The Body's Fifty Seed-Syllables

By Paramahamsa Hariharananda

Vacuum center (16 letters)

There are sixteen letters in the sixteen-petal lotus in the face: ang, aang, ing, iing, ung, uung, ring, rring, ling, lling, eng, aing, oing, oung, aung, ah.

Air center (12 letters)

Starting on the left-hand side: kong, collar bone. Khong, next bone. Gong, third bone. Then ghong, wong. Then chong, on the right side. Then chbong, Jong, jhong, neong, tong, thang. This is the twelve-petal lotus. It is called ka-tha. The beginning letter is ka, and last is thang.

Fire center (10 letters)

It starts on the left-hand side of the liver at the stomach. Just under the sixth rib, then below. Dong, dhong, nong, tong, thong, dong, dhong, nong, pong, phong. This is da-pha. You say da first, and last letter is phong. This is the ten-petal lotus in the stomach area.

Water center (6 letters)

It starts with bong, above the sex. Then bhong, by the side of the sex, mong, below the sex.

Then on the right-hand side: Jong, rang, long. It is in the sex center, a six-petal lotus. These make two "Vs. One bracket and another bracket forming a triangular bracket. The female triangle is flat at the top, and pointed down. And the male triangle is flat on the bottom, and pointed at the top. Assemble them together, and it makes a six-petal lotus. This is ba-la, at the sex center.

Earth center (4 letters)

Then there is the coccygeal center, in the area of the four last vertebrae. The letters are vong, shhong, shong, and sa. Vong, on the left hand-side. Then below, if you place your middle finger on the left hand-side joint, this is vong, and at the last vertebra, this is shhong. Ta-la-ba means that the tip is touching on the palate. The upper portion of the tongue. It is called (ta-la-b a) shhong, which means shanti, peace. Then shong. murta, shantosh. Shantosh means contentment. And, last is (don-ta) sha. Don-ta is the tip, it is touching the teeth. When you say don-ta, then the tongue is touching the upper and lower teeth. Don-ta-sha is shantosh - contentment.

Soul center (2 letters)

Now you are coming to the pituitary. It is ham and Sa. Sa is in the front side, towards the forehead, in the fontanelle. Focus your attention in the fontanelle, a little forward, overhead, just like on the top of an egg. The front side is Sa: this is Krishna. And the back side is ham: Arjuna.

So Krishna was sitting and driving the chariot in the front. Generally people misunderstand where is ham sa. They say it is on the left and right of the forehead: no! It is in a straight line. So I am telling that Krishna is driving the car, and Arjuna is sitting behind him. He is not willing to fight. He is pressing his hand, and Krishna is saying to him, "You please listen to Me, and do as I say: you are to fight with your evils." Krishna is sitting in the front; this is Sa. And Arjuna is sitting behind; this is ham. Everyone is Arjuna.

In many books, they are wrong! It is shown that Sa is on the right side and ham is on the left side. They cannot draw it, because then it would overlap. So in the left they put Sa, because you write from left to right, then they write ham on the right. But it is wrong! The head is like an oval egg - at the top, the front side is a little smaller, and the back side is a little bigger. Similarly the front side is Sa, and the back side is ham.

The seed syllables within each chakra

Yong is the air element, in the heart. Rang is the fire in the stomach. Vong is the water in the sex center. Long is the earth, in the moneycenter. And shhong is in the fifth center, but everyone is telling it is in the top. No, it is in the fifth center, in the vacuum center. The seed of
vacuum is shhong.