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Awakening of the Chakras Opens Up Undreamed Potential in Our Being · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  If we run a small current through a wire to a light bulb,
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  but below the capacity of the bulb, it will light up, although
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  it may flicker. If we increase the current, the
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  light bulb brightens and the illumination becomes constant.
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  If we put too much current through the bulb, we may start a
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  fire or burst the bulb. This image provides us a way to
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  appreciate the opening of the chakras.
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  For most people, there is a limited opening of certain
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  chakras, and with that limited opening, the certain flow of
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  energy vibrating at the frequency range at which that
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  particular chakra operates occurs and carries out the work
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  that is possible from that particular energy center.
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  It may be physical energy, vital energy, emotional energy, mental
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  energy, or spiritual energy. Several reflections result from
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  this which form the basis for considerable review as one takes
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  up the yoga practice. First, what are the
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  possibilities if a particular chakra, which had only a trickle
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  of energy flowing through it, were able to open fully and
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  express the utmost capacity of the vibrational range to which
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  it is tuned? 2nd What are the possibilities
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  if chakras formerly closed are able to open, thereby exposing
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  the individual to new vibrational ranges not part of
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  his former active being? Third, is it possible to
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  optimize the energy flow through the chakras in such a way that
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  they become mutually supportive and harmonize rather than
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  conflict with each other in their various expressions?
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  4th can an increase of energy through a particular chakra
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  without corresponding balancing create problems for the
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  individual? And 5th does the capacity of the
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  chakras increase or decrease through the various stages of
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  life? Certain chakras are focused on
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  the operation of the systems of the physical body.
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  Others develop the vital force of the being.
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  There is a chakra that governs emotional expression as well as
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  one that governs the capacity for expression and
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  communication. Another one governs the
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  development of willpower, and yet another unifies the being
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  with the divine force beyond the limits of the individual.
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  Ego personality, Sriorbindo notes quote something there is
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  in US where something has to be developed, Perhaps a central and
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  still a cult part of our being, containing forces whose powers
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  in our actual and present make up are only a fraction of what
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  could be. But if they became complete and
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  dominant, would be truly able to bring about, with the help of
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  the light and force of the soul and the Super mental truth
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  consciousness, the necessary physical transformation and its
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  consequences. This might be found in the
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  system of chakras revealed by tantric knowledge and accepted
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  in the systems of Yoga. Conscious centers and sources of
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  all the dynamic powers of our being, organizing their action
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  through the plexuses and arranged in an ascending series
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  from the lowest physical to the highest mind center and
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  spiritual center called the 1000 pedaled Lotus, where ascending
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  nature, the serpent power of the Tantrics, meets the Brahman and
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  is liberated into the Divine Being.
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  These centers are closed or half closed within us and have to be
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  opened before their full potentiality can be manifested
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  in our physical nature. But once they are opened and
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  completely active, no limit can easily be set to the development
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  of their potencies and the total transformation to be possible.
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  End Quote Reference Sri Aurobindo and the Mother Powers
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  within, Chapter 8, Yoga Shakti, pages 81 to 82.