Vishudha Chakra Fifth Chakra
Vishudha Chakra Fifth Chakra
THROAT CHAKRA ( SPACE)
ETHER ELEMENT -SPIRITUAL-SPACE
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ETHER
SOUND
VIBRATION
COMMUNICATION
MANTRAS
TELEPATHY
CREATIVITY
Chakra Five : Located in throat, is associated with communication and creativity. Its element is sound.
Vishudha : Literally purification,, the name for the fifth chakra, located in the throat.
A constricted fifth chakra results in tight shoulder or a sore throat.
Someone whose throat chakra is excessive may talk too much and not realy listen, while another may be scarcely able to get their words out.
Frog in our throat as physical manifestation.
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| Fifth Chakra |
Airavata The white four tusk elephant that emerged from the churning of ocean, is an animal in Muladhara chakra and Vishudha Chakra. Airawata draws water from the under world to seed the clouds.
Seed Mantra : HUM is the seed mantra of Visuddha Chakra.
Padma : Sometimes used a s an alternate name for Chakra.
Chakras are organizing centers for the reception assimilation and transmission of life energy. Our Chakras as core centers form the coordinating network of our complicated mind/body from instinctive behavior to consciously planned strategies from emotions to artistic creations.The chakras are masters programmer that governs our life, love, learning and illumination.
There are seven basic chakras that exist within the subtle body, interpreting the physical body. The subtle body is the non-physical body that is superimposed on our physical bodies. It can be measures as electro -magnetic force fields within and all around living creatures. In the aura, which is the external manifestation of the subtle body, the energy field appears as a soft glow around the physical body often made up of spindle like fibers.
Chakra Five- Fruit
Fruits are said to be higher on food chain because when ripe they drop to the ground and do not require the killing of plants or animals to harvest them.Fruits are rich in vitamin C and high in natural sugars.They pass through the system the most quickly of all solid foods and leave the energy free to travel to the upper chakras.
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| Visuddha Chakra -Purification |
OPENING MEDITATION
Before the beginning, all was
darkness and all was void
The face of the cosmos was deep and unmanifest
Indeed not a face at all but endless nothing
No light, no sound, no movement, no life, no time.
All was null and the universe was not yet created.
Not even conceived
For there was no form in which to conceive or conceived.
In its emptiness, the darkness fell upon itself
And became aware that it was nothing
Alone and dark , unborn, unmanifest , silent
Can you imagine this silence, the silence of nothing
Can you quiet yourself, enough to hear it.
Can you listen to the silence within you?
Breathe deeply , but slowly so that the breath is silent in your lungs
Feel your throat expand, with the air coming in
Listen for the nothing, listen for the quiet.
Listen deep within your self for the place of stiffness
Slowly breath into this void, a deep and peaceful breath
In its infinite quiet, darkness fell upon itself
And in its emptiness, knew, itself to be alone.And alone it desired another
In this desire a ripple moves across the void
to fold and fold again itself
Until it was no longer empty and the void was full of birth.
In the beginning , there was a great unmanifest
became vibrations in its own recognition of being
And that vibration was a sound, from which all other sounds were born
It came from Brahma in its first emanation
It came from Saraswati, in her eternal answers
In their union the sound arose and spread through all the void and fill it.
And the sound became one, and the sound became many, and the sound became the wheel, that turned and turned the worlds into the dance of life, forever singing always moving.
If you listen, you can hear it now. It is in your breath, it is in your heart,it is in the wind, the water, the trees, and the sky. It is in your own mind in the rhythm of each and every thought.
From one sound , it all emerge and to one sound shall it return.
And the sound is AUM
Chant it now inside you quietly . Let it built within your breath.
Let the sacred sound escape you, moving on the wings of air.
Rhythm building, deep vibration, rising up from deep within.
Chant the sound of all creation, sound that makes the chakras spin.
Louder now the voice arises, join with other sounds and chants.
Deep now the rhythms weaving all into the sacred dance,
Rhythm pounding, voices growing, echoing the dance of life.
Sounds to words, words to music, riding on the wheels of life.
Guiding us along our journey, moving spirit deep within.
Chant the voice that is deep within you. This is where we must begin.
Up from silence breath and body,, calling now into the void.
Here its answer in the darkness, fear and pain have been destroyed.
Brahma is the first vibration, Saraswati is the flow.
Sound unites us in our vision, harmonizing all we know.
Soon the silence comes again, with echoes of primordial sound
Purifying all vibrations, echo of the truth profound.
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| Words are like keys |
Words are like keys, If you choose them right.
They can open any heart and shut any mouth.
GATEWAY TO CONSCIOUSNESS
SOUND...RHYTHM...VIBRATION...WORDS... Powerful rulers of our lives.We take these things for granted. Using them, responding to them, creating them a new each day. We are the subject of rhythm upon rhythm endlessly interweaving the fabric of experience. From the first cries of a new born child to the harmonies of a symphony, we are immersed in a infinite web of communication.
Communication is a connecting principle that makes like possible From DNA encoded messages of the living cells to the spoken or written word from the nerve impulses connecting mind and body to the broadcast waves connecting continents to continent. Communication is the coordinating principle of all life. It is the means by whereby consciousness extends itself from one place to another.
Our civilization is equally dependent on communication as the connecting fabric through which we coordinate the complex task of cooperative culture, much as the body's cell work together to form one organism.Our communication network are a cultural nervous system, connecting us all.
Chakra five is a center related to communication through sound, vibration and self expression and creativity. It is the realm of consciousness that controls, creates,, transmits and receive communications. both within ourselves and between each other. It is the center of dynamic creativity, of synthesizing old ideas into something new. Its attributes includes listening, speaking, writing, chanting, telepathy and any of the art, especially those related to sound. and language.
Communication is a process of transmitting and receiving information through symbols .As written or spoken words, as musical pattern, omen or electric impulses to the brain, the fifth chakra is the center that translates these symbols into information. Communication, due to its symbolic nature, is an essential key to accessing the inner planes. With symbols, we have the means to represents the world in a more efficient way- one that gives us infinite storage capacity in the brain.. We can discuss thing s, before we do them we can observe and store information in a concise form, we can synthesize thoughts into concrete images and store the images again as thoughts.- all through the symbolic representation of perceived pattern.
As we climb to the fifth level, we are taking yet another step away from the physical. Communication is our first level of physical transcendence in that it enables us to transcendence the ordinary limitations of the body. By telephoning New York, we can avoid going their physically. The calls takes only minutes, cost little, yet the limitation of time and space have been transcendent as nonchalantly as if we were crossing the street.. We can record voices on tape , read diaries of the deceased , and decipher ancient patterns in the DNA of fossils all through an interpretation of symbols.
The lower chakras are highly individual. Our bodies for example, are clearly seperate with our edges defines by our skin. As we climb up the chakra , column, our boundaries becomes less defines. When we reach pure consciousness, the idea of seventh chakra, it becomes impossible to draw a border around this consciousness and say: "This is mine and that is yours." In formations and ideas are like the breath we breath.- an invisible field surrounding us, from which we take what we need.There are no separation in this field. Each step upward decreases boundaries and separation and takes us closer to unity..We arrive at this unity through ability of consciousness to make connections.
Communication is an act of connection. It is one of the uniting principles of the upper chakra. If i give a talk to a group of people on the subject of healing. I am uniting their consciousness, if only momentarily, around certain ideas. Due to the communications that has occurred there is now a subset of information shared by all the people in the audience as they leave the hall. If i give the lecture several times, this subset of shared consciousness grows even larger. Previously diverging minds have information in common after communication has occurred.
Communication is a way of extending ourselves beyond our ordinary limitation. Through communication, information contained in your brain that is not in my brain becomes accessible to me. You may have never been to china for example, bur through the communication of books, movies, picture and conversations you're still able to have some knowledge of china customs and landscape. As communications unites, it also expands, allowing our world to become larger.This expansion mirrors the pattern of the ascending currents of consciousness.
In the descending direction of the chakras we are moving towards limitation and manifestation. We are taking patterns of thoughts and making them specific thought of process of naming. Naming focuses consciousness by drawing limits around something saying it is this and not that. To name a thing is to clarify it, to set its boundaries, to specify. Naming gives structure and meaning to our thoughts.
Communication shapes our reality and creates the future.If i say to you "bring me a glass of water."I am creating a future for my self which contains a glass of water in my hand . If i say "Please leave me alone i am creating a future without you". From presidential speeches and corporate board meetings to marital flights or children's bed time stories communication is creating the world at each and every moment.
It is clear that communication can direct consciousness in both direction of the chakra spectrum.Communication can be seen as a symbol of system that mediates between the abstract and manifest idea. It formulate our thoughts into control physical vibrations, which in turn can create manifestation on a physical plane.With words consciousness has a tool through which it can order or organize the universe around it including itself. Therefore the chakra occupies a crucial place in the gateway between mind and body. It is not a central point of balance like the heart, rather it mirrors the trans formative properties of fire- a medium in the transition from one dimension to another.
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| Full Moon -Indicator of pure mind |
We will explore communication from the theoretical to the practical.We will examine, the principles of vibration, sound, mantras, language, telepathy, creativity, and media as petals in the lotus of the fifth chakra.
VISUDDHA - PURIFIER
O Devi O Sarasvati
Reside thou in my speech
Reside thou ever in my tongue tip.
O Divine mother Give of faultless poetry.
The chakra of communication, commonly called the throat chakra, is located in the region if neck and shoulders. Its color is blue- a bright and cerulean blue. (Cerulean blue pigment is a shade of blue ranging between azure and a darker sky blue)
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| clear blue sky |
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| Blue Lotus Purification |
This Lotus is called Visuddha, which means "Purification". This implies two things about the center :
1 To successfully reach and open the fifth chakra, the body must attain a certain level of purification. The subtler aspect of upper chakras require greater sensitivity and purification of the body opens us to these subtleties.
2 Sound as vibration and a force inherent in all things has purifying nature, sound can and thus affect the cellular structure of matter. It also has a ability to harmonize otherwise dissonant frequencies both within and around us. We will examine these principles more closely a little further on.
Within the chakra we again see Airavata (The king of elephant), the many tusk white elephant. He is within a circle inside a triangle pointing downwards symbolizing the manifestation of speech.
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| Airavata with seven trunks |
The deities are God Sadashiva (a version of Shiva) also known as Panchanana, a five fold one).
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| Sadashiva |
And the Goddess Gauri.(the epitaph meaning fair one, yellow or brilliant one). Gauri is also the name of the a class of goddess which includes Uma, Parvati, Rambha, Totala,and Tripura. Each of the deities in this chakra is shown in five faces.
The associated element of fifth chakra is Ether otherwise known as Akash or Spirit. It is in the fifth chakra that we refine over awareness enough to perceive the subtle field of vibration known as eterical plane. This plane is a vibrating field of subtle matter that functions as both a cause and a result of our thoughts emotions and our physical states.
Few people specially in light of modern para psychological research can deny that there exist some sort of plane through which phenomena, impossible to explain by the laws of ordinary reality, can and do occur quite regularly. Examples of remote viewing, telepathic communication, and distant healing are only a few of the types of phenomena that occur by super normal means. Kirlian photography is a technology that can visually record the other wise invisible field surrounding living things. , showing how this field reveals state of health or disease.
According to vibrational medicine, in reality it is organizing principles of etheric body which maintain and sustain the growth of physical body. Disease tend to show up in the etherical body before they manifest in the tissue. Likewise healing can be brought about by techniques that primarily treat the subtle body, such as homeopathy, acupuncture and psychic healing.
The element ether represents a world of vibrations- the emanations of living things that we experience as an aura, as sound and as the subtle plane of whispered impression on the mind into which our more solid realities are enfolded.
While most metaphysical systems postulates four elements (earth,water,fire and air) either or spirit is the generally universal element added when a system encompasses five elements. In some cases it is called "space" being the non physical element beyond earth air , fire and water. In these systems the four elements describe the physical world, and the spirit is left for the unexplanable non physical realm.
The fifth chakra is the last of seven chakras to have any element associated with it according to classical association, so the spirit realm is shared by the top three chakras. In my interpretation of system i have considered sound to be the element associated with the chakras as sound is the gross representation of an invisible field of vibrations, and operates in a similar way to subtle vibrations. Sound is that by which the existence of the ether is known.
THE SUBTLE WORLD OF VIBRATION
All things... are aggregations of atoms that dance and by their movements produce sound. When the rhythm of the dance changes, the sound it produces also changes. Each atom perpetually sings its song, and the sound at every moment, creates dense and subtle form.
Ether can be equated with the all encompassing and unifying field of subtle vibration found throughout the universe. Any vibration, be it a sound wave or a dancing particle, is in contact with other vibrations. and all vibration can and do affect each other. To enter the fifth chakra is to tune our consciousness into the subtle vibrational field that is all around us.
Lets take something we're all familiar with : the automobile. We know that our cars are powered by an engine with numerous parts. We have solid matter in the form of pistons and valves liquid gas and oil, spark plugs and firing,, and compressed air.(the first four elements) intricately timed movement allows all these parts to work together in precise relationships. When we open the hood, however we only see vibrations,. Because we can't see the small parts inside the motor we set it only from a kind of macro-prospective. A running engine looks like a vibrating block of metal, emanating a whirling sound. We can tell if our car is running well by listening to the sound it makes. When the sound is different than what we know it should be, that tells us something is wrong.
In the same way we experience the overall vibration of a person or situation. even though we may not know the minute details. We can tell if something is off. The sum total of vibrations include all the levels within it. In the fifth chakra as we refine our consciousness we begin to perceive these subtle vibrational messages. The eterical field is a kind of blue print for the vibrational patterns of our tissues, organs, emotions, activities, experiences memories and thoughts.
Even the most solid aspect of matter is constantly vibrating at high speed. In fact it is only by this constant movement that we perceive the emptiness of matter as a solid field. The movement of atomic particles, bound to a very small space, becomes more like vibration or oscillation.. Vibration even at our most fundamental units, exists throughout all forms of matter, energy and consciousness.
Vibration is a manifestation of rhythm..The impact of the rhythm of one plane upon the substance of another. As we climb up the chakra column, each plane is said to vibrate at a higher , faster and more efficient level than the chakra below it. Light is a faster vibration than sound.(by about 40 octave) and thought is a subtler vibration. than light.Our consciousness vibrates upon the substance of our bodies, energy affecting movements and the movement affecting matter.
How vibration affects matter? Sand was put on a fixed steel plate and than rubbed a rosined violin bow along the edge of the plate. It was found that the "vibration" that was played into the disc "danced" the sand into beautiful mandala like patterns. As the frequency of the vibration varied so did the pattern.. A plate of sand over a stereo speaker will also produce a similar pattern if the tones are from simple frequency.
This is a clear cut example of the way sound affects the matter- an example of the rhythm of one plane impacting the substance of another. It is not however, a haphazard pattern that is created by these tones, but a mandala like design, arranged geometrically around a center point- Just like a pattern of chakra. One can't help asking what effect sound has on the minute cellular and atomic structures or on the less visible etheric field.
Sound wave projected into various mediums such as water, powder, paste or oil produce pattern with remarkable similarities to forms found in nature such as spiral galaxies, cellular division of an embryo or the iris and pupil of the human eye.
The Hindus believe that vibration, working through various levels of density from Brahma, the creater to Vaikhari audible sound is the basic emanation, from which matter was created. In fact in Hindu scripture it is said "OM- this whole world is that syllable.... for this Brahma is the whole." While Hinduism may differ greatly from Christianity in many aspects, one cannot deny the similarity to the statement. "In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God."Both describe how sound, as an emanation of divine creates the manifested world.
All vibrations are characterized by rhythm, a repeated, regular pattern of movement through time and space. The rhythmic patterns are deeply ingrained functions of our consciousness.. The turning of the seasons, the diurnal rhythms of day and night, the cycle of the moon,women's menstruation,the movement of breath,, and the constant beating of our heart, are few examples. No living things escapes these rhythms. Rhythms like change, is the fundamental aspect of all life and consciousness.
Operating from the fifth chakra, a persons becomes aware of things on a vibrational level. We may respond to the tone of a voice more than the actual word spoken. The effect of the more"abstract" plane upon our consciousness is subtler than that of a grosser actions. yet is no less profound. Unfortunately most of us are not consciously aware of our actions and reactions on this plane.
Even our perception, through any of the senses or a function of perceiving rhythm. Hearing sound wave and seeing light wave are only two.The very mechanism through which nerve fiber feed information to our brain is through rhythmic pulsations of energy, from the first contractions of our mothers womb at birth to our last dying gasp, we are rhythmic, dancing creatures,.,
In the book the Silent Pulse " the play of patterned frequencies against the mater of time is stated that, the primary role of rhythm is to integrate various parts of a system, We are like a symphony orchestra. The various aspect of the system are the strings, the horns, the woodwinds and the percussion, yet only through the uniting power of rhythm can we make music. The rhythm is the heart beat of the system.
What many of us lacks in our live is this resonant rhythm. the integrating aspect that connects us from the very core of our being to the heartbeat of the universe. Consequently we are at at odds with the world and with ourselves. We lack coordination, cohesiveness and grace.
Furthermore rhythm like chakra pattern tend to perpetuate themselves.The person who start each day from a calm, centered state of mind will find his interaction more calm and centered. On other hand , the person who drives to work every morning rush hour and works a high pressure, fast pace job is involved with different kinds of vibrations each day.This rhythm affects one down on the cellular level of his or her being, and necessarily affects one's thoughts, action, and emotions.After working all day, than driving home rush hour traffic, one can't help manifesting this rhythm in his or her home life, eating patterns and interaction with others..Spouse and children are subject to the bombardment of their rhythms and may be stimulated or irritated by it.either consciously or unconsciously. They may (and probably will) react on same vibrational level, Adding further aggravation. If the heart beat is a conductor of our internal rhythms, no wonder so many executives suffer from heart failures.
We all affect each others as well as everything around us. By the vibrations we carry within our minds and bodies.We don't pay much attentions to them.for the level is subtle, difficult to pinpoint or describe.- but they affects us profoundly, nonetheless.Few people use conscious effort to temper these vibrations.There are relatively simple techniques and principles that make this possible for anyone. Their use can be a great help to the development of our own consciousness, as well as to enhancement of the evolutionary well being of everyone around us.
RESONANCE
At the heart of each of us, what ever our imperfections, there exist a silent pulse of perfect rhythm, a complex of wave forms and resonance, which is absolutely individual and unique and yet which connects us to everything in the universe. The act of getting in touch with this pulse can transform our personal experience and in some way alter the world around us.
All sounds can be described as wave forms, vibrating at a particular frequency. Rhythm entertainment, also known as sympathetic vibration or simple resonance, is where two waves form of similar frequency "lock into phase"which each other meaning that the wave oscillate together at exactly the same rate. The resulting wave is the combination of the two original wave.It has the same frequency but amplitude. Amplitude is a distance that a wave travel crest to trough. In sound wave increased amplitude means increased energy and volume, as in amplified music. In other words power and dept are increased when the wave forms are resonance.
We can understand this by paying a visit to a shop that sells grand father clocks. Suppose we walk in and none of the clocks have been sound.The shopkeeper assuring us that the clocks do indeed work. Goes around and winds each clock.setting the pendulum in motion. At first these one second tick - tock swings of the pandulam are not coordinated with each other. but may be half by a half of quarter seconds. As time passes we notice that there are fewer ticks and tocks. Soon all the pendulums are swinging back and forth in unison. There rhythms have become entrained.
Two oscillating vibrations, if they are near enough to each other in frequency will eventually en-train. Musical choirs, will hold their last note until the voices reach resonance. If you have a trained ear , you can perceive these pulsations as subtle beats. It's what that clean, clear ring that echos through the auditorium when the note is cut of. The sound wave have locked into phase with each other, creating a resonance that is pleasant to experience.
This principle of rhythm entertainment also occurs with just one wave triggering a vibration in a resting source. If for example we both have violins tuned to concert pitch. I can set the D string on your violin vibrating merely by playing my own D string nearby. This is how tuning forks are used in remote control television unit. When we push the button it strikes a tone that is remotely activated in the TV set several feet away.
While similar wave will lock into phase with each other, creating resonance, waves of different frequency may instead create dissonant. A pure tone of a flute, for example is a coherent sound wave, which will tune to other flutes. The noise of a bus is many complex sound waves that are dissonant.
People who live in the same household become rhythm entrained to each others subtle vibrations. It has been long known that women who live together long enough will tend to menstruate at the same time of the month. Couples married for a long time often comes to looks alike, and their speech exhibits the same rhythm. As a culture we become rhythm entrained to our neighbors, friends and peers. We are influence by our environment, not only in our visual,psychological and physiological factor (e.g billboards, social pressure,, air pollution) but on a deep, subconscious level of inner vibration.
The transcendental Meditation society more commonly known as T.M has a meditational philosophy based on this principle. They believe that the brain wave rhythms created by Mantra meditation can positively influence the world of non mediators.The more mediators their are, the more likely this rhythm entertainment to occur. They have even put this assumption to test in Atlanta, Georgia where every night at a certain hour , mediators agreed to meditate.. It was shown that there was a remarkable reduction in crime during that hour.
All speeches has rhythm. This means that conversations is also subject to the principle of rhythm entrainment, with some fascination implications. In order to more accurately see the subtler aspect of communication, numerous conversations and than analysed the film in a very slow speed. By breaking simple words into fundamental units of sound., each lasting a fraction of seconds, it was found that the body movement of both the listener and the speaker were in precise synchrony with the voice at all times that communication was occurring. These movements might be a raising of eyebrows, a tilt of head, or a flexing of a finger. With each a new set of sound a new set of movement will occur. What's most amazing about this is that the listener's movement were entrained to the speaker, rather than occurring as a delayed response.
Listeners were observed to move in precise shared synchrony with the speaker's speech. This appears to be a form of entrainment since there is no discernible lag even at 1/48 seconds..it also appears to be universal characteristic of human communication, and perhaps characterizes much of animal behavior in general.Communication is thus like a dance, with everyone engaged in intricate and shared movement across many dimensions, yet all strangely obvious that they are doing so. Even total strangers will display this synchronization
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The content of the message only seems to come across once entrainment occurs.Before that point there is often misunderstanding. There were two groups of people, blacks and white participants , they had variations in their speech rhythm. Participants were encouraged to pour out their resentment, fear and anger. The beginning of the marathon would be discouraging and painful. But at a certain point in the weekend they would find the rhythm approaching fever pitch, with everyone talking and shouting and stamping their feet, reaching a fevered crescendo. it is described:
Near the end of section, some of the shouts and curses began turning to laughter.. Then a strange thing happens, the entire group suddenly stops, than begins again, then stops, than begins and more quietly...all in perfect rhythm After this the encounter resumes with a new tone of tenderness and ease. Its as if the pendulum of understanding are swinging together, the heart cells beating as one.
It was not until the group entered resonance that communications really began to occur. Perhaps communications really a rhythmic dance rather than a stimulus response phenomenon, as we usually think of it. For we see that the listener is not reacting to the speaker but is instead resonating with the speaker when the communication is truly occurring.
The behavior of disturbed and autistic children in regards to this auditory rhythm entrainment. The children showed a time lag response between the listener and the speaker, and acted as if they were responding to an echo of the original sounds. Their micro movement put them out of harmony with the world around them, hence the feeling of alienation and confusion that characterizes their conditions. Our ability to have a world depends on our ability to entrained with it.
This is very important concept for understanding the fifth chakra. If we are unable to entrained with vibratory frequencies around us , we cannot experience our connection with the world. If we cannot entrained, we cannot communicate. Without communication we are isolated, seperate and cut off from the nourishing energy so vital to health. Just as the Hindus believe that sound crates all matter communication- be it oral chemical, mental or electrical- creates and maintains life.. Without it we die., both spiritually and physically.
Perhaps our concept of verbal interchange as comprising the most significant aspect of communication is merely another manifestation of the great Maya. Which veil the nature of underlying reality.Perhaps communication is nothing but rhythmic interchange. Yet language is the tip of the iceberg of communication and our prime indication of just what and where that iceberg is.
If simple mater can move the mater into coherent harmonic patterns, resonant vibrations can only deepen that effect. When we truly resonate with something it affects us deeply. We can play our own part in the evolution of our environment by being aware of this principle of sympathetic vibration. Our own vibrations may trigger a new thought of vibration in a resting source, awakening consciousness in another We can choose to contribute"good" vibrations or "bad" those in harmony with the vibration around us, or those out of phase, in disharmony.
Chakras also exhibit vibrational patterns, spanning from the slower grosser vibration of solid mater in the first chakra to the highest and fastest vibrations of pure consciousness. An active chakra in one person can through its vibrations, trigger the opening of an inactive chakra in an another. There are "Resonant Rings" that illustrate sympathetic vibrations.These are beautiful examples of how chakra, vibrate in the body.
Fastened to a rubber plate over a speaker chamber are several cellular bands of metal, each describing a circle varying in size from approximately two inches the observer can turn a knob that emit sound through the speaker and vibrate a plate at a particular frequency, adjusting a knob adjust a frequency.
At low frequencies only the large circles vibrates with a slow undulating motion, emitting low pitched sound. At higher frequencies only smaller circles vibrate with a smooth high pitched whir. Intermediate frequencies vibrate the middle circles. You can control which circle vibrate by adjusting a knob to different pitches. Our bodies are the "plate" that vibrate the chakras The general vibrational pattern of our life-Our action, our thoughts, our emotions, eating pattern and environment-sets off the vibrations of our chakras. We can activate different chakras by changing the vibrational rhythm of our life.
That what is slow allows the first chakra to open. Higher frequencies stimulate the third chakra, beyond that it must be remembered the we deal with the subtler vibrations.- moving the physical body faster won't open up higher chakra, but meditation may allow the brain to process "higher"vibrations. As we get out of limitations of time and space, our vibrations are less hindered. On a vibration level enlightenment could be thought of as an omnipresence of a wave form with infinite frequency and infinite amplitude.
MANTRAS
The essence of all being is earth
the essence of earth is water
The essence of water is plant
The essence of plant is man
The essence of man is speech
The essence of speech is the holy knowledge (Veda)
The essence of veda is Sama veda
(word,tone ,sound)
The essence of Sama Veda Is OM.
Sound wave can and do affect matter. It is not surprising that they would affect consciousness as well. This is the basic idea behind sacred sounds used in meditation and chanting called MANTRAS. The word comes from "Man"meaning mind and" tra" which means protection or instrument. Thus mantra are the tool for protecting our minds from trap of non-productive cycles of thought and action.Mantras serves as focusing devices of making the mind one pointed and calm. The vibrations of the mantra has been linked to the vibration of someone shaking your shoulders to wake you from sleep. A mantra is designed to awaken the mind from its habitual sleep of ignorance.
Just as a particular vibration created a mandala out of sand, so can the chanting of simple mantra.such as om , change our random pile of thoughts and emotions into a cohesive and graceful pattern. It is not necessarily to intellectualize the meaning or symbology of a mantra for sound to have this effect upon us. The rhythm of sound will work on a sub-conscious level and permeate our inner rhythm. In fact it is part of the mantra's magic that one not think about the meaning for then we transcend the fragmented aspect of the conscious mind and perceive the underlying wholeness.
If however meaning ascribed to a particular sound as in the use of affirmation that we repeat to yourself everyday such as "I am love".The rhythm of repeatation helps to infuse that meaning into our consciousness.
Spoke a loud for a few minutes in the morning an effective mantra can reverberate silently in the mind all day long carrying its imprint of its vibration, image and meaning, With each reverberation it is believed that the mantra is working its image on the fabric of both mind and body both creating greater order and harmony. Action may take on a new rhythm dancing to the drumbeat of mantra. If a fast mantra is chosen it can be used to generate energy and overcome inertia. If a slow peaceful mantra is used it can help bring a state of relaxation and calm throughout a day.
Seed sound of chakra
Hindu metaphysics states the everything in the universe is made up of sound.. Within each thing there is a symbolic representation of the energy pattern that compose it., known a s a seed sound or bija mantra. These mantras are designed to set the chanting person into resonance with the object of the seed sound. Through knowledge of bija mantra one gain control over the essence of that thing and therefore create destroy or otherwise alter it. He who knows the the secrete of the sounds knows the mystery of the whole universe.
Each chakra has its own associated seed sound which is said to contain the essence,and therefore the secrets, of that chakra. As each chakra has its own associated element , we find that the seed sounds are believed to give access to the qualities of that element.The seed sound or the bija mantra for each chakra are as follows:
Chakra one Earth Muladhara LAM
Chakra two Water Swdhishthan VAM
Chakra three fire Manipur RAM
Chakra four Air Anahata YAM
Chakra five ether Vishudha HAM
Chakra six Ajna OUM
Chakra seven Sahsrara no mantra
The M in each of these sound is said to represent the maternal and material aspect of the universe. The A sound in turn represent the father, the non material.L (lam earth) is a heavy closing sound while H is Ham (ether) is light, airy etherical sound, and R (ram, fire) is an energetic, fiery sound. In addition to the seed sounds each chakra has a particular number of petals, each of which is named by a letter of Sanskrit alphabet. Typically consonants have come to reflect the hard material aspect of the world, while vowel represents the spiritual or etherical aspects. Chakra five than, is the center of the vowel sound as only vowel appears on its petals. Control of these letters are in the hands of goddess Kali.Whose name means time. Kali is the destructive aspect of Hindu Goddess.Who destroys the world by removing sound and speech.Without the sound that is the essence of all things, nothing can exist.
We are not helpless victim of disharmonious vibrations and we can send our vibrations to our own. The uttering of mantras is a way of taking control of our rhythms and guiding the development of our minds and bodies at the fundamental etheric level.
Some commonly used mantras and their purposes. The importance of mantras lies in its rhythm and overall vibrations. Mantras are experienced within-you can perceive which ones are effective for you as you try them out. It does , however take some time for a mantra to become fully effective. Take one on for a week or month to fully access the real benefit.
OM or A.U.M
The great primordial sound, the original sound from which the universe was created . The sounds of all sounds together.
OM AH HUM
Three syllables of great power used for the following purpose, to purify an atmosphere prior to embarking upon a ritual or meditation. or to transmute material offering to their spiritual counterparts.
OM MANI PADME HUM
"The jewel of the lotus resides within". Mani Padme represents the jewel in the lotus.The essential wisdom lies in the heart of Buddhist doctrine.the divine essence, while HUM represents the limitless reality embodies within the limits of the individual being.. HUM unites the individual with the universal.
GATE GATE PAREGATE PARASAM GATE BODHI SWAHA
Tibetan smaller heart sutra.
तत्त्वमसि I AM THAT I AM सो ऽहम्,
An English version also designed to unite the individual with the universe.
OM NAMA SHIVAYA
"In the name if Shiva"one of the many mantras uttering god name.Any god or goddess name may be used to create a mantra.
ASTARTE, DIANA, HECATE, DEMETER, KALI, INANNA:
A popular pagan chant of Goddess name from Charlie, Murphy's record. Neptune, Osiris, Merlin, Mananon, Helios,Shiva,-Horned one.
THE EARTH AND WATER,THE FIRE AND THE AIR -RETURN,RETURN,RETURN,RETURN along the same line as the goddess mantra. This is also a ritual chant for acknowledging the elements.
There are thousands of chants and mantras from different cultures and religions around the world. Some have similarities of tone and rhythm while others do not. The deepest value of mantra has to do with how much we invest in it. How much we use the sound in our meditation, in our work in our thoughts throughout the day. In many people use a common mantra than the sound collects resonance on the subtle planes and becomes more potent Each time we use a mantra we become more entrained with it.
While there are mantras that have been used for centuries to create particular effect, there is nothing wrong with making up your own mantras. Affirmations, put into the form of a mantra have a more powerful effect, for in any language words are the form of the objects internal structure. Thus the affirmations "I will be strong" carries within it a particular aspects of strength we are seeking. How ever the affirmation "I am strong" creates even more strength by only a slight change of words. Mantras must be chosen carefully to create the effect we want.Mantras have long been a secrete esoteric tradition in most mystical schools. Their power is subtle and is usually not even detected by the insensitive or uninitiated. Their power is felt through experience only. Their use employs only the simple "idiot proof" technique of repetition, and their benefits can be felt by any sincere seekers. They are basic, fundamental key allowing human being to unlock some of the mysteries of our own inner harmony.
Vowel Sounds & The Chakras
The seed sound for any chakra only differ in their consonants so the sustained sound of the vowel of each sound is the same (except chakra six).What I have found to be far more effective for resonating the chakra is working with various vowel sounds.
Muladhara O as in Om
Swadhishthan U as in cool
Manipur A as in father
Anahata E as in play
Vishudha I as in seed
Ajna mm
Sahashara nngas in sing or just silence.
TELEPATHY
The key to the mastery is also silence. at all levels, because in the silence we discern, the vibration and to discern them is to be able to capture them.
Telepathy is an art of communicating across time and space without using any of the "normal" five senses. There are relatively few people adept at this form of communication yet it is something we all respond to on a subliminal level, with a well developed fifth chakra this type of communication become accessible.
As we learn to refine our chakras , calm our minds and quiet our thoughts , the fabric of our consciousness become smother and smother. Our vibration become steadier and our perceptions become more direct In this state it is far easier to become aware of a subtler ripple of vibration on our energy field. The quieter level of telepathic communication become apparent when the grosser vibrations of our lives are no longer crating interference..
Let us make an analogy of telegraphic communication by amplifying our phenomenon. If you are at a noisy party where every one is talking at once, music is playing loudly, and people are dancing, you will have to raise your voice considerably to have any kind of conversation. If for some strange reason, your partner is whispering, you won't here her at all. In order to hear whispering, you will have to be in silence room where there were few or no interference patterns to your communication.
Telepathy could be defined as the art of hearing the whispers of another's mind. In order to do this we must be quiet within our own mind. Most of us by nature, have a party going on inside our own heads. We are always conversing with ourselves or running tapes through our heads. When added to the usual din around us, this dulls the receptivity of the fifth Chakra. We are accustomed to using technological devises to send our messages beyond the limit of our voices. We are not accustomed to listening for the subtle stir in the ether that can bring us communication across time and space.
And why should we be? Isn't gross physical communication more accurate , more specific, and less subject to loss or error.? If you send a telepathic message, how can you be sure it is received? Or received accurately?
Consciousness is not really a verbal process. In order to communicate, we must translate our consciousness into a symbolic structure. In order to receive communication, we must translate symbol back into consciousness. While this may instantaneous, we are downgrading consciousness from its purer form. As any linguist knows, the essence of communication is often distorted in translation.
Seen in this light, telepathic communication can be more precise and immediate that verbal communication., which can often contain lies and omissions.
While few people are really adapt at this form of communication, there are even fewer people who have never experienced it at all. Two people saying the same thing at the same time, finding a busy signal, because your friend is simultaneously calling you, or getting the psychic hit that a family member is in danger are a few examples of the common way telepathy can occur.
If we adopt a ether as a connecting field of gross and subtle vibrations, than communications occur through a perceptible alternations in that field. Telepathic communication is merely a subtler alternation perceptible only when the grosser vibrations are quieted. Telepathy may result when two or more minds are rhythm entrained such that a variation in the pattern of one rhythm result in a similar variation in the other. Entrained rhythms increase the amplitude of the waves. A wave of higher amplitude has more potency more chance of being heard.
Whatever the explanation, example of telepathic communication indicate a kind of mental connectivity floating through the ether that permits an exchange of information on a non physical plane. As thoughts become more and dense they begin to manifest - they are recognized by one mind, than two and become denser and denser until they are real.The old adage that "thought are things".thought are things.
Whether we are initiators or receivers there is little doubt that there exist some medium through which we can tap into a realm where the vibrations of mind converge.Through the refinement of our chakras , and attention to the vibrational world that surrounds and creates us. We can gain access to this unifying level of consciousness as we approach the upper chakras, we approach the universality of mind transcending the physical limitation of mind and space that keeps us seperate.. We need not create it We need only to quiet our minds and listen.It is already there and we are already playing a part in it. we can choose to make that part conscious.
CREATIVITY
Communication is a creative process, the more adept we at this art, the more creative the process become. A young child when first learn to speak, merely mimic his parent's word. Soon however the child understands that certain words bring particular results and he brings to experiment.. As his vocabulary grows the child has more and more elements which he can become creative. He begins to use word, sound and gestures to create his reality- as he will for the rest of his life.
While many people have associated creativity with the second chakra (since that's where we create babies). I believe creativity is ultimetly a form of expression, related to chakra five. Creating life in a womb is not a conscious process. We do not decide to make fingers or toes, blue eyes of brown. While the emotional status of the second chakra may fuel creative impulses, it takes will (chakra three) and abstract consciousness (upper chakra in general) to create.
The arts have always existed on the turning edge of culture by their virtual auditory, kinesthetic,dramatic or even literally the arts precisely by their by their non regimented , non conformist character are able to reach into the vast uncharted realm of the future and illustrate ideas and concept in a way that affects consciousness on an immediate and whole brain level..
I am curious to know what would happen if art where suddenly seen from what it is namely, exact information of how to rearrange one's psyche in order to anticipate the next blow from our own extended faculties.The artist is always engaged in writing a detail history of the future because he the only person aware of the nature of the present.
Art form are generally more abstract than any other form of communication. Leaving room for imagination, they invite participation of the most innovative components of our consciousness. Saying less, perhaps we can here more As we approach the more abstract planes of consciousness, it is only fitting that we turn to our more abstract means of communication in order to embrace these planes.
The process of creation is the process of inner discovery. In creating a work of art we open ourselves to mysteries of the universe. We becomes channels for spiritual information, learning a language more universal than human tongues.
The process of creativity is a delicate one Regimented lives do not lend themselves to it, and are instead threatened by it. Creativity releases our inner power much as language "releases the unknown from limbo, making it so the whole brain can know it.
Presently there is a new birth of therapies initiating the creative process Using visual art psychodrama, movement, dance and the calming effect of music, one can access the deeper and generally healthier regions of the mind and the body while releasing the inner frustrations that fragment our wholeness.
Survival health in the twenty first century will require innovation and flexibility. Creativity is the key of unlocking these qualities. We must honor it in ourselves and in each other. We must honor the means which make it possible and protect ourselves from these phenomenon which threatened to shut down this basic life force. Our very future depends upon it.
MEDIA
Television, radio, newspaper, and other public forms of communications can be seen as the cultural expression of the fifth chakra, acting as a connecting nervous system for us all. If communication is the passage of knowledge and understanding, the mass content of our collective consciousness is, for better or worse , heavily influence by the media and those who control it. Whether we are forced to hear about a politician's private sex life, made to look at countless murders on televisions or here honest data about the environment, the media directs the public attention to archetypal themes that they deem to be of concern to public consciousness Media directs our attention where attention goes , the rest of the energy generally follows. If media feels violence is more appropriate for our children to watch than love making, they are setting cultural values for us all. .
Media is also the most potent means we have of cultural transformation. Media can be a potent feed back system allowing us to see ourselves as we are- in our heavy and our ignorance. It was the picture on the news of the Vietnam war that allowed the people to get in touch with its atrocities while it was still going on , and create the anti war protest. Media lets us know the state of the planet's ecology, the conditions of people in other places and help wire up the global plane.
Media can also shows us of being different. A movie can make a hypothetical reality seems so real that our imagination is filled with new possibilities. Media can express creativity communicating from the dept of the collective conscious. Media can show us the front of cultural transformation by bringing the hidden innovators to light and letting the voices be heard.
It is important to demand integrity of those who control the media. If it is the cultural nervous system most influential to the ways we live our collective reality, than it is imperative that we keep our media from being polluted with mindless garbage, sensational gossip, propaganda and lies.. Otherwise we risk being collectively manipulated by those who , in actuality have more power than most of our elected representatives. If the fifth chakra name Vishuddha means purification, than our collective fifth chakras must be purified with the resonance of truth that can enlighten us all.
CHAKRA FIVE EXERCISES
Playing Charades
Spend an hour with someone in total silence, yet engaged in active communication.Pick challenging things to communicate about. Notice what method you use to communicate , such as gestures, hand symbols, physical manipulations, eye movements,. Notice how much easier it gets towards the end of the hour. Notice what points are specially difficult.This exercise can actually build communication between two or more parties.
Vow of silence
Listening is an essential and too often over looked component of communication.. Yogis often take vows of silence for extended period of time to purify their vibrations of audible sound and better tune into subtle sounds. By avoiding verbal communication, one can open up other avenues of communication., namely communications with higher consciousness. . Begin with a few hours than try a whole day of longer.
Voice recording
Make a recording of your voice during ordinary conversation. So how much you talk and how much you listen whether you interrupt or falter in your speech. Notice your tone of voice. If you did't know this person what would you intuit about them from the voice.
Neck rolls
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The neck is the narrowest part of torso. Much of the time it act as a filter between the abundant flow of energy between the mind and the body. This causes it to be extremely subject to tension and stiffness. Loosening the neck to an essential beginning for any work on the fifth chakra.
Lift your head up away from the shoulder, and than slowly roll your head in a circular motion, stretching your neck. Stop at any point that feels tense or uncomfortable and massage with your fingers. Pause in a right places until it relaxes some.Then move on. Go both clock wise and counter clockwise.
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Head Lift
This stimulates the thyroid gland and helps strengthen the neck.
Lie flat on your back and relax. Slowly lift your head, leaving your shoulders on the floor so that you sre looking at your toes. Hold this podition until feel the energy move into your neck.
Shoulder stand
● Shoulder Stand pose Sarvangasana ( सर्वांगासन )
Technique : Lie down fixed on your back in the Shavasana – The Corpse Pose. Breathe in by your nostrils slowly and put your palms facing in downward direction flat on the floor. Holding the hips fixed on the floor slowly curve your knees and get them upward towards the abdomen through breathing out. Breathe in by the nostrils, pressing your hand in downward direction try to raise your body from the waistline upwardly away from the floor, curving the backbone backwards and unbending the arms, your hips should be on the floor. Breathe in, and then whilst breathing out, raise your legs directly upward perpendicular to the floor. You can support your hips with your hands making sure that your legs should be united, knees straight and toes pointed straight up. Keep your head straight, don't turn it to any side.
The chin should be compressed against the chest Holding the posture for a while breathe softly through the nostrils. Reverse the steps to come back to the Shavasana– The Corpse Pose
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Benefit :
- It provides good circulation to the head region. It also relieves the stress and calms down the mind.
- Calms the brain and helps relieve stress and mild depression.
- Stimulates the thyroid and prostate glands and abdominal organs.
- Stretches the shoulders and neck.
- Tones the legs and buttocks.
- Improves digestion.
- Helps relieve the symptoms of menopause.
- Reduces fatigue and alleviates insomnia.
- It activates the thyroid and pituitary glands.
The Plough
● Plough Pose Halasana (हल आसन)
Technique: Lie on your back with your arms beside you, palms downwards. As you inhale, use your abdominal muscles to lift your feet off the floor, raising your legs vertically at a 90-degree angle. Continue to breathe normally and supporting your hips and back with your hands, lift them off the ground. Allow your legs to sweep at a 180-degree angle over your head until your toes touch the floor. Your back should be perpendicular to the floor. This may be difficult initially, but make an attempt for a few seconds. Do this slowly and gently. Ensure that you do not strain your neck or push it into the ground. Hold this pose and let your body relax more and more with each steady breath.
Benefit :
Benefit :
- Calms the brain.
- Stimulates the abdominal organs and the thyroid gland.
- Stretches the shoulders and spine.
- Helps relieve the symptoms of menopause.
- Reduces stress and fatigue.
- Therapeutic for backache, headache, infertility, insomnia, sinusitis.
- It stimulates the pancreas spleen and activates the immune system by massaging all the internal organs such as the pancreas.
- Strengthens the neck, shoulder and back muscle. Reduce stress and fatigue. Provides relief from the symptoms of menopause. Stimulates the thyroid gland. Boost the immune system.
Bhujanga Asana
● Cobra pose Bhujangasana (भुजंगासना )
Technique : Lie down on your abdomen by taking legs apart. Keep the palm beside the chest. Breathing in, lift the upper part of your body, up to naval region. Hold it for 10 seconds by feeling the stretch on your abdomen. Repeat this for 3-4 times.
Benefit :
Caution: Pregnant women and people with slip disc should avoid this asana.
- The posture is a panacea for an injured spine and in cases if slight displacement of spinal discs.
- The practice of this pose replace the discs in their original position
- The spinal region is fully toned and the chest fully expanded.
- This asana is beneficial in diabetes, bronchitis, asthma and spondylitis.
- This asana is very useful in relieving stiffness in upper back and also boost flexibility in lower back while strengthening our core muscles
- Opens up the shoulders and neck.
- Tones the abdomen.
- Strengthens the entire back and shoulders.
- Improves flexibility of the upper and middle back.
- Expands the chest.
- Improves blood circulation.
- Reduces fatigue and stress.
- Useful for people with respiratory disorders such as asthma. (Do not practice this yoga pose during the attack though).
- Flexibility of the dorsal spine, strengthens the spinal muscles. Prevent back pain. Reduces abdominal fat.
Camel Pose
● The camel pose Ustrasana ( उष्ट्रासन )
When working from home , we often tend to slouch more than we would be in an office setting. Hence, in order to straighten your spine, you can practice Ustrasana. Repeat it 3-4 times.
Benefit :
- Reduces fat on thighs.
- Opens up the hips, stretching deep hip flexors.
- Stretches and strengthens the shoulders and back.
- Expands the abdominal region, improving digestion and elimination.
- Improves posture.
- Opens the chest, improving respiration.
- Loosens up the vertebrae.
- Relieves lower back pain.
- Relieves stress on your neck muscle but also helps to make your back supple.
The Fish Pose
● Fish Pose Matsyasana (मत्स्यासन )
The posture is dedicated to Matsya the fish. Incarnation of Vishnu, the source and maintainer of the universe and all things.
Technique :- Sit in a Padmasana
- Lie flat on the back with the legs on the floor.
- Exhale, arch the back by lifting the neck and the chest, take the head back and rest the crown on the floor. Drag the head further back by holding the crossed legs with hands and increase the back arch
- Now take the hands from the legs, bend the arms, hold the elbows, with the hands and rest the fore arm on the floor behind the head.
- Stay in this position for 30 seconds while breathing deeply.
- Rest the back of the head on the floor, lie flat on the back, inhale then come up to Padmasana, release the legs and relax.
- Recross the legs the other way and repeat the pose for the same way. length of time.
Benefit :
- The stretched upper body allows unrestricted airflow, thus providing extra oxygen into the lungs.
- It expands the bronchial tubes to permit easier breathing. This is especially useful for asthma patients.
- Stretching of the neck and spine stabilizes the functions of the parathyroid, Pineal, pituitary, and adrenal glands, thus regulating the hormonal functions within your body. This means increased improvement in skin conditions, and your facial and throat muscles.
- It improves metabolism, which makes it a great pose for those who wish to shed weight,
- It removes soreness of the muscles and bones in your spine and neck.
- It greatly improves posture, flexibility, digestion, thus reducing constipation.
- Practicing certain advanced variations of this pose will help you acquire perfectly toned glutes.
- This pose also allows you to de-stress and detoxify with ease, therefore improving your overall health and happiness.
- This is the best exercise for stomach. It activates the intestine and cures constipation.
- The dorsal region is fully extended in this pose and the chest is well expanded. Breathing becomes fuller
- Th thyroid benefits from the exercise due to the stretching of neck
- The pelvis joints become elastic.The asana relieves inflamed and bleeding piles.
CHAKRA FIVE
SYMBOLS AND CORRESPONDENCE
Sanskrit Name : Vishudha
Meaning : PURIFICATION
Location : Throat./ Base of neck
Element : Sound. / Music /Space or Akash tatwa.
Function : Communications and creativity.
Inner State : Synthesis of ideas into symbols.
Outer Manifestations : Vibration.
Glands :Thyroid, Para thyroid.
Other Body Parts : Neck,shoulder,arm and hand.
Malfunctions : Sore throat, Stiff neck, cold,Thyroid problem, Hearing problem.
Color : Bright Blue.
Sense : Hearing.
Seed Sound : HAM.
Vowel Sound : Eee
Petals: Sixteen, all the Sanskrit vowels.
Sephira : Geburah, Chesed.
Planet : Mercury.
Foods: Fruits
Corresponding Verb : I Speak my truth, express freely
Yoga Path : Mantra Yoga
Herb for incense : Frankincense,benzoin,mace.
Minerals : Torquoise, aquamarine,celestite.
Animals : Elephant, bull, Lion
Guna : Rajas
Lotus Symbols : Downward triangle within which is a white circle, thought to represent the full moon. In the circle is an white elephant over which is a Bija Symbol ham. The deities in the lotus are Sadashiv, a three eyes, five faces,, ten armed form of Shiva, seated on a white bull, cloth in a tiger skin with garland of snake. The goddess id Gauri, shinning one.consort of shiva. thought by some to be a corn goddess. Gauri is also the name of a class of goddess which include uma,Parwati, Rambha, Totala and Tripura.
Hindu Deities :Ganga (River Goddess related to purification) and Saraswati
Other Pantheons : Hermes,The Muses, Apolo, Brigit, Seshat, Nabu.
Chief Operating Qualities : Resonance
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