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Cleansing and Development of Chakras and Meridians
Chakras have a form of more or less regular spheres with the exception of the upper sahasrara chakra, which is flattened vertically and looks like a horizontally lying disk.
Chakras do not have, as some authors claim, an internal lotus-like structure; this is a fantasy. Although, an exercise involving creation of temporary images of flowers inside chakras and even feeling their delicate aroma in them is a very good exercise.
Chakras also do not have a specific color inherent to them and they are not supposed to have it. This is also a popular fantasy. And attempts of coloring chakras in accordance with colors of the rainbow constitute downright and serious self-injuring or injuring of one’s disciples.
One should strive to cleanse one’s chakras as much as possible of all impurities that are energetically coarser than tender white color with a slight goldish-amber hue. This is the path to cognizing Atman and God. But deliberate fixation of other colors inside chakras is in fact tuning them for coarser modes of operation, which cripples students and prevents them from attaining Perfection.
It is beneficial to let morning sunlight or scents of flowers into one’s cleansed chakras.
One also may invite one’s favorite Divine Teacher into one’s anahata, learn to look at everything with His eyes and ask Him for advice…
God once gave me a wonderful method of cleansing anahata and
other chakras — an exercise with a tetrahedron. If this exercise is supplemented
with influencing chakras by particular sound vibrations, specific for each
chakra (mantras), then in a couple of months of training, chakras will transform
into cavities glittering with tenderness and purity.
Working with a tetrahedron and with Yidam as well as developing other chakras — this is the level of seriousness of exercises at which everyone interested must not be allowed. Under no circumstances those who did not switch totally and forever to the killing-free diet on ethical grounds or those who do not show progress in refinement of consciousness, should do this kind of exercises. Otherwise, the very methods that can produce a refining and purifying effect on the organism, will fix and increase its energetic coarseness. This is the path in the opposite from God direction.
This kind of psychoenergetic work is also incompatible with taking alcohol — even in the form of kvas, kumiss or industrially manufactured kefir. The reason for this is that the fine structures of the organism that are being built get destroyed in this case, which leads to dangerous illnesses. People starting this kind of work have to give up alcohol forever.
These methods increase sensitivity of those who practice them to energetic influence from other people as well as to information that spirits of various levels of development may impose. Therefore there is a danger that people who are not mature from intellectual and ethical standpoint yet will not be able to react adequately to this kind of influence, especially in precarious situations, be they real or imaginary.
Because of this people less than 20 years old should not engage in this kind of work. Actually, only few adults will benefit from it.
Psychoenergetic trainings that result in reaching high levels of refinement of consciousness and — as a consequence — to feeling of its “nakedness” under no circumstances must be conducted for the masses of people. Only the selected ones can be admitted to them. The rest of people have a possibility to grow intellectually and ethically in the conditions of exoteric work at self-improvement: by accumulating new knowledge, by serving other people and by strengthening their faith.
… There are seven chakras, in total. Sometimes another number is quoted, but this is a result of misunderstanding. For example, other energetic centers or even structures artificially created inside or outside the body are referred as chakras.
There are also erroneous opinions as to localization of chakras. For instance, in a range of incompetent publications anahata (the spiritual heart) is placed in a stomach area and manipura “slides down” to umbilical region.
In reality chakras are located as follows:
Sahasrara — a chakra that has a form of a lying disk and is located under the parietal bone in the region of the forebrain hemispheres. Its diameter is about 12 centimeters, its height is about 4 centimeters;
Ajna — a large chakra located in the middle of the head, coincident with the central parts of the brain;
Vishudha — a chakra located in the lower half of the neck and at the level of collarbones;
Anahata — a chakra located in the chest between the collarbones and solar plexus.;
Manipura — a chakra of the upper part of the abdomen;
Svadhisthana — a chakra of the lower part of the abdomen;
Muladhara — a chakra, located in the lower part of the pelvis between the coccyx and the share bone.
The level of development of individual chakras corresponds with psychological features of a specific person. So, when the following chakras are developed:
Sahasrara — there is a pronounced ability of thinking strategically, i.e. an ability to see the “big picture”, to comprehend the whole situation “from above”, which allows such people to be broad-thinking managers;
Ajna — a person possesses a “tactical thinking” ability, which allows him to successfully deal with “particular” problems in science, business, family life, etc.;
Vishudha — the ability for aesthetical perception is observed; good painters, musicians and other artists are people with well-developed vishudha;
Anahata — a person possesses an ability to love emotionally (to love not “from the mind”, but “from the heart”);
Manipura — the ability to act energetically; but sometimes it is accompanied with a disposition towards dominance of irritation and other manifestations of anger;
Svadhisthana — a well pronounced reproductive function;
Muladhara — psychological stability in various situations.
The next stage of work after cleansing the chakras consists in bringing the main meridians of the body in proper condition. These are the meridians that make up the microcosmic orbit, as well as the middle meridian.
When one has cleansed the microcosmic orbit one can raise the energy of the two lower chakras through the spinal canals, leap it over the head meridians to the front side of the body and bring it down through the front meridian, which runs like a flat hose along the front side of the body.
Circulating energy around the microcosmic orbit produces a strong positive emotional effect; it also “burns” coarse energies of the organism in the front meridian, which makes for further improvement of health, as well as for the cleansing and refinement of the organism.
The middle meridian is a wide canal (corresponding to the diameter of chakras), which integrates the entire “column” of chakras. Its significance is immense since it allows one to combine all chakras in to one complex with a spacious corridor. Working with it also allows one to perform crystallization of consciousness in the subtle eons, in which this meridian exists, up to the volume of the body.
Cleansing the middle meridian and its walls leads to further health improvement. And on the highest stages of psychoenergetic work this structure is essential for working with kundalini.
Work with the middle meridian can be performed with help of a special mantra on special energetically significant areas on the Earth’s surface (the places of power) or with help of the direct energetic influence of a competent instructor.
The next principal stage is bringing consciousness out into the energetic cocoon that surrounds the body and crystallization of consciousness in its volume.
The easiest way to see one’s own or other people’s cocoons with clairvoyance is by using the following method. One needs to bring concentration of consciousness (the assemblage point, speaking in terminology of the school of Juan Matus) down to the zone about 30-50 centimeters behind one’s heels. From there, one should look into the space of one’s cocoon from within and start cleansing it. Cleansing of the cocoon is also an important healing method, since it is in the cocoon and not in the body where pathogenic energies are often localized.
After that, one has to realize the segmentation of the cocoon into the two bubbles of perception: the upper and the lower. The upper one includes three upper chakras, the lower one — four lower chakras. The term bubbles of perception, also introduced by the school of Juan Matus, emerged as a result of an apt association with swimming-bladders in some types of fish, which do not have them grown to the spine, but placed loosely inside the body. With our upper bubble of perception we perceive the world of material objects, with the lower one we perceive non-material worlds.
The best way of performing exercises with chakras, as well as all subsequent meditative trainings, is while standing, and sometimes even while walking.
The only information from this chapter that can be comprehended by all people, including children, is work with anahata chakra — the spiritual heart of a man.
… There is a simple exercise with the spiritual heart that everyone may try doing without any pre-conditions. Imagine that your head has moved into the chest. Feel the nose, the forehead, and the lips. Move the lips. In order for the head not to rise to its usual position you need to feel as if you put a hat on your head. Then — the most important thing: open your eyes and “blink” the eyelids… From now on, learn to look at the outside world from your chest. You will perceive the world in a different way: not as tough and hostile, but as subtle, tender, and responsive to emotions of love.
This work can be continued in the following way. Sit on the heels or in any other comfortable position. Then create in the chest and then start emanating from it to the space ahead the emotional states according to the formula, called the cross of Buddha: “May all living beings have peace! May all living beings be calm! May all living beings enjoy bliss!” Then repeat sending your Love and peace to the right, to the left, to the back, up and down. Fill the entire space around with peace, calm, and bliss.
Such exercises not only change a person in the needed direction, but the attitude of other people towards him also changes. He becomes pleasant to communicate with as well as just to be around. People start coming to him for spiritual advice also.
I have witnessed a great number of such transformations. Now I recall two interesting cases.
Once, after a class that I conducted, one woman comes up to me and complains: well, you are saying right things about love, but what can I do with my flatmate: he is always irritated, we have not talked with him or said hello to each other for years! I am answering her: look, why don’t you start pouring your love at him tonight — right through the wall — like in the cross of Buddha. When she comes to the next class she tells this: I did as you recommended and when he next morning I met my flat mate in the kitchen he smiled to me and said: “Why haven’t we said hello to each other for so many years? Let’s start greeting each other!”
And another case. A young woman came to take part in a next class in tears. I asked her what had happened? She said that she had been on the beach, taking sunbathes and doing the cross of Buddha. A child had suddenly come up to her and said: ‘Don’t go there, there is a snake!’. ‘Why are you crying then’, I asked. She said, ‘I am thirty and no child has ever come up to me in my life on his own, without me asking him to!’
The realization of the functions of the spiritual heart is the first serious step towards God that man can take. It may become the beginning of a big Straight Path towards the complete spiritual Self-realization, towards Perfection, towards Mergence with God in the aspect of Primordial Consciousness of the Creator.
Detailed sequence of exercises with chakras and meridians, as
well as the description of the further stages of spiritual ascent are expounded
in the book Spiritual Practices (Training Aid).
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