LECTURE: ANAHATA CHAKRA YOGA LIVE
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LECTURE: ANAHATA CHAKRA YOGA LIVE Element: Air Shape: Hexagram Plane: Balance Sense: Touch Sense Organ: Skin Work Organ: Hands Name: Unstruck Location: The Heart Sound: Yang Nb of petals: 12 The Heart Chakra is the seat of balance within the body. There is no longer any concern with attachments to worldly pleasures, honors or humiliations. Anahata Chakra has twelve vermillion petals. The Yantra in the centre of the chakra is composed of two overlapping, intersecting triangles. One triangle, facing upward symbolizes Shiva, the male principle. The other triangle, facing downward, symbolizes Shakti, the female principle. A balance is attained when these two forces are joined in harmony. The seed mantra is Yam and the vital breath is Prana. The presiding deity is Ishana Rudra Shiva. He has a camphor-blue skin, he is two-armed, wears a tiger skin. He holds the trident in his right hand and a damaru drum in his left. The holy Ganga (river Ganges) flowing from his hairlocks is a cooling and purifying stream of self-knowledge: the knowledge that "I am That". The snakes coiled around his body are the passions, which he has tamed. His energy is Kakini Shakti, her skin is rose-colored. Her sari is sky-blue and she is seated upon a pink lotus. In her four hands Kakini Shakti holds the implements necessary for one to attain balance: The sword provides the means to cut through obstacles blocking the upward energy flow. The shield protects the aspirant from external worldly conditions. The skull indicates detachment from a false identification with the body. The trident symbolizes the balance of the three forces of preservation, creation and destruction. (G.O.D. - generating, organizing & destroying principles) It is in the heart chakra that Kundalini Shakti appears for the first time as a beautiful goddess. She sits in lotus posture within a triangle. The triangle is pointing upward, showing the tendency of Shakti to move upward and carry the aspirant into the higher planes of existence. Behind Kundalini Shakti stands a lingam in which Rudra Shiva appears as Sadashiva (sada : "eternal", shiva : "benefactor"). He is Shabda Brahma, or the eternal Logos.
