We will try to concentrate on the colours and petals of the chakras, and we will try to visualize them.
Please be seated in one of the meditative poses.
Sit in padmasana, siddhasana, vajrasana or sukhasana, whichever you can maintain easily, without discomfort, for fifteen to twenty minutes.
Remove your eyeglasses and close your eyes and mouth.
Rest your hands lightly on the knees, with the elbows relaxed.
The fingers should be in chin or gyana mudra, with the index fingers at the root of the thumbs, and the other three fingers together and straight, but not stretched.
The back and the head should be straight, but at the same time, there should be no tensing or tightening in any part of the body.
See that the head, back and spine are in one straight line.
Neither raise the shoulders nor lower them.
Do not lean the head to either side.
Keep absolute consciousness and awareness of the instructions, and try to visualize the chakras described, at their correct location.
Visualization practice
First, take your consciousness to mooladhara, at the seat of the perineum. Visualize mooladhara chakra as a four petalled dark red lotus.
Then visualize swadhisthana chakra, a six petalled vermilion lotus, at the bottom of the spinal cord. Manipura, a yellow lotus with ten petals, behind the navel.
Anahata, a blue lotus with twelve petals, behind the heart.
Vishuddhi, a purple lotus with sixteen petals, behind the throat.
Ajna, a gray coloured lotus with two petals, behind the eyebrow centre.
Bindu, like the full moon, a golden moon at the top back of the head.
Sahasrara, a thousand petalled bright red lotus at the crown of the head.
Please go on visualizing each of them in turn, one after the other, going from mooladhara up to sahasrara, and from sahasrara back down to mooladhara. Train your consciousness to visualize the chakra symbols in their correct position. Be careful not to visualize the symbol of vishuddhi at swadhisthana, or the symbol of mooladhara at anahata.
Visualize mooladhara, a four petalled dark red lotus; Swadhisthana, a six petalled vermilion lotus; Manipura, a ten petalled yellow lotus; Anahata, a twelve petalled blue lotus; . Vishuddhi, a sixteen petalled purple lotus; Ajna, a two petalled gray lotus; Bindu, like the full moon;
Sahasrara, a thousand petalled bright red lotus. Please try to visualize the symbol of each chakra. You have to remember them for the future. Keep yourself alert and aware of the lotus symbols- how they look, their shape and colour, their root and their stem.
The mantras
In each of the chakras try to find the pericarp at the centre of the flower, where the petals are joined to the stem. Within that centre section of the flower is a written mantra.
Of course, these mantras are primarily sounds, but they are also Sanskrit syllables, written in Devanagri script. There is a different mantra, with a different sound, for each chakra.
The sound belonging to mooladhara chakra is Lam; swadhisthana, Vam; manipura, Ram; anahata, Yam; vishuddhi, Ham; ajna, Om.
Actually, there are three sounds associated with ajna. From left, to centre, to right, they are Ham, Om and Ksham.
Bindu is the point from which sound emanates. It is the creator of all sound or vibration, but in itself, it is soundless.
And sahasrara also has no sound. So inside the four petals of the mooladhara lotus is written the mantra Lam;
Inside the six vermilion petals of the swadhisthana lotus is Vam;
Inside the ten yellow petals of the manipura lotus is Ram; Inside the twelve petalled blue lotus of anahata is Yam; Inside the sixteen petalled purple lotus of vishuddhi is Ham;
Inside ajna are Ham, Om and Ksham, on a two petalled gray lotus.
Then comes bindu, the soundless centre, without colour or form.
Finally, the thousand petalled bright red lotus of sahasrara.
Please remember them again...
Finish
Now become aware of your physical body seated on the floor. Become aware of the whole environment. Become aware that you have been practising meditation on the symbols of the chakras.
Hari Om Tat Sat. Please inhale deeply, and while exhaling, chant Om.
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