Question: How to define, because we are working on the chakras, for example working on the base chakra Mūlādhāra chakra how to understand that we have worked it out that it's done that she basically melted that we have passed this level?
It’s not that you are in one particular chakra, stuck there, it’s like a flute, you know, they have so many different holes. You close some holes, you produce one music, so life is… you know, you're moving at different levels at different chakras at different times. When you are in love you are in Anāhata chakra, you don't stay there, then you feel lack of power you move to this center [i.e. Maṇipūra]. You keep going up and down, can say probably most of your time you are spending in near about one chakra. Like in music you may be working in the lower frequencies for some time and then suddenly may move to a different scale and you don't stay there. Life is the music, she is generated by moving in different chakras. So how much time you are spending at each chakra depends upon what your general tendencies are, which you can define. Beyond that, you can function as a human being very occasionally taking trips to this place [i.e. viśuddhi chakra] but this [i.e. Anāhata chakra] is the safest place, it is tender, loving and compassionate place. But you need aggression, you need aggression to go ahead in life, you want to succeed in business, it has a cutting edge, it’s a competition, it's not cooperation, it's not love. So you see, you need the negative energy also but you got to use it in positive ways. For example, it's not good to have greed, but you also realize the difference in capitalism and socialism. Capitalism works because the greed of one man gives jobs to a thousand people, socialism says everybody is the same and it does not work out as well. So you need the aggressive part also; the Kālī energy is equally needed as the Sundarī energy.
These are knots, it means you go into the loops around them not knowing how to get out of it. You want to untie a thread and you can not undevelop that easily. The three knots are Brahmā granthi, Viṣṇu granthi and Rudra granthi.
Brahma Granti is the identification that I am so and so, that I am my body. All the identifications associated with – only if the body exists… if the body does not exist I won't exist, these kinds of securities. The lower two chakras together, the search for continuance in the physical body and also through the progeny. So these are two base security centers that constitute one entanglement.
The second entanglement [i.e. Viṣṇu granthi] comes from power and love. That my living is confined to or constitutes my relationships, whether the winner as a loser; the giver, or the receiver. So I live in my thoughts. If I don't have thoughts I won’t live. The second mistaken idea. This is called the Viṣṇu granthi.
The third knot is concerned with life itself. The idea that I will die; I will not exist if I die. That’s the last one, it’s called Rudra Granthi. So that you have an existence beyond the physical body, the mental body. When you cross these two bodies then you have the causal body and you live in that, that once you recognize, then this knot is unraveled.
This is a knot [i.e. Rudra granthi] of space and time, and this is a knot [i.e. Viṣṇu granthi] of love and power, the base knot is of sex and fear. They might disappear, they may loosen their hold on you, you won't worry to the same degree. For example cancer in the case of a normal person supposing suddenly getting a pain in the chest, you won't take notice, you continue to sleep. But if there is an anxiety-riddled person, he will start focusing his attention on that, it pulls him and he starts imagining things, and then he gets into a panic and can't get to sleep. The same trigger affects people in different ways, in one way in which it is escalating into an ever-growing thing, so it depends very much on the degree that you have achieved in withdrawing from a situation and being able to look at it from a distance from a perspective; if you have not learned that then you'll be more prone to anxiety and be tied into these knots.
Devipuram, March 2014
