The base chakra - muladhar

 

A tall building has a deep foundation. You cannot be incautious about the foundation if you want to bring about an element of indestructibility, be it buildings or personages. A building with deep foundation can withstand malevolent storms and inveterate earthquakes. So don’t be willful, sprightly, gliding and hastening in erecting the façade; don’t be just expansively bothered about the above-ground decorously gleaming ramparts. The creation should be firmly welded to the basics—the ground level and the sub-surface set of realities.

The energetic system of our physiognomy too is a vertical stack, a building of seven storeys—from muladhar to sahasrar. Muladhar is negatively judged for its basic tendencies and worldliness. I would call it a jaundiced view, something ungracious. Most of the spiritual traditions feel vexed about the root chakra and quizzically look down upon it. And glorify the higher chakras as the plausible pathways to divinity. The lowest chakra is taken as something incorrigible that will instinctively draw us back to the base-level survival. It seems to be dealt with too abstractedly. In divine facetiousness, the spiritualists have devised tools and techniques that work on the higher chakras for raising consciousness to a higher dimension of experiences, thoughts, emotions and perspectives.

Kundalini yoga is one of the most straightforward means to leapfrog onto a higher platform and align one’s journey in symmetry with the vibration of higher chakras. In this hurry the poor, boorish lowest chakra gets almost jeered at. In their rush they simply bypass the muladhar chakra lying in its obscure lodging at the perineum, taking it to be the carrier of covertly topical tendencies to pursue desires and hence getting trapped in the cycle of pain and suffering. They dart about in full enthusiasm to pursue the higher chakras leaving the muladhar chakra dismally neglected. They hurry past it, leaving it weak and go spiritedly building the upper storeys. There you have a tall building with garishly upholstered rooms on the higher floors with a weak, almost decrepit foundation. A tall building with shallow foundations seesawing to the ordinary ambiguities of life.

If you want to know the proof of a tall building collapsing due to shallow foundations, kindly consider the cases of accidental kundalini awakening. The structure isn’t prepared, no plan, just a chance whimsical thunderbolt of energy surging upwards. There is a thin line between the devilish and the divine. It’s the same energy—misdirected in the former and well-directed in the latter. A tall vertical shaft of huge energy with no physiological foundations—which the muladhar provides—to keep it channeled and rooted. The body precariously argues with the new, unfamiliar energetic waves cascading through the nervous system. It falls apart in utter bafflement; overheated by the hyperactivity of the hyper-charged nervous system, the physiological structure collapses and various diseases strike. Madness of mind and decimation of body are frequent outcomes.

It happens simply because the body’s structure isn’t in alignment with this level of sudden nervous activation in the brain. There is a pungent discord in the nervous system. It’s too much for the system; just like a simple indoor 240 V cable suddenly gets a current of 10,000 V. Of course it cascades thorough the system wolfishly. It will burn, let off sparks. It capriciously grizzles the nervous system that is simply sufficient for the monotonous and expectedly tedious load of mundane life. It becomes a sneering hussy trying to even break the impenetrable silence deep in your being.

We crawl on the ground. We come from earth. We carry her in us as the most predominant element. But we look to akash for salvation; the akash whose just a minute portion is present in our energetic anatomy. We try to build a top-heavy tower with a narrow base. It falls. No wonder, the majority of the people on the spiritual path are more depressed than the simple folks grounded on earth.

So, o thou spirituality aspirants, work on your muladhar, strengthen and solidify your base, your foundation, so that your energetic tower withstands the thunderbolt of elevated consciousness. Bow down to mother earth; walk on naked feet; eat a well-balanced diet of satva-rajas-tamas food to nourish yourself with groundedness; do yoga, pranayam and plain physical exercises in balance; read scriptures but also go to watch movies for light-hearted, feel-good entertainment; read holy books but also romantic fiction; get into relationships; laugh when you feel like smiling only; be a creator. Let all this be on the ground and not in the heaven. Plug into the socket of divine possibilities for drawing your share of energy and harness it. Just keep working on your foundation, your base. Mother existence will Herself take care of your tower above.