Naad the Big Helper
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 3 years before Jul 20, 2016
MiBeloved 3 years ago
During meditation this morning I got a blast from the cosmic ahamkara or cosmic pool of unassigned unused senses of identity. This blast only lasted for about 6 seconds for the most.
Ideally a yogi wants to have this going for over half hour, so 6 minutes is definitely the pits and still it is important because it gives the yogi confidence in the process and the will to continue the practice. There is so much that discourages practice, that any little experience which promotes practice is a God-sent.
When one gets such a blast, it is like if one is in a pitch-dark cave, and then suddenly there is tiny crevice through which light enters from a bright shining sun outside. A yogi will have no doubt about it when it happens because it is as stunning as a momentary flash of lightning on a dark moon night.
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During the meditation, I remained in the frontal part of the subtle head from start to finish. This is not a recommended procedure except for very advanced practitioners whose psyche has changed to where the buddhi intellect orb is shutdown of its own accord during meditation.
To cause this shutdown, I use breath infusion practice. In addition breath infusion won’t do this unless you are very proficient at it. Such proficiency took me 40 years of uphill struggle in practice to achieve this.
In fighting with a formidable and vicious enemy, one has to know the secret of retreat. This means that when the enemy is stronger one has to run into the forest and find a place to hide, unless one is stupid enough to get out there in the open and be killed outright.
Therefore in the beginning in meditation, one has to have a way to hide from the machinations and plots of the buddhi intellect orb and also the games which played in the psyche by the kundalini life force. Instead of standing one’s ground when one will lose in the war against the psychic adjuncts in the psyche, it is best to run away and hide initially.
Of course that is not the way of a courageous person but it is also not the way of smart person either. If you cannot win against the mind, then it is best to hide away somewhere, to get away from it, otherwise challenging it will serve the purpose of a failed meditation practice.
When I used to run away at first, I did so based on my own discovery which was that in the back of the head, the enemy (intellect) has no register and does not occur. I used to go to the back of the head. In fact in my Meditation Pictorial book, I explained this procedure.
Was that effective?
It sure was but it is not the end of the story. The reason for this is that the self needs something sensual to anchor to. The self itself is all-sensual. It needs a corresponding medium.
I was advised by some yoga gurus to use naad sound as the relational medium for the self. Lord Krishna also, in his discourse with Uddhava recommended this, even though in his discourse with Arjuna, he said nothing about this.
With the help of Lord Krishna and some of my yoga gurus, as well as with my own curious interest with naad, I began to use it as a meditation focus (dharana). Eventually this turned into a spontaneous no-effort meditation focus (dhyana). And then after that happened for some months, that converted into a long spontaneous no-effort focus (samadhi).
At first this began by listening to naad. This listening to naad is enriching if you do pranayama practice before meditating, otherwise you run the risk of finding naad to be a boring and monotonous sound.
Once you do breath infusion practice before meditation, the 5th stage of yoga which is pratyahar sensual energy withdrawal is attained automatically and you can begin your meditation at that stage. Breath infusion actually causes the frequency level of the subtle body to jump to a higher plane. There the naad sound is enriching, which means, using a common term, that it becomes juicy.
This evolves to the core-self not only listening to naad but going into the nodes or concentration areas of naad sound. This leads further to visual perception of naad by seeing through subtle energy.
In the beginning you are here and naad is there and you listen to it.
Later, you are here, naad is there and you move from your default location as the observer, and you go into the location where naad is.
When this is done for a time, day after day, the self finds that it is glued as it were into the naad vibration.
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This keep developing to where one will find that when the core-self is in its default location at the center of the subtle head, naad sound which is usually at the back to the right or left, comes forward to be with the core self.
This is the stage at which this morning meditation began, with the core-self in its default position and naad sound to the immediately right side like a close companion.
Observing this and feeling confidence that naad would accompany me wherever I would go in the psyche, I moved to where the buddhi intellect orb is usually located. This is no big mystery because it is the location where the thoughts, ideas and images usually occur. Once I was in that position in the psyche, then naad was also by my side which was okay for me to continue the meditation.
If on the other hand naad did not accompany the core-self when it moved forward, then the core-self would take that as a hint that it should return either to the center of the subtle head or to the back part where naad sound is. In other words if you do not have your bodyguard, do not go into enemy territory.
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After being there for some time, for about 16 minutes or so, a supernatural perception occurred where I was in a room with other persons who had no idea that I was perceptive of what they were doing. This vision is buddhi intellect orb special vision, where it can perceive a scene which is far away, which is even in another dimension, and perceive that in the subtle head without looking out, even without using the third eye.
When one has this experience, the other environment has a transparent translucent and vibrational formation and one is perceptive of it but the other persons have no indication of one’s presence.
