CHAKRAS (CENTRES OF ENERGY)

 

{	Sahastrar Chakra
z	Aaggya Chakra
y	Vishudh Chakra
x	Anahat Chakra
w	Manipur Chakra
v	Swadhisthana Chakra
u	Mooladhara Chakra

The Chakras are the centres of spiritual and physical powers. All the chakras continually vibrate. Manipur Chakra and other chakras located below it have slow but strong movement while Anahat Chakra and the chakras above it have very swift motion. The Anahat Chakra establishes coordination among the Chakras below and above it. The Chakras located above Anahat Chakra are called space elements and those below it are called earth elements. Both of them are two different types of powers which meet at Anahat Chakra. Every Chakra has its own importance. However, all the Chakras are inter-related and inter-dependent. Any disturbance in one leads to a considerable disturbance in the functions of all other Chakras. By and large all the Chakras perform their physical functions naturally. But their spiritual powers remain dormant until awakened with the help of meditation.

This process of awakening latent spiritual powers is very fine, hard and time consuming. It demands a high level of self-control. There are 48 perpetually vibrating Chakras in our body. Of these, 7 are major Chakras namely Sahastrar Chakra, Aaggya Chakra, Vishudh Chakra, Anahat Chakra, Manipur Chakra, Swadhisthana Chakra and Mooladhara Chakra, 21 are minor Chakras and 20 are mini chakras.

Generally, Chakras may be awakened in any one of three ways: 1. By instinct: natural awakening at the time of birth. Meditation was an inborn trait in case of Guru Nanak Dev of India, Nostradamus of France, Rasputin of Russia and many others. Only a few people out of millions possess inborn skill of meditation; 2. By practice: awakening through exercise of meditation and 3. By pass-process: transmission of spiritual powers from one person to another.

The counterparts of these Chakras are respective endocrine glands. Endocrine glands are glands of the endocrine system that secrete their products, hormones, directly into the blood rather than through a duct. The main endocrine glands include the pineal gland, pituitary gland, thyroid gland and parathyroid glands, thymus gland, pancreas, gonads (ovaries/testes) and adrenal glands. The hypothalamus is a neuro-endocrine organ. Other organs which are not so well known for their endocrine activity include the stomach, which produces such hormones as ghrelin. Endocrine organs are activated to release their hormones by humoral, neural or hormonal stimuli. Endocrine glands derive from all three germ layers. Those derived from mesoderm produce steroidal hormones; the others produce the amino–acid based hormones. The efficiency of all endocrine glands seems to decrease gradually as aging occurs.