Sense of Hearing Betrayal
The sense of hearing is consistently involved in betrayal for a yogi during meditation sessions. Many persons who sit to meditate or who walk or perform some routine posture to meditate, are not meditating by the definition delivered by Patanjali. Most of what modern humans do for meditation is for the most preparation for meditation. Usually modern people do not reach the stage of true meditation because that begins with a totally blank mind with no images or ideas floating around, popping up and disappearing in the mental/emotional spaces.
Each of the five sense is involved in a conspiracy to undermine efforts at meditation. The duty of the senses is to keep the core-self (observing I-consciousness) engages so that it observes and gives consent to the propositions of the mind.
In this conspiracy the senses are not alone. They have allies in the form of the feelings-constructor, the memory and the decisive intellect. The feelings-constructor is called kundalini which may be termed lifeforce in modern English. The intellect is a psychic technology which is wonderful and fascinating in what it can do to imagine, conceive and illustrate ideas which are a video/audio show in the mind.
The core-self for all it is, and all it is purported to be, is in the practical sense a peon, which for the want of a mission for itself, acts as if its sole interest is to be entertained by the senses and its allies.
Have you ever meditated where you began the session with a mind in which the intellect was quieted, shut down, so that it has no ideas and displayed no video or audio media?
In such a blank meditation were you ever distracted where you did not realize that you were until after you found yourself focusing on the distraction, moments after you were pulled away from the blank condition?
I was inspired to write this article because of observing how in a blank meditation, suddenly I found that the hearing sense pulled energy from the blank consciousness of meditation and wanted to take a strand of that energy to something which was heard by the hearing sense. It insisted that I, as the observing self, should abandoned the blank condition and give interest to what was being heard.
To fulfill this desire of the hearing sense, I as the observing self, would be required to first lift my attention from the blankness of mind, then relocate it into the hearing sense which would with that empowerment focus more sharply and keenly on the sounds being heard.
I would then be involved in making a decision as to if what was heard was desirable. Thus abandoning the meditation. The hearing is a saboteur towards meditation. It will ruin meditation if the yogi does not confine it and disable its interruption authority.
