Kundalini.Tantra.by.Satyananda.Saraswati

MOOLADHARA & SWADHISTHANA CHAKRAS
Swami Shankardevananda: Can you discuss the nerve complexes associated with
mooladhara and swadhisthana chakras?
Swami Vivekananda: Well, for all of these segments there are somatic nerves, which
deal with the sensory input and the voluntary motor output, and also there are the
autonomic nerves, divided into sympathetic and parasympathetic. And usually there is an
appropriate endocrine gland for each segment, like the pineal, pituitary and thyroid. The
exception is muladhara, and to date, medical science has not found an endocrine gland
associated with it. This of course does not mean that one will not be discovered in the
future.
Let us try to work out the psychophysiological aspects of mooladhara. In the male it is
actually associated with the base of the penis and with the female, the cervix. So it has a
very deep-rooted sexual link.
If you repeat a mooladhara chakra mantra and you concentrate in that area
somewhere, you will feel a certain vibration occurring. Now what is the mantra doing? Is
it stimulating some physiological organ, or is it some sort of occult stimulation? Is it
stimulating a physical organ or is it activating a lot of energy which seems to appear in a
certain place which we call a chakra? I think it is perhaps the last one of these.
Swami Shankardevananda: I believe that the mooladhara trigger point and the place
of actual experience may be different, but the general location of mooladhara chakra is
certainly in the perineum; it is clearly felt in that area. If it is felt higher, then it is not
mooladhara chakra it is swadhisthana. Either the mantra is wrong or the vibration is
stimulating something else which is more receptive and reactive.
Swami Vivekananda: Is there a physiological basis for this? It is quite possible that the
repetition of a mantra is stimulating the spinal cord. You can certainly feel it in the area
being stimulated and it is not only there, because all the fibers that are coming out from
the body are stimulated. So no matter at what level you stimulate your spiral cord, no
matter what chakra is stimulated, you are going to collect the fibers from so-called
mooladhara chakra. At swadhisthana you will also get the mooladhara chakra fibers; at
manipura you get the mooladhara fibers back to swadhisthana and manipura as well - and
all the way up. Mooladhara chakra is always there in the act because its fibers come from
the lowest part.
Swami Shankardevananda: Gould we consider the sexual energy of mooladhara and
its possible transmutation?