Spiritual Senses / Territory of the real
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 3 years before Jan 08, 2017
MiBeloved 3 years ago
At present we have no idea of what spiritual senses are. Our concept of it, the reality of it behind our concept, is the material senses of the physical body. For some of us with a little mystic insight it is the senses of the subtle form.
What are spiritual senses?
How do they operate?
Do we have such senses?
If we do, why can’t we use them?
How is it that we are limited to physical material and subtle material sense perception, if we have spiritual senses?
Presently under the tutorship of Sri Lahiri Baba who long passed on from this physical world and whose reputation is legendary in the kriya lineages, I am working on an advanced pratyahar practice. If this is not the final practice, then it must be very near to the final situation. It is a very abstract process.
It has no use for concepts and visualization. This is in the territory of the real.
First of all the student must be anchored in naad sound. Failing to do that for whatever reason, the student has to be in the back of the subtle head away from the jurisdiction of the frontal part where the thinking and imaging takes place.
Once established there spontaneously, the core-self should wait silently for naad light to dawn. This comes on either suddenly, like when a switch is thrown to turn on a light, or gradually like when there is a gradual glow of light at sunrise. This light remains as a glow of light, as a dim glow. It may come on gradually until it reaches its brightest illumination or it may begin suddenly with its brightest illumination. In either case that brightest illumination is dim light. It is not a blare light. It is not a stunning light which illuminates anything clearly. It is just a glow like when the first crack of dawn appears and one can barely distinguish one thing from another.
Once this light dawns, the student should check to be sure that this is not the usual speckled darkness which is seen in the subtle head or in the physical head behind closed eyes in the frontal part of the head. If the student notices that it is the usual situation, he or she should conclude that it is not naad light and it should be abandoned. One should close off the vision energy from that usual situation and remain with naad sound vibration only.
If the student verified that naad light is there, the student should remain in naad light while listening to naad sound and remaining stuck fact in naad vibration in the back part of the head.
After this practice is done for some time, weeks, months or years, and the student finds this to be a spontaneous condition just after sitting to meditate, then the student should take up the practice of khecari mudra without doing any extreme measures like cutting tissues under the tongue. The only requirement is that at first You should be in naad sound, then be in naad light, then check to be sure that naad light is not any other light or lights and is just naad. Then the student should roll the tongue up and back to the soft palate.
This action will cause the nutritional-need energy to manifest and with it will come the taste sense, the smell sense and the touch sense. Being that the hearing sense and the vision sense are involved in naad, those other three senses will need to be captured if it is done by khecari mudra.
Once this pull of the sense occur, where they are pulled up to naad and parked there by vehicles in locked garages, the yogi can then study his or her original manifestation into material nature.
How did the manifestation of your individuality occur in material nature in the first place? As there is supposed to be a background radiation from the initial time explosion which began this universe, there is energy in the psyche which can give insight into our original condition when first manifested in material nature.
What sort of subtle or supernatural body did I have then?
Did I have limbs and senses like a human body?
If I did how is it that some life forms do not have limbs and pronounced senses?
Did I lose these at some stage? Did I not have these initially?
Did I develop these under the evolutionary pressure which is in material nature.
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In this respect there is a pratyahar celibacy practice that has nothing to do with sex impulse or gender designation. This is the pratyahar practice which restores the even distribution of self-energy through the psyche with no stress on any given sense at any time.
It is a total restraint of the survival tendency, rather than of the sexual function.
What happened initially to divest the energies so that there were specific senses and specific pleasure yielding organs like the genitals?
Is the eye pulling energy from the toes and from other parts of the body, so that the eye may see and may range out into the subtle or gross material environment?
If the eye does this, is it possible to reverse this so as to restore that energy into the toes and other parts and cause the eye to lose its authority over the psyche. Is it possible to have an eye which is not involved in the hunt-capture-kill system of survival? This is another type of celibacy, one of non-sensual involvement with the subtle or gross material energy.
