Path to the Soul by Ashok Bedi

Author:Ashok Bedi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser Conari

THE SIXTH-CHAKRA DRAMA

Sixth-chakra people see the world beyond the physical realm just as clearly as they perceive outer reality with physical eyes, and recognize that individual existence is relative, part of a much larger mosaic of higher consciousness. Sixth-chakra people realize that we don't live life; rather, the larger design of nature lives us. They recognize that they are not the subject and the world the object, but rather the world and higher consciousness is the subject and we its mere objects and instruments. Individuals in the sixth chakra become aware that they are personally insignificant, yet tremendously important as the vehicles through which higher consciousness incarnates and actualizes its ends. They see their fragile, transient personal lives as one precious little piece in the divine, cosmic rhythm of life. Sixth-chakra people are most readily able the ride the contours of destiny.

Integrity, one of the attributes of the sixth chakra, carries the connotations of conscience, incorruptibility, soundness, completeness, and honesty. Ajna, the sixth chakra, is also associated with clairvoyance, vision of the inner workings and connections not visible to the “naked eye.” In the ida-nadi mode, perception without action is passive. The ability to perceive and visualize, however, also confers the power to establish those thought forms that manifest in the outer or inner worlds. Hence the dark side of the sixth chakra involves the visualization of possibilities not in accord with dharma. This can come about, for example, when individuals in the sixth chakra confuse and interchange the realm of personal insignificance and collective value. They are caught in mayic mode.

The karmic task of people misusing the powers of the sixth chakra is to recognize personal transience and insignificance. If they over-identify personally with the collective issues that must live through them, they become inflated as narcissistic individuals. Then they resemble the bank teller who confuses the huge sums of money for which he has responsibility with personal wealth. The inability to maintain ego integrity while holding such collective responsibility leads to despair, deep demoralization, and fragmentation of self—in short, to existential depression. Existential depression is the despair and depletion that comes from not knowing one's place or role on the stage of life and in the world.

The maya of the sixth chakra may be excessive involvement in community at expense of the true role one must play in the bigger picture of the community. These self-defeating personality disorders befall people who sacrifice authentic selfhood in service of a pseudo-affiliation with community. They then need to access the energy source of the fifth chakra to find their authentic voice (their svadharma) and to visit the realm of the seventh chakra to get a sense of their connection with the higher divine order (reta dharma) and find their true place in the life of the community.

In the sixth chakra, the mayic drama of leader (in the “hot” pingala nadi) and the follower (in the “cold” ida nadi) plays out in the mutual unconscious projection system linking them. The follower and

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