Updated: Mar 11
For quite some time now there is a fashion among spirituals, and also to be found also in many spiritual schools, to engage from start in trying to open as much as possible the root chakra (Muladhara)
I would like to give you my point of view on this subject after guiding many students in their spiritual growth, where kundalini awakening and kundalini rising are important milestones.
Root chakra and its role
What I will share with you here is from my own research and practice over many years, by visualizing the movement of energies within the body and around it, and also after closely watching several true higher souls in their endeavors of spiritual growth. Therefore, I advise you that if you are a beginner in meditation say have less than 2-3 years of continuous spiritual experience, not touch the root chakra from the start of your practice, unless you want to risk serious issues.
The root chakra is the main entrance gate of Earth's energy that feeds our body's energy fields, and basically keeps our body alive every moment; it is also the location of the Kundalini energy. The majority of people think that our body is maintained just by the energy we get from eating, drinking, and breathing. Actually, a large part of our energy comes from Earth through our feet, enters our root chakra, and then starts to rise along our spine and feed our body organs.
The root chakra is the most clogged of all chakras in the average person, it’s open just around 3-4%, so to open it up more like to 20-30% is very difficult. Actually, it can't be open 100% for such low body vibrations as the usual 3D (D - dimension of vibration, or awareness level on chakra scale) person is.
The root chakra, siddhis, and kundalini rising symptoms
It is true that once in one billion cases may be, there are documented spontaneous inner combustion cases when a non-spiritual person just bursts into flames and is consumed in minutes because of accidental kundalini energy surging upwards the spine. But the probability of such a misfortune as an accidental kundalini awakening increases a lot by many orders of magnitude if one plays the “wizard's apprentice” and rasps the root chakra unknowingly.
From my own personal experience and checking also with many other spirituals going through the same process, if the kundalini awakening process is triggered ahead of time i.e. before the body energies are ready, then rather damaging outcomes might occur...
How do you know you got the root chakra really opened at least say 30%, which is a lot? There are both physical symptoms of root chakra opening, and also some energy symptoms of root chakra opening. Some of these telltale signs of kundalini root chakra opening symptoms are:
often jolts of energy through the spine,
the body starts to feel different, like not so rigid anymore and kind of made of plasticine whatever your age is,
activation of “lower siddhis” (corresponds to the inferior chakras) like starting to see in a wider range of frequencies (e.g. seeing energies and entities),
start to feel the energy movements of Mother Earth (since you opened a connection to Her now),
forecast major Earth events not known by normal people,
move energy through your body just by intent,
connect easily with animals and plants,
influence body organs function at will,
etc.
At least 4-5 of these must be activated currently to draw the conclusion that the root chakra got activated a lot.
In any person, there are latent abilities (sanskr. siddhis) that thousands of years ago for instance the ancient druids in ancient British islands, or spiritual masters in ancient Egypt, India, Tibet, and China, were working on life after life to activate, and hence master the nature and cosmic energies in service of the communities and tribes they headed. They became very powerful when eventually activating these abilities, since they controlled the kundalini energy and its ascension through their chakras, and could further connect and govern the souls, plants, animals, and nature around them.
This is why any invader would try to annihilate them first so as to subdue easily the people in the region they tried to conquer. For instance, Julius Caesar gave the order to kill all druids when he invaded Britain in the 1st century BCE.
Let me tell you that Buddha, Yogananda, Vivekananda, and other fully enlightened souls (their soul vibration reached 7th chakra vibration) didn’t have their root chakra fully open, it was open between 30% and max 50% (actually they didn’t need it more) at the end of their lives.
chakras opening/activation
After cleansing yourself of limiting beliefs and opening at least 30% of your other higher chakras, one can work safely to open his root chakra more to ensure a higher flow of Earth energy (kundalini) in your body. This is obviously useful to reach spiritual awakening and hence improve your health, get access to special spiritual abilities, etc.
After confirming with a truly advanced soul, who has lots of experience in kundalini rising and in body energies movement, that the kundalini root chakra symptoms mentioned above are true in your case, you can safely move to open your root chakra more.
Striving to open the root chakra more than say 30-50% has no purpose in general, unless one aims for physical ascension (turning your body into light), which is nevertheless much more difficult to achieve than the usual spiritual ascension that leads to enlightenment. To work towards opening the root chakra over 50% takes lots of effort and time, and might impact the time spent on working on your soul awareness for instance.
I advise anyone to keep a balance between raising one's soul awareness, and his kundalini rising process. One needs to use his spiritual discernment, or rely on his master/guru's spiritual discernment to guide him correctly in this respect.
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