MULADHARA - Lotus of this year!!!

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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.