Ascended Master Teachings

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 59. Chapters: Chakra, Morya, Spiritual Hierarchy, Seven rays, Sanat Kumara, Count of St. Germain, Master Jesus, Church Universal and Triumphant, Maitreya, Great White Brotherhood, "I AM" Activity, Astral body, Ascended master, Kuthumi, Joshua David Stone, Etheric body, Plane, Occult theories about Francis Bacon, Religious views on the self, The Bridge to Freedom, Serapis Bey, Mental body, Master Hilarion, Paul the Venetian, Manu, The Summit Lighthouse, Saint Germain Foundation, The White Eagle Lodge, Lady Master Nada, Lord Ling. Excerpt: Chakra is a concept originating in Hindu texts, featured in tantric and yogic traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism. Its name derives from the Sanskrit word for "wheel" or "turning" (--, pronounced in Hindi; Pali: cakka --, Thai: --, Tamil: --, Kannada: --, Chinese: --, Tibetan: khorlo). Chakra is a concept referring to wheel-like vortices which, according to traditional Indian medicine, are believed to exist in the surface of the subtle body of living beings. The Chakras are said to be "force centers" or whorls of energy permeating, from a point on the physical body, the layers of the subtle bodies in an ever-increasing fan-shaped formation. Rotating vortices of subtle matter, they are considered the focal points for the reception and transmission of energies. Different systems posit a varying number of chakras; the most well known system in the West is that of seven chakras. It is typical for chakras to be depicted as either flower-like or wheel-like. In the former, "petals" are shown around the perimeter of a circle. In the latter, spokes divide the circle into segments that make the chakra resemble a wheel (or "chakra"). Each chakra possesses a specific number of segments or petals. Texts describing the chakras go back as far as the later Upanishads ( Thai: --), for example the Yoga Kundalini Upanishad. Although there are various interpretations as to what exactly a chakra is, the following features are common in all systems: Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda describes a chakra as: ... powerhouse in the way it generates and stores energy, with the energy from cosmos pulled in more strongly at these points. The main nadis, Ida, Pingala and Shushumna (sympathetic, parasympathetic, and central nervous system) run along the spinal column in a curved path and cross one another several times. At the points of intersection they form strong energy centers known as chakras. In the human body there are three types of energy centers. The lower or ani