Yoga Of Inner Light And Sound

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

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"This technique, observes Maharshi Mehi, is quite easy and genuine. And becomes available to him who is wholly dedicated in the service of Guru."
Goswami Tulsidas Ji, while praying to his Guru, has very eloquently expounded the benefits of bindu dhyān in his epic Ramcharit Manas: "Through meditation or constant remembrance of Guru the inner divine eyes are opened."
This inner light is so wonderful that by beholding it, the darkness of delusion or attachment is destroyed; fortune begins to smile on him (the beholder): "That beneficent light shatters all infatuation. Extremely blessed is he in whose heart it appears." Goswami Tulsidas Ji firmly believes that the sacred or divine inner eyes are opened (through meditation), which results in the follies and sorrows of the worldly night being destroyed. Not only this, he (the beholder) sees all the amazing exploits or plays - direct as well as hidden - of God within himself. The spiritual practitioners who have become adept at this meditation see all the wondrous plays taking place over the earth, forests, mountains etc:
"The pure eyes of heart are opened up. All the snags and sorrows of the night (that is, this material world) are destroyed. Numerous jewels in the form of the feats of Ram (God) become visible. Those that are manifest as well as those that are hidden. Just as an adept & learned practitioner applying the collyrium (lamp black) of undivided devotion to his inner eyes. Sees mesmerising scenarios - mountains, jungles, different earths (planets) - within."
While narrating his own experience Goswami Tulsidas Ji says that he has attained that pristine divine vision himself by practising meditation and only then set out to describe the story of Lord Shri Ram who is capable of ridding us of the fetters of transmigration: "Having made my eyes of discrimination pure with that very collyrium... I narrate the tale of Ram who can absolve us of all the worldly ties."
Here it becomes obvious that he who does bindu dhyān acquires supernatural or divine vision, which equips him (the practitioner of bindu dhyān) with the ability to see far off through space (& time). In Upanishads also we find similar reference:
"Absorption of one's mind into the point yields farsightedness."
In the eleventh chapter of Shrimad Bhagvad Gita Lord Shri Krishna gave Arjuna, who was under the spell of delusion, a glimpse of his grand, supernatural form. Lord Shri Krishna's observation is important as he says, "But you cannot see me with your (gross) eyes. I impart you (therefore) divine eyes (or supernatural vision) to behold My divine majesty."