We have a Third Eye

Thursday, 26th of January 2023

We have a Third Eye.... 

🔱🔯   The third eye is found in many faiths, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Jainism. What is this third eye or called “Lalatakshi”? Has anyone got it?

🔱🔯   In Hinduism, the third eye is the “Aggna Chakra”(Aajna), which is said to be located around the center of the forehead, just above the eyebrow junction. Hindus place a “Thilaka” between the eyebrows, representing the third eye, which is seen to be associate with religious beliefs associated with lord Shiva.

🔱🔯   He is known in the literature as “Thriambaka, Thrinethra, Thriaksha” where his third eye symbolizes the power of knowledge and the detection of evil. His eye is represented by three horizontal lines in the middle of his forehead. 

Lord Shiva and his third eye

🔱🔯   Hindus believe that if his third eye is opened, everything caught in it will burn. It is said in the Hindu deity stories.

🔱🔯   It is said that the third eye is the ability to see objects or living things that are not visible to our natural eye.  According to the Hinduism as well as the philosophy of Lord Buddha, it is the development of the mind through meditations.

🔱🔯   To take the mind to a higher level, deliverance from sin. As we know, its highest step is the Enlightenment known as Buddhahood.

🔱🔯     Located deep in the center of the brain, the Pineal gland was once called the third eye. The Pineal gland produces Melatonin, which helps maintain the body’s rhythm and regulate hormones.  Awakening this third eye does not mean getting as external eye, but awakening another sensitivity, sensation in addition to our normal senses. Responding to unusual events in the environment.

🔱🔯   Great Monks called Arahath or Sovan, who are capable of performing miracles in Buddhism, are the ones who have activated this third eye.

🔱🔯   As described in medical science, literature reads that the third eye is a position in the middle of the eye brows. It has been revealed that this nervous points of human body called “Nila”, has the ability to control the nervous system and blood circulation of the body.

🔱🔯   It is accepted by the doctors that pressing this points increases the body’s immunity and strength. 

So what really happens to us when we open our third eye?

• We become aware of the field of energy.
• We realize we are not just bodies, minds, and emotions.
• We can access planets of higher consciousness.
• We discover that peace, love and joy are not found outside of us.

The 7 Chakras in Hinduism and the purple "Aggna Chakra"
symbolizing the third eye

Thank you…!   💛💛💛

Blog by - Chathuranga Lakshan Perera 

               ( Undergraduate at University of the Visual and Performing Arts - Faculty of Music)