Formation of the Higher Chakra System – Fifth Chakra
The fifth chakra is located in the throat, below the chin. Although all aspects of speech, including being in one’s truth, are part of this chakra’s function, this is widely misinterpreted as the primary aspect of the throat chakra. This is not a complete realization of the chakra’s true function.
In fact, the throat chakra is the center of our destiny, and it is through this energy center that our dharma becomes manifest in the world, so it is a potent energy center indeed. The throat chakra can also send and transform energy when awakened.
In most people, I see the throat chakra dormant and immobile, like a candle waiting to be lit. Relatively few people have an activated throat chakra; living their higher purpose. Deep alignment with Divine Spirit and actualization of the dharma in life is the path to destiny. The Dharma is universal law.
Just as living in your power in a balanced way affects the third chakra, and living with highly attuned senses of compassion, forgiveness, and love represents the same in the heart, so does being in your integrity and truth with your speech correlate to an opened and integrated throat chakra. But, as with other higher chakras, there is a deeply powerful Divine aspect to the fifth human energy center. It can be best described as the power of Divine Manifestation.
Examples of this are in Paramahansa Yogananda’s ‘Autobiography of a Yogi’, a book that has deeply touched many lives. In one passage, he demonstrates the power of manifestation by speaking what he wills into being, such as having a nice meal provided for himself and a disbelieving relative where no meal would have normally been available. This is a quick rendering of the understanding that energy follows thought, and intentional speech, which reflects thought. It is like our Western concept of ‘positive thinking’, but much more powerful.
The throat chakra is used this way, both in speech and silently, to manifest everything from a simple synchronicity like a meal, to a life’s path aligned with Divine will. This is the deep esoteric truth of the power of the fifth chakra.
I believe that the honor code of always speaking the truth as we know it, without attempts to mislead with technical lies, is a necessary practice in order to reach these higher levels of destiny and follow the Dharma.
When provoked about breaking the many Jewish rules governing food, the great master teacher Jesus once said that it is what comes out of a man’s mouth, not what goes into it, that is important.
“For the lips speak from the fullness of the heart.”
I don’t know of a single instance in all the scriptures, including the apocrypha, where Yeshua (Jesus) spoke an untruth. Relating to destiny, he also said, “If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.”
It is through the creative power of the fifth chakra and life lived with sincerity, that you may bring forth that which is within you, and flip your fate into your destiny.
The fifth chakra is in a direct relationship with the second chakra, and represents the higher aspect of the creative Shakti energy, just as the reproductive and inner child qualities in the second chakra represent creative energy.
Next, we will explore the amazing sixth chakra, known as ‘the third eye’ or ajna center.
© Andrew M. Williams