Sri Aurobindo

Letters on Yoga

5. Planes and Parts of the Being

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Sri Aurobindo — Patel, Govindbhai

March 10, 1932

The centres or Chakras are seven in number: –

1. The thousand-petalled lotus on the top of the head.

2. In the middle of the forehead – the Ajna Chakra – (will, vision, dynamic thought).

3. Throat centre – externalising mind.

4. Heart-lotus – emotional centre. The psychic is behind it.

5. Navel – higher vital (proper).

6. Below navel – lower vital.

7. Muladhara – physical.

All these centres are in the middle of the body; they are supposed to be attached to the spinal cord; but in fact all these things are in the subtle body, sūkṣma deha, though one has the feeling of their activities as if in the physical body when the consciousness is awake.

Current publication:

 
Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Yoga // SABCL.- Volume 22. (≈ 28 vol. of CWSA).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1971.- 502 p.

Other publications:

1. 10224.
Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Yoga. I // CWSA.- Volume 28. (≈ 22 vol. of SABCL).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2012.- 590 p.

2. 18886.
[Largest or earliest found passage: ]Patel, Govindbhai. My Pilgrimage to the Spirit[: Including correspondence with Sri Aurobindo during December 30, 1927 — March 1935].- Second Revised Edition.- Ahmedabad, 1977

3. 22826.
Sri Aurobindo. More Lights on Yoga [: Extracts from letters].– First Edition.– Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1948.– 141p.