In this post, we talk about the muladhara chakra, how it relates to kundalini awakening, and how to activate and strength muladhara.

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 Muladhara, the Root Chakra

First Chakra (Muladhara) - Represents earth and the root of all things in the world. It is both masculine and feminine energies and it is the foundation of the world. Each chakra is a whole world of life experiences.

Muladhara is when the Self is asleep while living in reality, where we have to look after out daily duties and can’t easily run away from our responsibilities without getting neurotic.

When the Self is asleep, all things concerning the gods are asleep.

The muladhara is our earthly world, where mankind is a victim to its impulses, instincts, and unconscious influence, while not paying attention to daily life. It’s when we are victims of our circumstance and our reason holds little impact due to our lack of attention.

There are moments when we have a piece of us in the second chakra, which urges us to do something different. Maybe this calling happens once a week, once a year, or even special and ceremonial days.

It’s when we start tapping into the second chakra that something starts to stir in the unconscious. The unconscious forces call us to do something out of the ordinary.

When you are doing something that is very ordinary the gods are sleeping. Going to a restaurant and having food waiting, waiting for the bus, sitting at the theater, spending typical time with the family.

How to Activate & Strengthen Muladhara Chakra

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.

In the western world, we would place muladhara on top as our conscious world, meanwhile our next chakra (svadhisthana) would be underneath as our feelings.

This is the uniting of Shakti and Shiva, a pair of masculine and feminine principles. They are united below and so united above. This is reflected in the dive or descent into the unconscious world of svadhisthana.

Yoni is a woman power and Linga is manpower—and they are united, they are not apart.

In the western world, we look at the unconscious as a place under the earth, below ground level. Another word is catabasis, a journey to the Underworld.

There are two ways to approach the Unconscious:

1. You face the monster and become swallowed by it; you look into the abyss until is looks back.
2. You come to the monster from behind and attack it.

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.

The purpose of yoga is to awaken Kundalini. This means to separate the gods from the world so that they become active—because until then, they are only germinating seeds in muladhara that will eventually use you to co-create the future.

When you awaken Kundalini, she begins to move you out of mere potentiality. Instead you start a world that is different and eternal from the muladhara world you’ve been letting your life slip away in.

Kundalini delivers you visions that can be for anyone because they are impersonal. They are visions of the ideal potential, those ideals that come from activating and pursuing our potentials—it is not of the world of Muladhara.

The world of the gods is an impersonal experience and is a natural illusion from muladhara psychology.

From muladhara psychology, the rational viewpoint of our world is one set of the personal aspect. All things that are personal are those that are only meaningful, however in another psychological perspective, all that is personal is utterly uninteresting and has no value because it is futile and illusory.

There are two forms of thought that can stem from the muladhara worldview:

• That personal life is meaningful, which is a reflection of a healthy, human animal
• Or that the world is a meaningless illusion, which is a reflection of an unhealthy human animal that has been traumatized, ostracized, and bitter about it, which eventually leads to murder-suicide or “shadow possession”.

We all start in Muladhara and go through a series of chakra stages, or the four elements:

• Muladhara - Earth
• Swadhisthana - Water
• Manipura - Fire
• Anahata - Air
• Vishuddha - Spirit / Ether

Muladhara is the life of animals and primitives living in harmony with nature.

Even when we are in ajna, we actually continue to live in muladhara.

This is due to the sthula aspect—since we cannot understand something when we are still immersed within and identified with it.

Only when we reach a standpoint that is outside the experience in question can we wholly understand what we were experiencing.

You have to pay for the objective truth by reaching a different point of reference.

You do this by putting aside your personal standpoint in exchange for a suprapersonal standpoint—which will show us where we are actually in this world.

Muladhara is the condition of psychic sleep, where we lack consciousness and speak nothing of it.

The creation of sukshma aspect parallels the creation of suprapersonal values and symbols.

The chakra system is created from a standpoint that transcends time and the individual.

In Hindi philosophy, the sukshma aspect depicts the beginning of Brahma, the One, without a second. This reflects a reality of being and not being, a revelatory visceral experience that is not described as an experiencing of thought.

The collective culture of India is in muladhara, where there’s much poverty, lack of hygiene, and ignorance towards technical and scientific achievements.

From the sthula aspect, the Indian culture is in muladhara where the western culture has reached anahata. Keep in mind that India looks at humanity from the sukshma aspect, and comes from a standpoint that is reverse of western culture.

Our western, personal consciousness can indeed be located in Anahata or even in Arjna, but nonetheless, our psychic situation as a whole is undoubtedly in muladhara.

In the stula aspect, personal life must be fulfilled and assimilated into consciousness before introducing the supra-personal side of the psyche.

The supra-consciousness, an all embracing consciousness, surveys the psyche from above. This intuition, or higher self, observes from a higher standpoint we ascend to when we tap into the unconscious, because it frees us from everyday consciousness.

The Hindus thinking begins with the Brahman and ours with the ego. Our thought starts out with the individual and goes out into the general the Hindu begins with the general and works down to the individual.

In terms of the chakra, we are not high up, instead we are down low. Our culture represents the conscious mind being held prisoner in muladhara.

From the sukshma aspect, everything is still in muladhara.

Christianity is also based on the sukshma aspect. The world is only preparation for a higher condition, the sacraments and rights of early church all aim for freedom from a merely personal state of mind and allowing one to participate symbolically in a higher condition.

Christ is a symbolic representation, and anticipation desired, that is being lifted above the personal and into the supra-personal.

By sthula aspect, the roots of muladhara must first be fully lived in order to grow beyond it. This is how we develop out personal consciousness to ajna, where we create culture based on the supra-personal God perspective.

Another example can be samskara, the eastern equivalent of archetypes, which would be unconscious inherited conditions we hold in the atmosphere of our psyche, affecting our relationship with muladhara.

Archetypes are the first form of our existence. Children freely live along the world of the unconscious archetypes and world of jewels. It’s when the child starts experiencing bodily sensations that it awakens to swadhisthana, conscious of it’s own life and ego living in muladhara.

Consciousness is Maya. Maya is the projection of all earlier experiences, or samskara, being the veil on top of your living, physical muladhara experience.

Childhood is full of samskara (or archetypes) in the form of dreams or naturally expected roles

In vajrayana, there was the creation of sakti and Kundalini yoga, which stands for “capable power” and “coiled up” respectively.

Along this line of thinking is that a serpent lines are laid within us. These lines are trails from the left nostril to right testicle, and left testicle to right nostril—both representing sun and moon, fire and water, masculine and feminine.

These two trails, connect the muladhara to ajna chakras, along with a third trail going up and down the middle representing wisdom and being with Brahman.

Muladhara is the lowest center of the Earth, it is unconscious, latent, and dormant.

The chakras are symbols of the levels of consciousness and they can be represented by three sections of the body:

1. Muladhara and Swadhisthana (Lower Centers)
2. Manipura and Anahata (Diaphragm)
3. Vishuddha and Ajna (Head)

The lower centers are attributions of the primitive functions, that which is instinctive, unconscious actions and motivations, and participation mystique for timely bonding.

Remember that the gods are dormant and sleeping in muladhara (first chakra), our earthly, physical, ever-present reality.

Muladhara is the life of animals and primitives living in harmony with nature.

Muladhara is the condition of psychic sleep, where we lack consciousness and speak nothing of it.