Kundalini.Tantra.by.Satyananda.Saraswati

Swami Vivekananda: If a person's behavior is accepted by society, then he is a hero. If
it is unacceptable he is a psychopath. It reminds me of the old joke that you can murder
someone if the government approves of it. This is interesting because these people have
that same kind of drive. They are driven by an overactive mianipura chakra.
Mooladhara chakra deals principally in security, swadhisthana principally with
pleasure, rnanipura principally with assertiveness, courage and personal power, anahata
with love, vishuddhi with communication out and also the ability, mainly because of the
perception of our external environment, to feel at home virtually anywhere. It is a state of
consciousness that is inherent in vishuddhi chakra. When it develops to a certain point
you can be sitting on a pile of garbage and still everything is just right. Ajna chakra of
course, deals with intellect, intuition and psychic power (siddhis) such as telepathy.
As well as these qualities within the different chakras there is another parameter,
which is the degree of evolution. Each one of us has these circuits constitutionally
energized to different degrees. One person may have a lot of energization of
swadhisthana chakra; that person is very much pleasure bent, and has perhaps less
development at manipura or anahata.
Swami Shankardevananda: This would be very much a hormonal thing depending
mainly on the drive from the hypothalamus.
Swami Vivekananda: That is right. I have not thought very much about what governs
the constitutional factors of it. Each one of us is proportionately energized differently in
different chakra circuits. Each one of us strikes a different chord. There is a different
frequency of energization of the chakras. There are individual differences between each
one of us, because each one of us has different degrees of evolution of the quality of the
manifestation of each of the chakras. A sociopath who goes round beating up old ladies to
steal their handbags, and an astronaut, may have the same chord. They may be identical
in the level of activity of each of the chakras, but the guy who is an astronaut, hopefully,
has a higher degree of evolution in most of his chakras. So these are two important
parameters which define the qualities of the chakras - percentage of activity and degree of
evolution. These define the character of each person.
Swami Shankardevananda: You mentioned that there are chakras which express
energy and certain chakras which take in energy.
Swami Vivekananda: No, what I was saying is that we know these circuits exist in
anatomical form, that there are whole areas down there in the body which do not only
trigger off something up here (in the brain), but are also triggered by something up here.
And we know that there are, for instance, the hunger and the sensual centers in the
hypothalamus. We know that they are directly connected with the relevant organs in the
body. As the hunger builds up, more neuronal activity builds up within those circuits.
And if an emotional component comes into it, it's very likely that other parts of the limbic
system will start generating energy too. You will go rushing around to get something to