First Western seminar: Bija Mantras, Shri Lalita and Shri Chakra. East Hampstead Park, Peacock Lane, Wokingham, Bracknell RG40 3DF, (UK) 14 October 1978. When the Kundalini rises it makes sounds. And the sounds that are heard in the different chakras can be pronounced in the following way – these pronunciations are being used in the phonetic language of Devanagari, which means ‘the language spoken by the Devas’. At the Mooladhara, where there are four petals, the sounds are: [vum, shum, sshum, sum]. Out of which the lasts, sshum and sum sounds are very close, but the difference is – when the snake hisses it makes this sshum – the third sound. So, vum, shum, sshum, sum. At the Swadishthana, where there are six petals, it makes sounds, six sounds: [bum, bhum, mum, yum, rum, lum]. Manipur it has ten petals. It makes the sounds dum, dhum, num, tum, thum, dum, dhum, nnum, pum, phum. At Anahata there are twelve petals. It makes the sounds kum, khum, gum, ghum, [ngum-?], chum, chhum, jum, jhum, [nngum-?], tum, thum. At the Vishuddhi, where there are sixteen petals, it makes the sounds of all the vowels: a, aa, i, ii, u, uu, r, rr, lr, lrr, e, ai, o, ou, am, ahm. At the Agnya chakra it makes ha, ksha. At the Sahasrara, one becomes thoughtless and no sound is made, but the pure Anahata, meaning the throbbing in the purest form as in the heart is all: lub-dub, lub-dub, lub-dub. When all these Read More …