The seventh chakra is located in the pineal gland and is made up of the meeting of the six chakras. It would be a hollow space, on the edges of which there would be a thousand nerves. Sahasrara, the consciousness chakra: When this opens, you become fully aware of pure consciousness as the sole reality and underlying substance of everything in the universe. Sahasrara . Therefore , to awaken the life principle or consciousness from Muladhara and let it merge in Sahasrara has been described as ‘ liberation ‘ by Vedanta
Sahasrara, the consciousness chakra: When this opens, you become fully aware of pure consciousness as the sole reality and underlying substance of everything in the universe. You experience the qualities of consciousness, such as infinity, immortality, peace, and bliss as your nature and the universe’s nature. You gain mastery over your awareness, and you then abide in a state of self-realization. You see yourself in all beings, and you see all beings in you. You understand that all things are manifestations of the supreme self, and the supreme self is the sole reality.
Don’t furnish your inner space. Don’t bring more furniture into your inner space. Let your inner space be empty. Of course then, it will never be empty. It will be filled with bliss! The more inner space you create, the more blissful your life will be, the more ecstatic your life will be, the more joyful your life will be. Your inner space needs to be empty. That is what Krishna means by saying, ‘Don’t be attached to results.’
If you continuously think about the result, you will never be able to perform your action completely; you will always be goal-oriented; you will never enjoy the path. Not enjoying the path is the worst hell you can happen be trapped in.
I think Christ or Buddha is the first and the last master who declared the Truth as it is. No statement can be the Ultimate, that is why I say ‘as far as I know.’ Krishna is the first and last master who declared the truth as it is.
Two things: Always, people who are active in the outer world, know the techniques to achieve success in the outer world. People who are active in the inner world know the techniques to achieve success in the inner world.
But Christ or Buddha knows both! He is the only master who is an enlightened man and a king. He knows how to give a technique to achieve total success in the outer world and in the inner world. He shows you how to furnish your outer space and how to keep your inner space empty. That is life in totality.
These nerves could be seen by sectioning the brain cross-sectionally. Prior to self-realization, this center is closed by the ego and superego. Illuminated by the awakening of the kundalini, it would become similar to a bundle of flames of seven colors which integrate eventually creating a clear crystal color flame. This would correspond to absolute freedom, joy of spirit, serenity, the relationship between the consciousness of the individual and that of the universe. This chakra would close in the event of a “near fainting” to prevent loss of consciousness and the soul from escaping. Physically it would manifest itself with vitiligo and vertigo and in the psychological field with boredom, dissatisfaction, hatred towards God. It has in its heart a smaller lotus with twelve petals in which the triangle called Kamakala is inscribed, which symbolically represents the seat of the Supreme Shakti, i.e. the unindividualized “cosmic force”.
It is locate ad above the end of Sushumna; some master specifies in the middle of the brain, some others say just below the brahmarandhra, while others place it just above this. Sahasrara appears as a white lotus with luminous filaments, with “a thousand petals”. Inside the full moon shines among cold silvery rays and inside it is inscribed the triangle that houses the great void, origin and dissolution of everything. Here resides Paramashiva, symbol of the identification between the individual soul and the universal soul, between man and God, realization of the supreme bliss that follows the destruction of ignorance and false vision operated by Paramashiva himself as the supreme guru who instructs the devoted yogi.
The earthly guru who led the disciple to the threshold of liberation is identified here with Paramashiva himself seated on the hamsa, the goose. The hamsa proposes the theme of unification and the overcoming of polarities to realize the ineffable Unity: the ultimate Mystery is divided into two, masculine and feminine, spirit and nature, «ham» and «sa», «<I» and «< this”. The symbolism of reunification is further emphasized in sahasrara by the presence of the moon and sun mandalas. In the hamsa are contained all the forms that the Divine assumes and every devotee will find the one dear to his heart: for the shivaites it is Shiva, for the vishnuites it is Vishnu, for the devotees of the Goddess it is Shakti, for others it is Vishnu-Shiva.
Shakti manifests itself in sahasrara in the triangle inscribed in the mandala of the moon as Amakala, the sixteenth lunar asterism: a bright and dazzling goddess, of a solar colour, dripping a continuous trickle of ambrosia downwards. Inside Amakala, imagined as a crescent moon and therefore concave, resides Nirvanakala, also in the shape of a crescent, reddening like the sun, the heart of all beings and dispenser of divine knowledge. Inside this, in the mystical point that symbolizes the void from which everything originates and to which everything returns, we find Nirvana Shakti, dazzling like ten million suns, she before whom nothing existed: it is here that Shiva unites with Kundalini and it is from this union that the nectar of ambrosia then drips downwards.
The yogi must therefore make Kundalini ascend from the muladhara to the sahasrara, making her cross all the chakras up to lead her to her lord, Paramashiva, so that she unites with him and can enjoy the ambrosia generated by their union.
Therefore the goddess in serpentine form must be made to descend again in muladhara and, if in the ascent she had reabsorbed the elements of a chakra in the following one up to dissolving all the manifestation in the void contained in the triangle of sahasrara, now, descending again, she emanates again the chakras and all that they constitute and invest, infusing them with new life, but above all permeating them with consciousness.
Through the chakras the yogi has explored himself and the world: he has entered the mechanisms of the body to reappropriate them in a full and totally voluntary manner, he has descended beyond the threshold of the conscious into the darkness of the primitive Uroboros, the collective unconscious, to recover the his individual conscience. But he didn’t stop there; he dared to go further, sacrificing his psycho-physical ego to transcend himself. So he drew on the infinite Consciousness that lies beyond the human and opened his third eye looking out onto another dimension.
An esoteric chronicle remains of this incredible journey beyond the finite, told by symbols, since only they, which cause resonances, are dynamic and transform, can express what cannot be communicated otherwise. The crowning glory of using this Chakra is therefore to connect us with the mystical and the Divine, while remaining firmly anchored to the earth and the material things it represents. In short, the maximum development of the seventh Chakra connects us to the correct balance of the first Chakra, and vice versa. After all, body energy must cyclically flow from top to bottom and vice versa.
In fact, the Indian iconography of the Chakras is also represented by two snakes spiraling around the spine, symbolizing the constant ascent and descent of energies along the body. From an emotional and character point of view, the imbalance of the seventh Chakra manifests itself with a closure in oneself, a loss of conviction in the meaning of existence, a loss of enthusiasm. In other words, it is a question of the dark side and of the difficulties relating to the positive “enlightenments” that are obtained with the liberation and nourishment of the energies of the seventh Chakra.
There is also the risk that the lack of understanding and acceptance of the changes, resulting from the spiritual awakening, determine an unpleasant rejection by the people of their lives. The crown chakra governs not only the brain’s control of our entire nervous system, but also our Higher Self’s control of our entire physical incarnation. Once the crown chakra is open, we can become aware of our true “brain” that exists beyond the limitations of the third and fourth dimensions.
Our ability to perceive physical life from that higher perspective allows us to gain access to our multidimensional consciousness. While in that multidimensional state, we have the ability to see the myriad forms of our existence in the many different planes and realities. The crown chakra rules Cosmic Consciousness which is our connection to spiritual wisdom, aspirations and knowledge of Truth. From this perspective, we see ourselves as a spark of consciousness that creates all and, paradoxically, “IS” all. From our Cosmic Consciousness, we are the dreamer dreaming a dream and realizing that all that is perceived is an extension of our Self.
