Seventh Chakra - Sahasrara

[paul linus]

Sashasrara chakra is like a prism, refracting the universal energies of the higher chakras into the separate energies of the body chakras. The seventh chakra is not located within the physical body, but above it. The element of this chakra is consciousness itself. It is our awareness, the thing within each of us that observes the experiences of the body and mind, yet is separate from it. It is this expression of the self, as it is understood in Eastern philosophies, that is continually reborn in recarnation.

 

[Nil Thapliyal]

The seventh chakra is connected to the pineal gland, which is a small cone-shaped projection out of the mid brain. In humans, this gland usually develops until the age of seven. It is roughly the size of a pea, but in some yogis, as reported by Swami Gitananda, the gland can grow to the size of a robin's egg.