Sadhguru Exclusive - Prana: Sadhguru Maps a Person's Energy System - Ep. 2 - (2 of 5 on Prana)

Sadhguru Exclusive
Prana: Sadhguru Maps a Person's Energy System - Ep. 2 (of 5 on Prana)
19 minutes - 1998
Transcript



If you read the basic map of one's prana, you know their past, present and future. Everything about that person because in a way, your life is just a manifestation of your energies, how they function. So with the yogic system, what you're trying to do is to change how it functions from an unconscious repetition of things, or it is right now being heavily manipulated by the memory bank that one has or the karmic structure that one has - accordingly the energy...energy is moving according to the...[pause]

See in your intelligence today, as you understand intelligence, without memory your intelligence would be nothing, isn't it? Yes? See, you walk into this village, let's say one 8 year old smart kid from city comes, from a good family, in a good school and he comes here, a 8 year old kid in this tribal village will gape at him, not because he's any less intelligent, simply because he doesn't have the memory that that (other) boy has, and suddenly he looks like a fool because his intelligence is crippled without necessary memory.

So that is one level. Socially it is true, your memory seems to make you look better than others, but existentially it is your memory which is crippling you. This is why somebody said, "Those who stand first here will be last there. Those who stand last here will stand first there" because what seems to be smart on the social level is working against an individual human being, which he never understands.

So your social smartness, your success in the world, you handle it with a certain distance. It is needed for us to live, but we don't have to make that our qualification. Today how famous I am, how much money we have, what are we - this should not determine who I am. These things are there, these things will allow us to work better in the world, and that's all - that should not determine. But unfortunately for most human beings, that's all. That determines who they are within themselves. Who you are in the world is determined by these things, that's okay, that is the way of the world. But who you are within yourself should not be determined by this, because this is what is called as karma. The memory that you have restrains and directs your energy in the way it functions.

So right now I don't want to go into an individual's life, but I thought if I show you a comparison....

[Sadhguru looks to a huge projector screen hooked up to his Tablet that shows an outline that maps of a basic, major energy flows. The map is as follows: At the bottom is an enormous Infinity Loop connected to 2 upward lines at the Loop's center and the lines - are topped off by a big X. Between the 2 upward lines are X's at certain intervals.]

Sadhguru asks for a volunteer from the audience. An athletic looking young woman in yoga pants gets up and comes forward and he asks her to hold her hands outward like DaVinci's famous drawing. Sadhguru, with his hands about an inch away - hovers his hand down then up along her spine and then makes a few additional sketches on his tablet drawing and assigns some number tags to some of the X's along the upward column. The woman bows to him then sits back down and Sadhguru does praying hands and inclines slightly to her in turn.]

Sadhguru continues:

One reason is out of sheer ignorance, another reason why people have usually been talking only of 7 chakras, not 114 is, one reason is because the popular books could not think beyond 7; (Sadhguru shakes his head no) leave that part. But another reason why they only spoke about seven, not the others is...

If you look at the southern mysticism, the Siddhas of the south (southern India) will only talk about 5, they won't talk about 7. When they're teaching people anything, they talk only about 5, because Mooladhara is the source. The source is infinite, that's why the symbolism. (He's referring to his Tablet drawing demonstration showing the human energy body base symbolized with the figure 8 Infinity Loop.)

When you sit naturally, it's - the easiest way to depict you is like this (makes Infinity Loop figure 8 with his hands). If you wear these new yoga clothes, you very much look like that you know (audience laughs and Sadhguru grins). Because this is the source. The Mooladhara does not only mean a foundation for this life, it is connection with the source. So that which is connected with the source is infinite. And the uppermost one is this (he refers to the huge X in his demo drawing that tops the 2 primary energy lines), because if the road is closed, this is the symbol, isn't it (makes X in the air with his hands)? Because it's not yet ready, it's not there. The Sahasrar (Crown Chakra) doesn't exist for most people; it is yet to manifest.

It was manifest to some extent when you were just born. When you were just born, there was a soft spot on top of your head. You know, you've handled little infants (Sadhguru points to the top of his own head). You will see there is not bone formation here, just the skin. Actually it'll be palpitating if you watch a little baby, tup, tup, tup, tup it'll be going like this, because this (Sahasrar) is open. But now it is closed because keeping that open and trying to live will be dangerous.

All the things that physical activity that one does and keeping the Sahasrar open will be dangerous. So once it opens up again, not physically but energy-wise when it opens up, you will see sages either dreadlock their hair or tie it up or use something else to hold it because life becomes a little fragile.

It becomes immensely capable but physical life becomes fragile. To hold the physicality with you, to hold the physical body with you when the top end is open, it needs a certain skill and a certain amount of support, otherwise one will leave. So usually with 90% or more the moment of enlightenment and moment of leaving the body is same, because once it opens up, they don't have the necessary skill to hold it, and that is where Hatha Yoga becomes all important. If one has not established his body in a proper way, what is a great blessing (ascension) also ends his life. The greatest blessing will become the end of who you are. Nothing wrong with it, it is just that if you stay around you could be useful.

As far as that life is concerned, if it leaves there's really no problem, it's wonderful to leave. But if it reaches that point and stays, it could be very useful for every other life (here).

[Sadhguru looks again at the projection of his drawing of the volunteer's energy system.]
Now, among these 7, we are only looking at the 6 here, because 7 is absent, 7 is not there yet. 7 needs to be worked at. If these 6 are sufficiently enhanced, then it'll touch the 7th. You should not touch the Sahasrar simply, because if such a thing happens you will not be able to be stable in your body. So establishing and stabilizing the physical body is very important.

Simply people are talking about 7 chakras - the 7th one is not for people who want to live. If you go there you cross the borders of physicality. So if you want to cross the border and still be here, you must have diplomatic immunity. (Audience laughs and Sadhguru grins) Yes?
Otherwise they won't send you back. If you want to go there and again come back, you need a certain immunity, otherwise you will leave.

So Hatha Yoga is largely concerned with the 5 in the center. The Mooladhara we are only trying to close it. Close it means we are trying to stabilize and close it, we are not trying to enhance it. We are trying to enhance only the 5 because it's these 5 which sustain life. Right now in the making of this building, the foundation need not do anything; it has to just stay there, that's all. So Mooladhara has to just stay there, it need not do anything. If it connects you with outside life, then your life will become very topsy-turvy.

People who go into occult practices, they want their Mooladhara to be open and they want to connect with life so that the base powers will become very strong in them. This is a sure way of ensuring no spiritual process will ever happen to you. Once you open up your Mooladhara and connect to life from the downward trend of the body, then you cannot connect with the upper moving forces of your life-structure.

So we just want to seal the foundation and we don't want to hit the top, we want to just stabilize the 5 in such a way when some day we hit the top, our body is so stable it can hold it (open Sahasrar) and experience it, not fuse out.

So Hatha Yoga is essentially concerned with these 5 chakras. These 5 chakras are associated with the 108 of the remaining chakras. These 5 handle all of the 108. So it is these 108 that we can work with. It is only these 108 that we can enhance and transform. The base one, there is nothing to do; we just have to hold it stable. And the top one, it's not yet time to touch. Till we have sufficient mastery over this, we should not touch that.

[Sadhguru looks at his Tablet drawing of the volunteer again]

Now, if we look at this, let's forget whose image this is, ok, this is like an energy x-ray for immediate purposes. We can make a much elaborate one, but that would take much more involvement. This is for immediate.

Somebody comes and sits in front of me, now they will say, "Sadhguru, I want to become a brahmachari!" (Sadhguru pretends to be intense, demanding ascetic-disciple-wanna-be and audience laughs).

I say, "Close your eyes and sit" and they sit, then I say, "Let's get you married in 6 months." (Sadhguru acts again like boisterous, demanding ascetic-disciple-wanna-be)."No Sadhguru! I want to be brahmachari!" (Audience laughs)

I say, "It's alright, you get married, after that we will see when your wife doesn't want you. (Audience bursts out with loud laughter and Sadhguru laughs) You can become a brahmachari."
"She will make a brahmachari out of you, not me." (Audience laughs again).

Because your energies are in a certain way, either you must do phenomenal sadhana to correct that or you better go that way. So if there is phenomenal will in a person, Or there is devotion - sense of surrender, then whichever way you are it can be fixed.

But you don't see that will, that commitment, that devotion and that sense of surrender, it's better go by the patterns of your life. It's like - if you want to fly, you know if the winds are...today winds are nice and quiet, but 3 days ago you saw the winds were blowing at 35-40 knots, now you don't try to fly, you don't try to take off in that wind if you have a weak machine. But you have a very powerful machine. You have a very powerful machine, you don't care what's the wind, you anyway take off. But if you don't have a very powerful machine, you don't try to take off in that kind of weather. In that kind of weather you better go with the wind, that's safer for you. But you are very powerful, then it doesn't matter wind is like this, but you go like this (ie.takeoff).


So similarly, if a person is of extraordinary will or he's willing to give up his will, he's becoming willing means he has no will of his own. If he has an extraordinary will we can take him where he wants to go. Or he has no will, then we can easily take him where he wants to go. He's half, then the trends are important, then we have to observe the trend where he should go and where he should not go. He should not attempt something that he cannot do and break himself up.

[Sadhguru again looks at his Tablet drawing of the volunteer]

So this aspect of...(pauses for a moment)

If you look at these simple numbers that I've put there, [Sadhguru assigned different numbers to different x's between the lines representing Ida and Pingala] they're not really numbers like that, it is, I've just arrived at my own numbers. They are numbers only for guidance; they're not numbers as numbers. It is not that if I say 8, there are 8 megawatts or something, (audience laughs) it's not like that. If you want to judge something 1 to 10, 0 to 10, ok this is 1, this is 2, this is 10, you know, in that context it is numbers. It is not numbers per se, it is only a guideline of numbers.

So now if you look at this map, what you see is Mooladhara is slightly imbalanced, needs a little more work. Swadhistana, not very strong but ok. Manipurika is good. Anahata, confused. You know what these are? You know which is which? Anahata is confused and a little bit of like that (makes wavy motion with hand). Visuddhi, nothing much has happened; as you were born, it is. Agna, ok, stable, nothing phenomenal, but there is potential.

When I say there is potential, that means it is not that others do not have potential, that means there aren't too many obstacles. With a little work, it'll happen. When we say there is not potential, it does not mean it is not possible. It is still possible but it'll take much more work to do it.


[Looks again back at the Tablet drawing of the volunteer's energy patterns]


I think because of a certain continuous emotional pattern, the system has become slightly skewed, which must be corrected. Hatha Yoga is the right thing to do. If you do proper hatha yoga, this slightly skewed positions that your energy system has taken will naturally get corrected. We can do something drastic and fix it, but sadhana is the best way of fixing it because it happens slowly.

See, you've gotten used to walking like this, (Sadhguru leans sideways) - suddenly tomorrow morning I fixed you up like this (sits straight), you will start thinking something is wrong with you. Yes, people even ask you, supposed you stopped drinking and you went among your drinking friends, they say, "What's wrong with you? What happened to you?" Yes? You were smoking all your life, one day you suddenly gave (it) up, you went with your smoking friends and they say, "What happened? What's wrong? What's the matter with you?" So even if correction happens too dramatically or suddenly, people will get disturbed by that. So it is best that the correction happens slowly, unless they're in a state of surrender.


If they're in a state of surrender, you can just correct them quickly, but otherwise if people have their own thought process attached to everything that happens to them, it is better correction happens in degrees.

Sadhguru Exclusive - Prana: Moving the Chakras - Part 1 - Ep. 3 - (3 of 5 on Prana)

Sadhguru Exclusive
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.


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********************************My Note****************

*Yoga as opposed to Tantra. In this case, Agastyamuni's Hatha Yoga.