Kundalini.Tantra.by.Satyananda.Saraswati

Swami Vivekananda: Yes, I suppose manipura chakra is an expressive chakra and if
you feel high in manipura, then it would tend to flow out love more than feel the
experience of love, which is anahata. It gets a bit complicated and it gets into an area
which I had not thought of.
Swami Shankardevananda: There is a definite connection between mooladhara and
ajna. Also, there appears to be a connection between swadhisthana, vishuddhi and bindu,
a very direct connection, and lalana, which is a sub-chakra of vishuddhi. Then it seems
that manipura and anahata are also related. This intimate connection between the chakras
is symbolized by the seven candles on the Hebrew candlestand (menorah). This is a
representation of how chakras are interacting, but actually it is a much more complicated
diagram in which all chakras interact with each other. We can regard mooladhara and
swadhisthana as being tamasic chakras, manipura and anahata as being predominantly
rajasic, and vishuddhi and ajna as being sattvic. These pairs function together. Vishuddhi
and ajna, for example, are connected on a receptive, expressive merger, one being active
and the other being receptive.
Swami Vivekananda: But I see rajasic and tamasic qualities being in each of the
chakras and I see the chakras as being horizontal rather than a vertical ladder form. I just
see that they have qualities all the way through them from rajasic, right through to sattvic.
Swami Shankardevananda: That is also true. Some people think the word tamasic
carries moralistic connotations.
Swami Vivekananda: In evolution, is the bliss that the yogi experiences any different
to the bliss of orgasm? It might be at a more highly evolved level. Is the selfish love of
mother for child, to the exclusion of all other children, anything more than just a lower
level of transcendental love?
Swami Shankardevananda: In his article on kundalini, Carl Jung says that from above
manipura chakra you leave the whole sphere of the earth behind, the individuality, and
the diaphragm which lies at the manipura level could be an important anatomical
separating component as far as the chakras are concerned. And the movement away from
individual love towards universal love takes place at that point just above the diaphragm;
anahata chakra.
Swami Vivekananda: It is very likely that these different opinions are all right. The
mountain looks different from different angles, but from above you see all the people
looking at the same mountain. The problem comes when you go back down to earth and
talk to all the individual people. It is very difficult to describe what you experienced
when you saw the whole mountain. This is why we get so many different opinions,
philosophies and religions.