CHAKRA MEANS WHEEL
The brain is not only centred in the head, but the brain goes right down your back through the spinal column. The spinal cord is part of your brain. For the physical system to function, it must have certain energy vortexes. Chakra means wheel, and a wheel forever turns. Therefore, it is a vortex forever spinning, spinning, spinning.
You have seven hundred chakras. In other words, there are seven hundred centres from which energies are emitted, but there are seven main ones. You have the Muladhara, Swadhistan, Manipura, Anhata, Vissuda, Ajna, and, of course, the Sahasrara, which is the sum totality of all the brain cells in your two-and-a-half-pound weight organ called the brain. That is called the Sahasrara.
We know that the navel centre has a complex of nerves. There is also a very complex nervous system in the heart area, which is gathered in a bunch and likewise in various parts of the body. What we are doing is just discovering the extension of the brain, which contains billions of cells.
The spinal cord continues the brain with its various nerve centres. Without these nerve centres, you cannot function. The solar plexus has its vortex of energies, and so does the heart area, the Muladhara, the Vishuddha and the Svadhishthana. These are energy centres and vortexes in the brain.
Certain parts of the brain, at least ninety-odd per cent of the brain, are dormant. The cells are functioning but not totally connected to your consciousness. Through spiritual practices, we set those energy centres or chakras at a proper vibration rate so that the brain’s left hemisphere can work in conjunction with the right hemisphere through synapses. Neurons flash across at such a high vibratory rate that you can recognise things you have not known before, which is the meaning of awareness. You are awakening the dormant brain cells by activating these various energy vortexes.
EVERYTHING IN LIFE IS AN EXPRESSION
With the physical body, we have the subtle body, a duplicate of the physical body in a subtle form. All mental illnesses or psychosomatic illnesses stem from the subtle body; the subtle body cannot contain it within itself but has to transmit it, has to express itself.
Everything in life is an expression. Everything in life has to express itself to rid itself of these various energies. More energies come to you only by dissipating or throwing off them. So, it is always by giving that you are gaining.
When the subtle body functions in harmony, that harmony is transmitted to the physical body or the waking conscious mind, where cognition occurs; without the subtle body, you will have no perception. All five senses – seeing, hearing, touching, smelling and tasting – will never function if your subtle body is not working correctly. As with lousy hearing, your subtle body is affected first.
IN HEALING, WE TREAT THE SUBTLE BODY
When we heal, we treat the subtle body and bring all its energies into a harmonious state, bringing them to the right vibration pitch. That, in turn, reflects upon the physical body and righted the wrongs of the physical body. The subtle body is but a continuum of the physical body, and so is the Spiritual Self of man, a continuum of the subtle body. It is all but one superimposed one upon the other. This means that there is no separation whatsoever.
When you water a plant, you do not water the branches or the leaves; you water the root. You treat the roots—that is where the fertiliser goes. That is where the water goes. Once the root of yourself is strengthened, once your subtle body is strengthened, you will not find ill effects in the grosser counterpart, which we know as the physical body.
In healing, we treat the subtle body. Just as the physical body has its physical nervous system, so does the subtle body and its subtle nervous system. By energising that subtle nervous system and bringing it into greater harmony, you feel well-being. Your specific organs could be destroyed, but the feeling of well-being can always be maintained by exercising the subtle body. That is why certain chakra practices are prescribed to people wherever required.
THE SUBTLE BODY AND THE PHYSICAL BODY WORKS TOGETHER
Do not ever think the physical body is separate from the subtle body. It works in a continuum; the only time a so-called separation occurs is when you discard the physical body. The physical body is just an instrument, a piece of wood, through which the subtle body or the mental body or you could call it the samskaric body, transmits itself. When you like someone or fall in love with someone, you are not falling in love with the physical self. You are falling in love with that subtle body transmitting itself through the physical body. Therefore, people who do not understand the ramifications and the subtle body’s complexities concentrate only on the physical body.
What has to be righted there is the subtle body. That is where healing comes into the picture; healing is to make whole. That is healing. When you, as healers, become the channel and are taught how to become the channel, these energies are transferred to you to use wisely without any gain or sense of gain. These energies of the Universal Spirit flow through your subtle body, then through your physical body, and contact the object or the patient’s physical body to penetrate the subtle body and make the subtle body function harmoniously. The subtle body is the vehicle that leads one to enlightenment, where all the chakras function at a much finer level and are in total harmony.
SPIRITUAL PRACTICES HARMONISE AND HEIGHTEN THE ENERGIES
The subtle bodies of ninety-nine-point 99999 percent of the world’s people are not functioning in harmony, which is why conflicts occur. That is why one samskara is battling against another, and disputes are produced. Conflicts are expressed in all kinds of relationships and communication because only the conscious mind is taken into account in relationships and communication. The conscious mind only recognises the conscious mind of the other. Therefore, you have all your opposites: love, hate, cold, heat. All the opposites occur.
In our spiritual practices, we bring the subtle body in total alignment, where all these vortexes of energies function harmoniously to keep the physical body well and heighten the vibration. When vibrations are heightened to a certain pitch, they merge into the spiritual, the real self of man. Therefore, spiritual masters never care for their physical selves because their subtle bodies are so merged into their spiritual body, their spiritual Universal Self.
Their subtle bodies vibrate at a fine rate, which is the rate of the real Universal Self. That is called knowing yourself. That is called self-realisation. That is called God-realization. That is called “I and my Father are one.”
GREATER EMPHASIS ON THE SUBTLE BODY
Greater emphasis should be on the connecting link, which is the subtle body between the gross physical and spiritual bodies. That is where we focus, and I lecture physicians and surgeons about how to tackle the subtle body of man. All cases in a lunatic asylum are caused by the subtle body, where the various vortexes of energies are not functioning in harmony or combination, creating disharmony.
The subtle body can also be termed the mental body. We want to get rid of the mind because the only thing that stands between you and God is the mind. But we use the mind to reach where we want to go. It is like in a particular science of medicine where you remove a thorn with a thorn. You use the mind to get rid of itself. You use the various levels of the mind, the higher levels, to overcome the grosser levels, which are the repository of all your memories and experiences. When that is reached, there is no yesterday, and there is no tomorrow. Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is but a projection. That is how it works. That is the key. That is the secret. That is the key to stability, and your mind is required to be stable in human life—nothing else. You can be the ugliest person in the world, the most deformed person physically, or the illest person, but if your mind is stable, everything is well.
This stability is brought about by the proper rate of functioning of those energy vortexes in your mind and transmitted through the brain. We need to awaken that organ, making those billion cells come alive because we only use a fraction of them.
From this, you could measure what stage of evolution we are in, where we are using only a fraction of these billion cells. As I have said before, the more those cells are awakened, the more the mind flows through it, and the mind is only one mind. Only one reason and the individuality you feel are because of how many cells have been awakened within you. When you state that one person is more spiritually developed than the other, and if you have to translate it into physical terms, you study the brain, how many of those cells are awakened? How many of those cells are dormant?
Our spiritual practices aim to awaken brain cells, awaken the neurological part of ourselves, open it, and open the windows so the air of universal knowledge that is already there can be brought out, transmitted, and transmuted into physical action.
… Gururaj Ananda Yogi: Satsang US 1982 – 10
