1. Ajna Chakra - Lessons 8 to 10

'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 emotions 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_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, Ājñā 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 Ājñā?

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 Jīvanmukti, Living Enlightenment.

Intra-organ itself is not Third Eye, not Ājñā. Just like two eyes, there is an intra-organ called Third Eye, but that is not Ājñā. Ājñā 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: Ājñā chakra

Location: Between the eyebrows. In Sanskrit, Ājñā means 'will' or 'order'. The Ājñā 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.

Teach the children about active ego and passive ego

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

Passive ego is more dangerous then active ego

The self-conscious ones are the egoistic ones. They are so bothered about what others will say about their dance and so they sit quietly. Again, they are guarding their ego and they are missing the joy of life like anything.

• ¤ Which ego is easy to recognize?
• ¤ Who does not let go of their ego?
• ¤ Which ego is subtle and healing?
• ¤ Which is a more dangerous ego?
• ¤ When is there no need for any comparison or claim?

MATERIALS NEEDED: Paper, Color items.

PROCEDURE: Ask the children to color the Ājñā Chakra

People with active ego will behave in a highlighted fashion they will claim selfimportance openly. People who have passive ego will try to be very

Active ego vs passive ego.

One player is blindfolded, making sure they can't peek down their nose. Then a number of buttons and coins (or similar objects) are spread over the floor of the play area. The blindfolded player is spun around and has a minute to find as many of the buttons/coins/etc as they can. Count the number of items they picked up and then place them back on the floor. Once everyone has had a turn, the player with the most collected items is the winner. details. game of the day:

Conclusion : Conclude the topic by reiterating the important details.

Conclude the topic by reiterating the important

Teach the children about social ego.

To make the children understand social ego.

Children are not as self conscious as adults.

If you let people in on your family matters, you feel like you are exposing your whole self to them. You are afraid that your image might come crashing down and there will be nothing to prop you up in society. This is social ego.

Because of our social ego, we are all the time so self conscious also. We are self-conscious because we think that people are looking and talking about us all the time. Be very clear: When you are self-conscious, you are very egoistic. You think that you are a big entity and that everyone's eyes are on you all the time. People actually have better things to do

• v What is social ego?
• v How do you break social ego?
• v Which is a great liberation?
• v Why are we self conscious?
• v Where are you very egoistical?

• 1. Paper,
• 2. Pencil,
• 3. Eraser,
• 4. Coloring items

Ask each child to draw themselves as a picture and color it neatly

When you are self-conscious you are very egoistic.

Vaakyartha sadhas

Ask the children to talk about the incidents when they were self conscious

Divide everyone into two teams, each team lines up a distance away from their respective pole. Two helpers hold the poles about 5m away from the team. Just like a relay race, each player runs to their pole, where they are blindfolded. They then have to hold the pole in place and circle it 10 times, then walk back to their team still blindfolded. The team has to verbally guide their teammate back. When they get back, their blindfold is removed and the next team member takes turn. The team to finish first wins.

Conclusion : Conclude the topic by reiterating the important details.

Teach the children about living without ego.

To make the children understand social ego.

Ego is living without Para phonate.

Meditation will help you realize that you are only a watcher in life. It will help you center yourself well inside your being and carry on with your outer world tasks much more efficiently and blissfully because you will be carrying an inner silence in you that does not allow you to get distracted or perturbed by anything. If you continue doing this, you start leaving the 'I' and 'mine'. Your ego dissolves. Your ego is nothing but the strong feeling and identity that you have about your mind and body.

• What does meditation make you realize
• What keeps you concentrated?
• How does your ego get dissolved?
• What is your ego?

1. nothing

Ask the children to draw on paper without any materials. No one will be able to do it.

When you live with ego, you need some paraphernalia, some support. You need people around you all of the time, without the support you are no one.

Talk about the support in your life. Vaakyartha sadhas

This game is played just like "Pin the tail" but with one difference. A lot of players when playing pin the tail will cheat, and feel on the picture for previously placed tails or for the edges of the picture to try to work out where to place the tail. For this game all players are blindfolded so they can't see the picture. They then take their turn as usual after which they must wait blindfolded for all the other players to t ake their turn. Once everyone has completed their turn they can take the blindfolds off. The person who pinned closest is the winner