Acharya Shree, what is the third eye?
3rd eye is very popular in yogic system. It is called ajna chakra.
Chakra means wheel. The energy moves like a wheel on this 3rd eye. 3rd eye is between your eyebrows.
And it is the center part of the forehead. Actually it is very difficult to explain what it is, but I can call it it is an inner eye.
Underneath when you focus yourself there all the energy from the body begins to rush towards that point and then the energy makes this warmness, this heat makes the energy move even faster.
So it goes, it is the passage, it goes to the consciousness. There is no other way because that is why 3rd eye is also called wisdom center.
Ajna means simply wisdom. It is the wisdom center. Person becomes wise when this chakra, this point which is called 3rd eye, is activated fully.
And don't be mistaken because if you will try to activate by yourself energy might go wrong. It might not go straight to your consciousness.
So you need to seek the guidance of a master. So if you will do under guidance, this chakra, this center, or this 3rd eye, the energy which will go straight to your consciousness.
And consciousness will be unfolded and revealed fully. You will see all the things like crystal-clear. So that's what you need to understand.
This is a very dangerous point, but it is the best point in the body. And it is, I will point out, it is right there. It is between your eyebrows and the center part of the body. Usually the indian ladies put the dot there.
And ajna, ajna is wisdom. You want to be wise, you just focus there. Concentrate there. And there is underneath a deep and very long tunnel.
And that leads you to your consciousness. But you have to have patience to open this chakra, open this point, the 3rd eye.
It is also called shivasya 3rd netram. The 3rd eye of Shiva. Shiva means consciousness simply.
Don't think about the Shiva person. No. Shiva means also in Sanskrit consciousness.
So 3rd eye will take you all the way to consciousness if you know how to concentrate, how to focus. The more you focus, the more you concentrate on this point, this point will get activated and it will go straight towards your consciousness.
And that is the consciousness, when I say consciousness means your soul, your aatma. So I say this is an eye of the soul.
And an eye of the soul will unfold all the mysteries. Whatever it is in your mind.
Because when I use the word mystery, mystery is in your mind. Mystery is not in the soul. Soul is fully crystal-clear.
Open. And it is just a light. And through the 3rd eye you can enter into it and you can see the truth.
That is the 3rd eye.
[Interviewer]: Acharya Shree, when other teachers say to focus on the 3rd eye during meditation, and they say that you see things, that you're supposed to see something, can you explain that further? Are you supposed to see something at the 3rd eye?
3rd eye, when it is somebody's concentrating on it, on this eye, it is because in our body there are many colors. Actually our body contains all kind of things.
Our body contains gold, our body contains silver, iron, colors, light, green, red, white. So actually when people begin to see when they concentrate and focus on this center, what heppen?
Because you're focusing there, the light which is spread, the color which is spread in our body, it becomes visible. So I still call it, it is like a little hope people get it. "Oh, I have seen something".
But it doesn't mean that it is you are going towards consciousness yet. It is still physical, it is not even mental. It is still physical.
But it gives you little hope. That's what people see it.