Thought Interference during Naad Absorption
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 3 years before Jun 20, 2016
MiBeloved 3 years ago
During naad absorption, thoughts and images may interrupt the meditation. This is an instruction about what you can do, to fix that:
Once you realize that you were distracted, determine your location. You may have to train yourself to do this, if this is not a natural psychological process for you.
Once you know your location, then quickly in a flash use the appropriate procedure as described below:
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Core-Self Location |
Re-focus Procedure |
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Back of head |
If you are in naad in the right back, left back or center back of the head and you perceive impressions from the usual thought/image apparatus of the mind, then it means that this is reaching you as it is transmitted from the buddhi intellect organ. This organ does not go to the back of head but remains usually in its default location which is about one inch or more back from the center of the eyebrows.
The transmitted information reaches you though a micro-tunnel through which this information is transmitted. As soon as you become aware of the information or become aware of the location of the tunnel, proceed to pull the naad sound into the tunnel. This pulling action will result in the disappearance of the information. You will then be aware of the naad sound only, until there is another interference. If it happens again during the session use the same procedure.
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Front of head |
If you are in naad and then find yourself viewing thoughts in the front part of the head, then it means that you are at a distance from naad but you are close to the frontal part of the head in the observation default position of the core-self. Do not try to track the thought or idea. Instead merely turnabout so that you are looking at the back of the head. Then identify the naad sound and make an effort to go into it.
If you are expert at naad meditation, you may instead just back yourself into the naad sound, going backward as you face forward. That will cause you to disengage from the thought.
When you are doing naad meditation, just stick to that and do not investigate any thoughts which arise. Merely get back into naad and leave the thoughts to itself.
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unlimitedsun 3 years ago
Swami, thank you for the above.
Are there some suggestions as to how to deal with, or what is the proper attitude to adopt towards ambient noises, such as refrigerators, outside traffic... when meditating and trying to stay attentive to naad?
MiBeloved 3 years ago
To deal with it, you just have to accept it as your fate and always keep in mind that ideally a yogi should be in isolation.
That requirement has no fix, unless you want to go New Age or follow Deepak Chopra and Tolle's ideas.
The solution is to get as far away from those ambient noises as possible and if you cannot do that, then it is a lesson for you about how your karma operated to cause you to not have the opportunity for the ideal conditions of practicing yoga.
Some students tell themselves that it does not matter where they are, that they can mentally fix themselves to transcend these noises. So that is another way you can deal with yourself on this.
I cannot offer anything which Patanjali or Krishna did not offer.
Alfredo 3 years ago
Michael!
Although the simile applies for both personages in the context you used it, I just want to say that Deepak and Tolle are on very different levels.
Whereas the former is mostly hot air and intellectual realization and bombastic claims to a new paradigm that never occurs, Eckhart Tolle sustained a tremendous spiritual realization, of the same type and with almost the same results and characteristics as Ramana Maharshi.
The Maharshi did nothing, nothing whatever, apparently in that life! He was a lad of 17 without even a spiritual inclination. The only thing suspicious was his deep sleep. Friends, who feared him for strong during daylight, would take him from bed and around the village without him waking up.
Tolle because of despair, and suicidal thoughts was given the same realization and became a bum in the parks of London for years (the Maharshi in a cellar of Arunachaleswara temple in Tiruvannamalai), immersed in bliss.
This realization, which was one of several Sri Aurobindo had, Sri Aurobindo sustained in the Alipore Jail in Calcutta. The results are unmistakable.
Tolle, whose original name was Ulrich, took the name of the greatest of German mystics, 13th century's Meister Eckhart.
