Kundalini.Tantra.by.Satyananda.Saraswati

fully, but as a detached witness. Life flows like a fast current and you surrender and move
with it.
Moving on from ajna to sahasrara
To reach ajna chakra it requires sadhana, discipline, firm belief and persistent effort.
With our present state of mind it is not possible to know how to reach sahasrara, but once
ajna chakra becomes active, you develop superior perception and you realize how
sahasrara can be reached. It's like setting out on a journey from Munger to Marine Drive,
Bombay. The most important stage of the journey is the long train trip to Bombay. Once
you are there, reaching Marine Drive is no problem. It's easy to find the way, you just
take a taxi and go there. So, in my opinion, it is not important for us to know how to
reach sahasrara from ajna chakra, but it is essential for us to know how to awaken ajna.
Chapter 4
Mooladhara Chakra
The Sanskrit word moola means 'root or foundation' and that is precisely what this
chakra is. Mooladhara is at the root of the chakra system and its influences are at the root
of our whole existence. The impulses of life rise through the body and flower as the
widest expansion of our awareness in the area known as sahasrara. It seems a great
paradox that this earthiest and most basic of the chakras guides us to the highest
consciousness.
In Samkhya philosophy, the concept of mooladhara is understood as moola prakriti,
the transcendental basis of physical nature. The whole universe and all its objects must
have some basis from which they evolve and to which they return after dissolution. The
original source of all evolution is moola prakriti. Mooladhara, as the basis of moola
prakriti, is responsible for everything that manifests in the world of name and form.
In tantra, mooladhara is the seat of kundalini shakti, the basis from which the
possibility of higher realization arises. This great potential is said to be lying dormant in
the form of a coiled serpent. When aroused, it makes its way upward through sushumna
nadi in the spinal cord until it reaches sahasrara where the ultimate experience of
enlightenment occurs. Therefore, the awakening of mooladhara is considered to be of
great importance in kundalini yoga.
The location point
The seat of mooladhara in the male body is located slightly inside the perineum,
midway between the scrotum and the anus. It is the inner aspect of that nerve complex
which carries all kinds of sensations and is immediately connected with the testes. In the
female body, mooladhara chakra lies on the posterior side of the cervix.