How do I activate the Muladhar chakra? Part 1

It comes under the process of awakening of Kundalini Shakti and it goes like this….

To begin with, one has to get into a proper Vajrasana pose and that’s all as the rest everything will be taken care of thereafter.

However, one has to show a little extra patience and endurance throughout the whole course to get to the final outcome, and that is the awakening of the Kundalini Shakti.

So here we are starting with how to perform and get into a proper Vajrasana pose.

Vajrasana:

There is a difference between how we usually sit in a Vajrasana while doing daily Yoga and what sitting-in-a-Vajrasana actually means in Yogabhyas (i.e. Study of Yoga) according to Bhagwad Gita as explained in chapter 6 Dhyana Yog.

In either way, getting into the Vajrasana looks somewhat similar though; what differs is the concluding part, and here we go.

We usually get into a position of Vajrasana by kneeling down on the ground by bending our legs in the knees facing our heels upward direction so that our calf muscles would touch the back of our thighs and our heels to the buttocks, because of which the direction of our both the feet turns inward.

However, this is where we are going to make some changes to obtain a desired Vajrasana Pose.

We are not supposed to touch our heels to the buttocks to achieve what is called as real Vajrasana as this is not a pose Vajrasana meant to be.

In Vajrasana, towards the concluding part, one has to lift their buttocks a little upward from the ground so that a practitioner can poke the heel of the right foot into a stitching-like mark that exists between the anus and pee-hole.

One might have noticed that there is a stitching-like structure or mark in between these two holes in every infant, and if not, please go and have a look. Anyway.

There is still another way to go about it.

Mathematically, there exists a space equivalent to our four fingers sticking together in between these two holes (openings), and one has to leave 1 and 1/2 finger space from either side to get to the center of it.

And to reach the exact given place successfully, one has to bend or twist their soles inside a little while lowering their buttock so that it would point and poke into the anus properly.

And to do so, one might need to turn both their thighs in an outward direction on either side, giving a proper way to the soles to achieve the position. One will see that this turning of both the thighs could go almost about 45 degrees on either side.

< p>Then one has to press or poke the heel of the right foot onto that center so that the openings of both the holes get blocked owing to the extra pressure we are going to apply with our left foot now.

Meaning, having poked our right foot heel into the center, do lower the buttock towards the ground where our left foot is waiting to be placed automatically under the right foot around the angle, giving the entire position the desired firmness and stability and further applies the right kind of pressure onto that center place to successfully block both the openings.

(See, even though one is not practically blocking those two holes by inserting something in their openings, by poking into the center of these two holes and applying the right kind of pressure will serve the same purpose, that is blocking of those holes eventually.)

Following image would give a practitioner a fair idea about how much exactly one has to turn their thighs outwardly (around 45 degrees), but dislike the photo, the next thing we have to do is to ride on our right heel so that it gets poked into the center, and following which the left foot would be able to come exactly beneath it to apply the right kind of pressure.

While getting into a Vajrasana, meaning while lowering our buttocks towards the ground, one has to simultaneously put their both hands onto the ankles of both the feet respectively to provide much-needed support to the whole body, especially at this point so that it would balance itself as a result and come to a standstill eventually.

Meaning to avoid the body from getting swayed or fidgeted, we have to adjust the placements of our hands on the ankles until it leads to a standstill position.

Now after reaching this position, the body of a practitioner's looks erected on the head of the right heel, giving it a very natural look.

In the spiritual term, we call this position as Mulabandha, to which Vajrasana is a common name that we use in day-to-day life. And this is nothing but one of the Mudras or Asanas.

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How do I activate the Muladhar chakra? Part 2

Once a practitioner successfully gets into a Vajrasana, which is also known as Mulabandha, the way to exit from downward gets blocked, locking a fart-air residing around the anus part of the body inside of the body as a result.

The fart air that forms around the anus part of the body tends to leave the place every now and then for the smooth functioning of the body; however, now finds it very difficult to escape.

And hence as a result, it is compelled to retract and turn upwards direction, towards the stomach, to look out for a new way out.

However, while this is taking place inside of the practitioner’s body on one side, on the other side, his both hands, which were resting on the ankles of both feet until then, naturally begin to move towards his left foot alone to finally rest on its heel (which is placed exactly below the right one) as to gain control over his entire body once again and to balance it all over one more time.

The moment a practitioner (a Sadhak) gets into a proper Vajrasana pose; his body posture begins to look like as follows from outside.

Externally, his both the shoulders look very raised owing to the straightening of the back leading his head apparently/visibly immersed into the big cavity that forms due to an elevation of the shoulders from either side.

Simultaneously, one can even notice that his eyelids are now about their way to shut down slowly but gradually; however, a complete closing of an eye doesn’t take place in this scenario as this is not a normal closing of an eye owing to some kind of sleep.

In this case, upper eyelids fall down and lower eyelids further fall down resulting in half-opened eyes.

Meaning both the eyelids slide down towards the ground in the same direction instead of turning towards each other (which usually happens in the state of slumber) and hence do not meet one another halfway to close an eye fully, giving the eyes a half-opened look the way it looks in an Unmani state shown in the image below.

This happens because a practitioner's eyesight is forced to turn inwards towards his inner self where, by then, contractions of muscles are about to take place inside of his body.

And this is all because of the fart-air which is locked inside owing to Mulbandha which is by then still finding its new way out by making rounds in a circular motion in the belly part of the body slowly moving towards the naval area of the body in the following process.

And hence in this state, even though a practitioner consciously chooses to look outside or in an outward direction, he cannot command his sight to do so.

As his eyesight naturally or scientifically—to be precise—doesn't able to get past the tip of his nose; rather, it gets fixated over it eventually as a result.

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How do I activate the Muladhar chakra? Part 3

Awakening a Kundalini Shakti, by Lord Shri Krishna, Chapter 6, Dhyan Yog

Lord Krishna says that when a practitioner gets successfully locked in the position of Vajrasana and his head starts to tuck into the cavity that forms owing to an elevation of shoulders from either side, his eyesight slowly but gradually begins to find stability within him and hence feels very reluctant to come drifting out.

He further says that in this locked state, the desire to visit places and behold the beauty of this outer world doesn't seem to bother his eyesight anymore. Even the whole need of his sight to lay his eyes upon evaporates just like that. Rather its (eyesight’s) entire wish for that matter dies altogether for good in no time.

Further in this position, Lord says, while his shoulders are being erected and his head begins to fall downward from the foreside into his chest, there starts to form an empty space around his throat area owing to contraction of muscles taking place inside of his throat. Due to which his chin-bone starts to get caught in the cave that forms owing to this peculiar structure and eventually gets locked within.

Meaning, his chin-bone starts to stick inside in the cave which forms between his chest and throat area resulting in the disappearing of his glottal/male larynx /Kanthamani inside of his throat completely.

In this position too, a practitioner seems to get locked up around his throat area and hence called as a Bandha and this Bandha or Locking up is known as Jalandhar Bandha.

At the same time, there occurs another Bandha or takes place one more locking-of-a-position around the navel part of the practitioner known as Odhiyana Bandha.

Lord Krishna says, above the Svadhishthan Chakra/Linga Chakra/ Sacral Chakra and below the navel, i.e. above the genitals and below the navel, there takes place one more contraction of muscles owing to which his stomach starts to tuck inside but the navel/belly button comes swelling out on the surface giving his whole belly a complete plain and flat look from outside.

Because of which, meaning because of contractions of muscles happening in two different places simultaneously, it eventually casts its effect on his heart chamber. His heart chamber, as a result, gets pushed and spread more inside of his body owing to these tucking of muscles taking place at the same time.

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How do I activate the Muladhar chakra? Part 4

Towards awakening of a Kundalini Shakti

Awakening a Kundalini Shakti, by Lord Shri Krishna, Chapter 6, Dhyan Yog

Once these Bandhas took place in a practitioner’s body and practically he seems to get locked up at these two different places at the same time, he tends to face some impending but unprecedented challenges that anyone ever thinks of.

Lord Krishna says, in this position when tucking of muscles occurs at two distinct places, one can clearly get to see its entire effect on his whole body from outside whereas something else starts to happen inside of his body simultaneously.

He says though as much as it sounds thrilling and enticing, no one in their lifetime usually comes across a situation like this while living a routine life and hence when they even attempt to confront it or face it, it dawns upon them as a result.

It gives them a nerve-wracking experience that literally breaks a practitioner down and his patience and tolerance begin to fall apart at once at this stage.

In this state, Lord says a practitioner experiences that his desires are breathing their last and his natural tendencies towards this world are no longer alive and his psyche naturally dissolves in its place as a result.

He says not just that, a practitioner tends to forget about his sleep and appetite as well, as a consequence. Rather he starts to lose all the traces of his memory until it wears off completely.

He says owing to Mulabandha, that is owing to the locking of an outward way through the anus, the fart-air (an Apan Vayu) compels to turn into an upward direction to look for another way out; however, upon failing to do so, it changes its direction towards the stomach, only to learn that it is going to get stuck inside of it only, owing to the Odhiyana Bandha that was already took place as a result of a perfect and accurate Vajrasana pose.

And hence in the search of a new way out, it begins to fill the upper part of the body as a result.

Lord says, by then it begins to roam around the belly part of a practitioner leading his upper body to naturally look swollen than usual from outside and a belly part gets tucked inside as a result. However, for a fart air, it starts to get worse than this and so to a practitioner.

Meaning having spent enough time in there and finally realizing that it is unpleasantly got caught up into something described as inescapable, which is owing to the locking up around the navel area, it starts to literally get irked by the very thought of it.

And having spent some more time in there unwillingly, it evidently gets really perturbed owing to still-not-able-to-find-another-way-out, and in order to protest, begins to angrily make rounds of the place in a circular motion (i.e. around the naval) like some raging bull, giving a practitioner a real hard time.

Now that it has been evoked by rage, it begins to fight with the Manipur Chakra located in there, i.e. located around the naval part of a body by gyrating around it by roaring and making some big noise.

As it keeps making rounds of the stomach angrily, there creates a havoc-like situation in the body of a practitioner which in turn finally creates a big deal of storm inside a whole part of his stomach.

Lord says in retaliation, this fart-air carries out an act of vandalism in his whole stomach to teach him a good and unforgettable lesson at all costs.

It starts with creating a mess in his stomach to seriously harm its very shape and structure for good, leading it to clear all the filth and dirt stored in there since his childhood until then. (One of the major benefits towards an awakening.)

Further, as it still not able to find any room to get more inside, it enters into the intestine of a practitioner.

In there, with the full force of its passing, it destroys mucus and bile/acidity as a result and ruins them all at once for good (a benefit) and further damages the structure of the seven tissues present in the body by literally breaking through it as a token towards his rage to completely disturb their whole form and shape once and for all as a consequence.

They are as follows:

1. Rasa dhatu = body fluids

2. Rakta dhatu = blood

3. Mamsa dhatu = Muscular tissue

4. Meda dhatu = Adipose tissue / Fat

5. Asthi Dhatu = Bony tissue

6. Majja Dhatu = Bone marrow and nervous tissue

7. Shukra Dhatu = Generative tissue (including semen and ovum constituents)

It then disturbs and shakes all the organs present in the body of a practitioner giving him a real fearful experience of his lifetime which naturally leads him to think that all his body organs and body parts are no longer in their right place in the body and would never be the same for the rest of his life for the smooth functioning of his body henceforth.

Lord says not only this, owing to increased agitation, it further breaks down the mountains of the adipose tissue (storage of fats, a benefit) and removes the marrow from its bones for good. (a benefit)

And before a practitioner can able to cope up with all the mess going inside of him, he comes to one more realization or fact that this fart air in the form of a giant force present in his body is not going to take easy on him and not going to calm down any time soon, rather would show him some more of its horrific sides to make him repent later.

As he starts to sense this when it is happening in his stomach on one hand, on the other hand he experiences that this giant force of air is now moving through all the empty spaces that exist in his body with full force, including empty spaces present in between his body veins which we usually call it as a Nadi which carries Pranavayu / breathing-air in them and making them free from ever being entangled with one another and saving them from ever being intertwined with each other so that twisting of veins will never ever happen to the practitioner in the future. (a benefit)

At this point, Lord Krishna says, this is what naturally happens to a practitioner or a Sadhak when he gets into a proper Vajrasana pose towards the process of awakening the Kundalini Shakti.

Meaning these are the things bound to happen as a part of the course or a procedure to a practitioner and hence he/she never forsakes their patience and endurance for good at any cost at any given time until the successful awakening of their Kundalini.

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How do I activate the Muladhar chakra? Part 5

Awakening a Kundalini Shakti, by Lord Shri Krishna, Chapter 6, Dhyan Yog.

Lord Krishna further says that while all this and much more is happening in a practitioner’s entire body as a result of the rapidly moving of the fart-air in the gaps of his body veins by taking the form of a dreadful storm, a practitioner further begins to feel that, rather senses that this so-called fart-air is now blending all the five elements of which a human body is usually comprised of (i.e. air, water, earth, fire, and space) into one another that too in a very inappropriate manner leaving him feeling more anxious and worried than ever, adding further to his distress.

As a result, he begins to fill with a doubt that what is exactly happening to him and what would be the consequences of all this in a later stage or is he even on the right path to the awakening as he starts to believe that he made him seriously involved in something unpleasant and hazardous.

Rather he goes to an extent to think that what-type-of-a-disorder-or-malady-is-this which sets in his body with no prior notice which no one in this whole damn world would be able to rectify it later in any way and help him get into his earlier form and shape once again and hence gets too apprehensive, unwilling and nervous at the same time to hold on to this position anymore as a result.

Lord says, at this stage, a Sadhak (a practitioner) tends to feel extremely sick and down from which he is afraid that he would never be able to return to a state of normalcy. Rather feels that surviving from all this should be given the most priority which becomes a real matter of concern for him at that very moment.

However, Lord asks a practitioner to show some extra patience and conviction in their perseverance by not giving in to the situation and the circumstances irrespective of how scary and frightening they ever present themselves, especially at this very stage when something unthinkable or unimaginable is going to happen to them in no time towards the process of awakening.

So to uplift their courage they should not let their focus wander from their purpose; rather, it is required of them to stick to it no matter what to achieve for what they are set off to seek in the first place.

As He says this is not all of it and not an end of the game yet; this is yet another beginning. The real matter of concern is yet to arrive when a sleeping Kundalini finally gets awakened owing to the whole mess happening around her due to a vengeful fart-air owing to his agitation and rage and as a surprise adds more to it by contributing her portion as well in this ongoing mess.

He says while this mess or so-called upheaval is going on in a Sadhak’s body on one hand, on the other hand, a Kundalini Shakti which resides at the base of the navel compels to wake up owing to all this.

Lord Krishna says a Kundalini Shakti that had been sleeping for ages until so far, rather remains in a state of slumber in a human’s body for ages as no attempts were made or ever took place to shake her up from her deep sleep, now feels forced to wake up owing to a great deal of heat She begins to feel around her which is a cause and effect of the storm-like situation happening in the base part of the body as a result of the forged Vajrasana pose that already cast its effects on the whole body by then.

And when She wakes up from her sleep and goes about doing her business, i.e. carrying out her share of the mess, Lord says it is required of Him to elaborate some details about her looks and appearance before He could get into the further narration, as describing her looks fascinates Him as much as her contribution towards the upliftment of a practitioner and hence should be given equal significance or else it would be a real injustice to a Kundalini and this whole storytelling.

So to describe her looks, Lord Krishna says, like some snakeling (a baby-child of a snake) daubed in reddish vermilion powder (a Kumkum), a Kundalini had been sleeping until then at the base of a navel by coiling her body up in just 3 and 1/2 rounds around herself by facing into a downward direction and on top of that, when awakens, looks naturally famished owing to not having eaten anything in ages.

To get a clear idea about her looks, Lord Krishna further elaborates it by taking different points of view into account.

He states that when given a chance to multiple people to have a good look at her, every beholder would get a different notion of her appearance according to their vision of her.

He narrates that some might see that She resembles a blazing fire band kept folded at the navel of the body which is continually radiating light rays from within or on the other side some might feel that she looks like some bangles made out of lightning sitting in there nicely and tidily or for some it looks like a tiny piece in a form of a coil made out of pure gold placed there.

He says such a Kundalini has been sitting nicely and properly at the base of a navel as of now by forcibly tying herself down around her body; however, wakes up now owing to the great heat generated in the body which she finds not only annoying and suffocating but also tweaking and squeezing.

Lord Krishna says see Partha, how She is slowly coming to her senses and becoming aware of her surroundings. He says while waking up and uncoiling her body, she twists and bends it in all directions in the process to loosen up after a long deep sleep and upon fully awakening, sits up at the base of the navel itself.

Lord further says and when She fully awakens and finally comes to her senses, She looks more radiant than ever like a shooting star.

He says being already famished for days and owing to the irritating way of waking Her up, she gets annoyed as a result and decides to give another round of menace to a Sadhak. And thus takes on another form of the actual mess in a Sadhak’s body and thereby in his whole life by actually turning into a threat to his entire life and to begin with spreads-open her mouth vigorously in the upward direction to look out for something to grab on to fulfill her ever undying hunger.

To be continued...