Sahasrara chakra
Guru chakra
Nirvana chakra
Indu chakra
Manas chakra
Ajna chakra
Lalana chakra
Vishuddha chakra
Anahata chakra
Hrit chakra
Manipura chakra
Swathisthana chakra
Muladhara chakra
Sahasrara chakra
Guru chakra
Nirvana chakra
Indu chakra
Manas chakra
Ajna chakra
Lalana chakra
Vishuddha chakra
Anahata chakra
Hrit chakra
Manipura chakra
Muladhara chakra
In the Indian Tantric tradition, this chakra, called the Swadhisthana or "Self or Own Abode", is figured as having six petals, white in colour, and with a crescent in the center, the tattwa of water. This chakra therefore corresponds to the element Water and is traditionally associated with the sexual impulses and sexual energy. I would be suggested that it does not, however, correspond to the sex-organs as such, which are under the supervision of the Sacral and Pubic Centres, but to the original subtle energy behind the sexual impulse.
Indian teachings place a lot of emphasise on celibacy, in order to raise and transmute this powerful sexual energy to the brain (or, more correctly, the Upper Tien Tan Centre, to use the Taoist paradigm), increasing higher consciousness. This is actually the basic principle behind celibacy in all religions, including Catholicism. In practice however, this noble ideal flounders, because the individual is not yet ready to renounce physical sex, and may become psychologically unbalanced, full of guilt, or turn to paedophilia or other unnatural forms of sex.
| Terminology | Tantric | swadhishthana, adhishthana, bhima, shatpatra, skaddala padma, wari-chakra |
| Vedic (late Upanishads) | swadhishthana, medhra | |
| Puranic | swadhishthana | |
| Position | externally, genital region | |
| Petals | number | six; arranged from right to left |
| colour | vermilion, deep red, shining red, whitish red, lightning-like, golden | |
| Matrika-letters | on petals | six in number: Bang Bhang Mang Yang Rang Lang, arranged from right to left |
| colour | lightning-like, diamond-white, white, vermilion | |
| Vrittis | on petals | six in number; arranged from right to left |
| name | 1 affection; 2 pitilessness; 3 feeling of all-destructiveness; 4 delusion; 5 disdain; 6 suspicion | |
| In the pericarp | half-moon-shaped 'water'-region | |
| colour of the Water Region | white | |
| Water-bija (in Water Region) | Wang | |
| colour of Water-bija | moon-white | |
| Form of Water-bija | deity Varuna | |
| Concentration form of Varuna | Varuna is white in colour, four-armed, holding a noose, and seated on a makara ("crocodile" - "water monster") | |
| In the bindu of Wang | deity Vishnu | |
| Concentration form of Vishnu | Vishnu is shining dark-blue (or black), golden, crystal-white, moon-white, and white; youthful and graceful; three-eyed, four-armed, holding a conch, wheel, mace and lotus; dressed in yellow raiment; wears shriwatsa-mark, Koustubha-gem and wanamala; seated on garuda | |
| Presiding divinity | power Rakini | |
| Concentration of Rakini | Rakini is dark-blue (or black), or red in colour; beautiful-faced, vermilion-mark on forehead; three-eyed; dressed in white raiment; two-armed, holding a sword and a shield; or, four-armed, holding a trident, a lotus, a drum and the Vajra, or a chisel; seated on a red lotus | |
reference Layayoga - an Advanced Method of Concentration
by Shyam Sundar Goswami, p.277. colour plate above from same book
Astrologically then, this centre perhaps corresponds to the Moon - not the actual physical moon of course, but the subtle-causal or etheric counterpart (relative to which the gross or external moon is simply the physical body), the first "Celestial Sphere" relative to Earthly existence. Relative to the Sun and the Solar System as a whole, however, this Centre corresponds to the first Macrocosmic Chakra, represented by the etheric (non-physical) planet Vulcan
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List of major and minor Chakras
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The Svadhisthana Cakra according to the Satcakra-Narupana of Purnananda Swami (Translated by Arthur Avalon in The Serpent Power)
Svadishtana Chakra - Alfred Ballabene (in German)
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