Kundalini.Tantra.by.Satyananda.Saraswati

lowest states of awareness to the higher states of consciousness. The culmination of the
growth of the lotus is a beautiful flower. In the same way, the culmination of man's
spiritual quest is the awakening and blossoming of human potential.
So each of the principal chakras can be visualized as a lotus flower with a specific
color and number of petals as follows:
Mooladhara
Swadhisthana
Manipura
Anahata
Vishuddhi
Ajna
Sahasrara
- 4 petalled deep red lotus
- 6 petalled vermilion lotus
- 10 petalled bright yellow lotus
- 12 petalled blue lotus
- 16 petalled violet lotus
- 2 petalled silver-grey lotus
- 1000 petalled multicolored or red lotus.
In each chakra six things are combined : 1) the chakra color, 2) the petals of the lotus
flower, 3) the yantra or geometrical shape, 4) the bija mantra, 5) the animal symbol, 6)
the higher or divine symbol. Each chakra contains an animal and divine beings. The
animals represent your previous evolution and instincts, and the divine beings represent
higher consciousness.
In my exposition of the chakras I may say a chakra is a particular color, but if you are
a good yogic aspirant and in your concentration on that chakra you realize another color,
that is the truth for you. Your experiences are just as valid as mine, but one thing is
definite, as you move up through the chakras, the frequencies of the colors become more
subtle and more powerful.
Chakra kshetram
In many of the practices of kundalini yoga we have to concentrate or focus our
awareness on the chakra trigger points in the spinal cord. However, many people find it
easier to concentrate on the chakra kshetram located on the front surface of the body. In
kriya yoga particularly, the chakra kshetram are utilized in many of the practices. The
kshetram can be regarded as reflections of the original chakra trigger points, and when
we concentrate on them it creates a sensation which passes through the nerves to the
chakra itself and then travels up to the brain.
Mooladhara does not have a kshetram, but swadhisthana, manipura, anahata,
vishuddhi and ajna have physical counterparts directly in front of them on the same
horizontal plane. Swadhisthana kshetram is at the level of the pubic bone in front of the
body just above the genital organ. Manipura kshetram is at the navel, anahata kshetram is
at the heart and vishuddhi kshetram is located on the front surface of the throat pit in the
vicinity of the thyroid gland. Ajna kshetram is bhrumadhya, the mid-eyebrow center.