THE AJNA CHAKRA SYSTEM

Manas: Sense registration.

Chitta: Memory.

BUDDHI: Intellect. Logical and rational thinking. Decision making and discriminative faculty of the mind.

Ahamkara: The experience of individual "I am-ness". The universal experience of an individual 'me'. This 'individuality' is still a generic expression of God's mind. "We (as individuals) are things that dreams are made of." We are creations (products) of the Universal Mindstuff / Intelligence / Imagination (hiranyagarbha / chittam / maya).

The sense of individuality that we perceive as 'my self' / 'me' is, in fact, another expression of diversity and variety within the universal mind of existence. All the 'souls' (the experiences of an individualized 'me') are expressions in God's One Mind (hiranyagarbha / chittam / maya).

Ahamkara is not our true identity, it is an illusion of individuality and separation that is a product of the Universal Mindstuff (hiranyagarbha / chittam / maya). When you are young, the Ahamkara is not very potent. It is like a shadow in a glass. Without spiritual awareness and practice toward these realizations, the ego can get over-developed and established as our identity. The moment this little 'i' becomes stronger in you, side by side, various sorts of fears, various sorts of desires, a host of delusions take firm hold of you. This is because we forget that our true identity is Satchidananda (being-consciousness-bliss), consciousness gets identified with this ahamkara experience, and the dis-ease of egoism arises. 

Hiranyagarbha / maya / MAHAT / CHITTAM / Jagat / Ishvara / Karya-Brahman / PRAKRITI: Universal intelligence - God's One Universal Mind and Creative Intelligence / Imagination. The Mindstuff is the primary emanation of the Absolute (Satchidananda / Nirvana) and is the sum total of all the possible Universes of names and forms (nama rupa). Every diverse and various thing that can possibly be is a creation within God's One Mind. Time, space, thought, matter, energy, and every possible permutation of Creation is God's Mindstuff.

The source for the mindstuff is Atman / Satchidananda / Pure Consciousness / the Higher Self. This mind is born of Atman through His Maya or illusory power. Cosmic mind is universal mind. Cosmic mind is the sum total of all individual minds. Cosmic mind is the Hiranyagarbha or Ishvara or Karya-Brahman. Man's mind is just a fragment of the universal mind. A Raja Yogi becomes one with the cosmic mind and knows the workings of all minds. The Yogi gets omniscience through the cosmic mind. The Yogi experiences cosmic consciousness through the cosmic mind.

This universe is nothing but a mode of the mind, self-evolved from Satchidananda (the One Universal Spirit / Source), the cause of the universe. All the universes which appear only through Manas are no other than its modes. The mind is subjectively consciousness and objectively it is this universe. Hence, this all-pervading world is nothing but consciousness itself.

"Manah-kalpitam Jagat (Creation of) world is an imagination of the mind" (Yogavasishtha). This legerdemain of the world is enacted by the mind and the mind alone - "Manomatram Jagat. What you call world is the mind only." Mind is world. The mind manifests itself as the external world. This universe is no other than the mind itself. Like a dream generating another dream in it, the mind, having no visible form, will generate non-existent visibles. This perishable universe exists only when the mind exists, but disappears with the absence of the latter. If the mind, which is the instrument of knowledge, perception and activity, vanishes, with it disappears this subjective world also.

The whole created emanation is a combination of six elements, tattwas, of the six chakras Analyse, realise the illusory nature of all objects and abandon all false objects. When you begin to analyse, the whole world vanishes and with it the notion, sound, and objects also.