Optic Thread Energy
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 5 years before Jun 06, 2017
MiBeloved 5 years ago
During exercises this afternoon, I stumbled upon an optic thread energy which ran from the sense of identity to the back of the subtle eyeballs. This was a single strand of energy which astrally was a thread of white-yellow light.
Simultaneously when I became aware of this, I sensed a thread which ran down into the psyche down through the front part of the thigh and into the knee.
This is similar to the medians and channels in Chinese Acupuncture, except that this is all subtle stuff, the needles in this case is the discovering sensual perception which is required to perceive this.
This occurred because of a highly infused subtle body. In this way, a yogi discovered the nadis one by one and can have faith in the yogic lore which describes these subtle channels. Do not make any effort to approach nadis in the way of science where you have to prove yourself externally to a critical committee or institution.
Yoga is an inside kind of thing, for you. Yoga is not for you if you want to prove things to other persons. If you are looking for your own existential proof of things which are not manifested physically, then yoga will work for you.
unlimitedsun 5 years ago
Kindly expand on: "faith in the yogic lore"
What are such other lores to the yogi, common or otherwise?
MiBeloved 5 years ago
Yogic Lore is the stories about the siddhas which occur usually in Sanskrit or hybrid Sanskrit language. Some of these stories are dismissed as myths. Some are said to be allegories or stories which are not to be taken literally but which are to be used for figurative and symbolic applications.
These attitudes towards these tales can harm a student yogi, robbing the person of the ability to contact siddhas on the supernatural plane.
For instance there is a story in the Mahabharata of Hanuman where it says that Bhima, Arjuna’s elder brother, met Hanuman and was in contest with him. It says there that Bhima could not lift even the tail of Hanuman, who is a monkey-man. Then it is also said that Hanuman will remain alive for the duration of the present era.
So many persons of scientific persuasion feel that this is all hyperbole or myth. There is another story in the Mahabharata that Ashvattama, an able but criminal warrior who was cursed by Sri Krishna to be a wanderer on the astral planes, is still alive in the Himalayas.
There is yet another story about Babaji, how he can be seen in the Himalayas.
So what should one make of these tales? Well the best attitude of the student is to take these stories at their face value, which means to just hear or read of them and then to leave the mind open for evidence. This is better than assuming a scientific bent of mind and dismissing these stories as being allegoric or symbolic.
Some students tie themselves up with the chains of disbelief because they have this opinion that the scriptures from India were either tampered with or were written down long after they were aurally composed by a Vedic Rishi. With this in mind, they approach any of the Puranas as something which is dubious.
Another major hassle for students is their sense of disbelief. Some students having armed themselves with a sense of disbelief, put everything which requires belief or confidence in the category of what should be rejected outright. This attitude is harmful to the student himself.
The same people who are saying that the sky is the limit and that we can be anything we want to be and that we are God or we are one Self or we are one with everything, are the same persons who are saying that we should not believe in anything. But that is contradictory even though their bias is so self-serving that they fail to see this.
Really! If everything is possible, then one should believe everything regardless but then if it has to do with religious or mysticism, they immediately pull out a stop sign and write a ticket for a speed violation.
Students should shed all this and just be open to mystic experience.
