Awakening The Third Eye
By Ashish Kaushik
Copyright 2011 Britannica Creations
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Welcome To “Open Your Third Eye”
A Systematic Method
Prior to opening your third eye, it is imperative that you have sufficient knowledge about the major chakras, as this will help you to understand the concept of opening your third eye. These chakras have to be in a proper working order to enable the third eye to function properly.
Please go through all the chapters one by one.
It is very tempting to skip straight to the Third Eye Opening process but unless you understand the full concept of the other aspects, which are closely related to The Third Eye, it will be a very long journey.
What to Expect
This book is designed to provide you with the Universal Facts, which have been kept secret, for centuries so be patient and by all means browse through any of the pages as and when you wish. However for the purpose of opening your Third Eye, you must go through the book, from the beginning and practice every aspect of the Chakras.
Introduction to “The Chakras”
What Are The Chakras
The word Chakra derives from Sanskrit (one of the oldest language in the world dating back to 1500 BCE, and this was the main language for Indo/Aryan). It means “Wheel”.
Chakra is a concept referring to wheel-like vortices, (similar to the DNA shape) and exists in every human. Rotating vortices of subtle matter are the focal points for the reception and transmission of energies. Seven major chakras or energy centres, also understood as wheels of light, are located within the human body.
According to Hinduism, chakras are nexus points of energy sent from Brahma. It is a continuous flow of Shakti (power). Shakti passes through with the help of chakras into our body and soul and with this process it becomes less spiritual and more physical. This is then stored at the bottom of our spine or the base of spine, which is also called Kundalini.
The chakra can also be depicted by either a flower or a wheel. As a flower has a number of petals around the circle and in a similar fashion, a wheel has a certain number of spokes, which divide the circle into segments. Each chakra possesses a specific number of segments or petals.
It is believed that the chakras were first written down approximately between 1200-900 BCE. However it is also believed that chakras have been in circulation for approximately ten thousand years, before they were written down! During that time the information was passed verbally and this verbal/oral information method was called Upanishads.
The Upanishads are Hindu scriptures that constitute the core teachings of Vedanta (the system of philosophy). They do not belong to any particular period of Sanskrit literature: the oldest, such as the Brhadaranyaka and Chandogya Upanishads, date to the late Lord Brahama’s period (around the middle of the first millennium BCE), while the latest were composed in the medieval and early modern period.
The Upanishads have exerted an important influence on the rest of Hindu philosophy and were collectively considered one of the 100 influential books ever written.
The philosopher and commentator Shankara is thought to have composed commentaries on eleven mukhya (principal) Upanishads, those that are generally regarded as the oldest, spanning the late Vedic and Mauryan periods.
Chakras can be activated by stimulating them with a very powerful energy referred to as the Kundalini. The Kundalini energy is said to reside ‘dormant’ in ‘normal’ people until such times they experience an ‘awakening’. The Kundalini is said to then rise up from its ‘sleeping position’ which is a coiled energy (like a spring) and located in the region between the base of the spine and the genital area. From here it travels up through a channel referred to as the Sushumna nadi and passes through various energy vortices or chakras.
Starting from the lowest (root) and slowest energy wheel located at the base of the spine, this chakra is very important and conveys to the person a sense of self-preservation and responsibility.
The chakras are located within the Etheric body, associated with the vertical axis of the spine. As one progresses up the spine towards the head, the chakras are thought of as being more evolved. The base chakra is deemed to be quite basic, and most people will operate from this chakra or it’s near neighbour the sex chakra. Over activation of this chakra will lead the person to have an over active interest in sex and its associated behaviours.
The chakras above the neck are associated with greater aspirations, spirituality and necessary for true spiritual evolution. In this sense, they allow the person, greater insight into increasing levels of universal law. Since the chakras above the neck are associated with more universal aspects of life, development of the brow chakra (the third eye) allows the person to be more aware of:
Clairvoyance and other related abilities
Development of intuition
Higher mind and philosophical understanding
Increased inspiration
Increased depth and insight into everyday life. Not based upon a set of dogma but rather on the ability to see what is ‘really’ going on.
How Chakras Affect Us
The chakras are constantly rotating and vibrating and the effect of these chakras activities’ influence our body shape, glandular processes, chronic physical ailments and thoughts and behaviour.
Blocked chakras means that the energy does not flow harmoniously through them, or it is wide open and will result in an imbalance that is manifested in all areas of life.
Each chakra is expressed on the physical body in one of the endocrine glands that regulate physical and emotional processes in the body. The imbalance in the chakra will also be expressed in the endocrine gland linked to it.
How to assess The Chakras
You can do a chakra assessment by:
Using your hands, OR by
The use of a Pendulum
The assessment of chakras can be quite tricky, however an experienced person who has developed a good technique, can tell which charka is blocked by just running their hands over the body. The first chakra can be assessed over the wrist; the second at the thumb; the third over the middle finger; the fourth over a small finger; the fifth over the index finger; the sixth over the ring finger and finally the seventh chakra over the palm.
The other way to access the chakra is by using a pendulum. We will be learning in more details about this method in a later chapter. However, by placing your pendulum over each chakra, one can establish the condition of that particular chakra by asking the pendulum for it’s: direction, size and speed.
In the later chapters we will be learning how to construct your own or use a Chakra Chart to determine:
which chakra to work on
if it is balanced
is it under or over energised.
The Seven Power Centres
The law of nature is that life flows through the top of the head and down each chakra, nurturing our bodies with seven distinct kinds of energy, which are essential to our physical and spiritual development. It also flows upward through the chakras, communicating individual insight and a conscious sense of universal connections.
In order to put it in a much simpler aspect, we can think of chakras as a computer software programme CD that contain vital programmes, which shape our behaviour. We all function by sets of programmes, which may or may not be conscious. In this analogy, the body is the hardware, our programming is the software, and the “Self” is the user. We did not write all of these programs and some of the language is very archaic. The challenge before us is to identify our programs and rewrite them all while continuing to live our lives, yet this is the task of healing.
The chakra system is that special anti-virus programme, which not only debugs any problems within our system but also can be used as a tool to fight the viruses on an on-going basis. In order to run any of our programs have to activate our energy currents, which is bipolar.
Earth centred energy, which is contacted through our bodies is called grounding. This energy comes from the solid contact we make with the earth through feet and legs and provides the connection that makes us feel safe, alive, centred in ourselves, and rooted to the environment;
The pole of consciousness, which is experienced through our minds, is our inner understanding, our memory, our dreams, and our beliefs. We have a dynamic energy flow, throughout our entire being, when it is connected to our body.
We can plug into this system just as we plug in our stereo. The chakras then become like stations, receiving and broadcasting at different frequencies and different channels.
The seven vortices of the chakras are created by the combination of these two active principles: consciousness and matter.
Consciousness enters through the crown chakra and flows downward through the body, then upward from earth to ethereal consciousness.
In order to be whole, a human being needs a balance between the downward flow and the upward flow of energy.
Blockages in any of the chakras affect the flow of the energy currents.
What blocks a chakra?
Chakras can be blocked for a number of reasons such as childhood traumas, cultural conditioning, limited belief, bad habits, physical and emotional injuries, or even just lack of attention.
For each one, we will develop a coping strategy. If these difficulties persist, these coping strategies become chronic patterns, anchored in the body and psyche as defence structures.
It is important to recognise the blocks we carry and then find and understand the source and meaning, developing tools to heal them.
The Balanced System
It is possible to be relatively balanced through the chakras with the guidance of the universal truth brought to you through the medium of this book.
What would this look like?
The person would be: well-grounded and in touch with their body and in good health have more control of their feelings without being ruled by them sexually content instead of being driven have confidence without dominating others (indicating a balanced third chakra) compassionate and loving, yet centred, controlled and peaceful, able to communicate feelings or ideas with truth, clarity, confidence able to listen to others imaginative with wisdom due to connection with the upper chakra.
The idea is to achieve the above and we all have necessary means. It depends on the individual’s patience, time factor, how dedicated they are and the amount of time spent.
Aura
What Is An Aura?
Before we look into individual chakras it is important to understand other closely related factors such as Aura. This is a cocoon of light, which constantly surrounds the human body. It is often described as “egg-shaped”.
Light energy is drawn into this egg, which acts like a prism, changing the light into its components - colour elements. The aura energy enters the body vibrating along the nerve centres through the chakras. “The chakras plays the part of portals within our bodies, which take in and process energy of higher vibration nature”.
What Does An Aura Consist Of?
The aura consists of at least seven bands of bodies; the etheric; the emotional; mental; the astral; the casual; the soul and spiritual. Each body corresponds to the seven dimensions of reality. There are other bodies beyond this level, which are called the celestial bodies, which are beyond our comprehension at this level of evolution.
Each body has a characteristic or quality of energy associated with it. The physical body is associated with instinct; the etheric body with vital force and energy; the astral body with desires, feelings and emotions; the mental body with the ration of mind; the soul or casual body with the abstract mind (also known as the Buddhic body) with intuition and the atomic body with the spiritual will.
The seven bodies are inter-related and affect one another and the person's feelings, emotions, thinking, behaviour, and health.
Therefore a state of imbalance in one of the bodies leads to a state of imbalance in the others.
The Auric Bodies and Your Needs on Each Level or Auric Field
Physical Auric Body - Physical sensations. Simple physical comfort, pleasure, health.
The etheric Auric Body - Emotions with respect to self. Self-acceptance and self-love.
Vital Auric Body - Rational mind. To understand the situation in a clear, linear and rational way.
Astral (emotional) Body - Relations with others. Loving interaction with friends and family.
Lower Mental Auric Body - Divine will within. To align with the divine will, to make commitment to speak and follow the truth.
Higher Mental Auric Body - Divine love, and spiritual ecstasy.
Spiritual (intuitive) Body - Divine mind, serenity. To be connected to divine mind and to understand the greater universal pattern.
Aura Colours
An Aura has many colours and the meaning/significance of each colour is different. In this section of the book we will learn what each colour means and later on in the book you will learn and understand the human Auras.
RED AURA COLOUR: Relates to the physical body, heart or circulation. The densest of colour, it creates the most friction which attracts or repels; money worries or obsessions, anger, anxiety or nervousness.
DEEP RED: Grounded, realistic, active, strong will-power, survival-oriented.
MUDDIED RED: Anger (repelling)
CLEAR RED: Powerful, energetic, competitive, sexual and passionate
PINK-BRIGHT AND LIGHT: Loving, tender, sensitive, sensual, artistic, affection, purity, compassion; new or revived romantic relationship.
DARK AND MURKY PINK: Immature and/or dishonest nature.
ORANGE RED: Confidence, creative power.
ORANGE AURA COLOUR: Relates to reproductive organs and emotions. The colour of vitality, vigour, good health and excitement. Lots of energy and stamina, creative, productive, adventurous, courageous, outgoing social nature; currently experiencing stress related to appetites and addictions;
ORANGE-YELLOW: Creative, intelligent, detail oriented, perfectionist, scientific.
YELLOW AURA COLOUR: Relates to the spleen and life energy. It is the colour of awakening, inspiration, intelligence and action shared, creative, playful, optimistic, easy-going.
LIGHT OR PALE YELLOW: Emerging psychic and spiritual awareness; optimism and hopefulness; positive excitement about new ideas.
BRIGHT LEMON-YELLOW: Struggling to maintain power and control in a personal or business relationship; fear of losing control, prestige, respect, and/or power.
CLEAR GOLD METALLIC, SHINY AND BRIGHT: Spiritual energy and power activated and awakened; an inspired person.
DARK BROWNISH YELLOW OR GOLD: Overly analytical to the point of feeling fatigued or stressed; trying to make up for "lost time" by learning everything all at once.
GREEN AURA COLOUR: Relates to heart and lungs. It is a very comfortable, healthy colour of nature. When seen in the aura this usually represents growth and balance, and most of all, something that leads to change. Love of people, animals, nature; profession teachers and social work.
BRIGHT EMERALD GREEN: Profession a healer, also a love-centred person.
YELLOW-GREEN: Creative with heart, communicative.
DARK OR MUDDY FOREST GREEN: Jealousy, resentment, feeling like a victim of the world; blaming self or others; insecurity and low self-esteem; lack of understanding personal responsibility; sensitive to perceived criticism.
TURQUOISE: Relates to the immune system. Sensitive, compassionate,. Profession - healer and therapist.
BLUE AURA COLOUR: Relates to the throat, thyroid. Cool, calm, and collected. Caring, loving, love to help others, sensitive and intuitive.
SOFT BLUE: Peacefulness, clarity and communication; truthful; intuitive.
BRIGHT ROYAL BLUE: Clairvoyant; highly spiritual nature; generous; on the right path; new opportunities are coming.
DARK OR MUDDY BLUE: Fear of the future; fear of self-expression; fear of facing or speaking the truth.
INDIGO AURA COLOUR: Relates to the third eye, visual and pituitary gland. Intuitive, sensitive, deep feeling.
VIOLET AURA COLOUR: Relates to crown, pineal gland and nervous system. The most sensitive and wisest of colours. This is the intuitive colour in the aura, and reveals psychic power of atonement with self. Intuitive, visionary, futuristic, idealistic, artistic and magical.
LAVENDER AURA COLOUR: Imagination, visionary, daydreamer, etheric.
SILVER AURA COLOUR: This is the colour of abundance, both spiritual and physical. Lots of bright silver can reflect plenty of money, and/or awakening of the cosmic mind.
BRIGHT METALLIC SILVER: Receptive to new ideas; intuitive; nurturing.
DARK AND MUDDY GREY: Residue of fear is accumulating in the body, with a potential for health problems, especially if grey clusters seen in specific areas of the body.
GOLD AURA COLOUR: The colour of enlightenment and divine protection. When seen within the aura, it says that the person is being guided by their goodness. It is divine guidance. Protection, wisdom, inner knowledge, spiritual mind, intuitive and thinker.
BLACK AURA COLOUR: Draws or pulls energy to it and in so doing, transforms it. It captures light and consumes. It usually indicates long-term animosity (toward others or another) collected in a specific area of the body, which can lead to health problems. Entities within a person's aura, chakras, or body indicates past life hurts such as unreleased grief, from abortions for example, if it appears in the ovaries.
WHITE AURA COLOUR: Reflects other energy. A pure state of light. Often represents a new, not yet designated energy in the aura. Spiritual, etheric and non-physical qualities, transcendent, higher dimensions. Purity and truth; angelic qualities.
White sparkles or flashes of white light indicate angels are nearby. Also this can be an indication that the person is pregnant or will be soon
EARTH AURA COLOUR: Soil, wood, mineral, plant. These colours display a love of the earth, of being grounded and is seen in those who live and work in the outdoors such as construction, farming, etc. These colours are important and are a good sign.
RAINBOWS: Rainbow-coloured stripes, sticking out like sunbeams from the hand, head or body indicate a Reiki healer, or a star person (someone who is in the first incarnation on Earth).
PASTELS: A sensitive blend of light and colour, more so than basic colours. Shows sensitivity and a need for serenity.
DIRTY BROWN OVERLAY: Holding on to energies and indicating insecurity.
DIRTY GREY OVERLY: Blocking energies.
The Seven Bodies of a Human
The Etheric Body
This band is the closest to the physical body and replicates organs and physical structures. Any imbalance in the etheric band will manifest at the physical level. Clairvoyants see this band as a blue or blue-grey web of energy moving closely around the physical body.
Sacral or Second Chakra. If you feel "spaced out"; are unable to maintain personal boundaries; are experiencing poor physical coordination; discomfort in crowds or in other places where there is a lot of sensory input; healing is slower than usual; or an increase in minor illness or infections, you are experiencing imbalances in this band of energy.
The Emotional/Astral Body
Extending past the etheric band, this band of energy also follows the physical shape of the body. However, unlike the etheric band, the emotional band has no fixed structure. It is multi-coloured and changes according to our mood. This is typically what is seen by those who can read emotions and moods.
The Mental Body
The mental band is usually seen as bright yellow. Your thought patterns are within this band. This body records the reactions of the emotional body and contains your core beliefs. Any time your core beliefs are in conflict with what you are experiencing will lead to an imbalance. Working with the Solar Plexus or the third chakra and the third eye or sixth chakra can help balance the mental body.
The Astral Body
This band is the outer most band of the individual personality. This is the last band before what is perceived as "I" connects with the universe. It resembles the emotional band, but the colours here are soft and more subtle. This band acts as a container for the individual personality. It filters and tones down universal energy so that you don't become overwhelmed by it all. If there are problems or imbalances in this band, you can become confused and have difficulty determining what is real. At the opposite end, if this universal energy is filtered and toned down too much, you begin to feel isolated and lack direction in your life.
Higher Mental Body
Higher mental body is that part of you that can carry out abstract thinking, such as mathematics, analogy, astrology, numerology, geometry, encryption, symbolism, to name a few. Creativity and imagination can also be connected to the higher mental body, provided the creativity is real and not just repetition of something learnt. The higher mental body allows you to see connections that are not obvious and is not strong in most people. Most people do most of their thinking using the normal mental body, and habitual/routine thinking. The higher mental body is developed using perseverance and study of things such as ‘philosophy’, ‘scriptures’, mathematics, physics, or indeed any topic that the individual finds ‘engaging’ and yet, mentally ‘challenging.
The Intuitive or Buddhic Body
This is a universal, intelligent life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of us as very deep wisdom. It is the “inner self.” We can without a doubt, access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuitive or Buddhic Body, which is an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given time or moment. It is also an aspect that can “know” things without prior knowledge. It is also an aspect which is faster that your consciousness. It is beyond reasoning or thinking of a person. It is more a state of “being” rather than activity.
Many people are not accustomed to being consciously in touch with their intuition and imagine that it is something very mysterious! They think that this must be a force that has to come to them through some great mystical experience! This is true and intuition is very practical, down to earth, a natural part of us and is recognised as a tool that is always available.
The Buddhi is global and trans-dimensional. Insights that provide increased awareness of something, without additional accumulation of facts, require Buddhi. The experiences of Buddhi are visions of ‘angels’, ‘other worlds’, ‘hearing God’, feelings of overwhelming ‘onenesses. In today’s world we unfortunately are too busy to balance the various demands of our lives hence do not get any time to give any thoughts to our conscious awareness of Buddhi. Accessing the Buddhi also requires the individual person to temporarily cease focussing on their ‘attachments’ and ‘habitual thinking’. Buddhi is like seeing air, you can only feel it. People who seek oneness with the Buddhi will spend years meditating, and learning how to simplify their lives so that they stop focussing on their own habitual thinking, and instead develop an awareness of stillness and space within their own awareness.
Those who have access to their intuitive bodies, and live their lives accordingly, report increased awareness of the universal laws that operate our creation, and report that life and creation are run on cycles. The intuitive mind seems to have access to an infinite supply of information, including that we have not gathered directly through personal experience. Intuition can tap into a deep and vast field of knowledge and wisdom- called the universal mind.
The seventh body has been called Atman or the individual soul.
Many people think of God as being ‘up there’ in heaven. We are down here in our world and God is elsewhere. Others believe that God is also ‘down here’, surrounding everything and keeping us company. Hindus go a step further than this; they don’t just believe that God is here, surrounding us but believe that God IS everything: everything that exists and appears IS God, taking shape as different forms. In the epic Hindu poem, the Mahabarata, it says, “I am the taste in the water, the rays of the sun and moon. I am the sweet fragrance of the earth, the brilliance of fire. I am the life in all beings”.
Hindus call this God, Brahman, which Westerners translate as “the Supreme Spirit’ and, this Supreme Spirit is believed to make up everything that exists. Hence, the Upanishads say, “This whole universe is Brahman”. Hindus call this Supreme Spirit, that dwells within all beings the Atman, or ‘True Self’. Thus the Upanishads state, “This Atman within my heart is that Brahman”.
Sometimes, when people write about the Atman, they simply refer to it as ‘the Self’ (with a big ’S’). Moksha-Liberation is this Atman or ‘True Self’ which passes from life to life until the process of reincarnation is brought to an end. In the Upanishads it says, “As the embodied Atman passes in this body, from boyhood to youth and to old age, it also passes into another body at death”.
The final goal of Hindu religious practice is to dissolve the Atman into the Brahman and break the cycle of reincarnation or ‘sansara’, this dissolving is called ‘Moksha’ or ‘Liberation’.
How does it feel when you dissolve the Atman into the Brahman?
In order to dissolve the Atman into Brahman and achieve Moksha, Hindus need to do two things:
Recognise that everything that makes up their world is Brahman.
See beyond the ‘self’ and recognise the True Self or Atman.
Recognising the world as Brahman
Recognising that everything is Brahman is similar to seeing everything as being made up of atoms or particles; if you do this for long enough, the appearance of individual ‘things’ disappears.
Seeing beyond the ‘self’ and recognising the Atman
If you keep looking ‘underneath’ your thoughts, a sense of spaciousness arises.
When the mind hangs onto thoughts about external forms and people, remember they are all merely particles; when it is simply filled with thoughts, look underneath them at the space in the mind.
The Seven Chakras System
Within the physical body resides a body double, a spiritual body, which contains the Chakras. These are the centres of activity that receive, assimilate and express life force energy. They are responsible for the person's physical, mental, and spiritual functions. They absorb and transmit energies to and from the universe, nature, celestial entities, from people and even from things.