Yogashikha Upanishad (critical study)
by Sujatarani Giri | 2015 | 72,044 words
This page relates 鈥榓wakening of the etheric cakras鈥� of the English study on the Yogashikha Upanishad鈥攁 key text from the Krishna Yajurveda, focusing on the pinnacle of Yogic meditation. This essay presents Yoga as a crucial component of ancient Indian philosophy and spirituality and underscores its historical roots in Vedic literature鈥攑articularly the Upanishads and Vedant. The chapters of this study are devoted to the faculties of the mind and internal body mechanisms such as Chakras as well as the awakening of Kundalini.
Part 2.3 - The awakening of the etheric cakras
The first centre is the home of the serpent fire. This force exists on all planes, and by its activity the rest of the centres are aroused.
When the second of the etheric centres, that at the spleen is, awakened, the man is enabled to remember his vague astral journeys, though sometimes only very partially. The effect of a slight and accidental stimulation of this centre is often to produce half remembrance of a bilateral sensation of flying through the air.
When the third centre, that at the naval, comes into activity, the man begins in the physical body to be conscious of all kinds of astral influences, vaguely feeling that some of them are friendly and others hostile, or hat some of them are friendly and others places are pleasant and others unpleasant, without in the least knowing why.
Stimulation of the fourth, that at the heart, makes the man instinctively aware of the joys and sorrows of others and sometimes even causes him to reproduce in himself by sympathy their physical aches and pains.
The arousing of the fifth, that at the throat, enables him to bear voices, which sometimes make all kinds of suggestions to him. Also sometimes to him. Also sometimes he hears music, or other less pleasant sounds. When it is fully working it makes the clairaudient as far as the etheric and asral planes are concerned.
When the sixth, between the eyebrows becomes vivified, the man begins to se things, to have various sorts of haking visions, sometimes of places, sometimes of people. In its earlier development, when it is only just beginning to [???]