Sat-Chakra-Nirupana
Purnananda's 16th-century description of the six centres and kundalini, translated by Woodroffe as The Serpent Power.
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Appears in
- The Subtle Body: Nadis, Chakras, and Kundalini Yoga
Inside it he translated a sixteenth-century Sanskrit poem, the Sat-Chakra-Nirupana , which means the description of the six centres.
- What the West gets wrong about chakras Journal
A Bengali named Purnananda wrote a text called the Sat-Chakra-Nirupana , the "Description of the Six Centres," around 1577, as a chapter of a larger work.
- Sri Vidya: The Sacred Knowing Treatise
A monk in 9th-century Kashmir writes a book that contains, for the first time on this planet in any written record, the construction instructions for the Sri Yantra…
- The Map and the Mirage Treatise
What the texts actually say The single most influential classical description of the chakras is a Sanskrit work called the Sat-chakra-nirupana , the Description of the Six Centres.
- Sahasrara: The Thousand Petals Treatise
The Sat-chakra-nirupana , the text this treatise has followed up the spine, describes six centres, from the root to the brow.
- The Sleeping Serpent Treatise
It is fine, the Sat-chakra-nirupana says, as the fibre of a lotus-stalk, and it is wound three and a half times around a subtle linga at the root, its head turned to close the mouth of the central channel like …
- Muladhara: The Root Treatise
The root-support: the floor on which the whole subtle architecture stands. The Sat-chakra-nirupana fixes its location precisely.
- Svadhishthana: Her Own Abode Treatise
What the text describes The Sat-chakra-nirupana gives it six petals, of a beautiful vermilion colour, bearing six letters.
- Manipura: The City of Jewels Treatise
What the text describes The Sat-chakra-nirupana gives manipura ten petals , and here the colour scheme delivers one of its sharpest contradictions of the modern poster.
- Anahata: The Unstruck Sound Treatise
What the text describes The Sat-chakra-nirupana gives anahata twelve petals , and colours them the deep red of the bandhuka flower, with twelve vermilion letters.
- Vishuddha: The Pure Treatise
What the text describes The Sat-chakra-nirupana gives the throat-centre sixteen petals , and on them, the sixteen vowels of the Sanskrit alphabet, crimson in hue, on a lotus of a smoky-purple colour.
- Ajna: The Command Treatise
What the text describes The Sat-chakra-nirupana gives ajna only two petals , the fewest of any centre, a lotus white as the moon, bearing two white letters.