Muladhara
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The root chakra, at the base of the spine — high-energy practices activate it rapidly, which can temporarily heighten desire and anger without strict Brahmacharya and Guru guidance.
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Vairochana, Kabandha and Krodha Bhairava alongside Ganapati before Chhinnamasta — Bhairava carrying consciousness from the Muladhara to where Shakti unites with Shiva
Chhinnamasta's sequential sadhana requires three preliminary Bhairavas — Vairochana, Kabandha, and Krodha — alongside Ganapati sadhana, since every Mahavidya has Her corresponding Bhairava; Bhairava governs a practitioner's inner restraint, protection, and the elevation of consciousness from the Muladhara to the crown where Shakti unites with Shiva.
What does the epithet 'Kama-hantri' mean?
'Kama-hantri' refers to the divine power that subdues, purifies, and eradicates uncontrolled base desires and lust, helping a practitioner sublimate vital energy during Muladhara chakra activation.
What happens to a practitioner who has given offence to a deity?
They are driven off (Uchchatan) the moment they attempt mantra siddhi at a Pitha — a quarrel arises, the mind turns and they leave. Where Vinayaka is displeased the obstruction is bodily: gas and pain to the navel, an inability to sit, and disturbance at the Muladhara.
What happens if Brahmacharya breaks during a sadhana?
Where the Sankalpa carried a desire, that desire is not fully fulfilled. Nocturnal emission is not counted an offence — but for fierce powers such as Bagalamukhi it causes difficulty regardless, which is why Ganapati sadhana is a prerequisite.
Until Ganpati makes the Muladhara firm a sadhak stays uchchatit and keeps running from his sadhana.
Until he makes your Muladhara firm, you will remain uchchatit. Becoming uchchatit after performing japa of a mantra of some kind, running from the sadhana for one reason or another — this can only be set right by the grace of Bhagavan Ganpati. If you do not perform his sadhana, then that energy and capacity will simply not come into your body, that you should be able to absorb the energy of the sadhanas within yourself and be able to save those punyas with you.
Why is Ganpati placed at the Muladhara important for sadhana?
He is seated at the Muladhara, the first chakra. It is by him that your whole body is controlled in the first place. If that becomes disordered, you will not even be able to sit — and in sadhana one has to sit.
What does Ganpati sadhana do to the body's impurities?
Therefore first of all Ganpati, who should control the Muladhara and set it right. However many impurities there are in your body, from that very place they will begin to be removed. Do the path once, do it eight times, do it 21 times, do it 27 times.
What harm do garlic and onion do in sadhana?
They increase heat, he says: there will be pain in the waist, pain in the stomach, pain in the liver — he notes he said liver pain, not labour pain. So there is difficulty. And the greatest difficulty from garlic and onion is that tamasik vritti certainly increases. The state of swapna dosha increases much more in men. The more heat there is, that much more difficulty; the process of spandan above the Muladhara begins to happen in such a way that a man cannot understand it. So garlic and onion do harm; garlic and onion should be given up.
Obstacles that come when a sadhana is begun without a Ganpati anushthan
The speaker says that without the Kripa of Maha Ganapati, or without taking refuge in some one form of Vinayak and doing his sadhana, puja and seva, no special success comes in sadhana and many obstacles arise. A sadhak who takes up a special sadhana with no Ganpati Anushthana at the start gets heavy laziness, sleep and torpor, thoughts that never steady, concentration that keeps breaking, and Uchchatan setting in. These vighnas belong to Vinayak, he says, and connect directly with the Muladhara — the first chakra, where the body meets the asana, is Ganpati's seat — so until his kripa is obtained no anushthan completes without obstruction.
Why do anger and sleep increase during a sadhana?
Because when japa produces a throbbing at the Muladhara, the chakras become unstable somewhere, from which anger and desire both increase greatly. One thing you can do: recite a tenth part of the consort's mantra — the female power's if you worship a male deity, and the reverse — and perform Tarpan and Marjan with it.
What should be done if a shakti is taking some kind of bhog from us?
Whenever you do mantra japa, different kinds of effect increase in the body, the speaker says. If the effect increases at the Muladhara, then both kaam and krodh increase. If you do sadhana connected with Bhagavati Kali, then krodh will also increase within you and there will be an increase of kamanas as well — that is, you will be very much afflicted by kaam. To control it, who will control it? Shiva will. Therefore the abhishek of Shiva, the abhishek of Bhairav, is necessary.
Why is the Mahamudra darshan forbidden to the young?
The speaker's analogy is the form of Uchchhishta Ganapati: what condition would a fifteen or twenty year old be in on seeing that form — the contemplation would never leave his mind and he would never be able to concentrate in worship. Those forms are meant, by the Tantric method, for those with the capacity to restrain the Muladhara and carry the energy upward.
What is the reason behind the age restriction?
Recall your own fourteenth or fifteenth year — how fiercely the hormones change, how you were drawn to the opposite sex, a state almost of unconsciousness. Consider then how far the energy of such a person will rise after going to that region, and that if he cannot bear the surge of Kama, mistakes and offences follow and the boy is ruined.
Why does high-energy sadhana require strict Brahmacharya, and how is that balanced?
High-energy practices require strict mental celibacy and devotion, since rapid energy generation activates the Muladhara chakra and can temporarily heighten desire and anger — balanced by initial worship of Ganesha and Dattatreya alongside proper Guru guidance.
The body vibrates a great deal during mantra japa — what should be done?
To DK Siddharth ji, who says that whenever he does mantra japa there is a great deal of vibration in the body and it begins to shake, and that he has fallen into debt and is very troubled, he answers that so much vibration from mantra japa means that the muladhara has already been disturbed. So first of all do not do mantra japa; you should not start straight with mantra japa. If you are doing it on a mala and so on, do not; and you should know that there is somewhere an effect of sthan dosha.
If mantra japa cannot be done safely alone at home, what should be done instead, and where?
Go into a temple, he says: if it is a Shiva temple then do the Shiva Raksha prayoga that has been described, and if you cannot do the prayoga then do the path. If it is a temple of Hanuman ji and you do the seva-puja of Hanuman ji, then do the Tantrokta Bajrang Baan, the complete Bajrang Baan given on this channel. If there is a temple of Vishnu ji, you may do the sadhana of the Datta Mala Mantra. Do it going into the temple, for some time — do a sadhana of eleven days each, four to five times.
Why do wrong thoughts about the devi arise as the sadhana advances?
To Ajay Paliwal ji, who asks why wrong thoughts about the devi come as one goes further in sadhana, he says the biggest cause behind it is only doing mantra japa. If you do mantra japa alone the muladhara will awaken and there will be difficulty. That is why, he says, they say again and again that whichever devi or devata's sadhana and upasana you do, you should certainly do the reading and reciting of their stotras and sing them with bhav. Arti should be done. If you do all these things the bhav will change. And you should read the granths and puranas connected with them — even if only one day in a week, even if for only one hour.
Why do male sadhaks report swapna dosh after long sitting?
Warning that some listeners will find the words offensive, the speaker says this happens especially with boys — that swapna dosh occurs. The cause he gives is that you have no practice of sitting. You have sat down for sadhana, laid your asana, but have no knowledge of what an asana should be like: there is no Kusha Asana, the blanket asana is very thin and touching the ground completely. The Muladhara is held to be at the place where the spine ends at the very bottom, and long sitting puts pressure on it.
What helps with Brahmacharya during a sadhana?
Surya Namaskar first of all — begin it and you get great support in observing Brahmacharya. And second, Kapalbhati. These two, the speaker says, will give an effect very fast, from the very first day.
What happens to the kundalini shakti at the time of calamity?
When calamity comes, the speaker says, the kundalini shakti awakens very well. You are going along the road peacefully, eating chips, listening to a song, no difficulty — you will go along quite comfortably. But if a dog comes after you and it is a biting dog, then seeing it you will run. The ten-foot wall you could not cross before, you will leap and catch with your hands and climb over. This fear has awakened your kundalini shakti; without the fear, where was that capacity? It did not appear out of the air — it was sleeping within you, what we call the shakti asleep in the muladhara. So when calamity is coming to us, somewhere it is also giving an opportunity: make this disaster into an opportunity, and with this understanding keep yourself prepared. Keep doing sadhana; it will come to work. And transfer this thing to your next generation too.
Mooladhara at the base of the spine holds the earth element and the instinct for security; unbalanced it breeds insecurity, steady it carries all higher ascent.
Mooladhara, at the base of the spine, governs instincts of security, physical existence, and rootedness, corresponding to the earth element — when disharmonized it produces insecurity and instability, while awakened and balanced it provides a firm foundation for higher spiritual ascent.
What should be done if a sadhana greatly increases the force of desire?
Asked with which mantras and substances Shankar ji should be given abhishek if the force of kaam increases greatly from some sadhana, the speaker answers that the force of kaam increases greatly if the Muladhara is going wrong. At that time, first of all, the pujan of Mahaganapati ji in particular; and along with it, while giving a stream of cool water upon Shiva ji, if you know the 108 names of Mahadev then their recitation, and with a little fierceness. The second thing is the stuti of one's own aradhya: when you do the stuti, or when you recite the charitra and the like connected with them, singing it, the force of kaam will be greatly quieted.
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