Course XL - Teaching 4: “THE SECRET CHAMBER”

Verse 8

“Near the mouth of the tube called the Stick, on the pericarp of the fundamental plexus, the luminous and soft triangle is constantly shining like a lightening, which is the desire, also known as the God of three forms. Always and everywhere it is the outpour of the loving God, whose redness is deeper than scarlet pink. He is the Lord of the Beings and shines like ten million Suns.”

Commentary

All those who have described the Muladharâ-chakra stated that the Secret Chamber is in Muladharâ itself. On the other hand, the text says that the Chamber is out of the Fundamental Center, and it is thus indeed. It is something out of the store, but so close and united to it, as if there were one button on the surface of the store, and this button would be the Secret Chamber.
This is why the verse says that the Secret Chamber is in the pericarp, that is, out of the Fundamental Plexus.
In Sanskrit, the triangular place for storing the cosmic ether is called Kâma-rûpa, which means place on which wishes and all manifestations of life are born.
In Sanskrit, Traipura is the cosmic ether stored in the Secret Chamber.
The cosmic ether is presented in the Secret Chamber surrounded by a gas; this gas is called Vayu-Kandarpa, which means air or outpours of the God of Love, or Cupido; but is actually a symbol of the Spirit, which is the Divine Love sustaining life. If there is no Spirit, nothing can exist. The text says with clarity that here it is the Spirit in its creative aspect, since it is called Lord of Beings. Kandarpa flower, which is Bandhujîva, is called Pentapueles phoenicea, and its color is red, symbol of love.
Once again, loves is the beginning and end of the Path.

Verse 9

“In the triangle it is the One Who reproduces himself, with his form of a phallus; he is beautiful like molten gold, with his head downward. He is revealed through knowledge and meditation, and has the form and color of a new leaf.
His beauty enchants like new beams of the lightening and Full Moon. The God that inhabits happily here, like the head of a phallus, takes the form of a vortex.”

Commentary

The cosmic ether of the triangle, Traipura, is mind, energy and matter.
These three qualities, substance of the Spirit, which are inseparable and clearly separate one from another, become eternal and invariable like the Spirit itself, and co-existent with Him. If you give superiority to one in detriment of the other, you deny its unique and fundamental essence.
But, on the physical plane, matter prevails in the triangle where the cosmic substance of man is; this substance undergoes a continuous becoming and takes form in the universe. This is why here the One Who reproduces himself has the form of a material phallus. He reproduces himself by virtue of the high purity in its original state.
In the physical word, matter is over and above manifested.
The text says “beautiful like molten gold” by symbolizing gold of the mind, because matter always co-exists with the energy and mind. But its head goes downward, aims at the slow vibration, at coagulation, condensation of forms and material aspects.
He is revealed through knowledge and meditation, because the original matter is of the same nature of the mind and energy, and fundamentally divine manifestation of the Eternal Spirit.
The verse states, “The God that inhabits happily here, like the head of the phallus, forms a vortex.” Head of phallus, coagulation and material form, –it is a point from which you return or start coming back to another subtler point; from there you acquire momentum again so that this form, created by matter, acquires more vigor and becomes mental.

Verse 10

“Sleeping and coiled, thin like a fiber of lotus stem, the Goddess shines over the phallus. She is the woman that bewilders the world. She surrounds the phallus three and a half times by covering softly the mouth or orifice of the passage between the genital organs and spine with her own shining form like the spire of a shell and like that of a serpent, and her luster is that of the strong blaze of a young and strong lightening. Her sweet whispering is like the confused buzz of bee swarms that are mad with love.”

Commentary

Swayambhu Linga is the cosmic phallus confined in the Sacred Triangle of each human being, and is the potential expression of creative power of man. According to the text, the sleeping Kundalini shines over it; she is the cosmic substance in its energetic aspect.
The cosmic substance shines behind its material form in Traipura, by condensing itself constantly and eventually being transformed into the phallus that is in its center. The cosmic-matter substance is animated by the cosmic-energy substance and by the cosmic-mind substance.
She is the woman bewildering the world because it is energy leading the expression of the mind to shine in life.
“Covering softly the mouth or orifice of the passage between the genital organs and spine with her own…”: this indicates that the movement of the cosmic-energy substance is the necessary stopcock to put the light on. Its movement lets pass the potential substance so that the latter can become active substance and expand outside.
She surrounds three and one half times Shiva, the phallus, since her movement opens not only the door to pleasure and human generation, but also gives way to energy regenerating vital, psychic, mental and spiritual powers.
When the Verse says, “Her sweet whispering is like the confused buzz of bee swarms”, it symbolizes that the life, revealed by the sound, is in the sleeping Kundalini.

Verse 11

“The sleeping Goddess produces melodious poems and compositions of any other kind in prose and verse, on diverse languages. It is the one who preserves all beings of the world through breath-in and breath-out, and shines in the cavity of the coccygeal root like a chain of shining lights.”

Commentary

Kundalini sleeps; she wakes up to ascend by following two ways, that of Vajrâ and that of Brahmanadi, in order to give higher powers. But even thus, although Kundalini seems to be sleeping, she keeps life, according to the Verse “she produces melodious poems”. The text calls these melodies Bandha, because in Sanskrit Bandha means a Hindu literary form whose verse is like a diagram or square.
She produces compositions in prose and verse in all languages, because creative or generative love is a gift to men of any country, race or category. The text call these diverse poetical expressions Bhedakrama or Atibhedakrama, or in ordinary Sanskrit, Sanskrita y Prâkita.
The power of the sleeping Kundalini keeps the physical breath by ascending through the sympathetic cords (nerves) and sustaining the breath-in and breath-out movement of one’s lungs.
She does not move, but radiates her vibration from Muladharâ.

Verse 12

“The Domineering Lady, the Queen of the Ladies, the awakener of Eternal Knowledge reigns supreme in the gland. She is the omnipotent Goddess, wonderfully fit for creating and subtler than the most subtle aspect. She is receptacle of the continuous ambrosia stream flowing from the Eternal Happiness. The whole Universe and this Boiler are illuminated by Her brightness.”

Commentary

Parâ, the Great Lady, the Queen of Ladies is the Cosmic Ether vivified by the Divine Spirit. Taken as the aspect that animates all elements, she is called Kalâ.
She is wonderfully fit for creating, because the root of the being comes from the Spirit. And she is subtler than the subtlest aspect because is imponderable.
The whole Universe, Brahmânda, Cosmic Egg, the Universal Spirit, vivifies the Soul of the Cosmos, the Great Boiler Katâtha, from which the Whole Life flows; and this Boiler, Soul of the Cosmos, shines with the Vivifying Light of its own light.
The Void, through which the sperm leaks, is in the gland. One could say that in the Light of the urethra there is an ideal and quite subtle duct that is empty; and the sperm acquires capacity and dimension to give life when passes through this duct.

Verse 13

“A man becomes Lord of the Word and King among men and Adept in every kind of knowledge by meditating thus about Her, Who is the Queen of Goddesses. He becomes free of all diseases, and his innermost Spirit rejoices. He is purely ready and serves main Gods by virtue of his profound and musical words.”

Commentary

“Lord of the Word” refers to the Gospel sentence “Et Verbum caro factum est”, “the Word was made flesh”. Mental wishes materialize immediately after the command of the Initiate, and become an objective reality.
The one who has self-regeneration power is a King among men. It is a man the one who is born, lives and dies; but the King among men has overcome ordinary phases and regenerates himself by keeping his strength, life and youth.
“Adept in any kind of knowledge” refers to the power of the Initiate to acquire natural knowledge. By developing the Fundamental Center, he contacts the Earthly Fundamental Center, which gives him certain characteristic vibration permitting him to know how natural currents are, and which physical law they respond to.
“He becomes free of all diseases”. The being is made of powers as a whole. When astral powers are in tune with material powers, they result in a physical body. But these higher vibrations of the being usually are not in tune with lower vibrations after consuming energies of the vibratory note emitted by them with that determined purpose; thence the existence of diseases. But the one who controls the Earthly Fundamental Center knows how to keep in tune higher life and lower life, and eliminates diseases.
When mind and matter are perfectly in tune, the spirit takes part in this pleasure; this is why the text says, “Spirit rejoices”.
Main Devas are Brahma, Vishnû and Shiva: mind, energy and matter, or rather, harmony.