Yoga Teacher Training Know your mind Heal your life THE 5 MENTAL STATES & KUNDALINI BY TIMEA VITEZ The Five Mental States or the Pancha Cittabhumi Is the Evolution of Consciousness This Human Consciousness Will finally develop itSelf When it becomes Free from the impact of The Three Guna Namely: Tamas - Inertia Rajas - Activity Sattwa - Purity We can compare The Evolution of the Consciousness in this 5 State With the Awakening of Kundalini Shakti We can Say that the Lowest State Is the Moodha State Means The Dullness of the Mind and it Belongs of Mooladhara Chakra Where Kundalini Shakti is Dormant or the Individual Consciousness is Sleeping and here Tama Guna is Dominant in this State Nothing can keep you Active Spiritual or Blissful When Tama Guna You Will Always Find Your Predominates and it’s Mind Dull, Inert and Tense Suppressing the Two Other Such is the effect of Tamas Gunas Over the Consciousness.... The Mind enters into an Inactive State. As a Result There is a process of Slow thinking � When this State deepens the Mental Inactivity Becomes Acute Manifesting in a State of Deep Neurosis � This is the Dull State of Mind Known as the “Moodha Chittabhumi” After You Have Done Certain Practices This Becomes So Stimulated or Agitated that the Vibration Continues Up to Svādhiṣṭhāna and Manipoora Chakra This State Known as Kshipta Chittabhumi the Wavering Unstable Distracted Mind Here Raja Guna is Predominant the Mental State is Scattered Broken into Pieces However up to Manipoora Nevertheless there is every possibility When Consciousness has for a spiritual aspirant Reached to be thrown back to Manipoora and has Stayed Mooladhara ... there for some time and has gone through or transcended it Then the Consciousness becomes Steady In the Sense that Once Arrived to the Next level of Chittabhumi The Vikshipta State and from here Kundalini Shakti raise up to Ajna Chakra and from Ajna Chakra Onwards Vikshipta State of Mind is an Oscillating State of Mind In this Particular State of Mind The Individual Consciousness Operates Between Steadiness and Distractions This is the usual condition of All Spiritual Aspirants When they Sit for Any Yogic Practice as Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dhrana, Dhyana When the Flow of Concentration Born of Sattwa Is interrupted by Unsteadiness Born of Rajas One is Said to be In the Vikshipta State of Consciousness In this State of Consciousness The Student is very Sensitive and Subject to Moods You will find Him or Her Meditating for Hours and Suddenly Leaving everything for Days However it’s a Very Important Stage Here Yoga Begins All the Gunas have complete Freedom here to Express Themselves Individually When Sattwa has Free Expression When Tamas Comes One-Pointedness into Play Ekagrata Chittabhumi there is none Dawns pointedness When Rajas is neither dissipation there Overpowering is only the mind is dissipated Dullness and Inactivity Wavering Vikshipta It is Said that Yoga Begins When the Vikshipta State of Mind is arrived at. From the Vikshipta State Kundalini Shakti Raise Up through the Anahata Chakra and up to Visuddha Chakra and from there to Ajna Chakra ... Ekagrata Means One Pointedness and in this Sattwa Guna is the Predominant Rajo, and Tamo Guna are absent. Here the Kundalini Shakti Arrived to Ajna Chakra The Third Eye That Gives the Proper Understanding About Your Existence When this Stage is Arrived That State of Mind called Than the Last One to be Trigunatita Achived Is: Beyond the Three Gunas Nirodha, wich means: When Consciousness is “Complete Cessation” Absolutely In this Neither Free From the Three Tamas Nor Rajas, Nor Gunas Sattwa Guna Functions That Chittabhumi is Called Nirodha When Kundalini Shakti Reach up to the Sahasrara Chakra to Joining to Shiva That is Union Between the Individual Consciousness and the Suprem Consciousness That is the Perfect State This is the Comparison Between the Awakening of Kundalini Consciousness and the Yogic Terminology 1. Moodha: Dullness of the mind 2. Kshipta: The wavering mind 3. Vikshipta: Partially stable 4. Ekagrata: One-pointed mind 5. Nirodha: Highest state, Samādhi Yoga Teacher Training Know your mind Heal your life.