Course XL - Teaching 1: “ZATACHAKRA NIRUPANA”
The energetic power of the Universe is the source of the seven cosmic ethers, which are one in power and seven in motion, and are called the Seven Cosmic Rays.
The energy of these seven rays in man, and their power, will be explained now.
Hindu ascetics devoted especial attention to the development of this strength in man, and have left examples by writing, and texts confirming their experience.
Next we will comment one of the most outstanding of these texts: the Zatachakra Nirupana, which also is called Shatchakra Nirupana.
The word “Nirupana” means “deep study”: “Zata”, place, and “Chakra”, wheel. As a whole: the study of wheels in motion, and their location.
This precious document of Hindu spiritual knowledge consists of fifty-one verses, and one preliminary verse.
Preliminary Verse
“Now I speak, from the first bud of the asceticism plant: from the complete realization of God; which must be achieved according to exercises and going successively and orderly through six wheels.”
Commentary
NOW
It has a characteristic and especial meaning; that is, it is time; he could not make it earlier; just now the disciple is in a position to receive the teaching and the Master can speak because his divine realization has culminated.
I SPEAK
According to the text it is not the Guru that speaks, but the Self does, the Liberated Being, the one who has reached the top realization, identification with the Spirit, and ending of the Path; the one who knows that this time is propitious to speak.
FROM THE FIRST BUD
It does not speak about the highest end, the total realization; it speaks of the beginning, the first bud; that is to say, that from the beginning, the soul that stood up in the Path, takes part in the Divine Union.
OF THE ASCETICISM PLANT
The plant of Yoga indicates that the ascetic way is not something whimsical, or disordered, or made abruptly, but that can be compared with a plant in which first must be a seed with inner inclination and propitious ground. This plant will gradually and slowly grow, but it will grow indeed.
FROM THE COMPLETE REALIZATION OF GOD;
As soon as the soul in ascetic motion has been driven, realization is sure.
WHICH MUST BE ACHIEVED ACCORDING TO EXERCISES AND SUCCESSIVE EXPERIENCE AND ORDER.
The divine realization has to be achieved with Tantric exercises set up in the Laya Karma Yoga, and through certain planned work, with evolutionary stages, and methodically.
The divine realization does not admit definitions, but exists indeed.
This is a process that does not admit jumps; the being must know successively and in order the movements of the cosmic being, which exist in him.
THROUGH THE SIX WHEELS.
The six centers of power, or chakras, are nothing more than the expression of only one cosmic ether; but the latter must be partially achieved through six stages, with six forms, and through six centers.
Hindu texts name just six centers of power, or chakras, leaving aside the coronary center, or Sahasrâra, since they take it as the synthesis of the other centers.
