Western Yoga Teachers Can’t Tell You These 3 Crucial Nuggets of Wisdom About Chakras
You’re looking for something deeper — so just return to the source
The word chakra comes from Sanskrit chalati (to go) and karoti (to do). That which does something by going (in a certain direction) is a wheel!
But chakras are much more than ‘circular wheels of energy.’
This is merely a limited attempt at translating a deep concept from a deep culture into our much shallower modern one.
For the sake of liberation from your sufferings, expand your understanding.
Chakras are portals for ‘pure consciousness’ to manifest
According to Satyanarayana Dasa Babaji, consciousness is so subtle it’s beyond the material plane. But it can interact with materiality. And the link between consciousness and matter is energy.
This can either carry the reflection of the conscious soul in a pure way, or impure way.
Have you ever wondered why so many (somewhat) enlightened people had actions that were very much not so?
Whether angry intolerance, sexual appetite, or strange dualisms, such ‘outbursts’ are clear signs of karmic residue over the chakras.
Chakras aren’t energy centres, they’re consciousness centres. And if your ego still has material wrapped around them, the soul can’t shine purely.
This is why religions that focus on blind faith have leaders making controversial statements — while traditions that focus on inner purification have leaders that ignore politics altogether.
If you ignore deep inner shadow work, your “enlightenment” could be a disaster for humanity.
Chakras aren’t ‘petalled flowers,’ they’re your inner depths
According to Ayurvedic, Chinese, and Tibetan medicine, the human body takes in life force (prana/chi/lung) from your surroundings (air, food, sunlight, or transmitted from other humans).
This life force circulates in energy meridians within the body, and the places where these meridians intersect are your main chakras.
So the material that you psychologically hold onto — heartbreak, loneliness, anger, self-repression — is easily stuck in such meeting points.
It’s relatively easy to ‘cleanse’ the ordinary energy meridians. Yoga postures, breathing exercises, affirmations, meditation and traditional medicine can all give you unobstructed flow.
But what about the deep stuff, which has to be dug out with effort to properly dislodge?
Chakra meditation was traditionally only taught under the guidance of an experienced master. Because it involved meditating on each one to uncover (and let go of) all the intense storms of attachment that emerge.
Without strong detachment and mindful wisdom, you might actually multiply the blockages!
So be extra vigilant from now on: you cannot afford to lose the attitude of ‘letting go’ of everything you don’t need to cling to.
Chakras are temple building material
In the South Indian lineage of yoga I practice, the chakras are described as pillars upholding a temple.
- If they’re weak, the amazing spires of the tower crash down.
You can easily have transcendent experiences if you undergo spiritual training. But will they last? Definitely not, if the energy in your system is used to crashing and spilling itself rather than sustaining continuity.
- If they’re supportive, the structure lasts for millennia.
If your chakras become more than just collections of karmic baggage — and instead, exert unhindered energetic vibrations to keep you feeling strong, purified, vitalized, active, grounded, and growing — you’re set to build.
Don’t neglect this knowledge.
For the longest time, I thought chakras were a simple, fake-deep concept. I had no idea about their depths, which lay at the heart of what it takes to be happy in life.
They’re like jewels in your being, covered up with the dust of infinite past moments of egotism. But their shine (and value) lies only in your uncovering their potential.
According to modern philosopher Morris Berman, your body is the container for your subconscious. The ancients knew this. Now it’s time for you to apply it, by getting in tune with it every moment!
I’ll be wishing you every success through every single inner storm, so you come out on the other side radiating with joy.
May your heart one day shine fully, utterly blissed out with its own expression — without asking any conditions of the world to “allow” it to be its true self.
