The Yoga-kundalini Upanishad, part of the Krishna Yajur Veda, describes the process of progress and experience through the awakening of the Chakra with sixteen petals called Anahata. These chakras are believed to be psychic centers of consciousness and a way to connect with the divine. By bringing awareness to these vortexes of energy, we can awaken to our higher states.
The origins of chakras can be traced back to ancient Hindu philosophy, with the concept of chakras being discussed in the first written records of Indian mystic philosophy, the Vedas. The Upanishads, which originated in India between 1500 and 500 BC, mention the concept of chakras as “psychospiritual vortices” and describe them as a small glow inside the heart. Anahata is the seat of the subtle prana or Jivatman (Parashakti) and is associated with the heart.
The Maitri Upanishad (6.21) mentions the Sushumna channel, which is central to the chakra system. The chakra system originated in India between 1500 and 500 BC, with evidence of chakras found in the Shri Jabala Darshana Upanishad, the Cudamini Upanishad, the Yoga-Shikka Upanishad, and the Shandilya Upanishad.
The Anahata Chakra, also known as the Navel chakra, is located along the spinal column close to the navel and slightly below the solar plexus. The Brahma Upanishad and the Yogatattva Upanishad are the major chakras that we recognize today.
In summary, the Yoga-kundalini Upanishad, along with other texts, provides a comprehensive understanding of the concept of chakras and their role in the human energy system. Through meditation, individuals can awaken to their higher states and connect with the divine.
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What is the best explanation of chakras?
Eastern traditions and Western biofield therapy suggest that chakras need balance for optimal body-mind connection. Blockages or depleted energy can lead to physical and emotional symptoms. The seven main chakras in Hinduism and Buddhism are believed to run along the spine, starting at the base and extending to the head’s crown. Some postulate at least 114 different energy centers in the body.
Does God talk about chakras?
The Bible does not explicitly mention the chakras or energy, which may seem like a cause for concern. However, it is important to note that the Bible is not the only source of information about God’s creation. It also shares God’s promises in the world. The Bible was not intended to be an exhaustive text describing the intricacies of God’s creation. However, we can find concepts like the “breath of life” in Genesis 2:7, which refers to the vital life force or life-giving energy. This highlights the importance of considering the Bible as the Word of God and not as an exhaustive description of God’s creation.
What is the chakra of the Buddha?
The Wheel of the Law, or dharmachakra, is a significant Buddhist symbol representing the Buddha’s First Sermon in Sarnath, where he initiated Buddhist Law. The statue has a height of 49 inches, a width of 38 3/16 inches, and a depth of 11 13/16 inches, and its weight is approximately 2063 pounds. Its weight is approximately five pounds. The item is situated in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand, and is attributed to the Phra Pathom Chedi National Museum.
Are chakras scientifically true?
Chakras, or energy centers, are believed to be vital centers of energy in all humans, according to yoga and New Age practices. These energy vortexes, not visible to the human eye, are essential for our development and health. Karla Helbert, a licensed counselor, yoga therapist, and author of The Chakras in Grief and Trauma, views them as invisible energy organs with functions that impact all parts of the whole.
How to activate 7 chakras according to Vedas?
The practice of yoga, through the performance of specific postures (asanas), can facilitate the activation of the human body’s chakras. This, in turn, can promote balance and harmony within the body. The specific asanas that are believed to have this effect are Tadasana, Veerabhadrasana, Setu Bandhasana, Mudras, Root Chakra Chant (LAM), Sacral Chakra Chant (VAM), Solar Plexus Chakra Chant (RAM), and Heart Chakra Chant (YAM).
How do you explain chakras to someone?
Chakras, an ancient Sanskrit word meaning “wheel” or “cycle”, are believed to be spinning wheels or circles that flow life energy through. In balance, these chakras allow life energy to move through them, connecting individuals to the world around them. There are seven main chakras along the spine, from the base of the spine to the crown of the head. Chakras provide subtle energy that helps organs, mind, and intellect work at their best. Although not thoroughly examined in medical studies, they can help individuals think about their own mind and body like any religion or belief.
Does Buddhism believe in chakras?
In Hinduism and Buddhism, the concept of chakras is central to the understanding of the human body as a conduit for spiritual energies. These energy centers are believed to facilitate the intersection of these energies, which are thought to play a crucial role in the spiritual and emotional well-being of an individual. The Sanskrit term “chakra” is derived from the word “wheel,” and its etymology is reflected in its visual representation as spinning wheels or discs. The interconnection of these energy channels facilitates the transfer of energy between different locations, thereby promoting overall well-being.
What religion focuses on chakras?
Chakras, believed to have originated in India around 1, 000 years ago, are mentioned in ancient Hindu and Buddhist spiritual texts like the Vedas and Yoga Upanishads. These beliefs were later integrated into various systems of healing and spirituality, such as Ayurveda, yoga, Hinduism, and Buddhism. These systems focus on the flow of life energy through our bodies and the universe, and the use of chakras is believed to help connect with this energy.
Yoga uses breath and movement to bring energy into the body, while Ayurveda uses herbal medicine and meditation to open and balance chakras. Chakras gained popularity in the West in the 1960s-1970s as part of alternative spiritual movements, including psychology, complementary medicine, and spiritual practices.
What do the Vedas say about chakras?
The term chakra first emerged within the Vedas, representing the influence and power of a king who “turns the wheel of his empire” from a center. The iconography popular in representing chakras traces back to the five symbols of yajna, the Vedic fire altar. The Rigveda hymn 10. 136 mentions a renunciate yogi with a female named kunamnama, which may be a reference to kundalini shakti and a precursor to the terminology associated with the chakras in later tantric traditions.
Breath channels (nāḍi) are mentioned in the classical Upanishads of Hinduism from the 1st millennium BCE, but not psychic-energy chakra theories. Three classical Nadis are Ida, Pingala, and Sushumna, with Sushumna being the central channel. These channels were introduced in Buddhist texts as hierarchies of inner energy centers in the 8th century CE. Later Hindu texts such as the Kubjikāmata and Kaulajñānanirnaya expanded the list to many more.
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Consciousness and the Mind-body problem appears as one of the most difficult theories in philosophy. But Swami …
Consciousness is realising existence while being self aware. Just like how you have awareness so you move your body as per intentions, if there is no awareness there s no movement its only a dead body. nature also moves by certain intentions due to consciousness. Gyana is about understanding its ways
What I am aware of, is that I am unaware of all the healings which start when I am injured…UNLESS I can see or feel the damage. So I, my self-aware consciousness, will know nothing of such happenings and so my body, heals itself without MY conscious knowledge. Programmed to do so, But NOT by me. Not by MY self-consciousness. These things happen daily inside me, on my back, in many unseen bodily places. This “subconscious” activity indicates a “duality”, WITHIN this being called “me”. “I”, have no knowledge of what’s going on and how to repair. So “I” reason, “I”, am not the body, But AM, a part of it. Thoughts, I see as not solid, not physical. When my physical body sleeps, I am still “alive”, But conscious in another realm, still “me”, But in a different dimension. No pain, but all the emotions. I learn there. Talk with people, just like here. Am I out of body, elsewhere, because I often remember having to leave “there”, to return “here”? That’s when I awake. This must happen to all humans and maybe animals also. We don’t know all that surrounds us. What our senses allow us, through sight, sound, touch, is so little of what is being discovered. Even with added technologies, we only recognise about 0.5% of light, sound and touch. So let no man say “he knows”, because even the knowledge of it will need much learning before understanding is gained. Be humble with each other.
Universal Consciousness has 8 aspects. Store consciousness which house’s all information as seeds. Mind/body consciousness the ground and soil in which seeds in store consciousness surface take root, and return. (3/7) The five sense organs. eyes,/seeing,, tongue/ tasting, ears/hearing, nose/smelling, body/touching, are 5 individual aspects of consciousness. (8th) manas/ego mind the personality the I/me that falsely believes its a separate entity/self and the producer of the other 7 senses.
Swamiji, Can you please explain the consciousness from the view of bhuddhism (Sanskrit Tradition) because bhuddhism doesn’t believe in a independent soul which is Anatma theory. Bhuddhism explain various levels of consciousness with the combination of Shunyata ( emptiness) and Pratitsamupada ( interdependence)… 🙏🙏🙏
I am ” a consciousness” like an ocean, and my body is like a fish swimming in it. Water is all around me, the medium through which I pass. The water flows in the gills of the fish, all the gills of my fish go through… and the ocean is one. I experienced and felt what I went through from a different perspective. As evidence to erase all memories in our bodies, leave only the consciousness, then connect our consciousness, and feel who we are??
I’ve always thought of conciousness as a radio wave and the DNA is the antennae reciever while the brain is the signal processor. Every cell is inductively coupled except for the red blood cells because their job is to circulate iron throughout the body to create the bodies magnetic field which connects all of your cells to your body and your bodies magnetic field connects to the earth’s magnetic field. The source for all the energy in our solar system is the sun which in turn is inductively coupled to the magnetic field of the solar system and gets its energy from the galactic super sun.
Consciousness is domain of the ego. Good luck with any answers about consciousness. Ask truly and truth will correct all errors you ever made. No teaching can ever explain it or pass it on. And to sustain the knowledge part of us that feels needs to be free from mind’s control. That is the hard part. There is more knowing bellow than that which comes from “the above”
So convenient Conciousness cannot be known without body effectively saying we dont know anything apart from feeling it so why insinuate it exists at all !!! Its simply Fallacious And for those who were impressed by the light and hand example: The image of the hand tells us two things together ..the hand and the nature of light Seeing what doesnt change when you use a different light or different object further tells us what the two things are separate from each other By analogy alone if you think about it understanding conciousness is not the same because light has energy and many more very testable properties and saying that conciousness reflects onto us and other farfetched claims bring us no closer to knowledge and so far there is no evidence of such a thing Assuming from the start that there is a soul and something utterly undeniably divine is a clear and straightforward case of Begging the question Starting with an assumption and molding experience to fit it.
Rune K Svendson, That’s my understanding. So we are part of God, all of us connected energies/ consciousness. Born pure with free will. Over time through various experiences and level of interests, temptations, understandings, environments, prosperity… we identified with,, we grow furthet apart from our true self; pure consciousness / God. Then, the ones aware of the unpleasantness and tiring outward focused life wakes up and search for the truth within; (as Jesus said …. that the kingdom of God is within you) and are able to succeed finding a joyful life on earth, before the body dies. There are amazing books, you’tubes if you are interested to discover the GOD given power within yourself. With the grace of God. Here are some of the books… scientists I learned from: Bruce Lipton, Joe Dispenza, Gregg Braden, Michael Singer, Gary Zukav and many more amazing resources.
This doesn’t really do any justice on explaining consciousness. He is simply dogmatically stating that consciousness precludes mind and body, but not offering any alternate explanations on why that may be the case. Like there is no reason we are really conscious in an anesthetic or comatose state, when the brain is minimally functioning. The light metaphor doesn’t show how consciousness precludes mind/body. It just is another oversimplified analogy for a puzzling problem that is anything but simple.
Thank You Sir 🙏🙏. I was going to ask you a follow up question but I think you have already asnwered it. Q. Is my counciousness different from yours ? – When I saw the light (Conciousness) reflected from your hand and shiny head – at the same time – I got my answer: – It is the same all prevading conciousness but manifested differently – it manifests differently in hand and head for example. That begs the question though. Can consiousness of itself make inanimate objects animate ? or does it need assitanse of aything else – Superconciousness Perhaps ?
Prespective of quantum physics, we are a Quantum Universe which exists everywhere to which no law of physics applies. If we try to relate something to the law of physics,then this word is wrong (one thing is present everywhere and no law of physics applies) Thinking is a state of consciousness. No law of physics applies to thinking. Thinking means, experiencing.work of consciousness. We are being experienced from the prespective of consciousness. Death is no such thing, meaningless event. After death ? We will find overselves in the whole universe as consciousness. Because, thinking is a state of consciousness. At the moment we are experiencing through this body. Creation has no meaning without experience. Prespective of consciousness whatever is happening is happening in nothingnes. Past present future running in nothingness. Because, no law of physics applies to consciousness. The Universe (form of creation ) is experiencing itself. ________________________________ Whatever happens in the world is at the will of humans. Our prayer are fulfilled through God,this too is the thinking of humans. Prayer=form of think Thinking is a state of consciousness. Please recognize your thinking ability. Religius prespective, when we pray (form of think) our think present entire universe at the present moment. Because, God is present everywhere. No law of physics applies to God, thinking Please recognize your prayer ability.
Virendra Bagde Replies to your points 1. First thing we need to understand is that what you claim as logic or proof is limited by your senses. To conclude that which you cannot perceive does not exist is ignorance. For example, you have never seen a black hole but will you dare to say black hole does not exist? 2. If consciousness is a product of the brain. How do you explain phenomena such as Near Death Experiences(NDE) and memories from past life. Please do some research on them. There is scientifically documented proof about people seeing actual real things which there body could not have been in NDE. Even people who are blind from birth were able to see things in near death which they have never seen before. Reading upon NDE literature might make you change your mind. 3. Please read about Eben Alexander who is one the foremost neuro scienctists in America. He had a rare spinal condition which made him go into a coma for several days. He was brain dead but he had an amazing near death experience. He now believes consciusness exist outside the brain. He has written a book called ‘Proof of Heaven’ on it. I am sure he has more knowledge about neuroscience and medicine in general than you. 4. There is a new scientific theory(link below) which states your consciousness is a extra dimensional field around your brain and not in brain itself. This is what hinduism has been saying for ages. But you would just mock that. But I am providing you scientific theory below. I am sure if the white man comes with a theory, you would not have the guts to mock it right?
I try to keep an open mind.. And to each their own with one’s beliefs.. But something irked me with this one. He’s “teaching” consciousness like it’s an economics class, with such certainty .. and an underlining preaching of just a simplified theory of the spirit, another way of meaning the soul, the age old life after death, absent the mind and body. How do you prove it? With Faith? In consciousness? 😕 Weird. I dunno, I need a nap!👆
Very good explanation.Thanks swamiji. Reminds famous mantra as Kim Jyotistav bhanumanhani me ratroiav pradipadikam. From Atmaswarup kathanam And yadananda rupam prakash swatupam nirasta prapancham paricheda shunyam. Aham bhrama vrutaik gamyam turiyam, param bhrama nityam tadevaham asmi. From swarup sandhansm by Great Shri Shri Adi Shankaracharya.
Consciusnesss is like the sun, it shines on all things and exist regardless if its noticed or not, the mind however is the connecter that recognizes the conscious, the vibration of ones being decides if the messages recieved is of higher causation or lower, attention is what makes us choose to entertain.
An interesting quick snippet on an involved topic. I was curious to know how he would attempt to define consciousness. Probably we miss a prior important part in the article. He seem to start with “what he says is there is a consciousness in you..”. ‘Consciousness’ is metaphorically shown as ‘shining sun’ that shines over the mind and body. I am curious to know how one would define such a ‘glowing sun’. What do we mean by it? I can guess a few answers which I am not happy with. One such answer could be “it is an abstract concept which can’t be defined”. Alternatively, one may say “we can only experience it but can’t be articulate it”. Or we may say definition of it is not compatible with science or with philosophy rooted in reasoning because it is beyond human senses. I accept such answers in Kantian sense, that there is a limit to human reasoning (going back to Kant’s ‘Critique of Pure Reason’). However, I am uncomfortable that such definitions are also non-falsifiable.
Consciousness exists that’s why life exists. Consciousness exists everywhere around us. It also got captured in us. Source of all pervading consciousness is also same. Exactly why the same consciousness is working in everything and everyone but expressing in different ways. Exactly why every human being is different despite the fact that same consciousness is resides in that individual.
You are correct. For some unknown reason, at least to me, it can collide into you. No amount of wishing or praying can bring it about. I think you’re right in saying that the post death state could be this. I think so too. I “went” through this long ago once and it never came back. Everything is this one thing which includes the thinker. It is as you say, nameless just like us. Our names are our parent’s labels for us. While in this state, it becomes known. As this thing, you become non cumulative knowledge. Just as time and space are infinite, one becomes this infinite, non cumulative knowingness. As a living, mortal and organic being, we spend our lives accumulating information in our brains, ending up more clever or less clever according to what we’ve accumulated. That’s why some people become plumbers and others particle physicists. This process stops with this collision. It’s like a never ending, ever burning sun. We call this God. Like J Krishnamurti said, the word is not the thing. It doesn’t judge or care about anything, and doesn’t want to reward or punish anybody for anything. It’s true however, that it is pure love. This love is also like the static knowledge that I mentioned earlier. It is unlike the love we know here. Parental love, love for your partner or dog and so on. It smothers, annihilates and engulfs you completely. You become it and it becomes you. When this “happens” you cannot understand it because understanding is what we do here. That is not to be understood.
I have had the feeling of being perusal and you turn and someone is there perusal me. Also many times I’ve had Deja Vu. I’ve had knowledge come to me from nowhere which turns out to be true, like predictions. And my wife has had several dreams where she dreams of someone she has never met, and then met that person weeks later. Unrelated, but also cool, I’ve seen a time traveller appear from flashing bright light on the ground. We are all conscious beings repeating the real world, and return home after we pass. Oh, and if I could share a prediction, I think there will be a very important shocking speech made 25.12.2021 that will change the way we all live.
Now I understand that what the shloka tells about jagatmithya There is only ONE CONSCIOUSNESS this is the ultimate truth and the CONSCIOUSNESS himself created nature and all that. From that CONSCIOUSNESS there is personal consciousness present in the body and the personal consciousness is incomplete conciousness.The aim of life is to be the complete the incomplete conciousness. CONSCIOUSNESS is brahma,atma,satya, ब्रह्म सत्वं जगन्मिथ्या जीवो ब्रह्मव नापरः।
Have no clue why YouTube recommended this. I paused the article right after playing it to review my own perceptions so far in life as I’m approaching 60. Then started the article expecting to hear BS. And it all made sense. Can’t say if it’s true. Just that it makes sense to me right now. Also noting that it does not tell us what consciousness is. Just how it relates to body and mind.
5 points 1. Consciousness Is 1:59 not a part of body and mind 2. Consciousness pervades and illumines the body and mind 3. Consciousness is not limited by the body and mind 4. Consciousness can be known in the functioning of body and mind 5.Without the body and mind Consciousness can still exist, but cannot be experienced, known Example:- light and light falling on hand Jai swami sarva priyananda Maharaj❤🌹🙏
There is the certainty that there is something rather than nothing (Being), and there is the certainty of Awareness/Consciousness. Being is one without a second, and therefore does not have any parts; even though there is an apparent diversity of objects, not has it’s own independent existence apart from Being. Since Being is One, without parts, and Awareness is certain (I know THAT I am, even if I don’t know WHAT I am), we reach the conclusion that Being is Aware. Not just some of Being, for it is undivided, formless. The entirety of Being is Aware, Awareness is the entirety of Being. The Awareness that you truly are is the entirety of the One Being, God, Brahman. You are That 🙏🏻
Yes indeed, Deep Yoga Jeff agrees from the perspective of no nonsense spirituality. Sat Chit Ananda Sat = Existence (whether something is in the existence is another matter) Chit = consciousness,( what he is talking about here….whether something is in the field of consciousness or not) and Ananda = Joy or Bliss…. It’s also there whether we partake of it or not…. Sat Chit Ananda is a definition of God as the universe and in and beyond the universe….. A 30,000 year old term … Satchitananda Best to you all
2:23 – Swami says that without the presence of the mind and body, consciousness cannot be known. But surely this goes against what we read in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, where it says that when all the vrittis of the mind stop, then the self (pure consciousness) can be known to abide in its svarup, or in its “own nature” can someone please comment?
Swamiji I am slay man, not knowing Vedanta . Today on TED I heard lecture by David Chanson on conscious . As per talk conscious is not an object, it may be a fundamental ( not any entity ) non comparable to gravity, electro magnetism etc . But they do not accept as Brahm pervading every where and Santayana . Hinduism opinion as sanatan and pervading every where should be presented . Pardon me if something written excessively 👏 Kiran
Humble thought for further contemplation: And the ‘OBSERVER’ (i.e. that which is our true unseen eternal essence/self/I… (imagine for a moment a drop of water seperate and made unique through its experiences but yet part of and oneday returning to the whole; that is the ocean!) – which is for the most part or fully overshadowed/substituted/forgotten during earthly cycles of bodily life by the powerful,conjured up, domineering, delusional ego; aka ‘not real self/me, myself, I’ etc) is where in this schematic?…Could it be before or superior to the part shown as consciousness? {Rhetorical} Consider.. …”I know I am conscious therefore ‘I’ am”…
Consciousness is eternity knowing and loving itself, it is eternity knowing itself due to consciousness being an eternal ” in the now ” reality that knows no change or deterioration. To love yourself is to ” know ” yourself because you can’t love yourself if you are not conscious of yourself so love and self are concomitant. Knowing it’s eternal nature is the self’s ontological nature and love is it’s dynamic nature.
the hand is there not only to experience the light,hand is there to experience the designing of the hand,purpose of the hand,usage of the hand to experience more things and everything…..CONSCIOUSNESS PURPOSE IS NOT TO EXPERIENCE ITSELF BUT CREATION OF SOMETHING WONDERFUL CALLED LIFE,TO NOT FORGET THAT CONSCIOUSNESS CREATED DEATH(ILLUSION)…
The feeling of ” I “, such as, “I am” or “I exist” are the proofs for consciousness. Naming consciousness as “Chaitanya” or “Chith” are mere words. When a baby is born, it has only natural urges like, hunger, sleep and excretion. Only after a couple of months, the baby begins to feel that itself is an entity, and someone (say, the mother) protects it. As the baby gets growing, it develops the consciousness such as, “I am” as the focal point and all other things as “things external to her / him”. Therefore, it is clear that there was no consciousness at the time of a baby’s birth (except for the natural urges). Consciousness develops as the child grows, in order that, only with consciousness, the brain begins to relate things. Without consciousness, the brain won’t grow. At the early stage, the brain lets the consciousness to grow, and the brain itself depends on the consciousness to grow at later stage. So, mind and consciousness are the products of the brain and they won’t exist without the brain. Examples can be quoted according to our convenience, like the clergy quoted “hand, light, sight”. But, the word is not the thing.
In Raja Yoga swami vivekananda explains that subconscious is our reflexes such as that makes us to react when mosquito bites, and consciousness is our judgement our analysis, and focus most of his time to explain super consciousness and samadhi. I didn’t understand why these people make the things so complicated out of nothing. Moreover, how he can prove the similarity between hand and light with consciousness ? Sheo Singh IIM