Spiritual journey …from navel

 

The central point of the belly button and the solar plexus holds both physical and spiritual significance. When activated, the navel chakra or Manipura chakrapromotes clarity of mind, balance, confidence, strength, and compassion.

Osho speaks…

Normally the movement of our life is from the navel towards the brain. 

The movement of  a seeker is exactly opposite. He has to descend from the brain to the navel.

  step by step, descend  from the brain to the heart and from the heart to the navel -- and then  to enter the soul   from the navel.

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For a seeker,

   The body is the first step for a seeker -- but no attention or thought has been given to it.

  neglect is of two kinds. Firstly, there are the indulgent people who have no experience of life other than eating, drinking and wearing clothes. They have neglected the body, misused it, foolishly wasted it -- they have ruined their instrument, their veena.

 Those people who have misused the body through indulgence are one type and the other type of people are those who have neglected the body through yoga and renunciation. 

They have tortured the body, they have suppressed it and they have been hostile towards indulgers and another by the ascetics. Both have done harm to the body. 

And neither the people who have indulged the body nor the ascetics who have tortured the body have understood its importance.

  So there have been two kinds of neglect and torture of the veena of the body: 

     A few things need to be understood.

  The first thing: the soul has a connection with the body at some centers -- our life energy comes from these connections. The soul is closely related to these centers; from them our life energy flows into the body.

  The seeker who is not aware of these centers will never be able to attain to the soul..

  Man's very wrong education has made the head the most important part of the human body. The head or brain is not the most important center of life-energy in man.

  The brain is the flower on the plant of man, it is not the root. Roots come first; flowers

  come last. If the roots are ignored the flowers will wither away because they have no separate life of their own. If the roots are taken care of, the flowers get taken care of automatically; no special effort is needed to care for them. 

But looking at a plant it seems that the flowers are the most important part and in the same way it seems that, in man, the brain is most important. The brain is the final development in man's body; it is not the root.

which is the most important part in a human body then unknowingly his hand will point towards the head and he will say that the head is the most important. Or, if

   it is a woman, then maybe she will point towards her heart and say that the heart is the most important.

  Neither the head nor the heart is the most important.

Just as the plants have roots in the earth from which

  they draw their life-energy and life juices and live, similarly, in the human body, there are

   roots at some point which draw life-energy from the soul. Because of this the body remains alive. The day those roots become feeble, the body begins to die.

 The roots of plants are in the earth; the roots of the human body are in the soul. But neither the head nor the heart is the place from where man is connected to his life-energy --

   e world of a

   meditator.

  Then where are the roots of man? Perhaps you are not aware of the place. If even simple and common things are not given any attention for thousands of years, they are forgotten. 

A child is born in the womb of a mother and grows there. Through which part is the child connected to its mother? Through the head or through the heart? No, it is connected through the navel. The life-energy is available to it through the navel -- the heart and the brain develop later on. The life-energy of the mother becomes available to the child through the navel. The child is connected to his mother's body through his navel. From there the roots spread out into the mother's body and also, in the opposite direction, into his own body as well

  The most important point in the human body is the navel. After that the heart develops and after that the brain. These are all branches which develop later. It is on them that the flowers blossom. Flowers of knowledge blossom in the brain; flowers of love.blossom in the

heart. It is these flowers which allure us, and then we think that they are everything. But the

  roots of man's body and his life-energy are in the navel. No flowers blossom there. The roots

   are absolutely invisible, they are not even seen. B

ut the degeneration that has happened to

  human life in the past five thousand years is because we have placed all our emphasis either

  on the brain or on the heart. Even on the heart we have placed very little emphasis; most of

   the emphasis has gone to the

brain.

  From early childhood, all education is an education of the brain; there is no education of

  the navel anywhere in the world. All education is of the brain so the brain goes on growing

   larger and larger and our roots go on becoming smaller and smaller. We ta

ke care of the brain

  because the flowers blossom there, so it becomes larger -- and our roots go on disappearing.

  Then the life-energy flows more and more feebly and our contact with the soul becomes

  weak.

  Slowly, slowly we have even come to a point where man is saying, "Where is the soul?

  Who says there is a soul? Who says there is a God? We do not find anything." We will not

   find anything. One cannot find anything. If somebody searches all over the body of

the tree

  and says, "Where are the roots? I cannot find anything," then what he is saying is right. There

  are no roots anywhere on the tree. And we have no access to the place where the roots are; of

   that place we have no awareness. From early childhood, a

ll training, all education is of the

  brain, of the mind, so our whole attention gets entangled and ends up focused on the brain.

  Then for our whole life we wander around the brain. Our awareness does not ever go below

  it.

  The journey of a meditator is downwards -- towards the roots. One has to descend from

  the brain to the heart, and from the heart to the navel. Only from the navel can anybody enter

   into the soul; before that, one can never enter it.

  Normally the movement of our life is from the navel towards the brain. The movement of

   a seeker is exactly opposite. He has to descend from the brain to the navel.

  step by step, descend

  from the brain to the heart and from the heart to the navel -- and then  to enter the soul

   from the navel.