Naad / Senses draw-up
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 3 years before Dec 17, 2016
MiBeloved 3 years ago
The use of naad for attaining many other disciplinary accomplishments is hardly known and is not discussed usually. The few yogis, who mastered naad over the centuries, have remained quiet on the issue, just smiling when they were approached by disciples and curious people.
Naad gives shelter from the onslaughter of the senses and from the fatiguing intrigues which are enacted in the mindscape by the analytical intellect orb. Getting this relief from naad, after being harassed for centuries in the mind, the student yogi begins to smile in earnest, just as when a lost child is miraculously found by its parent and the misery of being in an unknown place, full of uncertainty is removed.
Naad meditation pays off in earnest after the student yogi is able to fold into naad like an infant which finds itself on the smoothness and fluffiness of its mother's milky breasts. After repeated feeding on naad, the yogi, just like the infant, grows near to naad and begins to get some more perceptions. At first there develops that keen hearing sense but it transferred to the transcendental side of existence, which appears to be just a sound-vibration zone at first.
Then a visual perception of naad occurs with a glow light of particular hue. In my case it was a white-gold hue usually. It may be another hue for another yogi. This happens on and off in the beginning and then the yogi keys into it and it happens because he learns how to put the core-self under the shelter of it.
After this develops and becomes definite, the yogi finds that something happens where the vision interest energy which comes out of the core-self is found to be shut down and be very near to the core self like a dog which sleeps at its owner’s feet.
Seeing the vision-interest energy collapse and out of commission like that the yogi is astonished that the thing actually shut down, because before that there was always a struggle to put this visual energy out of commission. This is not the visual sense. It is the vision-interest energy which comes out of the core self and which links into the visual sense which was created from the analytical orb and fueled by the kundalini life force.
After repeatedly noticing this visual-interest energy, the yogi will then ignore it and will be directed by a yoga guru, to take steps to pull in the senses. This practice begins after the student realizes what the hearing interest energy is. That realization comes about because of the adherence to naad sound, where the yogi is able to sort the hearing-interest energy which is emitted of the core self.
Because the core-self is located in naad during this practice, the hearing-interest energy is perceptible once the student gets the required transcendental sensitivity. It goes up from the core self either directly upward or at an angle. It seems to be like a stiff trail of smoke which has a laser focus within it but which vibrates slightly under naad influence.
The yogi should be aware of this hearing-interest beam of energy while pulling in the touch sense. To pull in the touch sense, the student must beforehand have the tongue curled up and back to the soft palate. Once it is there the touch sense will relax in it and there will behind the touch sense the taste sense which will be as if one carriage of a train is behind another carriage. These two senses will stay put just below the naad sound but at the location where the tongue touches the soft palate.
Then after this was practiced in many meditation sessions and becomes a stable occurrence, the yogi should pull in the vision sense and then the smelling sense.
This whole practice may take weeks, months or years to master to proficiency. Here is a diagram.
Alfredo 3 years ago
Michael wrote:
[The yogi should be aware of this hearing-interest beam of energy while pulling in the touch sense. To pull in the touch sense, the student must beforehand have the tongue curled up and back to the soft palate.]
Alfredo's Reply:
This is a type of Kechari Mudra, which many yogis have practiced, even the Buddha, that ancient it is. In some Hatha Yoga texts it is called Kecharividya. Swami Shivananda described it as the best of all mudras.
The whole Kriya Yoga practice of Hariharananda lineage is conducted in this fashion. Everything you do in this Kriya Yoga, including the pranayama, is done in Kechari Mudra. The yogis pull back the tongue more and more, trying to touch the uvula at the back of the mouth. Some yogis in India go to the extreme of cutting the lingual frenulum to extend the reach of the tongue, but this was discouraged by Hariharananda Guruji.
The Kriyavans were also told to hold Kechari Mudra all the time in the midst of work or other activities.
