Yoga Of Inner Light And Sound

Author(s): Achyutanand Swami, Praveshkumar Singh
Publisher: Santmat Sangh Samiti Chandrapur

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Significance of Yoga of Inner Light (Bindu
Dhyān)
Extolling the importance of the Yoga of Light (bindu-dhyān or drishti-yoga), Baba Devi Sahab writes,
"Drishti means 'sight' or 'vision': it is not made up of flesh and blood. This power to see or the sight is a powerful thing which has revealed a lot of hidden disciplines of learning & scientific knowledge to the world, the secrets of the various types of supernatural attainments or extrasensory powers (siddhi) can also be known or acquired by no other means than this. Drishti is the first step or technique of the Science of Yoga (yoga-vidyā); the technique of the Yoga of Light (drishti-sādhan or drishti-yoga) is so wonderful that it does not cause any discomfort, difficulty or pain to any part of our gross or material body. By means of this, the practitioner is able to quickly realise the clues or secrets which have been eulogised in sacred or divine books on God, and then, all the rules & principles governing the world, which can not be attained by mere reading and listening to all the books albeit lifelong, keep standing in humble subservience, attendance or slavery before such a person.'
- Satsang Yoga, Part II, Maharshi Mehi Paramhans Ji Maharaj
Goswami Tulsidas Ji has written,
"The nails of the lotus feet emit dazzling light matching that emanating from a heap of jewels or gems ... Meditating upon which (the practitioner) acquires Divine Vision."
Explaining the above couplet, our most adorable Guru Maharshi Mehi Paramhans has very exquisitely driven home the significance of bindu dhyān:
"This (Yoga of Light, drishti yoga, drishti-sādhan or bindu-dhyān) is extremely easy of practice. Such troubles & diseases, as may arise out of stubborn efforts at fixedly looking in the middle of the eyebrows by overturning or upturning the pupil & the eye ball with our eyes open or closed, staring at the lower tip of the nose, focusing at a mark in the outside world etc, are not at all caused in the practice of drishti yoga. Some persons do not apply any pressure on the pupil and the eyeballs but keep on imaginatively looking in the central region of eyebrows. This is not drishti yoga either, rather this is a kind of imagining (mental visualization, mānas dhyān). Steps or components of yogic breathing exercises called prānāyām (like rechak, pUrak and kumbhak) get automatically executed during drishti yoga. As one advances in the practice of drishti yoga, the process of respiration gets automatically slowed down. Prānāyām gets inherently performed for the practitioner of drishti yoga who is thus saved the troubles and tribulations that might result from exclusive practice of prānāyām alone. Drishti yoga is such an exquisite means that the sixth chapter of Shrimad Bhagvad Gita portrays it alone as being capable of producing the inner divine calm.
Drishti yoga or the Yoga of Inner Light refers to the process of converging the currents of consciousness, emanating out of the two eyes, in a point. In doing so it is entirely undesirable to apply, in any manner, any extra or undue pressure on the eyeballs or