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Namah Editorial

Aurobindo has described that great creative to activate the cakras and open the channels of
waves of arts, music and perennial wisdom communication between the inner being and
enter the inner being through the cosmic outer being and to start from below upwards,
consciousness and a little of that trickle into opening up the channels from the nethermost
the outer being through the cakras, which are planes of consciousness and work up the
usually not fully operative and even then, evolutionary trajectory by activating the
that little is responsible for our highest Kunnddalinī SSakti or primeval energy lying
creative outpourings. “Only a little of the coiled up in the lower recesses of the being.
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inner being escapes through these centres into This Kundalinī Sakti rises up, opening up one
the outer life, but that little is the best part of cakra after another from below upwards till it
ourselves and responsible for our art, poetry, reaches the summit of the being to culminate
philosophy, ideals, religious aspirations, in fusing with the splendour and puissance
efforts at knowledge and perfection. But the of the superconscient energy.
inner centres are, for the most part, closed
or asleep — to open them and make them However, this journey is dangerous and
awake and active is one aim of Yoga. As they requires the presence of an expert guide
open, the powers and possibilities of the inner throughout the process. The initial activation
being also are aroused in us; we awake first of the cakras, positioned at the lower ranges
to a larger consciousness and then to a cosmic of consciousness, is often accompanied by
consciousness; we are no longer little separate an increase of physical and libidinal energy.
personalities with limited lives but centres of It required highly expert guidance to deal
a universal action and in direct contact with with this initial vital upsurge that had to
cosmic forces (3).” A programme of personal be transcended to activate higher levels of
growth therefore, necessitates that the cakras energy.
or centres of consciousness in the inner being
be made fully operational so as to be in This guiding expertise had become diluted
communion with the outer being. through the centuries. As a result, many
aspirants became stuck up at the lower cakras,
so that Tantra later began to be represented as
gymnastics of the libido (4). Nevertheless,
the famous erotic sculpture in some ancient
temples of India appear to have been conceived
from experiential insights gained during the
activation of the lower cakras en route along
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the trajectory of the Kundalinī coursing its way
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upwards to higher annals of consciousness.
Sri Aurobindo, for the first time in spiritual
history, charted a different way for activation
of the cakras that did not carry the risk involved
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with the usual practice of awakening Kundalinī
The traditional way in the Indian tradition is from below. The superconscience above the
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