#5 - Mooladhara Chakra
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Sophia Joseph
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April 20, 1985 (Birmingham, England)
Mooladhara Chakra
Birmingham Seminar
Today I wanted to talk about Mooladhara which is a very important subject. I think I have talked about it many times. But, in the West I must say because of our wrong attitudes, and acceptance of wrong mental projections of other people who are very dominating we have very much ruined our Mooladhara.
Despite the fact that Kundalini has risen with whatever weaker power that Mooladhara had and has sustained itself, we must know that we can always fall in a trap to our different bifurcations which we have created before. It's a very serious matter, that the Mooladhara chakra has been really shattered and we have created pathways into which our attention can go if we are not very careful.
Now supposing if somebody is a dishonest person or a miserly person, or money oriented, it is very gross and you can see it so clearly. You see yourself and you get so shocked "Why did I say such a thing? Why did I do such a thing?" But when it comes to the left side nonsense, sins against the Mother, it's a secretive action, that's only between you and yourself. Nobody knows what goes on in your mind, except you. Nobody knows what you are going to do next moment in your privacy when you are alone.
Nobody can look into you except for your Mother. I also only feel your Mooladharas.... To be very frank with you that's one center I find it difficult to feel myself. The reason is, I have a very, very strong Mooladhara, which is not so sensitive, I would say. It is not bothered. The attention of my Mooladhara doesn't go near any other Mooladhara.
It just recedes back; that's the action it plays all the time. So I also do not feel it unless and until it is very badly off, I mean the person is very close to me, then I feel the Mooladhara very strongly. But still I cannot. Supposing you give me something, that thing is used by you, immediately I can feel it. So the correction of Mooladhara entirely depends on you. And without a strong Mooladhara you cannot rise high, do what you like.
Now for people who are Indians, who have respected their Mooladharas, there are so many methods and ways given how to raise the power of Mooladhara. But that won't work out with the Western people, because it's a damaged one. It's one which is a shattered one, and which does not work on the physical side of the Mooladhara, but on the emotional side as we call the "Mana", the left side.
So, even you may not talk in that way, but your mind is still in that realm. And you still think on that realm. Even mentally, you are in it. Or you are seeing things, wanting to see such things, wanting to enjoy such things. That lurking attraction is still there. Your Mooladhara cannot stand up. And we have to realize, I'm talking to Western people. I would not say the same to the people from India.
So now we have to work out much harder. To be on the watch-out to deal with yourself. And it is more a mental activity, "mental", meaning the emotional side. You have to watch your mind. In English, it's a very funny word "mind" is. But, "Mana", through which we cater to our emotional side, to our desires, where is it going? Where is this movement of our mind? What is it doing? You have to stand against your mind, stand against your desires, or you can face it and see for yourself clearly what's happening .
It's for you to decide. Nobody is going to correct you on this point. I know you people have been confessing to me, I never read your letters, to be very frank. Whatever letters you sent, I would not read them. Whatever confessions you have made, I burnt all those letters. I haven't got any idea as to what you wrote. Nor do I want to know about it. That's not my concern. My concern is that, now do not dwell upon the same ideas, on the same level. Or on any level whatsoever, we can say.
It is in thoughtless awareness you can combat the thoughts that come to You from wrong type of Mooladhara. Maybe some of you have got bhoots on your Mooladhara. And we have some physical treatment for such bhoots also, which I'll tell to Gavin sometime which you can ask. But you cannot always say that "It is a bhoot and I'm alright. I'm away from the bhoot." You are not, Whenever you say "I have a bhoot," means you yourself are siding with the bhoot.
You see a person as a Sakshi (in witness state), that means you see the person but you do not get a reaction, which is killer of joy. You yourself can feel your Mooladharas very well. You can feel it on your finger tips also. And be alert about it. If you want to be kind to yourself know that you have to divert your attention towards a sane married life. But that also should not be too much. Because what I have learned now, that in the West people have devised methods of transferring that attention from one person to another. Mental acrobatics of different type they have devised to destroy their pure attention. Don't play onto these.
There are so many other things by which we express that we are still under the trap of bad Mooladhara. The way you dress up, the way, you walk, the way you sit, the way you talk, the way you behave. To impress other people. I am to be impressed by other people in Sahaja Yoga itself. The only impression that should really work is the height of ascent that others have achieved. You can do it, it's not difficult. When the Kundalini can rise with all shattered. Mooladharas, I'm sure you can cure your Mooladhara completely. But your question is first of all of strengthening the Mooladhara, for which I think you all have to go into a kind of tapasya.
That's why I say sometimes that the Western people should take to less of meat, especially the red meats and beef, and horses and dogs-and I don't know what else you eat. Take more to vegetarian food. I'm not saying vegetarianism, you understand that. Take more to things which do not give you so much heat. Even fish is very good. So take to a life which is in a way ascetic, but don't take to these horrible 'health foods' also. I can't tolerate them I tell you. They're not meant for human beings, but for animals I think. They churn your stomach completely and it's horrible. This country store thing I took once and I said "had enough of it." Country store-the whole country went into my stomach.
So for you people where to go? Those who are suffering from Mooladhara must know that food does make a difference, in the powers of Mooladhara, So if you have to get it cured, first of all you have to soothe it down, it is overexcited, overexcited. Any man you touch, any woman you touch, any woman you look at.... I just don't understand, it's worse than monkeys ! You have to soothe it down, cool it down, so that Ganesha bestows his blessings upon your Mooladhara. There's no grace. But it's not so outside that I can say that "you must respect yourself," It cannot work out with those words I know.
You have to sit down, do meditation and try to soothe it down. I'll discuss with Gavin and tell him what things can be done about it, because I can't tell you in the open like this. But still this is all physical. Mentally you must be on the watch to see where does this mind go -to dirty things. Why does it always go to this sensation. See the birds, see the flowers, see the nature, see the beautiful people, just see them.
Another horrible thing in the West is that the women must expose their body to get men excited. Men do the same I think. They always try to excite each other and live in a stupid excitement.
You have to expose beautiful things, like flowers, beautiful ornaments, alright. But you're not a thing! It's your private property. You don't put all your gold on the streets, do you? Better try that, sometimes. You will mind people plundering your gold, but you don't mind your chastity being plundered ! Everyone looking at you with dirty eyes, you don't feel insulted! Because ego is a dirty stuff. It does not mind. It feels happy that people are watching you. They are plundering you, they are footing your chastity. But Sahaja Yogis are not like that. But still I must say you must cleanse your hearts, cleanse your minds, take yourself out of it.
The minds are very funnily placed and that's why the biggest complications there are-in the brains of people. They are very confused. Very confused people. Because there is no wisdom in this kind of life, become just a sex-oriented personality. it is actually just the other way round. If you are money-oriented, you want to preserve money; if you are possession-oriented you want to preserve it; if you get one little antique piece you want to preserve it; and why not this property of yours which is the highest of all, to be preserved, to be adorned, to be worshiped?
I'm quite worried on that point, that secretly people are indulging into such things. And they're hypocritical sometimes, they don't mind being hypocritical about it. They are Sahaja Yogis, alright, but in this matter they think they can go about the way they like. And sometimes some of them say that Mother has said it's alright. I never said so! There's one point I can never compromise in this. You must have a chaste outlook towards yourself, towards your life, towards your being, towards your personality. You are saints. And if a saint doesn't have a good character -I call it the character, the essence of character- he is not a saint.
So this purity has to be maintained. There cannot be any compromise on that. You cannot hit at the roots of everything. If it works out, in a collective way, nobody cheats oneself, nobody deceives oneself. And puts the mind into the right track of ascent. Thinking about the ascent, how you are going to rise, thinking of the moment when you had the joys, thinking of the day where you met me first, thinking of all the other beautiful and holy things, your mind can be cleansed. And whenever such a thought comes in, you have to say, "not this, not this". It's more mental than physical I tell you. I know it's difficult, but if you can get realization why not this also?
You all have to understand that there is no compromise on this. And a day may come if you continue with it, you will be thrown away completely, just like any other devil is thrown out. So there is no compromise. Tell yourself, don't deceive yourself don't cheat yourself. You cannot ascend if there is any lurking thing within you. You will be dragged down, because that's your weakness, and you will become weaker, and weaker and weaker.
Only question is where is your attention. Divert it. Divert your attention. First you will need some exercise, some effort, and afterward it will come automatically. You won't have to exert, you won't have to worry; on the contrary, it will become impossible how to be otherwise. So much conditioning is there. We have played into the hands of conditioning, we have ruined ourselves. This conditioning is the subtlest of all, and the worst of all. Its impossible to combat in Sahaja Yoga, unless and until you individually take up the responsibility of looking after it.
Mooladhara is one of the most delicate, and the most powerful chakra. It has so many folds and it has so many dimensions. If your Mooladhara is not alright your memory will fail. If your Mooladhara is not alright, to begin with, your wisdom will fail. You will have no sense of direction. The insanity that is now crawling up in America before they become forty years of age, is because their Mooladharas are out. Most of the diseases which are incurable come because of weak Mooladharas, on the physical side. On the mental side, most of the mental problems we saw there, I would say 90% , are due to weak Mooladhara. If a person has a strong Mooladhara, powerful Mooladhara, it doesn't get into trouble. Because you know there's a very strong hold of the Mooladhara in the back there.
And when your mind goes off, you blame the brain. It's not the brain, mostly it's the Mooladhara. So for physical safety and for your emotional safety also, you have to have a sane type of attitude towards Mooladhara. That's why I'm very anxious that you all should get married, and after marriage, after a few days, you find that your attention starts diverting to other problems of married life.
But not if you are not a Sahaja Yogi, because the sensationalization has become the main theme of modern life. And you are tossed about on the rough sea of all these deliberate actions of the people. Media, books, ideas, everything, creates this horrible excitable temperament within you.
Such a person doesn't have any patience, doesn't have any balance. Actually he's hypocritical, and has a very bad Vishuddhi. So many complications take place with this before realization. Forget the past. Whatever you have done, forget it. Just don't worry. But remember one thing, that you have damaged your Mooladhara, so you have to bring it to normalcy. You have to make it a healthy, balanced center, so that Shri Ganesha can rule over it.
Talking about Shri Ganesha, you know vibrations become too much for me.
We talk of innocence, but to awaken innocence within ourselves we must be on the full watch, on the full alertness about our minds. "What is it thinking? Where is it going? Where is this thief going? Is he trying to do some tricks? Is he up to some tricks? Alright!" You have to be alert, very alert.
I've been thinking of talking about it since long. But now I have to tell you one thing. That you'll be exposed! That is another quality of Mahamaya. She'll expose you. You'll be exposed! If you try to play tricks with me. "With me" means with your Kundalini. If you try to play tricks with your Kundalini you'll be exposed. And you'll be ashamed of yourselves. So please be careful, very careful about it. That again make your Mooladhara very healthy, and powerful.
May God bless you.
So our prayer should be that "Let our Mooladhara be healthy and strong". That's all. Let's pray.
There are certain exercises for Mooladhara. I will explain to Gavin who is your leader in England. Then he will pass it on to you. It should be done verbally. It should not be written down. The leaders of the ashrams and other places should come and see me every month sometime, and these things should be talked. Because it's a secret, not to be discussed openly, it's a secret, between you and yourself. It should not be written down anywhere, it should not be mentioned but should be worked out by all of you, in such a way that you enjoy the bliss of Shri Ganesha. Is more for the ladies, I would say, than for men. Because men suffer much more than women do. And that's why women must be very careful. Develop very good relationships with your brothers. Unless and until you really establish your high character, men cannot be improved.
You have seen in India women do not like it if anyone tries to look at them, or tries to touch them. They don't like it. Women have killed themselves, burnt themselves up, -thousands of them- because they thought some other people may come and touch their body. It's so related to your Atma,, to your Spirit. As if it is the body-innocence is the body of your Spirit. You all can be that, because you have become Yoginis now. They were not Yoginis, but they knew one thing the power of their chastity. It's more for ladies here, that they should try to generate that feeling of nobility, of chastity, of holiness around them, so that the men themselves respect them and develop that feeling within themselves.
Thank you very much.
--Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Mooladhara Chakra
Birmingham Seminar
Today I wanted to talk about Mooladhara which is a very important subject. I think I have talked about it many times. But, in the West I must say because of our wrong attitudes, and acceptance of wrong mental projections of other people who are very dominating we have very much ruined our Mooladhara.
Despite the fact that Kundalini has risen with whatever weaker power that Mooladhara had and has sustained itself, we must know that we can always fall in a trap to our different bifurcations which we have created before. It's a very serious matter, that the Mooladhara chakra has been really shattered and we have created pathways into which our attention can go if we are not very careful.
Now supposing if somebody is a dishonest person or a miserly person, or money oriented, it is very gross and you can see it so clearly. You see yourself and you get so shocked "Why did I say such a thing? Why did I do such a thing?" But when it comes to the left side nonsense, sins against the Mother, it's a secretive action, that's only between you and yourself. Nobody knows what goes on in your mind, except you. Nobody knows what you are going to do next moment in your privacy when you are alone.
Nobody can look into you except for your Mother. I also only feel your Mooladharas.... To be very frank with you that's one center I find it difficult to feel myself. The reason is, I have a very, very strong Mooladhara, which is not so sensitive, I would say. It is not bothered. The attention of my Mooladhara doesn't go near any other Mooladhara.
It just recedes back; that's the action it plays all the time. So I also do not feel it unless and until it is very badly off, I mean the person is very close to me, then I feel the Mooladhara very strongly. But still I cannot. Supposing you give me something, that thing is used by you, immediately I can feel it. So the correction of Mooladhara entirely depends on you. And without a strong Mooladhara you cannot rise high, do what you like.
Now for people who are Indians, who have respected their Mooladharas, there are so many methods and ways given how to raise the power of Mooladhara. But that won't work out with the Western people, because it's a damaged one. It's one which is a shattered one, and which does not work on the physical side of the Mooladhara, but on the emotional side as we call the "Mana", the left side.
So, even you may not talk in that way, but your mind is still in that realm. And you still think on that realm. Even mentally, you are in it. Or you are seeing things, wanting to see such things, wanting to enjoy such things. That lurking attraction is still there. Your Mooladhara cannot stand up. And we have to realize, I'm talking to Western people. I would not say the same to the people from India.
So now we have to work out much harder. To be on the watch-out to deal with yourself. And it is more a mental activity, "mental", meaning the emotional side. You have to watch your mind. In English, it's a very funny word "mind" is. But, "Mana", through which we cater to our emotional side, to our desires, where is it going? Where is this movement of our mind? What is it doing? You have to stand against your mind, stand against your desires, or you can face it and see for yourself clearly what's happening .
It's for you to decide. Nobody is going to correct you on this point. I know you people have been confessing to me, I never read your letters, to be very frank. Whatever letters you sent, I would not read them. Whatever confessions you have made, I burnt all those letters. I haven't got any idea as to what you wrote. Nor do I want to know about it. That's not my concern. My concern is that, now do not dwell upon the same ideas, on the same level. Or on any level whatsoever, we can say.
It is in thoughtless awareness you can combat the thoughts that come to You from wrong type of Mooladhara. Maybe some of you have got bhoots on your Mooladhara. And we have some physical treatment for such bhoots also, which I'll tell to Gavin sometime which you can ask. But you cannot always say that "It is a bhoot and I'm alright. I'm away from the bhoot." You are not, Whenever you say "I have a bhoot," means you yourself are siding with the bhoot.
You see a person as a Sakshi (in witness state), that means you see the person but you do not get a reaction, which is killer of joy. You yourself can feel your Mooladharas very well. You can feel it on your finger tips also. And be alert about it. If you want to be kind to yourself know that you have to divert your attention towards a sane married life. But that also should not be too much. Because what I have learned now, that in the West people have devised methods of transferring that attention from one person to another. Mental acrobatics of different type they have devised to destroy their pure attention. Don't play onto these.
There are so many other things by which we express that we are still under the trap of bad Mooladhara. The way you dress up, the way, you walk, the way you sit, the way you talk, the way you behave. To impress other people. I am to be impressed by other people in Sahaja Yoga itself. The only impression that should really work is the height of ascent that others have achieved. You can do it, it's not difficult. When the Kundalini can rise with all shattered. Mooladharas, I'm sure you can cure your Mooladhara completely. But your question is first of all of strengthening the Mooladhara, for which I think you all have to go into a kind of tapasya.
That's why I say sometimes that the Western people should take to less of meat, especially the red meats and beef, and horses and dogs-and I don't know what else you eat. Take more to vegetarian food. I'm not saying vegetarianism, you understand that. Take more to things which do not give you so much heat. Even fish is very good. So take to a life which is in a way ascetic, but don't take to these horrible 'health foods' also. I can't tolerate them I tell you. They're not meant for human beings, but for animals I think. They churn your stomach completely and it's horrible. This country store thing I took once and I said "had enough of it." Country store-the whole country went into my stomach.
So for you people where to go? Those who are suffering from Mooladhara must know that food does make a difference, in the powers of Mooladhara, So if you have to get it cured, first of all you have to soothe it down, it is overexcited, overexcited. Any man you touch, any woman you touch, any woman you look at.... I just don't understand, it's worse than monkeys ! You have to soothe it down, cool it down, so that Ganesha bestows his blessings upon your Mooladhara. There's no grace. But it's not so outside that I can say that "you must respect yourself," It cannot work out with those words I know.
You have to sit down, do meditation and try to soothe it down. I'll discuss with Gavin and tell him what things can be done about it, because I can't tell you in the open like this. But still this is all physical. Mentally you must be on the watch to see where does this mind go -to dirty things. Why does it always go to this sensation. See the birds, see the flowers, see the nature, see the beautiful people, just see them.
Another horrible thing in the West is that the women must expose their body to get men excited. Men do the same I think. They always try to excite each other and live in a stupid excitement.
You have to expose beautiful things, like flowers, beautiful ornaments, alright. But you're not a thing! It's your private property. You don't put all your gold on the streets, do you? Better try that, sometimes. You will mind people plundering your gold, but you don't mind your chastity being plundered ! Everyone looking at you with dirty eyes, you don't feel insulted! Because ego is a dirty stuff. It does not mind. It feels happy that people are watching you. They are plundering you, they are footing your chastity. But Sahaja Yogis are not like that. But still I must say you must cleanse your hearts, cleanse your minds, take yourself out of it.
The minds are very funnily placed and that's why the biggest complications there are-in the brains of people. They are very confused. Very confused people. Because there is no wisdom in this kind of life, become just a sex-oriented personality. it is actually just the other way round. If you are money-oriented, you want to preserve money; if you are possession-oriented you want to preserve it; if you get one little antique piece you want to preserve it; and why not this property of yours which is the highest of all, to be preserved, to be adorned, to be worshiped?
I'm quite worried on that point, that secretly people are indulging into such things. And they're hypocritical sometimes, they don't mind being hypocritical about it. They are Sahaja Yogis, alright, but in this matter they think they can go about the way they like. And sometimes some of them say that Mother has said it's alright. I never said so! There's one point I can never compromise in this. You must have a chaste outlook towards yourself, towards your life, towards your being, towards your personality. You are saints. And if a saint doesn't have a good character -I call it the character, the essence of character- he is not a saint.
So this purity has to be maintained. There cannot be any compromise on that. You cannot hit at the roots of everything. If it works out, in a collective way, nobody cheats oneself, nobody deceives oneself. And puts the mind into the right track of ascent. Thinking about the ascent, how you are going to rise, thinking of the moment when you had the joys, thinking of the day where you met me first, thinking of all the other beautiful and holy things, your mind can be cleansed. And whenever such a thought comes in, you have to say, "not this, not this". It's more mental than physical I tell you. I know it's difficult, but if you can get realization why not this also?
You all have to understand that there is no compromise on this. And a day may come if you continue with it, you will be thrown away completely, just like any other devil is thrown out. So there is no compromise. Tell yourself, don't deceive yourself don't cheat yourself. You cannot ascend if there is any lurking thing within you. You will be dragged down, because that's your weakness, and you will become weaker, and weaker and weaker.
Only question is where is your attention. Divert it. Divert your attention. First you will need some exercise, some effort, and afterward it will come automatically. You won't have to exert, you won't have to worry; on the contrary, it will become impossible how to be otherwise. So much conditioning is there. We have played into the hands of conditioning, we have ruined ourselves. This conditioning is the subtlest of all, and the worst of all. Its impossible to combat in Sahaja Yoga, unless and until you individually take up the responsibility of looking after it.
Mooladhara is one of the most delicate, and the most powerful chakra. It has so many folds and it has so many dimensions. If your Mooladhara is not alright your memory will fail. If your Mooladhara is not alright, to begin with, your wisdom will fail. You will have no sense of direction. The insanity that is now crawling up in America before they become forty years of age, is because their Mooladharas are out. Most of the diseases which are incurable come because of weak Mooladharas, on the physical side. On the mental side, most of the mental problems we saw there, I would say 90% , are due to weak Mooladhara. If a person has a strong Mooladhara, powerful Mooladhara, it doesn't get into trouble. Because you know there's a very strong hold of the Mooladhara in the back there.
And when your mind goes off, you blame the brain. It's not the brain, mostly it's the Mooladhara. So for physical safety and for your emotional safety also, you have to have a sane type of attitude towards Mooladhara. That's why I'm very anxious that you all should get married, and after marriage, after a few days, you find that your attention starts diverting to other problems of married life.
But not if you are not a Sahaja Yogi, because the sensationalization has become the main theme of modern life. And you are tossed about on the rough sea of all these deliberate actions of the people. Media, books, ideas, everything, creates this horrible excitable temperament within you.
Such a person doesn't have any patience, doesn't have any balance. Actually he's hypocritical, and has a very bad Vishuddhi. So many complications take place with this before realization. Forget the past. Whatever you have done, forget it. Just don't worry. But remember one thing, that you have damaged your Mooladhara, so you have to bring it to normalcy. You have to make it a healthy, balanced center, so that Shri Ganesha can rule over it.
Talking about Shri Ganesha, you know vibrations become too much for me.
We talk of innocence, but to awaken innocence within ourselves we must be on the full watch, on the full alertness about our minds. "What is it thinking? Where is it going? Where is this thief going? Is he trying to do some tricks? Is he up to some tricks? Alright!" You have to be alert, very alert.
I've been thinking of talking about it since long. But now I have to tell you one thing. That you'll be exposed! That is another quality of Mahamaya. She'll expose you. You'll be exposed! If you try to play tricks with me. "With me" means with your Kundalini. If you try to play tricks with your Kundalini you'll be exposed. And you'll be ashamed of yourselves. So please be careful, very careful about it. That again make your Mooladhara very healthy, and powerful.
May God bless you.
So our prayer should be that "Let our Mooladhara be healthy and strong". That's all. Let's pray.
There are certain exercises for Mooladhara. I will explain to Gavin who is your leader in England. Then he will pass it on to you. It should be done verbally. It should not be written down. The leaders of the ashrams and other places should come and see me every month sometime, and these things should be talked. Because it's a secret, not to be discussed openly, it's a secret, between you and yourself. It should not be written down anywhere, it should not be mentioned but should be worked out by all of you, in such a way that you enjoy the bliss of Shri Ganesha. Is more for the ladies, I would say, than for men. Because men suffer much more than women do. And that's why women must be very careful. Develop very good relationships with your brothers. Unless and until you really establish your high character, men cannot be improved.
You have seen in India women do not like it if anyone tries to look at them, or tries to touch them. They don't like it. Women have killed themselves, burnt themselves up, -thousands of them- because they thought some other people may come and touch their body. It's so related to your Atma,, to your Spirit. As if it is the body-innocence is the body of your Spirit. You all can be that, because you have become Yoginis now. They were not Yoginis, but they knew one thing the power of their chastity. It's more for ladies here, that they should try to generate that feeling of nobility, of chastity, of holiness around them, so that the men themselves respect them and develop that feeling within themselves.
Thank you very much.
--Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
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