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21 Nov 2013 15 Comments

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New-agey types always

talk of anahata, sahasrar
or agna chakras. But what
of the “lowest,” the
muladhara chakra? Isn’t it important at
all?Sadhguru explains why this oft-
overlooked chakra is of great
consequence to a seeker.

Sadhguru: If you look at the human

body just after conception, it is just a tiny
ball of meat. That tiny ball of meat has
slowly arranged itself into what it is now.
To arrange itself in this particular way,
there is a kind of software which is known
as pranamaya kosha or energy body. The
energy body forms itself first and the
physical body starts manifesting over
that. If there are any distortions in the
energy body, they will also manifest in the
physical body. It is because of this that in
this culture, when a woman was
pregnant, she used to go to the temple
and get blessings from people – they were
trying to influence the energy body. If a
pregnant woman has a very vibrant, well-
formed energy body, she will deliver a

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very capable human being.

Muladhara –
Foundation matters
The muladhara chakra is the foundation
of the energy body. Nowadays, people
think it is the lowest chakra and not
worth working upon. Anyone who thinks
the foundation is something we needn’t
take care of is living in a fool’s paradise.
The foundation is the most important
thing. The muladhara is the most
important thing. When we do yoga, we
are more focused on the muladhara than
anything else because if you stabilize this,
the rest is easy to create. If the foundation
of the building is loose and we try to hold
up the building, it will be a daily circus.
That is what has happened to human life
– holding themselves in some state of
balance and wellbeing every day is a
circus for most human beings. But if your
muladhara is stable, life or death, you will
be stable because your foundation is good
and we can fix the other things later. But
if the foundation is unstable, anxiety is
natural.

Perils of experience-
hunting
If Grace has to transmit itself, you need
to have an appropriate body. If you do
not have an appropriate body and Grace
descends on you big time, you will only
fuse out. Many people want big
experiences but they are not willing to
transform their body to be able to conduct
those experiences. So many in the world
have lost their minds or broken their
bodies because they went experience-
hunting.

In yoga, you
don’t chase
experience, you
only prepare.
The ability
That is how it to
was with the venture
Saptarishis – the and
first seven
disciples of
adventure
Adiyogi. They into
simply prepared whatever
and prepared. you want
They never

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asked for
anything. They
at any
simply prepared moment
for eighty-four will come
years and when to you if
Adiyogi saw that
they were so
your
prepared, he muladhara
couldn’t hold is well-
back anything. established.
He had to give it
all. But today’s
world has
become like this – “Sadhguru, I am here
for two days, can you enlighten me?”

The yogic systems always focused on the

muladhara chakra. It is only in recent
times that non-practicing “yogis” have
written books and say you must focus on
higher chakras. This high and low
business is too entrenched in book-
reading minds but that is not how life
works. Some years ago, I used to conduct
two or three-day programs in Hata Yoga.
Just doing asanas, people would burst out
laughing and crying. Most yogis just use a
few simple postures to break the
limitations of who they are. That is how
Hata Yoga is. Hata Yoga means balance.
Balance does not mean sanity. If you
want your life to be exuberant, you need
to have some madness in you. But if you
become compulsively insane, you lost it.

When we talk about balance, we are not

talking about sanity, we are talking about
finding that perch between sanity and
insanity where you can venture and
adventure. Madness is an adventure. It is
a most wonderful thing as long as it is in
control. If you lose control it will become
ugly. Similarly, sanity is a beautiful thing
but if you become perfectly sane, you are
as good as dead. This ability to venture
and adventure into whatever you want at
any moment will come to you if your
muladhara is well-established.

Editor’s Note: “Mystic’s Musings”

includes more of Sadhguru’s insights on
chakras, tantra and kundalini. Read the
free sample [pdf] or purchase the ebook.

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