Fidgety Intellect

By nature, the intellect is designed as a fidgety instrument, which is unreliable in terms of focusing on anything which is transcendent. If the same intellect is infused sufficiently with a higher energy, or if it is given access to a higher dimension, it may facilitate perception into a supernatural or purely spiritual domain. Otherwise, it is hardly likely, that a yogi could hold the intellect in a stable way without a focus which is attractive to it.

Meditation in the blank mind usually results in distractions. This develops into the formation of ideas which arise from memory or from sensual reporting. As soon as there is an inkling of any memory or sensual incident, the intellect switches and develops related unwanted concepts. This may happen so rapidly, that until some seconds after it showed in the mind, the coreSelf may not realize that it was deprived of the selected focus.

It is a task for a yogi to train the mind to cease switching from the desired focus. Repeated practice over and over, will in time achieve this but only after years of effort.

Naad sound resonance is a great help. In fact, it is a necessary tool in the practice. In the blank of the mind, the yogi should tune to naad if he finds that he is not already absorbed in naad. This will reduce the power of the intellect to conspire against the objective of the meditation.

First one should do a breath infusion to put fresh energy into the physical and subtle bodies. This should be kapalabhati or bhastrika pranayama. As soon as that is done, one should sit to meditate. This should be in a non-strenuous non-fatiguing posture. Then one should meditate with or without open eyelids. One may be blindfolded.

To avoid sensual distractions, one should protect the mind from having to be distracted by odors, flavors, colors, surfaces, and sounds. The nostrils should be in a place where odors are absent. The tongue should not be contacting flavors. The eyes should not be in touch with physical colors. For that one may be blindfolded or be in a dark place.

The skin should not be in contact with surfaces which will cause it to engage the touch sensations. And the ears should not be bombarded with sounds.

However, inside the mind, in the head and subtle body, there should be contact and focus on the naad whistling sound which rings loudly and which is heard through subtle hearing. That is one desired focus.

Once focus on naad is achieved, the focus in the frontal part of the subtle head should be established but while doing this, the yogi should hold the focus on naad sound resonance. If there is light in the frontal part of the mind, there should be focus on that, while there is focus on naad just the same.

Otherwise, if there is no light in the frontal part, the focus on naad should be held while there is focus on the random energy in the frontal part of the subtle head. This focus on the frontal part will be lost. When it is lost, one should regain it immediately but with consideration of how it happened, how one lost the grip of it. Even though it is important to shift from the loss of focus, it is also important to know how that happened.

Realization of this will eventually cause one to train the mind to cease jumping away from the focus. One must also realize what types of sensual engagements and memories sponsor the shift. Then with that information one can train the self to stay away from the sensual events which underwrite those shifts.

Merely shifting the system back to focus repeated is not enough to eventually stop the shifting. The belief that it does not matter what causes the shifts, that whatever it is, should not be noted, is erroneous. There is a necessary task which is to know what type of sensual events one indulges in, which causes the shifts, and which gives the shifting power the ability to disrupt meditation, and cause resistance to the desire for selected focus.

There is a tendency from reaching a conclusion for any sensual or memory events. This means that once a sensual event happens in the mind, the intellect feels duty-bound to develop the event, into a process which leads to, and which renders a conclusion. This causes a resistance energy in mind, whereby when the coreSelf exerts an energy to cease the event, it finds that there is a reluctance to stop the event, from developing in the mind.

All of this must be settled before one can develop steadiness in the blank space in the frontal part of the subtle head. The primary tool which malfunctions is the intellect, but it is affiliated with and assisted by the memory and sensual apparatus. Conjointly, these adjuncts work in a conspiracy against the meditative aims of the coreSelf.