Slivers of Light
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 5 years before Dec 22, 2017
MiBeloved 5 years ago
Breath infusion session this morning has to do with scattered light in the trunk of the subtle body. This is when there are random slivers of light flashing here and there in the trunk of the subtle form. Then this is extended into the neck and head of the form.
These random slivers are like pieces of subtle translucent fiber-glass when seen visually. During the practice when the yogi looks down in his psyche, he sees these slivers even though he is not using a set of eyeballs, not even subtle eyeballs. This is by omni-vision.
I began doing this bhastrika pranayama after learning it from Yogi Bhajan and his disciples. Soon after that I fell into the complete system which I used in previous lives in India. But it still took over 30 years of practice, before I realized that I was doing it in an inefficient way because while doing it my eyes were not blindfolded.
The eyes are agents of extroversion which is the bane of advance yoga. Therefore one should take steps early on and not wait 30 years to keep the eyes blindfolded during breath infusion practice and also during the meditation which follows.
One should not foolishly run off with ideas about being transcendental to the senses. You can be as transcendental as your little stupid mind desires but that has nothing to do with the mission of the eyes which is to seek out objects which are external to the body. The eyes are not going to change their mission merely because you think that you are transcendental. They will continue on their created genetic purpose which is to hunt down external shapes and forms.
Thus one should blindfold the eyes during breath infusion; otherwise the practice will be very inefficient due to leakage of attention through the eyes. Just this one action of using a blindfold during breath infusion and meditation does wonders to accelerate the progress. Doing breath infusion and not keeping the mind inside the body means that you will not consolidate the progress effectively.
The attention energy which courses through the physical eyes, needs to be internalized, that specific energy. This is not a vague general practice but a specific target of the energy which course through the optic nerves. This is the vision energy, which is conserved from the eyes will cause internal vision to develop so that one can perceive the energy in the subtle body while doing the practice.
During today’s practice all dark aspects of light which are in the form were replaced by this scattered light which was generated by breath infusion energy. Kundalini was nowhere to be seen or felt at this time, as its primordial configuration with sushumna nadi and chakras do not exist on that plane of awareness.
Alfredo 5 years ago
MiBeloved wrote:
[But it still took over 30 years of practice, before I realized that I was doing it in an efficient way because while doing it my eyes were not blindfolded.]
Alfredo's Reply:
Did you mean "inefficient way"?
Even this morning I tried again to do the breath infusion blindfolded, but could not take it for long. I have done it for the meditation all along, though.
Then, you are saying this is critical, so I will do it from now on.
MiBeloved 5 years ago
Inefficient is correct. Thanks, I will change that typo.
Initially you might have to not use a blindfold but when you reach a stage where you know the exercises very well and can keep your balance even if your eyes are close, then use a blindfold.
Many yogis used to stay in dark caves for this reason. Then a blindfold may not be required but even then the eyes have that outward orientation and they draw energy of the psyche for that even if one is in darkness. Being blindfolded is a method of disciplining the eyes and telling the eyes not to disturb the practice.
During practice sometimes one hears a sound and the head automatically turns, and then the eyes try to focus to find the source of the sound but this is all the reason why the practice development is so slow, because the focus outwards like that even for a split second breaks the inner focus and postpones further the development of inner mystic perception.
A student told to me but he does not see anything inside when he looks. It is just darkness. But the reason for that is because the vision energy of the spirit is hard-focused and hell-bent on just physical perception. It has developed in that way only and it stubbornly clings to that no matter what. Thus one has to take drastic measures to change that by shutting down the orientation to see outwards through physical eyes.
Patanjali has gone so far as to instruct the serious graduate students of yoga to shut down not just the vision orientation but all orientations of the intellect, kundalini and memory. And that is the method for total success in the kind of yoga Patanjali explained in his Sutras.
Each student has to make the proper judgment about these causes of failure and then decide what to do.
If you are doing minimum wage and you have to save every penny, then you will be particular about where you save your money and how you spend it. So when a student gets serious, every leak becomes a big deal. He takes steps to stop it.
Marcia Beloved 5 years ago
Michael wrote:
Breath infusion session this morning has to do with scattered light in the trunk of the subtle body. This is when there are random slivers of light flashing here and there in the trunk of the subtle form. Then this is extended into the neck and head of the form.
Marcia Beloved’s Query:
Was there any feeling sensation as you perceived this? The reason I ask is that I predominantly feel energy while practicing and am less confident in what I vaguely see. When I first looked at your diagram above, I thought, "Yes. I feel this happening sometimes when I am exercising and soliciting kundalini to move about."
I sometimes feel energy darting back and forth along similar lines as you depicted these slivers in your diagram.
MiBeloved 5 years ago
If there is inner vision during breath infusion practice, then there are also feelings along with that. In fact the primary means of perception is feelings and not vision. Vision is an after-development which might or might not follow feelings.
Feelings are always there as the preliminary means of monitoring energy during breath infusion. One will have to rely on that mostly until one develops vision along with the feelings.
Feelings are the most basic sensation and perceptions which one has when one comes into the material energy and finds oneself in existence here. Even the unicellular organisms, like for instance amoeba, operate on the basis of feelings alone since they have no other definite means of perceiving what is in the environment as their friend or foe, as what should be eaten and what would kill if eaten.
There is also a visual perception which occurs through the feelings. There is a photo posted recently on Meditation Time by Bernard where it shows the eyes of an insect. I will post that photo below.
Now what happens in the case of vision through feelings is called pranavision in yoga. This is when those same feelings suddenly give perceptions at their ending points. It’s like the thousands of tiny feelings; each ending in a super-microscopic eye. One sees a compound image of what is taking place.
Marcia Beloved 5 years ago
Thank you.
That explanation of pranavision is very clear. There is much to think and learn about in this regard. Much to integrate and develop further.
