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THE AJNA CHAKRA

The Ajna Chakra.
A DESCRIPTION FROM:
THE KUNDALINI YOGA SYSTEM OF SHAKTISM.

Image and Description.
Deities.
Table of Aspects.
The Ajna System.
Further Associations.

Image and Description.

The word Ajna means "command", in the sense of the Guru's command (spiritual guidance). The Tantric Ajna or Brow chakra has two petals, is associated with the tattwa of Manas or Mind (not to be confused with the Manas-Chakra), which is beyond even the most subtle elements (although still part of embodied existence).

It is said to be white in colour. More recently in Western occult and New Age thought the Ajna chakra has been identified with the "third eye" (eye of psychic vision), and other such concepts not found in the original Tantrika system.

The Ajna Chakra.

The Ajna chakra showing the two petals, the itara-linga
(the upraised conical object in the triangle), and the Pranava or Aum.

Deities within the Ajna Chakra.

The Ajna chakra
with Hakini shakti in the center.

Table for Ajna Chakra 6.

Terminology	Tantric	ajna, ajita-patra, ajna-pura, ajna-puri, ajnamhuja, ajnapankaja, jnana-padma, dwidala, dwidalambuja, dwidala-kamala, dwipatra, bhru-saroruha, triweni-kamala, netra-padma, netra-patra, bhru-mandala, bhru-madhya, bhru-madhyaga-padma, bhru-madhya-chakra, bhru-mula, shiva-padma
	Vedic (late Upanishads)	ajna, bhru chakra, bhruyugamadhyabila, baindawa-sthana, dwidala
	Puranic	ajna, dwidala, trirasna
Position		externally, eyebrow-region
Petals	number	two
	colour	white, lightning-like
Matrika-letters	on petals	two in number: Hang Kshang, arranged from right to left
	colour	white, golden, variegated, shining
In the pericarp		power Hakini
Concentration form of Hakini		Hakini is moon-white, white, a mixture of white-black-red, dark-blue, or red in colour; she has one, two, three, four, five or six laces; six faces of red colour; three-eyed; six-armed, holding a book, a skull, a drum, and a rudraksha rosary, and making the gestures of granting boons and of dispelling fear; holding a rudraksha rosary, a drum, a skull, a book, and a bow, and showing the mudra; holding a skull, a spear, and a shield, and making the gestures of granting boons and of dispelling fear; two-armed; clad in red raiment with the white upper garment; seated on a white lotus
In the pericarp above Hakini		a triangle
Within the triangle		Itara-linga
colour		moon-white, golden, red
Above Itara-linga		a triangle pranava (Ong) [=AUM] in the triangle
colour		moon-white
Above pranawa-bindu		subtle manas (manas 2) (in bindu pitha)
Above Manas 2		nada (manas chakra)
colour		shining white

The Ajna System

Further Associations.

Although Tantra often refers to the Ajna Chakra as being located in the brow region, the implication is that this is its external manifestation, whereas the actual position is in the middle of the brain behind the brows. I differ from this conventional explanation in positing a front (descending) and an internal "Ajna" centre, as well as the back-of-the-head (ascending) centre.

In Taoism, this primary chakra in the centre of the brain is variously referred to as the Square Inch [Secret of the Golden Flower, p.25], the Heavenly Heart [Ibid], the Crystal Palace [Mantak Chia, Awaken Healing Light, pp.222-223], the Upper Tan Tien, the Original Cavity of the Spirit (Yuan Shen Shih) or the Ancestral Cavity (Tsu Ch'iao) [Taoist Yoga - Alchemy & Immortality, pp.5, 9, etc]. As with the other mid-line chakras, the Ajna is not a Chi-energy chakra, part of the ch'i circuit or microcosmic orbit, but a subtle consciousness centre, located along the laser line or Sushumni nadi that extends from the Perineal (the lower or yin polarity) to the Crown (the upper or yang polarity). It constitutes the central focus point or governing centre of the other head chakras.

The Brow Chakra corresponds to the eleventh or 772.0 Bode position. There is no planet known in this orbital, although the 20th century alchemist Frater Albertus locates "Adonis" here [The Seven Rays of the QBL, p.40]. The reason why he puts such a "personal" myth-symbol in such a position (past Pluto, the Underworld), is not stated. His association of Adonis with Pisces, and transferrence of Neptune from Pisces to Taurus [Ibid, p.45], seems to be very difficult to go along with.