What is the third eye?

What is the third eye? How do you know if yours is open? How can you tell if yours is strong?

Without intending to make it too complicated I would like to give you a simple explanation of what the Third Eye really is and how one feels when one gets spiritually awakened.

WHAT IS THE THIRD EYE?

The Third Eye exists in all human beings in more or less powerful form(literally it is not an eye at all rather its is what we generally call as the 6th sense). The 6th sense is a powerful sensation that helps you to think and analyse beyond the other 5 senses (eye, nose, tongue, skin and ears). The Third eye is the awakening of the subconscious mind like for example, when we are asleep, all our sense organs may go to sleep but there is something that still keeps going on in our minds in the form of sensations, images, sounds etc. That is what we generally call as dreams (ideas concocted by our sub-conscious minds). The third eye becomes powerful when we lose our body consciousness (as in sleep) and transcend the barriers of normal senses.

There are people who have strong intuitive power (awakening of solar plexus)- most of what they predict comes out true and then there are people who can read other’s minds and tell what they are thinking about, and then there are people who have a strong presence of mind- they seem to think and react faster without even being aware of it. All these happenings occur when our Third Eye becomes alert.

HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOURS IS OPEN? HOW CAN YOU TELL IF YOURS IS STRONG?

You can awaken your third eye through Meditation- It cannot be accomplished in a day, rather it takes years to open the third eye. But, once you are able to activate your third eye you can expand your mental horizon and get spiritually enlightened. You will begin to see the world more clearly than you would see with open eyes. This can appear as a mystical power being able to “see” or “predict” processes, events, potentials which are not physically present. But it’s a very real and tangible skill.

As you improve in your meditation- you will start visualizing different lights, objects, figures etc. Some even feel as though they are entering a tunnel, similar to that visualized by people who have near death experiences.

In order to activate the third eye, the most important thing is you need to overcome the other 5 senses and should be able to control them -a spiritually enlightened person does not feel attracted towards sensual objects (pertaining to senses). The very thing you are after – the essence – is inside of you all the time. All that you want to be, you already are. All you have to do is move your awareness there and recognize the reality of your own Soul.