Morning Report: Top of Head Flash
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 3 years before Mar 17, 2016
Dear Beloved 3 years ago
This morning breath infusion went fine after clearing a few local energy blockages and near the end of the yoga session, I could see a reddish ring/circle in the center of my inner mental space. I then went to meditate and immediately after I sat down, a white light flashed in the top of my head in an upward partial crescent shape.
If this is the inner space, it looked like this for a split second:
Then it flashed a couple more times in the first minute and ceased. The rest of the meditation was uneventful with naad easily located but overall lack of focus.
MiBeloved 3 years ago
Upward partial crescent shape is the area of the brahma randra, which is the fabled 7th or highest chakra.
It is the most difficult chakra to develop.
It is dead or non-existent when one is focused down into the material world.
Kundalini will cause it to ignite and manifest if kundalini gets into the head with enough force to reach it, otherwise it remains inactive.
Dear Beloved 3 years ago
Yes, it was the brahma randra. Thanks for identifying this. A couple weeks ago brahma randra was also activated for a split second and then it was gone. I searched the forum for 'brahmarandra' and came up with a few search results...best one was a previous posting here:
http://www.inselfyoga.com/m/forums/topic/Kundalini-spike-through-Naad
It seems like I am raising kundalini during breath infusion just enough to activate this momentarily at beginning of meditation and then it's over. That's encouraging.
Alfredo 3 years ago
Dear Beloved Wrote: [It seems like I am raising kundalini during breath infusion just enough to activate this momentarily at beginning of meditation and then it's over. That's encouraging.]
Dear:
Any symptoms of this? You wrote: [It seems like I am raising kundalini during breath infusion].
I am referring to physical symptoms like tingling at the base of the spine, etc, or something that may help me in future recognitions.
Dear Beloved 3 years ago
Alfredo,
As far as symptoms, I have no symptoms other than a full feeling in the head and a general feeling of full energy. Naad sound is clearly present after breath infusion at a higher level than before.
When I close my eyes, the internal activity is different and more active in the mental space. But no tingling feeling at all. If anyone else is getting direct physical symptoms from raising kundalini, I'd like to hear about them also.
MiBeloved 3 years ago
Tingling feelings, sensation of bliss energy localized or extended from one part to another, electric-type shock feeling occur due to build up of breath energy in a specific part of the psyche.
This comes from intense internal focus which is based on a strong pratyahar practice.
What happens otherwise is that the focus is diffused, scattered and not fully applied to the energy being built up. The energy gets scattered and some of it is going out through sensual interest during the session.
The attention feature of the mind is the sensual quest which is spearheaded by seeing things in a human form. Creatures like dogs for instance, feel it mostly in the smelling sense.
Unless one masters pratyahar practice, one can go on doing yoga for millions of years and one will never consolidate the progress. So what is pratyahar? This is something hardly any student is taking seriously. If you go to the first chapter of the Meditation Pictorial book, you will find some exercises. How many years do you think it took me to master that?
One year?
Two years?
No, about 8 years of daily practice. I struggled with this to master it. I got the tip about it from Babaji way back around 1973 in the astral world. So why did it take so long? I started meditation under a formal teacher with Authur Beverford who was like a father to me and Sir Paul. But he did not teach this pratyahar. With him we just sat to meditate, to focus on brow chakra. But it was a tip I got from someone else which put me in the pratyahar course.
I can say this much: Each of the 8 steps of yoga was supposed to take a full 12 years to master in the old days in the forest of India, where we used to be under gurus in our past lives.
Can you imagine that?
8 X 12 = 96
Everyone is concerned about samadhi, meditation, but no one understand or wants to practice pratyahar sensual energy withdrawal.
Why do the small stuff when you are a big chap who is God or who is potentially God already. Just sit and meditate and be what you are.
Bull!!!!!
While one does the practice, what is happening is that the senses which are thieves, are leaking out the energy and therefore the energy cannot become concentrated enough to challenge kundalini and that is just nice and dandy for kundalini.
Nothing could be better for it.
There is a verse in the Gita where Sri Krishna gives his view about pratyahar. This is a really classic statement:
sarvadvārāṇi saṁyamya
mano hṛdi nirudhya ca
mūrdhnyādhāyātmanaḥ prāṇam
āsthito yogadhāraṇām (8.12)
sarvadvārāṇi = sarva – all + dvārāṇi — entrances; saṁyamya — controlling; mano = manaḥ — mind; hṛdi — in the core of consciousness; nirudhya — confining; ca — and; mūrdhny = mūrdhni — in the brain; ādhāyātmanaḥ = ādhāya — situating + ātmanaḥ — of the soul; prāṇam — energizing breath; āsthito = āsthitaḥ — remain fixed; yogadhāraṇām — yoga concentration
Controlling all openings of the body, and restricting the mind in the core of consciousness, situating the energizing energy of the soul in the brain, remaining fixed in yoga concentration, (Bhagavad Gita 8.12)
This verse is nice. See the Sanskrit words some of which are even used in Yoga Sutras, samyamya, manah, hrdi, nirudha (Patanjali nirodhah), murdhni, prana, yogadharanam.
So what is dharanam and why does it happen after doing this pratyahar sensual energy withdrawal. You guys are intelligent, so you can explain this, I am sure.
Yoga is a pain in the neck. I mean ashtanga yoga but it is a fair system in the sense that if you put in your time it will reward you fittingly.
Alfredo 3 years ago
Thanks Dear for your answer!
Thanks Michael!
I have been studying the "Meditation Pictorial" for a few days now. Have gone through chapter 6. Chapter 3 I enjoyed greatly as it pertains to celibacy which I am trying to keep. The Pratyahar part, which you had explained to me in a previous note, mentioning the contribution of Yoganandaji, I have been reviewing in Chapter 1 and 2. I understand it conceptually, intellectually, now it is time to practice.
Right now I was doing some Bhastrika as the book advices before bedtime to infuse energy into the subtle body and awaken the ability to remember dreams.
The Gita's verse above is simply enthralling.
Thanks again and have a good night!
