Soundarya lahari –sloka - 9

Soundarya lahari –sloka - 9
[Aadhaara cakraas ]

Return of the one who has gone for Desaantara, Ashtaiswarya siddhi

Maheem moolaadhaare kamapi manipoore hutavaham
Sthitam swaadhishtaane hridi maruta-maakaasa-mupari
Manopi bhroomadhye sakalamapi bhitwaa kulapatham
Sahasraare padme saha rahasi patyaa viharase


Maheem - the bhootatwa – the earth
moolaadhaare - in moolaadhaara cakra – the secret part
kamapi - also the jalatatwa – the water
manipoore - in the manipooraka cakra – the navel
hutavaham - the agnitatwa – the fire
Sthitam - posited
swaadhishtaane - in the swadhishthaana cakra – between the navel and secret part
hridi - in the heart – in anaahata cakra
marutam - the vaayu tatwa – the air
aakaasam - aakaasa tatwa – the space or ether
upari - above – in visudhdhi cakra
Manopi - manastatwa – the mind
bhroomadhye - between the eyebrows – aajnaa cakra
sakalamapi kulapatham - thus covering all cakraas in sushumna
bhitwaa - intruding through
sahasraare padme - in the thousand petalled lotus in the head
rahasi - in the secret place
patyaa saha - along with your partner sadaasiva
viharase - you enjoy the bliss of aananda

Oh ! Goddess Supreme! in moolaadhaara cakra – the secret [private] part, you depict the bhoo-tatwa – the earth; in the manipooraka cakra – the navel, you depict the jala-tatwa – the water; in the swadhishthaana cakra – between the navel and secret part , you depict the agni-tatwa – the fire; in the heart – in anaahata cakra – you depict the vaayu-tatwa – the air; above that in the throat – the visudhdhi cakra – you depict the aakaasa-tatwa – the space or ether; between the eyebrows – in the aajnaa cakra, you depict the manah-tatwa – the mind; thus flowing through the various six cakraas in the sushumnaa naadi, you reach the thousand petalled lotus in the head called sahasraara cakra and remain their with your husband sadaasiva enjoying perfect bliss of aananda.

The above sloka describes the method of attaining samaadhi – called by the name – ‘shad-cakra vedanam’ or also called by the name ‘antaryaaga’, which involves the kundalini sakti starting from the moolaadhara cakra, flowing through the manipooraka, swaadhisthaana cakra, anaahata cakra, visudhdhi cakra, aajnaa cakra thereby reaching the sahasraara, and enjoying the bliss of samaadhi.
Moolaadhaara and swaadhishthaana together form ‘Agnikanda’.
Above this, there is a software granthi [knot] called ‘Brahma-granthi’.
[a person for whom the kundalini crosses this granthi, will possess enormous creative power – Brahma represent creative power]
Manipooraka and anaahata form together the ‘Surya kanda’.
Above this there is the software granthi called ‘Vishnu-granthi’.
[a person for whom the kundalini crosses this granthi, will possess enormous creative and maintaining power – Vishnu represent maintaining power]
Visudhdhi and aajnaa cakra form ‘Soma kanda’.
Above this there is the software granthi called ‘Rudra-granthi’.
[a person for whom the kundalini crosses this granthi, will possess enormous creative, maintaining and destructive power – Rudra represent destructive power]
The granthi represent the joining of the naadis [72000], the complications in the mind due to the vaasanaas flowing through these naadis due to poorva janma effects.
This sloka is similar to the slokas 99 to 104 in lalita-sahasra naama -

Moolaadhaaraika nilaya brahma-granthi vibhedini
Manipooraantaruditaa Vishnu-granthi vibhedini
Aajnaacakraantaraalasthaa rudra-ranthi vibhedini

The kundalini sakti [the paraa-sakti] who enters from the moolaadhaara cakra for a devotee on entering the manipooraka cakra gives darshan of the Goddess in the manipooraka, there, the devotee has to offer the various means of poojaas – like arghyam, paadyam to bhooshanam and bring the goddess to anaahata apply the poojas like dhoopa, taamboola and bring her to visudhdhi cakra and asking her to occupy her simhaasana seat there, then do pooja with the spatika mani called candra kalaa, bring her to ajnaa cakra then do the neeraajanam there, bring her to the the candramandala[near the sadaasiva] in the middle of the sahasraara cakra, asking both sadaasiva and goddess to be seated, then put the pardhaa, remain there alert waiting for goddess to return from there to the moolaadhaara cakra. This is called as antaryaaga or samayaacaara.
Kulapatham – called as raaja veethi or sushumnaa or kundalini. The kundalini sakti there is called as kulaangalanaa.
Moolaadhaara –
sarvaadhaaraa mahee yasmaat moolaadharayaa sthitaa
Tad abhaave tu dehasya paadah syaat udgamopi vaa

Since moolaadhaara is the first cakra and the basis of all tatwa, the name moolaadhaara is given. If this aadhaara is missing, the body will fall down or fly up.
Manipooraka – even though swaadhishthaana is next to moolaadhara, here manipooraka is referred after moolaadhaara and then only swaadhisthaana, since the order of the panca bhoota is earth, water, fire, air, space.