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evolution. All individuals are the basic results of the downward movement of the ari-sat, or the sixfold which may be said to typify also the six-fold sat-cakras of the Tantrik conception. The centres there too are considered to be downward facing or hanging down buds, which it is the business of the yogi on this path to upturn or make them unfold upwards by piercing them from below with the help of the energy of the Kundalini. It is somewhat of a strange conception that the grossest power should be awakened and made to pierce the points or centres of lotuses from below and then move upwards till the Ultimate Centre is reached.
Sri Ramchandra presents a more rational explanation of the spinal downward turned points which represent the life-forces of instinctive evolution, which is also considered to be that of Nature.
It may not be very difficult to equate the six centres with points of Sri Ramchandra's diagram. These too are subtle centres except perhaps the last ones - a fact recognized by the Minor Upanishads also.*
Unlike the method adopted by the tantriks who wish to move by the same route as by which the original force had descended - an impossible if not risky job, Sri Ramchandra proceeds to show that the route of ascent is different from the spinal route of descent. This route is frontal rather than spinal and posterior. The starting point is the heart as stated by the Upanishads, where the Jiva is resident and where the Isvara is also working. Without entering into the metaphysics of the double presence of the Jiva and Isvara in the heart, we can state that one has to move upward from the heart to the Centre that is above. The path is not direct but rather zig-zag. From the point of the heart (left) one proceeds to the right and from that one ascends to point three just above the nipple (left) and proceeds from thence to the point four which is upwards of the right nipple. From that point one proceeds to the throat point which corresponds to the visuddha point in the spinal in the front. This completes the frontal ascent in the pinda-pradesh or the individual evolution or ascent. It is from the thoracic point one moves to the point in the top of the forehead - not the bhru-madhya which is said to be point corresponding to the ajna cakra in the spinal level. It is the experience of many practicants at this point - to have vibrations or throbbing. Sri Ramchandra advises that this point should not be touched at