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Sahasrara (Sanskrit: सहस्रार, IAST: Sahasrāra, English: "thousand-petalled", with many alternative names and spellings) or the crown chakra is considered the seventh primary chakra in Sanatan yoga traditions. The chakra is represented by the colour violet.
Lexically, chakra is the Indic reflex of an ancestral Indo-European form *kʷékʷlos, whence also "wheel" and "cycle" (Ancient Greek: κύκλος, romanized: kýklos). [10] [3] [4] It has both literal [11] and metaphorical uses, as in the "wheel of time" or "wheel of dharma", such as in Rigveda hymn verse 1.164.11, [12] [13] pervasive in the earliest Vedic texts.
30–100 Hz vibration activates receptors of the skin, tendons and, most importantly, muscle spindles. Muscle spindle discharges are sent to the spinal cord through afferent nerve fibers, where they activate polysynaptic reflex arcs, causing the muscle to contract.
Tantric Chakra: Description: Temple: Location: Symbol: Sahasrara (Sanskrit: सहस्रार,Sahasrār) Above head Amarnath Temple/kailashnath Temple Anantnag/Kailash Ajna (Sanskrit: आज्ञा, ājñā) Brain directly behind eyebrow Natarajar Temple: Chidambaram: Visuthi (Sanskrit: विशुद्ध, Viśuddha) Neck region near spine
Manuscript painting of a yogin in meditation, showing the chakras and the three main channels (nadis) of the subtle body. A small serpent, symbolising the Kundalini, climbs up the central sushumna channel; she will pierce each chakra as she climbs. When she reaches the head she will unite with Shiva; the yogin will then be liberated in his body.
Anahata (Sanskrit: अनाहत, IAST: Anāhata, English: "unstruck") or heart chakra is the fourth primary chakra, according to Hindu Yogic, Shakta and Buddhist Tantric traditions. In Sanskrit , anahata means "unhurt, unstruck, and unbeaten".
The term is derived from Ecclesiastes 12:6-7 in the Jewish Bible or Christian Old Testament.. As translated from the original Hebrew in The Complete Tanakh: [4] "Before the silver cord snaps, and the golden fountain is shattered, and the pitcher breaks at the fountain, and the wheel falls shattered into the pit.
The bindu rises up this channel, through the chakras and reaches the crown chakra, whereupon the practitioner can purportedly achieve nirvana (van Gulik 1971: 342). Although Vajrayana incorporated older Buddhist and Hindu thought, the "conception of the coitus reservatus supplying a shortcut to complete enlightenment was an entirely new element ...