Hrdayam, the True Heart to the right of the sternum, not a chakra.

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Dear Ranjit,

 

In the Katha Upanishad and Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and Ayurvedic ltturature are

mentioned a center, which is not a chakra, but the seat of consciousness, the

Self of all. From here the Infinite Being eminates and lights the body with the

sense of "I am" consciousness, i.e., the awareness of being. All the 72,000

nadis derive their light or sense of consciousness from this point, with the

result that we have the notion that "I am the sensations of the body" and "I am

the body." This Center, within the 1/8th portion opf the heart to the right of

the sternim, is a synod or pacemaker, which gives the pulse to the physical

heart. One major nerve, the major right vegus nerve rises from this Center to

the crown chakra. The nerve is known as atma ("I") nadi, amrit ("necter") nadi

and para ("beyond") nadi. It pulses with the sense of "I as I" and fills the

mind with consciousness, in which thoughts and impressions appear, much like the

frame by frame images of a movie film are animated by the light in a projector,

with the result that we think "I am these thoughts and images.

 

The sense of "I" within the conscious awareness is so strong, that the mind

automatically builds up an identity around the images of the mind in association

witht he sensations of the body, such that the brain and entire body becomes

encoded with patterns of thought, images and impressions of who and what one is.

 

In Ayurvedic medicine, this center is listed as "samvit" which is to say

consciousness. It is also known as the Solar Orb and the Sahasrara - the Lunar

Orb.

 

The Hrdayam (Heart) is one of the 2 main areas in the Yoga Sutras mentioned as

a place to meditate, i.e., the Hrdayam - the heart (not the anahata chakra, as

some think), and the Sahasrara - the crown.

 

It is also called the "One Star" (or Ik Tar), because it has both a

gravitational effect of sucking in and dissolving all thoughts and images built

around an idea of identity, leaving over only the single pervasive and soundless

pulsing of "I as I." When this pulsing begins, which yogis call "atma sphurana"

(pulsing of the Self), all the nerves of the body begin to churn with a

vibration matching this one nerve between the Hrdayam and Sahasrara. "Hrd"

means literally "That which sucks in everything.Ayam" means "This is the

Place or Center." In most religions, this center is considered to be the

Highest Temple of God, including Christianity and the Sikh Dharma. In Buddhism,

there is a Sutra desicated to the describing of this experience of the Heart

called the Heart Sutra.

 

The second aspect of the Ik Tar (One Star) is that of blazing light, which is a

radiance of consciousness that outshines the body mind, like turning up the

light in a movie projector. In the case of the body as a projector, there are

the aspects of seeing the whole spectrum at once.

 

With the opening of this Center, the subconscious begins to dissolve, so that

the yogi abides in a awaking sleep state called jagrat-sushupti. This is not at

all a dull state as in sleep, rather to be clear and awake without thoughts or

impressions, in a pure intuitive force of intelligence of that aspect of the

mind, in which the atoms of thought and images are assembles that constitute a

dream image, but now the waking state, is seen as though a dream. As yogi's

continue in this state, they also become fully aware in the deep sleep or

unconscious state.

 

All the chakras open, including the chakras along the gold cord from the ajna

chakra to the crown within which can be heard certain sounds and seen certain

images, such as the moon, sun, and others. The yogi abides beyond these, as the

light within which all these appear, in his/her True Self, as One with the

Infinite Being. This 4th state beyond waking, dreaming and deep sleep is called

Turya.

 

With the regular practice of KY, as taught by Yogi Bhajan, the body begins to

fill with a sense of radiance that penetrates through and beyond the body field.

This radiance is of a higher frequency than thoughts and images and sensations

of the body, and in time, the mind becomes electromagnetically still and pure

(satvic ether). Within that satvic nature, which at first is felt as pure bakti

(devotion to pervasive feeling of God, as the higher chakras open) rises a

discriminative intelligence that turns the reflected consciousness in the brain

to reflect purely its source of light in the Heart (the Hrdayam - Ik Tar). This

force is so strong that no other images can arise. You abide as the "seer."

 

The "I" of one's sense of "I" awakens and at once puts aside and relinquishes

the false identity of the "I" to thoughts and images of the mind and sensations

of the body. All concepts are dissolved and burnt up with a radical force, and

the whole body fills with light. This awakening is called "hearing" in all

religions or "sunia" - the Sikh religion, "sravana" - the Hindu or Vedas and

Vedanta. Hearing gives way to "rememberance" (or reflection/contemplation also

"manana") and rememberance dissolves into "perfect abiding" (also "niddidyasana"

or in Buddhism - "Mahamudra").

 

Prior to this hearing, there is the impression within the mind that there is an

"I" (we call ego) that is making an effort as a doer, thinker, planner to

achieve a union with a higher consciousness. After this "hearing," there is the

clear knowledge that there is no duality, no separation, and all ideas of

separation and unity are only concepts having no meaning to the reality of the

non-dual experience you abide in - a pervasiveness of single uncaused

unconditioned undifferentiated being within which everything appears from the

grossest to the most subtle planes, without any sense of attachment or attention

whatsoever.

 

As the mind is pulled in and dissolved in the One Star, the atoms of the body

begin to polarize automatically, flowing upwards like a pillar of light. All

the doors open themselves, all the lights light themselves. The nadis fill with

light that flows into the moon and sun channels along the left and right sides

of the spine, and that light penetrates through the spine and out the top of the

head, while the atmanadi and the 2 poles the Hrdayam and Sahasrara radiate

incadecently without the slightest interest of the abiding single pervasive

being in the process of the body's illumination.

 

As you abide in This Pervasive Light of (as) your own Self, automatically, like

Mercury rising in a baromiter as the atmospheric pressure increases, a light,

sometimes like a multicolored flame, comes up the through the crown. As the

sense of consciousness deepens the light rises through the throat, the top of

the head opens completely and there is a sound that fills the consciousness of

"wha."

 

Like taking a journey, going back home, what's called for is simply a daily

practice (alone or with a group) and occasional group intensive practice, as

well as the occasional reading of scripture in which this non-dual experience is

described, like reading to an amnesia victum about memories of who they are, and

all the rest will happen by itself.

 

The True Self will "hear" and begin to recollect Itself out of the stupor of the

mind, and you will abide transfigured - or as Yogi Bhajan once said describing

an experience he had in his morning sadhana (some 30 years back at the Prues

Road Center), the "light of a million suns." That is the True Light that lights

each of us, and we begin to feel It penetrating in and through the atoms of our

bodies and images of the mind very soon after we start to practice Kundalini

Yoga.

 

Hope this dispells the idea of secret chakras and centers.

 

Pieter

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Wed, 09 Apr 2003 18:41:16 -0000

"ranjit kaur" <ranjitk

Re: a few questions (Now: secret chakras)

 

Sat Nam!

 

Do you have information about the 2nd "heart" chakra, the pink one along the

women's arcline between the nipples? I am interested in gathering research on

this. Thanks!

 

Ranjit

 

P.S.: Hello all -- I've been in and out of town lately and reading the list on

instead of accepting emails so I'm a little behind on responding to

everyone. I really like the posts about the Roots of Yoga! Wahe Guru!

 

 

Kundaliniyoga, "Gary Blaze"

<serpentpower@m...> wrote:

 

There are two other chakras located in the forehead above Ajna. Manas, which is

sometimes refered to as the seat of individual consciousness, and Indu,

sometimes refered to as the seat of intellect/creative intelligence. Even though

they are seperate chakras, they are considered to be connected with Ajna.