Mahindra-Sagni said:
Thank you very much. I figured as much honestly. what I did instead was just did the regular raum meditation and then did the meditation to circulate energies through the chakras. I'm interested in understanding why it must be in that order (root to crown) for maximum benefits tho.. why does it nullify it? Does it have to do with the properties associated with each syllable vibrated?
It is nullified because you first do it properly, then reverse it. Energies of equal value but opposite direction on the same axis nullify one another.
The Raum meditation is a chariot meditation and it prepares your body for ascension of the kundalini. Since the ultimate goal is ascension, the path obviously need to be created in an ascending way and the energies need to get used for the ascending goal.
A downward pattern is used initially in other meditations to open the chakra in a particular order that creates the conditions to awaken the kundalini. The downward pattern also provides grounding and earthly attributes that have no business with a solar meditation. If you want to go 'full circle', you can do the microcosmic orbit (also known as Chariot of Ra). This works on the flow between the rear channel and the front channel, rather than using the central channel.
