[Sri Ramakrishna] Fw: Hrit- or Hridaya-Chakra

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I was just thinking about that chakra too recently. I found a reference to it

online as the anandakanda chakra.

 

It sounds as if you are wanting to meditate in this place (rather than, say,

merely do research for a thesis about it)? Usually the best thing to do is find

a meditation teacher who can give you explicit directions. If you want to just

experiment on your own, instead of trying to identify the exact " correct "

visualizations, I wonder if it might be helpful to simply hold the image of your

chosen ideal in that place where you feel the emotions of worship--where all

your deepest wishes are cherished (at the wish-fulfilling tree)--and see what

happens?

 

Sri Ramakrishna said: " God is the Kalpataru, the Wish-Fulfilling Tree. You will

certainly get whatever you ask of Him. But you must pray standing near the

Kalpataru. Only then will your prayer be fulfilled. But you must remember

another thing. God knows our inner feeling. A man gets the fulfillment of the

desire he cherishes while practicing sadhana. As one thinks, so one receives.

" I used to weep, praying to the Divine Mother, 'O Mother, destroy with Thy

thunderbolt my inclination to reason.' " [abridged version of Gospel, 312-13]

 

One suggestion that Swami Vivekananda gives is: " Think of a space in your heart,

and think that in the midst of that space a flame is burning. Think of that

flame as your own soul. Inside the flame is another effulgent light, and that is

the Soul of your soul, God. Meditate upon that in the heart. "

 

[ " Raja-Yoga, " in The Yogas and Other Works, p. 620]

 

 

 

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So many words! so much fuss! Blitz and shapes and colors and so many

adjectives!!!

 

I thank my Ista, Sri Thakur for making spirituality so simple. " eating the

mango,not inventoring

the garden " ...

 

-Sri

 

 

 

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