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For some, Sahasrara has been lost; for others it has always been here, all we need to do is search for it. The greatest spiritual power lies in Sahasrara and not in Ajna chakra. The Sanskrit translation of the word Sahasrara explains everything – “Thousand-Petal Lotus”. The yogi is finally free, because once the yogi’s worthy spirit has touched the subtle energy of Nirvana’s plane
Experiencing Sahasrara is a rare thing. But looking for, and finding, quiet moments of liberation, love, contentment and even bliss less so, and that too is Sahasrara. In today’s fractured world, finding moments like these has become more and more important. To find this ‘bliss’, we need to silence the chatter (vrittis) in our minds; we need to cultivate an internal quiet. This does not come easily.
The crown chakra is associated with the following psychological and behavioral characteristics:
- Consciousness
- Awareness of higher consciousness, knowledge of what is sacred
- Connection with the formless, the limitless
- Realization
- Liberation from limiting patterns
- Communion with higher states of consciousness: ecstasy and bliss
- Presence
Keeping it in balance is therefore essential for our well-being, spiritual and otherwise. For some, this chakra is the gateway to the cosmic self or the divine self, to universal consciousness. It’s linked to the infinite, the universal. For others, it is a state of pure happiness and contentment. For some, Sahasrara has been lost; for others it has always been here, all we need to do is search for it.
A balanced seventh chakra allows us access to the upmost clarity and enlightened wisdom. Its energy is able to generate a blissful union with all that exists. This is regarded as spiritual ecstasy. However, an imbalance in this chakra can manifest itself as a feeling of disconnection to the spirit, a cynical attitude to what is sacred, a disconnection from the body, from earthly matters and an attitude of closed-mindedness.
There is no better friend than knowledge (nor worse enemy than egoism).
Vishuddhi chakra, located in the pit of man’s throat, acts as a “filter”. If vishuddhi chakra is active within a man, he would develop the ability to filter everything that enters his cognitive system and set himself free from the self- centred anchorage in Gaia.
Man with active agna chakra would feel his intellectual freedom. However, with an active sahasrara chakra, man’s experience would no longer be even mere intellectual, but an experience in attribute-less-ness.
Man with active sahasrara chakra would be completely drenched in universal consciousness-in collective Gaia—in Xanadu itself. In other words, progression from existence in muladhara to sahasrara is man’s evolution from phenomenal gaia-self to noumenal Xanadu-self—from man to human!
In the Kundalini Yoga, each chakra is symbolized with its own number of petals, but Sahasrara has the most. The symbolic meaning for thousand petals of Sahasrara is the thousand spiritual powers in humans that lead them to the highest point of spiritual evolution. It leads the yogi to a power and knowledge beyond normal human understanding. This chakra is beyond all experiences because the spirit that observes the act of observing and the object of observing become one.
The consciousness is at the top level and faces maximum expansion. When Kundalini Shakti reaches this point of spiritual height, the consciousness of the yogi that has passed the three main energy channels, awaken all lower chakras and come to the door of Sahasrara explodes and disperses into a million pieces and rejoins again in one big mighty unity. One consciousness fades away until it dies and a new purified and illuminated one is born. The Ego and all its manifestations are destroyed in the final battle and the yogi has been set free from the eternal circle of life and death. That is an experience of Nirvana. It is a state of the spirit that only a few – the most worthy ones will be lucky to experience during their lifetime.
A very interesting fact is that the nature of the Kundalini energy is bipolar but when it rises and reaches Sahasrara chakra it becomes mono polar or one complete unity. This unity of Kundalini born in Sahasrara chakra, in ancient India was called “The great joining of Shiva and Shakti”. In the old scripts of Kundalini Yoga, Shiva and Shakti represent the male and female principle in humans.
In Sahasrara, the ecstasy of the spirit is infinite and new horizons (greater than the ones opened when Kundalini was passing through the Ajna chakra); appear in front of the yogi. No word can describe this experience, which in fact, is the highest spiritual achievement. When this has been accomplished, the yogi has beaten the weal of Karma and now blissfully floats on the level of Nirvana. It is just then when the yogi is much higher than the Karma can reach.
The yogi is finally free, because once the yogi’s worthy spirit has touched the subtle energy of Nirvana’s plane, he or she will never have to reincarnate again except if a decision has been made to help the global spiritual evolution of humankind.
According to a Yoga tradition, a spirit that has reached the Nirvana and taken a physical form again, comes from the love of humanity, so it is called an Avatar – The One, who brings the message of God. An Avatar always offers the path of cosmic love, peace and understanding. The Avatar’s spiritual vision is always the same: “To help every living being to discover the path that will lead it to its true home”.
However, most of the effects that appear when Kundalini energy passes through Sahasrara are beyond the analytical mind because they are present much higher on the planes than the physical, and only those who have experienced them can understand them. Perhaps the best association for this experience is what some yogi said once: “The light that radiates from the Sahasrara chakra stretches in all directions where the third eye can reach”.
Sahasrara Attainments
“Men, as soon as they discover this most secret place, become free from rebirths in this universe. By the practice of this Yoga, he gets the power of creating or destroying the creation, this aggregate of elements. When the mind is steadily fixed at this place, which is the residence of the Great Swan and is called Kailas, then that Yogi, devoid of diseases and subduing all accidents, lives for a great age, free from death.” (Siva Samhita).
With the opening of the seventh chakra, and subsequent activation of the Third Eye, consciousness can now enter the fifth dimension. It is then that the many realities around and within us gradually become apparent to us. Opening the crown chakra expands our perception into the fifth dimension where there is no polarity. Thus, there are many paradoxes associated with this chakra, as it represents the “end of all paradox”.
As we journey through the higher dimensions, it is important to release all judgments associated with the polarities of light and dark. Instead, we must consult our inner awareness and higher consciousness to navigate us through our inner worlds. Eventually, we will all be aware of our fifth dimensional selves, they know no judgment and have no fear.
The petals of the lotuses in these chakras are initially closed and drooping, but as Devi Kundalini pierces their centers, the blossoms lift their heads and bloom in all their glory, emanating a divine light and fragrance and revealing their esoteric secrets. The more kundalini advances, the more the yogi advances on the spiritual path. When kundalini reaches the ajna chakra the yogi gets a vision of his personal god.
When it reaches the sahasrara, he loses his individuality in the ocean of sat, chit, and ananda; Shiva and Shakti become united and the yogi becomes a fully illumined sage or jivan mukta. Even the ignorant individual knows that he wants happiness. To get this he uses whatever means come to his command.
Unfortunately, he does not realize that the happiness of the world is a pale reflection of the bliss that lies within him and that he could taste, if only he knew the method of finding it. Kundalini yoga is one such method.
As mentioned before, when kundalini sleeps the human being is awake to the joys of the world. When it awakes, the human being also awakes to the light within.
The Seven Tongues of Agni are indeed a hidden reference to liberation. The ultimate destination of the worshiper’s meditations is the Crown, the top of the head, where ultimate liberation occurs.
“Sahasrara chakra is located above Brahma randhra, ‘the cave of Brahma.’ It is a hole in the crown of the head through which the soul is said to escape at death. When the Yogi separates himself from the physical body at the time of death, this Brahma randhra bursts open and the soul comes out through this opening (Kapala Moksha). This opening is also called the ‘Door to Pure Consciousness’ or door of liberation.”
That flow of energy within a human is but one dimension expressed by the Kundalini. There is really only One Energy in the universe-a central energy that functions in and supports all dimensions of existence. Shakti is the creative power of Shiva’s consciousness, the Source from which all manifestation appears. In relationship to Kundalini and flow, the Para-Kundalini is pure potential, like a river with a dam holding the water back. The river becomes a reservoir, and has potential energy that is restrained from flowing. Flow is when the river runs through a channel (the psychic mechanism) and becomes an active energy of motion. The potential energy (Para-Kundalini) and the energy in motion (flow) are the same energy. It is the flow that opens up the pathway for the full force and potential of the Kundalini to express itself in our lives.
By tuning in to that flow and consciously bringing it down to the base of the spine, we begin to awaken the highest aspect of Kundalini, facilitating its rise toward the top of the head. That energy moves up through our subtle body, piercing the chakras and granthi-the dense gnarls that are the three major psychic knots within us. These knots are crystallized contractions, conjunctions of lifetimes of tension, pattern, psychic trauma, and ego. They coalesce around the chakras in the base of the spine, the heart, and the center of the head, blinding us to the intrinsic consciousness within.
One cannot find these knots in the body, nor do we need to. Instead, we focus on the flow of the vital force within. That energy works like an effervescent, dissolving tensions and contractions as it moves through the chakras, ultimately piercing the knots and releasing the consciousness bound within them. It is this breaking through the knots that allows the Kundalini to rise and reunite with Pure Consciousness. This happens in the center of the head and in the sahasrara (crown of the head)—which are in essence one space, what Bhagavan Nityananda called “the sky of the heart.” When that occurs we achieve our realization and freedom.