Meditation / Gather the Energy

Meditationtime Forum Post

Date:  Posted 3 years before Sep 01, 2016

MiBeloved 3 years ago

This morning during meditation practice, Srila Yogesh, on the astral side, explained the need for students to gather the energy which is present during the meditation instead of trying to project to some other place or force open the third eye by using visualizations or will power application.

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He said this:

Collect the egg only.

The lizard cannot be anything else than what is in the egg during the embryo formation.

Will it ever see the environment or not?

If it has no potential for developing eyes while it is a mere liquid in the egg, then can it develop eyes by visualizing eyeballs or by focusing where the eyes should have existed?

Use pranayama to up the ante on the potential, then wait it out in meditation to see what that potential really is.

The tiny bit of life which dances around in the liquid of the egg, begins to feed on that liquid. Whatever it is potentially, it will become if everything goes right, irrespective of what the embryo might think.

In meditation, the yogi should be like that little spark of life which to go a step further, must feed on whatever is in the egg. Even if the most nutritious egg is somewhere else, that is of no consequence because the spark of life, can only develop into a new body with specific attribute if it feeds on what is in the egg.

When the student sits to do meditation, does he or she make contact with the surrounding energy?

Does it take this energy and collect it?

What is the energy?

What is its shape or form?

What need is there for it?