touch forefingers. Stroke from
below to above with your forefinger and thumb, and your nervous system will have
a new tactile experience. Stoke gently.
In tantra it says that you should reject nothing, you should integrate
everything. One of the things we do with human sexual experience is that we take
it and integrate it. We say that it is not necessary, or it may come as a holy
sadhana, and then there is joy, there is bliss, it becomes a spiritual
experience. The rabbit is better off than the human being. There is a little
philosophical problem that goes, Why are there more rabbits than people? The
answer is, Because rabbits have more fun than people. Then it goes on, But
why do rabbits have more fun? Answer, Because there are more rabbits.
So we go to the throat, vishuddhi chakra. The sensory element is hearing, and
its motor output is talking, the tongue. There is a relationship between what we
hear and what we say. Hence we have the saying deaf and dumb. In order to be
able to speak, one must actually first have heard. You cannot speak that which
you have not heard. There is the relationship between input and output again.
These chakras, these centres, represent an input and an output system, which is
awakened through the practice of kriya yoga, beginning at mooladhara, and ending
in the throat at vishuddhi. There are many subtle things, which I will leave you
to think about. These chakras all interrelate between the sensory avenue and the
motor avenue. For instance, we used to have a saying many years ago in England
that somebody gets vapours, meaning they get dizzy or faint. If you over
breathe you will alter the circulation of the blood to the brain, and you will
produce fainting. Or, if you dont breathe fully enough you will faint. It has
something to do with the vapours. That is how the popular saying arose. When
somebody gets the vapours and faints, smelling salts are pressed upon them. The
sense of smell is stimulated, mooladhara chakra is awakened. Then they are
grounded; they are earthed, and they come to.

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How are the chakras related to the five elements?

How does the sense of touch relate to the anahata chakra?

Relationship between Chakras and the five elements

In swadhisthana chakra the sense of taste is the sensory avenue or input. In

In tantra and kriya the movement of consciousness, the rotation of consciousness

So we go to the throat, vishuddhi chakra. The sensory element is hearing, and

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