Śivasaṃhitā 5.75
Pañcamaḥ paṭalaḥ — Dhyāna
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The promise that the meditator on svādhiṣṭhāna “becomes an object of love for all beautiful goddesses” (sarvastrīpriya) is not merely late eroticism in tantric literature: it reflects the understanding that one who has integrated and purified the second chakra’s energies radiates a quality of presence that attracts cosmic feminine energy (śakti). The “beautiful goddesses” are the śakti personifying nature’s forces, and the purified yogin is naturally magnetic to them.
The description of yoni—the root-center of the second chakra—as paścimābhimukhī (facing west, toward the body’s interior) is consistent with the description of Kuṇḍalinī in mūlādhāra: both energies face inward, toward brahmarandhra, recalling that yoga’s movement is always from peripheral to center, from external to internal. The svādhiṣṭhāna’s yoni is the gateway into the second level of ascending subtle anatomy.
Specific consequences of meditating on svādhiṣṭhāna described in texts include: freedom from fear of death, mastery over the water element (manifesting as fluidity in relationships), awakening of creativity in all its aspects. In the chakra map, svādhiṣṭhāna manages the transition zone between mūlādhāra’s gravity—earth, survival, basic instinct—and maṇipūra’s will—fire, personal power.