Chakras: Sahasrara Chakra

By Stuart Sovatsky

Chakras: Sahasrara Chakra

The seventh or crown chakra, sahasrara is of such a spiritual nature that restrictions of time, space, and mortality are completely transcended. Sahasrara is the thousand-petaled lotus of holy effulgence, experienced as the light of ten million suns; "like mercury light kept in a vessel of silver. The thousands of convolutions of the brain appear like the luminous petals of a lotus," says the inwardly sighted yogi Vyas Dev.

Reverent awe, unremitting joy, and spiritual freedom are the qualities of the mystery in sahasrara, beyond even the highest of elements. The writings of the great mystics and saints describe and celebrate this realm of the erotic expanse where orgasm-as-adjective reaches the superlative, as in this passage by Allama Prabhu, in Ramanuj an, Speaking of Siva (1973):

Looking for your light, I went out:

it was like the sudden dawn of a million million suns, a ganglion of lightnings for my wonder.

O Lord of Caves, if you are light, there can be no metaphor.(p. 168)

KAIVALYA Chakras

When the nondual consciousness of ama is sustained in sabija-samadhi and then nirbija-samadhi, the crowning birth of kaivalya dawns in sahasrara. In the full liberation of kaivalya, the erotic mysteries of and after death open, as immortality takes on an awesome, crystalline reality.