The Head Centre

Wisdom Teachings
The Centres

The Sahasrara is the point of highest consciousness in us; it is the centre of the thousand-petalled lotus at the top of our head. This highest centre is depicted as the seat of the absolute divinity, without any attributes. We cannot approach it directly and we should not get into the illusion that we can reach the Sahasrara consciousness just like that. However, we can meditate on the divine in this centre and imagine how the awareness and all the light emerge from there. The light expresses through the Ajna centre; it illumines our entire system with all its centres and guides our life. This daily contemplation makes us receptive for the impulses of the higher planes and fills us with the energies of the soul. Pondering on this information activates our awareness.

The wisdom teachings speak of three suns which we should associate with each other in our inner. The cosmic sun, Aditya, is located in the Sahasrara. The central sun, Savitri, lets the higher light pour in through the Ajna centre. And the sun centre of our system, Surya, radiates in the heart centre. Its golden light fills our body and penetrates beyond into our surroundings. In the heart centre we can visualise the Spiritual Hierarchy and how the Masters receive the Light from higher centres and distribute its healing energies over the planet.

In the Sahasrara centre we can meditate on the World Mother, through which the Father expresses himself. In the upper part of the forehead and in the Ajna centre we can visualise Shamballa, the hidden ashram, which is related to the head centre. On the planet it is located in the subtle etheric planes of the Gobi desert, and Sanat Kumara resides in its centre. We can ask for his blessing so that one day we can stand in his presence.

Within his forehead there is the beautiful gem of Chintamani. It is the jewel in the lotus, Mani Padme, which is worshipped with the mantram OM MANI PADME HUM. This jewel in the thousand-petalled lotus has the power of manifestation. However, in us this centre of Chintamani is in a state of deep sleep, and thus we think that it is outside of us. But we are this gem that is in this lotus and sheds light all over. It is not a light in the head but above the head. The thousand-petalled lotus means, it contains 1000 rays, which are so brilliant that they dazzle us. We can also imagine the thousand-petalled lotus like a parabolic antenna with 1000 sensors, via which we can capture what is beyond. If the other centres are properly aligned, they can receive the program of the Divine Will correctly.

The Sahasrara centre is the door between the macrocosm and the microcosm. The intelligences of this lotus don’t belong to the individual but correspond to the planets, the sun, the solar system and the cosmos. The soul that touches this centre would attain the state of omnipresence. Thereafter he comes down to help the younger brothers of humanity in their attempt towards liberation. When descending again through the same vertebral column as when ascending he illumines the surroundings within and outside on all planes of existence. A yogi who comes down from the Sahasrara as a unit of consciousness of the cosmos settles in the heart and lives as manifested love. By his presence, contact, speech, etc. he magnetises and illumines.

When we reach the Sahasrara we have no more individual consciousness; we don’t feel any longer as an individual, but as THAT which expresses through I AM: THAT I AM. While in action THAT acts; when in contemplation we are absorbed in Samadhi, THAT, without awareness of I AM. The shadow of I AM, the personality, is entirely filled with light.

For the Sahasrara as for the Ajna centre the sound is OM. But the difference is that the utterer raises the OM in the Ajna centre and then listens to it. In this state the utterer and the utterance are different from each other. In the Sahasrara this difference exists no longer. A block of ice swimming on the water is different from the latter, but when it melts there is just water. When we thus reach the consciousness of Sahasrara we enter into it and nothing else exists anymore. The mantram SOHAM is also connected with the Sahasrara, for it means I AM THAT. Other seed sounds related to the Sahasrara are “A” and “YAM”. The related colour is red. These vibrations help to raise the consciousness to the highest planes.

In the East the awareness of the highest planes is also called Saraswathi, the Divine Word which is located at the highest point of our body in the Sahasrara. In relation to the planet the lake Manasa Sarovar near Mount Kailash represents this oceanic consciousness. Its complete name is Brahma Manasa Sarovar and it is located near the highest altitudes of our planet. It says that in times immemorial the river Saraswathi flowed down to the planes to merge into the ocean in the area of the present state of Gujarat. Thus, in us the energy of Saraswathi also flows through the spinal column down to the base centre permeating all the seven planes. According to another picture Shiva receives at Kailash the cosmic waters of space, Ganga, onto his head to pass them on to the Himalayas, from where they reach the planes, making them fertile.

The entire sphere of the head centre is also described as the 7th plane or the 7th heaven, the most refined tissue of the human body. In relation to the planet this is also called, in the Puranas, Pushkara or the indestructible, holy land, the White Island which is surrounded by the crystal clear waters of the heaven in the area between the Ajna and the head centre. The highest beings of the planet live on this subtle island, and from there the other beings have emerged. The Holy Island in our Sahasrara is an indestructible energy, the spark of the spirit.

On the upward path of liberation from the body there is an exit point in the head centre via which we can ascend into higher realms. A vortex of energy over our Sahasrara also brings energies from higher circles into us. Thus, a teacher can listen to the higher impressions to be impressed by them. Through his words and acts of good will this impression is being expressed. He knows that he receives the inspiration from inside and expresses it outside. The teacher in him is Jupiter whose seat is in the Sahasrara. We can meditate on Jupiter in the Sahasrara to gain an expansion of consciousness. Jupiter is the teacher, even of the solar system; he stands higher than the Sun which expresses through the Ajna centre. The rulers in society are guided by the Sun. The wise men are connected with Jupiter; however, they are not the rulers. As long as the rulers listen to the good advice of the sages they receive the protection of Jupiter. In ancient times the kings ruled together with the sages when they wanted to be successful.

In the body the sign of Pisces governs the feet, but on the ascending path also the head centre. Thus, the highest Divine reflects in the lowest. In the wisdom teachings it says that the highest plane which we can reach is the lowest plane of the Divine. Therefore, reaching the Sahasrara is called reaching the feet of the Lord. In the east this has led to the practice of touching the feet of an enlightened person, a teacher or a master. In the marriage ceremony husband and wife touch the Sahasrara of each other, as an expression of the bond at the highest point of awareness, that through the marriage their contrary energies come to a union.

Sources: K.P. Kumar: Occult Meditations / Saraswathi – The Word / notes from seminars. E. Krishnamacharya: Spiritual Astrology. The World Teacher Trust - Dhanishta, Visakhapatnam, India.