Re: The Third Eye?
Originally Posted by
Einherjar
So, I've just recently gotten back into meditating again after a several year hiatus. I was really impatient when I first got into it and wanted results immediately, got fed up and fell out of practice for a while.
After a couple days of getting back into the practice, I decided to fast for a day and meditate as many times as I could (I have back problems from years of skateboarding and hockey so it can be hard to sit like that for more than 30 minutes sometimes). I had 4 different sessions throughout the day, and then during the last one as I was really getting into it, I was trying to envision my energy flowing through my chakras as I breathed, and, with my eyes closed, suddenly what would have been between my eyes in my field of vision began glowing a whitish yellow color and began to pulsate?
I've experienced the calming sensation of meditation before but I've never experienced something so blatant like that that I could not ignore. Has anyone had a similar experience? And if so what were your thoughts on it?
It was a fairly profound experience, though I'm not entirely 100% sure what exactly it was. I've tried to communicate it to other people in my life, but I only have several friends that practice meditation, so I didn't really have anyone to connect on the experience with.
Namaste Einherjar,
As EM has mentioned, experience of flashes of light or being washed with light may be the beginning but it still carries the notion "I am seeing light". It is calming or for some such experience may not be calming. And such experience is surely not continuos, whereas we know that Brahman is unchangeable bliss. Eventually the seer and the seen both have to be seen.
I have studied, but do not remember where, that meditation in closed space is surpassed many times over by meditation at river bank or at mountain. Possibly, it faciltates to realise the infinite in the point of consciousness.
Om Namah Shivaya
That which is without letters (parts) is the Fourth, beyond apprehension through ordinary means, the cessation of the phenomenal world, the auspicious and the non-dual. Thus Om is certainly the Self. He who knows thus enters the Self by the Self.
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