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The yogi resorts to a different path, the inward one. And here we come to the difference between closed stations and open stations. It is stated in the kundalini literature that an average person is living with closed chakras which are waiting to be opened. Many, who are not initiated into this science, erroneously think that with the opening of a chakra the outward activity in that center of consciousness will increase, thus making, let us say, a sexy person yet sexier, or an articulate person voluble! But such externalized activity only dissipates the energy at its lowest frequencies. It has nothing to do with highly refined interior consciousness.
The pulsations that we experience, in ordinary daily life, in the various psychophysiological stations are nothing but reminders of a higher presence within. They are like lighthouses guiding ships. Each pulsation says to our lower level energy consciousness: “Come; this way; here is a gate through which you enter inward into the highest awareness.” It leads to the place from which this minute light is sent forth. If we observe each pulsation in our personality as such a reminder, we begin to listen to an inner music, and we may use each such pulsation first as a point of focus, and then as a thread leading inward. Take, for example, the sexual thrill in the second station. It makes an average person restless for the infusion of energy from within is so powerful (even though it is infinitesimal compared to all the power of consciousness) that no amount of sexual activity can bring total satiety. The yogi, however, regards this center only as a gateway to higher level energy consciousness. Its pulsations he sees only as reminders of the inner sources. He closes the outward flow, and that is called opening the chakra. All externalized restlessness then ceases. The lower frequency energy is returned to the higher frequency.
In other words, any time a sexual pulsation is felt in a yogis’ person, he responds to it, considers it a blessing as a reminder, and uses it as the end of a thread leading inward to pure consciousness. He reverses the flow. Compared to the ecstasy of this inward flow of his personal consciousness into the universal consciousness, the outward sexual flow is a useless discharge, and all of its intense enjoyment is like sucking on the peel of an orange after squeezing out and, alas, throwing away the juice. Again, when the throat center begins to open, the yogi seeks silence. When he does utter a word it is so power packed as to be recorded as sacred scripture and repeated for millennia around the globe. Such were the words uttered by the Buddhas and Christs of history.
We may divide human beings into those of the inward flowing consciousness, antar vritti, and those of the outward flowing consciousness, bahir vritti. Those in the first category live and walk in the awareness of their cosmic connection. They are unceasingly and interminably conscious of the thrill of the universal divine consciousness running through them. They do not utilize any of their energies as mere persons, but serve as channels for the cosmic flow. They are dependent on nothing external and on no person, but many are dependent on them for succor, solace, knowledge, and healing. Those in the second category are those who believe that only the information passing through the senses and into the brain constitutes personality and consciousness. Their excitements are derived not from the inner thrill, but from the contact that dense senses make with yet denser exterior objects. Thus their psychology is that of a dependent, however much they may clamor for individual freedom and claim self dependence. Those in the first category, the rare few in the history of mankind, are committed to turning sensory awareness inward in order to free themselves from the bondage of dependence on the limited exterior and to experience the unlimited flow of cosmic energies which is at their disposal.
We need to understand how this is accomplished, how the outward flow of awareness may be reversed so that the intricate dance of the interior energies may become real. We need to understand that through the application of will we can cultivate a resolve to change our self identification from lower frequency energies to the higher one. That is immortality. That is freedom of consciousness from the bonds of space, time, karma, and causation. It is the dance of the freedom of energies.
Reprinted from Revision, Vol 3, No. 1, Spring 1980
