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   People are basically under the illusion that what they experience as their personal self or ego has a center or vector as I call it. All of our senses with the exception of the skin, and even our head has sensitive skin as well, are centered in our head. Our thinking is in our head, and so as we experience our person or sense of personal self it seems to be vectored or centered in our head or brain. This centering along with our thought processes is experienced as “me”, or “I”, and seems to be very real.

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   Additionally, along with this sense of self or person, we seem to be able to direct this personal self with it’s thought, considering this, rejecting that, moving from the past to the present and back to the present, maybe to the future in thought and back to the present, and so forth.. So we experience a mental flux of sorts, moving mentally through time experiencing thoughts about whatever we are sensing, remembering etc. But, is this mental state of me real? We have a physical body that although is a particular way at a given point in time, changes, ages and literally decays over time despite our best efforts at delaying this decay through fitness, diet, etc. So although we know there is some mental decay given then person, is the thinking state of a person or the personal self altogether aloof from decay, or is it even the real state of being it seems to be?

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   Speaking from the point of view of someone with a Kundalini in post ascent descent, I can categorically assert that the ego or personal self is not what it seems to be, is not really a valid or real entity or being at any level, and the seeking to transcend this illusion should be ones major quest in life.

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   The Ajna Cakra is known as the cakra of the mind. Most “New Age” followers know of it as “The Third Eye”, blatantly dismissing its mundane functions of mental control, while yogis know of it as one of the primary upper cakras, the sixth cakra in ascent from the lower five beginning with the Muladhara. Essentially the Ajna Cakra is the spiritual or psychic center where the impulses from the lower six cakras culminates; this ‘Culmination’ is accomplished via two primary psychic circuits called the nadis, described in my cakras/nadi/prana series, the Ida and Pingala Nadis. In fact, this entire schema of nadis and the Ajna Cakra are represented in the model of the Caduceus, the well known medical symbol that shows a type of winged structure with two snake type structures winding down from the winged form. This winged form is the Ajna Cakra, each side of the wings representing the two receiving sides of the Ajna as it is illustrated in tantric lore, and the winding forms resembling snakes are the Ida and Pingala Nadis. Why this structure was chosen as the medical symbol of Hippocrates is unknown, nevertheless it is without a doubt the Ajna Cakra/Nadi complex. I use it to simply illustrate the interconnection of the Pingala and Ida nadis as they connect the lower cakras with the Ajna. In fact, where the snakes intersect as they wind up is considered the juncture of each cakra.

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   This lower cakra nadi structure in intersecting with the Ajna is responsible for our sense of ego self. As the divine Mother Kundalini descends down the Citrini Nadi from Her abode in Sahasrara, She brings the Consciousness of Siva into the centers of the cakras, both forming the cakra bindu centers as well as emanating from them, flowing up the Ida and Pingala nadis, bringing the requisite cakra karma into the Ajna Cakra mental field of the person. Hence, the constant pranic flow of “vrittis”, the Sanskrit word for thoughts, come continuously into the mind as the senses interact in that same mental center. Meditation, one of the most famous of the yogic techniques for inducing awakening or assisting in Kundalini awakening, is done by centering the vrittis within the head, ultimately literally “stilling them”. In fact, one of the primary verses of Patanjali’s “Yoga Sutras” says, “the stilling of the mind or stoppage of its thoughts is Yoga”.

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   So meditation is accomplished primarily by ceasing the thought modalities that’s flow into it, creating the mental ego or person, and when ceasing or stoppage is accomplished through higher yoga practice, how this system of vritti or thought flow from the cakras is experienced by the yogin, thus revealing what actually gives a person the sense of a real person or self, with will and so forth. So the realization that a person’s experience of personal self is nothing more than vritti flow controlled by the Kundalini’s pranic flow from the cakras, can be experienced, as this flow can be interrupted and literally turned on and off like a light switch.

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   When this thought flow is interrupted for prolonged periods of time, awakening of the Ajna Cakra begins, and can begin Kundalini awakening. This awakening begins the experience of genuine higher spiritual realization, which is very discernible and very real. With this realization also comes the realization and understanding of how the ego or person is not a real thing or true phenomenon, as the Higher Self begins to dominate ones ego mind with the Higher Mind.