Integrating Ancient Wisdom in Modern Life: Five Senses
- Purpose of life is to search for the self, then why are five senses directed towards outwards? Animals need the five senses to survive and humans need them for self-realisation. So till the animal five senses are mandatory to go out and for human beings five senses are mandatory to move inside. As senses are absorbed in the heart, reach the centre of the lotus. Now we need a different plan for evolution to realise our consciousness.
- When one shrinks the senses inside one is preparing oneself for counter birth, counter evolution. It is called Kundalini Awakening.
- The term “Kundalini” comes from the Sanskrit word “Kundal,” which means “circular.” It also refers to a coiled snake. It sits at the base of your spine, sleeping and unaroused.
- Kundalini awakening is practised in yoga to activate this energy and elevate it from the base of your spine to the crown chakra. Kundalini enables our growth process.
- When Kundalini energy moves towards Prikriti, it will give birth, create a world, and death. When it moves towards Purusha it moves towards self-realisation Deathlessness. It’s a journey from death to deathlessness.
- Yogis said that human beings have three main streams of energy, which they called nadies, ida, pingala, and sushumna.
- Pingala can be defined as the dynamic, active, masculine, positive, yan energy within our personality. Ida is the energy within the personality which is passive, receptive, feminine, negative, yin. It is a fact that when two opposing forces are equal and balanced a third force arises. Unite body and mind and a third force called sushumna, spiritual energy, arises.
- It is the goal of all yogic techniques to balance and harmonise ida and pingala, life force and conscious awareness, so that they join at third eye chakra to create the inner light of knowledge and bliss and reveal the truth.
- Chakra is a seven step personality program for self mastery. These three chakras: Root Chakra, Sacral Chakra and Solar Plexus Chakra are called lower chakras. Because it is connected with will power, pleasure and survival. It is also called animal chakras. Till here all our five senses are moving outwards. Still not ready for counter evolutions. These chakras: Heart Chakra, Throat Chakra, Third-Eye Chakra and Crown Chakra are called upper chakras. Because it is connected with love, truth, insights and cosmic oneness. From here we start thinking of self evolution. With the help of these chakras we start shrinking our senses inside for counter evolution.
