Six centres, then a thousand petals

The text walks a vertical picture: mūlādhāra, svādhiṣṭhāna, maṇipūra, anāhata, viśuddha, ājñā, and above them sahasrāra, drawn as a thousand petals.

The poem counts petals: four, six, ten, twelve, sixteen, two, and then a thousand. Each centre is a lotus with a letter-sound and a presiding form. That is a liturgical map. It is not a medical chart, and this house does not teach a student to force a current through it.

The rainbow poster in many studios comes later. The sixteenth-century picture is lotuses, a coil, and three channels.