On Life and Liberation

Author(s): Mukesh Chhajer
Publisher: Mukesh Chhajer

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On Life and Liberation
these khanda, i.e., has awakened the kundalini, pierced through and purified all the six chakras even though the awakening may be only temporary since disturbances are only suppressed not completely eliminated. The state of a chakravarti is not a permanent but only a temporary state of realization. It is also mentioned that only a chakravarti has the strength to open the two tunnels that run through the mountain that connect the southern and northern khandas of the Bharat kshetra. Furthermore, the chakravarti enters through one tunnel and comes out through the other tunnel. He does not come back through the same tunnel. This exactly describes a process of pranayama, called Nadishodhan pranayama, that one has to master to progress in meditation. In our ordinary life, we breathe in and out through the same nostril for certain duration, though it changes from time to time. To achieve mental equanimity to progress in meditation, one has to balance the flow of breath through both the nostrils so that mental disturbances can be reduced. Only when these mental disturbances are reduced to minimum does a jiva makes progress in its spiritual practice. So, these tunnels are nothing but the two nostrils and only that jiva can control the six khanda who has equilibrated the breath, i.e., breaths in a balanced way (breaths in from one nostril and breaths out from the other). Furthermore, the capital city of a Chakravarti is at Ayodhya. Ayodhya means a state of non-confrontation. A jiva who has control over the negative tendencies (i.e., awakened various charkas) has come to a state of non-confrontation and peace with the world and with itself. Such a state of jiva will lead to removal of raag and dvesh and practice of the pancha mahavrata of ahimsa, satya, asteya, brahmacharya and aparigraha.
It is further stated that a jiva can attain liberation at any time if it is born in the Videha kshetra but not from any other kshetra. It is also said that there is always a kevali present in the
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