The Secrets of the Chakra Map Shunyamurti Speaks: I heard the popcorn popping so I’ll keep this short so you can get it while it’s hot—but I think there’s a lot that’s hot in this video. It’s an oldie, but still, I think, one that has a lot of helpful information. It’s from Mythos, the old Joseph Campbell series, and we haven’t seen it in many years—at least as a sangha—and I think that it’s useful to have that information as a reminder of why we’re here, what are we doing, and what’s the context in which we’re doing it. And I think a lot of the contextualization of the particular subject matter (which is that of Kundalini Yoga) is specifically relevant to this moment in history. Campbell does a lot of nostalgic remembering of various episodes in his life, such as when he visited Nagasaki, and recognized that destruction is part of creation, and we have to go beyond the values of life, of time and space, and realize that this world is only an illusion that is created, sustained, and destroyed, regularly—and that we’re about to be destroyed again—and so be it! We’re going back into the white light of Shiva, and then we’ll come back and do it all over again, because we love so much this experience of heaven and hell and everything in between that life gives us. And let’s face it: souls get bored with the white light and want to come back and experience every possibility of existence. By the way, the statue they put up at Nagasaki—look at the head of the guy who represents the dropping of the bomb—it’s the face of George Washington as shown on the dollar bill— really! So, it’s very clear that they understood who is bringing about the destruction. I mean, it’s on the dollar bill anyway—the eagle with the arrows in one claw and the laurel of Sat Yuga in the other—so this is the power that links the end and the beginning. There are many other, I think, useful points in this rendition of the Kundalini system of psychology—and since Radha Ma just completed a video series that included the Sat Yoga version of the Kundalini map, I think it’s good to see the original, old-time version of it. And to see that our version is quite congruent with the old version, but we added a few bells and whistles, like the assemblage points, and various nuances of understanding about the psychological implications of each chakra, and each assemblage point, and the resistances, and the obstacles to moving from one to another—and the wormholes and all of that—but the basic gyana is the same, and is, I think, very well explained by Campbell. And shows us how the old icons, the iconography of the mythological format in which it is presented, is an extremely nuanced and highly developed psychological system that was portrayed in mythological terms, but their psychologists back then—the yogis—knew everything and more, far beyond what is understood by modern psychoanalysis, and psychology, etc. I think he errs in a few points—like saying that Jung got to chakra four—I think that’s exactly what he couldn’t do, and why he couldn’t meet Ramana, including the fact that his whole system would have collapsed if he had really received the darshan from someone at chakra seven. But nonetheless, I think that his basic explanation, which is orthodox Hindu and Vedantic psychology and philosophy, is accurate. And because time is short, in terms of our achieving liberation before the bombs go off, and the earthquakes, and the massive events that will soon engulf the world, and Shiva is in need of a large number of recruits for the angelic orders—this is the moment to let go of our ego- consciousness and the enjoyments that those intermediary chakras give us, that too many of us have become satisfied with, and complacent about where we happen to be in the chakra system. And I believe that everyone understands the urgency of getting to chakra seven before those events happen, and before the earth becomes totally destabilized, because we are going to require a number of beings in those very high chakras, in order to counterbalance the waves of negative energy, of massive anxiety and terror and overwhelm, that most people will be in, and be able to bring about a gentler transition for those seekers who are looking for help, through prayer and through reaching out to God in whatever way they are still able to do— and only if there is a very strong energy field of those who are emanating those vibrations, will we be able to serve them—let alone will we be able to keep people in the Ashram from freaking out when all of this is happening—which is probably more my immediate concern. So, it’s of an urgent necessity that we take very seriously the need to transcend the ego—this is not a joke, this is not something that’s optional—you’ll find that out for yourself if you don’t take it seriously, that you’ll wish you did—but it is imperative for us to fulfill our function to be able to maintain the peace and the emanation of light that will enable all of those who are turning to God, to find that energy, and if we can vibrationally send it out, then the, let’s say, the karmic unfoldment of the trajectory of the denouement of history, will favor those powers of the transcendence to be able to manifest this transition, with the minimum of suffering, for all. The shift in values that is required to move from the lower chakras to the higher chakras, is the one, the subject, of the greatest difficulty and the greatest importance—because you won’t get there through merely meditating; you can only get there through a very conscious understanding of the difference between the value system of an ego, and the value system of a soul, and the value system of the Atman—and make a deliberate conscious choice to resonate at the level of the Atman. And by making that choice consciously you can avoid the struggle with the ego, or the soul, dynamics, that would otherwise take over the consciousness, and create a great power struggle with the forces of inertia, the tamasic energies that reign in the ego. Or the rajasic running away from oneself, and not wanting to face everything that we’re going to have to face, both within and without. And it’s through that conscious shift of our identity, and of our worldview, and of our understanding of our relationship to the powers of the Absolute, that will enable us to be in the world but not of it, and therefore not touched by the terror, the anxiety, all of the overwhelming energies that will drown egos in massive inability to function and push them down into the lower death drive. Time is of the essence in achieving this transformation. I can’t be more serious and express this in a more imperative way, that this is what is required of us, and what is necessary for the maintaining of the balance of the planetary noosphere. So, with that, I think that’s enough of an introduction, and I’ll stay for the discussion afterwards. I hope that people will have questions and will be inspired by the journey up the mountain of God, from the lower chakras and their addictions to the jouissance of security, and sexuality, and egoic power, money power, and power of territoriality and all of that, and see very clearly the benefits of letting go of that in order to behold the beatific vision of the Absolute, the supreme supernal Light, and living in that blissful Light, untouched by the temporal changes that are now moving toward death and complete ruin of the planet—but only as a temporary phenomenon that we must pass through, in order for life and joy and beauty to be reborn. But we have to carry that, and hold on to the eternal beauty, goodness, love, and supreme power that cannot be defeated by fear, or by death, in order to be able to bring about that rebirth for our planet, for nature, and for all the souls who are struggling to achieve a sense of goodness, and worthiness for life, and for the continuity of life that the ego has obliterated through its failure to love, its failure to give, its failure to transcend. May you all be free of those failures, and filled with the power of the supreme Light, in order to be bringers of the new dawn, to our beautiful world who deserves to be reborn in beauty and goodness. And if we can bring that Garden of Eden back to the world, then you have guaranteed your place in it when it comes. Namaste, Shunyamurti