“Open your Third eye Chakra in 11 Minutes” the ‘experts’ claim!
Do not accept anything to be true until you have experienced it to be so. Let the best books, quotes and finest thoughts be not your Everest, but the starting point of your enquiry, of the quest to find the ultimate truth.
If meditation won’t make you rebellious, nothing will. We need more people like the little boy in the emperor’s clothes. Not afraid to tell the honest truth. A ‘dwija ’ or a ‘twice born’ is the the one who has smashed all mental conditioning. One who has expanded and kept going.
The brain is as if kept inside the box of useless google searches and ‘expert’ guidance. “Chakra healing”, “Chakra Balancing”, “How to open your Chakra”, “A beginner’s guide to the Seven Chakras”, “What are the Chakras” What are Chakras and how do you Unblock them.” What a circus.
Throw the encyclopaedia of chakras into the garbage bin. You do not have to KNOW ABOUT them, knowing them through direct experience is key, not theory. Memorising and storing ‘spiritual’ data is of no use. It may help you impress people, gain some fan following, but you and I cannot carry it to our graves.
To really know about the chakras, meditate, first ask if its real and then find it out yourself. Go on a quest. Ask questions. Start with doubt and you’ll end with answers. To find your way out of the maze, have the courage to walk the road less travelled.
The only two books I would recommend reading to understand chakras & kundalini are:
- The Serpent Power by Arthur Avalon
- Kundalini by Om Swami
The goal is to find the ultimate truth, not to roast chakras. Chakras are not Horcruxes, and you are not Harry Potter.