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The word "bindu, meaning "drop" in Sanskrit...(these) are small coloured ornamental dots worn in the middle of foreheads in India...this traditional red dot, representing the mystical third eye, could be seen on men and women alike."^[1] In Tantric Buddhism, however, the term bindu refers to an aspect of the anatomy of the 'subtle body' supposedly composed of drops and winds: "the drops and winds are features of our energy system and have varying degrees of subtlety."^[2]

Tantric chakras
Sahasrara Ajna Vishuddha Anahata Manipura Swadhisthana Muladhara Bindu

Bindu is an Indian concept that signifies action (as in worship or prayer) — a concept that can take the meaning of a single dot. The dot that is Bindu signifies the spatial silence into which the sound of Aum leads.

[edit] Bindu Chakra

In the Shakta tantra school of philosophy, there is said to exist a Bindu chakra, at the back of the head, in the part where Brahmins grow their small tuft of hair, although it is often not mentioned in traditional chakrologies. This centre is said to be where the Bindu fluid is produced, a fluid that can become either the nectar of immortality, or the poison of death. It is intimately connected to the Vishuddha chakra, and awakening the Vishuddha chakra is said to awaken the Bindu chakra.

In metaphysical terms it is also said to be the point at which begins creation, and the unity becomes the many."It is the sacred symbol of the cosmos in its unmanifested state" (source Khanna, Madhu, Yantra, The tantric symbol of cosmic unity, Thames and Hudson, 1979, Glossary p. 171.)

Practices believed to balance this chakra include pranayama, Vajroli mudra (celibacy, the drawing in of sexual fluids), and Yoni mudra.

Some Western occultists associate this chakra with the hidden kabbalistic sephirah of Da'at, knowledge, which is also concerned with the point of creation, when 'Wisdom' and 'Understanding' balance each other to produce 'Knowledge', the first conceived thought.

[edit] From the Ananta Yoga School (speaking as Bindu):

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Contemplation upon The Absolute Consciousness also causes the individual Will (after the dissolution of the creations of that will) to dissolve into the Absolute Will; it is thus that Kundalini Sakti is activated.

But the experience of the ascent of Kundalini, where the little will is literally drawn like a magnet up to the Sahasrara, by the power which arises as a result of contemplation upon The Absolute Consciousness in the emptiness of Self is not the final experience. It is merely the arrival of the Jiva at the shore of the infinite ocean.

The meditation upon me could be said to cause a void to appear where once there was mind, in the region of the Sahasrara. This draws Kundalini upward.