In this post, we go over the significance of muladhara, the God of the root chakra, and how it all fits in the context of kundalini awakening.
What is Kundalini & the Chakras?
Kundalini and the Chakras: Kundalini is symbolized as latent energy coiled at the base of the spine in Eastern spiritual traditions. The Chakras are seven energy centers along the spine, channeling life force energy. They play a crucial role in spiritual practices, representing different levels of consciousness.
Kundalini Awakening: A Kundalini Awakening is a transformative experience where dormant Kundalini energy rises through the Chakras. It can be triggered by meditation or spontaneously. This process leads to heightened consciousness, expanded awareness, and a connection with the universal consciousness. It involves intense physical and emotional sensations, fostering personal transformation and spiritual growth.
Check out Everything About Kundalini & the Chakras.
What is the Definition of Muladhara?
Muladhara, often spelled as Mooladhara, derives its meaning from Sanskrit: “Moola” means root, and “Adhara” translates to support or foundation. Hence, Muladhara Chakra can be aptly described as the “Root Support” or “Root Foundation” energy center. This primary chakra resides at the base of our spine, serving as the fundamental cornerstone of our energetic anatomy.
Who is the God of Muladhara Chakra?
Muladhara Chakra is associated with Lord Ganesha, the elephant-headed deity revered as the remover of obstacles. Lord Ganesha is hailed as the guardian of the Muladhara Chakra due to its vital role in providing stability and support. Just as Ganesha clears the path of hurdles, an awakened Muladhara offers a solid foundation for our physical and spiritual journey, enabling us to navigate life’s challenges with grace.
The Life-Changing Significance of Muladhara
Muladhara is of the earth and it is not underground. Muladhara represents the entanglement with the duties of life, and relationships, and so on. In terms of The Hero’s Journey, this is known as the Old World before accepting The Call To Adventure.
Muladhara is life here on Earth, and here—the Gods are asleep.
When your second chakra is activating, you journey into The New World—the world that you have been unconscious of. This is understood as a higher place than before because you are approaching a different kind of life.
You can only reach the second chakra if you have stirred the unconscious by doing the following:
- You have aroused the Serpent, aka Kundalini
- You have acquired the right attitude necessary to acknowledge The Call To Adventure
- The correct attitude is accompanied with a “purified” mind; one who has been rudely awakened by a betrayal of life, a “rejection of fate”, or kind inspirational insight from wise alternative realities (wisdom from a life not lived)
All of these conditions are only met when the stars align, by chance, in a person’s life. This is the world encouraging your ego development by the graces of heaven and its agreements—I am speaking this way because this is an impersonal process, far beyond your sole personal power.
The grace of Heaven is the Kundalini. Something within you must urge you to the next chakra and lead you into it. If this urge does not happen naturally, then it is artificial, not real.
Muladhara is a symbol of our conscious earthly existence that signifies our roots. It is where the gods are asleep.
Kundalini is the Sleeping Beauty, the potential world that hasn’t been called forth yet. This symbolic significance is that the human individual seems to be the only act of power.
The gods we pray to for change are inefficient and impersonal, non-ego powers. It’s because the gods are asleep, doing nothing for you, that you’re stuck in the unconscious daily day-in-day-out living.
The Eastern view of Hindus put the conscious world within the body and understand this conscious world as a transient place for growth that we are not meant to stay in. We are here for the purpose of becoming better so we become angels when we die.
With this perspective, muladhara is the beginning, a transitory state.
People are typically concerned with their immediate reality, and within this center of consciousness are the germs of potential that point us to a different level of consciousness that aren’t yet awakened for the time being.
These germs are only seeds for change, in other words, they are a reflection of the inefficient, inactive, sleeping gods.
The gods we look up to are the ideals we form in our mind. Until those germs grow into actual ideals that call us forward to as a god to look up to, and a faith we work towards to become—there is nothing to strive for.
The sleeping gods are these germs, seeds that have yet to point us in any life-changing direction. These germs are what will allows people to look at the muladhara world from a different point of view, instead of at your current low place, or place of beginnings.
In the lower abdomen, we can feel our unconscious contents stirring up and slowly rising to the surface and coming into our awareness. It is when we become aware of the germinated conviction, or clear goal, that we soon make the decision to run after it.
First to Second Chakra (Muladhara to Svadhisthana) – When you are “living life in transit”, there’s not much going on and we’re not in the mind of doing something different. It is here in muladhara that we are acting as unconscious animals.
The next chakra, Svadhisthana, is symbolized by the sea. In this ocean there is a monster that threatens your destruction.
Svadhisthana has the same characterization as the unconscious mind. You aren’t wrong to assume that the way out of our muladhara will lead us to water.
Symbolically, this is why a cult’s first demand for new recruits is to go into water and “be reborn”.
To get to higher development, you must go through water with the danger of being swallowed by the whale.
In baptism, there’s a symbolic drowning or “being taken by sea” to then be saved by a savior. This symbolic death is what leads into a new life.
When you go underwater you will encounter the monster, which will be either a source of renewal or destruction.
This is why the second chakra, svadhisthana, is known as a rebirth or destruction. Here we can expect a manifestation of a new life or renewed drive and intensity—a tapping into the third chakra, Manipura.
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