Naad Brahma Practice
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 3 years before Nov 05, 2016
MiBeloved 3 years ago
Naad Brahma Meditation.
Naad brahma meditation is part of the ashtanga yoga process. It is varied and detailed and causes the perception of certain psyche components as if these were gross objects.
Naad focus is subtle. Making progress with it can be a daunting task for a student yogi.
Here of late, I focused on naad as advised by Lahiri Dada, one of the old fathers of the yogis. His instruction was for me to go down through the neck and remain in the central spinal passage, just below the neck. Later he changed that instruction and requested that the naad focus in the back of the head be moved into the front, or stated more precisely the naad sound was to be encouraged to saturate the frontal part of the subtle head, just as it does in the back part.
When I first did this practice, I noticed that on some occasions, naad sound does not move from the back. The procedure to follow if this happens, is to return to naad and to adhere to it as if one was glued to it or infused into it.
Then again one should try to move forward and should immediately check to see if one is still connected to naad and if so, if naad spread its influence while being stationed at the back of the subtle head.
Did naad move when I shifted my attention to the frontal part of the head? If it shifted, did its intensity decrease? Is it a weak presence up front?
When naad is moved up front, the student might observe that naad decreased in resonance and has become weak. It no longer commands the attention of the core-self. The student should also note that besides the hearing sense, the other senses of touch, sight, taste and smell seem as not to exist. These senses lie down during naad meditation, like a drowsy man sleeping away.
Core-self is relieved when the senses are deactivated and the hearing sense is fully responsive to naad. There is a practice for flooding naad, the senses with naad energy so that every one of them is saturated with naad just as the hearing sense is.
This is done by becoming aware of the chief feature of the particular senses and then advancing with naad into that sensual energy, and letting naad flood it like when a dam is breached after heavy rainfall and an area floods completely.
By the grace of Lahiri Baba, it was revealed to me today that the hearing sense is a passive feminine sense which lays in wait for sounds which are its attractive objects. Even when it is eager to hear, the hearing sense still remains passive and absorbent but with a tension alert. This is perfect for using naad as its objective experience.
However the touching sense is an aggressive masculine sense which goes out to hunt for its objects, its favorite attractions, which are surfaces. Because this sense goes out to hunt and does not wait in anticipation for its objects, flooding it with naad is a different procedure than for the hearing sense. This is why persons who hear naad have difficulty progressing with brahma naad process.
To understand the operation of the hearing sense, a student may use the thousands of mini-hairs which protrude from the skin of the body. One can pass one’s hand on the skin but should not directly touch the skin. One should only pass one’s hand slightly above the skin and move it to feel the tiny micro-hairs. (Do not use a part of the skin which was clean shaven)
What would be the method of flooding this sense with naad?
Do you have any suggestions?
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I have experienced spontaneous and sporadic sensations of pins and needles (paresthesia, described from clinical physical perspective) accompanied by a feverish naad pitch.
These situations only happen randomly and at times of regular practice when they are accompanied with supporting activities such as sensible diet and regulated sleep. A lifestyle properly agreeable to the subtle body.
For me they are those times that are also reactions on account of the life force, but not widely experienced; such I am referring to after bowel movement under certain circumstances (just explained above).
I also remember experiencing this more regularly before sleep, and making a big deal out of it trying to understand what that was all about. Those discussions took place using the previous website, over a couple of years ago.
At such times of event connecting naad with the tactile sensations was immediate. They were in fusion so to speak. But I didn’t see it as a union or blending of the senses.
Having established that at this point, my next inquiry might be right about the mechanics of this convergence of the sense, and their apparatus of analysis…
I wouldn’t currently have the sensitivity to run my hand even ever so subtly over the micro hairs on my skin and get the desired results as explained in RishiDeva’s post. It’s far from being on cue in that way or I would have to try so hard…
Furthermore from the original post:
This is done by becoming aware of the chief feature of the particular senses and then advancing with naad into that sensual energy and letting naad flood it like when a dam is breached after heavy rainfall and an area floods completely.
In connection with this statement of RishiDeva’s I can refer to experiences during meditation where there is sufficiently stability over a certain length of time, when the core-self or ”I” get the sensation of floating in naad like a weightless particle in the center of the lightest, fluffiest cotton ball.
As I reminisce writing this bit, I realize that the phenomenon was also prominent during my last Ayahuasca experimentation over a year ago. Of course this deviates from accepted, proper or recommendable standard, but at that time the fusion was present and sustained for over a couple of hours and there was no getting away from it.
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One is advised not to use hallucinogens because I cannot guarantee that there will not be a backlash from nature for the usage. One way to look at this is that there is more than one way to get money out of a bank. You go through the front door and present your credentials. You could also blast your way in through the back with explosives and a gun. Either way you would get into the bank, except for the repercussions for blasting the back entry.
This is why I cannot recommend it because I have to be sure that you will have not a down side after using hallucinogens.
