Secret of 7 Chakras & Third Eye | Sadhguru

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The longing to break
away is in vishuddhi, agna and sahasrar. If energies move into vishuddhi,
you can become enormously powerful. If energies move
into sahasrar, simply you're ecstatic. Agna is called as the third eye. Once your energies
touch agna, you are intellectually realized. Third eye has been elaborately established
as an energy form. Voiceover: Namaskaram, Sadhguru. I started
meditating ten years ago, and after a few years I could see my third eye, a perfect
eyeball. Is it real or am I hallucinating? Sadhguru: Now, this needs to be understood.
What is referred to as the "third eye" is not necessarily another eye like this,
okay? It is not. It is just that... You know, there are... there are, okay... um... In the
pranic system, we talked about those 72000 nadis. These 72000 nadis have 114 important
junction points in the body. Like, you know, in this building the electrical systems are
running. There are many junction points where major meeting of connections are happening.
There are 114 junction points in the body. Generally these are referred to as "chakras."
The word "chakra" literally means a wheel but these are not in the form of circles or
wheels, they always meet in the form of a triangle. The nadis always meet in the form of a
triangle and the whole Yogic systems depends on what you do with them. So, out of these
114, 7 are held as the major junction points. So, these are the seven chakras that everybody
is normally talking about. They are in certain... located in certain parts of your body.
These are muladhara, swadhishthana, manipuraka, anahata, vishuddhi, agna,
sahasrar. Muladhara means the foundation. This is a center which is... physically or
physiologically, it is located between your anal outlet and your genital organ. It's
called the perineum medically. If your energies are dominant in your muladhara, food and sleep
will be the two major qualities of your life. They will be the most important factors in your
life - food and sleep. If your energies are dominant in your swadhishthana - which
is located just above your genital organ - here, you will be a pleasure seeker.
Pleasure does not necessarily mean sex and things like that - you're somebody who wants
to enjoy the world. That's dominant in you. So, a person who is a pleasure seeker, he
lives little more intensely than a person who is living just for food and sleep.
Yes? So, these are just different levels of intensities of life. As the intensity increases,
your ability to experience different dimensions of life moves from one area of life to
another. If your energies move into manipuraka or if they're more dominant in manipuraka, you
are a "doer" in the world - you wanna do things. Maybe you're a businessman, maybe you're
a politician or something where lot of doing is needed, you know, you're a doer. If
energies move into anahata, this is the creative center, you become a creative person. Maybe
you're an artist or at least you have tendencies. Maybe you didn't make it in the Hollywood
but you know, you're... you wannna create. More than simply eating and sleeping
or seeking pleasure outside, you would like to do something, there is creativity in you.
A person, let's say, an artist... generally their lives may be considered little freaky
for other people, but they experience life little more intensely than, let's say,
a businessman. Yes? It's a different level of intensity. The word "anahata" means unstruck
- this is the un-struck sound. This is the meeting between the lower and the higher.
All your survival instincts are in the lower three chakras. Self preservation is
in manipuraka, swadhishthana and muladhara. The longing to break away from all this and go
away beyond is in vishuddhi, agna and sahasrar. Anahata is the meeting point. So, anahata,
the symbolism is two triangles meeting. You've seen that, the Star of David,
everything comes from anahata, okay? That is the symbol for anahata. Two upward moving
and downward moving triangles meeting because these are two different dimensions of
life - one is catering to self-preservation, another is catering to the longing to
go beyond. In your head and your heart, you have longings to go beyond but in
your body, you have longings to preserve. So, if energies move into vishuddhi - it's a
power center - you can become enormously powerful, very powerful individuals. When I say "power," not
necessarily physical or financial or something. People can be powerful in so many ways.
Just the very way they stand, some people are powerful, some people are not, isn't
it? Yes? See, don't have to do any action. You make ten men stand here. The very ways
(way?) they stand, some men are powerful, some men aren't. Isn't it so? It's not necessarily
because of their activity, just the way they are. They don't have to pose for anything, just simply
the way they are, there is power about them. If your energies move into agna, you are
intellectually realized. You see things clearly, you see everything the way it is. Once
you begin to see everything the way it is, you are at peace. So, agna is called as the
"third eye" because you see things the way they are. With... these two eyes are very
deceptive. They make you see things the way it is necessary for your survival. They don't
make you... allow you to see everything the way it is. Once your energies touch agna,
now you're seeing things the way they are - everything, the way it is. Now, that is
why it is referred to as a "third eye." Sahasrar is the seventh chakra, that
is not in the body, just outside the body. For most people, it is dormant - it is not
active. If some sadhana comes into your life, if you activate it in a certain way
or because of a very intense way of living, it can become active. If energies move into
sahasrar, you will become unexplainably, unreasonably ecstatic - simply, like crazy, you're
ecstatic. If you come to the Bhava Spandana, you will see, simply for no reason, you will
be spilling in ecstasy. You just don't know what's happening. Just... no external reason,
simply you're ecstatic. Simply because your energies touch sahasrar. From
muladhara to agna, there are many pathways as to how to get there, any number of methods
and teachings as to how to reach there. From agna to sahasrar, there is no path.
If you want to move from agna to sahasrar, because there is no path, that is the reason
why many people have gone about propagating, "Peace is the highest thing to achieve,"
because they got stuck here. So, from agna to sahasrar, there is no
pathway. This is the fundamental reason why there is so much stress on a guru in the
traditions. Because, if you have to jump... suppose there is here... a black hole. If you have
to just jump into it, you must be utterly crazy or you must have extraordinary kind of
courage. Or you must trust somebody so much that if he says, "Jump," without any problem,
you will jump. Otherwise, there's no possibility, isn't it? Because that possibility is not
there for many people, that's the reason why they have concluded "Peace is the
ultimate thing" because they got stuck here , they wouldn't go up. About seeing a form of an eye
is simply because certain... certain systems... certain systems of practices made a whole
imagery about it. These images were not just drawn on paper, they established forms
of it. This is a whole science by itself. In India, this is called as the science
of consecration. In the Yogic traditions, this science of consecration can be taken
to such peaks, any form you want you can consecrate it and make it a reality. Right now,
let us say, I want a fierce dragon established energy wise. Now I will ese... establish
a temple for a dragon and if you go there, you have a deep experience of the dragon
because the energy form of the dragon is like... alive, like a real thing. Because this science
of consecration is such, any form that you want, you can consecrate it and make the energy
hold that form. So, deities were created for different purposes. Whichever kind of form
they wanted, they created it. So, like this, people created different kinds of imagery
for the sake of sadhana, So that people could make use of it. It is not a... it is not
that... that's the way you have it but it has been established in many traditions, third
eye has been elaborately established as an energy form. If you happen to come in touch
with this somewhere, you may begin to see it. But these are two different kinds of Yoga.
There is something called as "Right-hand Yoga" and "Left-hand Yoga." In the Right-hand
Yoga, there is no imagery. Right now, what we are offering to you is that - no
imagery. We don't use any kind of imagination. Because once you go on imagination,
you must be in constant care of somebody who knows what is what, somebody
who is capable of taking away the images when it is no more needed. Otherwise, you
won't know where is reality and where is imagination. You will just fly off into imaginary
states very easily. So, here we are using a path of pragna where there is no imagery,
no imagery at all. Just use yourself to grow. Maybe it is not as colorful as that but it's
more steady, you don't get lost. You know... if you take a step forward, you know it.
If you take a step backward, you know it. There, you will not know but it's very
colorful and exuberant ways. We also do that but not with, you know, large groups of
people like this. I also very much do those kind of things but not with large groups
of people because people will fly off into imaginary states so easily.