There are seven primary chakras located in the subtle physical body, the body of light and energy that is our awareness and that surrounds the physical.
The planes of consciousness are correlated to what we call the chakras, which are located along the shushumna.
The shushumna is a tube. It is an astral tube, like a reed. It runs from the base of the spine to between the eyebrows and a little bit above.
There are six chakras or energy vortexes that lie along that tube. There is a seventh chakra located several inches above the head, but it is not connected.
There are thousands of lesser chakras. Chakras are doorways to other worlds. When you focus on them, you step into something else.
There are many other chakras, or nadis as they are also called. There are chakras in the hands, fingertips, feet and a number of other areas.
There are chakras in the hands; you've seen me use those quite frequently when I meditate. I project the shakti, the kundalini, through the chakras in the hands to people I meditate with.
When you focus on a chakra, it's very easy to bring subtle physical energies into your consciousness.
The throat chakra is the center that is aesthetic. It gives an appreciation of beauty.
The third eye is located between the eyebrows and a little above. The heart center is located directly in the center of the chest. The naval center is about two inches below the navel.
The crown chakra is located several inches above the head, but it is not connected. The crown chakra, also known as the thousand-petal lotus of light, references the planes of light, of enlightenment.
In Buddhism we meditate. We make our minds quiet by learning to focus on the chakras, release internal energy that we call kundalini, and bring ourselves into high states of consciousness.
Beyond the astral dimensions are the causal dimensions. They are not spatial or time oriented. They are planes of light, and they make up the outer limits of nirvana.
The causal body is the most ancient and timeless part of a person. It has the capacity to know and do things that the physical mind and body cannot.
The causal dimensions, the planes of light, are happiness. They are all different and are all endless. They border the shores of nirvana, which is beyond discussion - a condition of perfection that cannot be expressed.
Beyond the subtle physical body, is the causal body, the part of your being that lives from one lifetime to another.
The causal body is like DNA or RNA in that it is the coding that determines your level of evolution.
The causal body holds the structure. The causal body is the coding. So you are not just scattered all over the ten thousand states of mind.
The causal body is the part of a person that lives forever. It is what you would call the soul. It doesn't dissolve along with the physical and astral bodies at the end of an incarnation.
You find yourself in this world, you find yourself out of this world and there's no one to find the Self. There's no Self to find.
I wouldn't really worry to much about practicing the yoga of discrimination at this point in your evolution.
Until you've reached that point where you've perfected your lower nature and cleansed your emotional being, jnana yoga will have to wait.
The path that is followed by most persons in the beginning of their spitirual search is the path of love, bhakti yoga.
As you pass through bhakti yoga, as you pass through love, you're elated. You're fulfilled and you're joyous.
Love is the easiest and most effective way to begin our search for self-realization.
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