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Prana: Moving the Chakras - Part 1 - Ep. 3 (of 5 on Prana)
13 minutes - 1998
Location: Isha Yoga Center
Transcript
If you want to know life upon this planet, the nature of life on this planet, the nature of anything physical upon this planet, not necessarily animate, even inanimate - the best thing is to look at this one (points to his body as example) because this has incorporated all of it in its making. From this context we looked at human system or we identified human system to have reached a place where there are 114 energy centers or chakras. The (inaudible but I think he said Isha) Yogic system looks at it as 114 minus 2 because they're outside the physical structure. Because we are looking at what we can work with and what we cannot work with.
The 112 that we can work with - out of that 4 of them are a natural occurrence - if the 108 are prepared or worked with. Another thing about the chakras is they can move. They're not in one place.
Right now, this is Anahata (points to his solar plexus) but not necessarily. For people who do certain kind of work with me (ie Sadhguru) I always move their Anahata. Because their emotions will come in the way. So we move their Anahata away to a place where we don't have to touch it. Because otherwise they will not do any work. They will be constantly (flutters hands like waves) ... everything people have emotions for. Every little thing that happens to them and everything they do - unnecessary emotions which will hinder them. Hinder their competence and capability and possibility of who they can be. So we just move the Anahata elsewhere.
Even in your own life, unconsciously you may be moving it many, many times to do different kind of things. (Sadhguru suddenly stiffens his body rigid and gets stern look on face) You grit yourself, you want to do something - you may just be completely moving your Anahata somewhere. (Sadhguru makes a circling motion with his hand like he's describing planets orbiting the sun) Your anahata could be going around you. So many times it happen to you. You look like this (makes happy face) - this moment very loving, next moment like this (makes stern face).
[Audience laughs and Sadhguru grins]
Hasn't this happened to you? It did happen to you, isn't it? (Sadhguru laughs). That's because your Anahata is going around like the moon (makes orbital motion again with hand)...around you and it comes here (stops hand in front) it lights up, when it goes there (stops hand out to side Sadhguru's head drops and closes eyes like he's fallen asleep). [Audience laughs and Sadhguru laughs and grins]
So these things are always happening. How fluid you are makes you that much more flexible in the way you operate. If the bottom end, if the Mooladhara is properly fixed (ie stabilized) then you get enormous freedom to play around with the remaining five whichever way you want.
Now if I want my Visuddhi to move into my hands - if it moves into my hands, if I just open my hands things will happen because the Visuddhi is in the hand, not sitting here (points to throat). So one can move their chakras to different places. All the 108 can be moved. The reason why we said the other (coughs)...the 2 outside the body and the other 4 you cannot move because they cannot be moved. That's why we cannot do anything with them. They are fixed. They need to be fixed. Only if they're fixed life is stable. The rest of it the Creator has left it free for us to move and make whatever we want out of it. So the whole ball game of life becomes much more fluid, much more capable, much more competent, much more beautiful and blissful depending upon how mobile your chakras are. If they're just stuck in one place then that's all you can be. If you can move it around then there are many things you can be. In every place you're a different kind of person. Because if you're just one kind you can do only one thing. In different situations to perform different type of activities, to perceive different dimensions of reality you need to be a completely different life process. So one can rearrange. This mobility what you're working at. Everytime you start this (moves hands a certain way) and this (moves hands different way) everything that you are doing is just to bring flexibility and mobility to the whole system.
Because Hatha Yoga is not concerned just with the flexibility of the muscle. It is the flexibility of the whole system that your Energy Body should become mobile. Most people can't touch the floor (i.e. bending over at the waist to touch their toes or floor) but now you can take your leg and put it up on your neck. That is because of flexibility. Similarly what is here (indicates one place) can become here (indicates other place), what is there (ditto) can become there (ditto). You move your Anahata to your hand and you just touch somebody they will burst with love. They will burst with emotion simply because you moved your Anahata to your hand and you touched it. Or you moved it to your eyes you just look at them they'll burst into tears. So this is not to play with somebody else's life this is just to do what's needed. Anyway you want to look at somebody with love but dry-eyed (Sadhguru gets dry-eyed, stern, plain gaze on face looking at the audience) nothing is happening [audience bursts out laughing]. All you get is thoughts "Is it safe? Is it ok? Is it not ok?" [Sadhguru and audience laughing even more] "Can I love this person forever?" All these silly thoughts...but if you just move your Anahata to your eyes you just look...at that moment you burst and they burst.
So life will become so multi-dimensional and so beautiful and blissful simply because your energy system is mobile. This needs some work. When I say 'some work'...a LOT of work (Sadhguru and audience laugh) with one's body because it's the body which houses all this. The body has to become mobile, very flexible, malleable like you know when a potter takes a certain volume of clay the most important thing is the kneading. How well the clay is kneaded that is how easily you can form the shape. So in a way Yoga means unburning yourself. Right now karma is like burning the pot into a fixed shape. Yoga means unburning it so that you can re-do the pot every day if you want. (Sadhguru arms indicates wide distance) Today it is this kind of pot. Tomorrow you want to do this kind of pot (makes arms indicate tall distance), tomorrow you want to make it this kind of pot (makes arms indicate large round pot)...whichever way because you are unburning it, you're taking it back closer to the source of creation where it is not rigid anymore. It is possible to do it whichever way we want.
So as existence allows us more freedom always there is a bigger price to pay. So if you enter Yoga* as an experiential process existence is giving you certain license. Now this has to be handled with more responsibility than anything else because as it gives you license it is also setting up a bigger price. These small things can cost in an enormous way for the individual human being if he does these things wrong.
So how our mindset is, before we handle life energies, how our mindset is, what is our attitude, the whole thing is extremely, extremely important. If you ever forget this you will see Yoga will work against you. Not because somebody is going to curse you, somebody is going to do things - No. This is the nature of the existence. You better understand the laws if you want to explore the larger scape of the existence. Otherwise it's best to limit yourself to small things.
[Sadhguru leans back and grins at audience]
See I'm quite wild, alright? But still I have a very rigid sense of integrity. I never ever cross that line in my life. No matter what. Whatever the price we do not cross certain things. People think it's funny, "Sadhguru you?!" - Yes, me, I'm like that only. Because I know once you step into another realm I know how it works, what the rules are. If you do not understand the rules and get into a new space it will be disastrous, isn't it?
So entering into the world of prana - right now you are enjoying the effect of prana - it's keeping you alive, it's keeping you going - it's not your intelligence, your intellect which is keeping you alive (Sadhguru grins). If it was left to your intellect you would have killed yourself a million times by now, isn't it? It is not your intellect, it is not your logic it is your prana (chi) which is keeping you alive. You're enjoying the effect of it. But if you want to be the cause of it then it's a completely different dimension of competence. Which every human being is capable of but it has to be earned, it doesn't just fall upon you.
Hatha Yoga is a good way to start off. Making the body stable. Being able to handle things. If you have to learn these things it's an endless process. If you realize these things its great but that is...(shakes head no) a wild shot. If you become a good receptacle it can be put into you. That is the easiest way. That is the most probable way. If you have to work yourself from the foundation to the top that's a long way. If you have to be hit by a thunderbolt from somewhere that is a one in a billion shot. It's best to make yourself receptive so that when you're receptive enough it can be offered to you rather than being taught to you.
Teaching, practicing and growing in the realm of prana is an extraordinarily long process. I would say many lifetimes of work. So that's not the way to go. It is better that you become fit enough to receive it.
*************End of Transcript*********************
********************************My Note****************
*Yoga as opposed to Tantra. In this case, Agastyamuni's Hatha Yoga.
Prana: Moving the Chakras - Part 1 - Ep. 3 (of 5 on Prana)
13 minutes - 1998
Location: Isha Yoga Center
Transcript
If you want to know life upon this planet, the nature of life on this planet, the nature of anything physical upon this planet, not necessarily animate, even inanimate - the best thing is to look at this one (points to his body as example) because this has incorporated all of it in its making. From this context we looked at human system or we identified human system to have reached a place where there are 114 energy centers or chakras. The (inaudible but I think he said Isha) Yogic system looks at it as 114 minus 2 because they're outside the physical structure. Because we are looking at what we can work with and what we cannot work with.
The 112 that we can work with - out of that 4 of them are a natural occurrence - if the 108 are prepared or worked with. Another thing about the chakras is they can move. They're not in one place.
Right now, this is Anahata (points to his solar plexus) but not necessarily. For people who do certain kind of work with me (ie Sadhguru) I always move their Anahata. Because their emotions will come in the way. So we move their Anahata away to a place where we don't have to touch it. Because otherwise they will not do any work. They will be constantly (flutters hands like waves) ... everything people have emotions for. Every little thing that happens to them and everything they do - unnecessary emotions which will hinder them. Hinder their competence and capability and possibility of who they can be. So we just move the Anahata elsewhere.
Even in your own life, unconsciously you may be moving it many, many times to do different kind of things. (Sadhguru suddenly stiffens his body rigid and gets stern look on face) You grit yourself, you want to do something - you may just be completely moving your Anahata somewhere. (Sadhguru makes a circling motion with his hand like he's describing planets orbiting the sun) Your anahata could be going around you. So many times it happen to you. You look like this (makes happy face) - this moment very loving, next moment like this (makes stern face).
[Audience laughs and Sadhguru grins]
Hasn't this happened to you? It did happen to you, isn't it? (Sadhguru laughs). That's because your Anahata is going around like the moon (makes orbital motion again with hand)...around you and it comes here (stops hand in front) it lights up, when it goes there (stops hand out to side Sadhguru's head drops and closes eyes like he's fallen asleep). [Audience laughs and Sadhguru laughs and grins]
So these things are always happening. How fluid you are makes you that much more flexible in the way you operate. If the bottom end, if the Mooladhara is properly fixed (ie stabilized) then you get enormous freedom to play around with the remaining five whichever way you want.
Now if I want my Visuddhi to move into my hands - if it moves into my hands, if I just open my hands things will happen because the Visuddhi is in the hand, not sitting here (points to throat). So one can move their chakras to different places. All the 108 can be moved. The reason why we said the other (coughs)...the 2 outside the body and the other 4 you cannot move because they cannot be moved. That's why we cannot do anything with them. They are fixed. They need to be fixed. Only if they're fixed life is stable. The rest of it the Creator has left it free for us to move and make whatever we want out of it. So the whole ball game of life becomes much more fluid, much more capable, much more competent, much more beautiful and blissful depending upon how mobile your chakras are. If they're just stuck in one place then that's all you can be. If you can move it around then there are many things you can be. In every place you're a different kind of person. Because if you're just one kind you can do only one thing. In different situations to perform different type of activities, to perceive different dimensions of reality you need to be a completely different life process. So one can rearrange. This mobility what you're working at. Everytime you start this (moves hands a certain way) and this (moves hands different way) everything that you are doing is just to bring flexibility and mobility to the whole system.
Because Hatha Yoga is not concerned just with the flexibility of the muscle. It is the flexibility of the whole system that your Energy Body should become mobile. Most people can't touch the floor (i.e. bending over at the waist to touch their toes or floor) but now you can take your leg and put it up on your neck. That is because of flexibility. Similarly what is here (indicates one place) can become here (indicates other place), what is there (ditto) can become there (ditto). You move your Anahata to your hand and you just touch somebody they will burst with love. They will burst with emotion simply because you moved your Anahata to your hand and you touched it. Or you moved it to your eyes you just look at them they'll burst into tears. So this is not to play with somebody else's life this is just to do what's needed. Anyway you want to look at somebody with love but dry-eyed (Sadhguru gets dry-eyed, stern, plain gaze on face looking at the audience) nothing is happening [audience bursts out laughing]. All you get is thoughts "Is it safe? Is it ok? Is it not ok?" [Sadhguru and audience laughing even more] "Can I love this person forever?" All these silly thoughts...but if you just move your Anahata to your eyes you just look...at that moment you burst and they burst.
So life will become so multi-dimensional and so beautiful and blissful simply because your energy system is mobile. This needs some work. When I say 'some work'...a LOT of work (Sadhguru and audience laugh) with one's body because it's the body which houses all this. The body has to become mobile, very flexible, malleable like you know when a potter takes a certain volume of clay the most important thing is the kneading. How well the clay is kneaded that is how easily you can form the shape. So in a way Yoga means unburning yourself. Right now karma is like burning the pot into a fixed shape. Yoga means unburning it so that you can re-do the pot every day if you want. (Sadhguru arms indicates wide distance) Today it is this kind of pot. Tomorrow you want to do this kind of pot (makes arms indicate tall distance), tomorrow you want to make it this kind of pot (makes arms indicate large round pot)...whichever way because you are unburning it, you're taking it back closer to the source of creation where it is not rigid anymore. It is possible to do it whichever way we want.
So as existence allows us more freedom always there is a bigger price to pay. So if you enter Yoga* as an experiential process existence is giving you certain license. Now this has to be handled with more responsibility than anything else because as it gives you license it is also setting up a bigger price. These small things can cost in an enormous way for the individual human being if he does these things wrong.
So how our mindset is, before we handle life energies, how our mindset is, what is our attitude, the whole thing is extremely, extremely important. If you ever forget this you will see Yoga will work against you. Not because somebody is going to curse you, somebody is going to do things - No. This is the nature of the existence. You better understand the laws if you want to explore the larger scape of the existence. Otherwise it's best to limit yourself to small things.
[Sadhguru leans back and grins at audience]
See I'm quite wild, alright? But still I have a very rigid sense of integrity. I never ever cross that line in my life. No matter what. Whatever the price we do not cross certain things. People think it's funny, "Sadhguru you?!" - Yes, me, I'm like that only. Because I know once you step into another realm I know how it works, what the rules are. If you do not understand the rules and get into a new space it will be disastrous, isn't it?
So entering into the world of prana - right now you are enjoying the effect of prana - it's keeping you alive, it's keeping you going - it's not your intelligence, your intellect which is keeping you alive (Sadhguru grins). If it was left to your intellect you would have killed yourself a million times by now, isn't it? It is not your intellect, it is not your logic it is your prana (chi) which is keeping you alive. You're enjoying the effect of it. But if you want to be the cause of it then it's a completely different dimension of competence. Which every human being is capable of but it has to be earned, it doesn't just fall upon you.
Hatha Yoga is a good way to start off. Making the body stable. Being able to handle things. If you have to learn these things it's an endless process. If you realize these things its great but that is...(shakes head no) a wild shot. If you become a good receptacle it can be put into you. That is the easiest way. That is the most probable way. If you have to work yourself from the foundation to the top that's a long way. If you have to be hit by a thunderbolt from somewhere that is a one in a billion shot. It's best to make yourself receptive so that when you're receptive enough it can be offered to you rather than being taught to you.
Teaching, practicing and growing in the realm of prana is an extraordinarily long process. I would say many lifetimes of work. So that's not the way to go. It is better that you become fit enough to receive it.
*************End of Transcript*********************
********************************My Note****************
*Yoga as opposed to Tantra. In this case, Agastyamuni's Hatha Yoga.
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