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The Chakras are energy vortices of the energy body that comprise part of the energy system. When perfectly open and balanced, one is lead to the experience of a harmonious reality, connection to the Oneness in everything, and ultimately to union with the Divine Consciousness.
Muladhara and Kundalini Energy
In Tantric yoga teaching the colours of blood-red, yellow and gold are traditionally associated with Muladhara. Surprisingly, despite being the lowest and first of the seven major chakras, this is the bliss centre for our physical body. In Muladhara we experience joy, pleasure, passions and blissfulness in concentration; above all, this centre leads us to the bliss of realising the Divine in the physical body through sexuality. The highest forms of spirituality in the majority of cultures do not reject the body, but see it as a medium for the transmutation of body and spirit together.
Body Electric
We have bodies that are ‘wired’ for bliss. We have a subtle electrical energy grid of meridians (as understood in acupuncture) and channels of energies called nadis (in the yoga tradition) already in place. However, the grid sometimes gets blocked and the energy that flows through it reduced. Yoga and aesthetic practices purify the grid’s energy lines so that a radiant light flows as intended.
As always, the simplest methods are often the best. Notice what you think, say, eat, drink and breathe. How do you move, sit and stand, dance and sing? It’s not so much what you do that is important as how you feel, and with what sentiments you act. For anyone, the first step in the right direction is simply recognising that you are a spiritual being, born with a potential for growth into the limitless Light of Spirit.
According to Shakta Tantric doctrine, Muladhara is the place where kundalini - a latent cosmic energy - resides in every living human being. When this latent power is activated through Hatha yoga practices (pranayama, purification of the nadis, and so on), it rises through each of the spinal chakras in turn and up through the top of the head, to the Sahasrara/Crown chakra, or ‘Thousand-petaled Lotus’, above. There it unites with its opposite polarity, the Paramashiva or Supreme Godhead Consciousness, and the yogi attains total liberation from every day reality. Put more simply, kundalini is the feminine Shakti power of the eternal goddess, who wants to unite with her Lord Shiva at your Crown Chakra. She desires him and becomes impatient to unite with him; she needs to rise up your spine, surging through the chakras in ecstatic bursts of infinite Light and Power, and shimmer in your head.
Source: The Chakra Bible by Patricia Mercier
