Surendra Singh, State coordinator, Shillong Sahaja Yoga Trust
OUR EARTH regarded as a living organism and it is worshipped as the Nurturing Mother. Scientific investigation let the chemist James Lovelock and a microbiologist Lynn Margul is to regard the planet as a whole as a single living organism.
Observations of its environmental properties such as the atmospheric composition, the salt content of the sea and the distribution of trace elements among planets and animals show that they are regulated by intricate cooperative networks that manifest the properties of living self-organizing systems.
Every living process has a mind. Since the earth is a living organism then it too must be mindful like ourselves. That which is mindful is also conscious; consequently the earth can be regarded as being conscious. The first center is made of this conscious element of Mother Earth within us. The ascent of the kundalini is from its abode above the first center to the seventh it pierces the fontanale bone area and crosses the seventh center where it unites with the Spirit manifesting Collective Consciousness.
The first chakra is located slightly outside the spine it guards the kundalini which rests in the sacrum bone in the spine against wrongful entry of unholy intentions. In the first step of evolution the first single cell organism was formed like an amoeba. Thereafter, it became more and more complex, developing into multi cellular beings. It is made of Earth element and is the beginning of life. When awakened its magnetic force starts working. A person whose Mooladhara chakra is awakened has an inner sense of directions. Any disturbance to its sensitivity throws the individual off-balance and causes mental disturbance.
This center governs to physical functions in the body retention and excretion. It regulates reproduction in many ways. A pressure on the elimination (for example, constipation) gives tensions to this center. However, with a sensible married life and responsible parental care, the human personality achieves proper maturity and the balance necessary for his evolution. The first center is the embodiment of innocence and is called the Mooladhara chakra. But the Mooladhara itself is seated in the sacrum bone higher than the Mooladhara chakra. Mooladhara, meaning the support of the root, is the abode of the golden goddess, if this center is weak kundalini does not rise from her abode and if sick with unholiness, she is sucked back into her seat. The disturbance in this chakra causes sexual issues, piles etc. The awakened Mooladhara brings forth wisdom; strength of dedications, innocence and purity. Such a personality is very auspicious and brings good luck of Divine bliss to its surroundings. In Sahaja Yoga, one can correct his first energy center by meditating over this center, putting his or her attention to it with absolute purity and the supreme dignity of Kundalini.