Brahma Granthi in kundalini

 Brahma Granthi – earthly bondage – perineum – at the region of mooladhara chakra. This knot must be released for kundalini to enter and ascend through sushumna nadi. It implies attachment to physical and sensual pleasures, material objects and excessive selfishness. Also the ensnaring power of tamas – negativity, lethary and ignorance.

Granthis in kundalini

Granthis – psychic knots or safety valves.

These lie along the path of sushumna nadi. Why might they exist?

Kundalini Tantra pg 117 “they represent levels of awareness where the power of maya, ignorance and attachment to material things is especially strong. Each aspirant must transcend these barriers to make a clear passageway for the ascending kundalini”.

Because is would be dangerous to raise energy up sushumna nadi too quickly, there are three psychic knots which stop energy passing through certain points. They are at the navel/perineum, the heart and the centre of the head.

1. Brahma Granthi – earthly bondage – perineum – at the region of mooladhara chakra. This knot must be released for kundalini to enter and ascend through sushumna nadi. It implies attachment to physical and sensual pleasures, material objects and excessive selfishness. Also the ensnaring power of tamas – negativity, lethary and ignorance.

2. Vishnu Granthi at the heart knot at the heart at anahata chakra. It is associated with the bondage of emotional attachment and attachment to people and inner psychic visions. Connected to the guna, rajas – passion, ambition and assertiveness. Even the urge to preach our version of spirituality is caused by this knot.
3. Rudra granthi (Shiva), located between the eyebrows at ajna chaka and the last blockage between send of ego and I-ness and connection to everything through saharara chakra - enlightenment. Can get attached here to siddhis (yogic powers), psychic phenomena and ego. This knot is rarely undone and only when the individual ego and duality are transcended.

As the kundalini rises, and yogic practices progress, the knots untie themselves when the practitioner is ready. The spiritual awakening of most religious figures follows a trajectory resembling this rise of kundalini. When this last knot is undone, one hits the bliss state, sublimating the petty self with the universal one. In yoga untying these knots is as important as rousing kundalini – the two must go hand in hand. The path has to be cleared or you will be lost, unable to reach the destination.

Sushumna

sushumna, which corresponds in the physical body to the spine. Sushumna nadi lies dormant in most people and becomes active with yogic practices, especially pranayama which focuses on working with the energy body.  HYP pg 493 describes the importance of sushumna nadi, calling it “the main freeway from the depths of the earth to the heights of heaven”.

When the breath flows equally in both nostrils, sushumna is said to be flowing equally – eg danda

Ida & Pingala nadi

Ida & Pingala nadi. Pingala relates to the right nostril in the physical body and the left hemisphere of the brain. Sun/male/. Ida to left nostril, right brain and moon/female. Very important nadis criss crossing the most important nadi,

Nadis

Nadis – tiny energy channels running throughout the body, like the nervous system but not the nervous system. Prana or subtle energy (also known as Ki or Chi) flows around the body through the network of nadis.

For the body to be healthy there should be a free flow of prana, so a big purpose of yoga is to remove blockages in the nadis. Where there are blocks, energy stagnates and disease can arise.

Astrological Ideas

Astrological Ideas

Traditional astrology was associated with prognostication and relatively specific testable hypotheses about planetary configurations and human activities. Until the twentieth century, astrologers have held that the stellar connection mainly reflected actual outdated human behavior, but today among the influential group of psychological astrologers there is the tendency to put main weight on the shift in claim, consider first the view of Charles carter, who was the leading British astrologer in the middle of twentieth century.