The First Chakra:

The Muladhara is one of the seven Primary Chakras, and is associated with the element: Earth, representing the densest grade of manifestation.
In the Kundalini-yoga system of Shaktism, the Muladhara Centre is described as having four petals,
corresponding to the psychological states of greatest joy, natural pleasure, delight in controlling passions,
and blissfulness in concentration. All these qualities correspond to the bliss of realizing the Divine in the physical body.

The highest and most complete forms of spirituality do not reject the body, but see it as the vehicle for the transmutation of the body and the spirit together.

It is, according to Shakta Tantric doctrine, the seat of Kundalini,
the latent cosmic energy or shakti that resides in every living being.

When this latent power is activated through Hatha Yoga practicises (pranayama, purification of the nadis, etc), it rises through each of the rear or spinal chakras,
and up through the top of the head, to the Sahasrara or "Thousand Petalled Lotus" located above the crown.

There it unites with its opposite polarity, the Paramashiva or Supreme Godhead Consciousness, and the yogi attains total Liberation from phenomenal reality.

Colours associated with this chakra are red, yellow, and golden.
It could be considered the bliss center for physical body.

Alternative names

    * Tantra: Adhara, Brahma Padma, Bhumi Chakra, Chaturdala, Chatuhpatra, Muladhara, Mooladhara, Mula Chakra, Mula Padma
    * Vedas (late Upanishads): Adhara, Brahma, Muladhara, Mulakanda
    * Puranic: Adhara, Muladhara


Muladhara chakra is shown as having four petals, bearing the Sanskrit letters va, scha, sha, and sa. The seed sound in the center is lam. The tattwa of Earth is shown
(here in outline) as a yellow square.

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Muladhara chakra is shown as having four petals, bearing the Sanskrit letters va, scha, sha, and sa. The seed sound in the center is lam. The tattwa of Earth is shown
(here in outline) as a yellow square.