Kundalini - William Blake

River of Light

Beatrice, Illustration for Dante

Detail: spiral whorl of energy bearing the Goddess.

William Blake was a great realised soul who expressed the qualities of the Ida Nadi, left Channel.

Kundalini - The Rainbow Serpent

Australian Aboriginal painting showing a path, or songline, with rest sites shown as circles. In Aboriginal mythology, the Rainbow Serpent is the Creator, its movements forming the features of the landscape. The Kundalini awakens the qualities of the chakras as it rises through the central shushumna nadi.

Kundalini - El Greco

El Greco was a Greek realised painter who worked in Spain, and was many years ahead of his time stylistically.

He has shown the flames if the Holy Spirit on the heads of the Virgin Mary and Apostles on the Day of Pentecost, when the Breath of God was experienced as a Mighty Wind and seen as tongues of flames.

El Greco has positioned the Virgin in a central position as She was the catalyst for this event. Unlike the Pentacostalist Churches of today, there is no sense of hysteria about this scene, just a depth and peace.

Nabhi Chakra

The Renaissance period represents a time when European culture was in the centre. After that it moved into the right channel - becoming overactive and overheated. France is the part of the world that corresponds to the liver, or the right aspect of the Nabhi Chakra. The liver is very prone to irritation and over-heating, but it can be cooled down with foot soaking. I feel that the Impressionist artists, some of whom were realised souls, particularly Claude Monet, were inspired by the Kundalini to try to sooth down and cool down the over-heatedness of their culture. Monet is famous for his depiction of the moods of water: lily ponds, rivers, the sea.

His work has been over-reproduced and imitated and this has lessened the sense of how original he was at the time. The Impressionists tried to capture a fleeting moment in time but Monet, because he was a realised soul, managed to convey the sense of Eternity in the present moment. You can see some of his works, and that of other Impressionist artists, at the Art Gallery of NSW at the moment.

The work of realised souls lasts over time because it has a universality that appeals to future generations.

The Nabhi Chakra is made from the water element. It's interesting that some of the main figures in the Impressionist movement were water signs: (Renoir and Ravel were Piscean, Monet was a Scorpio, Debussy was Cancerian).

Sahasrara

William Blake, illustration for Dante's Paradiso

The White Celestial Rose
Dante, Paradiso

The colour white is associated with the Sahasrara Chakra (Crown centre) as white contains all the colours of the seven chakras.
The deities take their seats in the Sahasrara at the crown of the head. William Blake shows the Divine Mother in the centre of the Rose.

The Ushnisha, or topknot, in buddhist iconography is a symbol of the Sahasrara.

Kundalini - The Scroll of Heaven

The Scroll of Heaven.

Chora Church, Turkey

The Kundalini is like a scroll which records a person's life experiences through many incarnations. This fresco from a Byzantine church in Turkey depicts a scene from the Revelation in which an angel bears the Scroll of Heaven, opening its seven seals (the seven Chakras). The sun and moon represent the Solar (pingala) and Lunar (ida) channels of the Subtle Body.

Then one of the elders said to me, “Stop weeping! Look, the Lion of the
tribe of Judah, the root of David, has conquered; thus he can open the scroll
and its seven seals.

- Book of Revelation, New Testament

Agnya Chakra

Icon showing Christ making the surya mudra (ring finger touching thumb), which means 'Sun gesture' in the Sanskrit language. According to Sahaja Yoga, the ring finger corresponds to the Agnya Chakra. Jesus is the presiding deity of the Agnya Chakra, and The Sun is the heavenly body corresponding to the Agnya Chakra.
The figures in Christian icons are often shown with a frown - this is because the attention is focussed at the Agnya Chakra level.



Sculpture of the Buddha (or a Boddhisatva?) from Gandhara,
now in Afghanistan.

The Agnya Chakra is indicated by a raised spot (urna) on the forehead, the Sahasrara Chakra by the topnot at the crown of the head. The Buddha also incarnated to establish the Agnya Chakra.