Anja 06

Anja
To Know or To Command

This chakra, your ‘third eye’ is associated with the part of your mind that is beyond the subtle elements, in general this means ‘consciousness’. This is a place of neutrality and balance, where you can see beyond your ‘normal’ two eyes. This is ‘true’ knowledge, where ‘power’ emanates from. The insights gained from working with this chakra are the understanding of the past, present and possible future. Once attained it represents one of the highest states of awakening.

There are only two petals and because this chakra represents a higher state the psychological states are not defined.

The Aspects of your chakra
Overactive: your thoughts get scattered and move very quickly, sometimes making no sense, this prevents serious meditation. It can also move toward arrogance and the blurting out of ‘perceived’ knowledge just for the sake of doing so. Also it’s like getting bombarded with the thoughts of others, if it’s open enough. Also it can lead to ‘false prophets’ or a belief in anything esoteric whether grounded or not.

Under active: lack of understanding, in general especially in the realm of that which is spiritual and healthy. This can also affect your memory; cause your judgment to be impaired and headaches.

List of Correspondences
Location: between the eyebrows
Bija Mantra: Sham
Seed Letters: (on the petals) hang. Kshang
Plane: Plane of Authority

The Deities:

Ardhanarishvara: shiva-shakti: Balanced polarity. In this photo we see a culmination of all the symbols we have covered previously, also to include the standing on the demon. This is to overcome your lower/base self in order to ‘rise’ spiritually.

Mantra:
Prapanca srsty unmukha lasyakayai
Samasta samharaka tandavaya
Jagaj jananyai jagad eka pitre
Nama sivayai ca namah sivaya

She dances to create the world, wile he dances to wind it all up, She is the mother of the Universe, he is the only father. I bow down to Shiva and Shivani
(ardhanarishwara stortra)


Hakini Shakti with her many arms and heads give us the understanding of universal awareness of the male/female, light/dark, causing these ‘dualities’ to disappear and become one universal consciousness.


Yoga

This is for both the Anja and the Sahasrara Chakras. In doing the reaserch on this I found several ‘interesting’ postures, so since this is a beginner level; I would just suggest sitting lotus position with hands folded. Though I did find this picture, and really liked it so I will include it here.


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