Preface:
In 1973, after one and a half years of discipleship to the guru Sri Chinmoy, I was given the spiritual name Taranga. In Sanskrit it means “The Wave.” The term is deeply rooted in Indian culture and is often associated with creativity and artistic expression. I felt a closeness with this name, not only because it was given to me by a god-man, but it struck a chord internally, emotionally.
Many years later I came across Human Design. As I mulled over my Design chart the one thing that stood out was my Design Authority. It was my Solar Plexus. Driving this personality with all the fluctuations that this Solar Plexus could muster. The one significance about this structure was The Wave. It moves through the Solar Plexus with a defined action. One that tells you to wait for it to settle until making decisions. See clearly through it. Do not jump to solutions, but allow The Wave to be still in its decisions.
Throughout my spiritual practice I have wrestled with this and still have a wave to go. But this is the journey one travels and though much of the crust of eye film is removed, so we can see clearly through the veil of this illusion, what remains keeps gnawing at our heart.
The Path of the Solar Plexus Being
There are those whose inner lives move like the sea—unceasing, passionate, charged with tides of feeling that rise from depths unseen. For such beings, the Solar Plexus is no mere center of emotion; it is the furnace of consciousness itself, where awareness and reaction meet in fire. To live as one of these waves is to know intensity, beauty, and turbulence in equal measure.
Yet for those on the spiritual path, such emotional force often becomes a riddle: How can one claim spiritual awareness, and still be undone by waves of anger or sorrow at the world’s ignorance? And how can the mind, bound in passion, ever act rightly without the ego’s distortion?
Q: Why do I feel sadness or even anger at the ignorance pervading our world, though I claim some awareness or enlightenment?
A: Because your awareness is not yet whole.
Sadness and anger arise where the flame of realization still meets the shadow of division. You have glimpsed the unity of all, yet still feel the pain of separation. This tension—between vision and residue—is the mark of one not false but unfinished.
In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna tells Arjuna:
“He sees truly who sees the same Self in all beings, the same everywhere.”
Until this vision is steady, sorrow and anger arise from identification with “the part.” You grieve over the ignorance of others because the mind still perceives others.
The Buddha called this the “near enemy” of compassion—pity mingled with aversion. True compassion is free from sorrow because it sees ignorance as part of the divine unfolding, not a fault in creation.
The Upanishads remind us:
“He who sees multiplicity here goes from death to death.”
Ignorance, too, is Brahman veiled. The wise do not lament the veil; they behold the play of concealment and revelation as one.
Christ expressed it through tears over Jerusalem—not as despair, but as love recognizing itself even in blindness. His sorrow was not rejection; it was the ache of unity remembering itself through the dream of division.
Your sadness, then, is not hypocrisy but incompletion. The wave has not yet remembered the ocean. Anger is the mind’s protest at the slowness of awakening; sorrow is the heart’s memory of the wholeness it once knew. Both will fade when seeing becomes being—when there is no longer “the ignorant world,” but only the Self awakening in all forms.
Q: My Human Design authority is my Solar Plexus. The waves of passion flow freely and give me reactionary responses. I am seventy-nine years old and still, after a lifetime of devotion, cannot seem to transcend these waves. Give me directions—only from Source.
A: The scriptures say: the senses and passions cannot be destroyed by force, only by seeing through their root. The root is the I-maker—the subtle belief “I am the one who feels.”
The Katha Upanishad declares:
“The calm mind, withdrawn from the senses, beholds the majesty of the Self.”
Your emotions are not obstacles; they are currents within the greater sea. The error lies only in naming them mine. When feeling arises, witness it as movement within the Infinite.
The Bhagavad Gita (2:70) says:
“As the ocean remains full though rivers enter it, so the sage whom all desires enter is unmoved.”
Do not attempt to silence emotion. Become the ocean. When the wave rises, let it rise. When it falls, let it fall. The ocean does not apologize for its tides.
The Buddha instructed:
“He feels a feeling as a feeling. He does not cling to it, he does not identify with it.”
Feeling is not your enemy—it is your teacher. Each wave shows where identification still hides. Let awareness expand until it includes the wave without being confined to it.
The Ashtavakra Gita proclaims:
“You are not the body nor the mind.
You are pure awareness—unchanging, still, eternal.
Even the wave of emotion is nothing to you.
You are the sky; it is the cloud.”
This is not detachment by suppression, but absorption by recognition. When every feeling is allowed to arise, exist, and dissolve in the field of awareness, no residue remains.
Christ spoke the same truth in stillness:
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you—not as the world gives do I give to you.”
His peace is the unshaken depth beneath emotion—the ocean beneath the wave.
Q: What is the daily way to live this teaching—and how does the mind act rightly without the ego’s interference?
A: The ancients gave a precise rhythm for this path.
1. Dawn Stillness — Know the Knower
Sit before thought awakens. Watch the breath. Observe the one who observes.
From the Mundaka Upanishad:
“Having examined the worlds won by action, the seeker knows nothing here is gained by action alone. Let him go to the Self.”
In silence, the watcher and the watched begin to merge.
2. Action as Offering — Let God Act
From the Gita (3:30):
“Renouncing all actions to Me, with mind intent on the Self, free from longing and selfishness, fight!”
Before each act, pause: Not I, but the Self acts through this form.
Success or failure is irrelevant; the act purifies the actor.
3. Emotional Alchemy — Feel without Claiming
From the Satipatthāna Sutta:
“He abides observing feelings as feelings—arising, passing—knowing their ceasing.”
When the solar plexus flares, stay still until the wave completes.
Action taken during the surge is ego; action after the wave subsides is wisdom.
4. Mind’s True Function — Instrument, Not Master
The Kena Upanishad asks:
“By whom is the mind directed?”
The mind’s sacred role is discernment (viveka), not possession.
The Buddha called this right intention—acting only after the heart is clear.
5. Night Recollection — Return All to the Source
From the Isa Upanishad:
“All this is for the habitation of the Lord; whatever moves in the moving world.”
Before sleep, review the day. Offer every emotion and deed back to the Self. Nothing retained, nothing rejected.
Thus the ego’s interference fades not by conquest but by surrender.
From the Gita (5:8–9):
“Seeing, hearing, touching, breathing—the knower of truth knows: I do nothing at all.”
In that knowing, the waves still rise, but no longer disturb the depth.
Addendum — For the Ones Who Feel Deeply
To those who live through the Solar Plexus—the feelers, the empathic, the breakers of stillness—know this: your sensitivity is not your flaw; it is the instrument through which the Divine remembers itself in motion.
The wave was never meant to become stone. It was meant to reveal the depth of the sea through contrast. When your heart burns, it is Brahman longing to meet Itself more completely through you.
You are not here to suppress your waves; you are here to realize that even their crash and roar are silence, clothed in motion. The soul’s refinement is not the stilling of feeling—it is the unveiling of awareness so vast that nothing remains outside it.
What you have called your emotional turbulence is the pulse of the Infinite still learning how to love itself through your form.
Epilogue — The Still Depth
At the end of striving, you will find no new power—only the quiet that was there before the first emotion arose.
You will see that the sadness over the world’s ignorance was the echo of your own forgotten unity.
You will find that anger, too, was love misread.
And you will realize that the ocean beneath the wave was never disturbed.
Then the mind, once servant of reaction, becomes a clear instrument of Presence.
And life, with all its rising and falling, is known to be only this:
the play of the Eternal in the field of Its own reflection.
Sources
– Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 6: The Yoga of Self-Mastery
– The Upanishads (particularly the Katha and Chandogya)
– The Gospel of Thomas, Saying 70: “If you bring forth what is within you…”
– A Course in Miracles, Text 21: Reason and Perception
– Franklin Merrell-Wolff, Pathways Through to Space
– The Human Design System, Ra Uru Hu, sections on the Solar Plexus Center and Emotional Authority
– The Dhammapada, Verse 160–165 (on self as master and purifier)
Understanding the Solar Plexus Authority
The Solar Plexus Authority in Human Design signifies that emotions play a crucial role in decision-making. Individuals with this authority experience an emotional wave that can last for hours or days, and this wave is the guiding force in their decisions. Emotionality does not denote instability or irrationality; rather, it indicates a need for clarity that comes only with time and the ebb and flow of emotions.
Those with Solar Plexus Authority will often notice that their emotional state can significantly impact their perception of situations. One moment they may feel optimistic, viewing things in a positive light, while in the next, they might feel pessimistic or unsure. This emotional swing is entirely normal and part of their unique decision-making process.
For these individuals, it is crucial not to make decisions when they are at the peak of their emotional wave – whether that peak is a high or a low. Instead, the guidance is to wait until they reach a state of emotional neutrality before making decisions. Only then can they access the clarity and certainty they need.
Understanding and accepting the power of their emotional wave is the first step towards effectively using their Solar Plexus Authority. Once they embrace their unique process, individuals with this authority can make decisions that truly align with their design, leading to greater authenticity and satisfaction in life. https://ahumandesign.com/authority/solar-plexus/
Numinous Waves 