Chapter 7The System of the Chakras · The Throat Centre

(3) the throat centre for the externalising or physical mind.

The thousand-petalled lotus is above the head. It is the seventh and highest centre.

Usually those who take the centres in the body only, count six centres, the Sahasrara being excluded.

* It is evidently the sahasradala padma through which the higher intuition, illumined mind and overmind all pass their rays.

* The sahasradala commands all between the ordinary mind and the supermind — therefore its opening necessarily takes long. But opening by itself only creates a connection or communication — to dwell in that centre, one needs to have overpassed the mind and be able to live mainly in the spiritual self.

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