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Application of Meditation for astrological healing in various Indian concepts
Meditation, like any other sciences has both the theoretical as well as practical aspects. Just as the aim of other science is to discover new form of energy in the outer world, so also meditation aims at to connect individual with new forms of energy in his mind and deeper consciousness. Therefore, meditation provides tools and techniques to reach at the deeper level of his consciousness so that individual can deal with the negative forces of his subtle environment. This technology does not consists of material equipments or complex machines but it is a way of harnessing energy to improve one's relationship with the cosmos and the forces within him. Keeping in view this fact, meditation has been considered as a technique of astrological treatment directly or indirectly in various dimensions of Indian knowledge since ancient days.
(i) Vedic Concept: According to vedic astrology, the astrological chart can be used to depict the subtle body through seven chakras. These chakras are the centres of consciousness and their positions corresponds in the physical body to points along the spinal cord. The six chakras are energy centres of the subtle body; reflects the seven planets around the sun (Table 1). The sun and the moon are considered as a single planet and both of them are coincided with the third eye centre (Ajna chakra) (Frawley, 1990).
Practice of meditation on these centres provide the practitioner an immense energy which help to acquire a strong immunity power to diseases, for example, if one meditate on the solar plexus (Manipura charka), it accelerates the functions of digestive organs and improves the ability to secrete enzymes which process food. At the solar plexus (Manipura chakra), aggression, assertiveness, fire, heat, digestion, assimilation and active metabolism and other qualities are intermix in such a way that it cuts across our separate concepts of what is physical, what is physiological and what is psychological (Rama. et al, 1990). Similarly, each of these dynamic centres are the medium of relationship between the cosmic energy of the physical world on the one hand and human body, mind, and consciousness, on the other.
The seventh charka or the head centre (Sahasrara) is beyond this system. It transcends the six centres (i.e., third eye, throat centre, heart centre, nevel centre, sex center and root centre) and movement of the time cycle (kala chakra). It is the symbolic centre of pure consciousness
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