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Sahasrara. Sahasrara (Sanskrit: सहस्रार, IAST: Sahasrāra, English: "thousand-petalled", with many alternative names and spellings) or the crown chakra is considered the seventh primary chakra in Sanatan yoga traditions. The chakra is violet in colour.
The national flag of India, colloquially called Tiraṅgā (the tricolour), is a horizontal rectangular tricolour flag, the colours being of India saffron, white and India green; with the Ashoka Chakra, a 24-spoke wheel, in navy blue at its centre. [1][2] It was adopted in its present form during a meeting of the Constituent Assembly held on 22 ...
The Ashoka Chakra (Transl: Ashoka 's wheel) is an Indian symbol which is a depiction of the Dharmachakra. It is called so because it appears on a number of edicts of Ashoka the Great, [1] most prominent among which is the Lion Capital of Ashoka. [2] The most visible use of the Ashoka Chakra today is at the centre of the Flag of India (adopted ...
Svadhisthana chakra with the ocean of samskara, the moon of bindu chakra, the sky from anahata and the stars. Svadhisthana is located two finger-widths above the Muladhara chakra (Sanskrit: मूलाधार, IAST: Mūlādhāra, English: "root support") or root chakra which is located in the coccyx (tailbone).
Lexically, chakra is the Indic reflex of an ancestral Indo-European form *kʷékʷlos, whence also "wheel" and "cycle" (Ancient Greek: κύκλος, romanized: kýklos). [10] [3] [4] It has both literal [11] and metaphorical uses, as in the "wheel of time" or "wheel of dharma", such as in Rigveda hymn verse 1.164.11, [12] [13] pervasive in the earliest Vedic texts.
The position of Manipura is stated as being behind the navel. Sometimes a secondary chakra called Surya (sun) chakra is located at the solar plexus, whose role is to absorb and assimilate Prana from the sun. Being related to the sense of sight, it is associated with the eyes, and being associated with movement, it is associated with the feet. [6]
In the centre is a navy blue wheel with twenty-four spokes, known as the Ashoka Chakra. 1947–1950: Flag of the governor-general of India: Dark blue field emblazoned with the royal crest (a Tudor Crown surmounted by the lion of England, itself wearing the crown), beneath which was the word 'India' in gold majuscules. Similar to flags used by ...
Ajna. Ajna (Sanskrit: आज्ञा, IAST: Ājñā , IPA: [ˈaːd͡ʑɲaː]), brow[1] or third eye chakra, is the sixth primary chakra in the body according to Hindu tradition and signifies the unconscious mind, the direct link to Brahman (ultimate reality). [2] The third eye is said to connect people to their intuition, give them the ability ...