1. Ajna Chakra - Lessons 4 to 7

'Chakra' means wheel, something circular that rotates, which is how our centers look to those who can perceive them.

The chakras lie along a central line that runs up our spine from the tailbone to the crown of the head. This central conduit for energy is called Sushumna. Entwined around it on the left and right sides of the spine are two other energy lines, the Ida and the Pingala, which carry feminine and masculine energy respectively. Ida and Pingala run from the tailbone to the nostrils, weaving back and forth around Sushumna. Wherever they meet and cross lies a chakra.

Chakras are the subtle energy hubs of our body. The seven major chakras are:

Sahasrara Ajna Vishuddhi Anahata Manipuraka Swadishthana Muladhara

Though they have no physical location, these energy centers are present along the length of the body.

Chakras roughly correspond to, and influence the activity of, the important glands of the body. The chakras deeply impact our physical and mental health. Chakras are, in turn, affected by our thoughts and emotions. The chakras are direct channels to the boundless energy of the Cosmos.

Immoderate lifestyles, stress and negative emotions can 'lock' the chakras, or cause them to malfunction.

Without even being aware of it, we are continuously blocking off these important sources of energy.

That's why almost all physical and mental illness can be partly or wholly cured, simply by cleansing and energizing the corresponding chakra. What are chakras?

These chakras were discovered a long time ago during the Vedic age. In fact, in many of the spiritual chants, you will find referen Today science has proved that there is a gland located near each of these chakras that is related to that particular chakra. These seven chakras supply energy to the glands.

These seven major chakras deeply influence our physical, emotional and mental activities.

Chakras are energy centers and if they are kept in a cleansed and energized condition, they can cause us to live an ecstatic and healthy life.

Dis-ease is only an imbalance in any one of these chakras, because our body and mind are rooted in our inner consciousness. Keeping these chakras in a healthy state, we can see a transformation happening in us at the mental and physical levels

After World War I, a biplane was abandoned near a remote tribal settlement in Asia. The tribal people had never seen an aircraft in all their lives. There was a lot of excitement and commotion about it and a big crowd gathered around it. They wondered what it might be and each one started giving some suggestion about it.

They finally concluded that since it had wheels, it must be a bullock cart! News spread in the village about the new bullock cart. There was a lot of celebration in the village and the biplane was taken around the settlement yoked to bullocks, and it served as a bullock cart.

Some weeks later, a young tribal boy who had returned from the city where he was studying, saw the biplane. He got into it and looked around. He saw all the gears and mechanisms in it. He fiddled with the switches and levers.

Suddenly, the engine came to life!

He managed to taxi the plane on the ground for a short distance and the villagers were shocked at what they saw. The boy had seen tractors being used and declared to the people that the biplane was not a bullock cart but some kind of tractor.

There was great celebration once again and the biplane started being used as a tractor!

Six months passed by and a retired army officer came to the village. He saw the biplane being used as a tractor and was shocked! He told the villagers that it was not a tractor and that the plane could actually fly. They refused to believe him because the only things they had ever seen flying were birds! The army officer got into the aircraft, flew it for a short while and landed.

The villagers were wonderstruck. Then they understood its true potential.

Understand: man is a wonderful mechanism meant to fly. But we don't know our true potentiality.

We have a very limited view of ourselves. Most of us operate only as a bullock cart, at the instinct level, surrendering to our emotions.

Just like this, there are mechanisms or gears inside us, called the chakras, which are boundless energy centers. Each of them is associated with a particular emotion within us. If we understand how to handle the emotion properly, we can function as an aircraft.

Each chakra is connected to a different endocrine gland in the physical body. The endocrine glands govern our hormones and therefore also our emotions.

Any positive or negative experiences we have had relating to the emotion of a specific chakra is stored inside that chakra.

The second chakra, lying between the navel and the pubic bone, governs fear. If we have had a deep fright at some point in our lives, the feeling of it is stored in that chakra. It determines how we react to future situations that remind us of our fear. It may block us from achieving our goals in life by interfering

whenever we need courage to face our situations. The existence and location.

It has been proven that when a person is locked with a particular negative emotion, the chakra associated with that emotion shrinks to the size of a coat button. It becomes that small.

But when the same person experiences the associated positive emotion, the chakra expands to the size of a cartwheel! This is the effect that our emotions have on these energy centers, our chakras.

Our energy flow in these chakras is blocked by our negative emotions and activated by our positive emotons and we are totally unaware of it!

In Sanatana Hindu Dharma, the highest God you can experience is the Third Eye - Ajna Chakra.

The Ajna Chakra is the center between the eyebrows, is known as the Third Eye.

Every Shakti manifested from the inner space of an individual begins with Third Eye. The Third Eye must be awakened for Shaktis (powers) to manifest through anyone.

The ancient Vedic tradition gave the name Ajna Chakra (the sixth chakra) to the Third Eye. In yogic literature, it is described as a subtle centre of consciousness in the region.

'Ajna' means command' and 'cakra' means ' wheel' or 'disk'. Ajna cakra is known as the 'Cakra Raja' – the king of cakras, because all the different energy centers in your body are ruled by this cakra. 'Ajna' is the seat of the will-power controlling mystical powers like clairvoyance, telepathy and command over natural forces and ultimately, experiencing oneness.

Third Eye is described as Ajna in Sanskrit.

Ajna means Will. Will to exist or Will to collapse; any Will you carry is Ajna. If your Will gives you the hope about life, you will have life. If it gives you hope about death, you will have death. Anything you decide with your Will, you manifest that.

Understand, every breathing you do, you are giving life to your Will to manifest. Every rupee you spend, you vote for that. If you are spending one rupee on pizza, you vote for pizza and its future. If you spend one rupee on Coca Cola, you vote for Coca Cola and for its future.

On anything you spend money, you vote for it. On any idea you breathe, you make that into reality.

Life starts with SEEING.

Whether you are blind or have physical eyes, you continue to see through your inner eyes.

Third Eye vision is nothing but 'Conscious Seeing'! It activates the non-mechanical parts of your brain. That is why you start experiencing extraordinary powers like telepathy, materialization, teleportation and clairvoyance.

Third Eye is like a door to the Cosmos. You can receive anything from the Cosmos though the Third Eye. Same way, you can send any command to the Cosmos through the Third Eye. Anything sent through the Third Eye to the Cosmos is immediately experienced!

Third Eye is not just the brow center; it is the Browsing Center also! Just like how you can upload or download anything through the Internet world through an internet browsing center, through the Third Eye you can download and upload anything in the Cosmos. It is the Cosmic browsing center.

Any Akashic Records that hold the imprints of every happening in the whole cosmos in the past, present and future stored in the etheric layer (akasha), can be downloaded by a person, when his Third Eye is opened through proper initiation.

Third Eye Awakening makes you immediately experience God. The moment you awaken the Third Eye, you become God. That is why all Hindu Gods, whether Shiva or Devi, or Ganapati or Skanda will have the Third Eye. All the visions or darshan, the extraordinary things happen in people's life, only because of the Third Eye energy.

God minus Third Eye is man; man plus Third Eye is God.

The Third Eye is a direct bridge to God

Let form be filled with essence of life-breath to the crown of head. Cross the life-breath by penetrating with one-pointed attention at the bridge_x0002_like center of the eyebrows (called the third eye). Let mind be beyond the movement of thoughts [nirvikalpam manah]. In that all-rising supreme state of Sadashiva, showers the light (vision) of all pervadingness.

Shaastra Pramana: Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra, sutra 31, dhāraṇa 8

Beautifully Paramaśiva describes about this Ajna and its power - "More and more you think about your body and mind, the power of Ajna goes down. More and more you think authentically, responsibly, it manifests as what you want. More and more you look at the Cosmic principles, the energy of the Ajna goes up."

More and more and more thinking about your body and mind, impossibilities, powerlessness, makes the energy of the third eye come down. More and more if you think responsibly, the energy of the third eye make you manifests what you want.

The Third Eye is blocked by nothing but your decision to be comfortable with your small identity and small life. It is the hard truth!

You feel that you continuously need to protect yourself against the Unknown, because you think you are powerless, you are weak, you are ignorant. Building your identity based on such wrong, misguided information is ego. Continuing to carry on with the same ego is arrogance. These two block your Third Eye. When you open yourself to your own highest possibilities without fear or doubt, you will simply, smoothly, experience all the extraordinary powers. That is why children are able to express these powers far more easily than adults!

Your will, AJNA is powerful enough to make your desire and belief both redundant. Understand, you desire for great health but you always believe you will only be tired sick of dragging your life. What is the power of ajna?

Your desire is health, your belief is sick or clinically fit. But if you WILL, install the WILL of immortality of the Paramaśiva , this both, your desire, and belief both can become redundant, irrelevant.

Bringing the will to play and making your belief and desire redundant is what is called JEEVAN MUKTI, Living Enlightenment.

Intra-organ itself is not Third Eye, not Ajna. just like two eyes, there is an intra-organ called Third Eye, but that is not Ajna. Ajna is the power, which activates the Third Eye and manifest through the Third Eye.

This rubbing of the turmeric and applying kumkum activates, detoxifies, the intra-organ called Third Eye.

Emotion: Ego

Chakra: Ajna chakra

Location: Between the eyebrows. In Sanskrit, Ajna means ' will' or 'order'. The Ajna chakra is known as the master

chakra. This chakra is locked by seriousness and ego. It can be made to flower with innocence, simplicity and intelligence and by shedding all forms of ego. Meditation Technique to be an innocent and egoless being:

Divya Netra Meditation - a Zoroastrian meditation technique.

To make the children understand totality.

Don't harp too much on perfectionism. Perfectionism can make you neurotic. Whatever you do, do it wholly, totally. Then automatically, you will never worry about perfectionism. Perfectionism is always something from your mind. It becomes a goal for you. You work towards it as a goal. And when you work towards it as a goal, it becomes dead and mundane.

• ¤ Which can make you neurotic?
• ¤ When will you not worry about perfectionism?
• ¤ Which is always from your mind?
• ¤ Can we make mistakes?
• ¤ What happens when we are scared to make mistakes?

Paper, Pencil, Eraser, Color pencil or poster color or crayons

Ask the children to draw a picture and color with full perfection and ask them whether they enjoyed drawing the picture fully

Perfectionism never gives you joy. It only fulfills your ego. Perfectionism is never possible because it is in your mind and your mind keys changing its definition of perfection.

Contemplate on the topic of perfectionism

One player is selected to be it and are blindfolded. They are then spun around and must try to catch someone. Once they catch someone that person is then blindfolded. So now there are two blindfolded players trying to catch every one else. Each time a sighted player is caught they become another blindfolded player. The game continues until all but one person has been caught. They are then the winner. details. game of the day:

Conclude the topic by reiterating the important

Teach the children that there is nothing wrong with making mistakes

To make the children understand totality.

Don't make the same mistakes again

There is nothing wrong in making mistakes. In fact, by making a few mistakes, you come to know clearly how to avoid making mistakes. The more you learn from mistakes, the more you know about how not to make mistakes. Knowing how not to make mistakes is a very important thing. Only then you have seen both sides of it; only then you have explored the two sides experientially. Else, there is always the danger of falling into the unknown side at a critical time when you really can't afford to. The moment you are worried that it might be a mistake, you are worried about your ego getting hurt. When you are not so concerned about your ego getting hurt, you will have the courage to take any jump. All your so-called worry is actually about your ego getting hurt. When you are free from it, you will act with more freedom and courage. You will be more willing to experiment.

• v When can we can avoid mistakes?
• v Can we learn something from mistakes?
• v Can we make the same mistakes again and again?
• v What happens when you are worried?
• v When we will have the courage to take any jump?

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Draw and color your favorite picture

• 1. Coffee powder,
• 2. vinegar different essence (eg. vanilla)
• 3. poster colours,
• 4. uncoloured picture,
• 5. paint brush
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Children are asked to paint the picture with poster colors mixed with coffee powder or vanilla essence. After the painting has dried ask them to smell the pictures and identify the smell.

If they identify the smell wrongly they can learn the smells properly. There is nothing wrong in making mistakes. The more you learn from mistakes, the more you know about how not to make the mistakes

Talk about what they learnt from their mistakes. Vaakyartha sadhas

Using a large piece of cardboard about 2' by 6' , create a cardboard man. Give it a base to stand it up. Now place it on a table. Take the first player in the room, blindfold them and spin them around. Leave them facing the table. Next have them walk up to the table and try to blow over the man. Each player has three chances. If they blow it over they get into the next round otherwise they are out. Keep playing until one person is left.

Conclusion : Conclude the topic by reiterating the important details.

Laughter is total and it can transform you

Teach the children that laughter is total and it can transform you.

To make the children understand that being in the present moment, your very existence will be beautiful and light.

When you start living in the present.

Laughter is that which brings in a ray of energy from your being to your body. It totally rejuvenates your whole self. It can heal like nothing else can. It gives you such wonderful glimpses of the present, which you try to achieve through other difficult meditation techniques. Laughter is the most powerful meditation technique. Laughter is a beautiful way of connecting with the energy of

Existence, which is pure healing energy.

• What can simply heal and transform you?
• What happens when you laugh?
• When is your very existence beautiful?
• When are you the watcher?
• Can we be sincere or serious?

• 1. Funny picture
• 2. pencil,
• 3. color pencil
• 4. crayons

Ask the children to draw a funny picture

When you are able to laugh, you become the watcher. When you have become the watcher, you separate from the I and mine — the ego.

Talk about incidents where they have very very funny. Vaakyartha sadhas

Set up two team's boys and girls. The girls have a pink shoebox and some potatoes. The boys have a blue shoebox and a bunch of potatoes. Then one person from each team is blindfolded. They are given empty shoe boxes, the potatoes are spread over the floor. Each team has to direct their team member to the potatoes. The team who gets all their potatoes first gets a point. Everyone takes a turn at being blind folded, the winner is the team with the most points.

Conclude the topic by reiterating the important details