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THE Seventh Chakra

Asana, Pranayama, Mudra, Bandha.

Sahasrara Chakra.

Sahasrara is not really a chakra but is the experience of the quite end of God's Mind - Peaceful Awareness, no thoughts, the Zen "No Mind", peace and calm. When the Mind is quiet, calm, and peaceful then God makes Himself very well known in the chamber of our Hearts - the heart (fourth) chakra.

In yogic and tantric philosophy, the universe comes into manifestation by the separation of the two forces:

SIVA - SINGLE AND AT REST. Pure consciousness symbolized by the Seventh Chakra.
SHAKTI - DIVERSITY AND CHANGE. The creative and active part of God's Mind - the Creation and all the various and diverse experiences and communications that take part in it. Time, space, matter, creatures, universes, scenerios, planets, races, and so on. All the appearances of "living and dieing."

In essence they are emanations - expressions - of one and the same source, which is God - which is Eternal and Infinite Love.

Siva and shakti represent the extreme ends of full spectrum of God's Mind.

Siva - all peaceful, tranquil, serene, at rest

Shakti - all happening, movement, change, variety, diversity and communication.

Consciousness is the static force and nature is the dynamic force. First, nature separates in three gunas or qualities tamas (inertia, lethargy), rajas (activity, energy) and sattwa (equilibrium, balance, peace).

The three gunas pervade the manifested universe. From them evolve the eight elements of nature. Manifestation proceeds in order from subtle to gross, from the ego, buddhi, etc., to fire, water and earth. Earth, being the most gross, is therefore the last to evolve. When the subtle man becomes gross and visible the process of creation is complete.

"Thus we see that the five lower chakras are related to finer elements progressing up to ajna which is the subtlest. The highest center, sahasrara, is the abode of pure consciousness and gateway of transcendence."

Which means that when the mind is tranquil, then we realise the source from whence it came - God.

"Matter and energy merge into pure consciousness in a state of intoxicating bliss, the goal of yoga."

Which means that the source of God's Mind is realised as God and this is realised as our Universal and True identity behind the "stage of life", behind the play of "siva (energy) and shakti (matter)", behind this "Appearance of Mind (The Creation)."

Everything is realized as being ONE. The delusion of separation is finished.

"Having attained this, the yogi gains supreme knowledge and passes beyond birth and death."

Which means, that once we remember our REAL AND PERMANENT IDENTITY AS GOD, our UNIVERSAL SHARED SELF, then we have realised ourselves as the DREAMER OF THE DREAM and not the dream. All this birth, living, and death is happening in the dream, in God's Mind of Infinite Imagination ("I" - One, "Magi" - Magic, "Nation" - realm, homeworld.)

When we regain our Real Identity, then we have no doubts as to the nature of the Creation (chakras 1,2,3,5,6) and the Nature of our Authentic Self (Chakra 4).

THIS CREATION IS ALL A VAST HALLUCINATION. BEHIND IT ALL IS GOD WHICH IS PEACE, LOVE AND BLISS ETERNAL.