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Active Heart Chakra (Published in Speaking Tree of TOI on May 04 2019)

All human beings have the capacity to expand their consciousness and be able to love unconditionally. Our consciousness is capable of thinking beyond our biology. Animals don’t think beyond their biological needs such as hunger and procreation. All of us are gifted with the power of creativity. We can think, explore and create. Through expansion of our consciousness, we can go beyond the realms of the material/physical world that we are living in. We are provided with an intuitive power, intelligence within that can explore answers to every ‘why’ and for this we need to be in an inquiry mode.


All answers and required knowledge is within us. Each individual is like a university with abundant wisdom within her. The information that is not available within is available abundantly in the universe, in what we call the Knowledge Space, KS. When we go beyond intellect, we can access KS. This is possible when we move beyond body, mind and intellect and focus on the Spirit. However, many of us do not use this intelligence that we have within. Our superconscious mind, which is a part of consciousness, remains suspended and dormant.


Superconscious mind has the power to expand our horizon. What normal eyesight cannot see, and a conscious mind cannot think and visualize, the superconscious mind can see through the third eye. Activation of the crown chakra can provide all the spiritual answers that may not be available in books, scriptures or universities. It can be activated by harnessing the intuitive power through consciousness. Only if we are aware of this capacity to expand, can we consciously use it for enriching ourselves.


Enlightenment and wisdom are within us. All they need is a trigger. Similarly, we have the capacity to expand love. We are capable of providing infinite love that cannot be gauged or measured. But our natural ability to love gets restricted when it’s overshadowed by selfishness, ego and greed. The attitude of ‘what is there for me’ imposes limitations on the blossoming of this love within. Our natural instinct is to be compassionate and provide selfless love, but our materialistic mind develops a ‘barter mentality’; people who overcome this, experience the highest form of love.


They experience the supreme joy of giving. Loving selflessly and abundantly is a divine feeling, and supersedes all the other best feelings we have. It gives ananda; through this ananda, we activate the heart chakra which has the capacity to multiply our positive emotions and that has a permanent healing effect on body and soul. It also helps create a happy and positive state of mind. 


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