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Shatchakra Nirupana refutes the theory of those who place the Sushumna, Ida and Pingala, within the spinal cord (Meru)** The second verse of the work says that inside the Vajra which is within the Meru and the Sushumna there is the Chitrini on which lotuses are strung as gems and which like a spider's thread pierces all the lotuses within the spinal cord.
*Shatchakra Nirupana: p.161-162 introduction. 'Serpent Power" Serpent Power: Sir John Woodroffe. Ganesh and Co. Madras. **ibid: P 164-165
The author of the Shatchakra Nirupana further refutes the view of the Kalpa Sutra that the lotuses are within the Chitrini. These lotuses are within the Sushumna but Chitrini only pierces through them and does not contain them.
Thus the lotuses are within the Sushumna which is the Brahmanadi and the spinal cord and they exist as extremely vital and subtle centres of radiative force and as centres of grossened consciousness (more or less). Sir John quoting the verdict of a medical man not finding the chakras on dissection remarks that the chakras as such are extremely subtle and vital centres and are not available in a body after death: nor could they be seen in life unless one is a Yogi.
All activity is due to constant vivification of these centres which control however subtly yet powerfully, by Prana which is the active manifestation of Brahman. Only through the chakras can the entire organism be controlled and only through the control of breath can there be actual and dynamic vivification of the chakras.
Every cell of our organism throbs with its own individuality of activity and though to a certain extent the functions of a particular organism can be usurped by another, yet it would not be a substantial way of making that organism function integrally. Every cell of the body has a consciousness of its own which has sunk into the unconscious or autonomic level. In integrating the functions of the several segments of our organism into a unity and in making them function in a conscious and purposive manner,
