Kundalini.Tantra.by.Satyananda.Saraswati

ound by your prarabdha karma. You know that you can escape it, but you don't know
how.
The lower chakras belong to the empirical world of body, mind and senses. People
who accept their fate as inevitable have not yet transcended rnooladhara and
swadhisthana chakras. Manipura is still considered earthly, although it lies at the
boundary between mortal and immortal planes. Those who actively shape their own
destiny through strength of will channelled in a positive direction, which leads to
realization and achievement, are in the realm of manipura.
Anahata chakra is almost completely beyond these empirical dimensions. Here, one
realizes that fate is of course real, but still one can go totally beyond its dictates. It is like
throwing something into the sky. If you are able to hurl that object right out of the
gravitational field, then it will no longer be pulled down by the earth's magnetic forces.
Just as a rocket is launched at tremendous speed in order to go beyond the gravitational
pull of the earth, so the consciousness is accelerated in anahatato the speed of freewill in
order to transcend the pull of latent samskaras.
It is only when you reach anahata chakra that you become a yogi. Up until then,
whether you are in mooladhara, swadhisthana or manipura, you are a yoga practitioner. In
anahata you become a yogi because you are completely established in yogic
consciousness and you depend solely upon the power of your own consciousness rather
than on anything that is external or concerning faith.
Wish fulfillment
In anahata chakra, the freedom to escape from a preordained fate and to determine
one's own destiny becomes a reality. According to the tantras, at the root of anahata there
is a wish fulfilling tree known as the kalpa taru or kalpa vriksha. When this tree starts to
fructify, whatever you think or wish comes true.
Ordinarily, we have so many wishes but they rarely assume more than the air of a
daydream. However, if they were all to become realities, we would quickly start to
question whether we want our wishes fulfilled at all. Most people prefer to depend on fate
rather than take responsibility for creating their own destiny, and well they should. There
is a fine story which is often told to illustrate this:
Once a traveller was sitting underneath a tree. He was feeling very tired and wanted
to have a drink. So he thought of a clear stream, and immediately he heard the trickle of
water flowing beside him. After drinking some water, he thought he would like to have a
little food to satisfy his hunger, and that appeared beside him also. Then, as he was
feeling tired and thought he would like to rest, there appeared before him a nice bed, and
so he went to sleep. The foolish man did not know that he had come to rest beneath the
wish fulfilling tree. In the evening when he awoke, the sun had already set and night had