Kundalini.Tantra.by.Satyananda.Saraswati

Vishuddhi represents a state of openness in which life is regarded as the provider of
experiences that lead to greater understanding. One ceases to continually avoid the
unpleasant aspects of life and seek the pleasant. Instead there is a flowing with life,
allowing things to happen in the way that they must. Both poison and nectar are
consumed in vishuddhi chakra, and they are understood to be but parts of a greater
cosmic whole. Proper understanding and true discrimination dawn out of this equal
acceptance of the dualities and polarities of life.
The more abstract aspect of vishuddhi is the faculty of higher discrimination. Hence
any communication received telepathic ally can be tested here for its correctness and
accuracy. Similarly, vishuddhi allows us to differentiate between realization coming into
our consciousness from the higher levels of knowledge, and the mere babblings of our
unconscious mind and wishful thinking.
Vishuddhi chakra is often treated as an insignificant chakra in the scheme of
kundalini yoga. People are more concerned with mooladhara, anahata and ajna, and
therefore the significance of vishuddhi is easily disregarded. In fact, the reverse attitude
may even be more appropriate.
The location point
Vishuddhi chakra is in the cervical plexus directly behind the throat pit. Its kshetram
is in the front of the neck, at the throat pit or thyroid gland. The physiological
concomitants of vishuddhi are the pharyngeal and laryngeal nerve plexi.
Traditional symbology
Some tantric texts say vishuddhi chakra is represented by a dark grey colored lotus,
however, it seems to be more commonly perceived as a purple lotus of sixteen petals.
These sixteen petals correspond to the number of nadis associated with this center. On
each petal one of the Sanskrit vowels is inscribed in crimson - am, aam, im, eem, um,
ооm, rim, reem, lrim, lreem, em, aim, om, aum, am, ah. In the pericarp of this lotus is a
circle which is white like the full moon, representing the element of ether or akasha. This
ethereal region is the gateway to liberation for one whose senses are pure and controlled.
Within this moon shape is a snow white elephant, also symbolic of the akasha element.
This is considered as the vehicle of consciousness of this plane, and the aspirant may
picture himself upon its back. The bija mantra is ham, also pure white, which is the seed
sound or vibration of the etheric element.
The presiding deity of vishuddhi is Sadashiva, who is snow white, three-eyed and
five-faced, with ten arms and clothed in a tiger's skin. The goddess is Sakini who is purer
than the ocean of nectar that flows down from the moon region. Her raiment is yellow
and in her four hands she holds the bow, the arrow, the noose and the goad.