The Sacrum Bone
In our previous articles we have shown that enlightenment (Self Realisation)
might be obtained through the awakening of the subtle spiritual energy called
the Kundalini lying dormant (latent) in the sacrum bone (Mooladhara sacrum)
placed close to the bottom of the spine.
The problem of the sacrum bone is worth, here, a short analysis. The anatomical
name coming from hier'n osto'n (holy bone' Gr.) was used in the time of
Hippocrates (about 400BC) and was translated by the Romans through sacrum
(sacred' Lat.). Halyah (chain link of vertebra' Hebr.) has the Name of God Yah
(short form of Yahweh) as its root. Why this bone had been called a "holy bone"
had been a mystery for centuries. Some thought that the bone was used in the
sacrificial rituals, others, that it played a role in the protection of the
genitals (considered to be sacred in themselves), or that the Last Judgment
would require this bone to be intact as a receptacle of resurrection. The
ancient world believed that the sacrum was the last bone subject to decay after
death (conviction found in a Jewish folk story) [1]. This idea is also found
with the Muslims, being mentioned in a Hadith: "Narrated Abu Huraira: The
Prophet said: "'Everything of a human body will waste away' perish or decay
except the last coccyx bone (Al-ajb, Arab.) and from that bone Allah will
reconstruct the whole body" [2]. Thus, no one should be surprised at the Yogis
considering the Kundalini awakening as tantamount of resurrection.
Etzem (bone; essence' Hebr.; tz' vertebra' Egypt.) has etz (tree' Hebr.) for
its root' a reason for which it was asserted that the sacrum (atz' Hebr.) is
the tree (of life, we should add; ch. IV) in its seed form [3]. The double
significance of the word etzem, in our opinion, makes possible the correct
interpretation of Adam's sentence about the Feminine Principle (Eve): "This time
it is bone of my bones' this shall be called Woman" (Genesis 2:23) ' a sentence
that becomes: "she who is essence of my bones" (the feminine energy Kundalini
being the sacred essence of the respective bone).
The Mooladhara was shown to be controlled by Ganesha' the Divine Son depicted
with an elephant head by the Indian iconography. Indeed, any anatomy book
provides the image of an elephant head for the group made up of the sacrum bone
(elephant's triangular face) having on both sides the iliac bones (as its ears)
and the coccyx (as its curved trunk) at the bottom. Likewise, the graphic sign
of the holy syllable AUM (that is also closely related to Ganesha) depicts the
elephant head seen from the profile: the ears on the left and the trunk on the
right.
References: [1] Oscar Sugar, Journal of the American Medical Association 257,
pp.2061-2063 (1982). [2] Sahih Al-Bukhari, vol.6, Hadith 338.
[3] Annick de Souzenelle, Le symbolisme du corps humain, Albin Michel, Paris
1991, ch. XII.
(THE SAHAJ E-ZINE - Vol.2, Issue 4—April 2001 - Copyright Sahaja Yoga
International)
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